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- April 24th 2013Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, discusses escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula in "Better Understanding North Korea," a Q&A with the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog →
- April 22nd 2013Watch a video recording of the Eurasia Program’s webinar “Cultural Context and Measurement Validity in Comparative Survey Research," the latest in the Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasian Studies series →
- April 8th 2013Announcing the winners of the 2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship Photo Competition: single photos, self-portraits, and photo essays capturing the experience of IDRF Fellows abroad →
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April 2013
- April 23rd 2013
- Academia in the Public Sphere grantee Olivier Roy (2010) reflects on the recent Boston bombings in an interview with the New Republic →
August 2012
- August 27th 2012
- 2010 SSRC grantee Shiva Balaghi interviewed by McClatchy about US sanctions against Iran →
July 2012
- July 2nd 2012
- Read "How Egypt's Army Won," an op-ed for The New York Times by SSRC grantee Joshua Stacher →
June 2012
May 2012
- May 30th 2012
- Program director Tom Asher will be on a book panel discussing Foundations of the American Century with author Inderjeet Parmar, to be hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on May 31 →
- May 30th 2012
- As part of a partnership between UIUC and the International Herald Tribune, funded by the Academia in the Public Sphere Grants Program, nine journalism students are currently reporting from Turkey →
- May 1st 2012
- Read program director Tom Asher's talk "Comparative Perspectives on Crises in Higher Education in Africa and the United States," part of the Global Studies Distinguished Speaker Series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison →
September 2011
- September 29th 2011
- The Initiative on Academia & the Public Sphere recently hosted a conference in Berlin, titled The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Transformation and Renewal →
- September 20th 2011
- SSRC launches major new grants program on “New Directions in the Study of Prayer” →
- September 16th 2011
- Duke Islamic Studies Center (SSRC grantee) recently hosted a program for news reporters on "Muslims in America: The Next Ten Years" →
- September 14th 2011
- Ahlul Bayt, Iranian news agency, spotlights online course by SSRC grantee on "Covering Islam in America" →
August 2011
- August 31st 2011
- Listen to Lawrence Pintak, dean of SSRC grantee Washington State U. College of Communication, discuss the role of Qatar in Libya and the Arab world →
- August 5th 2011
- Listen to Pete W. Moore of Case Western Reserve University (SSRC Grantee) in "New Perspectives on the Middle East" for Northeast Ohio Public Radio →
July 2011
June 2011
- June 29th 2011
- NYT: Michael Cohen and Daniel Serwer discuss withdrawing from Afghanistan for Islam in Focus, a project funded by the SSRC →
- June 16th 2011
- Marc Lynch on the continued violence in Syria for The Middle East Channel (SSRC Grantee) →
- June 2nd 2011
- SSRC Grantee POMEPS extends deadline for Middle East travel grants. Deadline: June 10 →
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