Documentary ‘The Wondrous World of Laundry’ will be screened
Month: April 2017
First Russian Studies Workshop conference considers “Repression & Resilience in Russia’s Public Sphere”
“No one was talking about Russia before the election,” asserted Russian journalist Aleksandr Gorbachev, “Then, boom, it’s the only thing people talk about. And it’s getting blown out of proportion.”
Central Eurasian Studies scholar Beckwith honored at Distinguished Professor Symposium
Renowned for the range of his scholarship and the courses he has developed, Christopher I. Beckwith has joined the ranks of Indiana University’s Distinguished Professors. A researcher in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the School of Global and International Studies, he is one of nine IU researchers and artists appointed this year and… Read more »
Sumit Ganguly, Director of the Center on American and Global Security at SGIS, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ganguly, also a professor of political science and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, joins one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Students from across IU present policy solutions in First Diplomacy Lab Symposium
“Foreign policy is much broader than what some people might think,” noted School of Global and International Studies Dean Lee Feinstein in his welcoming remarks to those gathered for the inaugural Diplomacy Lab symposium in the Indiana Memorial Union Solarium Wednesday, April 12. But current thinking about preventing war and tackling other pressing global issues,… Read more »
Refugees’ stories are shared through symposium by Center for the Study of Global Change
Soon after the Russo-Georgian War, Elizabeth Dunn (IU SGIS Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies) found herself in a displaced persons camp in Georgia. From 2008 through 2013, the Fulbright Scholar spent part of every year living among the estimated 28,000 people permanently displaced from their homes in South Ossetia, “wedged between past and… Read more »
Scholar who has chronicled emergence of anti-Muslim groups to speak at SGIS
Christopher Bail, a Duke University professor whose research has chronicled the emergence of anti-Muslim organizations and their role in mainstream American culture, will speak April 11 at the School of Global and International Studies.
First symposium for SGIS-supported Diplomacy Lab
The Indiana University Diplomacy Lab program is hosting its first Diplomacy Lab Symposium on April 12 in the Indiana Memorial Union Solarium.
EALC’s Liff named Social Science Research Council’s Abe Fellow
Assistant Professor of East Asian International Relations and East Asian Languages and Cultures Adam Liff has been selected by the Social Science Research Council for its Abe Fellowship program. Liff is among 10 researchers and four journalists from the US and Japan to receive the Abe Fellowship and Abe Fellowship for journalists for the 2016 competition year.