Come learn about the SAIS Summer Academies in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC, and the SAIS Direct Admissions Program! Lunch will be provided. SAIS Summer Academy courses introduce students to the challenges of international conflict analysis, management and resolution. Students will build practical skillsets through excursions, case studies on peacekeeping and peacebuilding, debates on intervention, […]
Book Talk: Disorienting Politics mines 21st-century media artifacts to make visible the economic, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of China and the United States. These “Chimerican media,” originating in America but circulating beyond national boundaries, co-create the figure of rising China and demonstrate the ways in which race is embedded in geopolitics evenwhen the subject […]
2022 has been the year of the greatest number of legal cases relating to climate. These cases range from efforts to prevent the expansion of fossil fuel and petrochemical extraction to challenges to government for their continued inaction in regulating companies and holding them accountable. Notable among these legal actions is the 2021 case won by Friends […]
Register here to attend the film screening and discussion of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World). We will host a 2-D screening of the film and a discussion and Q&A with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Dr. Sylvia Frain. Food and drinks will be provided at the end of the event. Dr. Jamaica […]
Book Talk – Affective Spaces as Method: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China East Asia is saturated with complex emotions. Although emotions play an essential role in the sociopolitical formations of the region, their implications are poorly understood. Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press) explains why and how emotions create […]
This panel brings JHU Middle East experts Steven David (Political Science) and Adria Lawrence (SAIS & Political Science) together to discuss the Hamas-Israel war in the broader context of Middle East history and politics. Co-sponsored by the Intenational Studies Leadership Council and the student groups IDEAL and Alexander Hamilton Society, the event will provide a […]
Join the International Studies Leadership Council for a study break during reading period. Come decorate festive holiday cookies and enjoy hot chocolate and apple cider.
Are you a foreign language learner earning a BA, BS or PhD degree in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences? Are you a United States citizen or U.S. national? If both conditions apply, you may be eligible for a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to advance your language training and skills. FLAS Fellowships […]
Come learn about the SAIS Summer Academies in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC! SAIS Summer Academy courses introduce students to the challenges of crafting national security strategies (DC) and international conflict analysis, management and resolution (Bologna). Students will build practical skillsets through excursions, case studies, debates, guest speakers, and role-playing exercises. Students will earn 4 graduate […]
Despite over seventy years of international collaboration, two UN organizations tasked with its amelioration, thousands of NGOs and INGOs, and countless academic experts, we continue to fail, mightily, at efforts to achieve global hunger targets. In this talk, Dr. Michelle Jurkovich, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, turns a […]
Perhaps the greatest challenge in preparing Singapore for independence was defining and assigning citizenship to its highly heterogeneous populations, a challenge magnified by the entrepot’s majority of ethnic Chinese residents and its uncertain political relationship to Malaya. Affixing citizenship rights would determine balances of power in these future, presumably democratic, multiracial states and required the […]
A recent reproductive crisis has brought renewed interest in the century-old “family problem” (家庭问题) and “women’s problem” (妇女问题). Related issues have not only been debated in the discursive field, but also informed cross-border fields such as social policymaking and the law. Intrigued by questions such as why the state calls for increasing reproductivity have met […]