Sultana participates in Race, Space and the Environment project
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Purser quoted in Law360 article on extended CDC anti-eviction order
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Sultana reviews Global Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka Tribune
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Sultana talks to MIT Technology Review about what progress means
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Associated Press: Purser discusses the right for renters to have legal counsel
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Strategies of Secession and Counter-Secession
Stuart Brown and Margaret Hermann publish a study on transnational crime
This book examines 80 such safe havens which function outside effective state-based government control and are sustained by illicit economic activities.
Purser cited in Washington Post article on economic relief package
According to research by Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology, somewhere between 2.4 million and 5 million American households are at risk of eviction in January alone if Congress fails to reach an agreement on economic emergency relief.
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Sultana weighs in on New York State fossil fuel divestment in City & State
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Alumna Kristen Patel named Gregg Professor of Practice at Maxwell
Kristen Patel will teach undergraduate courses in policy studies and graduate courses in public administration and international affairs.
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Sultana quoted in Truthout article on students' travel during pandemic
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Sultana talks to Scientific American about Biden, climate justice
"The most important action the Biden administration can do is to undertake all its policies and actions through a climate justice lens...and approach action with equity, accountability and justice in mind," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.
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Sultana comments on Joe Biden's victory in Carbon Brief article
"This was a climate election since a large majority of voters noted that they were concerned with climate breakdown," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment. "Biden has a climate plan and a mandate and he has promised to listen to scientists…which is vastly different from the last four years of war on science."
See related: Climate Change, Federal, U.S. Elections, United States
Purser looks at teaching thrift in job readiness programs in new study
Sultana participates in international event on climate research
Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, participated in "Intersectionality and Climate justice: Towards an Emancipatory Climate Research Agenda," an event organized by the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. The international webinar brought together critical scholars interested in climate justice and intersectionality with the aim of exploring common threads between the two concepts.
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Sultana talks to The Sanctuary for Independent Media about divesting from fossil fuels
Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, says "a divestment from fossil fuels signals a commitment to ending climate breakdown, to have climate justice, and to think about equitable and just transitions toward regenerative economies and societies that move away from fossil fuels."
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Maxwell sociologists appointed to leadership roles at ASA
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Purser named Montonna Professor, recognizing work with undergraduates
The Dr. Ralph E. Montonna Endowed Professorship for the Teaching and Education of Undergraduates fund is designed to provide support, in the form of a supplemental research fund, to a professor with notable engagement in undergraduate education. Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology, received this year's award.
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Catherine Gerard concludes 15 years of leadership at PARCC
After serving as its director or co-director since 2005, Catherine Gerard has stepped down from her leadership role at the Maxwell School’s renowned Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), effective July 1, 2020. Gerard will continue as an adjunct professor of public administration and associate director for the Executive Education Programs at Maxwell, and also continue her work as co-director of the Collaborative Governance Initiative at PARCC.
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Dean’s Office, CPR fund summer project assistantships
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Gathering Evidence of Atrocities: Investigations in Former Soviet Union, Guatemala, Iraq and Ukraine
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Featuring Ewa Schaller of the American Friends of Yahad-In-Unum/Holocaust by Bullets, who will talk about documenting crimes and atrocities in the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, Iraq, and Ukraine, and former international prosecutor David M. Crane L’80, Syracuse University College of Law Distinguished Scholar in Residence, who will talk about the implications of this evidence for international courts.
Ewa Schaller is a Senior Program Officer, Educator, and Education Coordinator at American Friends of Yahad-In Unum, where she designs, oversees, and conducts teachers’ seminars, lectures, and other educational events. She has participated in Yahad-In Unum’s investigative work in Ukraine, Poland, and Latvia. She holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Torun, Poland. Deeply interested in the Holocaust history that has marked so much of her country’s history and identity, she joined American Friends of Yahad-In Unum in 2015. Before joining the organization, she taught literature and history for more than 10 years.
Syracuse University College of Law Distinguished Scholar in Residence David M. Crane L’80 was the founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and former Director of the Office of Intelligence Review and Assistant General Counsel of the Defense Intelligence Agency. As a College of Law faculty member, he founded Impunity Watch, an online student-run review and public service blog, and the Syrian Accountability Project, which documents war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Syrian Civil War and other conflicts, including Ukraine.
Hybrid Event: registration is not required for in-person attendance. Free and open to the public. CART open captioning/Zoom captions will be provided.
The School of Education’s Atrocities Studies Annual Lecture is hosted by the minor in Atrocity Studies and the Practices of Social Justice, supported by Lauri ’77 and Jeffrey Zell ’77.
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Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Lectures and Seminars
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Organizers
Lender Center for Social Justice, Anthropology Department, Center for European Studies, Geography and the Environment Department, History Department, Political Science Department, PARCC, Humanities Center
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