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- May 13th 2013"The Ivory Tower in Cyberspace: Is Internet Publishing Publishing?": NDSP grantee Norris Chumley (2012) discusses SSRC Forums The Immanent Frame, Reverberations, and Frequencies as "creditable sources of scholarly research" in an article for the Huffington Post →
- May 6th 2013Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance: new book by Abe Fellow Hirokazu Miyazaki (1998) examines the decline of high finance through the lens of Japan in the 1990s and early 2000s (University of California Press) →
- 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 →
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- May 15th 2013"How North Korea Evades Financial Sanctions": Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project director Leon Sigal writes for 38 North, a program of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS, Johns Hopkins →
- April 16th 2013"In Korea, Overheated War Rhetoric Obscures Real Dangers": Leon Sigal of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project writes for the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory →
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- May 16th 2013New essay at Kujenga Amani suggests historical connections between contemporary conflicts: "Congolese Crisis and Demographic Problems in the African Great Lakes," by Guy Aundu Matsanza →
- April 10th 2013New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Tanya Luhrmann (2012) opens her series of guest op-eds for the New York Times with "How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect" →
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July 2011
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- Seteney Shami and Holly Danzeisen share faculty reactions to international education budget cuts in Items & Issues →
June 2011
- June 24th 2011
- Deadline for Training Awards in Higher Education and Social Inequality in Egypt proposal submissions extended to July 6th [.docx] →
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- Program Director Seteney Shami named founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) →
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- New on The Immanent Frame: Craig Calhoun and others respond to recent reversal in case of Tariq Ramadan. →
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- Craig Calhoun makes statement against the Egyptian government’s new attack on sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim. →
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