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Professor of History Shoshana Keller presented a paper at the combined British and International Slavic and East European Studies conference, held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, April 5-8.

Professor of History Shoshana Keller was invited to conduct a Junior Scholar Training Workshop for the University of Illinois Russian, East European and Eurasian Center June 18-20. The workshop for graduate students focused on methods of researching Soviet Central Asian history. Keller also conducted research on childhood and child labor in Soviet Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Concurrent with the Middle East’s growing role in international politics, student interest in that part of the world has been expanding. In response to both, the faculty approved an interdisciplinary program and minor in Middle East and Islamic World Studies at its May 1 meeting.

Professor of History Shoshana Keller was a panelist in a forum titled “Information Exchange and Social Change in the Contemporary Middle East and Central Asia” on March 25 at the State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) in Utica.

Professor of History Shoshana Keller just published a review of Jorn Happel's book, Nomadische Lebenswelten und zarische Politik: Der Aufstand in Zentralasien 1916, in the journal Slavic Review.

Among the Bicentennial Kickoff celebration weekend activities were more than 30 Bicentennial colleges and tours. Besides several dedicated to the life and times of Alexander Hamilton, these lectures and historical tours covered topics ranging from the Archaeology of Hamilton College to Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.  Student writers attended the Colleges throughout the weekend to provide a glimpse of the range of topics covered.  Following are synopses of a few that took place on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 22 and 23.

Professor of History Shoshana Keller presented a paper titled "Physical Culture for Modern Children" at the annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, held Sept. 16-18 at Ohio State University.

The Diversity and Social Justice Program will host a screening of Budrus, an award-winning documentary about a village on the border between Israel and the West Bank where Israelis and Palestinians on either side of the security wall construction worked to nonviolently resist the building of the wall. The film will be shown on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Professor of History Shoshana Keller wrote the introductory essay to the most recent "Journal of Women's History" book forum, a discussion of Kumari Jayawardena's The Erasure of the Euro-Asian.

Six members of the Hamilton College faculty have been promoted to the rank of professor. Associate professors Debra Boutin, mathematics; Naomi Guttman, English; Shoshana Keller, history; Doran Larson, English; Herm Lehman biology; and Gary Wyckoff, government, were promoted, effective July 1.