25th Anniversary Symposium
The Abe Fellowship Program and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership celebrate their 25th anniversary with a symposium on “Emerging Futures in a Changing World” in Tokyo on November 15.
Council News
On November 17–18, 2016, the Anxieties of Democracy program welcomed the 2016 Selection Committee for the first cycle of its Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grants
InterAsia Program director Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss will introduce their new edited volume, Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge, at a reception on Saturday, November 19, in conjunction with this year’s Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 50th Anniversary Meeting
At the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellows workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, Tade Aina, distinguished scholar and executive director of the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, spoke to the 2016–17 cohort about the importance of excellence in African universities and scholarship
African Peacebuilding Network director Cyril Obi, whose term on the board of the African Studies Association begins in December, discusses his work at the SSRC in the ASA’s fall newsletter
Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps presented an updated version of DATA2GO.NYC for the Manhattan Borough Board president and her cabinet at the Borough Board Meeting on October 20 [video available]
DPDF Black Atlantic Studies fellow Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (2007) coauthors Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, the final volume of Rebecca Solnit’s trilogy of atlases (University of California Press)