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Monday December 17
Princeton University’s Brazil LAB is coordinating efforts to assist the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which lost offices, libraries and academic spaces in a fire on Sept. 2 at Brazil’s National Museum.
Thursday December 13
On Dec. 11, Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner, National Humanities Medal recipient, and author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration," spoke on human story of migration and reinvention, as well as the enduring search for the American dream as part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series.
Thursday December 06
Sambla balafon master Mamadou Diabate and his band Percussion Mania were invited by Florian Lionnet and the Princeton Program in Linguistics to give a concert in Taplin Auditorium.
Monday December 03
Princeton seniors Paul Greenbaum, Esham Macauley, Amanda Morrison and Rebekah Ninan have been named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Monday December 03
Ararat Gocmen, a 2017 Princeton alumnus, and seniors Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman and Myrial Holbrook have been named 2019 Marshall Scholars.
Friday November 30
In 2018, PIIRS launched the Swani Family Global Seminar in India, “Indian Democracy in Motion,” with Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the vice-chancellor of Ashoka University, in Sonipat, India, just outside the Delhi metropolitan area; this summer, the seminar — which examines the ways in which the workings of democracy has shaped and transformed constitutionalism, religion, the economy, caste and the city in India — will be offered again.
Thursday November 29
Julia Elyachar, associate professor of anthropology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), is teaching an undergraduate course this fall titled “Debt.”
Wednesday November 28
On Thursday, Nov. 15, students, faculty and staff gathered in Weickart Atrium for a cultural event and reception, featuring Brazilian musician Marcelo Noah, sponsored by the Brazil LAB and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). The event was held in conjunction with International Education Week.
Wednesday November 14
Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 2019 in the Holly and Henry Wendt, Class of 1955, Global Seminar “Documentary Filmmaking in Kenya: Techniques in Visual Storytelling on Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation,” undergraduates — some of whom have never before picked up a video camera — will be trained in digital video production, screenwriting and editing to produce short documentaries.
Monday November 12
Join Princeton’s international offices in celebration of the many benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. International Education Week is a nationwide initiative coordinated by the U.S. Department of state and the U.S. Department of Education.
IEW at Princeton is sponsored by the Davis International Center, the Office of International Programs, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Princeton in Africa, Princeton in Asia, Princeton in Latin America, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Monday November 12
In Shanghai, participants in the Peking Opera Immersion Program spent three weeks learning the history and artistry of the traditional Chinese performance art.
Thursday November 08
Stephen Kotkin, the John P. Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University and the director of Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), has won the seventeenth annual Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award for "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941," the second volume of a definitive biography of Joseph Stalin.
Monday October 08
World Politics (Volume 70, Issue 4) is available online.
Thursday September 27
On Sep. 20, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and the Brazil LAB (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies) hosted its inaugural colloquium, “The Future of Brazil: Economy and Society on the Eve of the 2018 Presidential Election."
Wednesday September 26
In the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Study (PIIRS) Global Seminar “Athens Now: Culture and Politics in the Urban Space,” students experienced the Greek capital’s thriving cultural scene and gained an understanding of Athens that goes beyond ancient ruins and Aristotle.
Thursday September 06
In a new paper recently published in Journal of Peace Research, Daniel Karell, assistant professor of social research and public policy at NYU Abu Dhabi and a 2017-2018 PIIRS Fung Fellow, argues that a key step in understanding how localized aid might affect violence is to consider how different types of aid projects impact local communities in different ways.
Tuesday June 19
A two-day conference, "A Year That Shook the World: European and Eurasian Responses to America’s Withdrawal," at Princeton University examined heightened tensions between the United States and Russia.
Thursday June 14
Deborah Yashar, editor of "World Politics" and professor of politics and international affairs and co-director of the Democracy and Development Project at Princeton University, and Carissa Tudor-Block, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative politics, reflect on gender and the editorial process at the journal in the May issue of "Political Science & Politics."
Tuesday June 12
Princeton seniors Zacharaiah DeGiulio and Wilglory Tanjong were named co-winners of the African Studies Senior Thesis Prize. Senior Ifeyinwa Ikpeazu was named honorable mention.
Monday June 11
Approximately 500 alumni and guests celebrated at Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies’ “Beers with PIIRS’ event at Reunions 2018.
Monday June 11
Princeton students Kyle Chan and Kaichen Gu have been named Mr. and Mrs. Yan Huo *94*95 Graduate Fellows.
Monday June 11
"Landowners and Democracy: The Social Origins of Democracy Reconsidered," by Michael Albertus, first published in the April 2017 issue of World Politics, has won the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2018 Comparative Democratization section’s prize for best article.
Thursday June 07
Six exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the sixth cohort of Fung Global Fellows.
Friday June 01
World Politics' most-cited articles from the 2017 volume are available online until June 30, 2018.
Monday May 14
Sir Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, delivered a public lecture to an audience of nearly 200 at the University’s Sir Arthur Lewis Auditorium in advance of the dedication of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University on April 27.
Monday May 07
When the Khan family left Pakistan with their three young children, they never imagined that their then-3-year-old daughter would return as a student at Princeton University, let alone that she would be tackling a problem that has frustrated global health researchers.
Monday April 30
The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, made possible by a gift from Sumir Chadha of Princeton’s Class of 1993, was dedicated at Princeton University on April 27.
Thursday April 26
As technology intertwines global societies and international tensions increase, the world needs political and economic structures larger than nation-states, including a possible “secular 10 commandments” of shared values, former president of Poland Lech Walesa said in a speech at Princeton University on April 23.
Monday April 09
Princeton University seniors Lavinia Liang, Katie Tyler and Erika Ward have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
Wednesday March 28
Anastassia Obydenkova, Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira, Jürgen Schaflechner and Sjoerd van Tuinen were awarded financial grants by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Fung Global Network Fund, an initiative designed to facilitate research, writing and collaboration among current and former Fung Global Fellows and Princeton University faculty members and scholars.
Monday March 26
As a capstone to the fall course “The Ethics of Borders and Migration,” 11 Princeton undergraduates and one graduate student traveled north to Buffalo, New York, to learn about the city’s refugee resettlement efforts.
Tuesday March 20
A new fellowship program, administered by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), will award funding to two qualified Princeton Ph.D. students who are conducting field work outside the United States, especially in or related to China, during the 2018-19 academic year.
Monday March 19
History can tell us a lot about environmental upheaval, say Princeton historians John Haldon and Lee Mordechai. What is missing in today’s debate about climate change is using what we know about how past societies handled environmental stresses to help inform our own situation.
Friday March 09
Nine outstanding juniors have been named the 2018 cohort of PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows.
Monday February 26
A gift from Sumir Chadha of Princeton’s Class of 1993 has established the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University, which will bring together scholars and students from all disciplines to broadly explore contemporary India, including its economy, politics and culture. The center is named in honor of Chadha’s grandfather, a distinguished physician who served as the director general of Health Services for India.
Tuesday February 20
Princeton senior Ugonna Nwabueze’s development of the production of “Eclipsed”— which included an unforgettable trip to West Africa to conduct interviews of her own — is for her certificates in theater and African studies.
Tuesday February 20
Princeton seniors John “Newby” Parton and Maggie Pecsok have been named co-winners of the University’s 2018 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
![Senior Thomas Clark, who won first place in the A Window on Eurasia category, said of his photograph, “Hospice”: “Rajnal, originally from Pakistan, volunteers at a state-run hospice in Vladivostok, [Russia]. His jobs include feeding the residents and speaking with them. Here, he speaks to Lyubov, an 80-year-old native of Vladivostok. She has never married and has no children, so she rarely has visitors.” Photo byMark Czajkowski](http://piirs.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_teaser__320x200/public/6834.jpg?itok=0AMIbOMw "Senior Thomas Clark, who won first place in the A Window on Eurasia category, said of his photograph, “Hospice”: “Rajnal, originally from Pakistan, volunteers at a state-run hospice in Vladivostok, [Russia]. His jobs include feeding the residents and speaking with them. Here, he speaks to Lyubov, an 80-year-old native of Vladivostok. She has never married and has no children, so she rarely has visitors.” Photo by Mark Czajkowski")
Monday February 12
Each February, the International Eye Photo Contest provides an opportunity for students who have studied, worked, researched or serviced abroad to share their memories and experiences.
Friday February 02
Several Princeton University departments and programs and over 30 Princeton-area nonprofit organizations will investigate the theme of “Migrations” from February through May.
Thursday January 25
This year, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies will launch four new Global Seminars — including “Japan and Black America: A Long Road of Discovery” in Kyotonabe, Japan, with Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies.
Thursday January 18
This year, PIIRS will launch four new Global Seminars, including “Athens Now: Culture and Politics in the Urban Space” with Effie Rentzou, an associate professor of French.
Wednesday January 10
This year, PIIRS will launch four new Global Seminars — including “African Modernities: Culture, Politics and Citizenship” in Pamplemousses, Mauritius, with Simon Gikandi, the Robert Schirmer Professor of English.
Tuesday January 02
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), in conjunction with the Office of International Programs, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations and the Council for International Teaching and Research, launched the 2017 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, “Princeton International.”
Tuesday January 02
This year, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) will launch four new Global Seminars — including the Swani Family Global Seminar in India, “Indian Democracy in Motion,” with Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the vice-chancellor of Ashoka University in Sonipat, India, just outside the Delhi metropolitan area.
Tuesday December 19
Princeton senior Shruthi Rajasekar has been named a 2018 Marshall Scholar.
Thursday December 14
Michael Moore, a translator and interpreter from Italian, has been named as Princeton University’s Translator in Residence for the spring 2018 semester by the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC).
Wednesday December 06
David Bellos, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, a professor of French and comparative literature, and director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, has won the American Library in Paris Book award for “The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventures of Les Misérables.”
Tuesday December 05
Sociologist Yu Xie is the director of Princeton’s Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, which aims to conduct research on Chinese society through an interdisciplinary approach.
Monday December 04
Wendy Laura Belcher, an associate professor of African literature at Princeton University, has won the Association for the Preservation and Publication of African Historical Sources’ Paul Hair Prize for “The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman.” The book, by Galawdewos, is co-translated by Belcher and Michael Kleiner, a historian of Ethiopia and a translator of the ancient Ethiopian language Gəˁəz.
Tuesday November 14
David Bellos, Director of Princeton University's Translation and Intercultural Communication Program, describes how he believes that we use speech to distinguish ourselves from others.
Wednesday October 18
Led by Sandra Bermann, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature, and by a faculty steering committee spanning multiple disciplines, including history, sociology, comparative literature, English, politics and journalism, the seminar will take place in the 2018-19 academic year.
Monday October 02
The October 2017 issue of World Politics is now available online and will be free for the next few weeks.
Thursday September 28
PIIRS Graduate Fellow Joan Ricart-Huguet recently penned an article in the Daily Princetonian entitled, "Why Can't Spain and Catalonia just get along?"
Monday September 18
PIIRS Director Stephen Kotkin, the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs, welcomed the a new group of visitors to the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies at a reception last week in the Louis A. Simpson International Building.
Monday August 28
Several articles that were published in World Politics, the internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science, have won distinguished awards, which will be announced at the upcoming American Political Science Association (APSA) conference.
Tuesday August 22
Faculty members Sandra Bermann and Stephen Macedo chat about migration and Princeton’s new interdisciplinary research community focused on the topic.
Wednesday August 02
The most cited articles from volume 69 (2016) of World Politics are available for free download for a limited time.
Thursday July 06
Tory Truex, World Politics associate editor and assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, has received the 2017 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award.
Wednesday July 05
Isabelle Clark-Decès, the director of the Program in South Asian Studies and a professor of anthropology died Thursday, June 29, in the village of Mussoorie, India.
Tuesday June 20
World Politics, the internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science, has been ranked first among its peers by the Thomson/Reuters Journal Citation Reports.
Monday June 12
PIIRS Director Stephen Kotkin penned an opinion piece on Russian President Vladimir Putin's relationship and influence on America, its politics and President Trump.
Thursday June 08
The Program in South Asian Studies recently offered its students the chance to try their hand in a Calligraphy Workshop focused on writing Urdu, an art form that dates back centuries and is deeply embedded in Urdu culture.
Wednesday June 07
Sunny skies, good friends and the sounds of cool, gypsy jazz were the perfect start to the Beers with PIIRS Reunions event which invited all alumni to sample unique beers and complementary gourmet fare courtesy of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Monday June 05
PIIRS awards certificates to student on Class Day.
Monday June 05
Achille Tenkiang '18, an African Studies concentrator, and Jeffrey Williamson '18, a history major, have been awarded the first Senior Thesis Prize by the Program in African Studies.
Friday June 02
PIIRS will host its second annual "Beers with PIIRS" event today from 3-5 p.m. in the 1879 Hall Tent. Attendees will be treated to eight different beers from around the world, chosen maily because of the locations students visit during PIIRS Global Seminars.
Wednesday May 03
A photo of a lone white rhinoceros is projected onto a screen behind Jacob Dlamini, a Princeton University assistant professor of history, as his students argue the justification of using violence against the poachers and criminal syndicates who illegally hunt the animal for its iconic horn — and the moral authority non-Africans have to push for those measures.
Wednesday April 26
World Politics Fellow Antoinette Handley, who is visiting PIIRS this year from the University of Toronto, will deliver a talk today, April 26, on how businesses in Africa react in times of crises. The event will be held at 4:30 to 6 p.m. in 127 Corwin Hall and will be followed by a reception.
Friday April 21
Six exceptional early career scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the fifth cohort of Fung Global Fellows.
Friday April 21
Last year's cohort of Fung Global Fellows, who worked on "Ethnic Politics and Identities" returned to campus this week for a conference on "Boundary Matters: Interdisciplinary Engagements With Ethnic Difference" which they planned after leaving campus late last spring.
Monday April 17
Mark Beissinger, current acting director of PIIRS and the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, is the recipient of a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work in political science on social movements and imperialism in Russia and the post-Soviet states.
Monday April 17
Students traveling on PIIRS Global Seminars and Undergraduate Fellowships are invited to attend a Predeparture Meeting on Monday, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the rooftop pavilion on the third floor of the Louis A. Simpson International Building.
Friday April 07
Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff will present "The Challenges of Democracy in Brazil" on Thursday, April 13 at noon in McCormick 101.
Monday April 03
The PIIRS Research Community, Migration: Peoples and Cultures Across Borders, will welcome three visitors next fall to be in residence at PIIRS for the academic year.
Tuesday March 28
Princeton University seniors Ava Hoffman, Lara Norgaard, Vidushi Sharma and Achille Tenkiang have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
Monday March 20
A blog, written by World Politics' authors, Knutsen, Nygard and Wig, complements their January entry in the journal.
Thursday March 09
New World Politics' articles are now available online.
Thursday March 09
Winners of the 9th annual International Eye Photo Contest discuss their prize photographs, taken while learning, serving or working abroad.
Tuesday February 21
Sponsored by the Davis International Center, an open information session for Princeton students and scholars will be held February 23 to gain information, updates and ask questions about President's Trump Executive Order.
Thursday February 16
The Office of International Programs along with PIIRS recently hosted a reception to celebrate the participants and winners of the 9th Annual International Eye Photo Contest that attracted more than 450 entries.
Tuesday January 03
PIIRS has recently launched a new Research Community on “Migration: People and Cultures Across Borders” led by Sandra Bermann, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature.
Thursday December 15
Chika Okeke-Agulu, associate professor of art and archaeology and African American studies and faculty associate of the Program in African Studies, has been awarded the Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association (ASA) for his book "Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in 20th-Century Nigeria."
Friday December 09
Freshmen, sophomores and juniors are invited to apply to PIIRS Global Seminars held in seven exciting locations next summer. The deadline application is February 13.
Tuesday December 06
Preston Lim, a PIIRS undergraduate fellow and former PIIRS Global Seminar student, has been awarded one of six Schwarzman scholarships at Princeton and one of 129 in the world.
Monday December 05
Grants Available for NEH Summer Institute on Translation
Wednesday November 16
Admiral Harry Harris, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Princeton on November 14 to deliver a public lecture entitled "Deterring Revisionist Powers."
Tuesday November 15
Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the Program in Judaic Studies. This academic year, she is team-teaching the yearlong course "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture," also known as the Humanities Sequence
Friday October 28
The 9th annual International Eye Photo Contest is currently underway! Open to all Princeton students who are interested in entering their photography from their experiences abroad. Deadline for submission is November 15, 2016 at 5 p.m.
Friday October 28
The new PIIRS European Crises Working Group had its first public talk on “Brexit: Why and How the United Kingdom Leaves the European Union.” Leading the panel discussion was the group’s coordinator Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values. Other panelists included Harold James, director of the program in contemporary European Politics and Society; Andrew Moravcsik, professor of politics and director of the European Union program; and R. Daniel Keleman, professor of political science and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University.
Thursday October 27
Upcoming events for translation enthusiasts at Labyrinth Books in Princeton on November 10 and 17.
Thursday October 27
Soros Lectures in New York City will highlight translation experts, including Princeton's Esther Schor.
Thursday September 15
Margaret Beissinger of Slavic Languages and Literatures has a new book that she co-edited entitled Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music.
Wednesday September 14
Antoinette Handley has been named World Politics Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2016-2017. While at Princeton, she will be working on a new project: attempting to develop a political economy account of state formation in Africa.
Friday September 02
“Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States,” World Politics vol. 67, no. 3 (July 2015), by Prerna Singh, has won the APSA 2016 Comparative Politics section’s Luebbert award and the Politics and History section's Mary Parker Follet Prize.
Friday June 24
Harold James, director of the Program in Contemporary Politics, shares his opinion on Brexit in "Project Syndicate.
Friday June 03
With temperatures hovering near 90 with bright sunny skies, it is perhaps no surprise that “Beers With PIIRS,” the theme of this year’s PIIRS Reunions event, held on May 27 at the 1879 Hall Tent, was a rousing success.
Friday May 20
Close to 100 students and faculty gathered in a festive Aaron Burr Hall on May 4 to receive their final instructions and to meet their fellow "seminar-mates" before traveling to their Global Seminars in the coming weeks.
Thursday April 21
Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, and a faculty associate of the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.