March 10, 2014
Professor Devin Naar is leading a project dedicated to keeping the Sephardic language and culture alive. Ladino was originally spoken by the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. When they
March 3, 2014
KUOW’s Steve Scher talks with Jose Antonio Lucero, chair of the Jackson School’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies program, about the protests in Venezuela.
February 28, 2014
Ellison Center Director Scott Radnitz wrote a guest post on the Washington Post’s “The Monkey Cage” on “How to prevent the crisis in Ukraine from escalating.”
February 10, 2014
Global interconnectedness, a byproduct of advances in communications technologies, such as social media and the Internet, have made it more important than ever for countries to have diplomatic relations
December 5, 2013
The Central African Republic, a landlocked nation near the western coast of Africa, is considered one of the most unstable regions in the world by the U.N. After the Seleka,
December 5, 2013
Kenneth B. Pyle, Henry M. Jackson Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Washington, brought the audience to its feet in standing ovation at his lecture on
December 3, 2013
But thanks to the University of Washington’s FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowship program, UW law student Caitlyn Evans is getting that chance. The program awards tuition and living
November 22, 2013
The Herald editorial board looks at President Kennedy’s legacy through a 21st-century lens quoting from Prof. Kenneth B. Pyle‘s Nov. 18 lecture on Hiroshima and the historians. The 50th anniversary of
November 21, 2013
Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst who was part of the team charged with finding Osama bin Laden, spoke to University of Washington students on Nov. 13 after screening an
November 21, 2013
History suggests that Tacloban and other communities severely damaged by Typhoon Haiyan will eventually recover, says Vicente Rafael, affiliate professor of Southeast Asia Studies, in this CNN article. “I have no