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- September 24th 2013Tenured humanities and social sciences faculty: the DPDF Faculty Field Competition closes in one week (applications due October 1) →
- September 23rd 2013The Inter-Asia Program has posted the schedule for its upcoming Conference on Inter-Asian Connections IV: Istanbul (October 2-5, 2013), featuring public sessions as well as closed workshops →
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- September 10th 2013The Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS Program's publication The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century is now available as a free download from UNESCO [PDF] →
- September 10th 2013Forbes reviews 22 Ideas to Fix the World, out today from NYU Press/SSRC →
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Featured Essays
- October 1st 2013Kujenga Amani launches Radar, a feature section on breaking events, with “The Westgate Mall Siege: Reassessing Kenya’s Security Architecture,” by Awino Okech, advisory board member for the African Peacebuilding Network →
- September 26th 2013Read about practices of prayer in Quebec in "Wayside Crosses," by Hillary Kaell, the latest essay in the Reverberations Materiality of Prayer series →
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February 2011
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- Program Director Richard Arum interviewed on NPR about Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses →
October 2010
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- “Academically Adrift,” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s book on findings from the CLA Longitudinal Study, to be released January 18, 2011 →
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