Media Appearances
2015 News Archive
December 30, 2015
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- December 21, 2015: 'Countries must be honest about conflict deaths to know the true impact of war on development' in The Guardian, co-authored by Andrew Mack.
- December 11, 2015: Morten Jerven speaks to CBC Radio on how economists have misunderstood economic growth in African countries.
- December 1, 2015: International Criminal Justice: State of Play Conference Report 2015 available online now.
- November 30, 2015: IS/WL joint major student, Rhiannon Wallace featured on FASS's website.
- November 26, 2015: IS/LAS Graduate Application Q&A with Graduate Chair, Chris Gibson.
- November 26, 2015: 'Running interference for our nuclear allies' by Paul Meyer.
- November 26, 2015: Simons Research Fellow Shayna Plaut was interviewed by The Exchange, CBC regarding the economic challenges and opportunities of Canada's Syrian refuge program.
- November 23, 2015: Greg Feldman hosts a workshop - Politics in Particular: From Primo Levi to Freedom and Being in the works of Hannah Arendt and Baruch Spinoza.
- November 23, 2015: Shayna Plaut talks to Sonia Sunger on BC1 (Global News) about the benefits of refugees settling in small communities.
- November 20, 2015: Simons Fellow Shayna Plaut speaks to CBC on how an influx of refugees in B.C.'s northern communities will actually help boost the economy there.
- November 18, 2015: Citizenship and Precarious Labour in Canadian Agriculture co-authored by Gerardo Otero released by CCPA today.
- November 16, 2015: Ryan Kitching (MA 2012) is profiled on DGS's blog.
- November 16, 2015: 'Arab Spring and Syrian Refugee Crisis: Ten Theses for Discussion' by Gerardo Otero.
- November 16, 2015: Read LAS MA student, Siran Huang's travel report to Ecuador.
- November 15, 2015: Andrew Mack, Director of the Human Security Report Project speaks to MacLeans magazine on Trudeau's warplane strategy.
- November 11, 2015: Remembering Bob Everton, LAS faculty member - a lovely piece by SFU Graduate Studies.
- November 10, 2015: The School is pleased to announce the publication of four new Simons Working Papers in Security and Development. Check them out for the latest thinking on conflict dynamics (#48), Mexico's crisis (#47), judicial politics in authoritarian regimes (#46), and cyber-diplomacy (#45)!
- Download and listen to Simons Visiting Chair Hugh Roberts' talk on September 24, 2015, titled 'Promoting insecurity: Western policy and the degradation of the state-society relationship in the Middle East and North Africa'
- View photos from the Celebration of Latin American Studies event, held on November 10, 2015.
- November 10, 2015: Celebration of Latin American Studies at SFU.
- November 10, 2015: Public lecture by Benoît Gomis on 'Counter-Terrorism: Reassessing the policy response'.
- November 5, 2015: Roundtable discussion on the Refugee-Migrant Crisis in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.
- November 5, 2015: Read MA student, Jennifer W. Johnson's research travel report of Ethiopia.
- November 4, 2015: Simons Fellow, Shayna Plaut will be participating in Peace Talks #29 - Refugee Crisis and Media Hype.
- November 2, 2015: Read MA student, Tanner Boisjolie's research travel report of Jakarta and Pretoria.
- October 28, 2015: 'Is cyber peace possible?' by Paul Meyer.
- October 28, 2015: 'Hotline Ping: Cyber security gets an arms control channel' by Paul Meyer.
- October 23, 2015: Shayna Plaut's article 'Reshaping the Borders of Journalism, Journalism Practice' is published in Journalism Practice.
- October 21, 2015: LAS MA alumna Deanna Fasciani made the list of 50 most inspiring graduate students from the over 22,000 graduate degrees that have been conferred by SFU in the last five decades - congratulations, Deanna! Read her story covered by the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies here.
- October 9, 2015: Gerardo Otero participated in a panel of a conference on Temporary Foreign Workers organized by the Labour Studies Program at SFU
- October 6-8, 2015: Tamir Moustafa is presenting his research at a National Strategic Litigation Workshop co-organized by the Malaysian Bar Council and the American Bar Association. The workshop, held at the Malaysian Bar Council headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, will focus on the challenges and prospects of litigation involving freedom of religion.
October 2-3, 2015: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel presents his chapter on 'Regional Identities and Communities,' at a book launch workshop for the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism, held at the National University of Singapore. - October 2, 2015: Shayna Plaut designed and will be facilitating the roundtable, "Teaching Human Rights Inside and Outside the Classroom: Education Without Borders" at the Social Practice for Human Rights hosted at the University of Dayton. This roundtable will serve as the first step towards creating a course "The Ethics and Methods of Human Rights Work." In addition, Shayna will be presenting her findings from a four-month research project hosted at Columbia University and supported by the Michael Smith Fellowship, "Mapping the current state of human rights education in journalism education".
- September 28, 2015: Public lecture by Boris Kagarlitsky on 'Post-Communist Russia in a Multi-polar World'.
- September 24, 2015: Read Michael Howard's essay on weavingwritten for the dance performance 'Woven' in Toronto.
- September 24, 2015: Public lecture by Simons Visiting Chair Hugh Roberts titled 'Promoting insecurity: Western policy and the degradation of the state-society relationship in the Middle East and North Africa' followed by reception for SFU alumni.
- September 15, 2015 Public lecture by Miguel Bronfman on Argentina's (In)dependent judiciary: the uneasy dance between politics and the law.
- September 13, 2015: Congratulations to John Harriss who came in 3rd in the male 70-99 division in the 2015 Coho Run in Vancouver on September 13, 2015. He covered 14km in 1:25:31. What an inspiration!
- September 13, 2015: Panel discussion on Women Warriors of Kurdistan.
- September 8, 2015: Public lecture by Shengtian Zheng on the roots of Diego Rivera and his influence in Chinese art as part of Mexico Fest 2015.
- September 8, 2015: Paul Meyer speaks on the Syrian crisis on CBC's The Early Edition.
- September 3, 2015: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be chairing one panel ('Socialization and Violence'), participating in another ('Ideational Turns in the Four Sub-Disciplines'), and co-teaching a half-day course on process tracing at the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, in San Francisco, CA.
- September 2, 2015: Greg Feldman presented a paper 'Mirror, Mirror. The similarity of form between a Nigerian human smuggling ring and a southern European police investigative team' at the 2015 bi-annual meeting of the Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology Network in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Goethe University.
- September 1, 2015: Greg Feldman gave a public lecture at Humboldt University of Berlin on 'Are the 'citizen' and the 'migrant' really so different? An initial comparison of politics and being in the works of Hannah Arendt and Baruch Spinoza'. He also ran a workshop with postgraduate students at the Institute for Migration Research.
- September 1, 2015: Hugh Roberts has been appointed as the 2015/16 Simons Visiting Chair in Dialogue on International Law and Human Security.
- September 1, 2015: The School welcomes Limited Term Assistant Professor Leslie Arjimo, the transfer of Gerardo Otero from SA to IS and Simons Research Fellow Shayna Plaut!
- August 31, 2015: 'Star-crossed: An international code of conduct for outer space?' by adjunct prof Paul Meyer.
- August 17, 2015: Greg Feldman speaks on the root causes of the African migration crisis not addressed in the corporate media, on the web-based newscast channel Telesur on a program called Imaginary Lines.
- August 17, 2015: 'The neoliberal diet and inequality in the United States' in Social Science and Medicine, vol. 142, October 2015 (pp. 47-55) by Gerardo Otero, Gabriela Pechlaner, Giselle Liberman (LASMA graduate) & Efe Gürcan is now available online.
- August 13, 2015: Kyae Lim Kwon (BA 2013) just published her first peer-reviewed article with Robert Hanlon: 'A comparative review for understanding elite interest and climate change policy in China'.
- August 4, 2015: 'Seizing the Diplomatic Initiative to Control Cyber Conflict' in The Washington Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 2, May 2015 by adjunct professor Paul Meyer is now available online.
- July 24, 2015: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel and Martha Snodgrass summit the Taeschhorn (4500 metres / 15,000 feet), one of the highest and more challenging peaks in the southern Swiss alps!
- July 13, 2015: A nuclear agreement in need of Canadian leadership by adjunct professor Paul Meyer.
- July 3, 2015: Andrew Mack will be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex later this month.
- June 30, 2015: In partnership with CIC Vancouver, Leszek Balcerowicz will be speaking on prospects for economic reform in Ukraine.
- June 30, 2015: Citations to the CJDS/la Revue have jumped up again in 2014! The journal now has an Impact Factor of 1.031, compared with 0.776 in 2013 (Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports). Congrats to John Harriss and Elizabeth Cooper, who are on the editorial board, and to the editorial team here at SIS.
- June 29, 2015: Congratulations to John Harriss and Martha Snodgrass for yet another Serial Publication, University Publication Fund Grant award in support of their work with the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- June 24, 2015: Nicole Jackson will be a panelist on a talk by Ramesh Thakur on the changing nature of global conflict.
- June 23, 2015: Jennifer Wilmot's (MA 2014) capstone project was recently published in Contemporary Arab Affairs. Read her article titled 'A commitment to politics: the trajectory of the Muslim Brotherhood during Egypt's 2011–13 political opening' here.
- June 18, 2015: Adjunct Professor Paul Meyer speaks on the cyber attacks on Canadian government websites this past Wednesday to the Vancouver Sun.
- June 15, 2015: Congratulations to IS undergraduate student, Alissa Sutton, recipient of this year's Ted and Emily McWhinney Scholarship in International Studies!
- June 10, 2015: A very warm congratulations to International Studies and Latin American Studies graduates today! And a special congratulations to adjunct professor Dr. Jennifer Simons, recipient of an honorary degree at this afternoon's convocation ceremony.
- June 4, 2015: Congratulations to adjunct professor Onur Bakiner on his forthcoming book: Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy.
- June 4, 2015: Morten Jerven is publishing a new book, Africa – Why Economists Get it Wrong. The book will be launched at the SOAS, University of London, UK on June 4.
- May 26, 2015: A failed nuclear NPT review conference: Fin de regime? by Paul Meyer.
- May 20, 2015: Congratulations to Alli Cano and Tina Bachl, winners of the School for International Studies Best Undergraduate Essay Award for 2014/2015!
- May 14, 2015: From the Nonproliferation Treaty review conference in New York, Paul Meyer outlines the fundamental flaws of the 45-year-old treaty. Can an ‘outcome’ document fix them?
- May 5, 2015: Greg Feldman has a new book out - We Are All Migrants: Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-hood.
- April 30, 2015: Hindu Nationalism in Action: The Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian Politics: A Public Forum.
- April 27-30, 2015: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will teach an intensive PhD seminar on 'Qualitative Methods & the Study of Civil War' at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
- April 13, 2015: John Harriss quoted in an article on Indian Prime Minister Modi's visit to Canada.
- April 13, 2015: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel gives a faculty colloquium (on IR theory) and PhD workshop (on process tracing) at Princeton University.
- April 10, 2015: Panel discussion on the Greek Crisis: Syriza vs. Europe.
- April 8, 2015: 'Nuclear Deal with Iran: The Devil in the Details?' by Paul Meyer.
- April 6, 2015: Morten Jerven has edited a special issue in the Journal of Development Studies: Statistical Tragedy in Africa? Evaluating the Data Base for African Economic Development. The special issue will be launched at the Center of Global Development on April 6 in Washington DC. On twitter.
- March 28, 2015: Free film screening of Cambodian Son.
- March 19-20, 2015: Louise Arbour, Simons Visiting Chair chairs the International Criminal Justice: The State of Play conference organized by The Simons Foundation and the School for International Studies. View the program here.
- March 18, 2015: International Justice: A Q&A with the Honourable Louise Arbour.
- March 18, 2015: Listen to Gloria Macarenko's interview with Louise Arbour today around 4.35PM on On the Coast, CBC Radio (88.1 FM, 690 AM).
- March 18, 2015: FASS features a story on alumnus, Reid Standish!
- March 13, 2015: FASS features a story on Simons Chair Jeff Checkel!
- March 10, 2015: Public lecture by Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell - 'Civil Society, Public Policy, and the Quality of Democracy in Latin America'.
- March 5, 2015: 'A Nuclear Deal with Iran: "A Farewell to Arms Control"?' by Paul Meyer.
- March 2, 2015: Writing Against the Grain: A Conversation with Sonallah Ibrahim.
- February 25, 2015: Public lecture by Michael Woolcock - 'Building State Capability for Implementation: The Role (and Limits) of Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)'.
- February 23, 2015: Public lecture by Ed Vulliamy - 'The Wall Street Cartel: Banks, Narcotraffic, and the Lie of Legality'.
- February 19, 2015: Public lecture by Paul Heinbecker - 'Canada and the Security Council: Good Times and Bad'.
- February 13, 2015: Morten Jerven on does economics have 'an Africa problem'?
- February 12, 2015: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving the keynote address at a conference on the 'Europeanization of Foreign Policies,' University of Hamburg, Germany.
- February 12, 2015: Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa book launch with Liz Cooper at the University of Oxford in England.
- February 5, 2015: Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa book launch with Liz Cooper at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
- February 4, 2015: About Baghdad documentary film screening followed by Q&A session with director, Bassam Haddad.
- February 4 2015: Informal discussion of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with Bassam Haddad at 130-230PM, SFU Harbour Centre, room 2200.
- February 3, 2015: Morten Jerven has a new edited book,Measuring African Development: Past and Present. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- February 3, 2015: 'Teaching the Middle East: Lessons from the JadaliyyaExperience' with Bassam Haddad.
- February 2, 2015: Public lecture by Bassam Haddad - 'Understanding the Syrian Tragedy Four Years On'.
- January 29, 2015: 'From Vienna to New York: The bumpy road to nuclear disarmament' by Paul Meyer.
- January 22, 2015: Public lecture by Adel Iskandar - 'From Immolation to Preservation: The Self & Identity Politics Since the Arab Uprisings'.
- January 20, 2015: Congratulations to IS and LAS undergraduate student, Claudia Arrieta de Diaz, recipient of the 2014/15 Dr. Alfredo E. Hurtado Memorial Scholarship!
- January 18-20, 2015: Michael Howard will be at the 5th ASEAN Traditional Textiles Symposium, "Connecting Centuries of Tradition" at Payap University and at the Chiang Mai City Arts and Cultural Centre.
