Media Appearances

2017 News Archive

December 29, 2017

December 5, 2017: Nicole Jackson's report, The State of Knowledge about NATO and Canadian Responses to Russia since its annexation of Crimea in 2014: A synthesis of existing knowledge and identification of knowledge gaps and strengths, November 2017 can be found here.
November 24, 2017: Documentary Screening & Panel: "Where the Wind Blew"
November 21, 2017: Jeff Checkel has been appointed to an expert panel - convened by the (US) National Academy of Sciences and Office of the Director of National Intelligence - whose goal is to produce 'analytic frameworks' to help intelligence analysts apply insights from the social and behavioral sciences to policy.
November 20, 2017: Listen to Paul Meyer on the Early Edition CBC radio Vancouver (starting at 2:24:30) and the BC Almanac (starting at 28:00), discussing Canada's Peacekeeping commitments.
November 16, 2017: Nicole Jackson gave a talk on "Changing Global Trends" at SSHRC symposium in Ottawa on "How will Canada continue to thrive in an interconnected world and evolving landscape?".
November 15, 2017: Politics and Geopolitics of Trade: NAFTA and Beyond
November 13, 2017: Kirsten Pontalti leads a panel discussion as part of the Beyond the Headlines series at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, entitled “Small But Significant: How Rwanda’s Young Majority Influences the Institutions That Shape Their Lives.”
November 9, 2017: The First Half-Century of Israel's Permanently Temporary Occupation by Gershon Shafir
November 1, 2017: Jeff Checkel is holding a research methods workshop at Université Laval (Quebec City) for PhD students from Canada and Europe participating in the EU-funded GEM-STONES project on 'Globalisation, Europe & Multilateralism.'
October 18, 2017: A warm congratulations to the following International Studies students chosen to represent SFU at the upcoming Youth as Peacebuilders Forum in Vancouver, to be held on November 14- 15, 2017: Rob van den Boom, Ward Mercer, Jazlyn Melnychuk and Jordan Arnold. The forum is hosted by the United Nations Association in Canada with the support of the Department of National Defence.
October 17, 2017: Egypt in Crisis by Robert Springborg
October 10, 2017: Tribute to José Emilio Pacheco
October 5, 2017: We are delighted that IS alumnus, King Cordova Albaña will be the FASS convocation speaker at tomorrow's ceremony (Thursday, October 5th, 230PM). Congratulations, King!
October 4, 2017: India: Gender and Empowerment Talk
September 28, 2017: Earlier this year Policy Studies (38:3) published Leslie Armijo's article on the political dilemmas of transportation and electricity policies in Brazil. "Explaining infrastructure underperformance in Brazil: cash, political institutions, corruption, and policy gestalts" by L.E. Armijo and S. Rhodes.
September 28, 2017: Leslie Armijo's article in the new issue of Political Science Quarterly (132:3) examines efforts by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries to coordinate their foreign economic policies. "The Varieties of Collective Financial Statecraft: The BRICS and China" by S.N. Katada, C. Roberts, and L.E. Armijo.
September 21, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Gerardo Otero who received a University Publications Fund Rapid Response Grant!
September 20, 2017: Read recent MAIS graduate Lauren Rattray's travel report on her research in Zanzibar, Tanzania here.
September 12, 2017: The Journal of Peace Research has just published a special issue - edited by Jeff Checkel - on 'Socialization and Violence.' Check it out here!
September 11, 2017: Congratulations to Professor John Harriss, who will be inducted into the Royal Society of Canada on November 24! The distinction is Canada’s highest academic honour in the arts, humanities and sciences. It is bestowed on Canadian scholars, artists and scientists who have been peer-elected as being among the best in their fields. Click here and here for more information.
September 11, 2017: A very warm congratulations to John Harriss who placed first in the males 70-79 category in the 2017 Coho Run! John completed the run in 1:25:39. What an inspiration!
September 27, 2017: Measuring 'Success' in the Fight Against Terrorism by Benoît Gomis
September 9, 2017: Gathering in the Shadows of a Nuclear Winter Conference
September 8, 2017: “Let’s Pull Brazil Out of the Red”: Belligerent Obscurantism in Brazil and the Political Relevance of Critical Studies by Newton Duarte
September 7, 2017: Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes by Kunal Sen
September 5, 2017: The School for International Studies welcomes Dr. Tamir Moustafa as the new Director of the School, and wishes to extend thanks to the out-going Director Dr. Alexander Dawson for his leadership, service, and friendship to the community of SIS.
August 29 - September 8, 2017: Jeff Checkel is in Oslo, Norway, where he is giving a PhD Seminar ('Governance, Identity and War') at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and presenting a paper on 'Socialization and Violence' at the ECPR General Conference.
August 25, 2017 - Jeff Checkel has been named an Associate Editor at the Journal of Peace Research, one of the leading peace/conflict studies journals in the world and currently ranked #10 (out of 86) in the field of International Relations.
August 17, 2017: Watch Dr. Gerardo Otero's interview on Bloomberg discussing the recently started NAFTA negotiations.
August 17, 2017: Listen to Dr. Gerardo Otero's interview with Business in Vancouver discussing the recently started NAFTA negotiations (Dr. Otero's segment begins at 18:30).
August 15, 2017: The Canadian Pugwash conference was chaired by Paul Meyer this summer in Halifax, marking Canada's 150th and the Pugwash movement's 60th anniversary. Read more here.
August 9, 2017: Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt by Jonathan Guyer
July 21, 2017: 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 2017/18 - congratulations, both!
July 19, 2017: Watch this video addressing the travel ban recently enacted in the U.S., produced in part by International Studies student Samaah Jaffer.
July 8, 2017: Jeff Checkel has been named an Associate Editor for a new series - 'Elements' - at Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Elements are short-form digital publications organised into subject based series, consisting of 20-30,000 word pieces, offering the latest developments in the field, reviews of particular topics, and guides to new methods or approaches. Checkel will be overseeing work on international-relations theory.
July 5, 2017: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on what the adoption of the UN's first treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons might mean for Canada and the traditional nuclear order.
July 4, 2017: Two MAIS alumnae have just completed their DPhil in the Department of International Development at Oxford University this summer. Congratulations to Dr. Pontalti and Dr. Jones! We are so proud of you!!!
Dr. Kirsten Pontalti (MAIS 2010)
Thesis title: Coming of age and changing institutional pathways across generations in Rwanda
Academic profile: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/people/kirsten-pontalti
Dr. Hayley Jones (BAIS 2008 & MAIS 2011)
Thesis title: Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Poverty? Young People’s Long-Term Trajectories in Brazil’s Bolsa Família Programme
Academic profile: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/people/hayley-jones
June 29, 2017: Class, Diet & Inequality in the NAFTA Region by Gerardo Otero
June 22-24, 2017: Jeff Checkel will be participating in the international closing conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood,' at the Free University Berlin.
June 21-22, 2017: Dr. Nicole Jackson has been invited to the Hague for a workshop on "Answering Russia's Strategic Narratives" organized by the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. The workshop is exploring governmental responses and societal bottom-up initiatives. She will then be in Brussels conducting interviews for her SSHRC project on "Canada and NATO's Responses to Russia."
June 16, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Gerardo Otero and Dr. Jeffrey Checkel for each being awarded a VPR SSHRC Bridging Grant (2017) for their respective research.
June 16, 2017: Terry Glavin in conversation with Stuart Parker - Is Rojava the 21st Century’s Catalonia? Is A New Left Internationalism Possible?
June 15, 2017: Lafarge Exposed - Journalism, Accountability, & Multinational Corporate Wartime Practices
June 13, 2017: Seminar - History and Influence of Mariachi Culture in North America
May 25, 2017: Greg Feldman will deliver a lecture at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. The lecture, “Will the real migrants please stand up? Action, and how technocracy leaves its citizens passive,” will be based on his recent book We Are All Migrants: Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-hood. The lecture will be delivered in conjunction with the documentary musical theatre performance “Simple as ABC #2: Keep Calm & Validate” directed by Thomas Bellinck.
May 15, 2017: Congratulations to King Albaña for his essay "A Strife with a Silver Lining: Diplomacy and its Role in the Resolution of the Canada-EU Turbot War" written for Paul Meyer's IS 409 Diplomacy Demystified class (Spring 2017), which is the winner of the 2016/2017 Best Undergraduate International Studies Essay Award!
May 12, 2017: Read Elizabeth Cooper's article "The Importance of Being Serious: Subjectivity and Adulthood in Kenya" here.
May 11, 2017: Read Paul Meyer and Nick Ritche's article "NPT and the Prohibition Negotiation: Scope for Bridge-building" available here.
May 7, 2017: Screening of Drokpa, DOXA Documentary Film Festival
April 24-28, 2017: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be visiting the Peace Research Institute Oslo, giving a PhD Seminar ('Qualitative Methods & the Study of Civil War') and a talk on 'Data Access, Transparency and Open Science: Can We Have Too Much of a Good Thing?' (Click here for a podcast of the talk.)
April 24, 2017: Congratulations to Shayna Plaut (2015-2016 Simons Research Fellow) on the upcoming publication of her work in Racialized Bordering Discourses on European Roma!
April 20, 2017: Read Paul Meyer's recent article "Read The Fine Print: Comparing disarmament texts, before and after Trump."
April 18, 2017: Read Paul Meyer's article "The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Fin de régime?" in the April issue of Arms Control Today
April 15, 2017: Read Alexander Dawson's recent article "Racist Thinking Still Shapes How We Understand Peyote Drinking."
April 4, 2017: Congratulations to SIS student Samaah Jaffer for her award of the Dr. Rippin Prize for 2017!
April 4, 2017: An Arabic translation (with new preface) of The Struggle for Constitutional Power (first published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press) by Dr. Tamir Moustafa released from Tadween Publishing.
April 3, 2017: Watch the Global Reporting in the Age of Trump talk here.
March 31, 2017: Deadline for applications for the 2017-2018 Simons Research Fellowship.
March 30, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Nicole Jackson for her award of a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant for her project: "Russia and New Patterns of Conflict: Ramifications for NATO Policy and Action and Implications for Canada"!
March 30, 2017: Congratulations to Jazlyn Melnychuk for her participation in the SFU Model NATO Club!
March 29, 2017: Uganda's Anti-Colonial Cooperative Movement by Aaron Windel
March 28, 2017: Global Reporting in the Age of Trump
March 27, 2017: Interview with adjunct professor Paul Meyer regarding the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty and current challenges for outer space security in Project Ploughshare's Monitor.
March 24, 2017: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving a talk on 'Civil War, Global Governance, and Post-Conflict (Dis-)Order' at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo.
March 23, 2017: Watch Saleem Haddad's talk "Reclaiming Queer Arab Stories."
March 23, 2017: Congratulations to LAS student Edith Mata for being one of the winners of the 2017 Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation Award for Labour Studies!
March 21, 2017: Listen to the Growing Worker Power: Innovative Organizing Across the Food System panel discussions here.
March 20, 2017: Reclaiming Queer Arab Stories: A Lecture and Conversation with Saleem, Author of “Guapa” with Saleem Haddad.
March 18, 2017: Growing Worker Power: Creative Forms of Organizing Across the Food System. View the schedule of presentations here.
March 18: Paul Meyer in the Globe and Mail: "The Cassandras are warning of nuclear doom – so why doesn’t Canada seem to care?"
March 16-17, 2017: Dr. Gregory Feldman will be presenting at the "Provocations of Contemporary Refugee Migration" conference at the University of Florida.
March 16, 2017: "India: Future Tense", a free public book discussion with Peter Richards
March 15, 2017: China, Japan and the United States: Competition to Shape the Trade and Investment Order in the Asia Pacific by Saori N. Katada
March 14, 2017: Watch Dr. John Harriss' interview on ABC24's The World here.
March 10, 2017: Paul Meyers' article "Dark forces awaken: the prospects for cooperative space security" can be read here.
March 8, 2017: IS undergraduate student, Sarah Duggan is featured by SFU's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
March 7, 2017: IS alumna, Ellie McNamee addressed the House of Commons Committee on the Status of Women on March 7, 2017. She's on at around 16.10, and then you can watch her shut down a sexist question from former conservative cabinet minister Peter Kent at 16.18.
March 2, 2017: The Return of Right-Wing Populism and the Framing of the Migrant and Refugee
March 2, 2017: In “The Pit”: Lima’s Anti-Architecture of Modernity by Daniella Gandolfo
March 1, 2017: IS/WL JMAJ student, Samaah Jaffer is featured in the Georgia Straight!
February 28, 2017: Jeff Checkel has been re-appointed a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) - a fellowship designed to foster collaboration between leading international researchers and the Institute on questions of peace and conflict.
February 27, 2017: Congratulations to Jelena Golubovic, BA in IS alumna, currently an anthropology doctoral student at SFU, recipient of the Muslim Studies Graduate Student Travel Award for her fieldwork in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
February 23, 2017: Read Dr. Parasuraman's Munro Lecture published here.
February 2, 2017: The School is pleased to announce the publication of the first two 2017 Simons Working Papers in Security and Development. Jeff Checkel’s paper (#55) is about methods in constructivist research on international security, and Ryan Graves’ paper (#56) is about identity and the discourse of urban-rural cleavages during the Bosnian civil war.
January 26, 2017: Listen to SFU School for International Studies' Dr. Gerardo Otero discussing the on-going US-Mexico feud here.
January 19, 2017: A warm congratulations to IS honours student, Nicolas Tellez-España, recipient of the Dr. Alfredo E. Hurtado Memorial Award in 2017!
January 12, 2017: Subversive Memory: How Argentines forgot life in the 1970s before the Dictatorship (1976-1983) by David Sheinin
January 11, 2017: Read Paul Meyer's article "Cold War redux in cyberspace" in the Hill Times.
January 10, 2017: Read Shayna Plaut's article "Follow the money: international donors, external homelands and their effect on Romani media and advocacy."
January 10, 2017: Read Shayna Plaut's article "Media mirrors? Framing Hungarian Romani migration to Canada in Hungarian and Canadian press."
January 3, 2017: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on Trump's Nuclear Weapon Policy, published by "Open Canada."

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