2014 News Archive
December 29, 2014
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- December 31, 2014: Paul Meyer's on the White House response to the cyber attack on Sony.
- December 18, 2014: Check out Alec Dawson's for his IS/HIST 209W Latin America course! Spaces still available in the course for Spring 2015.
- December 17, 2014: in The Guardian by Morten Jerven.
- December 15-16, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will lead an intensive for students of the four PhD-granting institutions in Berlin (Free University, Hertie School, Humboldt University, Social Science Centre Berlin).
- December 15, 2014: Read Onur Bakiner's co-authored article on the 2014 presidential elections in Turkey .
- December 8, 2014: Congratulations to Martha Snodgrass and John Harriss on another three-year SSHRC award in support of their work with the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- December 8, 2014: is featured on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
- December 4, 2014: View photos from the Fundraiser in Support of the Ebola Crisis on December 1 .
- December 1, 2014: The CGPA required to declare a major in International Studies for Fall 2014 is 2.75.
- December 1, 2014: .
- November 26, 2014: Julian Cardona and Dawn Paley present a free public lecture ''.
- November 19, 2014: Barnett Rubin presents a free lecture on ''
- November 17-18, 2014: Morten Jerven will delivering the keynote lecture at the '' conference at New York University.
- November 14-15, 2014: Dr. Chris Gibson is co-organizing the '' conference at Brown University.
- November 13, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel's new book - - is now out from Cambridge University Press!
- November 7, 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Liz Cooper on the publication of a book which she co-edited with David Pratten of the University of Oxford: , published by Palgrave Macmillan. In addition to their co-authored introduction chapter, the book contains a chapter by Dr. Cooper, entitled: 'Charity and Chance: The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust through Child Sponsorship in Kenya'.
- October 29, 2014: '' in Embassy by Paul Meyer.
- October 27, 2014: Congratulations to Simons Chair Jeff Checkel, who has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany! The prize is granted to academics whose 'fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.' It provides funds for Checkel to spend up to a year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues in Germany, in this case, at the Free University Berlin.
- October 24, 2014: Alec Dawson's 2nd edition of out now!
- October 23, 2014: Rita Eder presents a free public lecture on .
- October 18, 2014: A warm congratulations to the Honourable Louise Arbour, 2014 Simons Visiting Chair for being inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
- October 17, 2014: '' by Paul Meyer.
- October 16-18, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be holding two workshops at Yale University. The first is a methodology session for PhD students, while the second is an international conference on ''.
- October 21, 2014: Rolando Vasquez Miranda presents a free public lecture ''.
- October 15, 2014: with author, Bia Labate, and Alec Dawson. (EVENT CANCELLED)
- October 15, 2014: Read Liz Cooper's latest article, in African Affairs(Vol. 113, Issue 453).
- October 14, 2014: presents a free public lecture ''.
- October 10, 2014: Congratulations to IS Honours student, Elinor McNamee-Annett for placing third in the 2014 Three Minute Co-op Competition! Elinor is the only winner/honourable mention from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Watch her speech .
- October 9, 2014: Read Paul Meyer's article "" (pp.18-21) in the Ploughshares Monitor (vol 35, issue 3).
- October 9, 2014: Citations to articles in the CJDS/la Revue , which is edited at SIS, rose notably in 2013, according to the Web of Science鈥檚 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The journal鈥檚 Impact Factor rose from 0.138 in 2012 to 0.776 in 2013. This puts CJDS in the #6 ranking among the 79 Canadian social science journals assessed by JCR in 2013. A listing of the .
- October 5, 2014: by Morten Jerven.
- October 1, 2014: View from the Louise Arbour lecture on September 25.
- October 1, 2014: View Andrzej Nowak's in Nicole Jackson's IS 304 Russian Foreign Policy class.
- September 30, 2014: Watch Morten Jerven's during the Nordic Africa Days 2014 in Uppsala, Sweden.
- September 26-27, 2014: Morten Jerven will be a keynote speaker at in Uppsala, Sweden.
- The Honourable Louise Arbour presented a public lecture '' on September 25, 2014. Watch the video .
- September 25, 2014: The Honourable Louise Arbour presents a free public lecture ''
- September 23, 2014: Vivek Dehejia presents a free public lecture on .
- September 17, 2014: .
- September 12, 2014: Roundtable on the .
- September 9, 2014: Congratulations to John Harriss on his new book, .
- September 9, 2014: Congratulations to Jeffrey T. Checkel on his forthcoming book, .
- September 8, 2014: Michael Howard has two essays on the peoples and textiles of Indochine in the 1930s in the catalogue that accompanies the visual art exhibit,
- September 3, 2014: A warm welcome to Simons Research Fellow, Izabela Steflja. Steflja will be teaching a course on transitional justice in Spring 2015.
- August 29, 2014: The School is now on . Follow us!
- August 28, 2014: A warm welcome to Postdoctoral Fellow, Jeffrey A. Sachs. Sachs will be teaching IS 315 Introduction to Middle East Politics this fall.
- August 27-31, 2014: At the American Political Science Association convention, Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be holding a and offering a , both connected to the publication of his new Cambridge volume, .
- August 25, 2014: Today, we said goodbye to Onur Bakiner, an amazing teacher, a bright scholar and a wonderful colleague and friend. All the very best to Dr. Bakiner in his new position as Assistant Professor in Political Science at Seattle University. You will be missed by all.
- August 15, 2014: '' by Paul Meyer.
- July 16, 2014: Adjunct Professor, Paul Meyer along with two other former Canadian ambassadors for disarmament authored an critiquing the recent report of the Senate Committee recommending Canada's participation in the US ballistic missile defense program. The piece appeared in today's issue of Embassy.
- July 14, 2014: Congratulations to John Harriss, Martha Snodgrass and Thanh Lam for yet another Serial Publication, University Publication Fund Grant award in support of their work with the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
- July 10, 2014: '' An interview with Morten Jerven.
- July 3, 2014: Two new are out: 'Are Development Statistics Manipulable?' by Andrew Kerner, Morten Jerven and Alison Beatty; and 'The Diplomacy of Space Security: Whither the International Code of Conduct?' by Paul Meyer.
- July 3, 2014: Morten Jerven's guest post on the Financial Times:
- June 26-27, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be lecturing at the 25th annual in Kristiansand, Norway.
- June 23, 2014: Greg Feldman will be joining the School as Limited Term Assistant Professor for the 2014/15 academic year. Feldman is a political anthropologist interested in the state, globalization, migration, and population regulation. He is also a founding board member of the Vancouver Society for the Promotion of the Liberal Arts.
- June 18, 2014: A very warm congratulations to King Cordova Alba帽a, recipient of the 2013/14 Best Undergraduate International Studies Essay Award. The winning essay titled 'Domestic Security at the Expense of International Rights' was written for Nicole Jackson's IS 409 Security Studies course.
- June 16, 2014: '' by Dr. Nicole J. Jackson.
- June 15, 2014: Congratulations to undergraduate student, Claire Sieffert, recipient of the Premier's International Scholarship.
- June 13, 2014: Three new are out: 'Regional Identities and Communities' by Professor Jeffrey T. Checkel; 'An Incomplete Transition? Explaining the Ongoing Prevalence of Violence against Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa' by alumna Melissa Rossann Gregg (MA 2014); and 'Youth and 'Refo-lution'? Protest Politics in India and the Global Context' by Professor John Harriss.
- June 10, 2014: A very, very warm congratulations to alumna, Aleks Besan, winner of the . We are looking forward to hearing your commencement speech tomorrow!
- June 6, 2014: '' by Onur Bakiner.
- June 2, 2014: Onur Bakiner's Can the 'Spirit Of Gezi' Transform Progressive Politics in Turkey? published in .
- May 27, 2014: .
- May 27, 2014: Morten Jerven has a new book out, .
- May 12-17, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be holding a PhD seminar on the '' at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
- May 12, 2014: An article by was named the 2014 journal article of the year by the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. The article, 鈥�,鈥� was published in Law and Social Inquiry, vol. 38 (2013) 168-188.
- May 5, 2014: A warm congratulations to on his SSHRC award!
- April 10, 2014: Congratulations to graduate students, Phil Roy (SSHRC) and Caitlin Foreman (GIRTA & SSHRC) on their recent awards!
- April 2, 2014: Special Issue 35(1) of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d鈥櫭﹖udes du d茅veloppement on "Measuring African Development: Past and Present" is . Guest editor: . For FREE access to the issue until 30 June 2014, click .
- Read Onur Bakiner's new article on Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society in theInternational Journal of Transitional Justice .
- March 17, 2014: Public lecture by Ramesh Thakur (Australian National University) on
- March 13, 2014: At the , Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be delivering a lecture on 'Constructivist IR Theory at Mid-Life: Many Achievements ... But Lots Still to Do.'
- March 13, 2014: Public lecture by Hugh Gusterson (George Mason University) on .
- March 1, 2014: The releases the. Read the press release .
- February 27, 2014: Public lecture by Ebrahim Moosa (Duke University) on.
- February 3-11, 2014: Simons Chair Jeff Checkel will be giving four talks - on civil war and on research methods - and holding two PhD workshops - on process tracing - at , the , and the .a