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On Chika Okeke-Agulu’s credenza, leaning against the wall of his office in Princeton’s Green Hall, are two powerful images: the cover of a vintage magazine and a photo that graces the cover of one of his recent books.

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Creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon’s life was upended by war. In 1992, he was a 27-year-old journalist on an international visitors’ program in the United States when war broke out in his homeland of Bosnia.

Princeton Int’l spoke with Wantchekon about peaceful conflict resolution and the African School of Economics, a project helping to erase some of Africa’s colonial legacies.

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Princeton Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes Helps with Potentially Game-Changing Find
A team of researchers including Princeton anthropologist Agustín Fuentes has found, deep in a cave system in South Africa, that an extinct, small-brained species of ancient human relatives buried their dead and used symbols, a discovery that could alter our understanding of human...
Poet and French Resistance leader René Char is the focus of a course that builds on his archives here
This spring, students in the course “Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable” explored Char’s poetry in its historical context and its ongoing “afterlife” in translations around the globe. They explored the Char Papers, held in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Special...
‘I Shot her a Follow on Twitter,’ and Soon This Princeton Senior was Researching Alongside his Econ Idol
Before Professor Seema Jayachandran became Amichai Feit’s senior thesis advisor, Feit knew her as a famous development economist he followed on Twitter. “I remember seeing a news story that she was hired at Princeton, and thought it was a really big deal,” he said. “So, I shot her a follow on...
Princeton, University of Tokyo students explore ‘Environment and Sustainability’ in spring break mini exchange
Over spring break, students from Princeton University and the University of Tokyo participated in a mini cultural exchange program — with events in New York City, at Rutgers University and on the Princeton campus — and looked ahead to longer, more meaningful student travel and immersion in the...
SPIA Researchers Named to Pioneering U.N. Nuclear Treaty Scientific Advisory Group
Three members of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs have been appointed to the newly launched Scientific Advisory Group of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Princeton, University of Tokyo collaborate on transnational project analyzing policing and democracy
This March, faculty members from the University of Tokyo conducted three workshops on data visualization at Princeton for students enrolled in the “Policing and Militarization Today” course.
PAW Fellow Explores New Research on Roman Power and Indigenous Communities During Visit to Campus
Each year, the Humanities Council’s Program in the Ancient World invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton to deliver a lecture, host a seminar, and meet PAW graduate students in an informal setting. This year’s 2022-23 PAW Fellow, Manuel Fernández-Götz...
Liechtenstein Institute’s Student-Led Simulation Holds Promise for U.N. Reform
At SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), a student-led simulation is helping diplomats, students, and faculty members envision scenarios to foster a more accountable United Nations Security Council.
Center for Global India hosts ‘Cinema with Power’ series with inaugural artist-in-residence, Prakash Jha
The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) held “Cinema with Power,” a series of events with Indian director, producer and screenwriter Prakash Jha from April 11 to 23.
Berlin Prize Awarded to Moravcsik, Slaughter
A SPIA faculty member and a former SPIA dean are among 26 recipients of the 2023-2024 Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin.