News and Updates
Consortium Scholar’s article on academic fraud amongst world leaders is translated, just in time for the G20 Summit
October 14, 2022, originally published in 2019 by The Conversation. Consortium Scholar Ararat Osipian’s 2019 article, “Putin’s plagiarism, fake Ukrainian degrees and other tales of world leaders accused of academic fraud”, originally published in English, was recently translated into Indonesian…Continue reading→
中国往何处去：政党，国家，与国际秩序 (Where is China Going and Why: The Party, State, and Global Order) – Free 24-Week Online Seminar
Every Wednesday 9:00am – 10:30am Eastern Time Instruction will be in Chinese This seminar is open to auditors who do not register (Zoom link below). Classes will be posted on YouTube after they are presented. Description: 《中国往何处去：政党，国家，与国际秩序》 是一门面向全球的中文在线课程。在24次专题讲座里，将与您一起讨论中国的政治转型。通过分析中国的共产革命、党国体制、意识形态、法律人权、社会结构、国际关系等层面，您将了解海内外中国政治研究的最新动态，掌握更多的分析工具和思考进路，从而对“中国往何处去”这一关切无数人命运的问题给出更深刻和更细致的答案。这门课将让您有机会与相关领域的权威学者直接交流，并结识世界各地与您关心同样问题的人们。 程免费注册，修满20课者，您将获得美国知名的大学新学院 (The…Continue reading→
Conference: A Life in Thought: A Series of Conversations in Celebration of the Life and Work of Richard J. Bernstein
The conference will be held both in-person and online on Friday, October 14th from 9:30am-5:15pm ET. See registration details below.
Iran’s First Feminist Uprising: Woman! Life! Freedom!
By Kian Tajbakhsh, originally published in Public Seminar September 28, 2022 A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic…Continue reading→
The Future of Academia in Ukraine: Consortium Scholar, Ararat Osipian, featured in Times Higher Education
September 12, 2022 Osipian, whose research interests include corruption in higher education, writes about the effects of war on Ukraine’s universities and the path toward a more equitable and transparent academy in Ukraine. “Corruption continues not only in the war-torn…Continue reading→
Consortium Scholar, Ararat Osipian featured in “Voices of Ukrainian Scholars” by the US-based Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
September 2022 “In the early morning of February 24, 2022, I woke up to three loud explosions that shook my windows and everything around. These were the shock waves of the missile explosions that hit Kramatorsk, the administrative center of…Continue reading→
Reuters Article – “From bomb shelter to dorm room: Ukrainian students find refuge at U.S. colleges”
August 19, 2022 By Rose Horowitch, published in Reuters “More than 120 U.S. universities have efforts to help Ukrainian students, according to a survey of 559 schools by the Institute of International Education (IIE), though the actual number is likely far…Continue reading→
KQED highlights efforts to support Afghan scholars, including Consortium and member institution, San José State University
On August 15, 2022, media outlet KQED published an article by Rachael Myrow profiling Afghan journalist and women’s rights activist Masuma Mohammadi who has been hosted by San José State University, a Consortium member institution, for the last five months….Continue reading→
University in Exile for Afghan Artists
In collaboration with the Artistic Freedom Initiative, the Consortium is committed to bringing 10 endangered Afghan artists on 1-year fellowships to the programs and divisions in the arts at The New School. When we succeed, the Consortium will have effectively…Continue reading→
The Consortium’s work to assist Afghan undergraduate women featured in The New York Times Magazine
“She’s at Brown. Her Heart’s Still in Kabul. In their first year at U.S. universities, women who escaped the Taliban are struggling to adjust — and to reckon with what they left behind.” August 9, 2022, By Maddy Crowell Photo: Suhaila Hashimi…Continue reading→