Rep. Maxine Waters speaks at David Mixner memorial
Congresswoman Maxine Waters urged Americans to maintain the struggle for LGBTQ+ and all human rights remembering her friend the civil rights leader David Mixner during an inspiring keynote talk at a dinner in Washington held by the Institute of Current World Affairs and Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors to celebrate Mixner’s life and achievements. The
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James Courtright fellowship report on West Africa’s Fulani
Washington, DC, 2 p.m., May 17
David Mixner dies
The Institute of Current World Affairs mourns the loss of David Mixner, a towering figure in the global fight for LGBTQ+ rights, peace and justice for whom ICWA named its current LGBTQ+ fellowship. He died in New York on March 11, ICWA trustee Fabrice Houdart said. Mixner was no ordinary American political activist and author.
Russian exile discussion series
Many hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their increasingly authoritarian country since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, joining a global exile community. They include leaders of the political opposition, civil society and media who have long opposed the Kremlin, are natural allies against Russia’s war in Ukraine, and a key
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Following his talk, Joshua joined an expert panel with Basma Alloush, Rafif Jouejati and Andrew Tabler.
ICWA fall dinner 2023
“Growing up in suburban America in the 1970s and ’80s, I didn’t think at all about what had happened in Nazi Germany all those decades before,” said The New Yorker‘s Susan Glasser at ICWA’s fall dinner at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC on November 10. “Kristallnacht was not part of my frame of reference…
ICWA appoints new 2024 fellows
Prachi Vidwans will go to South Korea, while Edric Huang travels to Taiwan
Video: Russian scholars in exile
How are they trying to keep teaching, researching and preserving Russia’s intellectual capital?
New trustees join ICWA board
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees to the ICWA board, Joseph Bradley and Fabrice Houdart. Joseph Bradley Joseph is professor emeritus of Russian and modern European history at the University of Tulsa. He was a national fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Warsaw.