 FEBRUARY 2010 NEWSLETTER |
 RESEARCH· Results from the Luce Foundation's 10 years and $30 million in environmental initiatives is on view online as part of a knowledge-networking endeavor that recently brought Luce grantees together at the Watson Institute. Watch multimedia presentations here.
· The Global Media Project has received renewed funding from the Carnegie Corp. of New York and unveiled its redesigned website on media in international affairs. Visit the site. · A new Brown Afghanistan Working Group has been formed, to address perceived US policy shortcomings. The group recently co-hosted Richard Barrett, head of the UN's Al-Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team. Watch his lecture. · From the World Economic Forum's recent meeting in Davos to popular protests across Egypt, inequality is increasingly the watchword for global leaders and local activists alike. Read about the Institute's cutting-edge research and training on inequality. |
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IN THE NEWS
· Read the Providence Journal's coverage of a faculty roundtable on protests in Egypt and listen to a related interview on the Institute-based Radio Open Source. · "Colombia had no hesitation about Americanizing their war on drugs ... Mexico is much more reluctant," Professor Peter Andreas said recently in The Atlantic. · India is beginning to resemble America's Gilded Age - both in its heady dynamism and scandalous corruption, according to Faculty Fellow Ashutosh Varshney, who co-authored a recent op-ed in the Financial Times. · US President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned 50 years ago of a military-industrial complex, and his words ring as true today, Professor James Der Derian wrote last month in the Berliner Zeitung. · Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth warned on BBC's Business Daily that proposed public spending cuts might aggravate economic woes in the UK and elsewhere. |
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· Brown summer fellows engage the world - researching global issues and advancing social change. Five different fellowship opportunities, including AT&T New Media Fellowships, are now |
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PUBLICATIONS
· In this video, co-authors Matthew Guttman and Institute Professor Catherine Lutz discuss their recent book, Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War. |
· Institute Director Michael D. Kennedy explores relationships among areas studies, academic disciplines, and the public good |
PEOPLE
· Watson's board of overseers has elected new leaders and members including preeminent international academic, business, and political figures.
· Institute Professor Catherine Lutz was recently awarded the Society for the Anthropology of North America's prize for distinguished achievement in the critical study of North America. · The Institute congratulates former Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lincoln Chafee '75 on his inauguration last month as governor of Rhode Island. |
MULTIMEDIA "Egypt Uprising" is the subject of a new online Teaching with the News lesson from the Institute-affiliated Choices Program. ... Peruse AT&T Winter Media Fellow Alexandra Ulmer's images and essays on pro- and anti-government street art in Venezuela. ... The Institute is supporting the Intercambio Climatico, a web portal involving Brown faculty and students with local leaders in climate change issues in Latin America. ... Listen as Radio Open Source follows China to Africa. ... Watch London University Professor Charles Tripp's videotaped lecture on today's dual state in Iraq. |
CALENDAR "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex" features author William D. Hartung on February 10. ... Two leading academics will give a lecture titled "Blocked by Caste: Discrimination in Contemporary India" on February 18. ... The full list of Watson events is available here. |
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Past newsletters and other Institute information are available here.
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