News & Announcements Archive

2021 Pier Larson Prize Winner Announced

2021 Pier Larson Prize Winner Announced

Congratulations to Lindsay Ofori, the inaugural winner of the Pier Larson Prize for All-Around Achievement in International Studies. Lindsay is a 2021 graduate of Homewood and a member of the […]

International Studies Program Endorses Statement on Anti-Asian Violence

EAS, RIC & WGS Joint Statement on Anti-Asian Violence and the Killing of Asian Women in Atlanta (Program in East Asian Studies; Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship, and the […]

IS Students Vie for Attention of the DHS in Nationwide Competition

IS Students Vie for Attention of the DHS in Nationwide Competition

Five International Studies students are participating in a virtual Invent2Prevent competition to propose solutions to Targeted Violence & Terrorism (TVT) in the United States. Their team of 20 undergraduates will […]

Eric Tagliacozzo Talks One Thousand Years of the Sino-Southeast Asian Embrace

On January 29, 2021, Eric Tagliacozzo, the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University, gave a talk entitled “Blue-Water Horizon: One Thousand Years of the Sino-Southeast Asian Embrace.” Dr. […]

ISLC Guest Speaker Talks the Legacy of U.S. Military Supremacy

ISLC Guest Speaker Talks the Legacy of U.S. Military Supremacy

The International Studies Leadership Council held its first Speakers event of the Spring on February 10th with Dr. Stephen Wertheim, Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft […]

Beyond the Ballot: A Post-Election Discussion

Beyond the Ballot: A Post-Election Discussion

The International Studies Leadership Council concluded its Fall speaker series, “The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy,” on November 9th with an event hosting Scott Warren, Agora Fellow […]

2020 Election and Future of American Democracy talks Women in Politics

2020 Election and Future of American Democracy talks Women in Politics

The International Studies Leadership Council (ISLC) conducted their second event in the fall speaker series The 2020 Election and Future of American Democracy on October 6. Guest speaker and former […]

ISRI Research Panel

The International Studies Research Initiative (ISRI), a committee within the International Studies Leadership Council (ISLC), held their first workshop of the semester on September 24. A panel comprised of students […]

The 2020 Election and Future of American Democracy: Russian Election Interference

The 2020 Election and Future of American Democracy: Russian Election Interference

The International Studies Leadership Council held its first event of the 2020 Election Speaker Series with Scott Shane, a journalist and author who spent 15 years covering national security and other […]

ISLC Summer Speaker Series: Racism and Mass Incarceration in the U.S.

ISLC Summer Speaker Series: Racism and Mass Incarceration in the U.S.

The ISLC and the Department of Political Science held a virtual discussion on Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th and the article “Political Consequences of the Carceral State” by Professor Vesla Weaver […]