In an opinion piece for Responsible Statecraft, Oriental Institute Deputy Director Kevin L. Schwartz explains why the Houthis should be understood as a group with its own agency rather than a mere proxy of Iran: https://buff.ly/3IEqkvx
GMA News Online featured a photo essay on the Oriental Institute's librarian, Reysa Alenzuela: https://buff.ly/3IwBBxJ
In an opinion piece for the New Arab, Oriental Institute Deputy Director Kevin L. Schwartz writes how US foreign policy in the Middle East is on autopilot, its response to the current war in Gaza only being the latest example: https://buff.ly/3w2vCh4
Despite being out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US has normalized a militarized approach to security worldwide
NIAS Public Lecture The līlā of communication and consciousness: Thinking with Ramchandra Gandhi’s philosophy of non-dualism Dr James Madaio Consciousness Studies Programme NIAS Lecture Hall | 24 Apr 2023, 11:30 hrs Abstract: This paper explores how the philosopher Ramchandra Gandhi (1937-2007) ...
Oriental Institute researcher Kevin L. Schwartz and Olmo Gölz discuss how the propaganda machine of the Islamic Republic has responded to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in Iran in an article for Qantara.
Researcher Kevin L. Schwartz and Olmo Gölz from the University of Freiburg discuss how the women-led protests in Iran are subverting the Islamic Republic's hyper-masculine gender order in an opinion piece for The New Arab.
Sinologist and Oriental Institute Director Táňa Dluhošová sat down with Lucie Němečková from @mistnikultura to discuss Taiwanese literature, women writers, and the reach of Havel, Kafka & other Czech authors in Taiwan today. [in Czech].
Kevin L. Schwartz and Olmo Gölz (University of Freiburg) published an essay for the Middle East Research and Information Project on how the Iranian government is attempting to balance regime ideology with responses to the COVID-19 health crisis.