Organizers of the upcoming Year of the Dragon Lunar New Year Celebration at the Hamilton Lugar School are creating an event with two diverse audiences in mind—those who are just learning about the holiday, and those who consider it to be the most important holiday in their family and culture. From noon to 2 p.m…. Read more »
Christopher I. Beckwith’s latest work, The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China (Princeton University Press) has been named among History Today’s Books of the Year 2023. Beckwith is a distinguished professor of Central Eurasian Studies at the IU Hamilton Lugar School. History Today’s December 2023… Read more »
The Language Workshop at the Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School has received $840,000 in continued support for the Project Global Officer (Project GO) program for summer 2024. Project GO is a U.S. Department of Defense initiative that offers full scholarships to qualified Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students to study critical languages and study abroad…. Read more »
Anton Ermakov’s love for bookstores only grew stronger when he studied abroad in Budapest, Hungary through the Indiana University (IU) Language Workshop. “Being able to go into bookstores and speak to people at the cash register and parse through books in Hungarian was really gratifying to me,” he said. “It made me happy when I… Read more »
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn named Jean Monnet Chair of Migration and Refugee Studies The Hamilton Lugar School’s Institute of European Studies (EURO) recently received two prestigious three-year awards from the Erasmus+ program of the European Union—a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant, and a lump-sum award to establish Elizabeth Cullen Dunn as the Jean Monnet Chair… Read more »
Jennifer Byrne recently completed a seven-month Boren Graduate Fellowship in Riga, Latvia, preparing her for a career in public diplomacy. The fellowship provided the opportunity for her to spend a year in Latvia with a goal of improving her fluency in both Russian and Ukrainian while studying Russian propaganda, disinformation, and media censorship. A Tucker-Cohen… Read more »
The oceans have been all over the news recently. In the South China Sea, China has been asserting maritime claims that many others in the region—including the United States – reject. At the United Nations, more than a hundred countries recently negotiated a new agreement for protecting the ocean environment. Meanwhile, diplomats and scientists have… Read more »
Congratulations to the Samuel H. Bass and Kenneth E. Linden, Hamilton Lugar School Central Eurasian Studies Ph.D. graduates, who were recognized in the 2022-2023 Best of the Next Generation of American Mongolists essay competition. Bass, currently a visiting assistant professor of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University, was awarded… Read more »
Ethan Michelson’s book, Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2022), paints a grim picture of a widespread problem that is hiding in plain sight – the difficulty of obtaining a divorce in China, particularly if you are a woman abused by her husband. Michelson says the book title is a double… Read more »
Maddie Butler’s advice to incoming first-year students is to “value community over competition.” She learned from experience – after four years of community leadership, Butler graduated from the Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) in May 2023 with a B.A. in International Law & Institutions, a B.A. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures on the Arabic language… Read more »