The Center for International Studies

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March 10, 2009
Rashid Khalidi on The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

From the World Beyond the Headlines series.

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CIS Announces the 2009-10 Norman Wait Harris Competition

The 2009-10 Norman Wait Harris competition has concluded. The awards provide funding for campus events on international topics. Preference is given to events that are multi-disciplinary in nature and open to the general public.

Among the events that CIS's Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund will support in whole or in part during 2009-10 are the following conferences, seminars, symposia and lecture series:

• New Histories of Modern Art: The East European Avant Gardes
• German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation
• Beyond Participation: Commoners & Independence in Latin America
• Migration in the North American Corridor
• Islamist Movements Across the Globe
• Women in the Middle East, Past & Present
• Peculiar Institutions: Borders, Boundaries & Identities
• Bullets to Ballots: Enabling Peaceful Political Settlement
• Asturias and Asturians Throughout History: Past Present and Future
• Montesquieu and the Uses of Nobility
• Contemporary European Perspectives on Plurilingualism, Communication & the European Order

Read more about the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund...