Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012: ‘Zahra’s Paradise’ is the new graphic novel by an Iranian-American author. He tells host Marco Werman how he created a webstrip based on the images streaming out of the Iranian protests in 2009. Listen to the full story at Soundcloud.com.
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Jacqueline Kingfield has won a Boren Fellowship for a year in India where she will be studying Urdu as part of completing her MALD degree at the Fletcher School.
Graduating senior Tiffany Castillo has won the Thomas F. Black Jr Memorial Scholarship of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. Tiffany will be attending Boston College Law School in the Fall.
Graduating senior Chloé Rousseau was awarded the Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship on April 15th. Chloé will be pursuing her master's in public health studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Fall.
Professor Almedom and her colleagues/students at the Fltecher School answer informal questions on the study of resilience and the details of publishing in the Resilience journal.
Eritrea and South Sudan have totally different histories of emergence as "Newest nation in Africa", first Eritrea, and now South Sudan. Yet, there are important lessons to be learned.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/resilience/current-issue.shtml Responses to the content are welcome as we prepare to re-launch the International Resilience Forum (IRF) where discussion will be facilitated. Contact: <john.parker@tufts.edu>
Astier Almedom offers a "Perspectives" article reflecting on the meanings of resilience with a focus on national security.
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs is a highly respected international journal run by accomplished students of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Ayron Strauch (G10) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on September 7th. Astier Almedom, Ayron's advisor, and Alana Kapust, DVM, Ayron's wife were pictured at the celebratory reception held in Barnum Hall.
Photo credit: Cary Strauch, Ayron's mother.
On October 23rd, Acting Together held the event "Join the Conversation" in the Granoff Music Building. "Join the Conversation" featured performances by groups Libana and Medicine Wheel, featuring Tufts Drama Professor Barbara Wallace Grossman as MC. The goal of the film screen, discussion and performances was to explore how performance arts can help community peace building efforts.
Acting Together documents the efforts of courageous...
This October, as one of its 25th anniversary events, the Institute for Global Leadership hosted a symposium on “Morality and the Mind: Cognitive Science and Politics” in collaboration with the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts.
Over the past decade, cognitive scientists have begun to address morality as an aspect of human cognition. Is morality an inborn capacity? How much can it be influenced by culture? How...
Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow cites the Institute for Global Leadership as a "unique program" at Tufts "which offers a whole series of opportunities for undergraduates to engage seriously with the rest of the world around a set of issues and problems" in an interview with Rahim Kanani, a master's candidate at the Harvard Divinity School.
According to Kanani, the interview was an in-depth discussion of "the evolution of...
