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The Bonjour Effect

The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed is the latest book on French language and culture from past ICWA Fellows Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau. The Bonjour Effect explores and examines the art of French conversation and explains the way that the French talk about themselves, the world, and everything in between....

Introducing Miss Woubi, Ivory Coast’s Unlikely Cross-dressing Pageant

The Guardian – In a new article, ICWA Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet shares the story of Ivory Coast’s Miss Woubi pageant. According to Corey-Boulet “the event, first held in 2009, takes its name from an Ivorian slang word referring to the so-called “effeminate” partner in a relationship between two men – the one who, as Ivorians put...

Russia: Adversary or Ally?

On Thursday, December 10, Marvin Kalb and Gregory Feifer – two of the sharpest minds writing about Russia whose views diverge – debated this urgent question at an event hosted by ICWA and Johns Hopkins SAIS. The fault lines in US thinking about Russia and the pressing decisions facing the Obama Administration, were exposed in stark relief. Is...

Jonthon Coulson

Fellowship Award Recipient (2016-2018) We are pleased to announce the selection of Jonthon Coulson as the next Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. Jonthon will spend two years in Indonesia researching and writing about educational spaces, moments, and movements in that country. Jonthon is a doctoral student in the Curriculum and Teaching program at Columbia...

(video) (scope & program) This conference will explore three key dimensions of the migration crisis, uncovering lessons from past crises, elucidating the immediate and most critical challenges emanating from the MENA region, and examining the positive potential of the migration flows....

‘The Price We Pay’ Maps a Web of Offshore Tax Havens

The New York Times – ICWA Trustee Krishen Mehta is featured in a documentary film about offshore tax havens for international corporations. In his review, Andy Webster writes that “the ideas in this densely packed but enlightening film can be challenging, but must be heard.” Mehta has shared some of his insights on tax evasion...

Cecilia Kline Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2009 Fellowship Area(s): Honduras For the Love of the Game, or the Gang? Getting to Know Barras in Honduras Futures “At Risk”: Kids Walking a Thin Line Between Protection and Prison...

Shelly R. Browning Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2001 Fellowship Area(s): French Polynesia, Australia A Debt to Pay, and Other Real Life Dramas for all….Eternity...

Sharon F. Griffin Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 1994 – 1996 Fellowship Area(s): South Africa Introduction Race, Crime and Tourism in Durban: the Singapore of Africa Chiefs and Democracy KwaMashu: A Black Township on the Rocky Road to Change The Marriage ofNkanyiso Dlamini and Lindi Buthelezi AIDS an Inescapable Reality in KwaZula-Natal Zulu Beadwork ‘Speaks’ Across Time Isicathamiya: ‘To Tread Like a Cat’...

Robin Ostle Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 1982 – 1983 Fellowship Area(s): Saudi Arabia, Tunisia Town And Country In Modern Arabic Literature Islam In Modern Tunisian Literature...

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