2014 News Archive
December 29, 2014
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- December 31, 2014: Paul Meyer's brief commentary on the White House response to the cyber attack on Sony.
- December 18, 2014: Check out Alec Dawson's video for his IS/HIST 209W Latin America course! Spaces still available in the course for Spring 2015.
- December 17, 2014: The problem with the data revolution in four Venn diagrams in The Guardian by Morten Jerven.
- December 15-16, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will lead an intensive seminar on process tracing for students of the four PhD-granting institutions in Berlin (Free University, Hertie School, Humboldt University, Social Science Centre Berlin).
- December 15, 2014: Read Onur Bakiner's co-authored article on the 2014 presidential elections in Turkey here.
- December 8, 2014: Congratulations to Martha Snodgrass and John Harriss on another three-year SSHRC award in support of their work with the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- December 8, 2014: Tamir Moustafa is featured on the Faculty of Arts and Social Scienceswebsite.
- December 4, 2014: View photos from the Fundraiser in Support of the Ebola Crisis on December 1 here.
- December 1, 2014: The CGPA required to declare a major in International Studies for Fall 2014 is 2.75.
- December 1, 2014: Fundraiser in support of the Ebola Crisis.
- November 26, 2014: Julian Cardona and Dawn Paley present a free public lecture 'Counter Narratives: Troubling official discourses on the “war on drugs” in Mexico'.
- November 19, 2014: Barnett Rubin presents a free lecture on 'What will happen to Afghanistan after the NATO forces leave?'
- November 17-18, 2014: Morten Jerven will delivering the keynote lecture at the 'Measurement and Data in the Governance of Illicit Activities' conference at New York University.
- November 14-15, 2014: Dr. Chris Gibson is co-organizing the 'Catching Up To the Future? Advances and Challenges in the Politics, Society, and Social Policies of Contemporary Brazil' conference at Brown University.
- November 13, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel's new book -Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool - is now out from Cambridge University Press!
- November 7, 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Liz Cooper on the publication of a book which she co-edited with David Pratten of the University of Oxford: Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa, published by Palgrave Macmillan. In addition to their co-authored introduction chapter, the book contains a chapter by Dr. Cooper, entitled: 'Charity and Chance: The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust through Child Sponsorship in Kenya'.
- October 29, 2014: 'The Wild West of Governments in Cyberspace' in Embassy by Paul Meyer.
- October 27, 2014: Congratulations to Simons Chair Jeff Checkel, who has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany! The prize is granted to academics whose 'fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.' It provides funds for Checkel to spend up to a year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues in Germany, in this case, at the Free University Berlin.
- October 24, 2014: Alec Dawson's 2nd edition of Latin America since Independence out now!
- October 23, 2014: Rita Eder presents a free public lecture on Miguel Covarrubias and the Greater Pacific: From Bali to the Northwestern Coast of Canada.
- October 18, 2014: A warm congratulations to the Honourable Louise Arbour, 2014 Simons Visiting Chair for being inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
- October 17, 2014: 'How to keep national security legislation transparent' by Paul Meyer.
- October 16-18, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be holding two workshops at Yale University. The first is a methodology session for PhD students, while the second is an international conference on 'Socialization and Organized Violence'.
- October 21, 2014: Rolando Vasquez Miranda presents a free public lecture 'Testimony of the Fight Against Corruption, and Consequences in Societies Complicated by Violence'.
- October 15, 2014: Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond book launch with author, Bia Labate, and Alec Dawson. (EVENT CANCELLED)
- October 15, 2014: Read Liz Cooper's latest article, Students, Arson, and Protest Politics in Kenya: School Fires as Political Action in African Affairs(Vol. 113, Issue 453).
- October 14, 2014: Othon Anastasakis presents a free public lecture 'Poisoning the Well: the Rise of the Far Right in Europe'.
- October 10, 2014: Congratulations to IS Honours student, Elinor McNamee-Annett for placing third in the 2014 Three Minute Co-op Competition! Elinor is the only winner/honourable mention from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Watch her speech here.
- October 9, 2014: Read Paul Meyer's article "Toward a Nuclear Weapon Free World - A 'To Do' List for Canada" (pp.18-21) in the Ploughshares Monitor (vol 35, issue 3).
- October 9, 2014: Citations to articles in the CJDS/la Revue , which is edited at SIS, rose notably in 2013, according to the Web of Science’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The journal’s Impact Factor rose from 0.138 in 2012 to 0.776 in 2013. This puts CJDS in the #6 ranking among the 79 Canadian social science journals assessed by JCR in 2013. A listing of the most-cited articles in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d’études du développement can be found here.
- October 5, 2014: Post-2015 Consensus: Data for Development Assesssment by Morten Jerven.
- October 1, 2014: View photos from the Louise Arbour lecture on September 25.
- October 1, 2014: View Andrzej Nowak's presentation on Russia imperialism in Nicole Jackson's IS 304 Russian Foreign Policy class.
- September 30, 2014: Watch Morten Jerven's keynote speech during the Nordic Africa Days 2014 in Uppsala, Sweden.
- September 26-27, 2014: Morten Jerven will be a keynote speaker at Nordic Africa Days 2014 in Uppsala, Sweden.
- The Honourable Louise Arbour presented a public lecture 'From Syria to Crimea, is global governance at a loss?' on September 25, 2014. Watch the video here.
- September 25, 2014: The Honourable Louise Arbour presents a free public lecture 'From Syria to Crimea, is global governance at a loss?'
- September 23, 2014: Vivek Dehejia presents a free public lecture on India at the Crossroads: The Meaning of Modi’s Victory.
- September 17, 2014: Canada Among Nations Book Launch.
- September 12, 2014: Roundtable on the "Ukraine Crisis".
- September 9, 2014: Congratulations to John Harriss on his new book, Keywords for Modern India.
- September 9, 2014: Congratulations to Jeffrey T. Checkel on his forthcoming book, Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool.
- September 8, 2014: Michael Howard has two essays on the peoples and textiles of Indochine in the 1930s in the catalogue that accompanies the visual art exhibit, The Art of Jean Despujols and the Peoples of Indo-china.
- September 3, 2014: A warm welcome to Simons Research Fellow, Izabela Steflja. Steflja will be teaching a course on transitional justice in Spring 2015.
- August 29, 2014: The School is now on Twitter. Follow us!
- August 28, 2014: A warm welcome to Postdoctoral Fellow, Jeffrey A. Sachs. Sachs will be teaching IS 315 Introduction to Middle East Politics this fall.
- August 27-31, 2014: At the American Political Science Association convention, Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be holding a panel and offering a short course, both connected to the publication of his new Cambridge volume, Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool.
- August 25, 2014: Today, we said goodbye to Onur Bakiner, an amazing teacher, a bright scholar and a wonderful colleague and friend. All the very best to Dr. Bakiner in his new position as Assistant Professor in Political Science at Seattle University. You will be missed by all.
- August 15, 2014: 'Surveillance: A Potential ‘Chilling Effect’ on Human Rights?' by Paul Meyer.
- July 16, 2014: Adjunct Professor, Paul Meyer along with two other former Canadian ambassadors for disarmament authored an op-ed critiquing the recent report of the Senate Committee recommending Canada's participation in the US ballistic missile defense program. The piece appeared in today's issue of Embassy.
- July 14, 2014: Congratulations to John Harriss, Martha Snodgrass and Thanh Lam for yet another Serial Publication, University Publication Fund Grant award in support of their work with the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- July 10, 2014: 'What if everything we know about poor countries' economies is totally wrong?' An interview with Morten Jerven.
- July 3, 2014: Two new Simons Working Papers are out: 'Are Development Statistics Manipulable?' by Andrew Kerner, Morten Jerven and Alison Beatty; and 'The Diplomacy of Space Security: Whither the International Code of Conduct?' by Paul Meyer.
- July 3, 2014: Morten Jerven's guest post on the Financial Times: 'Five reasons why African growth is slower than the data tell you'.
- June 26-27, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be lecturing at the 25th annual European Integration Summer School in Kristiansand, Norway.
- June 23, 2014: Greg Feldman will be joining the School as Limited Term Assistant Professor for the 2014/15 academic year. Feldman is a political anthropologist interested in the state, globalization, migration, and population regulation. He is also a founding board member of the Vancouver Society for the Promotion of the Liberal Arts.
- June 18, 2014: A very warm congratulations to King Cordova Albaña, recipient of the 2013/14 Best Undergraduate International Studies Essay Award. The winning essay titled 'Domestic Security at the Expense of International Rights' was written for Nicole Jackson's IS 409 Security Studies course.
- June 16, 2014: 'Strength and Insecurity: Explaining Russia's Actions in Ukraine' by Dr. Nicole J. Jackson.
- June 15, 2014: Congratulations to undergraduate student, Claire Sieffert, recipient of the Premier's International Scholarship.
- June 13, 2014: Three new Simons Working Papers are out: 'Regional Identities and Communities' by Professor Jeffrey T. Checkel; 'An Incomplete Transition? Explaining the Ongoing Prevalence of Violence against Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa' by alumna Melissa Rossann Gregg (MA 2014); and 'Youth and 'Refo-lution'? Protest Politics in India and the Global Context' by Professor John Harriss.
- June 10, 2014: A very, very warm congratulations to alumna, Aleks Besan, winner of the Dean's Undergraduate Convocation Medal. We are looking forward to hearing your commencement speech tomorrow!
- June 6, 2014: 'Gezi at One: Rethinking the Legacy of the Protests' by Onur Bakiner.
- June 2, 2014: Onur Bakiner's Can the 'Spirit Of Gezi' Transform Progressive Politics in Turkey? published in The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey.
- May 27, 2014: The Voyage of the Komagata Maru book launch and discussion with historian Hugh Johnston.
- May 27, 2014: Morten Jerven has a new book out, Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995.
- May 12-17, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be holding a PhD seminar on the 'Dynamics of Civil War' at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
- May 12, 2014: An article by Tamir Moustafa was named the 2014 journal article of the year by the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. The article, “Islamic Law, Women’s Rights, and Popular Legal Consciousness in Malaysia,” was published in Law and Social Inquiry, vol. 38 (2013) 168-188.
- May 5, 2014: A warm congratulations to Chris Gibson on his SSHRC award!
- April 10, 2014: Congratulations to graduate students, Phil Roy (SSHRC) and Caitlin Foreman (GIRTA & SSHRC) on their recent awards!
- April 2, 2014: Special Issue 35(1) of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d’études du développement on "Measuring African Development: Past and Present" is now available online. Guest editor: Morten Jerven. For FREE access to the issue until 30 June 2014, click here.
- Read Onur Bakiner's new article on Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society in theInternational Journal of Transitional Justice here.
- March 17, 2014: Public lecture by Ramesh Thakur (Australian National University) on India and the Bomb, Was It Worth It?
- March 13, 2014: At the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Barcelona Institute of International Studies, Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be delivering a lecture on 'Constructivist IR Theory at Mid-Life: Many Achievements ... But Lots Still to Do.'
- March 13, 2014: Public lecture by Hugh Gusterson (George Mason University) on Drones, Ethics, Justice.
- March 1, 2014: The Human Security Research Group releases the2013 Human Security Report. Read the press release here.
- February 27, 2014: Public lecture by Ebrahim Moosa (Duke University) onRetrieving the 'Ethical' in Islamic Law.
- February 3-11, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving four talks - on civil war and on research methods - and holding two PhD workshops - on process tracing - at Goethe University Frankfurt, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.a
