Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 | 6:00-7:30PM PST The World Affairs Council’s Global Classroom is thrilled to host the 2021 World Citizen Essay Contest (WCEC) Awards Ceremony to honor this year’s nine essay contest winners, whose insight and inspiration illustrated just how important it is to ensure that youth have a seat at the table when working to

If you missed the Center for Global Study’s week-long lunch and learn event with the Northwest International Education Association, you are in luck — all the sessions were recorded. This year’s lunch & learn explored ways that faculty and staff could internationalize their campuses.

JSIS 480/581: Global Cybersecurity takes an area and international studies approach to investigating nation-state cybersecurity strategy and regional dynamics. Structured geographically, it addresses the cybersecurity strategies of major international actors, regional dynamics, famous cyberattacks, and the state of international cybersecurity, and involves instruction by guest experts. Dr. Jessica Beyer, who developed the course, is offering Global

The Center for Global Studies (CGS), East Asia Center (EAC), and South Asia Center (SAC) are pleased to support the Spring Quarter 2021 Global Business Forum taught by Professor Christina Fong, in partnership with the Foster School’s Global Business Center, the School of Law’s Global Business Law Institute, and The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). The Global Business Forum

The Jackson School of International Studies Director and Jackson School Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee has issued a statement in response to Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict on April 20, 2021, noting, in part: “Through teaching, research, administration, scholarship, and service, the Jackson School strives to better understand how historically produced and intersecting inequalities are perpetuated.”

The 2021 Global Studies Virtual Symposium was held on April 23, 2021. Each year, the Symposium connects global studies scholars across campuses and offers an engaging teaching and learning forum for sharing best practices, ideas, and resources with colleagues. This virtual one-day conference included presentations that focused on global perspectives, sustainable development, strategic leadership, and

Missed the talk? The video recording of the first session of the JSIS Spring lecture series, “Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region,” is now available online. This lecture, “The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Making Sino-African Worlds,” features Mingwei Huang, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Faculty Fellow, Dartmouth Consortium of

In an article titled “An International Approach,” Director of the Jackson School Leela Fernandes is quoted on the meaning of transnational feminism and explains how using “the ethnography method—extensive on-the-ground field research—informs her approach to both feminism and international studies with the perspective that a deep understanding of particular places and context are needed.” The

The Jackson School of International Studies Director, along with the Jackson School Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, write to acknowledge and condemn horrific racist attacks against members of the Asian American, Pacific Islander American (AAPI), and the Asian diaspora community. Read the full statement here.

Through a collaboration with the U.S. Army War College, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington will launch a new initiative in spring 2021 to increase understanding of the changing configurations of technology and international security. The focus will be on cyber resilience, energy security and counterterrorism. Activities will