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Jennifer Earl, director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will lecture at Hamilton on Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. Her lecture is titled "Protest on the Information Highway: Trends in Online Activism," and is part of the Levitt Center's year-long series, The Age of Information. It is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller recently attended the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University, where she participated in a panel discussion of Adeeb Khalid's book Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia, and chaired a panel on "Ethnicity, Family, and Gender" in Soviet Central Asia.

A song by the band Filligar, of which Casey Gibson '09 is a member, will be featured on the season premiere of MTV's "Real World: Hollywood," on Wednesday, April 16, at 10 p.m. EST. The song, "Big Things," is from the band's 2006 release, Succession, I Guess. Filligar is a rock band based out of Chicago whose other members include Gibson's childhood friends Pete, Teddy and Johnny Mathias. The band has been together for about seven years. 

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams presented a paper at the Second International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment: Thinking and Speaking a Better World, April 11-13 at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His paper was titled "Stasis, Debate, and Accountability."

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 presented results from his recently-published paper "Is the Optimal Rectangle a Square?" (co-authored with Michael M. Neumann) at the spring 2008 meeting of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The talk discussed how geometric properties such as concavity, log-concavity, and symmetry of the graphs of the underlying functions may be applied to ensure uniqueness of solutions to various optimization problems.

Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, gave a paper titled "Representing Authority in the Chantilly Manuscript of Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche" at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago on April 3. Krueger examined the richly illuminated manuscript prepared in 1541 for the Queen of Navarre to illustrate a love debate poem that she dedicated to the mistress of her brother, King François 1er. 

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented at Generative Linguistics in Poland 6 on April 5-6, at the University of Warsaw. The presentation was titled "Covert movement, reconstruction and edge phenomena in nominalizations" (with Angeliek van Hout at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Thomas Roeper at University of Massachusetts).

Mbumwae Suba-Smith, founder of the Subayo Foundation for Women and Children, discussed the foundation and her role in changing the lives of African women and children on April 13 at Hamilton. She explained that the Subayo Foundation for Women and Children in Africa is a Non -Governmental Organization (NGO) that primarily works in Ghana, but is present in other African nations, including Zambia. The foundation finds teachers within communities to provide literacy, health and business classes.

Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a Philadelphia Inquirer article,"Puncturing pols online," that appeared in the Sunday, April 13, issue of the paper. The piece addressed how members of the "proletariat," via Internet submissions, are helping define how a wide range of voters see the presidential candidates, in contrast to past campaigns during which opinions were formed via the quips and jokes of professional television pundits.

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented a paper on Intrinsic Explanation at the Sidney-Tilburg Conference on Reduction and the Special Sciences, in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on April 10. The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) is devoted to the study of logic and philosophy of science in all its forms.