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Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Henry Rutz have co-authored "Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul," published in January. Focusing on the families of Istanbul's new middle class, the authors address questions about the social construction of middle-class reality in the context of the rapid changes that have come about through recent economic growth in global markets and the global diffusion of information technology.

Professor of Art History Rand Carter delivered a public lecture sponsored by the Landmarks Society of Greater Utica on March 11. The title of his presentation was "Sinan and the Golden Age of Ottoman Architecture."

Scott MacDonald, currently on leave teaching with the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard, was a keynote speaker at "Avant-Doc," a conference organized by the graduate students in cinema at the University of Iowa on March 6. MacDonald's talk, "When Worlds Collide," reviewed the history of the intersections between documentary filmmaking and avant-garde filmmaking.

The cost to attend Hamilton College next year will increase by the lowest percentage since 1967-68 when fees remained the same as the previous year. 

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow in philosophy, is the author of a short sketch of mathematician and philosopher David Hilbert's philosophical views in the March issue of The Reasoner. The publication is an interdisciplinary monthly digest highlighting research on reasoning, inference and method in philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence, statistics, cognitive science, law, psychology, mathematics and the sciences.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, gave a talk titled "The Economic Impact of Offline Teams" at ETEO, Mondragon University, in Oñate, Spain, on March 5. Jones' presentation was based on a paper written with Colgate professor Takao Kato available as a working paper from the Institute for the Study of Labor.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell spoke on U.S.-Cuba relations and the prospects for reform under the Obama administration at Utica College on March 4. She discussed the shake-up of Raul Castro's cabinet in which he fired eight ministers closely associated with Fidel Castro and replaced them with former military officers who are personally loyal to Raul.

Professor of Art Bill Salzillo's intaglio, The Cabinet, is one of 63 works chosen for the exhibition, White, Black, and Shades of Gray at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Mass. Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead  had two etchings accepted. They are "Power Station" and "Smoker."

Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, has published an essay titled "Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction" in The Companion to Arthurian Literature, edited by Helen Fulton (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg in collaboration with Melissa Davies, education director of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, conducted a daylong seminar, "Understanding Traditional and Modern China through New Media," for public school teachers in Central New York.