College of International Studies students presented their work at the International Studies Association's Northeast Annual Conference 2025, in collaboration with OU CIS Professor Mark Raymond.
Student presenters left to right:
Morgan Chen, with contributions from Tasfia Zeba (not pictured, was unable to attend the conference in person), presented on 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮: 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨’ 𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙.
Typhaine Joffe presented on 𝘿𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙩: 𝙁𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨.
In the most recent online edition of the world’s leading foreign policy magazine, Foreign Affairs, Moritz Graefrath and Mark Raymond argue that Canada, Germany and Japan should jointly develop their own nuclear weapons. They argue that this will not only benefit both the United States and its key allies, but also strengthen the increasingly brittle global order.
Join the CIS Center for Student Success for a unique opportunity for a recruitment information session from the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).
Career CIA officers will provide a brief on the CIA and the 5 directorates that make up the organization, and how they work together and interface with the rest of the Intelligence community. The primary focus will be on the Directorate of Operations and how University of Oklahoma students might become CIA officers in the future. There will be a detailed portion on the hiring process for potential applicants.
The CIA is the United States Intelligence Community's primary leader in the collection of Human intelligence.
Wednesday, December 3rd
12:00 - 1:30 pm or 4:30 -6:00 pm*
*There are two options for attendance. Lunch will be served at the 12 pm session, and light snacks will be served at the 4:30 pm session.
Farzaneh Hall, Room 145
The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Join the Center for Peace and Development, Cuadernos de Trabajo del Cechimex and Security in Context for a look into “The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
Examine the strategic development policy implications of shifting global power dynamics, particularly the rise of China and the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry, on Latin American and the Caribbean, and the wider Global South countries.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Join via Zoom at Zoom ID: 899 1660 5224
Event schedule below:
Introduction: 9:00-9:10 AM
Firat Demir, University of Oklahoma & Security in Context
Enrique Dussel Peters, Graduate School of Economic, UNAM and Cechimex
Session 1: 9:10-10:40 AM
Moderator: Firat Demir, University of Oklahoma & Security in Context
Kevin Gallagher, Boston University and Global Development Policy Center
Celio Hiratuka, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Enrique Dussel Peters, Graduate School of Economic, UNAM and Cechimex
Session 2: 10:45-12:30 PM
Moderator: Firat Demir, University of Oklahoma & Security in Context
Rhys Jenkins, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia
Jorge Carrillo Viveros, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Evan Ellis, Latin American Studies, The U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute
CIS End-of-Semester Winter Wonderland Social
Join the CIS Center for Student Success for its end-of-semester social, hosted by the 2025-2026 CIS Ambassadors. At the event, attendees will have the opportunity to make snowflakes, decorate winter cookies and create winter snap crackers!
Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, December 4th, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Farzaneh Hall, Boren Library and Room 142
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July 2, 2025
Dr. Manata Hashemi gives an account of her recent experience in Iran.
Manata Hashemi is the Farzaneh Family Associate Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She focuses on Middle Eastern culture and society. She has lived in Iran and the U.S. and writes about the human stories behind geopolitical conflicts.
April 2, 2025
Dr. Afshin Marashi presented as part of The Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center's 2025 Seminar Series at Princeton University.
Afshin Marashi is Professor and Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma. From 2011-2020 he served as the founding director of the university’s Center for Iranian Studies. He has also served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) and on the council of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS). Dr. Marashi’s research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iranian nationalism, in its comparative, transnational, and global contexts.
For Immediate Release
Dec. 12, 2024
NORMAN, OKLA. – An international jury has selected Taiwanese poet Ling Yü 零⾬ (Wang Meiqin 王美琴) as the winner of the 2025 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Institute for US-China Issues in the David L. Boren College of International Studies, the Newman Prize is awarded biennially to recognize outstanding achievement in prose or poetry that best captures the human condition, based solely on literary merit. Any living author writing in Chinese is eligible.
Ling Yü will receive $10,000 and an engraved bronze medallion. She will be celebrated at an award symposium and banquet to be held on the OU Norman campus during the last week of March 2025 along with the winners of the International Newman Prizes for English Jueju.
Ling Yü was nominated for the prize by Professor Cosima Bruno (SOAS, London), who praised her poetry for its “untrammeled, ingenious lyricism” and its ability to weave contemporary themes and personal experiences with the controlled elegance of classical Chinese poetry.
Bruno remarked in her nomination statement:
"Ling Yü’s language is economical and concise, yet surprising and reverberating with complex meaning. Her poetry engages thoughtfully with classical and modern, Eastern and Western literary, philosophical, artistic, and esoteric sources, generating outstanding works that require attention but are also intuitively grasped. Through her works, readers encounter a prism of rich, elegantly employed references that span themes of meditation, travel, feminism, capitalism, the environment, mythology and more.”
Ling Yü’s extensive body of work includes nine collections of poetry, such as Series on a City (《城的連作》1990), Names Disappearing on the Map (《消失在地圖上的名字》1992), Mudong Hymns (《⽊冬詠歌集》1999), I'm Heading for You (《我正前往你》2010), and her recent collections Skin-Coloured Time (《膚⾊的時光》2018) and Daughters (《女兒》2022). Her poetry spans topics such as cultural heritage, mythological figures, ecological concern, and autobiographical reflection. Her work has been widely recognized, translated into multiple languages, and presented at major international poetry festivals, including the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam and the Hong Kong International Poetry Nights.
Other nominees for the 2025 prize include an extraordinary group of contemporary poets: Zheng Xiaoqiong / 郑⼩琼 (nominated by Zhou Xiaojing, Pacifica University, USA), Yam Gong 飲江 (nominated by Chris Song, University of Toronto, Canada), Ouyang Jianghe 欧阳江河 (nominated by Wu Xiaodong, Peking University, PRC), and Bai Hua 柏樺 (nominated by Luo Hui, Victoria University, New Zealand).
“Once again, this year’s nominees were incredibly competitive as each demonstrate the incredible diversity and depth of contemporary Chinese literature,” said Jonathan Stalling, director of the Newman Prize and interim dean of the David L. Boren College of International Studies. “Ling Yü’s singular voice and masterful blending of classical and contemporary poetic traditions has left an indelible and positive mark on Sinophone poetry and poetics and exemplifies the spirit of the Newman Prize, celebrating the most compelling voices in Chinese literature today.”
About the Voting Process
The winner of the Newman Prize is selected through a transparent and rigorous process. The five jurors participated in successive rounds of positive elimination voting, held via Zoom in October 2024. In this voting method, jurors vote for all but one candidate in each round, gradually narrowing the field until one candidate remains. The director of the Institute for US-China Issues carefully recorded each round to ensure fairness and transparency.
About the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
The Newman Prize honors Harold J. and Ruth Newman, whose generous endowment of a chair at the University of Oklahoma enabled the creation of the OU Institute for US-China Issues in 2006. The Newman Prize Programs embody Harold Newman’s belief that literature and poetry bridge people across cultures and languages because they speak directly to our shared humanity.
OU is also home to the Newman Prize for English Jueju, the Chinese Literature Translation Archive and Special Collections, the journals Chinese Literature and Thought Today and World Literature Today, as well as the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Past Newman Prize winners include Previous winners of the Newman Prize include Mainland Chinese novelists
Previous winners of the Newman Prize include Mainland Chinese novelists Mo Yan
(莫⾔) in 2009, Han Shaogong (韩少功) in 2011, Chu Tien-wen (朱天⽂) in 2013, Wang Anyi (王安忆) in 2017, Yan Lianke in 2021 and Chang Kuei-hsing (2023), and Mo Yan went on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Newman Prize Winning poets include Yang Mu (楊牧) 2013 and Xi Xi (西西) in 2019.
For more information, please visit the Newman Prize website or contact Jonathan Stalling at (405) 325-6973.
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Contact:
Jonathan Stalling
Co-Director, Institute for US-China Issues
Office: (405) 325-1584
stalling@ou.edu
About the University of Oklahoma and the David L. Boren College of International Studies, and Institute for US-China Issues.
Founded in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. OU serves the educational, cultural, economic and health care needs of the state, region, and nation. For more information, visit www.ou.edu. For more information about OU’s David L. Boren College of International Studies, please visit www.ou.edu/cis, and more information about the Newman Prize visit https://www.ou.edu/cis/research/institute-for-us-china-issues/us-china-cultural-issues/newman-prize-for-chinese-literature
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OADII - Oklahoma Aerospace & Defense Innovation Institute and OU International Security Student Association Present (Ret.) Colonel Drew Allen and (Ret.) General Robin Rand. "Lessons Learned From over 65 Years of Air Force Service" Wednesday, April 10, 2024 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the OU Armory located at 440 W. Brooks St.
Two student delegations from the University of Oklahoma placed in the top eight at the Midwest Model United Nations 64 conference. The conference included over 100 delegations from 29 different institutions. OU’s Model UN student organization brought three delegations, 16 students.
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An article by Rachel Schwartz, Assistant Professor of International & Area Studies, was named among the top 10 most-read Hopkins Press journal articles of 2023. "How Guatemala Defied the Odds," which Schwartz co-authored with Anita Isaacs, was published in the October 2023 issue of the Journal of Democracy.
The University of Oklahoma announced today the students named to its fall 2023 honor roll, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards. A total of 9,859 students were named to the fall 2023 honor roll. Of these students, 4,290 were named to the President’s Honor Roll for earning an “A” grade in all their courses.
In the interest of promoting African studies and supporting student research at the University of Oklahoma, the African Studies Institute will provide a Student Research Grant of up to $1,000 to support independent student research or creative activity related to African studies. The competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.
Early in her undergraduate career, Jackie Gibson set a goal: to one day work as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. The Tulsa native earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies with three minors –Chinese, international security studies, and global energy, environment and resources – and then continued at CIS for her master’s in international studies (MAIS). Now in her final year of graduate school, Gibson is drawing closer to her goal: last fall, she began a Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) internship with the U.S. Department of State.
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