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Field Trips and ConferencesThe Levitt Center supports the concept that significant learning experiences can take place off campus. Therefore a number of innovative field trips have been sponsored, including a trip by government students to Kenya, a combined English/History trip to London, and a historical tour of significant sites from the Civil Rights Movement in the southeastern United States. More...Student regularly take part in national and regional conferences, often with Levitt Center support. Examples include: a Hamilton College team at the Model United Nations, a group who attended an Amnesty International conference, and a team sent to Model European Union. Students Participate in Model European Union Conference in Germany Sponsored by the Levitt Center, 11 Hamilton students recently traveled to Germany to represent Romania and Slovakia at an international Model European Union (EuroSim) conference. This year's event was hosted by the Universities of Trier and Saarbrucken, and concentrated on possible independence for the Kosovo region of Serbia. The participants Elena Filekova '08, Stephen Sallan '08, Tamim Akiki '08, Murtaza Jafri '08, Matt D'Amico '08, Henok Alemayo '10, Mariam Ballout '10, Zeynep Harezi '10, Kasey Hildonen '10, Reisa Asimovic '11, and Robert Eisenhart '11 prepared through weekly meetings and individual research in the preceding months. More ... Hamilton Students Participate in European Union Simulation  Several students have recently returned to campus and the New York City program from a wonderful, if wet, weekend conference in Buffalo, New York. The annual EuroSim meeting of the Trans-Atlantic Consortium for European Union Studies and Simulations was held on the campus of Canisius College from April 12-15, 2006. Hamilton College was represented by Mariam Ballout '10; Henok Alemayo '10; Priscilla Rouyer '10; Steve Sallan '09; Murtaza Jafri '08; and Elena Filekova '08. Professor Ted Lehmann, faculty advisor from the Government Department, accompanied the group. More ...12 Hamilton Students Participate in Spring 2006 Model UN Conference in Philadelphia Twelve Hamilton College students traveled to Philadelphia the weekend of November 2-5, 2006 to participate in the University of Pennsylvania Model United Nations Conference (UPMUNC). These students are members of Model United Nations, an organization which enables students to attend various Model UN conferences throughout the year. The purpose of the organization is to improve public speaking and writing skills while learning about the official UN procedures. More ... Spring 2006 Students Travel to Prague for Model European Union EuroSim conference  Ten Hamilton students traveled to Prague, Czech Republic, with faculty sponsor Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, to participate in the Model European Union (EU) EuroSim conference, January 5-8, 2006. This is Hamilton's 16th year as a member of the Consortium of New York state colleges and universities, which sponsors the Model EU conferences. According to their website (http://www.fredonia.edu/org/eurosim/) the primary purpose of EuroSim is to provide a framework for a partial simulation of a major EU issue. Because this year's conference discussed the specifics of asylum policy and illegal immigration, during their stay in Prague, the students simulated the development of a common European refugee policy. Students who participated were Murtaza Jafri, Matt D'Amico, Riada Asimovic, Elena Filekova, Steve Sallan, Melissa Kong, Tamim Akiki, Ntokozo Xaba, Natalie Tarallo and Meghan Stringer.Summer 2004 Seminar and Field School in Kenya: What Difference Does Democracy Make?  After three decades of one-party rule, Kenya began to open up its political system in 1991. From then until 2002, opposition parties were legal and the press relatively free, but the ruling party and long-serving President maintained control through legal and illegal means. Along the way, what had been a model of relative economic success for Africa stagnated and began to decline. Corruption, inequality and poverty rose, while investment and growth fell. In December 2002 the opposition finally came to power in legitimate and free elections.Professor Orvis and his Govt. 317/318 class sought to answer this question: after a decade of legal opposition and a year of a new government in power, what difference does democracy make? This seminar and field school offered 11 students the opportunity to investigate this subject. In the seminar they studied the background to the political opening, the evolution of politics since 1990, and some of its effects. Each student conducted a research project and prepared a paper and presentation on the effects of the political changes on some aspect of Kenyan life. The Field School, in which all 11 students and Professor Orvis traveled to Kenya from May 29 to June 13, 2004, allowed the participants to continue their research in the field. They divided their time between Nairobi, a rural area occupied by Maasai pastoralists, and another rural area occupied by Kikuyu farmers. Along the way, they met with political activists, university faculty and students, independent scholars, and ordinary folks to discuss the effects of political change on the city life, agriculture, pastoralism, tourism, environmental issues, gender issues, the economy, education, and corruption, among other issues. More ... |
News Highlights 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 present "Protest on the Information Highway: Trends in Online Activism," Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 pm in the Science Auditorium (G027). February 28th, 2008. |
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