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Cheryl Morgan, professor and chair of French and Francophone studies, and Claire Mouflard, assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, gave presentations at the Women in French conference, hosted this year by the Winthrop-King Institute at Florida State University in Tallahassee on Feb. 8 to 10.

The Community Outreach & Cooperative Project (COOP) hires senior fellows each year to help run volunteer projects both in the Hamilton community and in the greater Utica area.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of International Affairs and Professor of Government, gave an invited lecture based on his recently published book at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

The large numbers of migrants traveling into the European Union has left policymakers struggling to come up with a humanitarian and practical solution. Leila Simona Talani, professor of international political economy at King’s College London and scholar-in-residence at Hamilton’s Levitt Center, spoke recently on the migration crisis.

Take 35 active middle schoolers, add in 15 Hamilton students, put them in a gym with game, crafts, and pizza and a healthy dose of competition, and you have the popular Hangin’ with Hamilton.

Hamilton will host a TEDx event on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Center Barrett Lab Theatre. This year’s topic is Rethinking Today, Reinventing Tomorrow. A TEDx talk is a showcase for speakers presenting great, well-formed ideas in under 18 minutes. 

A review by Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman was recently published on Canadian Writers Abroad, a website that promotes, shares, and records the work of Canadian writers who are working or have worked outside of Canada.

Hamilton’s Model United Nations team participated in the annual Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) conference from Feb. 15 to Feb. 18, in Boston. Over 300 schools, including more than 60 from abroad, competed along with Hamilton.

An article co-authored by Professors Derek Jones and Jeffrey Pliskin, and Matthew Poterba ’12 was recently published online in the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity.

When Americans hear of 1956 in the Soviet Union, if anything comes to mind it is usually the uprising in Hungary and the Soviet intervention to suppress it. This association is far different from the liberalization movement that Russians associate with 1956. Kathleen Smith, professor of teaching at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, discussed this disparity in a lecture, “Rebellious Soviet Students in 1956: A New Generation of Political Prisoners.”