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Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell spoke on U.S.-Cuba relations and the prospects for reform under the Obama administration at Utica College on March 4. She discussed the shake-up of Raul Castro's cabinet in which he fired eight ministers closely associated with Fidel Castro and replaced them with former military officers who are personally loyal to Raul.

Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, has published an essay titled "Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction" in The Companion to Arthurian Literature, edited by Helen Fulton (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Professor of Art Bill Salzillo's intaglio, The Cabinet, is one of 63 works chosen for the exhibition, White, Black, and Shades of Gray at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Mass. Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead  had two etchings accepted. They are "Power Station" and "Smoker."

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg in collaboration with Melissa Davies, education director of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, conducted a daylong seminar, "Understanding Traditional and Modern China through New Media," for public school teachers in Central New York.

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented "Petroleum and America's Position: Stasis or Decline?" at the International Studies Association annual conference on Feb. 17. Lehmann's presentation drew upon his research on the present position of the United States. He pointed out, among other things, that the Iraq War can no longer be said to be unrelated to oil.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented "State, Capital, and the Transatlantic Security Order: Limits of European Autonomy" at the International Studies Association Annual Convention on Feb. 18.

Eric Kuhn '09 interviewed the co-author of Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time using blogtalkradio.com. Huffington Post included the interview in an entry on its site appearing on Feb. 24. In an Internet-based revival of his "Kuhn and Company" radio program originally heard on WHCL, Kuhn discussed the advantages of Twitter to corporations and individuals with Joel Comm.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper titled "Oh Father, Where Art Thou? A Bakhtinian Reading of Luo Zhongli's Father" at An Interdisciplinary Conference: The Status of Theory in Contemporary Chinese Film and Visual Culture held at the University Maryland on Feb. 20.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received yet another glowing review, this time from The Atlantic in its March issue. The reviewer described the book as a "comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon."

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann wrote an article that appeared in the January issue of Security Studies, a leading international relations theory and security journal. The article "Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Classical Realist Statecraft and Economic Exchange in U.S. Interwar Strategy," sheds new and original light on our entry into WWII and the origins of Japanese oil dependency on the United States.