FLAS fellowships support Indiana University students in study of world languages, regions Indiana University alumna Keely Bakken was born in Chicago, grew up in Las Vegas, and chose IU for college on her father’s recommendation to return to the Midwest. Bakken majored in International Studies and Spanish before earning a Master of Arts in Central… Read more »
Keely Bakken, Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School alumna, is now a Supervisory Policy Analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. As an analyst on the research team, Bakken’s work is to monitor and document religious freedom conditions in her regions of expertise: Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Turkey. Bakken majored in International Studies… Read more »
The IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies and units across IU are helping K-12 educators teach global concepts through a new interactive tool just launched this week. Through the tool, ‘Windows to the World,’ teachers can explore IU museum artifacts from around the world and download activity guides that incorporate Indiana Academic… Read more »
IU Hamilton Lugar School alumnus Evan Wright, BA East Asian Languages and Cultures ’22, is now a Science Policy Fellow with the Institute for Defense Analyses and a Nonresident Fellow with the Johns Hopkins University – Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies. Wright will work full… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University has been awarded $17.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education to support research, instruction and training in world languages, regions and international business — the highest total amount awarded to any university. Eleven IU centers in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Kelley School of Business will receive… Read more »
The IU Hamilton Lugar School’s Language Workshop attracted 300 students from across the country this summer to complete one year of language training in only eight weeks. These students now join thousands of Workshop alumni, including former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch, among other ambassadors, diplomats, academics, military members, and professionals in a… Read more »
IU Hamilton Lugar School junior, Hayleigh Keasling, not only secured a highly sought-after internship at the U.S. State Department this summer, but she is also one of six students nationally to be named a 2022 Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fellow of the Council of American Ambassadors (CAA). This prestigious Fellowship, most often awarded to… Read more »
National Taiwan University (NTU) President Chung-Ming Kuan, Ph.D., and Executive Vice President Chiapei Chou, Ph.D., visited Indiana University on June 3 to discuss the institutions’ recently expanded partnership, and their new focus on Chinese language education. In Fall 2021, a $70,000 grant from the Taiwanese Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education allowed NTU and IU… Read more »
By Dean Lee Feinstein, as published in the Chicago Tribune This piece may be disturbing to some readers. It offers limited hope, optimism, and earnest language, with brief scenes of unity. Like many who have worked on promoting democracy around the world, I spend a lot of time these days worried about the state of our… Read more »
Globally Engaging Together is a biweekly newsletter sent to the Hamilton Lugar School community. You can subscribe here. Feature Story: IKS Webinar Series Showcases Korean-American Stories Co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the US, “Parallel Dreams: Korean and Korean-American Issues through Film” will feature three film screenings and conversations with Korean-American directors…. Read more »
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