ICWA fall dinner 2023
“Growing up in suburban America in the 1970s and ’80s, I didn’t think at all about what had happened in Nazi Germany all those decades before,” said The New Yorker‘s Susan Glasser at ICWA’s fall dinner at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC on November 10. “Kristallnacht was not part of my frame of reference…
ICWA appoints new 2024 fellows
Rowland Robinson will go to the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil, while Brett Simpson will go to Norway.
Video: Russian scholars in exile
How are they trying to keep teaching, researching and preserving Russia’s intellectual capital?
New trustees join ICWA board
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees to the ICWA board, Joseph Bradley and Fabrice Houdart. Joseph Bradley Joseph is professor emeritus of Russian and modern European history at the University of Tulsa. He was a national fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Warsaw.
Irving Spitzberg dies
Irving Joseph Spitzberg, Jr., professor, immigration lawyer, higher education policy consultant and former ICWA fellow, died peacefully in Rockville, MD on October 13 after an unsuccessful battle with cryptococcal meningitis, Spitzberg’s widow Virginia Thorndike said. He was 81. “Irving had a special place in his heart for ICWA,” she wrote, “and often spoke of his
Upcoming Nov. 16: Russian scholars in exile panel discussion
How are they trying to keep teaching, researching and preserving Russia’s intellectual capital ?
Nov. 10: Syrians in exile, Joshua Levkowitz fellowship report
Joshua Levkowitz fellowship report and expert panel discussion
Video: Russian political opposition in exile
How are they trying to oppose Putin’s Kremlin from outside the country?
