Five young women were brainstorming in the hallway outside a classroom in the Wright Education Building on the Indiana University campus. Brainstorming while moving, that is, with a little bit of boogie and the occasional yoga pose punctuating their animated conversation.
Entries by Hamilton Lugar School
Istrabadi on PBS NewsHour: post-Mosul effort must be “multipronged”
In the wake of the liberation of the city of Mosul, Director of the Center of Study of the Middle East at SGIS, Feisal Istrabadi told Judy Woodruff on the PBS News Hour “it’s a psychological and an ideological, huge blow to ISIL.”
Building houses and connections out of the rubble in Haiti
Why do Americans learn a foreign language? For college-bound high school students, it can be something like taking calculus or organic chemistry – it looks good on a transcript. For a previous generation, perhaps, it was a mark of refinement.
Filmmaker explores domestic violence in Europe’s emerging democracies
As democracies emerge in states once behind the Iron Curtain, there’s resistance to the human rights piece, according to documentary filmmaker Marty Pack. “These states are using Catholicism and Orthodoxy as a tool to undermine human rights,” she argues. The particular human rights she’s been investigating through the dual channels of scholarship and filmmaking are those… Read more »
Reading Russia through the Sochi Games and the Orthodox Church
It was Friday, June 9, and Indiana University School of Global and International Studies Dean Lee Feinstein was welcoming participants in IU’s Summer Language Workshop to Bloomington and the School. “So, did anyone watch TV yesterday morning?” Feinstein inquired of the crowd gathered in the auditorium.
Boren Scholars from Turkish Flagship head for Baku
One is a ballroom dancer. The other, a self-professed media junkie with wanderlust. The first is from a small town in Illinois, the other from Fort Wayne, Indiana. They’ve both studied Spanish. And they’re both headed to Central Eurasia on a prestigious scholarship.
Federal grant to IU program will create Indiana’s ‘Language Roadmap’
School of Global and International Studies will administer program through its Center for the Study of Global Change to address state needs for business and other sectors.
Dean Feinstein hosts meet and greet for international affairs alumni in D.C.
SGIS Dean Lee Feinstein and the Indiana University Alumni in International Affairs hosted a happy hour event at the new IU Washington, D.C. office Thursday June 15, an alumni networking event for School of Global and International Studies. The event attracted many professionals with IU connections in the nation’s capital as well as IU alumni… Read more »
Indiana teachers share biliteracy strategies at Dual Language Immersion Institute
“Our school mission statement is to develop global learners,” explained kindergarten teacher Kendra Guerrero, on the Indiana University Bloomington campus this week for the Dual Language Immersion Institute, “so this fits really nicely in the vision of our school.”
A fresh perspective for future military leaders: IU-IDB Strategic Studies Fellows complete three weeks at IU
It was a Wednesday morning in late May, and David Bosco and Scott Shackelford were busy making breaking news relevant to the theme they were getting ready to lecture on: “The Changing Nature of Conflict.” “It came up with North Korea this morning,” pointed out Shackelford, associate professor of business law and ethics at IU… Read more »