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2016 News Archive
December 29, 2016
- December 8, 2016: 'Ayawaska through the Eyes of a Musician: The Story of a Prodical Healer in the Peruvian Amazon?'
- November 24, 2016: Check out Liz Cooper's latest article 'A burning question: why are Kenyan students setting fire to their schools?' in The Conversation.
- November 23, 2016: Little Gandhi screening, followed by a panel discussion.
- November 21, 2016: Researching Africa Day
- November 15, 2016: Visiting Professor Parasuraman - Munro Lecture: 'Can India Be a Hope for the World?'
- November 10, 2016: Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons book launch with editors/authors, John Harriss and Olle Tornquist, 500-630PM, Room 2050, SFU Harbour Centre.
- November 5, 2016: John Harriss is quoted in an article on the politics of Tamil Nadu in The Economist.
- November 2-4, 2016: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be in Pretoria, South Africa, presenting a paper on 'Regional Identities and Communities,' at a conference on 'Comparative Regionalism: State of the Art & Future Directions.'
- November 1, 2016: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on Canadian-led FMCT resolution at the UNGA, published by "Open Canada."
- October 29, 2016: A nice feature on renowned journalist, Shekhar Gupta, Visiting Prof Parasuraman and Prof John Harriss in The Asian Star! Gupta delivered the 2016 Dhahan Lecture at SFU on October 24, 2016.
- October 28, 2016: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on Canada and the UNGA resolution authorizing a nuclear weapons ban negotiation, published by "The Hill Times."
- October 21, 2016: Public talk with the creators of The International Day of The Dead Tour & Exhibit in Vancouver, 5:30pm, HC2270.
- October 20, 2016: 'Nation Making in the Early Soviet Union: Uzbekistan Reconsidered' - a free public lecture by Adeeb Khalid.
- October 19, 2016: A homage of sorts to Simone Weil’s essay 'The Iliad, or the Poem of Force,' penned in 1940, in the months following the German occupation of France by Gareth Williams (University of Michigan).
- October 19, 2016: Dr. Elizabeth Cooper will be presenting 'Student-set Fires as Political Action in Kenya', 3:30-5:00pm, Liu Insitute for Global Issues, UBC.
- October 12, 2016: 'Colombia's Transformation: Good News in a Convoluted World -- Business Opportunities in a Growing Middle Income Economy', 4:30-6:00pm, WCC 470 Hamber Foundation Boardroom, 580 W Hastings Street, Vancouver. Click here to register.
- October 3, 2016: Public lecture by Roland Paris - 'Reflections of a Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor'.
- September 27, 2016: Sharon Squassoni of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) organized a panel on UN Nuclear Issues. Participating officials were Anita Friedt of State Department, Jon Wolfsthal of the NSC plus Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association and Paul Meyer from SFU's School for International Studies. A link to a recording of this event can be found here.
- September 26, 2016: A nice feature on Simons Chair Jeff Checkel by Universidad del Rosario! Checkel was in Bogotá, Colombia, on Sep 21-24, 2016 where he addressed the graduating class at the Universidad del Rosario on the 'Social Dynamics of Civil War'; delivered a keynote speech at the Colombian Political Science Association Annual Meeting on 'Too Much of a Good Thing? The Debate Over Methods and Transparency in US Political Science'; and held a seminar on IR/constructivist theory.
- September 26, 2016: Join Dr. Shayna Plaut for a screening of Strangers at Home, 6pm at HC7000.
- September 21-24, 2016: Jeff Checkel will be in Bogotá, Colombia, where he will address the graduating class at the Universidad del Rosario on the 'Social Dynamics of Civil War'; deliver a keynote speech at the Colombian Political Science Association Annual Meeting on 'Too Much of a Good Thing? The Debate Over Methods and Transparency in US Political Science'; and hold a seminar on IR/constructivist theory.
- Download and listen to Simons Visiting Chair Gareth Evans' public lecture on September 15, 2016, titled 'Values and interests in foreign policy making: the case for good international citizenship'.
- September 15, 2016: Public lecture by Gareth Evans - 'Values and interests in foreign policy making: the case for good international citizenship'.
- September 12, 2016: The School welcomes Visiting Professor Parasuraman, Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
- September 11, 2016: A very warm congratulations to IS Director, John Harriss, who placed third in the males 70-79 category in the 2016 Coho Run! John completed the run in 1:28:31.
- September 8, 2016: Liz Cooper will be presenting her paper titled 'Orphaned Marriage: Vulnerability and Moral Action among Young Wives in Western Kenya' at an international conference on Adolescence, Youth and Gender at Oxford University.
- September 7, 2016: Liz Cooper will be presenting her paper titled 'The Importance of Being Serious: The Abrupt and Enduring Trials of Becoming Adult in Western Kenya' at the African Studies Association UK biennial conference at Cambridge University.
- September 5-8, 2016: At the 10th United Nations Workshop on Space Law "Contribution of Space Law and Policy to Space Governance and Space Security in the 21st Century" in Vienna, Austria, Paul Meyer will deliver a keynote speech 'Putting Cooperation Back into Space Security'.
- September 1, 2016: A very warm welcome to our new Senior Lecturer, Brenda Lyshaug and to Valerie Freeland, Simons Research Fellow for the 2016/17 academic year.
- September 1, 2016: Congratulations to Tamir Moustafa on his promotion to the rank of Professor!
- August 31 - September 4, 2016: At the annual convention of the American Political Science Association, Jeff Checkel will be co-teaching a "Short Course on Process Tracing," leading a panel on "DA-RT and Qualitative Methods: The Case of Process Tracing," and participating in a book-launch "Roundtable on the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism."
- August 26-27, 2016: Jeff Checkel will be participating in a "Workshop on IR 2030," sponsored by the Free University Berlin and University of Wyoming. It will attempt to discern the future state of IR theory - if it has any future!
- August 4, 2016: Check out a recent article by Paul Meyer titled 'The U.S. Missile Defence Boondoggle'.
- July 12, 2016: Gerardo Otero and Martha Snodgrass have been awarded a University Publications Grant in support of editorial operations of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies in 2016/17 - congratulations, both!
- July 12, 2016: Greg Feldman's entry on Stanford Unversity Press's blog exposes the post-Enlightenment reasoning as to why global frustration with liberal democracy and global fear and loathing of migrants stem from the same assumption behind modern politics.
- July 6, 2016: Paul Meyer is quoted in a Toronto Star article titled 'Global Affairs warns of ‘serious concerns’ over Canada’s space security'.
- June 24, 2016: Greg Feldman will give a keynote address on at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland for the conference “Changing Realities of Migration and Mobility” hosted by the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research: The Migration-Mobility Nexus. His lecture is titled “The structure of ethical dilemmas among policymakers and security officials in contemporary European Migration Management.”
- June 23, 2016: Public lecture - 'Canada and the Developing World in 2016: is Canada back?' by Aniket Bhushan
- June 6, 2016: Congratulations to the multi-talented Claire Sieffert (BA Hons 2016), recipient of the Dean's Undergraduate Convocation Medal and commencement speaker at the IS/LAS convocation ceremony this Wednesday, June 8. We are so proud of Claire! Looking forward to hearing her speech! Claire will attend the Hague Academy of International Law in July before beginning a 10-month internship with the Canadian Parliament. She hopes to pursue graduate studies in international development.
- May 30-June 3, 2016: Jeff Checkel will be teaching an intensive PhD seminar on the 'Dynamics of Civil War and International Conflict' at the Research School on Peace and Conflict, Oslo, Norway.
- May 27, 2016: Congratulations to Raied Haj Yahya, recipient of the Best Undergraduate Essay in International Studies Award for the 2015/16 year. Raied's paper is titled 'The Politics of Collective Minority Rights: Discourses of Citizenship and Indigeneity among Palestinian Civil Society in Israel'.
- May 17, 2016: 'Obama goes to Hiroshima, but stiffs nuclear talks in Geneva' by Paul Meyer.May 9, 2016: Speaking of Faith - From the Left panel discussion
- April 29, 2016: Film Screening of Unearthing Disaster followed by Q&A with directors
- April 25, 2016: The Human Security Report Project is featured on SFU's 50th anniversary celebration.
- April 21, 2016: Shayna Plaut will be going to the Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva for an "Expert roundtable on changing the public narrative on migration: promoting tolerance and countering xenophobia against migrants,." She will be screening Strangers at Home with the twenty media makers, policy makers and advocates working on how to use media as a way to reframe the anti migrant and refugee narratives.
- April 20-22, 2016: Jeff Checkel will be giving talks at the University of Konstanz, Germany ('Socialization and Violence') and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich ('Data Access and Research Transparency [DA-RT]: Implications for Qualitative Methods'), and be holding a PhD workshop ('Process Tracing - Theory & Practice') at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
- April 16 , 2016: Shayna Plaut will be presenting a co-authored piece (with Viktor Varjú) "Media mirrors? Framing Hungarian Romani Migration to Canada in Hungarian and Canadian press," at the Association for the Study of Nationalities.
- April 15, 2016: 'Targeting Universities in Authoritarian India' panel discussion
- April 13, 2016: Free public lecture: 'NATO: Out of Area or Out of Business? Will the Warsaw Summit renew the Alliance?' by Ambassador Robert Kupiecki
- April 9, 2016: Semana de Educación Financiera/Financial Literacy Day
- April 7, 2016: Peyote panel and double book launch with Bia Labate, Erika Dyck, Alec Dawson, Gabor Mate, Ellen Sprio and Wade Davis
- April 5, 2016: 'A disappointing finale for Obama's nuclear summits' by Paul Meyer.
- April 2, 2016: Paul Meyer joined CTV News with his analysis of Canada's efforts to keep nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists.
- April 1, 2016: Paul Meyer weighs in on what to expect from the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC on CTV News.
- March 31, 2016: The latest issue of Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 37-1, is now available online.
- March 31, 2016: Congratulations to alumna, Alli Cano (BA Hons) who just won an award from the Law and Society Association for her senior honours thesis, “A Matter of Personal Status: Women’s Legal Rights and the Making of Family Law in Post-2003 Iraq.”
- March 30, 2016: Free screening of 'A Sinner in Mecca' followed by Q&A with Director.
- March 29, 2016 - Jeff Checkel will be giving a seminar on 'Qualitative Methods and the Study of Violent Conflict,' and meeting with researchers at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany.
- March 23-24, 2016: Conference on Western Policy & the Crisis in the Middle East & North Africa at SFU Harbour Centre, room 7000. View the provisional programme here.
- March 21, 2016: Greg Feldman will give a research methods seminar and a lecture at the University of San Francisco. The lecture is titled “Action in Spite of the State: An Ethnographic Look at the Interplay between an Undercover Police Investigative Team and Roma Crime Ring in Southern Europe”. The event is sponsored by the Department of International Studies; Department of Politics; and the Peace and Justice Studies program.
- March 7, 2016: 'Outer Space and Cyberspace: A Tale of Two Security Realms' by Paul Meyer. View the chapters by other authors here.
- March 4, 2016: 'Sunnier times for Canada's disarmament diplomacy' by Paul Meyer.
- February 25, 2016: Public lecture by Aaron Skabelund (Brigham Young University) on 'Tigers—Real and Imagined—in Korea’s Physical and Cultural Landscape'.
- February 23-25, 2016: Jeff Checkel will be visiting Uppsala University in Sweden, holding public lectures on process tracing and civil war, and participating in a qualitative methods workshop for faculty and PhD students.
- February 23, 2016: Panel discussion on African Refugees, a forgotten and excluded people.
- February 7-13, 2016: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be spending a week as a visiting Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, delivering several lectures and meeting with researchers and PhD students.
- February 4, 2016: Public lecture by Beth A. Simmons (Harvard University) on 'Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity?'.
- February 1, 2016: A Dialogue on Art, Politics and Social Change. Register here.
- View photos from Jeff Checkel's talk at the Free University Berlin on January 27, 2016.
- January 27, 2016: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving the Alexander von Humboldt Lecture on the 'Social Dynamics of Civil War' at the Free University Berlin.
- January 21, 2016: 'The truth about Islam' by Andrew Mack.
- January 14, 2016: Public lecture by John Ackerman (National Autonomous University of Mexico) on 'The Battle for Mexico and the Future of Justice and Democracy in North America'.
- January 14, 2016: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving a talk on the 'Dynamics of Civil War' at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik / German Institute for International and Security Affairs, in Berlin, Germany.
- January 7, 2016: Check out Michael Howard's forthcoming book, Textiles and Clothing of Việt Nam.
- January 7, 2016: 'Gaps in cyberspace governance abound, 10 years after UN World Summit' by Paul Meyer.
- January 4, 2016: Paul Meyer speaks on the prospects for Canada's foreign policy in the new year with BC Almanac, CBC Radio.
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