February 26, 2010
Global business leader N.R. Narayana Murthy, considered to be one of the fathers of India’s information technology revolution, will deliver an Ogden Lecture on Monday, March 1. His lecture, titled “Global Economic Future and the Role of Indian IT,” will address India’s national strides, its powerful new international position, and the role technology has played.
February 23, 2010
There is no “global sweet spot” when it comes to determining the right type and level of bank regulation in the wake of the recent financial crisis, according to Institute Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth. And yet, “This one-size-fits-all presumption concerning regulation seems to have been accepted by regulators and commentators as a necessary background condition for reform, swaddled under the idea of fair competition and ‘level playing fields,’” he said in a recently co-authored response on the Financial Times’ op-ed page.
February 23, 2010
Economist Magazine is hosting a six-day debate between Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Brown Economics Professor Ross Levine, director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance.
February 18, 2010
The migration of Moldovan women to Turkey has helped the migrants forge new identities as workers, consumers, and mothers, according to Leyla Keough, an anthropologist at Bridgewater State College. At the same time it has caused social tension due to the shifting gender roles back in the Moldovan villages, she said this month in a lecture on “‘Driven Women': Gendered Moral Economies of New Migrations to Turkey.”
February 17, 2010
The traditional space between the public and private is disappearing, a phenomenon increasingly reflected not only in international relations but in literature as well, according to Sir Salman Rushdie, who gave a wide-ranging lecture Tuesday evening on "Public Events, Private Lives: Literature, and Politics in the Modern World."
February 15, 2010
World-renowned author Sir Salman Rushdie will give a lecture at Brown titled "Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World" on Tuesday, February 16, at 5:30pm.
February 12, 2010
Read Jonathan Mendel's Watsonblog on the documentary Generation Jihad and its estimate of the size of the Islamist terrorist threat.
February 12, 2010
In the runup to the screening of the Human Terrain documentary in San Antonio earlier this week, the Current and Express newspapers published interviews with co-producer James Der Derian, an Institute professor. "We tried to bring out of the shadows a program that is having a profound impact on American academics working with the military,” Der Derian told the Express.
February 4, 2010
A screening of the new Human Terrain documentary will take place during the International Studies Association’s annual convention this month in New Orleans, as Watson Institute researchers and their work are featured throughout the program.
February 3, 2010
Brown faculty examined South Asia's might and fractures – from thriving Bollywood to ethnic strife in Sri Lanka – during a panel last semester on "South Asia Rising."
February 2, 2010
The story of international law over the past century is being retold through the lens of its relationship to religion, by a new Religion and Internationalism Project launched last year by Nathaniel Berman, the Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture.
January 29, 2010
America will not take second place to its competitors in the global economy, President Obama said this week – a statement perhaps more patriotic than realistic, according to Institute Professor James Der Derian. Today, “nation-states aren’t as powerful in calling the shots, particularly in the global economy. No one nation-state can now determine these incredible spasms and tidal waves that ripple through the system … and to claim that we have control over the international arena has an illusionary component to it,” he said in an NPR interview analyzing Obama’s State of the Union Address.
January 28, 2010
"As war goes virtual and cultural in the name of justice, unintended and tragic consequences result," Professor James Der Derian said in a recent keynote address and video presentation on "The Culture, Technology, and Ethics of Virtuous War." Drawing on research from his Human Terrain and Virtuous War projects, Der Derian critiqued US counter-insurgency and counter-terror strategies that use "military cultural awareness" and "high-tech warfare" to resolve the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. His address was given at the Contemporary Dilemmas in Canadian Security Lecture Series hosted by York University in Ontario.
January 28, 2010
The Watson community is remembering with fondness and gratitude the life and service of Sen. Charles McCurdy (Mac) Mathias Jr., a past board member who has died at the age of 87.
January 27, 2010
How should development in the Global South be conducted in a “post-neoliberal” world where free-market economic policies have run their course? In a special issue of the Institute-based journal, Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID), scholars address this question through critical and comparative lenses.
January 27, 2010
Brown’s Choices Program has developed an online lesson for high school students, The Haitian Crisis: Thinking Historically. Through video, audio, and other media, it challenges students to think beyond Haiti's recent earthquake, consider the role of the country’s rich history in the current crisis, and think about global influences in long term reconstruction.
January 27, 2010
Recipients of Watson Institute summer fellowships presented their research at the Institute last semester, sharing with audiences the challenges and successes of international engagement. Though their projects varied greatly in regional and thematic focus, students agreed that their research will shape their future endeavors at Brown and beyond.
January 26, 2010
Read the new Development Studies Newsletter to learn about the concentration, spring semester courses, fellowship opportunities, and more.
January 20, 2010
Find updates on the Brown community's response to disaster in Haiti.
January 19, 2010
Brown faculty members are invited to apply for grants supporting summer undergraduate research assistantships to work on new media components of research on global issues. The application deadline is March 15 for this summer's AT&T New Media Research Assistantships.