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2018 News Archive

December 28, 2018

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December 12, 2018: In a break with the past, the US rejected all four resolutions on space security adopted this fall at the UN General Assembly's First Committee. Paul Meyer's commentary on this situation has just been published, available here.
December 4, 2018: Join IS associate professor Nicole Jackson for a panel discussion on Securing Canadian Elections with the Canadian International Council. Click here for more details and to RSVP.
November 20, 2018: SFU African Studies Working Group presented Youthful Africa: Navigating Activism & Aspiration: Two public talks from research in Kenya and Botswana, featuring Dr. Wangui Kimari, social anthropologist and fellow with the African Centre for Cities, and Dr. Deborah Durham, cultural anthropologist and author.
November 15th, 2018: This fall’s session of the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee witnessed a discouraging rupture in the previous broad consensus as to how the UN should proceed to develop norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. Read Paul Meyer's commentary on the events, available here.
November 6-7, 2018: Jeff Checkel is in Washington, DC, attending the final meeting of a year-long project - jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and Office of the Director of National Intelligence - that developed analytic frameworks to help intelligence analysts apply insights from the social and behavioral sciences to policy. Checkel participated in the expert panel on norms and international law.
November 1, 2018: A Life & India: Observations through the Decades | Event and reception was held to celebrate John Harriss's retirement as well as the launch of the International Studies Alumni Network.
October 22, 2018: The SFU African Studies Working Group and SFU International held a multi-disciplinary Africa-focused Research and Engagement Day, a one-day workshop for SFU faculty and graduate students who work on Africa-related research. The main purpose of the event was to facilitate colleagues doing work related to Africa to get to know each other and make connections throughout the day. We envision this day will lead to further engagement and collaboration of SFU scholars.
October 15, 2018: A very warm congratulations to Haadia Khalid and Joey Mitchell, this year's recipients of the Ted and Emily McWhinney Scholarship in International Studies!
October 11, 2018: Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Fellow in International Security, is part of a small research team which has been awarded one of four grants for the study of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Paul will team up with researchers from the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and Carnegie Mellon University to address the regulation of defence and security AI technologies. Further details of the project are available here. Congratulations, Paul!
October 3, 2018: Current MA student Alex Garcia Fuentes was featured in SFU News for his International Observer role in the recent Mexican election.
October 3, 2018: Gerardo Otero is quoted in "B.C. dairy farmers 'thrown under the bus' for new NAFTA" in The Vancouver Sun.
September 25, 2018: Read Paul Meyer's recently published article "Talks to ban nuclear materials need a fresh start" in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
September 18, 2018: Check out Irene Pang's recently published article “The Legal Construction of Precarity: Lessons from the Construction Sectors in Beijing and Delhi” in Critical Sociology.
September 9, 2018: John Harriss participated in the Coho Run, a 14km run from Kitsilano Beach to Ambleside Beach (as he has done for the past 11 years). Finishing with a time of 1 hour 27 minutes, he placed third in the men's 70-79 age group. Congratulations, John!
September 3, 2018: Gerardo Otero is quoted in "B.C. wouldn’t be immune to NAFTA collapse impacts, experts say" in The Star (Vancouver edition).
August 2018: Read Nicole Jackson’s new working paper “Outer Space in Russia’s Security Strategy”, Simons Papers in Security and Development, no 64, August 2018. This work will be published as a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Russian Security edited by Roger Kanet (Routledge).
August 29 - September 2, 2018: Jeff Checkel will be attending the American Political Science Association Convention (Boston), where he will be co-teaching a short course on 'Process Tracing' and chairing a panel on 'Combatant Socialization and the Conduct of Armed Groups in War.'
August 20-24, 2018: Jeff Checkel will be teaching a PhD seminar 'Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies: Case Research and Process Analytics' at the Research School on Peace & Conflict, Peace Research Institute Oslo.
June 20, 2018: Read Christopher Gibson's latest article in Sociology of Development (Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 2018; pp. 169-190) titled 'Programmatic Configurations for the Twenty-First-Century Developmental State in Urban Brazil' here.
June 19, 2018: A very warm congratulations to Dr. Liz Cooper who just received a SSHRC Insight Development grant for her research project 'After the smoke clears: The enduring significance of arson-as-protest for young Kenyans and their politics'!
June 14, 2018: Read Paul Meyer's latest article 'Why Canada needs a cyber security foreign policy' in The Hill Times.
June 7, 2018: We're pleased to announce that this year's Best International Studies Undergraduate Essay Award recipient is Erika Loggin for her essay titled ""Global Governance in the Mediterranean Sea: the Humanitarian Costs of State Inaction”. Honourable Mention goes to Cecile Favron for her essay titled "The Moroccan State Under King Mohammed VI: Negotiating Feminist and Islamic Discourses of Gender”. Congratulations, Erika and Cecile!
June 6, 2018: Ambassador (Ret.) Paul Meyer (Adjunct Professor in International Studies at SFU) participated in the 'Space Security: The Next Chapter' conference hosted by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva on May 7-8, 2018. The text of his presentation “Do TCBMs have a future?” as well as recordings of his opening remarks as chair of panel six and his concluding remarks for the conference are available here.
June 7-9, 2018: Jeff Checkel will be participating in the international closing conference of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe,' at the Free University Berlin.
June 2018: Nicole Jackson published: “Canada, NATO and Global Russia”, International Journal, vo.73, no. 2, June 2018.
May 31, 2018: Public Round Table in the Pellan Room at the Library and Archives Canada: "Nuclear Histories: Official Secrets, Closed Files, Open Archives" with an opening presentation by Paul Meyer entitled: "Back to the Future: nuclear Archives and the Working Diplomat."
May 22, 2018: Jeff Checkel's chapter "Methods in Constructivist Approaches" has just been published in the Oxford Handbook of International Security.
May 9, 2018: Read Paul Meyer's article "Sleepwalking towards the 2020 review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty" here.
May 7-11, 2018: Jeff Checkel will be teaching a PhD seminar 'Dynamics of Armed Conflict' at the Research School on Peace & Conflict, Peace Research Institute Oslo.
April 28, 2018: Nicole Jackson gave an invited talk at the plenary session, “US-Russia Relations in Times of Tension”, and gave a paper “NATO and Hybrid Responses to Russia”, at the 24^th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.
April 19, 2018: Nicole Jackson's presentation "Canadian and NATO Responses to Russia, Post 2014" hosted by the Canadian International Council and the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies - Vancouver.
May 24, 2018: The Shari'a: History, Ethics and Law Book Launch with Dr. Amyn B. Sajoo.May 17, 2018: Changing International Dynamics for Drug Control.
April 14, 2018: Film screening: Soz: A Ballad of Maladies (84 minutes. Directed: Tushar Madhav and Sarvnik Kaur).
March 22, 2018: Labour: the Missing Link in NAFTA? panel discussion.
March 1, 2018: Reclaiming the Discarded Book Launch with Kathleen M. Millar.
February 28, 2018: Dr. Ramzy Baroud and the Palestinian Narrative.
February 28, 2018: Paul Meyer was a participant on a panel devoted to "Multilateral Governance Architecture" at the 4th Observer Research Foundation's Kalpana Chawla Space Policy Dialogue, held in New Delhi, Feb. 15-17.
February 22, 2018: International Studies student Alex Garcia has been awarded the Dr. Alfredo E. Hurtado Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations Alex!
February 16, 2018: Read Dr. Elizabeth Cooper's new article "Beyond the Everyday: Sustaining Kinship in Western Kenya" published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute here.
February 16, 2018: Read Dr. Elizabeth Cooper's new article "The Importance of Being Serious: Subjectivity and Adulthood in Kenya" published in Ethnos here.
February 5, 2018: Book launch for Leslie Armijo's new book, The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft.
January 31, 2018: "Civil Society versus the Bomb: Reaching Critical Will and the Struggle for the Ban Treaty" with Ray Acheon.
January 26, 2018: Dr. Gerardo Otero's latest article: Gerardo Otero, Efe Can Gürcan, Gabriela Pechlaner and Giselle Liberman. 2018. "Food Security, Obesity and Inequality: Measuring the Risk of Exposure to the Neoliberal Diet." Journal of Agrarian Change.
January 8, 2018: Read Paul Meyer's article "Our WMD Treaties Are Working" here.
January 1, 2018: Congratulations to Leslie Armijo on the release of her latest book, The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft.

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