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 […]
Do questions of justice, power, and representation matter to you? Are you interested in exploring the 2024 election and the multiple issues at stake? Come learn about opportunities in Washington, D.C. for all students and all majors. This information session will cover internships, volunteer, research and other opportunities including the new Hopkins Semester D.C. which is […]
Gender-based violence and harassment at work (workplace GBVH) is a global, complex and intractable issue that impacts millions of workers’ lives. In Cambodia, unions – both local and international – have also attempted to influence policy, promote law reform and strengthen law enforcement, and raise awareness about the need to combat GBVH. Michele Ford from the University […]
Yoonkyung Lee, Department of Sociology & Center for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto, will discuss the question of changing protest methods of labor contention in neoliberal Korea, and asks what explains the emergence of extreme repertoires in labor movements in times of institutionalized democracy and capitalist affluence. Her study suggests a move beyond […]