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Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones recently gave two talks at the Helsinki Center for Economic Research in Helsinki, Finland. On Feb. 2, he presented a paper he wrote with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen, "Human Resource Management and Performance in Retail Trade: Evidence From an Econometric Case Study," at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research. On Feb. 22, Jones presented a paper titled "The Productive Efficiency of Italian Producer Cooperatives: Evidence from Conventional and Cooperative Firms" at a seminar titled "Labour and Public Economics."

On Friday, February 24, Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald will present a lecture titled "Not Just a Nature Film" at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson Building. As part of the Faculty Lecture Series, MacDonald will talk about the recent success of nature films like Luc Jacquet's "March of the Penguins," Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin's "Winged Migration," Andy Byatt and Alastair Fothergill's "Deep Blue," and Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man." He will discuss why critics need to consider them more seriously. He will present brief excerpts from films by French nature-film pioneer, Jean Painlevé, the Walt Disney Studio, and National Geographic. This event is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, participated in a live interview on the BBC's "The World Today" program on February 14. Li discussed the Chinese government's control over media and the growing demand for freedom of the press in the country.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center presents "Economics of Terrorism" on Monday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. as part of its year-long lecture series, "The Responsibilities of a Superpower." Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and director of the industrial relations section at Princeton University and a frequent contributor of "Economic Scene"columns in The New York Times, is the evening's speaker. This event will be held in the Chapel and is free and open to the public.

Lecturer in Economics and Women's Studies Nesecan Balkan participated in the Sixth World Social Forum in Caracas from January 24-29. Balkan organized a workshop along with colleagues from the Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE) titled "Progressive Economic Organizing in the U.S" and presented a paper about students' anti-sweatshop and other labor-related activism. The paper focused specifically on the activities of the United Students against Sweatshops which is an umbrella organization for more than 200 college groups involved with economic issues.

Hamilton College announces its spring film and lecture series, F.I.L.M (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion), scheduled on Sunday afternoons and Tuesday evenings. All events are free and open to the public.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Maurice Isserman's book, "America Divided: The Civil War of the Sixties," is listed in a Jan. 24 article in the National Review titled, "A Right Man’s Left-Hand Library," written by editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg. The article's focus is to recommend the best books on the history of liberalism in America from the writer's perspective.

Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, co-authored a paper with Mark Klinedinst titled "Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation in Bulgaria after Mass Privatization: Evidence from New Panel Data," recently published in the book Participation in the Age of Globalization and Information, which is volume 9 in the series Advances in the Economics Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, edited by Panu Kalmi and Mark Klinedinst, and published by Elsevier. This analysis of both private and state-owned Bulgarian firms reviews the potential impact of ownership and age of the firm on diverse issues concerning corporate governance and executive compensation from 1997 through 2001.

“SHOW TITLE HERE,” the Hamilton College art faculty exhibition, will be open through April 15 in the Emerson Gallery. There will also be three artist talks during February, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery, beginning with Ella Gant and Rebecca Murtaugh on Wednesday, Feb. 1, followed by Sylvia de Swaan and Barry Gerson on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Bruce Muirhead and Joy Powell on Wednesday, Feb. 15.

A Critical Cinema 5 is comprised of 14 interviews in which Scott MacDonald, visiting professor of art history, engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media.