Nearly 70 faculty and administrators attended CAORC's workshop at Montgomery College on April 5, Going Global, Growing Global: Fostering International Education and Exchange at Community Colleges. The symposium aimed to support knowledge sharing and networking among community colleges in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and Maryland engaged in developing global education, study abroad, and international curriculum development opportunities. In addition to CAORC and MC, pr

CAORC sponsored the panel discussion, Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational Engagement, at the 2019 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, held in Denver on March 23, 2019. The panel featured representatives from several overseas research centers—the American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Khmer Studies, American Center for Mongolian Studies, and American Institute of Pakistan Studies—who discusse

Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational Engagement An Association for Asian Studies 2019 Conference Panel Session Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 9:00 – 10:45am Columbine, Tower Building, Terrace Level Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel The American overseas research centers (ORCs) have long played a critical role in supporting American and international scholarly research within Asian area studies, offering a broad range of f

CAORC, and many of the ORCs, will again be attending the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference this November 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. Below is a list of panels associated with ORCs: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is sponsoring, or has participants on, seven panels: - "Tunisia’s Progress Since the Revolution" (P4066) Saturday, 11/21, 5:30pm - "A Century of Women’s Rights in the MENA: Where Have the Men Gone?" (P4061) Sunday, 11/22, 11am

"La France est notre Patrie" (France Is Our Mother Country) is the latest film- documentary by acclaimed Cambodian film Director Rithy Panh on the French colonial empire. With a special focus on French Indochina, this creative and skillful work of editing weaves together archival footages and antiqued title cards into an eloquent silent movie that subtly criticizes the concept of "mother country" as promoted by the French colonies in Southeast Asia and Africa. This film was

CEMAT (Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis) is excited to announce that Imen Chemengui, one of five 2015 Grant for Graduate Research (GGR) scholars, has been at the University of California at Berkeley for the past two months carrying out her research on “The Narration of the Self: Narrative and the Trauma of Colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction”. Ms. Chemengui, a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Manouba, is currently preparing to come home aft

Four U.S. doctoral students attended the summer Persian language session at the Sa'di Foundation in Tehran, Iran. Along with six days of coursework per week, students were taken on field trips to cultural sites and locations in and outside Tehran. They had some, albeit limited, time to pursue their own research as well. The Sa'di Foundation is a newly established organization intended to centralize Persian language studies in Iran and disseminate knowledge abroad. Instead of

Those who have stayed in the Garden Apartment (GA) in the southern wing of the Albright campus in Jerusalem may no longer recognize it. We are delighted to announce its completed renovation, and are grateful for the generosity of an anonymous donor (and previous tenant), who felt passionately that the apartment be updated. “The GA is now the nicest apartment on the property!” said Director Matthew J. Adams. “As the Albright moves to modernize, I want this and all future renov

This latest documentary by American documentarian Arthur Dong is based on the autobiography of Dr. Haing Ngor, who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide under harrowing conditions, and went on to act in a movie on the subject: The Killing Fields. Dr. Ngor received an Academy Award for his extraordinary performance, and then used his name to actively raise awareness about the genocide and advocate for greater human rights in Cambodia before he was tragically killed in a robbery.

Over the next few years the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) will be partnering with the Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs (ISMD), a Mongolian NGO created by Dr. Bolortsetseg from the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution, to promote and develop local interest in paleontology and educate the population about the importance of this cultural treasure. As part of this initiative, the ISMD has donated a state-of-the art mobile

In a bid to better utilize the Albright's ample grounds, preliminary work began this summer on an outdoor archaeological laboratory on the former tennis court, at the eastern edge of the property. In light of Director Matthew Adams' aim to continually improve the experience of the Albright’s Fellows and scholars, and the demand for space for processing large assemblages of archaeological material from excavations, the lab will feature a work area sheltered from sun and rain,

The Visionaries series airs "Peace Through Scholarly Exchange" documenting the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and its work. The Visionaries is produced for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and comprises documentaries about individuals and organizations working to establish positive social change throughout the world. Last year, the production staff at Visionaries received hundreds of requests and the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) was selected to be pr

On August 17th, the fourth shipment of 10,000 new books arrived at the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) headquarters. This recent shipment is part of a growing initiative to increase access to English reading material and provide Mongolian Universities with updated reference material. Half of the shipment contains elementary level reading material. The remainder are scientific, medical, and business textbooks for local universities to be incorporated into future c

​ Most of the participants. On August 13-15, the International Young Researchers’ Forum took place at the Mongolian National University of Education in Ulaanbaatar. The forum was sponsored and organized by the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) and aimed to create an effective interactive space for young researchers to bond and create connections with foreign and domestic researchers to start their own research projects. The first two days were strictly academic wor

This symposium brought together grassroots organizations and individuals who are interested in innovative and high-impact educational programs to teach Indonesia’s most vulnerable youth. Through collaboration with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI-US Embassy), this event was also an opportunity to expand the American Institute for Indonesian Studies' (AIFIS) outreach to exchange programs. This event was attended by 80 young leaders, 5 institutions which off

Two Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) fellows, Jennifer Kelly and Maryam Griffin, have received University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowships! Jennifer will be at UC San Diego working with PARC fellow Gary Fields on her work, while Maryam will be at UC Davis working with Sunaina Maira. The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue

Mourad Romdhani – Ph.D. candidate in English Literature from the University of Sousse in Tunisia CEMAT (Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis) is excited to announce that Mourad Romdhani, one of five 2015 GGR (Grant for Graduate Research in the U.S.) scholars, arrived at the University of Mississippi this July to kick-start his U.S. scholarly campus experience with participation in a conference on William Faulkner. Mr. Romdhani, a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at th

The JETS project (Jeunesse, Entreprise et Transformation Sociale/Youth, Entrepreneurship and Social Transformation) is a joint project of Baltimore-based International Youth Foundation (IYF) (http://www.iyfnet.org); and the West African Research Center. Project funds were entrusted to UNESCO-Dakar by the Japanese Fund-in-Trust for the benefit of the Senegalese Ministry of Youth. When IYF was selected by UNESCO for implementation, they in turn selected WARC as their partner. A

As part of the celebration of Ramadhan, the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) facilitated a field visit to Pesantren Krapyak near Jogjakarta, Indonesia. A Pesantren is an Islamic boarding school where santri (students) learn the Koran, religious philosophies, traditions of exegesis, law, etc. and is a mainstay of the Indonesian religious education system. Pesantren that provide housing or dormitory at low or no cost for santri are led by religious leaders know

At the invitation of the U.S. Embassy, American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Director Barbara Porter participated on 9 June 2015 in the closing ceremony for the U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant for a project at Umm al Jimal in northern Jordan, just south of the Syrian border. The site encompasses a prosperous Byzantine town with many 5th and 6th century houses and churches built out of the local black basalt. The AFCP-funded project focused