2012-2013 ASCH SEMINARS CANCELLED--TO BE RESCHEDULED
Monday 22 October 2012
"Helping Refugees and Displaced:
A Practitioner's View"
SHEPPIE GLASS ABRAMOWITZ BMC '57
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Monday 8 October 2012
"Eye-witness Reports of Collective Damage:
Using Social Psychology to Describe the Impacts
of Violence in Colombia"
ARACELI GARCIA DEL SOTO
Center for Peace and Global Citizenship
BMC Bettws-y-coed 127
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Monday 27 Feb 2012 4:15pm
"The Arab Spring in Syria:
Current Conflict and Future Scenarios"
MOSHE MAOZ
Professor (Emeritus) of Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
BMC Bettws-y-coed 239
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Monday 20 Feb 2012 4:15pm
"Introducing the United States Extremist Crime
Database (ECDB)"
JOSHUA FREILICH
Professor and Acting Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Criminal Justice, John Jay College, City Univ of NY
BMC Carpenter 21
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Monday 30 Jan 2012 4:15pm
"Narrative and Reconciliation in
the Karabakh Conflict"
RAUF GARAGOZOV
Leading Research Fellow
Center for Strategic Studies
Baku, Azerbaijan
BMC Carpenter 21
Exposure Index Tired of paper and pencil questionnaires about integration and intergroup contact? Try the new and improved EXPOSURE INDEX (click tab above on this page).
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Elspeth Van Veeren
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations Convenor, Post-Structural Politics Working Group of the British International Studies Association
Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAST), Department of Politics, University of Copenhagen
DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Department of International Relations, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex Arts B380(B), Brighton BN1 9SJ, United Kingdomevanveeren@globalmatter.org
e.vanveeren@sussex.ac.uk Twitter: @ellievisions Web: www.globalmatter.org sussex.academia.edu/ElspethVanVeeren
In the [...]
Past, present, and future of drones for military, police, and private use will be the focus of text and visual contributions to the Drones Project. Opening soon.
Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko announce their new book with Oxford University Press
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us (click for Oxford University Press web site)
The book identifies twelve mechanisms of radicalization nested in three levels– individuals, small groups, and mass publics– and shows these mechanisms at work in People’s Will [...]
Diasporas in Home Country Politics
Notice the new section of the Asch web site! “Diasporas in Home Country Politics” is the new tab at the top of the Asch home page.
Diasporas have been studied for their effects on the economics, politics, and culture of their host countries, usually Western countries. Much less attention has [...]
An interview with Boris Berezovsky explores the political uses of ethnopolitical conflict in Russia. The dynamics referred to in the interview are interesting whatever you think about its accuracy. The interview was translated from Russian by Sophia Moskalenko; translator’s notes appear in brackets. Freedom Radio is a private non-profit news media financed by the U.S. Congress. It transmits to over twenty countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucus, and Central Asia. [...]
The theme for the 2009-2010 Asch seminars is Visual Culture and Conflict. To kick off the new series, Associate Director and Documentary Photographer Jonathan Hyman will be speaking on Monday, September 14th, on public expressions in response to the 9/11 tragedy. Hyman’s 9/11 photographs have been exhibited at Ground Zero, at the National Constitution Center, [...]
Israel's "separation wall" in the West Bank. Photo by Marc Ross.
Asch affiliate Moshe Ma’oz, and his daughter, Asch visiting scholar Ifat Ma’oz, both have articles in this week’s edition of Common Ground News Service – Middle East. Click the links below to read the entire articles.
Solving the Palestinian refugee problem: Is the [...]
by Eranda Jayawickreme
There are good reasons to celebrate the Sri Lankan government’s final victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels last week. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were one of the most brutal and repressive terrorist organizations in the world, with a crypto-fascist ideology focused on the personality cult of their now-slain [...]
Photographer Melanie Blanding is Asch's first featured artist. Learn more by clicking on one of her images at right.
Asch’s newest project is up and running! Under the direction of Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives Jonathan Hyman, the Asch network is expanding to include photographers, fine artists and filmmakers exploring the [...]
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From cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper to displays of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina statehouse, acts of cultural significance have set off political conflicts and sometimes violence. These and other expressions and enactments of culture–whether in music, graffiti, sculpture, flag displays, parades, religious [...]
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CONFLICT AND VISUAL CULTURE PROJECT Click on any link to visit the artist's online gallery.
Elena Papanikolakis The Drone dream series is my first body of work using photographs together with mixed media. My aim is to create collages that evoke a dream-like acceptance of a scene that is resolved, yet uneasy. Using an interchanging creative process that relies on drone/automation, dream/randomness and moments of lucidity where key decisions are made, I cultivate the difference between what is concrete and what is in the mind. Drone/automation can infiltrate the creative process until a point when the artist/remote-controller takes over. Dream/randomness reflects the collision of imagery and sensory experiences in the mind, and an aesthetic that hinges on impossibility.
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