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Alumni Survey MA Programme

Please help us to further improve our (teaching) activities for students, our activities for alumni and our marketing for ISS and fill in the questionnaire for ISS alumni. This survey is for MA alumni; another version for Diploma alumni will be sent later. Your contribution will be very much appreciated. The results are crucial for the future of ISS!

Internationalization as quality feature at ISS

In December 2010, ISS received the internationalization as a distinctive quality feature accreditation from the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO).

ISS and Scholas now have their own pages on Facebook

An Exercise in Worldmaking

For the fifth year in a row, Scholas, the ISS student organization, has compiled a 'best' student essay book comprising of 14 essays written by the 2009/10 batch of MA student. The full text is available on the website.

NIAS fellowship 2012 for Dubravka Zarkov

Dubravka Zarkov received NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science) fellowship for 2012.

During the period of February - June, she will coordinate a combined Dutch/ex-Yugoslav research team, working on the research project 'The Real and the Imagined in the Contemporary Balkans', and also conduct her own research within the larger project.

Dubravka is the second member of Staff Group 3 to become NIAS fellow. In 2010 it was Irene van Staveren.

Dubravka Zarkov is Associate Professor in Gender, Development and Conflict Studies at ISS.

ISS hosts two new research initiatives on rural poverty

Inititiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies - a community of like-minded scholars, development practitioners and activists from different parts of the world who are working on agrarian issues.

Visit the ICAS website at www.iss.nl/icas

Land Deal Politics Initiative - set up by five institutions to facilitate deep, meaningful and productive debates around the causes and implications of the 'global land grab'.

Visit the LDPI website at www.iss.nl/ldpi

Graduation ceremony 2009/2010 MA batch

ISS has produced a video of the full ceremony.

Women are key to conservation

So says ISS honorary fellow, Bina Agarwal in Newsweek.

Read the full article (pdf file)

New Deputy Rector Educational Affairs

As of 1 March 2011, Dr Jos Mooij will take up the 50% position as Deputy Rector Educational Affairs. Dr Mooij is Associate Professor in Public Policy and Management and will take up her new position for a period of 3 years.

Two more Inaugural Lectures

The last 2 inaugural lectures for the recently appointed extraordinary professors took place in December and January:

Des Gasper: Influencing the Climate

Irene van Staveren: Mind and Matter

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Alumni news & careers

Passing away two ISS alumni

ISS is shocked by the news that two of its alumni passed away in December 2010.

Randolph Anthony Piazza (Murph for those who knew him) suddenly passed away in Venezuela at the age of 36. Randolph was in the MA programme Rural Livelihoods and Global Change in 2004/2005.

Cates Bool-Nunez from the Philippines also passed away unexpectedly. She was in the MA Human Resources and Development in 2005/2006.

Our deepest condolences for their relatives and friends. ISS rector Leo de Haan has written a memoriam for both alumni.

The India chapter of Holland Alumni had an essay competition, which was won by Shikainah Champion Samuel (CYD 2004/2005)http://www.nesoindia.org/home/news-events/news-archive/2010/december/the-c-in-the-cyd-course-shikainah-champion-samuel

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Alumni meetings

Upcoming meetings

• Quito, Ecuador on 8 February 2011
• Paramaribo, Suriname on 11 February 2011
• La Paz, Bolivia on 14 or 15 February 2011
• Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23 February 2011

More information here

Recent Meetings

Kathmandu - January 2011 Over 30 Nepalese ISS alumni met on 7 January 2011 at the Summit Hotel in Kathmandu for an enthousiastic and lively meeting.

Brasilia, December 2010 A dinner for former ISS students was hosted by Dr. Lee Pegler, in Brasilia, Brasil on 14 December 2010. It was a most enjoyable meeting at a very pleasant restaurant and attended by five alumni, all of whom have interesting public sector or research jobs.

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New publications

Nutrition as a public health problem: 1900-1947. C. Sathyamala. ISS Working Paper no. 510
Gender trends in developing countries during financial crises. Irene van Staveren. ISS Working Paper no. 511
The Master model on multi-actor and multilevel social responsibilities: a conceptual framework for policies and governance on stakeholders’ social responsibilities. Patricia Almeida Ashley. ISS Working Paper no. 512
On the brink of deglobalization, Peter A. G. van Bergeijk
Economic diplomacy and the geography of international trade, Peter A. G. van Bergeijk
Mobilising social justice in South Africa: perspectives from researchers and practitioners, Jeff Handmaker and Remko Berkhout

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