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Essay Contest: Journal of International Affairs

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Dear Students,

The Journal of International Affairs is seeking student submissions for its semiannual Cordier student essay contest. The author of the winning article will receive $500 and publication alongside noted scholars in the Journal’s forthcoming issue on the Geopolitics of Energy.

Published by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, the Journal of International Affairs is one of the oldest and most respected foreign affairs periodicals.

Fall 2015: The Geopolitics of Energy

The upcoming issue will explore the problems and solutions that energy strategies add to the geopolitical and environmental problems we face today.

The committee welcomes papers on any energy-related topic. Possible topics may include:

  • The link between oil prices and regime change
  • ISIS and oil theft
  • Shale gas revolution’s effect on US and major exporters to US
  • Latin America’s leap to renewable energy
  • Energy and climate treaties
  • Exploring the Arctic

Submission Guidelines:

  • Essays cannot have been previously published, but need not be written
  • specifically for the contest. Papers submitted for academic credit are welcome, provided they are relevant to the upcoming issue’s theme.
  • Papers should not exceed 4,000 words.
  • Citations should be in the form of footnotes formatted according to the
  • Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition.
  • The Cordier contest is open to all Columbia University students, both
  • graduate and undergraduate.

Submission Deadline:

September 25, 2015 at 11:59pm EST. Interested authors may submit their papers via the online submission form (URL:http://www.jotform.us/JIACordierGPPN/Fall_2015).

For more information about the Journal of International Affairs, visit our website.

Any further questions may be directed to Sophia Barney-Farrar (Cordier Editor) at

s.barneyfarrar@columbia.edu.

INVITE: Screening of No Fire Zone @ SIPA

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Award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae visits Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) on Monday, February 2, for a screening of his documentary No Fire Zone. His investigation into the final days of the 26-year Sri Lanka civil war sheds light on the government’s brutal military offensive and incorporates direct evidence of war crimes, summary executions, torture and sexual violence via footage recorded from within the zone.

Macrae will also discuss his continuing efforts to raise awareness of these human rights issues—considering the lines between journalism and advocacy. His visit comes against the backdrop of recent elections in Sri Lanka that saw a change in government and an anticipated report due this spring from a UN war crimes inquiry.

No Fire Zone is one of five films to win the 2014 BRITDOC Impact Award, which celebrates standout documentary films that are changing the world. The documentary also was nominated for an International Emmy Award.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Macrae, Pulitzer Center senior editor Tom Hundley, and Kate Cronin-Furman, a human rights lawyer and political scientist whose research focuses on international justice and accountability for mass atrocities.

Reception to follow

“No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”
Monday, February 2
12:30-2 pm
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Columbia University
420 W. 118th Street
Room 1512
New York, NY 10027

To RSVP, please click here.

Presented by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Human Rights Working Group, and the International Media, Advocacy, and Communications program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

INVITE: Ferguson Solidarity Rally and Town Hall

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Columbia Student Groups Invite Community to Join them at Ferguson Solidarity Rally and Town Hall 

Rally: Monday, Sept. 15, 6:30pm

Where: Butler Lawn, Columbia University

Town Hall: Wednesday, Sept. 17, 6:30 pm

Where: Columbia Law School, Room 104

The New York community is invited to attend both events which are open to the public.

Town Hall&Rally

For more details: CU Rally Media Advisory

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Courdier Essay Contest

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Dear Students,

The Journal of International Affairs is seeking student submissions for its semiannual Cordier Essay Contest. The author of the winning article will receive $500 along with publication alongside noted scholars in the Journal’s forthcoming issue on Uprisings, Protests, and Revolutions. Published by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, the Journal of International Affairs is one of the oldest and most respected foreign affairs periodicals.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Essays cannot have been previously published, but need not be written specifically for the contest. Papers submitted for academic credit are welcome, provided they are relevant to the upcoming issue’s theme.
  • Papers should not exceed 4,000 words.
  • Citations should be in the form of footnotes formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style 16th ed
  • The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay Contest is open to all students currently enrolled at Columbia University and affiliated schools

·         Submission Deadline: 7 September 2014, 11:59 PM EDT. Interested authors can send submissions or questions to Michael Stecher (Cordier Editor) at mjs2310@columbia.edu.

Fall 2014: Uprisings, Protests, and Revolutions

The Fall 2014 issue will explore the recent international wave of uprisings from a variety of angles. Among the topics covered will be the role of social media and new technology in the organization and execution of contemporary protest movements, as well as the ways that regimes have manipulated these same resources to quell dissent. Beyond technology, we will also explore the role of violence and nonviolence as methods and how they have contributed to the success or failures of protestors’ and revolutionaries’ goals. Another section will look at the international response to uprisings. Why do some movements lead to intervention by powerful states and international organizations, while others are left to fend for themselves? Finally, as a complement to the above topics, we will feature case studies on movements that have been less widely covered.

Uprisings, Protests, and Revolutions is a topic that should allow authors to take a scholarly view of momentous social changes with extreme contemporary relevance and historical import. The Journal’s editorial board plans to approach the topic in a holistic manner that is more than news analysis and attempts to shape the way that these events will be considered a generation from now.

Fall 2014 Cordier Essay: Discuss a contemporary issue that is related to the causes, success, failure, or implications of a contemporary or ongoing uprising, protest, or revolutionary movement. The submission may consider any of the topics described above or address a separate question related to contemporary uprisings, protests, and revolutions (e.g. the economic causes of contemporary social unrest). A successful essay will explore a specific facet and apply lessons learned to the broader issue.

EVENT: Dean’s Seminar on Governance of the Internet @ SIPA

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SIPA has extended an invitation to their upcoming event: Dean’s Seminar on Governance of the Internet   

Monday, April 14, 2014
12:00 – 1:15 P.M.
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street, New York, New York

Moderated by Merit E. Janow, Dean, Columbia SIPA and Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs.

Join Dean Merit E. Janow and an all-star panel of technology experts to discuss regulation and supervision of the internet.

PANELISTS:

Gordon Goldstein, Managing  Director, Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake Group with responsibility for global external affairs including government relations, public policy, strategic communications, and media relations issues; represented Silver Lake as a member of the U.S. government and industry delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications

Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP; previously U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State; one of the world’s foremost experts on international telecommunications, having led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone else

Eli Noam, Professor of Economics and Finance and Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility at the Columbia Business School; formerly Commissioner for Public Services of New York State; appointed by the White House to the President’s IT Advisory Committee; and Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on management and policy issues in communications, internet, and media

Laura DeNardis, Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Communication at American University; globally recognized internet scholar and author of The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press, 2014); Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance; and member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP).

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This event will be livestreamed at sipa.columbia.edu/live