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Michael D. Kennedy
"We live in a world of growing complexity, in which problems and opportunities are increasingly defined by the global flows of knowledge, people, wealth, and weapons."

 

Research Themes

Global Insecurity

Global Inequality

 

Teaching and Training

Undergraduate Studies

Graduate Program in Development

 

Partnering at Brown

The US and its Prisons
America leads the world in the practice of incarcerating its own citizens. Watch two Brown professors discuss why.

 

Institutional Partnerships

Choices Program Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
  • International Writers Project
  • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Rhodes Center
  • Choices Program
  • Open Source
  • Office of International Affairs

 

<em>A Liberal Education</em> by Abbott Gleason

 

This Week's Events

9/3/10 at 3:00 PM
Lecture
George Sharvashidze and Voldemar Tomusk -- Knowledge Networks and Empowering Publics


Upcoming Events

9/15/10 at 5:00 PM
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Jose Carlos Orihuela -- An Environmental Resource Curse? Governing Air Pollution from Smelters in Chuquicamata (Chile) and La Oroya (Peru)

9/18/10 at 9:00 AM
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Series
The 1st Annual New England Festival of Ibero-American Cinema (NEFIAC)

9/23/10 at 4:00 PM
Reception
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Fall Reception

10/13/10 at 12:00 PM
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Christopher B. Barrett -- Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps

10/27/10 at 5:00 PM
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Jason Beckfield -- Regional Integration and the Convergence of European Welfare States

11/4/10 at 2:00 PM
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Najam Sethi -- AF-PAK Politics and Strategy

11/10/10 at 5:00 PM
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Jocelyne Cesari -- Muslims in the West After 9/11: Religion, Law and Politics

 

 

News

'Breaking Ranks:' Personal Perspectives on War

A new book co-authored by Brown anthropology professors Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz brings a deeply personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War (University of California Press, August 2010) is based on extensive interviews with each of the six. 

 

8/02 NPR Features 'Sex, Drugs & Body Counts;' Slate Posts Rave Review

7/01 Reflecting on the Impact of Environmental Training

 

Research Updates

8/24 Der Derian: 'Now We Are All Avatars'

8/02 Journal Analyzes Globalization's Impact on Workers of the World

6/14 Joint Paris Conference Explores Human Terrain

 

From the Archives: Lagos on Progressive Policy

(April 1, 2010)


Event Reports

8/03 In Africa: An Intersection of Citizenship and Clientelism

8/03 Sweig Offers New Perspective on Historic Cuban-American Conflict

6/14 Student Groups Exchange Views on Middle East

 

Teaching Updates

8/30 IR Program Adds Seminars on Religion, Environment

8/30 Science and Technology Class Connects with Global South

8/17 DS Student Gets Fulbright for Sri Lanka Peace Work

 

 

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