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Psychology in Sri Lanka Moves Forward
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In 2003, the Asch Center sponsored a month-long conference for teachers of psychology in Sri Lanka, at the beautiful University of Peradeniya. Last November, the University was the setting
for a conference organized by Sri Lankan psychologists that brought together psychologists, students, university officials, members of the community (including [...]
Major General Muniruzzaman, former Chief of Staff in Bangladesh, speaks to David Frost on political and security issues in South Asia. The interview begins at 5:30 on the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmfjYMpkB8
We’re adding a new link to our list: the new website of Swarthmore’s Peace and Conflict Studies program. The PCS coordinator is Asch affiliate Lee Smithey, who will be speaking at the Asch Seminar on April 6th, 2009. Here’s the description from their homepage.
At levels from the interpersonal to the global, the Peace and Conflict [...]
Kurt Schock (Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
Monday, November 24, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
Scheuer Room
Kohlberg Hall
Swarthmore College
Prof. Kurt Schock <http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Esocant/kurt.htm> is
author of /Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in
Nondemocracies/ (University of Minnesota Press). “He is currently
researching land reform and land rights movements in the global south.
He is examining how various methods of civil resistance, such as protest
marches [...]
Haverford College is seeking a faculty member at the rank of advanced assistant professor or above for a tenure-track position in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights/Peace and Conflict Studies (PJHR/PCS) to start in the fall of 2009. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a social science discipline with an area studies focus and a proven [...]
Asch Seminar, Monday October 20th
Asch Co-Director Clark McCauley will give a brief introduction to opportunities in Budapest’s new Central European University, followed by three answers to the question: Why is no one ready to die for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union?
The Asch seminar is held at Bryn Mawr College, in Bettws-y-coed 239, at 4pm.
Directions: [...]
Our Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives is going on a 3 week lecture tour in Europe to lecture on various topics concerning visual culture, contemporary American popular culture, memory, and the American response to the 9/11 attacks. He will be meeting with students and faculty at European universities in large lecture format [...]
Ian Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Chair of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss his new paper:
ABANDONING THE IRON WALL:
ISRAEL AND “THE MIDDLE EASTERN MUCK”
MIDDLE EAST POLICY, VOL. XV, NO. 3, FALL 2008