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Sharon Werning Rivera, associate professor of government, and David W. Rivera, scholar-in-residence,  published “Is Russia a Militocracy? Conceptual Issues and Extant Findings Regarding Elite Militarization,” in Post-Soviet Affairs (No. 1 2014: 27-40). Post-Soviet Affairs is one of the leading area-studies journals for political scientists working on East Central Europe and Eurasia.  

The lecture by Princeton University dean Valerie Smith scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, at 5 p.m., has been cancelled due to the threat of severe weather. Organizers hope to reschedule at a later date.

The International Students Association participated in a Cultural Festival organized for third graders at the Seneca Street School in Oneida on March 3. Ahtesham Khan ’17 (Pakistan), Alex Hirsu ’17 (Romania), Sitong Chen ’16 (China) and Fiona Glen ’17 (Scotland) attended the event.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik delivered a paper titled "The Nachleben of an Ottonian monarch: the canonization of Henry II and crusading in the 12th century" at the 19th Biennial Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies at New College of Florida in Sarasota on March 7.

A newly-written score by Patrick Doyle will be performed by a chamber ensemble in accompaniment with a showing of the 1927 silent film It on Tuesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall in Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The film will be preceded by a talk by the composer at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Six prizes were awarded in three categories in the annual Public Speaking Competition on Saturday, March 8, in the Chapel. The finalists were chosen after an open preliminary round held in February. Speakers’ presentations were either persuasive or informative in nature, and in one category students were asked to address an assigned topic.

Professor of History Robert Paquette was awarded the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Ronald Reagan Banquet on March 7 in Washington, D.C.  The prize honors the memory of Kirkpatrick, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, for her fierce defense of academic freedom.

Associate Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper, titled "From Courtly Love to Court Poetics: Dunbar's Petitions and the Scottish Transformation of Tradition," at the University of Cambridge.

Although the annual homicide rate in NYC dropped from 2,245 to 333 between 1991 and 2013, civilians are now less trusting of law enforcement than they ever have been.  No era before has faced such a looming reality of Big Brother as we do in the modern day. Renown author Christopher Dickey, who currently serves as the Paris Bureau chief and Middle East regional editor for The Daily Beast, presented a lecture on March 6 on “Policing, Politics and Paranoia in Post 9/11 America.”

Doug Lemov ’90 returned to the Hill on March 6 to initiate a policy conversation on public education reform.  While encouraging dialogue and discussion throughout his lecture, Lemov expressed his own ideas of how the current educational system can progress in the midst of poverty. In his presentation, titled “Which Reforms Will Save American Education – and Which Will Kill It?” Lemov addressed the different ways in which the nation must improve “the most important sector in a functioning democracy.”