On March 21, 2013, Dr. Gyula Csurgai, academic director of the Switzerland: International Studies and Multilateral Diplomacy program, presented a paper at the United Nations in Geneva. The paper discussed different approaches to local and territorial autonomies and protecting minority rights as a means of preventing ethnic conflicts. In addition, Dr. Csurgai contributed to a [...]
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SIT Academic Director Presents at Health Conference in Geneva
SIT Academic Director Dr. Christian Viladent presented at the 18th International Humanitarian Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, from February 21–22, 2013. The conference is sponsored by Webster University in Geneva and brings together practitioners and scholars, members of the Geneva-based international community, and other civil society officials and representatives. This year’s conference was focused on [...]
Publication on Transitional Justice, Civil Society Features Chapter by SIT Faculty
SIT Study Abroad Academic Director Dr. Orli Fridman has just published a chapter in Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans from the Springer Series in Transitional Justice (2013, pp 143–162). Read abstract. The chapter, “Structured Encounters in Post-conflict/Post-Yugoslav Days: Visiting Belgrade and Prishtina,” is based on Dr. Fridman’s research in Kosovo and Serbia [...]
SIT France Introduces a New Excursion to Tunisia
France: Language, Community, and Social Change is an intensive language program based in Toulouse, France’s fourth-largest city. Program highlights Students are fully immersed in French through instruction at L’Institute Catholique de Toulouse, interdisciplinary seminars, and a homestay with a local family. The program’s Community Service Project provides students with an opportunity to increase their French while [...]
What is the Independent Study Project?
On most SIT programs, students undertake an original research project known as the Independent Study Project (ISP). Typically conducted during the last month of the semester, the ISP allows students to pursue original research on a selected subject of interest to them, with guidance from the program’s academic director and an ISP advisor. [...]
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