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SPEAKING OF EUROPE - NEWS AND NOTES FROM IFE.
A quarterly letter from IFE about student achievement, developments at IFE, as well as trends, events, context.
Islam is France: Diversity, discrimination and xenophobia
Studying abroad can be a chance to engage with those working on the difficult stuff, like discrimination. IFE student Samantha joined the staff of AMSED, an NGO that combats discrimination and barriers to diversity, focusing her research on islamophobia. As her advisor, Professor Jean...
Internationalizing Higher Education: Reset ahead?
As universities in North America, Europe and elsewhere confront current pressures stemming from what is now called politicization of the university, it is difficult not to see the 1995 GATS treaty as universities’ pandora moment. Writing recently, an HE consultant noted that “This was...
Asturias as Myth, Memory, and Ideology: Reading David Guardado’s Nuncia Vencida [Never Defeated], a history of the idea of Asturias
In Nunca vencida Asturian philologist and essayist David Guardado advances a striking thesis: Asturias can be understood less as a stable historical reality than as a symbolic narrative continuously reconstructed across centuries. Rather than writing a history of Asturias itself,...
Briefly Issue 9
- Exploring new methodologies in feminism
- IFE Alum awarded an Eiffel grant to study
Can Cities Save the Day? French elections, sanctuaries, social ties, and the witness of IFE alumni (now) city planners
Increasing attention is being paid in Europe and America to how politics and policy at the municipal level can open up avenues of change. Recent France-wide municipal elections brought this theme to the fore. Speaking of Europe turns to three program alums who are now seasoned urban...
Should They Stay or Should They Go? Humanities questioned abroad as well
Arts, humanities, and even social sciences are under pressure in university systems in many places, but they are also fighting back a bit everywhere. Some suggest that their fight is the university’s own fight, against utilitarian oversight and authoritarian overreach.