Updates & Events

New trustees join ICWA board

  • November 22, 2023
  • ICWA

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.

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Malcolm Deas dies

  • November 21, 2023
  • ICWA

The pioneering scholar of Latin America advised Colombian presidents.

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Irving Spitzberg dies

  • November 20, 2023
  • ICWA

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

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Upcoming Nov. 16: Russian scholars in exile panel discussion

  • November 11, 2023
  • ICWA

How are they trying to keep teaching, researching and preserving Russia’s intellectual capital ?

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Nov. 10: Syrians in exile, Joshua Levkowitz fellowship report

  • November 11, 2023
  • ICWA

Joshua Levkowitz fellowship report and expert panel discussion

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Video: Russian political opposition in exile

  • October 7, 2023
  • ICWA

How are they trying to oppose Putin’s Kremlin from outside the country?

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Thomas Goltz dies

  • August 4, 2023
  • ICWA

Former fellow chronicled brutal conflicts in the Caucasus.

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Video: Steven Tagle Greece fellowship report and panel

  • May 23, 2023
  • ICWA

“Borders are important,” ICWA Fellow Steven Tagle said during his fellowship report at New York’s Lotos Club on May 18. They separate “but at the same time invite you to cross.” He was quoting Angela Giannakidou, president of the Ethnological Museum of Thrace in northeastern Greece, with whom he made many trips to remote villages

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Photos: ICWA spring dinner 2023

  • May 23, 2023
  • ICWA

It was a delight for all the senses at the institute’s spring dinner at New York’s Lotos Club on May 18. Former fellows joined trustees, friends and soon-to-be returning fellow from Greece Steven Tagle and family in the club’s fabulous library, where New York Magazine writer Andrew Rice spoke about his fellowship in Uganda (2002

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Two new trustees join ICWA board

  • May 23, 2023
  • ICWA

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees to the ICWA board, Cris Duschek (fellow in Romania, 2004-2006) and Peter Leon. Trustee Constance Whiteside is also stepping down at the end of her term and will be missed.   Peter Leon Peter Leon is a partner and global Africa chair of the international

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