2011 News Archive
December 29, 2011
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- December 1, 2011: A warm congratulations to and , who have just been awarded a three-year SSHRC grant to support their efforts to raise the quality and standing of the .
- has a new book out in November 2011, .
- has a new book out, .
- November 25, 2011: Join in on the Burma Day Panel discussion. Please click for more information.
- November 17-20, 2011: Amnesty International and the School present the 2011 Amnesty International Film Festival. For more information, please click .
- October 31, 2011: Free public lectures by on poverty and children in the 21st century and on the prime functions of civil society within the socio-political arena. For information on Boyden's lecture, please click . For information on Pratt's lecture, please click .
- October 24 and 25, 2011: Simons Series - Free public lectures by on the strategic use of emotion in conflict and the role of social science in the Iraq insurgency. Click for more information.
- October 18, 2011: A free screening of , a documentary on the dark side of microcredit. Click for more information.
- October 17, 2011: US Graduate Schools in International Affairs Information Sessions. Click for more information.
- A warm congratulations to IS undergraduate student, Murad Javed and his team for their victory in the 4th Annual Canadian International Council (CIC) Inter-University Debate on International Affairs with UBC.
- October 4, 14 and November 9, 2011: Free public lectures on the role of Canada's military around the world. Click for more information.
- has just been awarded a contract from Cambridge University Press for a volume on the transnational dynamics of civil war. In addition, he was recently elected to serve as vice president of the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Organized Section of the American Political Science Association.
- September 29, 2011: The School and the dept of Political Science present a public lecture by Douglas Roche on his new book, A World Without Nuclear Weapons at 4:30PM at 51社区黑料Harbour Centre room 7000.
- September 22, 2011: The School for International Studies, the Human Security Report Project and the Security and Defence program at UBC present a free public lecture by on the decline in armed conflict worldwide. For more information, please click .
- September 19, 2011: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by on the conflict in Afghanistan. For more information, please click .
- September 1, 2011: A warm welcome to our Postdoctoral Fellow, Elizabeth Cooper who just successfully defended her PhD at Oxford University.
- August 10, 2011: Simons Series in the Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict announces Fall 2011 speakers. Click for more details!
- August 1, 2011: A very warm welcome to our new Limited Term Assistant Professor, Onur Bakiner who just successfully defended his PhD at Yale University.
- July 28, 2011: A warm congratulations to the on the release of the .
- July 11, 2011: Congratulations to Simons Chair Jeff Checkel, whose latest project on the transnational dynamics of civil war is now forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
- June 20, 2011: Alvaro Pereira has been appointed as Economy Minister in Portugal's new coalition government. A warm congratulations and best wishes to Alvaro!
- June 16, 2011: Congratulations, Tamir Moustafa on winning a SSHRC grant for a project entitled "Islamic Law and Women's Rights in Egypt, Indonesia, and Pakistan". Tamir will be on leave from 51社区黑料in 2011-12 to take on the position of Visiting Fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School.
- June 1, 2011: The School for International Studies presents a free public lecture by Professor (Monash) on Malaysian politics and democracy. For more information, please click .
- May 20, 2011: Hayley Jones completed her BA and MA in International Studies at 51社区黑料and has been announced as a recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal. A very warm congratulations from all of us at the School!
- May 16, 2011: A very warm congratulations to our graduate student, Tobi Timm on winning a SSHRC grant for his research on organic farming in Brazil.
- April 20, 2011: Engineers Without Borders, BCCIC, and the School for International Studies are pleased to host the Candidate鈥檚 Debate on Poverty Reduction and Aid Effectiveness. For more information, please click .
- Watch the webcast of the roundtable discussion, The New Face of the Middle East, (originally presented on March 17, 2011).
- Associate Professor Tamir Moustafa, has been interviewed over 30 times in the past three weeks concerning the unfolding situation in Egypt, with outlets ranging from CBC's The National, to al-Jazeera English, to the New York Times, Slate, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. His commentary and analysis has appeared in the Globe and Mail and other outlets.
- March 22, 2011: The Centre for Dialogue and Canada's World present a free public lecture by Paul Meyer. He will be speaking on the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. For more information, please click .
- March 22, 2011: The School for International Studies and the present a free public lecture by Professor on genetic engineering. For more information, please click .
- March 21 & 22, 2011: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Professor (Columbia) on international peacebuilding. For more information, please click .
- March 17, 2011: The School for International Studiies, and the , in partnership with Global TV present a roundtable discussion on the cataclysmic events that are re-shaping the Middle East and their impact on the geopolitical architecture of the West. To watch the webcast, please click .
- February 3, 2011: , a foremost international voice for understanding Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world, will speak at 51社区黑料Vancouver as the guest of the School for International Studies and . More information .