Category Archives: News and announcements

The Program in Film Studies
at Bryn Mawr College
welcomes
Etelle Higonnet

executive producer
WEAPON
a film about sexual violence and War Crimes in Cote d’Ivoire
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Carpenter B21
4-6pm

Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes

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 rituals, or film–regularly produce divisive and sometimes [...]

Children and War Conference: April 3-5, 2009

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University–Camden is sponsoring an international conference on the topic of “Children and War” to be held April 3-5, 2009. Rutgers–Camden is a leader in the national and international discourse on the state of children and childhood both at home and internationally.
The impact of war and armed conflict on [...]

Apologies and International Reconciliation - Asch seminar Monday 3/23/09

Jennifer Lind
Dartmouth College
Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. Lind challenges the conventional wisdom by showing that many countries have been able to reconcile without much in the way of apologies or [...]

Marc Ross wins award for latest book

At the 2009 International Studies Association in New York, Marc Ross’s recent book, Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge University Press)  received the Best Book Award in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration from the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Studies Section.
Here is a link to the book on the publisher’s web site: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521690324

Kaufmann on partition

Chaim Kaufmann, from Lehigh University’s International Relations department, spoke at Asch on February 24th.  Here is a brief summary:
Academia, human rights organizations, and governments agree: partition is no solution to communal conflict. Indeed partition is just another name for ethnic cleansing   Chaim Kaufmann has a radically different view, based on years of study of dozens [...]

Political Radicalization: Are We Winning the War of Ideas Against Jihadi Terrorism?

President Jane Dammen McAuliffe
cordially invites you to a lecture by
The Rachel Hale Professor in
Science and Mathematics
Clark R. McCauley
“Political Radicalization:
Are We Winning the War of Ideas
Against Jihadi Terrorism?”
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
4 p.m.
Thomas 110 - Bryn Mawr College

Reception to follow in The London Room, Thomas Hall
Clark McCauley uses a pyramid model of radicalization to argue that sympathy [...]

Asch director Clark McCauley’s essay on the Psychology of Terrorism, for the Social Science Research Council, has recently been translated into Arabic by Abdullah Housein.

Chaim Kaufmann on Iraq after U.S. occupation

Expectations for what will happen if U.S. troops leave Iraq on schedule in 2011 range from a functioning federal Iraq to a client state of Iran to an even larger civil war to genocide. These expectations are based on different understandings of Iraq’s path from the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 [...]

Sri Lankan War Nears End, but Peace Remains Distant

Asch Summer Fellow Alan Keenan, who lives in Colombo and works for the International Crisis Group, is quoted in a February 18 New York Times article by Thomas Fuller.

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka — Just north of here, after a string of recent victories, the Sri Lankan military is closing in on separatist rebels in what it [...]

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