Abe Global Washington, DC | Cyber Challenges: The Internet, Global Competition, and National Security
Abe Global is designed to bring Abe Fellow research and expertise on pressing issues of global concern to broader audiences.
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Abe Global 2020 | Work-Life Balance in the Covid Age: Can the United States and Japan Meet the Challenges?
The 2020 Abe Fellows Global Forum considered the impact of the pandemic on gender equality in Japan and the US.
IIAS-SSRC Winter School “Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures”
Co-organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI). Hosted by C-Centre (Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong ONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday 13 June 2016, 9.00 am CET We are pleased to invite applications for six days of interactive Winter School training on Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures. Conveners: Francis Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zaharom Nain (The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia); Srirupa Roy (University of Gottingen’s Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Germany) Guest Co-Convener: Paula Chakravartty (Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School, …
University of Michigan/SSRC Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2017 The Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute, “Media, Activism and the New Political: InterAsian Perspectives,” is pleased to announce the inaugural Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication. We aim to facilitate and advance rigorous inter-disciplinary doctoral dissertation research on global media and communication in a range of contexts worldwide. We seek to create a sustained and diverse network of advanced graduate students by providing the opportunity to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress. Goals By bringing together PhD students from media and communication programs (and allied …
Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective
The “Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective” conference, co-organized by the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program and Stanford University’s Global Populisms project, brought together scholars of comparative and American politics to present research on the role of parties, the legislature, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and other institutions in moments that challenge democracy. The conference was held in New York City January 31-February 1, 2019. Questions addressed at the conference included: • What role, if any, do democratic institutions play in enabling or exacerbating the growth of antisystem sentiment and/or populist appeals? How do the responses of mainstream parties and politicians affect …
Immigration: The Politics of Inclusion and the Politics of Threat
Immigration: The Politics of Inclusion and the Politics of Threat was a one-day research workshop that took place at Social Science Research Council headquarters in Brooklyn, New York on March 29, 2019. The workshop gathered scholars to address the politics of immigration, with a particular focus on how and why Latin American immigration is politicized (sometimes as virtue and increasingly as threat) in the United States in the contemporary period. Scholars were organized into panels on three themes: Parties, Voter Linkages, and Immigration Politics; Framing Immigrants; and Policies of the State. Panels and Participants Parties, Voter Linkages, and Immigration Politics What …
The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation
“The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation” will be a three day conference held at the IE School for Global and Public Affairs in Segovia, Spain June 24-26, 2019. The conference is organized by Team Populism, a research group based at Brigham Young University. With populist forces gaining power in several countries for the first time in years, policymakers and citizens are more concerned than ever with populism’s consequences and how we should respond. In this conference, Team Populism will explore the consequences of populism and how they are mitigated. Participants will focus on different levels of analysis, including countries …
2019 Democratic Erosion Conference
To mark the conclusion of the second year of Democratic Erosion, a student conference will be held at American University on August 28, 2019. Democratic Erosion is a cross-institutional collaborative course that aims to help students critically and systematically evaluate the risks to democracy both in the US and abroad through the lens of theory, history, and social science. The syllabus project began in 2017, and the Anxieties of Democracy program is a proud co-sponsor. You may learn more about the initiative here.
Sowing Resolution: The Case for Reparations in Action
What is the true impact of racial slavery in the United States today? Newly available archival sources and new technological methods create unprecedented possibilities for understanding America’s past, especially as it pertains to racial and ethnic groups that have been systematically excluded from traditional social and historical analyses. In 1838, Georgetown College (now University) sold more than 272 enslaved people (the GU272) “down river” to secure its financial health. The Georgetown Slavery Archive is beginning to bring to light, in unprecedented detail, how an entire community was transformed by slavery. As a national conversation about reparations takes root, the Social …
Lineages of the People: Embedded and transregional histories of contemporary populism
Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 1, University of Göttingen, Germany https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/565338.html Organizers Srirupa Roy, Paula Chakravartty, Gianpaolo Baiocchi Institutions University of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies & Global and Transregional Studies Platform) Social Science Research Council, New York (InterAsia Program) New York University (Urban Democracy Lab) Overview The US presidential elections of November 2016 have shaken the enduring myth of American exceptionalism. For many international observers, the surprise and shock of Donald Trump’s electoral victory and the ascendancy of populist politics have occasioned a strong sense of political déjà-vu. The Trump victory seems to fit well into a wider global series. India, …