Celebrating the legacy of renowned Iranian film scholar Hamid Naficy
May 27, 2022 – from Northwestern NOW
2022
May
Putin Is Failing in Ukraine, But Winning in Georgia: new article co-authored by Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly
May 24, 2022 – from The Bulwark
“This is a war with global implications”: radio interview with REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse on the Ukraine war
May 11, 2022 – from WLS-AM 890 Radio
“It’s very difficult to see how you could get a negotiated solution at this point,” Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly says of the Ukraine war
May 11, 2022 – from Associated Press
MENA graduate student Lauren Baker publishes paper on the “sanitization of garbage politics”
May 10, 2022 – from The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)
April
LACS Program faculty affiliate Ana Arjona named a 2022-2023 Kaplan Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow
April 28, 2022 – from Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
LACS Program faculty affiliate James Mahoney elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 28, 2022 – from Northwestern NOW
Radio interview with Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly on the war in Ukraine
April 27, 2022 – from The 21st Show (Illinois Public Media)
New book by LACS Program faculty affiliate Jesús Escobar on Spanish urban history and architecture
April 27, 2022 – from Penn State University Press
Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly interviewed about Western policy toward Ukraine/Russia
April 25, 2022 – from National Post (Canada)
Ambasssador-in-Residence Ian Kelly interviewed on the "second phase" of the Ukraine war
April 21, 2022 – from Chicago Tonight (PBS)
Amid Russia’s ongoing invasion, Northwestern finds ways to support Ukrainian students and scholars
April 20, 2022 – from Northwestern NOW
LACS faculty affiliate Claudio Benzecry interviewed on BBC Radio about his new book The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry
April 20, 2022 – from BBC Radio 4
MENA faculty member Shirin Vossoughi honored with 2022 University Teaching Award
April 15, 2022 – from Northwestern School of Education & Social Policy
March
Ukraine is on the front line in the global struggle for democracy, argue REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse & Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly
March 30, 2022 – from Chicago Tribune
REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse quoted in CNN report on Trump, Ukraine and Putin
March 26, 2022 – from CNN
Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly interviewed on the NATO summit and President Biden's meetings in Europe
March 26, 2022 – from NewsNation
LACS faculty affiliate Lina Britto interviewed about her book Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
March 18, 2022 – from Historias Podcast (Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies)
REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse explains the structure of Russia's oligarchy and what international sanctions mean for Putin's war in Ukraine
March 14, 2022 – from FOX 32 News
REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse argues for changing the unilateral authority of the president to launch nuclear attacks
March 12, 2022 – from THINK (NBC News)
“I can’t see this ending in any way good for Ukraine as long as Putin is in power,” Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly tells the AP
March 11, 2022 – from Associated Press
New article by Colloquium on Refugees, Migrants and Statelessness Director Galya Ben-Arieh on the “criminalization of kindness” and narrative tools of global migration management
March 10, 2022 – from Third World Quarterly
REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse on how the Ukraine war is reverberating in Chicago & how food reveals deep Russian-Ukrainian ties
March 10, 2022 – from Chicago Tribune
Interview with Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly on how to protect Ukrainian civilians
March 9, 2022 – from Illinois Public Media
REEES Director Jordan Gans-Morse quoted in article on the obstacles standing in the way of Putin’s plans for Ukraine
March 9, 2022 – from Newsweek
LACS faculty affiliate Mary Weismantel's book Playing with Things wins the 2022 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award
March 7, 2022 – from Association for Latin American Art
75 Years of European Foreign Policy ‘Changed Overnight’: Interview with Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly
March 4, 2022 – from The Gallup Podcast
Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies Research Program director Jordan Gans-Morse interviewed about the Russia/Ukraine crisis
March 2, 2022 – from Chicago Reader
Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly on the geopolitical fallout of Putin's Ukraine gambit
March 2, 2022 – from NBC News
Professor Jorge Coronado awarded a Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin
March 2, 2022 – from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences News Center
February
Op-Ed by WCCIAS Director Ian Hurd on Russia and the United Nations Security Council
February 28, 2022 – from Chicago Tribune
BBC interviews Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly on Russia's war on Ukraine
February 27, 2022 – from BBC World News
Ambassador in Residence Ian Kelly discusses Putin's attack on Ukraine, the West's response & the outlook for Russia's economy following tougher sanctions
February 24, 2022 – from Yahoo Finance Live
Jordan Gans-Morse, director of the Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies Research Program, interviewed on the Ukraine crisis
February 23, 2022 – from NBC Chicago
Article co-authored by Ambassador in Residence Ian Kelly on Putin, Ukraine, and the Russian “sphere of influence”
February 22, 2022 – from The Bulwark
New article by MENA faculty member Jessica Winegar: “The Continued Search for Dignity and the Allure of Authoritarian Aesthetics”
February 22, 2022 – from Social Science Research Council
“The Translator,” new feature film directed by MENA faculty affiliate Rana Kazkaz, takes viewers into the heart of “the Syrian dilemma”
February 7, 2022 – from The Markaz Review
Artist & MENA faculty member Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition “re-appears” missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq
February 7, 2022 – from The Markaz Review
MENA faculty member Wendy Pearlman discusses her book-in-progress on home & belonging in Yale Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement & Humanitarian Responses series
February 4, 2022 – from Yale Daily News
LACS faculty affiliate Jorge Coronado is a co-editor of and contributor to the new issue of the journal Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
February 4, 2022 – from Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
January
Visiting Scholar Divesh Kaul on the social fallout the developing world is going through as a result of the COVID pandemic
January 31, 2022 – from The Leaflet (India)
Article by Ambassador in Residence Ian Kelly on how the US should respond to the Russia/Ukraine crisis
January 28, 2022 – from The Bulwark
Ambassador in Residence Ian Kelly interviewed on Chicago Tonight about the Ukraine/Russia crisis
January 25, 2022 – from Chicago Tonight (PBS)