IIS Awards 11 Students with Undergraduate Merit Scholarships for Spring 2019
Awarded students come from ten different academic departments and will travel to six countries across four continents to conduct research on international studies next semester.
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Native/Immigrant/Refugee: Crossings in a Transnational World
Explores the interrelationships of the categories “native,” “immigrant,” and “refugee” at a time of tightening borders. Organized by Beth Piatote (Native American Studies) and Leti Volpp (Law).
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Hidden Living Landscapes
Conversations on nature, culture, knowledge, resilience and loss in the Andes of South America, led by Christine Hastorf (Anthropology) and Lisa Trever (Art History).
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Seeing Like A Valley: Studying The Global Impacts Of Silicon Valley's Moral Visions
Seeks to understand the role Silicon Valley plays in shaping not just new technologies but moral visions, and how moral visions are ‘exported’ alongside technologies.
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Water Management: Past and Future Adaptation
Both the developed and developing world confront intensifying impacts on rivers and other water resources. This seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach to these challenges by examining how societies have adapted to variability in the past and considers the tools we have to manage future variability in river flows and sediment loads.
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Law And History: Transnational And Comparative Perspectives
Organized by Stephanie Jones-Rogers (History), David Lieberman (Law), Rebecca McLennan (History) and Christopher Tomlins (Law), goals of this interdisciplinary faculty program are to enhance and better coordinate the large body of campus research that connects law and history.
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