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The Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs @BrownUniversity seeks to promote a more peaceful world through research, teaching & public engagement.
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US traffic of guns turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees — On Scheer Intelligence, ieva jusionyte discusses how the crisis at the US border is driven not by invading migrants, as commonly portrayed, but by the unregulated flow of guns from the US to Mexico.
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Citing our research, Al Jazeera English reports how tech workers are protesting against the use of AI and other technologies by the Israeli military in Gaza. aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23…
And one more: my conversation about #ExitWoundsBook and #publicanthropology with Bob Scheer at KCRW Scheer Intelligence
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Biden says he told Nigeria to kill fewer civilians — but Nigeria keeps killing lots of civilians - A recent The Intercept article references a report from Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies about U.S. security aid to Nigeria.
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Don’t Bet on a British Revival — Mark Blyth co-authored a column for Foreign Affairs about the British elections and the economy.
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Brown University’s 256th Commencement is right around the corner!
Visit the Commencement website to view the weekend schedule, find important information and learn more about this exciting weekend. #Brown2024 #BrownU #BrownReunion
Commencement website: brnw.ch/21wJoKc
Kudos to Sheldon Whitehouse and other Congressional Democrats for investigating the years of deceit and climate misinformation by Big Oil. A key reason our planet is burning is because Big Oil is stymieing climate solutions.
Climate Solutions Lab
Climate Social Science Network
Timmons Roberts
Mummifying Museums: The Inca Ancestors of American Anthropology — A talk with Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor of History at Penn State. Co-sponsored by CLACS and Joukowsky Institute. (VIDEO)
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A dream of an interdisciplinary panel: an anthropologist, a historian, a sociologist and a political scientist discussing #ExitWoundsBook Watson Institute. I will watch this on repeat when I need to hear that all that effort I put into the book matters
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Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent — In Democracy Now! interview, Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב discussed how accusations of antisemitism are being improperly used to silence criticism & peaceful protests.
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Tuesday, 5/7 at 4PM: 'Land, Bodies, Architecture: Histories of Humanitarian Settlement.' A discussion with architectural historian Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi) on her new book. Sponsored by History with support from Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, HIAA, and RISD. events.brown.edu/history/event/…
A history of the marginalization of India’s Muslim population — Ashutosh Varshney comments for PBS NewsHour, 'The longer Hindu nationalists are in power, the greater the change will be to Muslims’ status and the harder it will be to reverse such changes.'
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Ajnabi: Estranging Modernism in South Asia — A Saxena Center @ Brown Graduate Student Seminar with Toral Gajarawala. (VIDEO)
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