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Gareth Matthews, a pioneer in thinking, writing and teaching about philosophy and children, will present the Winslow Classics Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, April 20, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium (G027). His lecture, titled "Plato for Kids," is free and open to the public.

The College Democrats and the College Republicans will host a political debate on Wednesday, April 19, at 8 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Government department lecturer David Rivera presented a paper titled "Presidential Leadership and Democracy in Eurasia: Did Clinton Lose Russia?" at the 29th Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference. held at Fordham University in New York City on Saturday, April 1.

Hamilton College will host "Picture This: A Symposium on Political Cartooning and Illustrating" on Saturday, April 8, 2006, from 12:30 to 5 p.m.  It will feature Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth, United Feature Syndicate cartoonist Rob Rogers and freelance illustrator Steve Brodner whose work is seen regularly in a spectrum of publications from Sports Illustrated to Business Week.  All three artists will speak about their work and careers. Auth's talk is titled " "Sacred Cows Make the Best Hamburger," Brodner's is "The Satiric Vision" and Rogers' is "I Cross the Line."

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera published an article in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies NewsNet. The article, titled "Out of the Ivory Tower :Integrating Service-Learning into Russian Studies," is about Rivera's experience with integrating a service-learning component into her "Politics of Russia" Class.

Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was featured in Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education article on  March 27 titled “Where did you get your Ph.D.?”  The article discussed the results of Wu’s study of the relationship between where faculty members get their Ph.D. and where they get a tenure-track job. The results were based on data gathered on approximately 5,000 faculty from the Web sites of six departments at 50 leading colleges and universities.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo attended the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association on March 16-18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He presented a paper on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans titled, “In the Wake of Poseidon: Katrina, Climate Change, and the Coming Crisis of Displacement.” He argued, “The massive displacement of New Orleans residents may be a harbinger of a more general crisis of displacement and homelessness that will be generated by global warming over the course of this century.”  He was a discussant for a roundtable discussion titled, “New and Recent Books in Environmental Political Thought,” for which he reviewed three books.  He also chaired a panel titled "Political Theory in the Greenhouse II: Changing Understandings of Politics."

Derek C. Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton and currently a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics, presented "Human Resource Management and Performance in Retail Trade: Evidence from an Econometric Case Study" in February 2006 at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research in Helsinki.  The paper was written with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo attended the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association on March 16-18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He presented a paper on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans titled, “In the Wake of Poseidon: Katrina, Climate Change, and the Coming Crisis of Displacement.”

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a Boston Globe article titled "Democrats See Northeast As Ripe For Picking" (March 23, 2006). He commented on how the strategy employed by the Republicans in the midterm elections of 1994 to defeat the Democrats could be used by the Democrats in this year's election. Klinkner was quoted in an earlier article in The New York Times, "For Democrats, Lots of Verses, But No Chorus," (March 5, 2006), that also addressed the possible outcomes of the midterm elections next fall and the role national issues might play. Klinkner is the editor of Midterm: Elections of 1994 in Context (Westview Press).