Month: February 2016

Episode 98 of Africa Past and Present has been released! Listen to author Ben Rawlence (Open Society Foundations Fellow) discuss his new book: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp. Working in Dadaab, Kenya, he describes Somali refugees’ daily struggles, their personal… Continue Reading PODCAST: City of Thorns—Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

Ethan Segal, a scholar of East Asian monetary systems and trade, spoke for the Indiana University East Asian Studies Center in Bloomington earlier this month. He also was invited to hold a book workshop for graduate students to discuss his 2011 book Coins, Trade, and… Continue Reading Prof. Segal delivers invited talk at Indiana University

Liam Brockey will give the 2016 lecture in the Matteo Ricci Speakers Series at Saint Louis University on April 15. The title of his talk will be “Back and Forth across the Ming Empire: A Jesuit Journey in the 1620s”. For more information, see http://matteoricci.slu.edu… Continue Reading Liam Brockey lecture at Saint Louis University

On March 10, Emily Elliott, a student in our graduate program, will be speaking to the International Graduate Student Workshop in Soviet History at the European University  on “Labor Migration, Citizenship, and the Boundaries of Belonging in Late Soviet Moscow.”  Ms. Elliott is spending the… Continue Reading Elliott to speak at International Graduate Student Workshop

On March 9 Lewis Siegelbaum will be lecturing at the European University at St. Petersburg on “Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing Migration in Soviet History.” For details go to: http://eu.spb.ru/en/forthcoming-events/16140-transnationalism-in-one-country-seeing-migration-in-soviet-history.