Issue 33(1) of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement is now available. John Harriss is the editor of the journal, which is the flagship publication of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID).
EVENTS
May 26, 2012: SFU Open House and Education Fair at the Burnaby campus. An exciting day full of interesting things to see and do, artistic performances and educational demonstrations and explorations.
FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
Morten Jerven will be presenting a paper at the Conference on Trade, Poverty and Growth in History in Madrid on May 17-18. He will also present to the Economic History department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on May 24, 2012. He is a panelist at the conference organized at the Centre of African Studies (CAS), Edinburgh on June 6-8 and will present three papers and organize one panel at the World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, South Africa where his doctoral thesis is nominated as the best work in the 20th century category.
In April and May of this year, Simons Chair Jeff Checkel gave talks on
the social and transnational dynamics of civil war at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Barcelona Institute of International Studies, and taught an intensive PhD seminar at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
May 24, 2012: Warmest congratulations to our director, John Harriss and to Nicole Jackson on winning the 2012 Cormack Teaching Awards at the Professor and Associate Professor levels respectively.
May 16, 2012: A very warm welcome to the addition of the Latin American Studies program within the School. We look forward to collaborating with LAS in its research and teaching capacity.
The International Studies Southeast Asia Fieldschool will run next in Spring 2013. Students will visit Bali, Thailand and Vietnam with Michael Howard.