Forging Her Path: Dr. Adriana María Linares-Palma, 2021-2022 Paloheimo Fellow
Written by Kat Bernhardt, Advancement Associate, SAR With her sparkling dark eyes and guarded genuine smile, there is a big-hearted opennes…
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Céline Cantat: The reception spectacle: on Ukrainian displacement and selective empathy at Europe’s borders
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By…
Centennial of the Indian Arts Research Center Collections: Gala Dinner and Auction
Thunder and light rain did not keep 100 stalwart gala guests from descending the stone steps to enter a white-tented world where they were …
Ida Susser: Melenchon: the creation of a left political bloc
On June 19, 2022, the united left party, NUPES (New Ecological and Social Popular Union), cobbled together by Jean-Luc Melenchon in less than two months, won enough seats…
Reflections on SAR’s “Seeking Justice” Webinar Series
On June 2 SAR held the sixth and final webinar in a series called Seeking Justice: Toward a More Equitable America, which launched in February. The series was…
Alice Tilche & Akshay Khanna: Embodying emotions in theatre and film
This is the second in our series of blogposts in relation to the Budhan podcast project, a community led initiative that has sought to capture the experiences of…
Denys Gorbach: Ukrainian identity map in wartime: Thesis-antithesis-synthesis?
The cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of Ukraine is a well-known fact, used and abused in explanations of the ongoing war. Having taken root in the early modern period…
Volodymyr Artiukh: The political logic of Russia’s imperialism
The debate around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including the previous contributions in FocaalBlog, has shifted from the ‘either NATO or Russia’ dichotomy to a more nuanced exchange…
Khin Thazin and Stephen Campbell: How the Myanmar coup has impacted migrant workers abroad
The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar put an end to the country’s ten-year period of quasi-civilian electoral rule—the so-called democratic transition, as it was optimistically called. Since…
A Memory of History or History of Memory? – A War Memorial ‘Simpson and His Donkey’
I remember when I was a little girl, I was fascinated with war memorials. Stone colossi towering over people, gravely staring into the infinite as if seeing something…
Alice Tilche & Akshay Kanna: The Village of the Dead
“Near Ahmedabad’s civil hospital, in a small dilapidated house. A dog lives with his wife and their children. After two days, the dog returns to his home. Af…
SAR Member Trip to Bears Ears, Utah
After a long pandemic-related hiatus, SAR relaunched member field trips on May 13 with a four-day journey to Bears Ears in Utah. Given the scale of this new…
The Same Old Song and Dance: Nothing Has Been Done to Reduce Mass Shootings
We are only a few days removed from the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX where nearly two dozen people were murdered in cold…
SAR Board Member John Arroyo Wins Whiting Fellowship
John Arroyo SAR’s academic board members continue to win major fellowships focused on innovative work in the public policy arena. John Arroyo, a recent SAR-Mellon Foundation Latinx Resident…
A Nation of Mini-Me’s: Why White Nationalists Need to “Save the Children”
The “great replacement theory”, “white genocide”, and “demographic winter” are all pseudoscientific conspiracy theories that did not begin, nor will they end, with Tucker Carlson or other FOX…
Noting the Loss of Two Significant SAR supporters
We are sorry to report the passing of two longtime SAR supporters. Benjamin Crane, 2015. Photo credit: Garret Vreeland Benjamin F. Crane, a distinguished New York attorney who…
Markus Virgil Hoehne: Perpetuating conflict through democratization: Presidential elections in Somalia
Presidential elections will happen in Somalia on Sunday, 15 May 2022. This will most likely not bring peace and stability to the war-torn Somali society. To the contrary,…
Moments in Places in Time
Growing up in the middle of Alaska, there was a window to another world on the wall of my living room. It was like no place I’d ever…
SAR Announces 2022-2023 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2022-2023 Native Artist Fellows …
Unveiling the Restored Jack Lambert Corral
Jack Lambert corral in winter, circa 1969. If you’ve walked or driven past the corner of Garcia Street and Camino Corrales lately, you may have noticed something…
“A student and a professor remember the UNC Charlotte mass shooting three years later”: NPR WFAE Charlotte: Sarah Delia
I have not done many interviews on the subject. Here is an NPR article in which I am featured alongside one of my students about the shooting in…
Susan Paulson: Gender-aware care in pandemic and postgrowth worlds
Coronavirus has provoked some of us to think about our worlds in new ways and to consider different horizons of change. Yet in many pandemic-related discourses and policies,…
Summer Research Positions in plastic pollution research (high school/youth), St. John’s or Nunatsiavut
We have four full time and part time positions for high school students and youth (under 30) in the lab this summer (2022)
Reflecting Three Years After the UNCC Mass Shooting
Every year at this time, I reflect on the shooting that occurred in my classroom on April 30, 2019, that took the lives of two students, injured four…