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Psycholinguistic signals of terrorist attacks December 24, 2024 Natasha K. Mather Michael D. Young Shilpa Hanchinal a Department of History, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USAb Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USAc Leadership Analysis and Influence Operations Laboratory(LA/IO), Albany, NY, USA
Predictors of terrorist use of suicide attacks: group age and state power December 22, 2024 Samuel K. Goldenberg Independent Scholar, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Do not disarm, integrate: simultaneous inclusive conditions for successful integration December 22, 2024 Rula Jabbour Abigail Cawley a Nebraska Deterrence Lab, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USAb Amnesty International USA Human Rights Development Department, Lincoln, NE, USA
Beyond terrorist attacks: the impact of jihadist non-state actors on foreign policy December 17, 2024 Addison K. Emig Michael J. Schumacher a Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville ,USAb Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA
The radical Westernization of the European far right and the role of the Organisation Armée Secrète during the Algerian War December 15, 2024 Nicola Guerra Faculty of Humanities, Italian Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Budapest, George Soros, and the power of ethnic mobilization

Central European Univ.

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 […]

Jonathan Hyman, Cultural Envoy

Muslim woman with 9/11 mural in Brooklyn. Photograph by Jonathan Hyman.

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 […]

Can Israel stay in the Middle East? Ian Lustick speaks on Sept. 22

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

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Jonathan Hyman, new associate director

Acclaimed photographer Jonathan Hyman has joined the Asch Center as an associate director. Jonathan is exploring the role of visual culture in the context of ethnic conflict. He has many exciting ideas for collaboration, and with his help, we will soon begin featuring the work of visual artists on our web site. A documentary film […]

Asch featured in Bryn Mawr’s Alumnae Bulletin

The August 2008 edition of the Alumnae Bulletin includes an article about Asch’s move to Bryn Mawr College. The article mentions current projects like the speaker series, and visiting scholar Muhammed Fani’s book-in-progress on the emergence of religious radicalism in Pakistan. Our plans for the future include bringing postdoctoral fellows with recent experience in conflict […]

Mellon Grant for Asch Seminar Series

We are proud to announce that the 2008-2009 Asch Center Seminar Series will be supported by a Seed Grant from the Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum.

Anti-immigrant violence in S. Africa: Marc Ross on NPR

On June 2nd, NPR’s Bryant Park Project news show featured Marc Ross discussing recent violence in South Africa against immigrants from Zimbabwe and other neighboring countries.

Follow the link below to read a summary and listen to the interview. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91054504

Misreading the Arab Media

Jeremy Ginges, currently at the New School for Social Research, coauthored an op-ed piece in the New York Times on opinions of Arab journalists. Far from being our enemies, Arab journalists could be among the “most powerful weapons in the war of ideas against terrorism” according to the authors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/opinion/25pintak.html? _r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka: A multipolar approach

An excerpt from Asoka Bandarage’s new book, The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Broadening the Discourse (Routledge) was recently published in the Harvard International Review. Bandarage is professor at Georgetown University. The Sri Lankan Conflict A Multi-Polar Approach By Asoka Bandarage http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1725/

Roy Eidelson video: Resisting the drums of war

A posting onThe Situationist website featured a video created by Roy Eidelson. According to Eidelson, our “Five Core Concerns” are easy targets for leaders wishing to sway public opinion. He explains how how awareness of core concerns can help us to “recognize, counter and resist the appeals of warmongers.” To view the video on Eidelson’s […]

Published by the University of Texas Press the book features 100 of Hyman's photographs and six critical essays that depict and discuss the emotional aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks -- a time when people from all walks of life created and encountered memorials to those who were murdered. Vernacular art appeared almost everywhere—on walls, trees, playgrounds, vehicles, houses, tombstones, and even on bodies. This outpouring of grief and other acts of remembrance impelled photographer Jonathan Hyman to document and preserve these largely impermanent, spontaneous expressions. This book, a unique archive of 9/11 public memory, is the result of his compiling a collection of 20,000 photographs, along with field notes and personal interviews. For more information about the book or to purchase it, visit the book's page at Amazon or Facebook.

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