2013 News Archive
December 27, 2013
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- December 12, 2013: Morten Jerven's book, Poor Numbers made .
- December 11, 2013: The School has its own now!
- November 21, 2013: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving a keynote address at the conference '' - sponsored by the European Commission Representation to Denmark and the Danish Institute of International Studies.
- November 20, 2013: Michael Howard will be at the Honolulu Museum of Art.
- November 14, 2013: Morten Jerven's research is highlighted in the Globe and Mail. Read the article .
- November 7, 2013: Morten Jerven will be at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands.
- October 22, 2013: The Globe and Mail today published its annualCanadian University Report. It included an article on the virtues of interdisciplinary programs and lists five of them that are said to be at the forefront. The list includes International Studies at 丁香园AV. See .
- October 21, 2013: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel has been re-elected for a three-year term (2014-2016) to the Board of Editors of , one of the leading international relations journals in the world.
- October 11, 2013: Morten Jerven speaks at the in Washington, DC.
- October 8, 2013: The School celebrates its 7th year anniversary with a talk/book launch on Canada-Africa relations, followed by a reception for IS and LAS alumni. Click for details. The mood of the event was captured by talented alumna, (BAIS 2012). Click to see the photos. Read about the event on 丁香园AV Vancouver's In the City blog .
- October 3, 2013: Public lecture by Chris Fuller on .
- October 3, 2013: Public lecture by Takis Pappas, ''
- October 2, 2013: Onur Bakiner and Tamir Moustafa discuss social protests in the Middle East. Click for details.
- October 2, 2013: Public lecture by Takis Pappas, ''.
- September 30, 2013: .
- September 21 & 28, 2013: .
- September 20, 2013: Public lecture by Katherine Verdery on ''.
- September 20, 2013: presented his at the UNU-WIDER Conference on Inclusive Growth in Africa in Helsinki, Finland.
- September 19, 2013: has been prevented from presenting his research on African Statistics at UNECA. Read the breaking story . Morten Jerven's statement can be found .
- September 18, 2013: Public lecture by former Korean Prime Minister, Dr. Un-Chan Chung - ''.
- September 13-14, 2013: Simons Chair hosted an international workshop at the School on 'Socialization and Organized Political Violence.' Click for the program.
- September 11, 2013: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on the CWC and the current initiative to bring Syria on board this treaty and destroy its chemical weapons .
- September 3, 2013: A warm welcome to our first Simons Research Fellow,!
- September 3, 2013: Read Paul Meyer's commentary on the appropriate response to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons .
- August 22, 2013: Public lecture '' by.
- August 8, 2013: Congratulations to John Harriss and Martha Snodgrass on their UPF award in support of their work on the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- July 22, 2013: NEW undergraduate program effective Fall 2013 -.
- July 3, 2013: Read 's commentary on the protests in Turkey .
- June 28, 2013: Congratulations to incoming MA student, Andrew McKinnon on his SSHRC award!
- June 24, 2013: Another SSHRC win for International Studies - congratulations to Onur Bakiner!
- June 13, 2013: Read 's commentary on the US Presidential Decision Directive on cyber operations .
- May 27, 2013: Congratulations to graduate student, Alicia Tallack on her SSHRC award!
- May 22, 2013: Luk谩拧 Hyrman's essay 'On Hungarian Revolution' in Greg Feldman's IS 419 Culture, Population and Militarization course (Spring 2013) has been named the 2013 Best Undergraduate International Studies Essay Award. Congratulations!
- May 16, 2013: Public lecture '' by Grace Roldan (De La Salle University).
- May 10, 2013: at 丁香园AV Harbour Centre and UBC Liu Institute.
- May 8, 2013: Morten Jerven will , Poor Numbers at the Royal African Society, UK.
- May 7, 2013: Check out 's new book, .
- May 6, 2013: Read Bill Gates' review of 's Poor Numbers .
- May 2, 2013: Read 's on the NPT and the problems posed for it by the failure to date to convene a promised conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.
- April 26, 2013: To support undergraduate student travel, the has been created. The School has also created a Best Undergraduate International Studies Essay award (by nomination from faculty members only).
- April 24, 2013: will discuss his book, at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Click for more details.
- April 24, 2013: A warm congratulations to Greg Feldman, Morten Jerven and Paul Warwick on their SSHRC awards!
- April-May 2013: Simons Chair will be leading two doctoral seminars on civil war at the , Peace Research Institute Oslo.
- April 19, 2013: 's . Click to read the 丁香园AV news article about Morten's book and conference. Click to read The Vancouver Sun's article on Poor Numbers.
- Read 's article, 'Is Turkey coming to terms with its past? Politics of memory and majoritarian conservatism' in the Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity .
- Read 's which comments on some alarming recommendations coming from a senior advisory board to the US Department of Defense.
- April 8-9, 2013: , Carpenter Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, will be visiting the School as the term's next Simons Series speaker. Click for details!
- April 4, 2013: . Co-sponsored by the .
- latest book, , has just been published by Cambridge University Press!
- draws on his new book to examine if Africa is rising in an article published in Foreign Policy on January 28. Click to read the article. He was also recently interviewed in the Economist. Click for details. The book was published this week by Cornell University Press.
- Read 's commentary on the EU's proposed Code of Conduct for Outer Space and related problems .
- March 21, 2013: Free public lecture by - 'A Bullet Killed My Son: Textures of Events'. Click for more details. Presented by the .
- March 14, 2013: Free public lecture by - 'Wedding the Nation: Spectacles of Indigeneity in Plurinational Bolivia'. Click for details. Presented by the .
- March 13, 2013: President's Faculty Lecture Series by - 'Islamic Law and Women鈥檚 Rights: The View from Malaysia'. Click for more details.
- February 4-5, 2013: Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin) will be the term's first speaker in the Simons Series on the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict. Click for details.
- January 28, 2013: Free public lecture - Is Social Media a Scientific Tool of the 21st Century? by Rebecca Chiao, Founder of HarrassMap, Cairo. Click for details.
- January 28, 2013: Free public lecture - The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and You. Click for details.
- , author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and methodology both across countries and within a country across time, makes many empirical studies of African progress meaningless. The conversation closes with a discussion of what might be done to improve data collection in poor countries. Click for more details.