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May 31, 2013 & June 1, 2013
The Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
Reporting ICWA Fellows
has been all over and seen lot: visiting Palestinians on the West Bank as well as getting to know right-wing religious Jewish settlers. He returns to report on his two years in Israel.has been writing about food, farms and a host of other issues in Senegal. She is a keen and thoughtful observer of the people and places she has visited and returns to tell us about it.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Crisis in the Sahel
Professor Bruce Whitehouse, Lehigh University
Peter Gwin, Staff Writer and Expeditions Editor at National Geographic
Hannah Armstrong, ICWA Sahel Fellow
LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Will Tropical Forests Survive The 21st Century?
Gary Hartshorn, President & CEO at World Forestry Center
FULL EVENT PROGRAM
Book Event with Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow
WHERE: ICWA office, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 615
WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 23, 2013
Authors Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow discuss their new book, The Story of Spanish, on Thursday, May 23rd. Jean-Benoît is a Former ICWA Fellow in France and Julie is a current trustee of the Institute. They are bestselling authors of books on language and culture, including Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong, and they bring their signature engaging and assessible style to this veritable "biography" of the Spanish language. The Story of Spanish introduces readers to the people, places and events that shaped the destiny and forged the personality of the Spanish language. (Learn more at http://nadeaubarlow.com/en/the-story-of-spanish/)
Registration is required:
Call: 202-364-4068
Email: icwa@icwa.org
Rising Risks of Covering Conflict. W/ Frank Greve
WHERE: ICWA office, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 615
WHEN: 5:30-7:30 p.m., Monday, June 3, 2013
I would like to invite you to join us on Monday, June 3 for an event, co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Institute of Current World Affairs, on the risk to journalists in covering conflict. Joining us is Veteran Journalist (and ICWA member) Frank Greve, who has extensively studied war reporting and photography since the time of the Civil War. Greve will explore why half the journalists ever killed on the job have died since 1992 and how the evolution of modern reporting has contributed to this increased risk to journalists and photographers in war zones.
RSVP required to stephcreed@icwa.org - specify in subject line: June 3 event or by phone (202-364-4068).
The Institute of Current World Aff airs will appoint two Fellows in December 2013. Supported from the Institute’s endowment, Fellows with appropriate topics may receive support from speci cally endowed funds, including: John O. Crane Memorial Fellowship Area of Study: Central and Eastern Europe or the Middle East. John Miller Musser Memorial Forest & Society Fellowships Graduate degree in forestry or forest-related specialties required. Donors’ Fellowship Appointments every two years. Topics and areas of study are unrestricted.
APPLICATION & GUIDELINES
ICWA Fellowship Award
Malia Politzer has been appointed as a Fellow of the Institute of Current Affairs. She’ll spend the next two years (2013-2015) in India, where she will write about internal and international migration trends, remittances, citizenship issues and identity in India. Malia previously worked for Mint, an Indian business and economics news daily paper, where she wrote on a variety of social issues including disability issues, internal migration, gender, social entrepreneurship and development trends. As a fellow at the Village Voice, she wrote primarily about immigration. Malia has won multiple awards for her reporting and published articles in the Wall Street Journal Asia, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Policy Magazine, Reason Magazine, and Migration Policy Institute’s monthly magazine The Source. She has reported from China, the US-Mexico border and South Korea, and speaks fluent Spanish, conversational Mandarin, and intermediate Hindi. Malia holds an M.S. in multimedia and investigative journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Stabile Fellow, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Hampshire College.