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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.

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. During an April campus visit, he and his team will discuss what a treatment is and how it fits into the development of a movie. He is also offering two summer internships in his company to current and rising seniors.

Nicholas Tampio, visiting assistant professor of government, served as the chair and discussant on the "Multiple Modernities" panel at the 2008 Western Political Science Association Conference held in San Diego on March 20 to 22. Tampio's comments focused on how the emerging field of comparative political theory transforms Leo Strauss's image of the three waves of modernity.

The one-hour documentary titled "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism" produced locally by WCNY will be shown again on Sunday, March 23, at 3 p.m. Included in the documentary footage are shots of the recent Emerson Gallery exhibition "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist" as well as images of the Root Glen and the Root homestead.