Scholars in the Press
Celebrating 100 Years of IIE Scholar Rescue Fund
The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) published a special report to commemorate its 100th year of supporting endangered and exiled scholars around the world. This publication, titled “A Beacon of Hope,” details the milestones, achievements and voices of scholars, partners and IIE… Continue reading→
Enza García Arreaza publishes “Serie Ensayos de Climatología”
Enza García Arreaza has published “Serie Ensayos de Climatología (7)”, a series of essays on climatology. Based on this series of essays, García Arreaza also gave a powerful interview with El Nacional, a Venezuelan news source. “Los expertos sostienen que estamos lejos de comprender los… Continue reading→
See to Believe
In this, the fourth article of the series on the pandemic and the senses, Gaudêncio Fidelis discusses vision as the most established of the senses in epistemology. To a great extent, the accuracy of our ocular system has been credited to our primate ancestors and… Continue reading→
Gubad Ibadoghlu Awarded Reagan-Fascell Fellowship
Gubad Ibadoghlu, visiting scholar at the Rutgers Center for European Studies, has been awarded a Reagan-Fascell Fellowship. Gubad is a world-renowned political economist from Azerbaijan. He is a senior policy analyst for social and economic studies at Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Center, a Baku-based NGO that… Continue reading→
Binalakshmi Nepram featured in La Línea del Medio
Writing for La Línea del Medio, Colombia-based journalist Laura Gil recently wrote an article about Binalakshmi Nepram’s work in the Manipur region of Northeast India, entitled “17 peace processes and not a single woman: Binalakshmi Nepram”. Her interview highlights Nepram’s work to end the militarization imposed on… Continue reading→
The Speech Regained
In his 3rd article on the pandemic and the senses, Gaudêncio Fidelis addresses hearing, its correlation with voice, and the role it plays in the construction of personal identity. He notes, “made out of breath, the human voice is one of the most extraordinary manifestations… Continue reading→
A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey
Mehmet Kurt’s article “A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey” was published in the Spring 2020 edition of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Kurt’s article examines the transformation of the Kurdish Hizbullah as it evolved… Continue reading→
“The Hindered Touch”
In the second installment of a three-part series, Gaudêncio Fidelis writes about how one of our most urgent senses, touch, has been stigmatized during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fidelis starts with an emblematic image, Michalangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” wherein God’s touch imparts the “breath of… Continue reading→
“The Forgotten Nerve”
In January 2020, anosmia, the loss of smell, was identified as a symptom of COVID-19. In this article, Gaudêncio Fidelis discusses the implications of the lost of smell (frequently accompanied by the loss of taste) and its parallels with the “blind spots” in art history… Continue reading→
“When We Lose The Ability To Be Shocked, Fascism Has Already Arrived”
This past May, Saladdin Ahmed published his article “When We Lose the Ability to Be Shocked, Fascism Has Already Arrived” at the Institute for Social Ecology. In his piece, Ahmed notes: “Whether democratic or despotic, states draw their legitimacy from their claim to the general… Continue reading→