2011 News Archive

December 29, 2011
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  • December 1, 2011: A warm congratulations to John Harriss and Martha Snodgrass, who have just been awarded a three-year SSHRC grant to support their efforts to raise the quality and standing of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
  • Lenard J. Cohen has a new book out in November 2011, Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans. 
  • Michael C. Howard has a new book out, Transnationalism and Society.
  • November 25, 2011: Join in on the Burma Day Panel discussion.  Please click here for more information.
  • November 17-20, 2011: Amnesty International and the School present the 2011 Amnesty International Film Festival.  For more information, please click here.
  • October 31, 2011: Free public lectures by Jo Boyden on poverty and children in the 21st century and Brian Pratt on the prime functions of civil society within the socio-political arena. For information on Boyden's lecture, please click here. For information on Pratt's lecture, please click here.
  • October 24 and 25, 2011: Simons Series - Free public lectures by Roger Petersen on the strategic use of emotion in conflict and the role of social science in the Iraq insurgency.  Click here for more information.
  • October 18, 2011: A free screening of Micro Debt, a documentary on the dark side of microcredit. Click here for more information.
  • October 17, 2011: US Graduate Schools in International Affairs Information Sessions. Click here for more information.
  • A warm congratulations to IS undergraduate student, Murad Javed and his team for their victory in the 4th Annual Canadian International Council (CIC) Inter-University Debate on International Affairs with UBC.  
  • October 4, 14 and November 9, 2011: Free public lectures on the role of Canada's military around the world. Click here for more information.
  • Jeff Checkel has just been awarded a contract from Cambridge University Press for a volume on the transnational dynamics of civil war.  In addition, he was recently elected to serve as vice president of the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Organized Section of the American Political Science Association.
  • September 29, 2011: The School and the dept of Political Science present a public lecture by Douglas Roche on his new book, A World Without Nuclear Weapons at 4:30PM at SFU Harbour Centre room 7000.
  • September 22, 2011: The School for International Studies, the Human Security Report Project and the Security and Defence program at UBC present a free public lecture by Joshua Goldstein on the decline in armed conflict worldwide. For more information, please click here.
  • September 19, 2011: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Jason Lyall on the conflict in Afghanistan. For more information, please click here.
  • September 1, 2011: A warm welcome to our Postdoctoral Fellow, Elizabeth Cooper who just successfully defended her PhD at Oxford University.
  • August 10, 2011: Simons Series in the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict announces Fall 2011 speakers. Click here for more details!
  • August 1, 2011: A very warm welcome to our new Limited Term Assistant Professor, Onur Bakiner who just successfully defended his PhD at Yale University.
  • July 28, 2011: A warm congratulations to the Human Security Report Project on the release of the 2009/10 Human Security Report.
  • July 11, 2011: Congratulations to Simons Chair Jeff Checkel, whose latest project on the transnational dynamics of civil war is now forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
  • June 20, 2011: Alvaro Pereira has been appointed as Economy Minister in Portugal's new coalition government. A warm congratulations and best wishes to Alvaro!
  • June 16, 2011: Congratulations, Tamir Moustafa on winning a SSHRC grant for a project entitled "Islamic Law and Women's Rights in Egypt, Indonesia, and Pakistan". Tamir will be on leave from SFU in 2011-12 to take on the position of Visiting Fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School.
  • June 1, 2011: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Professor James Chin (Monash) on Malaysian politics and democracy. For more information, please click here.
  • May 20, 2011: Hayley Jones completed her BA and MA in International Studies at SFU and has been announced as a recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal. A very warm congratulations from all of us at the School!
  • May 16, 2011: A very warm congratulations to our graduate student, Tobi Timm on winning a SSHRC grant for his research on organic farming in Brazil.
  • April 20, 2011: Engineers Without Borders, BCCIC, and the School for International Studies are pleased to host the Candidate’s Debate on Poverty Reduction and Aid Effectiveness. For more information, please click here.
  • Watch the webcast of the roundtable discussion, The New Face of the Middle East, here (originally presented on March 17, 2011).
  • Associate Professor Tamir Moustafa, has been interviewed over 30 times in the past three weeks concerning the unfolding situation in Egypt, with outlets ranging from CBC's The National, to al-Jazeera English, to the New York Times, Slate, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. His commentary and analysis has appeared in the Globe and Mail and other outlets.
  • March 22, 2011: The Centre for Dialogue and Canada's World present a free public lecture by Paul Meyer. He will be speaking on the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. For more information, please click here.
  • March 22, 2011: The School for International Studies and the Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation present a free public lecture by Professor Ronald Herring on genetic engineering. For more information, please click here.
  • March 21 & 22, 2011: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Professor Séverine Autesserre (Columbia) on international peacebuilding. For more information, please click here.
  • March 17, 2011: The School for International Studiies, Hellenic Studies and the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, in partnership with Global TV present a roundtable discussion on the cataclysmic events that are re-shaping the Middle East and their impact on the geopolitical architecture of the West. To watch the webcast, please click here.
  • February 3, 2011: Tariq Ramadan, a foremost international voice for understanding Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world, will speak at SFU Vancouver as the guest of the School for International Studies and CCSMSC. More information here.