The Near Eastern Studies course “Listening to the Middle East” explored Quranic recitation and other soundscapes as a professional learning opportunity for local teachers.
On Oct. 16, President David J. Skorton sent a letter to the CEO of VF Corp., severing the university’s business relationship with JanSport, citing deep concern over the ongoing issues surrounding worker and factory safety in Bangladesh.
The South Asia Program and Southeast Asia Program received more than $3.9 million in Title VI grants under the federal National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships programs.
Jon Lindsay, assistant professor of digital media and global affairs at the University of Toronto, will discuss the threat of cyberwarfare in an Oct. 26 lecture hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center Center for Advanced Genocide Research and a USC professor, will talk about defiance and protest of the Nazi regime by Jews on March 17.