News

February 2009

February 17th 2009
SSRC.org interviews Alex de Waal about the challenges of aiding children in AIDS-afflicted countries.
February 13th 2009
Lila Abu-Lughod and Saba Mahmood hold conversation on Women, Islam and the West discussion at Grace Cathedral, sponsored by the SSRC
February 13th 2009
Editorial in The Lancet touts findings of Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS.
February 6th 2009
SSRC Board member Gilles Kepel outlines challenges Obama faces in the Middle East, in this video interview.
February 6th 2009
Sarah Burd-Sharps is interviewed on WLBT in Jackson, Mississippi about human development in the state (video)
February 6th 2009
Alex de Waal to serve as president of new International Association of Humanitarian Studies
February 3rd 2009
Lee Sigal proposes a series of quid pro quos that the Obama administration should offer to North Korea.
February 2nd 2009
Stimulating U.S. economy will also help remake America, observes Craig Calhoun.

January 2009

January 30th 2009
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center releases preliminary findings of SSRC-sponsored study of hate speech on conservative talk radio
January 30th 2009
Craig Calhoun comments on the social agenda within Obama’s stimulus package in interview with NPR’s Liz Halloran
January 27th 2009
de Waal’s “Making Sense of Darfur” is necessary reading for Heba Aly, recipient of travel grant from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
January 27th 2009
Robert Bellah’s essay on Obama for “The Immanent Frame” excerpted in America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
January 27th 2009
Measure of America co-author Kristen Lewis interviewed on WBAI’s “Talkbalk”
January 26th 2009
NYTimes covers Mannahatta, an ecological history of Manhattan developed by SSRC-VAI fellow Eric Sanderson
January 12th 2009
On The Immanent Frame, Robert Bellah embraces Obama’s concern for the “common good.”
January 11th 2009
Israeli political sociologist Avishai Ehriich talks to SSRC.org about how the conflict in Gaza typifies modern warfare.
January 9th 2009
Measure of America is The Globalist’s #1 on “Favorite Books of 2008” list
January 8th 2009
Experts Available for Interviews on Hemingway’s Cuba Papers
January 6th 2009
Bell Tolls for Hemingway’s Papers, and SSRC Answers
January 5th 2009
Chronicle of Higher Education cites SSRC’s essay forum on the Minerva controversy in news item on first Minerva grants (23 Dec 2008)