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Newsbites
November 18th 2009
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship student competition is open. Deadline: January 29, 2010 →
November 17th 2009
Alex de Waal urges embracing patronage politics in Afghanistan →
November 9th 2009
Listen to a recording of Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West at an event co-sponsored by SSRC on religion in the public sphere. →
November 3rd 2009
Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall on the essay forum Transformations of the Public Sphere →

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Featured Publication

Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh City in Comparative Perspectives Edited by Hy W. Luong

See also

Privatization of Risk Book Series Edited by Craig Calhoun and Jacob S. Hacker

Featured Event

Tilly Panel Series at SSHA.
The 2009 Social Science History Association conference, in Long Beach CA, features a presidential panel series on November 13-14 devoted to Charles Tilly’s and Louise Tilly’s work and legacy. Panel 1, organized by the SSRC Tilly Fund for Social Science History, features the renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm as a discussant.

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The DPDF Student Fellowship Competition, designed to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate more effective doctoral dissertation and funding proposals, is now open.

Deadline: January 29, 2010.

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