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Five seniors directed by Professor of Government Gary Wyckoff have analyzed the predictions of 26 prognosticators and have found that most of them were not significantly different, in a statistical sense, than a coin flip. Their findings were presented via webcast on Monday, May 2.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells presented a paper titled “Varieties of Pastoral Experience: The Reception of Vergilian Pastoral in Contemporary American Poetry” at the annual meeting to the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics,  gave a paper at the Classical Association meeting in Durham, United Kingdom, on April 17.  The paper was part of a session on "Late Antique Constructs" and was titled "'And I Became a Man':  Gender Fluidity and Closure in Perpetua's Fourth Vision."

Arpita Banerjee, visiting assistant professor of economics, gave an invited seminar at the Political Economy Workshop at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on April 26.  Her talk was titled “The Different Economy of Indian Self-Employed Sector.”

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was the guest speaker at a Caribbean Students Association-sponsored event at the State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland on April 27. 

Zarqa Nawaz, the creator and driving force behind the production company Fundamentalist Films accidentally took the world by storm when she created the Canadian sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, in 2007. To Nawaz, who spoke and screened an episode of her show in the Kennedy Auditorium on April 28 as part of the Humanities Forum, comedy is all about finding something funny to say that nobody has ever said before.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has been selected as the 2011 winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award for her book of poetry, Murder Ballad.  The award is given by Alice James Books, a nonprofit cooperative poetry press founded in 1973. Springer will receive $2,000 and her book will be published with Alice James Books in May 2012.

Metropolitan Opera tenor Jon Fredric West, a lecturer in voice at Hamilton, will be the subject of a documentary airing this weekend on WURT, (channel 7 in the Clinton-Utica area).  The one-hour special, “From Concert Hall to Classroom,” will air on Saturday, April 30, at 7 p.m., and again on Sunday, May 1, at 10 a.m.  Part of the documentary was filmed on Hamilton’s campus and includes student Annie Phillips ’13.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, gave an invited keynote address “Assessing Mondragon: Stability and Managed Change in the face of Globalization” at the First International Conference on Co-operatives, Kish, Iran.

Miners may be most comfortable underground, but that was not evident when Scott Hand '64 spoke on the Hill on April 27.  Hand, currently the executive chairman of the board of the Royal Nickel Company in Canada, previously worked for International Nickel and shared his views on Hamilton, the mining industry and the international economy.