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Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave the keynote speech on the occasion of Ghana's 51st Anniversary Celebration on March 15 at the Gordon Student Center, Onondaga Community College. The speech, "Ghana: Democracy and Sustainable Development – An African Example" was based on Odamtten's observations during his recent sabbatical in the West African country.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Yuwen Hsiung's paper "Emotion, Visuality, and Subjectivity: Meng Jinghui's Urban Play Rhinoceros in Love" won the 2008 Emerging Scholar award. She is invited to present her paper during the AAP conference in Denver in July and the paper will be published in the Asian Theatre Journal.

Hamilton's Jazz Archive is featured in the April issue of JazzTimes in an article titled "Swinging Spoken Words." The writer, Nat Hentoff, visited Hamilton and spoke with Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive. Hentoff noted that when he saw the video interviews with 280 jazz musicians "it was for me like hearing the voices of participants in the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, where our swinging liberties were being improvised by James Madison and other sidemen and set down for posterity."

Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, chaired a panel at the annual meetings of the American Society for Public Administration in Dallas in March on "World Cities Fighting Corruption," based on a book he is co-editing with colleagues in Amsterdam. At the invitation of the department of political science at Vaxjo University in Sweden, he delivered a lecture on "The Problem of Corruption Control" during the week of March 24.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald presented a paper, "Pragmatic--A Tentative Taxonomy of Boston Area Filmmaking," at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies on March 7 in Philadelphia. He was also involved in curating and was the host for the opening event for "Facing Realities: Dialogues in Boston Documentary Filmmaking," an on-going series of events focused on Boston filmmaking.

In an article titled "Do millions of cats equal millions of radicals?" in John Hopkins University Press' Reviews in American History (Volume 36, Number 1, March 2008, pp. 103-107), Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, reviewed Julia L. Mickenberg's Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States.

Hamilton students are being offered a unique opportunity to learn about the film industry this spring courtesy of alumnus Thomas Tull '92. The founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures has established a film treatment challenge open to any student.

Hamilton students are being offered a unique opportunity to learn about the film industry this spring courtesy of alumnus Thomas Tull '92. The founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures has established a film treatment challenge open to any student. During an April campus visit, he and his team will discuss what a treatment is and how it fits into the development of a movie. He is also offering two summer internships in his company to current and rising seniors.

The Office of the Dean of Faculty recently announced the recipients of the 2008 Emerson Summer Collaboration Grant. Created in 1997, the Emerson Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. The recipients, covering a range of topics, will explore fieldwork, laboratory and library research, and the development of teaching materials. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the academic year.

Nicholas Tampio, visiting assistant professor of government, served as the chair and discussant on the "Multiple Modernities" panel at the 2008 Western Political Science Association Conference held in San Diego on March 20 to 22. Tampio's comments focused on how the emerging field of comparative political theory transforms Leo Strauss's image of the three waves of modernity.