Jin Liu, an associate professor of Chinese in the School of Modern Languages, published a review of the Chinese film China's Last Peasant in Return to Dust in the publication China Currents, Vol. 22, No. 1. The article discusses how the film documents the disappearing rural lifestyle in China and why it was "suddenly and mysteriously taken down from all the country's theatres and streaming sites."

Dina Khapaeva, professor in the School of Modern Languages, has been named a University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study Fellow for the Spring 2024 term. Khapaeva will work at the French university studying the “propaganda of violence in post-Soviet politics of memory from 2000 to 2022.” For more information, see the university's announcement.

Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Public Policy, gave the Fred Jevons Lecture at the University of Manchester on March 23. Sugimoto spoke about the gender gap in science and technology and ways to address it. She discussed her recent book, Equity for Women in Science, which analyzes how the gender gap in science blocks the advancement of women in scientific research.

Shatakshee Dhongde, associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor in the School of Economics, co-authored a paper for the IZA Institute of Labor Economics discussing the Vietnamese economy. The article is titled "Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?"

Dina Khapaeva, professor of Russian in the School of Modern Languages, wrote a commentary on Russian President Vladimir Putin's use of mercenaries in its fight against Ukraine. The article, "Putin's Dogs of War," is published in Project Syndicate.

Lisa Yaszek, Regents' Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, will be the lead guest scholar at the 2023 Tennessee Williams Institute in Provincetown, Mass. The symposium is scheduled in conjunction with the annual Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. This year, the festival and the symposium will focus on Williams' work featuring "spaceships, aliens, vampires, ghosts, and bizarre imaginary worlds," according to the festival site.

Stéphanie Boulard, associate professor in the School of Modern Languages; Brigitte Stepanov, assistant professor in the School of Modern Languages; and David Edwards, director of the Center for Urban Research, were among the presenters at the Atlanta "Night of Ideas" held March 4. The event included activists, performers, authors, and academics discussing aspects of sustainability and equity.

School of Public Policy Professor John Walsh recently presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research Productivity Seminar. He presented his paper, co-authored with You-Na Leek, titled “What Share of Patents is Commercialized?”

School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Nadiya Kostyuk presented at the University of Oxford on "The Role of Cyber Operations in the Russo-Ukrainian War.”

Elise Li Zheng, a Ph.D. student in the School of History and Sociology, wrote a commentary on her research on self-tracking technology for Platypus, the blog of the  Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.