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Stanford Global Studies unveils the winners of annual student photo contest

Stanford Global Studies unveils the winners of annual student photo contest

Stanford Global Studies (SGS) has unveiled the winners of its eleventh annual student photo contest. More than 100 photos, taken from a…
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Freedom! ’21: Latest Developments in Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan

Freedom! ’21: Latest Developments in Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan

Taiwan approaches full parity for same-sex marriage, at least where one of the parties is a Taiwan national
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Stanford International Relations Commencement Speech: Heajune (June) Lee ’21

Stanford International Relations Commencement Speech: Heajune (June...

The following is a speech written by Heajune (June) Lee, who majored in international relations and minored in computer science. June was…
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Stanford Global Studies announces the winners of its tenth annual student photo contest

Stanford Global Studies announces the winners of its tenth annual s...

Stanford Global Studies (SGS) has unveiled the winners of its tenth annual photo contest. Each year, the competition celebrates the…
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Indigenous scholar, activist discusses racial inequality in Latin America

Indigenous scholar, activist discusses racial inequality in Latin A...

A conversation with Dr. Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj
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SGS student organizes fundraiser to support victims of deadly explosion in Beirut

SGS student organizes fundraiser to support victims of deadly explo...

When global studies minor Gabby Conforti ’22 first heard about the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4, which ravaged…
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Student creates program that matches most vulnerable individuals with local volunteers amid…

Student creates program that matches most vulnerable individuals wi...

By Priya Chatwani, Center for South Asia
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Quarantine Reflections from Abroad

Quarantine Reflections from Abroad

By Muskan Shafat, Center for South Asia
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On Stanford stardom and how to be the least smart person in the room

On Stanford stardom and how to be the least smart person in the room

By Veronica Anghel, Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at The Europe Center
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A love affair with Siberian graffiti: Searching for contemporary street art along the…

A love affair with Siberian graffiti: Searching for contemporary st...

By Abigail Thompson, M.A. candidate in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
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Winning photos from the 2020 student photo contest

Winning photos from the 2020 student photo contest

This year, more than 140 photos were entered into the Stanford Global Studies annual student photo contest. We are excited to announce the…
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Visiting scholar from China discusses research on Iraqi Kurdistan

Visiting scholar from China discusses research on Iraqi Kurdistan

Ruiheng Li, a Ph.D. student at Peking University in Beijing, China joined the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies this year as a visiting…
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Interning in India

Interning in India

In summer 2019, Vanessa Veak, Undeclared ’22, completed an internship through the Global Studies Internship Program at Magic Bus India…
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Student reflects on internship at EcoPeace Middle East

Student reflects on internship at EcoPeace Middle East

Aitran Doan, ‘20 is an international relations major who spent her summer interning in Amman, Jordan at EcoPeace Middle East, a unique…
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Iran’s Large and Growing Financing Gap

Iran’s Large and Growing Financing Gap

Stanford 2040 Project
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An Optimist’s Guide to Finding Meaning at Stanford

An Optimist’s Guide to Finding Meaning at Stanford

How to Find Purpose and Direction On Your Way Through
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Q&A with Zenith Irfan: Pakistan’s fearless motorcycle girl

Q&A with Zenith Irfan: Pakistan’s fearless motorcycle girl

In this interview, we caught up with Zenith Irfan, the first Pakistani woman to travel solo across the country on a motorbike. Her…
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Meet Maira Hayat, postdoctoral scholar in the Center for South Asia

Meet Maira Hayat, postdoctoral scholar in the Center for South Asia

Maira Hayat is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for South Asia, the Department of Anthropology, and the Woods Institute for the…
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A conversation with “Motorcycle Girl” director Adnan Sarwar

A conversation with “Motorcycle Girl” director Adnan Sarwar

On Wednesday, July 31, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies will screen the movie “Motorcycle Girl” as part of the Stanford Global…
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Stanford International Relations Commencement Speech: Audrey Huynh, ‘19

Stanford International Relations Commencement Speech: Audrey Huynh,...

The following is a speech written by Audrey Huynh, who majored in international relations and minored in human rights. Audrey was selected…
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Stanford International Relations Commencement Speech: Lloyd Lyall ‘19

Stanford International Relations Commencement Speech: Lloyd Lyall ‘19

The following is a speech written by Lloyd Lyall, International Relations ’19, who was selected as a student speaker at the International…
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Combating disinformation in the media of South Asia: Meet Indian journalist H R Venkatesh

Combating disinformation in the media of South Asia: Meet Indian jo...

H R Venkatesh is an Indian journalist who came to Stanford in 2018 through the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship. As a JSK fellow, he…
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“Learn more, educate yourself, understand, know what’s happening” in Uganda in order to be helpful…

“Learn more, educate yourself, understand, know what’s happening” i...

Nicholas Opiyo, a Ugandan human rights attorney, spoke at the annual Stanford Global Studies student dinner on Wednesday, April 17 at the…
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Winning images from the 2019 student photo contest

Winning images from the 2019 student photo contest

Congratulations to the six students who won this year’s student photo contest.
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Meet Anubha Anushree and Mejgan Massoumi, graduate students researching South Asia

Meet Anubha Anushree and Mejgan Massoumi, graduate students researc...

Anubha Anushree and Mejgan Massoumi are Ph.D. candidates in history affiliated with the Center for South Asia (CSA). Anubha’s research…
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