CTLAB HIGHLIGHTS

• Announcement: CTlab 2009 Symposia Series
• Event Review: Asia Rising: Kishore Mahbubani at IISS
• Research: Cross-cultural (Mis)Communications and the Map-Territory Paradox
• Issues: Unemployment and Security in China
• Issues: The Economy and Security

ROUND-UPS

• Danger Room: Five for Fighting 1, 2
• Foreign Policy: This Week at War
• IntelFusion: Friday Brief
• Life Without Buildings: Links Without Buildings
• Savage Minds: Savage Minds Around the Web
• SWJ Daily Round-Ups: Feb 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Zero Intelligence Agents: EgoNet
• War and Health: Good Reads

FROM AROUND THE WEB

• A456: The Legibility of Destruction
• A456: LV-426, or: The Labors of P.S. 1
• Beyond the Beyond: Air Conditioned Terrorist Micro-State Bunker
• BLDGBLOG: Watermarks
• Danger Room: Inside the Rise of the Warbots
• Danger Room: NATO Wants Sim Afghanistan To Test War Plans
• Digital Urban: Should Neogeography Really Be NeoGeomatics?
• Epicenter: Google Latitude Broadcasts Your Location
• Fantastic Journal: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
• Ghosts of Alexander: Afghanistan is a Computer Simulation
• IHT: Police Occupy Sao Paulo Slum After Clashes
• Kazys Varnelis: When Users Are Losers, or Datapocalypse Part 2
• Lebbeus Woods: Metastructure
• Lebbeus Woods: Alien Past
• MIT Media Lab: MIT's Sixth Sense Machine Makes Reality Better
• New Atlantis: Military Robots and the Laws of War
• Newsweek: War on Words
• Newsweek: The Spymaster of New York
• Newsweek: Predators on the Hunt in Pakistan
• PaxSims: Simghanistan?
• Quadrant: On Population Controllers
• Seed: City Gravity
• Seed: Is MIT Obsolete?
• Seed: Bridging the Gulf
• Slash Geo: Marijuana Fields Found in Google Earth
• Slate: What Are We Doing in Afghanistan?
• Slate: Eco-Friendly Bombs
• Small Wars Journal: Ten Questions  With Thomas P.M. Barnett
• TLS: Where Next?
• WSJ: The Bomb Squad
• WSJ: Pakistan Frees Nuclear Scientist
• Zero Intelligence Agents: How Will Modern Warfare Change Academic Research?

INSTITUTE FOR WAR & PEACE REPORTING

Afghan Recovery Report

• Taleban Hamper Musa Qala Reconstruction Effort
• Afghanistan Tries to Hide Troubled Past
• Winter Deepens Drought Victims' Misery In North

Caucasus Reporting Service

• Georgians, Armenians Bemoan Border Restrictions
• Armenia: Opposition Raps PACE Resolution
• Azerbaijan: Poverty in Midst of Plenty
  

Reporting Central Asia

• Russian Leader Tries to Keep Uzbeks on Side
• Kyrgyz Army Bill Sparks Fears of Crackdown
• Marriage Vows Not Always Enough in Tajikistan

Iraqi Crisis Report

• Shia Rivals Battle for Control of South
• Power Shift Looms in Tense Nineveh
• Baghdad Buses Abuzz With Election Chatter
• Illiterate Women Doubly Disenfranchised
• Nasiriya Parties Hit the Airwaves
• Mosul Campaigners Brave Dangers
• Baghdad Candidates' Publicity Splurge
• Militants Flex Their Muscles in Volatile Diyala
• Sermons and Security Aim to Assure Falluja Voters

Syria News Briefing

• Lebanon, Syria to Bolster Military Cooperation
• New Syrian-Turkish Economic Ties Forged
• Clampdown on Islamists Continues
• Revived Interest in Syria’s Ancient Sites

WEBCASTS

• University of Texas, Austin: The Post-Guantanamo Era: A Dialogue on the Law and Policy of Detention and Counterterrorism

CALL FOR PAPERS

• MIT Media Lab: Permeable Buildings

SCHOLARSHIPS

• Zeit-Stiftung Foundation: Brucelius PhD Scholarships in Migration Studies

 CONFERENCES/EXHIBITIONS/PUBLIC LECTURES

• Carnegie Melon University: "Code, Form, Space" Spring 2009
• CUNY/Columbia University: Crisis States: The Uncertain Future of Israel/Palestine
• ESF: Post Crisis State Transformation
• RGS: Bounding Space, Creating Bodies
• Rhizome: Naeem Mohaiemen on Failed 1970s Revolutionary Movements
• UofB: Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World
• USDOJ: Crime Mapping Research Conference: Solving Problems With Geography and Technology
• University of Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit 2009 Conference: The State of Sovereignty