May 16, 2013: Public lecture 'Creating Home Away from Home: Mobile Phones and Migrant Workers in Asia' by Grace Roldan (De La Salle University).

May 10, 2013: Give Peace a Chance: Peace Negotiations in Colombia and Turkey workshops at SFU Harbour Centre and UBC Liu Institute.

May 8, 2013: Morten Jerven will discuss his book, Poor Numbers at the Royal African Society, UK.  

May 2, 2013: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on the NPT and the problems posed for it by the failure to date to convene a promised conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.

April 24, 2013: Morten Jerven will discuss his book, Poor Numbers at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.  Clickhere for more details.

April-May 2013: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be leading two doctoral seminars on civil war at the Research School in Peace and Conflict, Peace Research Institute Oslo.

April 19, 2013: Morten Jerven's Poor Numbers book launch.  Click here to read the SFU news article about Morten's book and conference.  Click here to read The Vancouver Sun's article on Poor Numbers.

Read Onur Bakiner's article, 'Is Turkey coming to terms with its past? Politics of memory and majoritarian conservatism' in the Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity here.

Read Paul Meyer's op-ed which comments on some alarming recommendations coming from a senior advisory board to the US Department of Defense.

April 8-9, 2013: Peter Katzenstein, Carpenter Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, will be visiting the School as the term's next Simons Series speaker.  Click here for details!

April 4, 2013: Islam in the Hinterlands book launch.  Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures.

Jeff Checkel's latest book, Transnational Dynamics of Civil War, has just been published by Cambridge University Press!

Morten Jerven draws on his new book Poor Numbers to examine if Africa is rising in an article published in Foreign Policy on January 28. Click here to read the article. He was also recently interviewed in the Economist. Click here for details. The book was published this week by Cornell University Press.

Read Paul Meyer's commentary on the EU's proposed Code of Conduct for Outer Space and related problems here.

March 21, 2013: Free public lecture by Clara Han - 'A Bullet Killed My Son: Textures of Events'. Click here for more details. Presented by the Latin American Studies Program.

March 14, 2013: Free public lecture by Nancy Postero - 'Wedding the Nation: Spectacles of Indigeneity in Plurinational Bolivia'.  Click here for details. Presented by the Latin American Studies Program.

March 13, 2013: President's Faculty Lecture Series by Tamir Moustafa - 'Islamic Law and Women’s Rights: The View from Malaysia'.  Click here for more details.

February 4-5, 2013: Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin) will be the term's first speaker in the Simons Series on the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict.  Click here for details.

January 28, 2013: Free public lecture - Is Social Media a Scientific Tool of the 21st Century? by Rebecca Chiao, Founder of HarrassMap, Cairo. Click here for details.

January 28, 2013: Free public lecture - The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and You. Click here for details.

Morten Jerven, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and methodology both across countries and within a country across time, makes many empirical studies of African progress meaningless. The conversation closes with a discussion of what might be done to improve data collection in poor countries. Click here for more details.

December 24, 2012: John Harriss will be stepping down as Director of the School at the end of 2012. Under John's leadership, the School has developed a very successful undergraduate and graduate program. Our deepest thanks for his hard work and dedication not just in his role as Director but also as a faculty mentor and as a teacher. Alec Dawson will be the Director of the School effective January 1, 2013. Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Alec to the School.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies in cooperation with the School for International Studies present The Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Priorities and Challenges. Speaker: Mr. Iacovos S.I. Giragosian, Consul General of the Republic of Cyprus in Toronto. For event details, click here.

Morten Jerven appeared on the Business page of UK's Guardian on November 20, 2012. He discussed his new book, Poor Numbers, a study of the production and use of African economic development statistics. Click here to read the article.

John Harriss is featured in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science's 'Engaging Teachers' video.  Watch it here.

Tamir Moustafa was elected as one of eight new trustees for the Law and Society Association. The Law and Society Association is the largest interdisciplinary association for sociolegal studies worldwide and the Board of Trustees is its main governance organ.

October 26 and 27, 2012: UBC Asian Studies, SFU Development and Sustainability and the School for International Studies present the 2012 South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN). Click here to register for the Oct 27 conference.  Conference program available here.

Adjunct Professor, Paul Meyer was invited to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence in Ottawa on October 25, 2012. It was part of their study on "NATO's Strategic Concept and Canada's International Defence Cooperation". A webcast (and eventually a transcript) of the entire session will be posted to the Committee's website.

October 15, 2012: Free public lecture: What Should Come After the Millennium Development Goals? Insights on the Post-2015 Development Agenda by Kate Higgins. Click here for details.

September 24, 2012: Paved with Good Intentions: From Idealism to Imperialism book launch and discussion. Click here for details.

September 13, 2012: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel now has two books forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.  Transnational Dynamics of Civil War will be published early next year, while Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool will follow in late 2013.

September 7, 2012: Free public lecture - Is India Still Shining? Professor V. B. Athreya will briefly review the history of India's success in raising economic growth rates to compare with those of China, and then consider the reasons for the more recent downturn in the Indian economy. He will also address questions about the distributive aspects of Indian development. For details, please click here.

September 4, 2012: The School welcomes Jean Allain, the Simons Visiting Chair in International Law and Human Security for Fall 2012.

August 22, 2012: Simons Series in the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict announces speakers for coming academic year!  Click here for details.

August 9, 2012: Elizabeth Cooper recently co-edited a special issue of theDevelopment Policy Review on the topic of 'inheritance: a gendered and intergenerational dimension of poverty'. In this issue, she co-authored theintroductory essay and has a separate article based on some policy research that she conducted in five Sub-Saharan African countries about women and inheritance.August 1, 2012: The School for International Studies extends a warm welcome to its new Assistant Professor, Christopher Gibson and to its new Limited Term Assistant Professor, Elizabeth Cooper.

July 4, 2012: Congratulations, John Harriss and Martha Snodgrass on winning yet another University Publication Fund (Serial Publication Grant) to support the editorial operations of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

July 4, 2012: Vancouver Peace Talks by Onur Bakiner at Caffe Rustico (3136 Main Street, Vancouver) - 5:30 to 7:00pm. Please click here for more information.

July 3, 2012: Congratulations to graduate student, Zaira Petruf, on winning a Soroptimist Foundation of Canada grant.

June 14, 2012: Congratulations to IS graduates!  Have a great time celebrating convocation with loved ones.  An especially warm congratulations to Ogake Angwenyi for being chosen to sing the national anthem and to deliver the graduand address.

June 8, 2012: Congratulations to graduate students, Angie Hall and Zaira Petruf on winning SSHRC awards!

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.

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.

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.May 17, 2012: The School presents a free public lecture on Buddhist influence on Indigenous Thai Mapping by Barend Jan Terwiel.  For more information, please click here.

May 3, 2012: The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF) and SFU's Latin American Studies present a free screening of the documentary, The Coca-Cola Case (VLAFF 2010) as part of the "Global Capital, Global Rights" workshop. The screening will be followed by a dialogue with the director of the film, Germán Gutiérrez.

Tamir Moustafa has published a policy paper with the Brookings Institute
titled "Drafting Egypt's Constitution: Can a New Legal Framework Revive a Flawed Transition?". Click here for the English version and here for the Arabic.

April 24, 2012: Southeast Asia (Spring 2013) Information Session with Michael Howard at 11AM-1PM at SFU Burnaby, BLU 10901.

April 4, 2012: The School for International Studies invites you to the documentary film screening and follow up discussion on "The Trap of Saving Cambodia". For more information, please click here.

March 30, 2012: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute for Global Issues & The Security and Defence Program at UBC invite you to the next Simons Lecture in the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict by Scott Gates. For more information, please click here.

March 14, 2012: The School invites you to a roundtable discussion 'Kony 2012: Unpacking a Social Media Phenomenon that Makes Some Big Promises'.  For more information, please click here.

March 7, 2012: Southeast Asia (Spring 2013) Information Session with Michael Howard at 11AM-12PM at SFU Harbour Centre, room 7000.

March 7, 2012: ISSA Career Fair at 3-5PM at SFU Harbour Centre, room 7000.  Please click here for more information.

February 17, 2012: The School for International Studies and The Human Security Report Project present a public lecture by Michael Spagat on Two Decades of Death in Iraq. For more information, please click here.

Morten Jerven presented on income and growth statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Center of Global Development, Washington DC and appeared in the Voice of America, which broadcasts accurate, balanced, and comprehensive news and information to an international audience.  Read the SFU media release of his study here.

December 1, 2011: A warm congratulations to John Harriss and Martha Snodgrass, who have just been awarded a three-year SSHRC grant to support their efforts to raise the quality and standing of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Lenard J. Cohen has a new book out in November 2011, Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans. 

Michael C. Howard has a new book out, Transnationalism and Society.

November 25, 2011: Join in on the Burma Day Panel discussion.  Please click here for more information.

November 17-20, 2011: Amnesty International and the School present the 2011 Amnesty International Film Festival.  For more information, please click here.

October 31, 2011: Free public lectures by Jo Boyden on poverty and children in the 21st century and Brian Pratt on the prime functions of civil society within the socio-political arena. For information on Boyden's lecture, please click here. For information on Pratt's lecture, please click here.

October 24 and 25, 2011: Simons Series - Free public lectures by Roger Petersen on the strategic use of emotion in conflict and the role of social science in the Iraq insurgency.  Click here for more information.

October 18, 2011: A free screening of Micro Debt, a documentary on the dark side of microcredit. Click here for more information.

October 17, 2011: US Graduate Schools in International Affairs Information Sessions. Click here for more information.

A warm congratulations to IS undergraduate student, Murad Javed and his team for their victory in the 4th Annual Canadian International Council (CIC) Inter-University Debate on International Affairs with UBC.  

October 4, 14 and November 9, 2011: Free public lectures on the role of Canada's military around the world. Click here for more information.

Jeff Checkel has just been awarded a contract from Cambridge University Press for a volume on the transnational dynamics of civil war.  In addition, he was recently elected to serve as vice president of the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Organized Section of the American Political Science Association.

September 29, 2011: The School and the dept of Political Science present a public lecture by Douglas Roche on his new book, A World Without Nuclear Weapons at 4:30PM at SFU Harbour Centre room 7000.

September 22, 2011: The School for International Studies, the Human Security Report Project and the Security and Defence program at UBC present a free public lecture by Joshua Goldstein on the decline in armed conflict worldwide. For more information, please click here.

September 19, 2011: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Jason Lyall on the conflict in Afghanistan. For more information, please click here.

September 1, 2011: A warm welcome to our Postdoctoral Fellow, Elizabeth Cooper who just successfully defended her PhD at Oxford University.

August 10, 2011: Simons Series in the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict announces Fall 2011 speakers. Click here for more details!

August 1, 2011: A very warm welcome to our new Limited Term Assistant Professor, Onur Bakiner who just successfully defended his PhD at Yale University.

July 28, 2011: A warm congratulations to the Human Security Report Project on the release of the 2009/10 Human Security Report.

July 11, 2011: Congratulations to Simons Chair Jeff Checkel, whose latest project on the transnational dynamics of civil war is now forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

June 20, 2011: Alvaro Pereira has been appointed as Economy Minister in Portugal's new coalition government. A warm congratulations and best wishes to Alvaro!

June 16, 2011: Congratulations, Tamir Moustafa on winning a SSHRC grant for a project entitled "Islamic Law and Women's Rights in Egypt, Indonesia, and Pakistan". Tamir will be on leave from SFU in 2011-12 to take on the position of Visiting Fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School.

June 1, 2011: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Professor James Chin (Monash) on Malaysian politics and democracy. For more information, please click here.

May 20, 2011: Hayley Jones completed her BA and MA in International Studies at SFU and has been announced as a recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal. A very warm congratulations from all of us at the School!

May 16, 2011: A very warm congratulations to our graduate student, Tobi Timm on winning a SSHRC grant for his research on organic farming in Brazil.

April 20, 2011: Engineers Without Borders, BCCIC, and the School for International Studies are pleased to host the Candidate’s Debate on Poverty Reduction and Aid Effectiveness. For more information, please click here.

Watch the webcast of the roundtable discussion, The New Face of the Middle East, here (originally presented on March 17, 2011).

Associate Professor Tamir Moustafa, has been interviewed over 30 times in the past three weeks concerning the unfolding situation in Egypt, with outlets ranging from CBC's The National, to al-Jazeera English, to the New York Times, Slate, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. His commentary and analysis has appeared in the Globe and Mail and other outlets.

March 22, 2011: The Centre for Dialogue and Canada's World present a free public lecture by Paul Meyer. He will be speaking on the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. For more information, please click here.

March 22, 2011: The School for International Studies and the Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation present a free public lecture by Professor Ronald Herring on genetic engineering. For more information, please click here.

March 21 & 22, 2011: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Professor Séverine Autesserre (Columbia) on international peacebuilding. For more information, please click here.

March 17, 2011: The School for International Studiies, Hellenic Studies and the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, in partnership with Global TV present a roundtable discussion on the cataclysmic events that are re-shaping the Middle East and their impact on the geopolitical architecture of the West. To watch the webcast, please click here.

February 3, 2011: Tariq Ramadan, a foremost international voice for understanding Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world, will speak at SFU Vancouver as the guest of the School for International Studies and CCSMSC. More information here. 

December 8, 2010: Our working paper series, the Simons Papers in Security and Development, has published its 8th and 9th papers. John Harriss writes on decentralisation and delivery of social services in India, and Sebastian Merz writes on militias and security governance in Nigeria.

December 2, 2010: Congratulations to the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) on their release of the Human Security Report 2009/2010: The Causes of Peace and The Shrinking Costs of War. To read the press release and to access the text, please click here.

November 15, 2010: "Interrogating Development and Development Indicators", a free public lecture by Dr. Padmini Swaminathan. For more information, please click here.

November 2, 2010: Congratulations to Jeff Checkel, who has just been elected to the Board of Editors of International Organization, which is recognized as one of the leading international relations journals in the world.

November 2, 2010: Congratulations to undergraduate students, Mitch Kelsey and Murad Javed on their victory at the 2010 CIC Inter-University Debate between SFU and UBC. The two topics of debate were: (1) human rights should be a major consideration indeveloping new economic agreements/relationships with othercountries; (2) the development of worldwide digital networks challenges the ability of governments to make balanced policy decisions.

October 25, 2010: A very warm congratulations to our departmental manager, Jan Smith on her completion of the M.A. in Leadership at Royal Roads University!

October 18 & 19, 2010: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Professor Elisabeth Wood (Yale) on wartime sexual violence. For more information, please click here.

September 13, 2010: Prof. Gwyn Prins (LSE) speaks on "Why Climate Policy Crashed in 2009 and What to Do about It." For more information, click here. The complete Hartwell Paper can be found here.

August 30, 2010: SIS Director John Harriss and Paul Bowles (UNBC) have published an edited volume in Palgrave MacMillan's series on International Political Economy, Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses.

August 12, 2010: Simons Series announces first two speakers for the coming academic year. Click here for more information!

July 29, 2010: Michael Howard's new book, From Dashes to Dragons: The Ikat-Patterned Textiles of Southeast Asia will be published in August by White Lotus Press.

July 16, 2010: A warm congratulations to IS student, Joel Cardinal for winning First Prize in the 2010 National Aboriginal Essay Competition, sponsored by DFAIT and Cameco Corporation. Click here to read his essay.

June 14, 2010: Nicole Jackson has been elected to the Board of Directors of the prestigious Atlantic Council of Canada - an independent NGO which promotes transatlantic cultural, economic and security relationships between Canada, the US and Europe

May 20, 2010: The School for International Studies, Oxfam Canada and Vancouver Peoples' Summit present a dialogue with Robert Fox, Executive Director of Oxfam Canada. For more information, please click here.

May, 2010: Lara Nettelfield’s new book, Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in a Postwar State, will be published in early May by Cambridge University Press.

May 10, 2010: The School for International Studies and the Justice Education Society present a free public presentation by Guatemalan Human Rights Advocate, Helen Mack Chang. For more information, please click here.

April 19, 2010: Alvaro Pereira has won the ASPHS/Oliveira Marques Award for the best article published in 2009 in the field of Portuguese and Spanish history. His prize winning article is “The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake,” The Journal of Economic History, (June 2009).

April 16, 2010: Read Nicole J. Jackson's new article, "The role of external factors in advancing non-liberal democratic forms of political rule; a case study of Russia's influence on Central Asian regimes" Contemporary Politics, vol.16, no1, March 2010.

April 1, 2010: Morten Jerven has been awarded a 3-year grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for his project on African long-term development and the quality of growth statistics.

March 9, 2010: Jeff Checkel's 2009 book, European Identity (co-edited with Peter Katzenstein) was one of the 9 recommended by Foreign Affairs in its "What to Read" feature.

April 10, 2010: Zainah Anwar, founder of Sisters in Islam and Musawah will address the tensions within Muslim societies when conservative political Islam collides with women’s demands for equality and justice. For more information, please click here.

March 15, 2010: The School and the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies present a free public lecture by Ronald Poulton on the realities of UN peacekeeping and human rights enforcement. For more information, please click here.

March 4, 2010: Morten Jerven participated in the launch of a new Africa International Affairs Programme at the London School of Economics. See his paper in a special issue of LSE Ideas.

February 17, 2010: The Middle East Studies Association welcomes Simon Fraser University as an institutional member, making SFU one of only three Canadian universities with such an affiliation.

January 2010: Early release of The Shrinking Costs of War, Part II of the Human Security Report 2009

December 2009: A warm congratulations to Stephen Easton for winning the 2009 Dean's Medal award!

October 19 & 20, 2009: The School for International Studies at SFU and the Centre of International Relations of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC present a free public lecture on ‘Child Soldiering: Myth and Reality’ on Oct 19 and a free research seminar on 'Women and Girls at War: "Wives," Mothers and Fighters in the Lord's Resistance Army' on Oct 20 by Professor Christopher Blattman of Yale University. For more information, please click here.

October 14, 2009: The School for International Studies presents a free lecture on 'Afghanistan and Its Troublesome Neighbourhood" by Kristian Berg Harpviken. For more information, please click here.

September 25, 2009: The School for International Studies at SFU and the Centre of International Relations of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC present a free research seminar:  ‘International Paternalism: A Qualified Defense’ and public lecture: ‘Humanitarianism in a World of Hurt’ by Michael Barnett. For more information, please click here.

September 18, 2009: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Nicholas Hopton, Head of the International Organisations Department, British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

September 18, 2009: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Anthony Gill on the Political Origins of Religious Liberty.

June 22, 2009: History in the Making: Indian Politics in a New Era - Professor John Harriss will discuss the significance of the 2009 election in India.

May 21, 2009: The School extends a warm welcome to our new Assistant Professor, Morten Jerven who will be starting in the fall term.

April 27, 2009: Tariq Ramadan's lecture from February 23, 2009 will be broadcast on CBC Radio One's Ideas on Thursday, April 27, 2009 at 21:00.

April 2 & 3, 2009: The Simons Foundation, the School for International Studies and the Human Security Report Project present a new seminar series that explores the social dynamics of peace and conflict. The second speaker in the series is Hans Peter Schmitz, Associate Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs & Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

March 24, 2009: The Simons Foundation, the School for International Studies and the Human Security Report Project present a new seminar series that explores the social dynamics of peace and conflict. The first speaker in the series is Beth Simmons, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs & Director, Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University.

March 18, 2009: The School for International Studies and Hellenic Studies in cooperation with the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation University Seminars program, present a free seminar. For more information, please click here.

March 16, 2009: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Boris Kagarlitsky, Director, Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (Moscow).

March 12, 2009: The School for International Studies and the Latin American Studies Program present a free public lecture by World Bank Economist, Shahid Yusuf.

February 23, 2009:The School for International Studies and the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures presents a free public lecture by Professor Tariq Ramadan on The Scope and Limits of Reforming Islam.

February 16, 2009: The School for International Studies and the Human Security Report Project presents a free public lecture by Professor Fawaz Gerges on The Prospects for Arab-Israeli Peace Making: Challenges and Opportunities.

February 9, 2009: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Canadian Ambassador Ralph Lysyshyn on the dynamics of Canada-Russia relations through the lens of Russia's foreign policy. He will also talk about career opportunities in the Foreign Service and at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.

January 30, 2009: The Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, the School for International Studies and the Art and Culture Studies present a free public lecture by Professor Hamid Naficy on Iranian Accented Cinema of Displacement: Exilic, Diasporic or Ethnic? For more information, please click here.

January 19, 2009: The School presents a free public lecture by Professor Benoit Rihoux on Methodological innovations for ‘systematic cross-case analysis’:The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and linked techniques.

November 21, 2008: The School, the department of Archaeology and the Centre for Forensic Research present a panel discussion on Mass Graves and Missing Persons: Reflections on Forensic Practice and Social Reconstruction in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more information, please click here.

October 31, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Professor Ananta Kumar Giri on Cosmopolitanism and Beyond.

October 27, 2008: The School extends a warm welcome to Jeffrey T. Checkel as the first Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security and Martha Snodgrass to the Human Security Report Project.

October 1, 2008: The School for International Studies and Empowering Women of Burma (EWOB) presents a one-day comprehensive lecture and information session on Burma. For more information please click here.

August 13-15, 2008: The School will host a symposium on "The Decline of Secularism in Egypt".

June 25, 2008: Discuss the US Elections with Professor Sandy Maisel.

May 21, 2008: The Human Security Report Project released the Human Security Brief 2007 at the United Nations in New York. To access the Brief, please click here. For media coverage of the Brief, please click here.

April 11 and 12, 2008: The Simons Foundation and the School for International Studies will be hosting a Dialogue Conference on the Problems of Arctic Security in the 21st Century.

April 2, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Ha-Joon Chang.

March 12, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Professor Jayantha Dhanapala on Arctic Security Problems.

March 11, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Andrew Burns on Technology and Economic Prospects for the Developing World.

March 3, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Wenhui Fan on Blood Diamonds.

February 29, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Professor Mark Levine, University of California, Irvine.

February 29, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Professor Jack Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University.

January 31, 2008: The School presents a free public lecture by Professor Asifa Quraishi, University of Wisconsin, School of Law.

January 7, 2008: The School welcomes former Sri Lankan ambassador to the U.S. and former UN Under Secretary-General for Disarmament Jayanatha Dhanapala as the first Simons Visiting Chair in International Law and Human Security.

November 28, 2007: The School presents a free roundtable on Pakistan at a Crossroads.

October 25, 2007: The Human Security Report Project presents a lecture by Professor Jeffrey T. Checkel on October 25, 2007.

October 24, 2007: The School presents a free lecture by Professor Walden Bello.

October 19, 2007: The School presents a free lecture with guest speaker, Caroline McAskie, Assistant Secretary General, Peacebuilding Support, UN on October 19, 2007.

August 1, 2007: The School for International Studies extends a warm welcome to its newest faculty members: Nicole Jackson, Tamir Moustafa, Lara Nettelfield and Alvaro Pereira.

June 14, 2007: Read about our Director, John Harriss, a globally acclaimed social anthropologist in the SFU News. For more information, please click here.

May 16, 2007: The School for International Studies extends a warm welcome to the Human Security Report Project , one of the School's newest additions.

April 27, 2007: Congratulations to our Director, Dr. John Harriss who participated in the 2007 Sun Run on April 15th. He came in 11,662nd out of more than 54,000 participants, was the 8038th male to finish and was the 151st person to finish in the 60-64 year age group with a time of 58.45 minutes.

October 18, 2006: International Studies professor, Paul Warwick wins the 2006 dean's medal. The award acknowledges achievement in research, teaching and service. Click here for more details.

September, 2006: The School for International Studies extends a warm welcome to its new Director, John Harriss.

March 9, 2006: $2 million donated for Dialogue Chair. SFU will soon become an international centre for debate and discussion. Click here to read the SFU News article.