As a resource to the ICLS community, we provide this space to disseminate announcements of interest. Here you will find recognition of achievements and academic program reminders.
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Rashid Khalidi reviewed two new books on Edward Said’s life and legacy for The Nation
May 5, 2020
News Category: Achievements
May 5, 2020
News Category: Achievements
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Farah Jasmine Griffin published a forum response in the Boston Review
June 22, 2020
News Category: Topics of Interest
June 22, 2020
News Category: Topics of Interest
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak mentioned in Washington Post blog about the criminal justice class post-pandemic
June 22, 2020
News Category: Topics of Interest
June 22, 2020
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak interviewed on challenges of COVID-19 crisis by Armenian Member of Parliament
June 22, 2020
News Category: Topics of Interest
June 22, 2020
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Joseph Slaughter discusses third world efforts to decolonize cultural policy at UNESCO in the 1970s and 80s in Boundary 2 Review
June 10, 2020
News Category: Achievements
June 10, 2020
News Category: Achievements
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Marianne Hirsch receives Inaugural 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award
May 7, 2020
News Category: Achievements
May 7, 2020
News Category: Achievements
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Pamela H. Smith delivered keynote lecture at the Metropolitan Science research project
April 6, 2020
News Category: Achievements
April 6, 2020
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne speaks on RFI about social inequality and the COVID-19 crisis
April 9, 2020
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April 9, 2020
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ICLS DGS Brent Edwards selected as member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 30, 2020
News Category: Achievements
April 30, 2020
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Nadia Urbinati interviewed in Business Insider Italia on the ruling class, media, and electoral politics in Italy
May 16, 2020
News Category: Achievements
May 16, 2020
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Mark Mazower reviewed two books on the Habsburg Empire in Financial Times
June 16, 2020
News Category: Achievements
June 16, 2020
News Category: Achievements
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Farah Jasmine Griffin published a forum response in the Boston Review
May 21, 2020
News Category: Achievements
May 21, 2020
News Category: Achievements
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Samuel K. Roberts on NBC News on African Americans and reopening the US after social distancing
May 7, 2020
News Category: Achievements
May 7, 2020
News Category: Achievements
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