Tag: News

Remembering Dr. Karin Zinkann ‘57 (1933-2025)

Written by International House on July 30, 2025. Posted in Alumni News, News.

Members of the International House community note with sorrow the passing of Dr. Karin Zinkann ’57, longtime World Council of Alumni member and International Trustee, at her home in the town of Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on July 23. As reported locally, “With her, Gütersloh loses an outstanding personality who has dedicated herself for decades to the common good, cultural life, and social issues in our city—as an engaged supporter of numerous projects alongside her husband, the co-owner of Miele and honorary citizen of Gütersloh, Dr. Peter Zinkann.” Dr. Zinkann, who...

Statement Calling for the Immediate Release of Jesús Armas ’23

Written by International House on July 25, 2025. Posted in Alumni News, News.

Dear Friends, It has been more than seven months since our alumnus and friend Jesús Armas ’23 was abducted and detained indefinitely in Caracas. I am writing today to urge his immediate release and safe return to his family. Last Friday, the United States negotiated a prisoner swap that freed ten Americans and 48 Venezuelan political detainees. Jesús was not among them. Because of his political advocacy and human rights activism, he remains imprisoned and held incommunicado by the Venezuelan government. Jesús has been isolated, tortured, and cut off from any means of legal...

Remembering Susan “Tudy” McLaine (1933-2025)

Written by International House on July 11, 2025. Posted in Alumni News, News, Uncategorized.

International House was saddened to learn of the passing of Susan “Tudy” McLaine ’56, a fixture in the I-House alumni and programmatic community for decades, on June 21 in Ottawa. She was 91.Born Susan Reed in Boston, MA, she met her Canadian husband Alan McLaine at I-House while she was attending Columbia University’s School of Social Work. After completing his studies in Soviet economics, Alan joined the Canadian Foreign Service, and the McLaines embarked on a 33-year diplomatic career which culminated with Alan’s appointment as the last Canadian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1990.The...

I-House Congratulates the 2025 Davis Projects for Peace Awardees

Written by International House on June 10, 2025. Posted in News, Resident News.

International House is proud to congratulate 11 residents who were awarded funding through the Projects for Peace program. The 2025 grantee cohort consists of 136 projects nominated by 93 partner institutions including I-House. Projects will take place this summer, with each grantee receiving $10,000 in funding to pursue innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. The I-House recipients are: Bunmi Adeloye — Fostering Community in Hokkaido: Encouraging Reconciliation and Cross-Cultural Communication Through Visual Novels (Japan) ...

Liminal Spaces: An Exhibition on the Edge of Transformation

Written by International House on April 10, 2025. Posted in Resident News.

“Liminal Spaces” invites audiences into a borderless world where identity, memory, environment, and body are constantly redefined. This group exhibition features artists from across the globe—Sudan, Afghanistan, Greece, India, Bulgaria, Germany, and more bringing together a chorus of voices navigating thresholds: between war and peace, migration and homecoming, ecological collapse and renewal, silence and sound, violence and tenderness. At its heart, the exhibition holds space for stories shaped in crisis, yet brimming with resilience. A forest, filmic and fragile opens the path....

I-House Welcomes Shobhna Mohn ’95 to the Board

Written by International House on October 30, 2024. Posted in News.

International House Board of Trustees Elects Shobhna Mohn ’95 to Join the Board At the recent meeting of the International House Board of Trustees on October 29, Shobhna Mohn ’95 (née Goyal) was elected to join the Board. A graduate of Columbia Business School and Delhi University, Mohn recently retired as Chief Strategy Officer from Bertelsmann Investments, an international network of funds and a division of the media, services and education company, Bertelsmann. Mohn began her career at Bertelsmann in the Corporate Development department in 1996. From 2002 to 2006, she headed the...

Alumni Gather to Celebrate I-House Centennial

Written by International House on October 23, 2024. Posted in Alumni News, Announcements, Events, News.

Hundreds of alumni from around the world converged in New York September 14-15 for a beautiful late summer weekend of activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International House’s opening in 1924. More than 450 former I-House residents from the 35 different countries from every corner of the globe returned to 500 Riverside Drive to re-connect, share memories, and celebrate the Centennial at a series of events tied together with the theme “100 Years of Common Ground.” The festivities began with a “strolling brunch” in the Hall of History and Davis Hall, where President...