News and Updates
Consortium Scholars Retreat
July 10-12, 2024Hosted by Consortium member institution, Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island Consortium scholars, liaisons, and staff gathered at Brown University from July 9 to 12, 2024 for our first Consortium Summer Retreat since the COVID-19 Pandemic. Coming from all…Continue reading→
Death of Home: Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization by Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde
Volume 26 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic…Continue reading→
Live Performance: If Museum’s Walls Could Talk
Performance by Margarita Kuleva Monday, November 25, 20246:00 – 8:00pm ET REGISTER HERE The New School Starr Lecture Hall63 Fifth AvenueRoom UL 102 Free and Open to the Public This lecture-performance is dedicated to revealing the “behind the scenes” political struggle…Continue reading→
Migration, Diaspora, and Mnemonic Solidarity
REGISTER HERE The migration-memory nexus in the human and social sciences has traditionally been conceptualized to analyze the role of collective and individual memory in shaping the migration experience, particularly in terms of ethno-national belonging. Less attention has been paid…Continue reading→
Sustaining Higher Education in Gaza
Wednesday, October 2310 am Eastern To watch the session, CLICK HERE
How the Taliban’s new ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them
Originally published on September 20, 2024 by The Conversation By Dyan Mazurana and Sima Samar Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women…Continue reading→
Miami University Features Hosted Ukrainian Scholar, Dr. Borys Prydalnyi
Originally published under the title “Miami hosts Ukrainian scholar in the College of Engineering and Computing” by Miami News on October 3, 2024 by Margo Rutledge Kissell and Katie Rottner Miami hosts Ukrainian scholar in the College of Engineering and…Continue reading→
Pro-Gaza and far-left activists dominated the 2024 DNC protests
Published by Good Authority August 29, 2024 By: Selin Bengi Gümrükcü, Michael T. Heaney, and Eric S. Heberlig Protests at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago were larger and less orderly than those at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee. Yet the DNC protests were hardly…Continue reading→
Gubad Ibadoghlu Update: Travel Ban Remains Despite Suspension of Case
Less than a month before his pre-trial detention was supposed to end, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu’s case was suspended indefinitely by Azerbaijan’s chief investigator, leaving Dr. Ibadoghlu under house arrest and his freedom uncertain. This suspension comes after several delays in…Continue reading→
Women, Peace, and Security in the Afghan Context
Free 10-Week Online Seminar Every Monday, September 30 – December 2, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Hosted on Zoom- Register for Link This seminar will delve into the multifaceted role of women in Afghanistan’s peace and security…Continue reading→