by Katrina Spencer November 12, 2014 The Chai Wai Series Tackles Gender-Based Violence Is there a difference between the laws that protect a woman who is raped in a dark alleyway by a stranger and a woman who is raped in her marital bed by her husband? Does the selective termination of pregnancies based on […]
Tag: International and Area Studies Library
Chai Wai Series: Migrants, Immigrants & Refugees
The Chai Wai Series Launches with “Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees” by Katrina Spencer “What does it take for someone to leave what they’ve worked for their whole life?” he asked. In one of the more provocative statements made at the International and Area Studies Library’s (IASL) first Chai Wai event, Ricardo Díaz of the C-U […]
Introducing Dr. Kristina Riedel and the Swahili reference resources at the IAS Library
When University students enter classroom for the very first session of their semester-long Swahili course, many are quite surprised to see Dr. Kristina Riedel standing at the lectern or writing the day’s vocabulary list on the board. They tentatively take their seats, perplexed as the Berlin born linguist hands out syllabi and greets them with […]
Staff Interview Series: Atoma Batoma
For the continuation of our staff introductions, I interviewed Atoma Batoma, who is an Associate Professor, CAM/Metadata Services/Monographic Cataloging. While his office is just a couple of steps away from my workstation, I only get to speak with him every once in a while. I was curious to find out more about Atoma, so I […]