“‘Israeli talking points in Carrie Bradshaw’s voice’: what we can learn from two Israel-Palestine bestsellers,” by Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017), The Guardian, November 13, 2023 […]
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? […]
Christian Science Monitor: Neri Zilber on Israel and Hezbollah
“Israel’s Dilemma in Confronting the Threat from Hezbollah,” by Neri Zilber (Israel, 2011-2013), The Christian Science Monitor, November 16, 2023 […]
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. […]
Malcolm Deas dies
The pioneering scholar of Latin America advised Colombian presidents. […]
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 […]
A documentary filmmaker reflects on Russians’ collective complicity
Vitaly Mansky’s films have long been sounding the alarm about Vladimir Putin. […]
Upcoming Nov. 16: Russian scholars in exile panel discussion
How are they trying to keep teaching, researching and preserving Russia’s intellectual capital ? […]