The Middle East Center has published profiles of the current Academic Year 2015-16 Middle East Center FLAS fellows.   Read the profiles here.

The UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Sephardic Studies Program held their annual international Ladino Day in celebration of Sephardic language and culture on Dec. 6. Read more

Dr. Kristian Ulrichsen, Senior Principal Fellow of the Space Security Initiative (SSI), led the first Practicum Workshop for the Junior Fellows. A specialist in Middle Eastern political economy and a

Robert Butterworth, President of Aries Analytics, Inc., a space consultancy, spoke to the Space Security Initiative (SSI) Junior Fellows on briefing strategies. Dr. Butterworth earned his Ph.D. from Berkeley and

The experimental performance group Black Umbrella Theater (Teater Payung Hitam) from Bandung, West Java is in town. Four members of the company are in Seattle as part of a 10-day

On Dec. 4, join the World Affairs Council from 7:30-9 a.m. for an event on international relations in the Arctic. The event will feature Representative Rick Larsen (WA – 2nd

The Southeast Asian Center shared a blog post by Evi Sutrisno, a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology. Read about her research on state and religion in Indonesia and how her Chinese-Indonesian identity shaped the

The book, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World, by Jackson School faculty Daniel Chirot and Scott Montgomery, is listed in The

Professor Saadia Pekkanen’s latest post for Forbes, “The New Race To Dominate Outer Space: All Face ‘Serious Growing Foreign Threat,’” scrutinizes the “counterspace” technologies of countries around the world. This

The UW Clean Energy Institute recently published Jackson School Ph.D. student Dustin Welch Garcia’s editorial, “Energy for the Forgotten in Peru.” The article uses Peru as an example of how