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"SHOW TITLE HERE," the Hamilton College art faculty exhibition, will open Thursday, January 26, in the Emerson Gallery with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. There will also be three artist talks during February, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery, beginning with Ella Gant and Rebecca Murtaugh on Wednesday, Feb. 1, followed by Sylvia de Swaan and Barry Gerson on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Bruce Muirhead and Joy Powell on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The show includes work by these artists as well as by Bill Salzillo, chair of the art department and curator of the Hamilton Collects Program. The show is open through April 15. The lectures and exhibition are free and open to the public.

More than 50 prints, drawings and illustrated books by the British artist and humorist Thomas Rowlandson (1756 – 1827) will be on display in Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery in an exhibition opening on Friday, Feb. 10. These works are on loan to the Emerson from the extensive collection of Rowlandson's work in the Print Department of the Boston Public Library. The show, titled "Humor & Humanity: Through the Eyes of Thomas Rowlandson," will be open through April 15 and is free and open to the public.

Edward S. Walker, Jr., former United States Ambassador and current president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank on Middle East Policy, has been appointed to the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professorship in Global Political Theory. Ambassador Walker, a 1962 Hamilton graduate, served as the Linowitz Professor of Middle East Studies in 2003 and 2005.

Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones recently gave two talks at the Helsinki Center for Economic Research in Helsinki, Finland. On Feb. 2, he presented a paper he wrote with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen, "Human Resource Management and Performance in Retail Trade: Evidence From an Econometric Case Study," at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research. On Feb. 22, Jones presented a paper titled "The Productive Efficiency of Italian Producer Cooperatives: Evidence from Conventional and Cooperative Firms" at a seminar titled "Labour and Public Economics."

On Friday, February 24, Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald will present a lecture titled "Not Just a Nature Film" at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson Building. As part of the Faculty Lecture Series, MacDonald will talk about the recent success of nature films like Luc Jacquet's "March of the Penguins," Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin's "Winged Migration," Andy Byatt and Alastair Fothergill's "Deep Blue," and Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man." He will discuss why critics need to consider them more seriously. He will present brief excerpts from films by French nature-film pioneer, Jean Painlevé, the Walt Disney Studio, and National Geographic. This event is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, participated in a live interview on the BBC's "The World Today" program on February 14. Li discussed the Chinese government's control over media and the growing demand for freedom of the press in the country.

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center presents "Economics of Terrorism" on Monday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. as part of its year-long lecture series, "The Responsibilities of a Superpower." Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and director of the industrial relations section at Princeton University and a frequent contributor of "Economic Scene"columns in The New York Times, is the evening's speaker. This event will be held in the Chapel and is free and open to the public.

Lecturer in Economics and Women's Studies Nesecan Balkan participated in the Sixth World Social Forum in Caracas from January 24-29. Balkan organized a workshop along with colleagues from the Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE) titled "Progressive Economic Organizing in the U.S" and presented a paper about students' anti-sweatshop and other labor-related activism. The paper focused specifically on the activities of the United Students against Sweatshops which is an umbrella organization for more than 200 college groups involved with economic issues.

Hamilton College announces its spring film and lecture series, F.I.L.M (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion), scheduled on Sunday afternoons and Tuesday evenings. All events are free and open to the public.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Maurice Isserman's book, "America Divided: The Civil War of the Sixties," is listed in a Jan. 24 article in the National Review titled, "A Right Man’s Left-Hand Library," written by editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg. The article's focus is to recommend the best books on the history of liberalism in America from the writer's perspective.