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Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper at the annual International Studies Association conference in San Francisco on Friday March 28. In "Slippery Perch: the Precariousness of the Petrochemical Basis of American Hegemony" Lehmann argued that American hegemony grew from exceptional statecraft based on its overwhelming oil resources after WWI and has begun its steady transition and relative stagnation due to merely adequate statecraft and declining resource base since WWII.

Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient and his co-author Michael Frame of Yale University recently published a paper titled "Carrying Surfaces for Return Maps of Averaged Logistic Maps" in Computers & Graphics. The logistic map is a well known example of a chaotic system.

A group of refugees from Russia, Bosnia, Somalia and Belarus will travel to Hamilton's greenhouse on Saturday, April 5, to plant seedlings for their gardens located at the F.X. Matt Apartments. Senior Jenney Stringer, who organized the community effort that resulted in the creation of a community garden at the apartments last summer,  planned Saturday's event as a way for residents to start the gardening process in advance of the outdoor growing season.

A panel discussion to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 40th anniversary of his death will feature historians and community advocates including Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "The Imperial Turn and U.S. Power: Decline or Retrenchment" at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco on, Wednesday, March 23.

A national study that examined faculty influence on the political views of college students and that found no evidence of faculty indoctrination was the subject of an Associated Press article and another in InsideHigherEd.com. Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Mack Mariani, a government professor at Xavier University, were the study's authors.

Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, chaired a panel at the annual meetings of the American Society for Public Administration in Dallas in March on "World Cities Fighting Corruption," based on a book he is co-editing with colleagues in Amsterdam. At the invitation of the department of political science at Vaxjo University in Sweden, he delivered a lecture on "The Problem of Corruption Control" during the week of March 24.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald presented a paper, "Pragmatic--A Tentative Taxonomy of Boston Area Filmmaking," at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies on March 7 in Philadelphia. He was also involved in curating and was the host for the opening event for "Facing Realities: Dialogues in Boston Documentary Filmmaking," an on-going series of events focused on Boston filmmaking.

In an article titled "Do millions of cats equal millions of radicals?" in John Hopkins University Press' Reviews in American History (Volume 36, Number 1, March 2008, pp. 103-107), Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, reviewed Julia L. Mickenberg's Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States.

Hamilton students are being offered a unique opportunity to learn about the film industry this spring courtesy of alumnus Thomas Tull '92. The founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures has established a film treatment challenge open to any student.