含羞草传媒

  • Soldier and Child, Soldier and Child at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev. (Photo by Andr茅 Simonyi)
    Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, recently curated a collection of short essays in a series titled 鈥淯kraine and Russia: The Agency of War鈥 for Cultural Anthropology, the top journal in the field. The journal鈥檚 editors-in-chief invited Ries to edit this collection of essays that appeared in the journal鈥檚 鈥淗ot Spots鈥 [鈥
    November 10, 2014
  • Jacob Mundy
    Writing about Western Sahara and Morocco in a feature article online at World Politics Review, Professor Jacob Mundy asserted that 鈥渁 web of geopolitical interests keeps the conflict in a permanent state of limbo.鈥 Mundy, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, looks for a disruptive event to 鈥渦nbalance the deadlock,鈥 though, he wrote, the likeliest events [鈥
    September 18, 2014
  • 含羞草传媒 students are participating in internships in a variety of fields and locations this summer. This post is by Erica Weston 鈥15, a peace and conflict studies and Asian studies double major from Hamden, Conn. This summer, I鈥檓 interning with the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldier Initiative in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I鈥檓 working alongside Tess Cumpstone [鈥
    June 18, 2014
  • April marked the 20 anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. 含羞草传媒 Professor Susan Thomson, author of Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda, recorded a segment on the Academic Minute to commemorate the 20th anniversary. Listen to the segment here.
    May 2, 2014
  • Gabriella Nikolic
    Striking images of Holocaust victims overlaid with paint and text stare back at viewers as they encounter the pieces in the exhibition One Day, One Woman, One Child 鈥 which will be in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology until this Friday. 
    February 25, 2014
  • Twenty years ago, Susan Thomson, now a 含羞草传媒 professor, was in Rwanda during the genocide that still shapes the narrative of that country. Her book 鈥 鈥淲hispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda鈥 (University of Wisconsin Press) 鈥 examines grassroots resistance to the postgenocide policies established by Rwandan government officials. She [鈥
    February 21, 2014
  • 含羞草传媒 professor Peter Balakian鈥檚 essay about the villa where Nazi SS leaders made the plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe was published this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The essay comes as events are scheduled around the world in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is January 27. That day recognizes the [鈥
    January 24, 2014
  • 含羞草传媒 students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by peace and conflict studies major Sarah Dickson, of Wayne, Penn. In January 2011, almost a month after street protests broke out in Tunisia against high unemployment rates and government corruption, the nation鈥檚 president gave [鈥
    December 10, 2013