News

November 2009

November 4th 2009
Grants program on Islam and Muslims in World Contexts launches online application portal. Deadline Jan 18, 2010.
November 3rd 2009
Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall on the essay forum Transformations of the Public Sphere

October 2009

October 27th 2009
The SSRC, UNESCO and UNIFEM launch online forum, the “Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century”
October 26th 2009
SSRC funds Contexts and Connections Media Fellows Program at Duke University
October 26th 2009
ASA urges Iranian leadership to free imprisoned sociologist Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh.
October 20th 2009
Program Director Alex de Waal hailed as “Brave Thinker” by The Atlantic
October 19th 2009
Eurasia Program Webinar on October 19 - The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Resources in Eurasia - Featuring panelists Charlie Ryan and Clifford Gaddy. Click to register.
October 19th 2009
SSRC Grantee Muslim Voices named one of Ten Best Twitter Accounts Muslims Should Follow along with Queen Rania and Kareem Abdul Jabbar:
October 14th 2009
SSRC-funded public event, “Politics and New Media in the Muslim World.” sponsored by Asia Society - Northern California and UC Berkeley
October 13th 2009
Interdisciplinary backgrounds of the 2009 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
October 13th 2009
2008 Abe Fellow Rob Schmitz reports for KQED Public Radio in his series Rising Sun: How Japan is Winning the Energy Race
October 13th 2009
Visit the SSRC-funded Iran Social Science Information Project.
October 7th 2009
SSRC President Craig Calhoun asks “What Makes a Good Economy?”
October 5th 2009
AHDP’s Co-Director Sarah Burd-Sharps and British health expert Richard Wilkinson discuss the deficiencies of the GDP as an indicator of well-being with callers on “Your Call” Radio.
October 5th 2009
In The Huffington Post, AHDP Co-Directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis explain what the G-20 failed to recognize: that GDP alone is a poor measure of societal success.
October 2nd 2009
Carnegie Corporation of New York announces renewed support for SSRC grants program on Islam and public engagement
October 2nd 2009
Six former International Dissertation Research Fellows win SSRC’s 2010 Book Fellowship for turning their dissertations into book manuscripts.

September 2009

September 25th 2009
SSRC forms new working group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life, co-chaired by Courtney Bender and Omar M. McRoberts.
September 25th 2009
SSRC announces new advisory committee on Religion and International Affairs, co-chaired by Scott Appleby, Katherine Marshall, and Alfred C. Stepan.
September 23rd 2009
Museum of American Finance and SSRC co-host panel on privatization of risk, to take place Sept 29.