News and Updates
Free Online Seminar Fall 2021: Will China Democratize? Contending Forces in a Changing China
Hosted on Zoom – register for link September 24th-December 3th 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time Daylight savings time in the U.S. has ended. Please double check the time difference in your area! Description: China has played a growing role on the international stage… Continue reading→
Call for submissions: “Isolation, Exile and the Everyday Pandemic”
Reading Period: August 1st, 2021 – October 1st, 2021 Consortium scholar Simten Cosar, in patnership with the publication Sampsonia Way is calling for submissions for an upcoming project tackling the consequences of the pandemic experience.
Free Online Seminar Fall 2021: Feminist Research Methodologies and Digital Feminist Research
DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND (THANK YOU!) THE REGISTRATION LINK HAS CHANGED https://event.newschool.edu/feministresearchmethodologiesa IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED, PLEASE REGISTER AGAIN USING THE BUTTON ABOVE. Hosted on Zoom – register for link September 30th-December 9th Every Thursday, 9:00-10:30am Eastern Time Description:… Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Why Not Voting Means Different Things in Tehran and New York City”
July 16th, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Fellow, Committee of Global Thought at Columbia University Tajbakhsh discusses and compares the voter turnout, or lack thereof, in the recent New York City… Continue reading→
Registration Open: “Syria, 100 Years Attempting to Form an Identity”
Sunday, June 27th, 10:00am EST Dr. Ahmed Fatima, lecturer at the University of Potsdam, will address the formation of Syrian identity through its constitution, the establishment of museums, and via the study of archeology. Please note the lecture will be… Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Election Conundrum in Iran”
June 17th, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Fellow, Committee of Global Thought at Columbia University Tajbakhsh discusses the Iranian national and local elections on June 18th. “In other words because the… Continue reading→
New Article: “Iran’s Presidential Election: Opportunity or Dead End?”
June 15, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Masih Alinejad and Sara Bazoobandi Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The upcoming Iranian presidential elections could have important implications for the country’s poltical future alongside the ongoing nuclear negotionats between Washington and… Continue reading→
New Article: “The Aftermath of the Gezi Park Protests: Rising Populism and Mobilization for Autocracy”
June 16th, 2021 By: Selin Bengi Gümrükçü, Visiting Scholar in the Political Science Department, Rutgers University Published in: Jadaliyya In this article, Gümrükçü describes the effects that the 2013 Gezi Park Protests had on the political landscape in Turkey. “The… Continue reading→
Webinar: EXILE: FEAR, CREATIVITY, NEW DISSIDENCE?
June 9, 18:00-20:00 CET, 12:00pm-2:00pm EDT Organized by the Academy in Exile, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the University of Duisburg-Essen What is the significance of exile today? For the refugees themselves, exile is first and foremost… Continue reading→
Academic Freedom in a Plural World: Global Critical Perspectives
June 9, 8:00am-12:00pm EDTJune 10, 10:00am-2:00pm EDT Zoom link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85114784769