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The Hamilton College Democrats and the Kirkland Democrats are hosting a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight on Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will introduce the film and moderate a brief discussion following the screening. The event is free and open to the public.

Alumnus Dr. Ian Howat '99, an assistant professor of geoscience at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, will present "Speeding ice and shifting paradigms: timescales of ice sheet collapse" on Friday, Feb. 29, at noon in room 1035 in the Science Building.

The photography of Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan is included in a four-page spread in a new book titled The Elements of Photography – Understanding and Creating Sophisitcated Images. De Swaan's "Sub-Version Series" is represented with four images and is accompanied by an artist's statement and her comments on framing and borders.

Professor of Government Stephen Orvis gave a lecture at the "Policy Lunch Series" at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany on Feb. 26. His presentation, "What Went Wrong in Kenya?," addressed the set of developments - social, political, economic, domestic, international - that led to the violence in Kenya following elections; the prospects for the future; and possible solutions to enhance the development of a more stable democracy.

At a workshop of the Mondragon Co-operative Academic Community (MCAC) held Feb. 25-26, Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented a paper "Trust, inequality and the size of co-operative sector: cross-country evidence."

A photograph by Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan was selected by The Center for Fine Art Photography as part of it most recent exhibition of photographic fine art, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which opened on Feb. 1. Andrew Darlow, editorial director at Digital Imaging Techniques magazine and a former instructor at the International Center of Photography in New York City, was the juror for the exhibition.

During the week of Feb. 18, Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology emeritus, presented two papers and participated on a panel at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research in New Orleans.

Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has accepted an invitation to join the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Co-operative Studies. His membership on the editorial board of the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economy has also been renewed.

"Regional differences in wage inequality across industries in China," a paper written by Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Bing Yu '03, appears in the February 2008 issue of Applied Economics Letters. The paper explores the causes of very large regional differences in wage inequality in China over the period 1996 to 2001 and finds that the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) varies across Chinese provinces.

Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor written by Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald was published by University of California Press in January 2008. According to the publisher's Web site, MacDonald brings alive a remarkable moment in American cultural history and "tells the colorful story of how a small, backyard organization in the San Francisco Bay Area emerged in the 1960s and evolved to become a major force in the development of independent cinema."