Hamilton College will host both a lecture presented by a cadet from the Air Force Academy and a panel discussion with professors from West Point, CUNY and NYU on the topic of “Outsourcing National Security: The Law and Politics of Military Contracting” on Thursday, Jan. 28, in Dwight Lounge. The event has been organized by Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico and is free and open to the public. More ...

Eleven students from Hamilton’s Model European Union team and faculty advisor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, attended the 23rd annual EuroSim conference in Antwerp, Belgium, on Jan. 5-10. The topic of this year’s conference was Russia-EU relations and Hamilton students took on a variety of roles, including members of the delegation from the Czech Republic, the Justice Minister of Ireland, and several members of Parliament. More ...

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a seminar at the Free University of Amsterdam titled “Obama’s foreign policy after year 1.” More ...

This past fall semester, seven Hamilton students participated in the Government 202 quarter-credit service learning course titled “Immigrants and Refugees in the U.S.” taught by former Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley. The course met once a week to discuss refugee resettlement experiences, policies and procedures, especially those specifically related to local Utica’s large refugee population. More ...

The Election Law Journal published a book review of Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make A Difference in September written by Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico. The book was authored by Richard W. Painter and published by the Oxford University Press in 2009. More ...

Associate Professor of Government P. Gary Wyckoff spoke at the Irish Social Science Platform Annual Conference hosted by the national University of Ireland at Galway on Dec. 2 about his recently published book, Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect. More ...

Questions flew and tensions flared Wednesday evening in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium as the students of Government 112 participated in the culmination of a semester of arduous effort. Under the guidance of Associate Professor of Government Sharon Rivera, students enrolled in the Comparative Politics courses realized the fruits of their labors as the “Simulated Election Campaign in the Country of West Europa” unfolded. The simulation’s debate was the finale of the semester-long project. More ...

Hamilton was recognized with an honorable mention citation in the 2008 Campus Votes Challenge, a program that sought to encourage voting at colleges and universities nationwide during the 2008 presidential election. The College was among more than 40 undergraduate colleges and universities across the nation that participated in the challenge. More ...

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented her current research on the modern performance of Greek tragedy on Nov. 21 at Dartmouth University. In her paper, "The Anti-Imperialist Uses of Greek Tragedy," she discussed plays produced in order to critique the current War in Iraq. More ...

Sharon Werning Rivera, associate professor of government, participated in a roundtable titled “Categories and Individuals in Political Science—An Assessment” at the 2009 Annual Convention of the American Association of Slavic Studies on Nov. 13 in Boston. More ...