BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Social Science Research Council (SSRC) X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ssrc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Social Science Research Council (SSRC) REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170521 DTSTAMP:20200909T142227Z CREATED:20200909T142139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T142227Z UID:10000611-1495065600-1495324799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:University of Michigan/SSRC Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10\, 2017 \nThe 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. \nWe 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. \n\nGoals\nBy bringing together PhD students from media and communication programs (and allied disciplines) from around the world\, this doctoral institute creates a space to discuss and develop critical approaches to the study of global media and communication. The goals of the institute are as follows: \n\nDeepen participants’ theoretical and empirical foundations for the study of media and globalization.\nIntroduce applicants to the intersections of area studies and global media and communication studies.\nFoster comparative and cross- and trans-regional research\, particularly focused on InterAsian and Afro-Asian perspectives.\nFacilitate logistical preparation for field research\, archival research\, and other forms of\nqualitative and critical research. Develop a diverse network of advanced graduate\nstudents working on their dissertations.\n\n\nTopics\nWe are interested in receiving applications from PhD students from communication\, media studies\, and related fields who are embarking on their dissertation research in the areas of global and transnational media\, broadly defined. Productive topics may be area-specific or investigate mobilities across countries and/or regions; consider the rapidly changing technological landscape in shaping new temporal media rhythms and spatial flows of information; look at global transformations in production cultures and industry logics; design\, entrepreneurship\, and maker/tech cultures; emergent user/audience practices; the history and contemporary politics of media infrastructures and governance; media texts\, genres\, and trans-media flows. This list is not exhaustive but intended to indicate the scope of projects of interest to the institute. \n\nFormat\nThe 2-day Doctoral Institute will include intensive feedback sessions on each participant’s dissertation project\, including both faculty mentors and peers\, and an opportunity to distill the project in response to this feedback. We will be running methods workshops\, writing sessions\, and a workshop on academic publishing. By the end of the Institute\, participants will have had the opportunity to hone their dissertation research questions\, consolidate their methodological approach\, and keep in focus their longer-term publication goals. \n\nFaculty Mentors\nThe institute will be led by a small group of University of Michigan Communication Studies faculty and two other leading global media scholars invited to serve as faculty mentors. Participants will also have an opportunity to attend a publishing institute led by Mary Francis\, Editorial Director of Michigan Publishing. 2017 Institute Faculty include: \n\nAswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan)\nKatherine Sender (University of Michigan)\nDerek Vaillant (University of Michigan)\nPaula Chakravartty (New York University)\nJonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin-Madison)\n\n\n\nTo Apply\nA cohort of 10 PhD students will be chosen from an open\, international pool of applicants through a competitive selection process. Applicants must have at least drafted a dissertation research proposal\, but applications are also welcome from doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations. \nApplication Deadline: January 10\, 2017 | Notification of Decision: By February 15\, 2017 \nAll applicants must submit the following materials via email to globalcomm@umich.edu: \n\n Cover Letter (must include reasons for applying to the institute; summary of research agenda; description of academic preparation).\n Current Curriculum Vitae (CV).\n Narrative description of the dissertation topic (no more than 8 double-spaced typed pages + a 2-page bibliography).\n Letter of Recommendation from Primary Advisor and/or Dissertation Chair: Send directly to globalcomm@umich.edu\, with subject line: Recommendation – 2017 Michigan Doctoral Institute Applicant.\n\nFunding: We will be able to provide three nights’ accommodations and meals\, and partial\nneed-based travel funds. Students are encouraged to approach their home institutions for\nadditional support. \nQuestions? Contact globalcomm@umich.edu  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/university-of-michigan-ssrc-doctoral-institute-on-global-media-and-communication/ LOCATION:University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/university-of-michigan-ssrc-doctoral-institute-on-global-media-and-communication-1-e1599661338265.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T150000 DTSTAMP:20210831T165630Z CREATED:20210831T165509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T165630Z UID:10000717-1492588800-1492614000@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Career360 Innovation Session DESCRIPTION:Measure of America co-director Kristen Lewis facilitated LeadersUp’s Career360 Innovation Session\, a day-long convening of young adults\, employers and community partners to brainstorm new solutions to help disconnected young adults achieve workforce readiness in Chicago. Kristen presented Measure of America’s latest findings on youth disconnection and led the group discussions. \n\n  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/career360-innovation-session/ LOCATION:Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/career360-innovation-session.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T140000 DTSTAMP:20210831T165152Z CREATED:20210831T165152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T165152Z UID:10000716-1490878800-1490882400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Webinar: Moving the Needle on Youth Disconnection DESCRIPTION:Measure of America and the National League of Cities Institute for Youth\, Education\, and Families will host a joint webinar on MOA’s latest youth disconnection report. The expert panel in “Moving the Needle on Youth Disconnection: Insights from Measure of America’s New Report: ‘Promising Gains\, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America’” will feature MOA co-directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis\, as well as NLC YEF Institute’s Director of Youth and Young Adult Connections\, Andrew Moore. Please see description link to register. \n  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/webinar-moving-the-needle-on-youth-disconnection/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170328T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170328T153000 DTSTAMP:20210831T164703Z CREATED:20210831T164703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T164703Z UID:10000715-1490709600-1490715000@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:"Opening Doors for Youth" hosted by Rep. Bobby Scott DESCRIPTION:Congressman Bobby Scott will host “Opening Doors for Youth: Investments in Employment Opportunities for Opportunity Youth Are Investments in Our Communities and Our Nation”\, a discussion with youth\, community leaders\, advocates\, and experts about the Opening Doors for Youth Act\, which would expand federal investment to maintain youth connected to school and work. Measure of America co-director Kristen Lewis will participate as a panelist and discuss the latest data and findings on youth disconnection. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/opening-doors-for-youth-hosted-by-rep-bobby-scott/ LOCATION:2226 Rayburn House Office Building\, Washington\, D.C.\, 20515 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170316T142000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200316T151000 DTSTAMP:20200825T195421Z CREATED:20200825T195421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T195421Z UID:10000587-1489674000-1584371400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. \nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T170000 DTSTAMP:20210913T150252Z CREATED:20210910T215525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T150252Z UID:10000726-1486972800-1487091600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:China-Africa Peace and Security Fellows\, NY Workshops DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council welcomed the cohort of China-Africa Peace and Security Research Fellows\, an initiative of the SSRC’s China-Africa Knowledge Project (CAKP) for a two-day event in New York on February 13-14\, 2017. The CAKP is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The fellowship program is a collaboration of and based on contributions from the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)\, and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). \nThe CAKP fellowship was launched in the spring of 2016\, as a pilot program for junior Chinese scholars conducting research on China’s engagement with the United Nations (UN) on African peace and security issues. China continues to rapidly expand its participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations\, and is becoming more involved in supporting peace operations and peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected areas\, especially in Africa. With support from the joint SSRC-AFSC fellowship\, a group of Chinese scholars has recently returned from fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Kenya\, and Zimbabwe\, as well as at the African Union in Ethiopia\, where they looked at China’s engagement in UN peace operations\, regional partnerships\, and the role that China’s commercial interests can play in sustaining peace. The event provided the opportunity for them to first discuss their findings with one another and present them to the staff members of the SSRC\, AFSC\, and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)\, and then to share their research findings with a broader policy audience. \nOn the first day\, the SSRC welcomed the fellows to its office for a research workshop. The fellows convened with staff members and advisers—including Jason Tower of the AFSC\, Liu Tiewa of Beijing Foreign Studies University\, and Tatiana Carayannis of the SSRC—to discuss their research and receive feedback. Tower\, Liu\, and Carayannis plan to edit an upcoming bilingual academic book featuring the fellows’ fieldwork and connecting it to broader civil society and security issues in Africa. \nOn the second day\, the fellows presented their research to a broader policy audience at the Security Council Report\, through a discussion on “Chinese Perspectives on Africa’s Peace and Security Challenges: Views from the Field.” The discussion started with a panel on “UN Peace Operations and Regional Partnerships\,” in which Cheng Zilong of Fudan University and Yang Hong of Beijing Foreign Studies University presented their fieldwork research based in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia. Cheng’s research focused on the African Peace and Security Architecture\, while Yang’s research was a case study of the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The first panel was moderated by Dr. Cyril Obi of the APN. \nFor a second panel on “The Role of Business in Prevention and Sustaining Peace\,” Jason Tower of the AFSC moderated a presentation and discussion of four more fellows’ research: Wang Duanyong of the Shanghai International Studies University\, Song Qing of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies\, and Liu Suwen and Yang Jian of the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.Song and Wang discussed their fieldwork undertaken at the University of Kinshasa\, where they investigated the intersection of business and peacebuilding and the DRC’s mineral-for-infrastructure deal\, respectively. Liu and Yang presented their fieldwork based in Kenya and Zimbabwe examining Chinese companies’ relations with local communities. \nYou can find additional photos from the event on the APN’s Flickr  and more information on the first cohort of the CAKP Peace and Security Research Fellows here. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-africa-peace-and-security-fellows-ny-workshops/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170215 DTSTAMP:20210913T145347Z CREATED:20210913T145347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T145347Z UID:10000742-1486944000-1487116799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:China-Africa Peace and Security Fellows Visit DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council welcomed the cohort of China-Africa Peace and Security Research Fellows\, an initiative of the SSRC’s China-Africa Knowledge Project (CAKP) for a two-day event in New York on February 13-14\, 2017. The CAKP is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The fellowship program is a collaboration of and based on contributions from the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)\, and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). \nThe CAKP fellowship was launched in the spring of 2016\, as a pilot program for junior Chinese scholars conducting research on China’s engagement with the United Nations (UN) on African peace and security issues. China continues to rapidly expand its participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations\, and is becoming more involved in supporting peace operations and peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected areas\, especially in Africa. With support from the joint SSRC-AFSC fellowship\, a group of Chinese scholars has recently returned from fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Kenya\, and Zimbabwe\, as well as at the African Union in Ethiopia\, where they looked at China’s engagement in UN peace operations\, regional partnerships\, and the role that China’s commercial interests can play in sustaining peace. The event provided the opportunity for them to first discuss their findings with one another and present them to the staff members of the SSRC\, AFSC\, and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)\, and then to share their research findings with a broader policy audience. \nThe first day welcomed the fellows to the SSRC’s office for a Research Workshop. Staff members and fellows from China\, Ethiopia\, and the United States convened to discuss progress that has been made on a group book project\, during which the contributors presented drafts of their chapters and received feedback from other group members. APN Alumnus\, Dr. Asebe Regassa Debelo (2015\, Ethiopia) presented on his contribution to the book\, which is one of several chapters by African academics intended to contextualize the findings of the Chinese researchers in Africa. \nThe second day of the workshop provided an opportunity for the researchers to present their research findings to a broader policy audience at the Security Council Report\, through a discussion on “Chinese Perspectives on Africa’s Peace and Security Challenges: Views from the Field.” The discussion centered on two panels\, “UN Peace Operations and Regional Partnerships\,” chaired by APN Program Director\, Dr. Cyril Obi\, and “The Role of Business in Prevention and Sustaining Peace.” Dr. Debelo—currently the Research Coordinator\, Institute of Indigenous Studies\, Dilla University\, Ethiopia—served as a discussant for the session on “UN Peace Operations and Regional Partnerships” as well\, highlighting questions about which new practices and discourses are introduced by China’s engagement with peacekeeping and peacebuilding initiatives in Africa. He also raised the issues of the interests of various actors in these missions\, particularly the unsustainable nature of unilateral missions and what role China might play in bridging the gap between the African Union and the UN. If China is to continue its involvement\, he pushes for further research into its vantage point\, its interests in the region\, and if it is possible for China to be an objective mediator. \nPlease see additional photos from the event on the APN’s Flickr. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-africa-peace-and-security-fellows-visit/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170122 DTSTAMP:20200909T143407Z CREATED:20200909T143407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T143407Z UID:10000612-1484524800-1485043199@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:IIAS-SSRC Winter School “Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures” DESCRIPTION:Co-organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI).\n\nHosted by C-Centre (Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong \nONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday 13 June 2016\, 9.00 am CET \nWe are pleased to invite applications for six days of interactive Winter School training on Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures. \nConveners: 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) \nGuest Co-Convener: Paula Chakravartty (Department of Media\, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School\, New York University\, US)\nHost Co-Convener: Jack Linchuan Qiu (School of Journalism and Communication\, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the C-Centre\, Hong Kong) \nCALL FOR APPLICATIONS\nThere has been growing scholarly interest in better understanding the role of media technologies—from Weibo and WhatsApp to cloud computing and location-based services – in transforming the nature of social movements worldwide. But “Twitter revolutions” that subvert existing structures of media and political power are only a part of this story. The Arab Uprisings also taught states across the Middle East\, North Africa and Asia how to tame media activism and deploy digital tools for control. Media activism spread across ideological spectrums and has brought to the forefront not only youth and pro-democracy movements. It has also been used successfully by political parties to embrace ethno-nationalist agendas and enable closer alliances with neoliberal capital and military power. These varied political logics and fates of media activism since 2011 make clear that triumphalist accounts of “media technologies-as-liberation” require revision; there is a pressing need to embed media and technology-centric perspectives on activism in an account of historical context and institutional power. \nIn this Winter School\, we are interested in exploring these multivalent dynamics of digital media activism in postcolonial contexts where historical and contemporary legacies of global power relations shape and inflect media and political practices. Specifically\, we will trace how media industries\, from news to entertainment\, from social networking services to commercialized broadcasting sectors\, create new modes of politics building on existing political divides between middle class minorities and majority publics. We will also consider how the politics of ethnicity\, religion\, caste/race\, gender and sexuality shape these new modes of political engagement.  In this process we will pay attention to the role of the state and the expanded influence of established commercial media industries in generating new forms of public-private surveillance and control. Finally\, we will consider the shifting political valences of digital activism\, paying attention to how political energies have been re-oriented towards right-wing populism and new digitally enhanced modes of authoritarianism. \nThe Winter School will allow PhD students and advanced research masters’ students with significant professional experience\, including journalists and researchers allied with social movements\, to problematize these questions in the politically dynamic setting of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is an ideal city to discuss the dynamics of media activism historically and in the present given its postcolonial status\, unique media systems in relation to mainland China\, and its ongoing power struggle following the Umbrella Movement of 2014. \nConversations at the Hong Kong Winter School will revolve around critical reflections on media activism in the Asian\, including West Asia\, or the Middle East\, and North African context around the following sub-themes\, among others: \n\nContemporary forms of media activism in historical context\, in relation to earlier 20th century movements\, parties\, and struggles\nDynamics of the relationship between media activism and state and corporate control and surveillance\nModes of cross-class media activism (middle class\, working class/subaltern media campaigns)\nInterAsian (by which we mean historical and/or contemporary transnational/cross-national/trans-regional processes\, structures\, practices\, and flows within\, across and beyond the territorial and imaginative space of Asia)/transborder social movements and media\nMedia and populism/authoritarianism\nThe genres of mediated expression and the question of “political voice”\n\n  \nThe Winter School will be held from Jan 16-21\, 2017\, at the C-Centre (Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition to lectures by leading scholars in the field\, students will also conduct group projects and enjoy fieldtrips to important sites of media politics in Hong Kong\, such as public broadcasters\, commercial press\, independent media platforms\, NGOs\, and new and old sites of activist struggles. At the end of the Winter School\, students will make final presentations to the public including the social movement and media organizations they study. \nFrancis Lee\, Zaharom Nain and Srirupa Roy will lead the Winter School with Paula Chakravartty as guest co-convenor and Jack Qiu as host co-convenor. Coming from different academic traditions with diverse theoretical and methodological expertise\, the lead trainers and co-convenors shall foster an active atmosphere of open discussion\, critique\, and empirical inquiry. The goal is to facilitate students’ existing research projects in a related field of study through a combination of lectures\, fieldtrips\, and group work. \n  \nApplication\nWe welcome applications from doctoral students and advanced research master’s students with significant related professional experience from all social science and humanities disciplines\, based in Asia (including West Asia) and globally. \nFor additional details on eligibility criteria and how to apply\, see the online Application form. \nThe registration fee for participation at the IIAS/SSRC Winter School is 250 Euro. For more information on what is included in this fee\, please see General information. \n  \nInformation\nPlease visit the Winter School website for more information: http://iias.asia/winterschool2017 \nFor questions\, please contact Ms Martina van den Haak at m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl  \n  \nPhoto Credit: “DSC_4082” [cropped] by Max / C.C. 2.0. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/iias-ssrc-winter-school-media-activism-and-postcolonial-futures/ LOCATION:C-Centre\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/iias-ssrc-winter-school-media-activism-and-postcolonial-futures.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161217 DTSTAMP:20200928T153138Z CREATED:20200928T153138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T153138Z UID:10000617-1481673600-1481932799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:APN Training Workshop II on Writing and Dissemination DESCRIPTION:The African Peacebuilding Network (APN)\, in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and Public Administration\, Makerere University\, held its second training workshop for the program’s 2016 cohort of individual research grantees at the Lake Victoria Serena Resort in Kampala\, Uganda\, on December 14-16\, 2016. The workshop focused on the writing and dissemination of grantees’ research findings following six months of APN-supported field-based research projects. Combining lectures\, working group sessions\, and one-on-one dialogues with mentors who are also well-published experts in the field of peacebuilding\, grantees were able to engage with each other\, network\, and get constructive feedback on their draft publications as well as strategies for further disseminating the results of their research projects. \nThe workshop kicked off with opening remarks by the Prof. Nansozi Muwanga\, Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration\, Makerere University\, Uganda\, and Dr. Cyril Obi\, APN Program Director\, while Prof. Edward Kirumira\, Principal\, College of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Makerere University\, also gave welcoming remarks. \nLectures were delivered by Prof. Abu Bakarr Bah (Northern Illinois University)\, Prof. Gilbert Khadiagala (APN Advisory Board member\, University of Witwatersrand)\, Dr. Arthur Bainomugisha (Makerere University)\, Prof. Pamela Mbabazi (APN Advisory Board member\, Mbarara University of Science and Technology)\, Prof. Thomas Tieku (APN Advisory Board member\, King’s University College at Western University\, Canada)\, Prof. Duncan Omanga (2014 APN Alumnus\, Moi University)\, and Prof. Ismail Rashid (APN Advisory Board member\, Vassar College). Professors Bah\, Tieku\, Rashid\, and Khadiagala and Dr. Amy Niang (2013 APN Alumnus\, University of Witwatersrand) also led\, and provided mentorship to the five working groups of workshop participants. \nProf. Bah’s lecture on “Perspectives to Peacebuilding in Africa: An Overview” focused on various peacebuilding approaches. His view that some of the approaches do not sufficiently problematize the nature of political and economic institutions in Africa sparked a strong debate over   the limitations of making   broad generalizations about the complex roots and drivers of conflict in Africa. \nIt was followed by Prof. Khadiagala’s lecture\, which addressed the topic “Bridging the Gaps in African Peace and Security Research: Challenges and Interventions.” He underlined the need for African peacebuilding researchers to understand those aspects of the current universal understanding of security that relate to Africa’s realities\, drawing upon Thomas Kuhn’s notion of epistemological paradigm shifts in knowledge production. He concluded his presentation by suggesting potential research directions in African peace and security\, and invited grantees’ to explore how their research can fit into and expand the existing research agendas. \nFocusing on the policy-relevant aspects of research-based production of knowledge\, Dr. Bainomugisha’s lecture on “Transforming Research Findings into Policy Inputs: Things to Note When Writing for a Policy Audience” spoke to the content and techniques of writing for policy-makers and practitioners. He emphasized the importance of being aware of both the intended and unintended consequences of policy\, noting as follows\, that “the cost of policy engagement is very high. Activists and researchers should plan for this reality.” He then identified various strategies for engaging policy makers\, and outlets for publishing research findings\, including the pros and cons of each approach. Dr. Bainomugisha admitted that “research is challenging and unattractive\, but is essential to reforming society”. He also emphasized the need to pay attention to facts; creativity\, autonomy\, and ethical conduct which engaging with policymakers. \nDay two of the conference opened with a lecture by Prof. Mbabazi on “Understanding the Natural Resource Conflict Nexus in African Peacebuilding.” She explored the rich literature on the natural resource-violent conflict debate\, and spoke to how this nexus fits into Africa’s conflict landscape. Of note were the debates around the room on the “resource curse thesis\,” and African perspectives to the natural resource-conflict linkage. However\, there was a broad agreement that the drivers of conflict in Africa were complex and dependent on certain specificities\, and that the natural resources–conflict linkage could at best only partially explain Africa’s conflicts. \nProf. Tieku’s presentation focused on strategies for the dissemination of research findings. His lecture on “Disseminating Research Findings through Peer-reviewed Journals” spoke to the importance of publishing research findings in reputable peer-reviewed Journals. According to him\, “When publishing in peer-reviewed journals young scholars must target top-rated journals.” \nOn his part\, 2014 APN Alumnus Dr. Duncan Omanga gave an engaging lecture on innovative strategies and platforms for disseminating research-based knowledge. His talk on “Disseminating Research Findings through New and Social Media and Web-Based Platforms: What Works Best\, Why\, and How?” explored ways other than traditional approaches to publish research findings. He identified the different audiences that can be reached by publishing in academic journals in contrast to academic journals. He noted\, “this means that apart from publishing in professional journals\, or presenting at a conference\, there is a clear and urgent need to go beyond the ‘ivory tower’ and push that knowledge to those who need it most.” Dr. Omanga concluded by sharing insights from his personal experience with publishing in both traditional and new media\, including his experience with his most used social media platforms for dissemination: Twitter\, Facebook\, and Academia.edu. \nThe final lecture of the workshop\, titled “Writing on African Peacebuilding: Reflections on Personal Experiences\,” was delivered by Prof. Ismail. He started his presentation by sharing his personal experience on important questions to consider prior to publishing a book. For him\, two questions stood out: which format will best serve as a platform for disseminating research findings\, and what is the intended audience for the published work? He also spoke to the important steps grantees’ must go through to ensure the production of a high-quality book\, including what he identified as arguably the most tedious step\, but an important one\, responding to the comments of peer reviewers and copy editors. \nAt the concluding plenary of the workshop\, a representative of each of the five working groups presented feedback from their activities to all participants and resource persons. They also spoke about their plans for continued networking\, and future engagement with mentors. \nPlease see additional photos from the event on the APN Flickr URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/apn-training-workshop-ii-on-writing-and-dissemination/ LOCATION:Kampala\, Uganda ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/apn-training-workshop-ii-e1601307059465.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T130000 DTSTAMP:20210831T164414Z CREATED:20210831T164414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T164414Z UID:10000714-1479812400-1479819600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:New York City Council Hearing on Disconnected Youth DESCRIPTION:Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps was asked to give expert testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Youth Services’ Task Force on Out of School\, Out of Work Youth on November 22. Burd-Sharps apprised committee members of the key research data on disconnected youth\, and discussed with the members the ramifications\, potential and extant\, of the disengagement of young people in the City. \nThe hearing was led by Council member Dr. Mathieu Eugene\, joined by Council members Margaret Chin\, Laurie Cumbo\, and Darlene Mealy. Joining Burd-Sharps in providing the task force with valuable insight on the issue were representatives of key City agencies\, including the Departments of Education\, Youth and Community Development and Small Business Services\, as well as leaders of community social service providers from across New York City. \n\n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/new-york-city-council-hearing-on-disconnected-youth/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161030 DTSTAMP:20200930T170636Z CREATED:20200930T170636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200930T170636Z UID:10000630-1477612800-1477785599@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Working Group on Institutions Conference DESCRIPTION:On October 28-29\, 2016\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Working Group on Institutions convened its first conference at Princeton University. The conference was generously sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs’ Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and Princeton University’s Department of Politics. \nThe conference brought our Working Group on Institutions’ members into conversation with a diverse array of young scholars and experts\, who presented new research and together tested the Working Group’s principal axes of investigation regarding the capacity and performance of democratic institutions. \nThe conference was organized by the Working Group’s co-chairs: Frances Lee\, Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland\, and Nolan McCarty\, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. \nConference participants authored and examined papers on the following themes: \nParty Structure and the Political System \nSam Rosenfeld\nAssistant Professor of Government\, Hamilton College \nDaniel Schlozman\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, Johns Hopkins University \nThe Influence of Business on American Democracy \nAnthony Chen*\nAssociate Professor of Sociology\, Northwestern University \nCathie Jo Martin\nProfessor of Political Science\, Boston University \nThe Influence of Protest \nDaniel Gillion*\nPresidential Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Pennsylvania \nMegan Ming Francis\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Washington \nLobbying Inequality and American Governance \nLee Drutman\nSenior Fellow: Program on Political Reform\, New America \nMatthew Grossmann*\nAssociate Professor of Political Science\, Michigan State University\nDirector\, Institute for Public Policy and Social Research \nTim LaPira\nAssociate Professor of Political Science\, James Madison University \nDara Strolovitch\nAssociate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Princeton University \nMining Data to Measure Political Sophistication \nKen Benoit\nProfessor of Political Science Research Methodology\, London School of Economics \nBurt Monroe\nProfessor of Political Science\, Penn State University \nKevin Munger\nPhD Candidate in Politics\, New York University \nArthur Spirling*\nAssociate Professor of Politics and Data Science\, New York University \nLegislative Capacity in the Contemporary Congress \nR. Douglas Arnold\nWilliam Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs\, Princeton University \nJames Curry\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Utah \nFrances Lee*\nProfessor of Government and Politics\, University of Maryland \nPublic Policy & Political Dysfunction \nSarah Binder\nProfessor of Political Science\, George Washington University \nClaire Leavitt\nPhD Candidate in American Politics\, Cornell University \nSuzanne Mettler*\nClinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions\, Cornell University \nThe Impact of Polarization on Administration \nGillian Metzger*\nStanley H. Fuld Professor of Law\, Columbia Law School \nDavid Spence\nProfessor of Law\, Politics & Regulation\, University of Texas at Austin \nRegular Order in Congress \nLee Drutman\nSenior Fellow: Program on Political Reform\, New America \nPeter Hanson\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, Grinnell College \nMark Schmitt*\nDirector: Program on Political Reform\, New America \nResponsiveness to the Donorate \nBrandice Canes-Wrone*\nDonald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs\, Princeton University \nCharles Stewart III*\nKenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nPolarization and Congressional Dysfunction \nDan Carpenter*\nAllie S. Freed Professor of Government\, Harvard University\nDirector of Social Research\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University \nNolan McCarty*\nSusan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs\, Princeton University \nComparative Perspectives on American Anxieties \nHenry Farrell\nAssociate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs\, George Washington University \nIra Katznelson\nRuggles Professor of Political Science and History\, Columbia University\nPresident\, Social Science Research Council \nCathie Jo Martin\nProfessor of Political Science\, Boston University \nDavid Samuels*\nDistinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science\, University of Minnesota\n\n*Member\, Working Group on Institutions  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/working-group-on-institutions-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T200000 DTSTAMP:20201005T151147Z CREATED:20201005T151147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T151147Z UID:10000644-1477072800-1477080000@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:'Democratic Exclusion: A Think-In in Three Acts\,' featuring Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:*Update: Although Professor Taylor was unable to join us for this event due to illness\, our explorations were carried out\, with his blessing. Please enjoy the livestream below. \nThe Anxieties of Democracy program is delighted to invite you to its second public 2016  “Democracy in the City” event\, at Civic Hall: on Friday\, October 21\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. \nPlease join us for “Democratic Exclusion: A Think-In in Three Acts\,” featuring world-renowned political philosopher Charles Taylor in conversation with civic leaders Keesha Gaskins-Nathan\, Sarah Leonard\, and Tova Wang. Orchestral music conducted by Benjamin Hochman invites further reflection on the theme. \nEvent Live Stream\n \nThe program:  \nDemocracy\, at its roots\, means “the power of the people.” Yet around the world\, people living in self-styled democracies are excluded from power. How do we understand exclusion in a democratic context\, and can we do anything about it? \nAct 1: Our event opens with the Finale of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 45\, “Farewell.” In 1772\, the piece demonstrated to Haydn’s patron what a world without musicians would look like. Here\, the “Farewell” hints at what the democratic space resembles when it has been emptied due to exclusion. \nAct 2: Keesha Gaskins-Nathan will then launch an exploration of the meanings and boundaries of democratic exclusion\, initiated by Charles Taylor\, in conversation with Sarah Leonard and Tova Wang\, and continued with members of the audience. \nAct 3: The Think-In concludes with a second moment of reflection provided by a performance of Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst. \nA reception follows\, offering a space for audience members to continue discussion and connect with the speakers. \nCivic Hall is the ideal locus for this exploration as a “one-of-a-kind community center for the world’s civic innovators.” In a space that defines “civic tech” as the “use of technology for public good\,” our program introduces earlier forms of “civic tech\,” eighteenth-century musical instruments\, to inspire reflection about the repercussions of exclusion in democracies\, and the avenues for inclusion. \nAbout the speakers:  \nCharles Taylor\, Emeritus Professor of philosophy at McGill University\, is the recipient of the prestigious Berggruen\, John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Taylor’s philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity\, democracy\, equality\, and inclusion in key texts such as A Secular Age (2007)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, and Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (1994) have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout his career\, Taylor has exemplified the crucial civic role played by university research\, entwining his theoretical approaches with political participation in several domains: from the 1960s when Taylor ran in federal elections\, to his key counsel for constitutional negotiations in Canada and around the world. \nKeesha Gaskins-Nathan’s civic leadership is long-standing. Currently serving as Director of Democratic Practice at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund\, she previously directed the Redistricting and Representation program at Brennan Center for Justice. Gaskins-Nathan served as executive director for the League of Women Voters Minnesota and worked for a number of years as a trial attorney. Gaskins-Nathan is a frequent lecturer and writer on issues related to women and politics\, movement building\, and democratic reform. \nOf pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman’s performances\, The New York Times wrote\, “Classical music doesn’t get better than this.” Praised by the New Yorker for the “unabashed emphasis he has given to modern repertory\, which he balances effortlessly with the classics in his recitals and recordings\,” Hochman is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes\, including the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2011. Most recently\, Hochman was appointed as the musical assistant to Louis Langrée at the 2016 Mostly Mozart Festival\, also working with Thierry Fischer\, Jeffrey Kahane\, Matthew Halls\, and Paavo Järvi. Hochman is a Steinway Artist. \nSarah Leonard is senior editor at The Nation and editor-at-large at the political quarterly Dissent. She has co-edited two books: Occupy!: An OWS-Inspired Gazette (Verso\, 2011) with literary magazine n+1\, and The Future We Want: Radical Solutions for the 21st Century (Metropolitan\, 2016). Her writing focuses on feminism\, work\, technology\, and the exclusion that comes from economic inequality. \nViolinist\, composer\, and music educator Jessie Montgomery’s compositions have been recognized by the American Composers Orchestra\, the Sphinx Organization\, the Joyce Foundation\, and the Sorel Organization. Active with the Sphinx Organization\, which supports the accomplishments of young African-American and Latino string players\, Montgomery has also performed with the Catalyst Quartet\, acclaimed by The New York Times as “invariably energetic and finely burnished…performing with earthly vigor.” Praised for its inventiveness\, her work has received commissions from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, the Young People’s Chorus of New York\, and Cygnus Ensemble. \nTova Wang is Senior Democracy Fellow at Demos and formerly Director of Democracy Programs for the Communications Workers of America. Wang’s critically acclaimed book\, The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote (2012)\, and her commentary in The New York Times and The Washington Post\, has focused on political inclusion in the United States\, particularly\, increasing voter participation rates among low income people\, communities of color\, naturalized immigrants\, women\, and indigenous peoples. Wang has also conducted global analysis of election procedures and laws for the National Democratic Institute (NDI)\, Democracy Reporting International (DRI)\, The Carter Center\, and The ACE Project. \nThis event is cosponsored by Civic Hall and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/democratic-exclusion-a-think-in-in-three-acts-featuring-charles-taylor/ LOCATION:Civic Hall\, 156 5th Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CH-Event-680px-1-e1601910686605.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T170000 DTSTAMP:20201005T153425Z CREATED:20201005T153425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T153425Z UID:10000645-1476777600-1476982800@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:2016 Democracy Seminar with Professor Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:As part of his residency with us in 2016\, Professor Charles Taylor\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s second Democracy Fellow\, led a two-part Seminar on current ‘anxieties of democracy’. Twelve doctoral students\, from diverse disciplines and universities\, competed for a spot at the table. This year\, The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman was also in attendance\, and featured Taylor’s Democracy Seminar and its participants in his widely-circulated piece\, ‘How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy.’ \n \nCharles Taylor is Emeritus Professor at McGill University and the recipient of the prestigious Berggruen\, John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Regarded as one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers\, Taylor has also played an important role in bridging theory and practice throughout his career. His philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity and democracy—in key texts including Sources of the Self (1989) and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994)—have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Taylor’s longstanding political participation has been equally illustrious. \nSeminar Participants \n\nAlyssa Battistoni (Political Science)\, Yale University\nJoshua Braver (Political Science)\, Yale University\nMatthew Denney (Political Science)\, Yale University\nPatrick Gilger (Sociology)\, New School\nSelim Heper (Politics)\, New School\nSalman Hussain (Anthroplogy)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nMie Inouye (Political Science/Religious Studies)\, Yale University\nJordan Jochim (Government)\, Cornell University\nPersis Milani (Politics)\, New School\nSarah Molinari (Anthropology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nBen Mylius (Political Philosophy)\, Columbia University\nDavid Raggazoni (Politics)\, Columbia University\nEdward Quish (Government)\, Cornell University\nAnna Zhelnina (Sociology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\n\nPart I (October 18)\, Readings: \nJames Madison\, “Federalist No. 10.” \nJean-Jacques Rousseau\, The Social Contract\, All (in a pinch\, Book I). \nJoseph Schumpeter\, Capitalism\, Socialism and Democracy\, Chapters 21-23. \nPart 2 (October 20)\, Readings: \nCharles Taylor\, unpublished essay: “Some Crises of Democracy” URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2016-democracy-seminar-with-professor-charles-taylor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161021 DTSTAMP:20210915T160256Z CREATED:20210915T160256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T160256Z UID:10000692-1476748800-1477007999@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:2016 Democracy Seminar with Professor Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:As part of his residency with us in 2016\, Professor Charles Taylor\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s second Democracy Fellow\, led a two-part Seminar on current ‘anxieties of democracy’. Twelve doctoral students\, from diverse disciplines and universities\, competed for a spot at the table. This year\, The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman was also in attendance\, and featured Taylor’s Democracy Seminar and its participants in his widely-circulated piece\, ‘How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy.’ \nCharles Taylor is Emeritus Professor at McGill University and the recipient of the prestigious Berggruen\, John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Regarded as one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers\, Taylor has also played an important role in bridging theory and practice throughout his career. His philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity and democracy—in key texts including Sources of the Self (1989) and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994)—have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Taylor’s longstanding political participation has been equally illustrious. \nSeminar Participants\n  \nAlyssa Battistoni (Political Science)\, Yale University\nJoshua Braver (Political Science)\, Yale University\nMatthew Denney (Political Science)\, Yale University\nPatrick Gilger (Sociology)\, New School\nSelim Heper (Politics)\, New School\nSalman Hussain (Anthropology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nMie Inouye (Political Science/Religious Studies)\, Yale University\nJordan Jochim (Government)\, Cornell University\nPersis Milani (Politics)\, New School\nSarah Molinari (Anthropology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nBen Mylius (Political Philosophy)\, Columbia University\nDavid Raggazoni (Politics)\, Columbia University\nEdward Quish (Government)\, Cornell University\nAnna Zhelnina (Sociology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY \n\nPart I (October 18)\, Readings:\nJames Madison\, “Federalist No. 10.” \nJean-Jacques Rousseau\, The Social Contract\, All (in a pinch\, Book I). \nJoseph Schumpeter\, Capitalism\, Socialism and Democracy\, Chapters 21-23. \nPart 2 (October 20)\, Readings:\nCharles Taylor\, unpublished essay: “Some Crises of Democracy” URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2016-democracy-seminar-with-professor-charles-taylor-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T193000 DTSTAMP:20210915T160912Z CREATED:20210915T160845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T160912Z UID:10000693-1476727200-1476732600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:'Ways Democracy Can Slip Away\,' a talk by Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:The Anxieties of Democracy program is pleased to invite you to its first public 2016 ‘Democracy in the City’ event\, at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute on Monday\, October 17\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.\nJoin us and Professor Charles Taylor\, our 2016 Democracy Fellow\, for this examination of the fragility of democracy on the eve of the 2016 election. Introduced and moderated by the eminent political theorist Nancy Rosenblum\, Charles Taylor’s talk\, the ensuing dialogue with the audience\, and the reception afterward seek to invigorate a thoughtful public conversation about current stressors on democratic theory and practice. \nYou may find a video of the event here. \nCharles Taylor\, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University\, is the recipient of the prestigious John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Taylor’s philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity\, democracy\, equality\, and inclusion in key texts such as A Secular Age (2007)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994) have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout his career\, Taylor has exemplified the crucial civic role played by university research\, entwining his theoretical approaches with political participation in several domains: from the 1960s\, when Taylor ran in three federal elections in Mount Royal to his key role in constitutional negotiations in Canada. \nNancy Rosenblum is Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Emerita. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought. Rosenblum’s most recent book is Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America\, published by Princeton University Press in 2016. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings\, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy\, past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association\, past Board Member of the Russell Sage Foundation\, and past Chair of Harvard’s Department of Government\, from 2004 to 2011. She is currently Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science\, serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee\, and co-Chairs its Working Group on Climate Change. \nThe Anxieties of Democracy program is generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, The Ford Foundation\, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ways-democracy-can-slip-away-a-talk-by-charles-taylor-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T193000 DTSTAMP:20201005T154121Z CREATED:20201005T153647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T154121Z UID:10000646-1476727200-1476732600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:'Ways Democracy Can Slip Away\,' a talk by Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:The Anxieties of Democracy program is pleased to invite you to its first public 2016 ‘Democracy in the City’ event\, at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute on Monday\, October 17\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. \nJoin us and Professor Charles Taylor\, our 2016 Democracy Fellow\, for this examination of the fragility of democracy on the eve of the 2016 election. Introduced and moderated by the eminent political theorist Nancy Rosenblum\, Charles Taylor’s talk\, the ensuing dialogue with the audience\, and the reception afterward seek to invigorate a thoughtful public conversation about current stressors on democratic theory and practice. \nYou may find a video of the event here. \nCharles Taylor\, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University\, is the recipient of the prestigious John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Taylor’s philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity\, democracy\, equality\, and inclusion in key texts such as A Secular Age (2007)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994) have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout his career\, Taylor has exemplified the crucial civic role played by university research\, entwining his theoretical approaches with political participation in several domains: from the 1960s\, when Taylor ran in three federal elections in Mount Royal to his key role in constitutional negotiations in Canada. \nNancy Rosenblum is Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Emerita. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought. Rosenblum’s most recent book is Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America\, published by Princeton University Press in 2016. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings\, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy\, past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association\, past Board Member of the Russell Sage Foundation\, and past Chair of Harvard’s Department of Government\, from 2004 to 2011. She is currently Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science\, serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee\, and co-Chairs its Working Group on Climate Change. \nThe Anxieties of Democracy program is generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, The Ford Foundation\, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ways-democracy-can-slip-away-a-talk-by-charles-taylor/ LOCATION:Roosevelt House\, 47-49 East 65th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160825T170000 DTSTAMP:20211013T170425Z CREATED:20211013T170425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T170425Z UID:10000781-1472025600-1472144400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health DESCRIPTION:Two research teams from the SSRC-VASS Vietnam Population Health Study presented their teams’ research findings at the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health in Bangkok. \nDr. Tran Thi Hong (left) and Tran Quy Long (right) co-presented their team’s paper on “Improving Antenatal Care for Vulnerable Women in Vietnam.” Their research found a large increase in the number of pregnant women receiving antenatal care and taking iron supplements within the 12 communes studied. This improvement was less significant\, however\, among the most vulnerable women in the study\, including ethnic minorities and women with lower incomes or education levels. \nDr. Nguyen Duc Vinh presented his team’s paper on “Using Health Insurance of Rural Patients at Public Health Facilities in Vietnam.” Their research is investigating the functioning of health insurance in Vietnam\, including barriers to health insurance use; differences in use by commune\, province\, socioeconomic group\, or gender; factors that are depressing health insurance use and possible ways in which these might be overcome; and the changing role of the commune health center due to changes in health insurance rules and regulations. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/6th-asia-pacific-conference-on-public-health/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160608T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160608T170000 DTSTAMP:20210831T163745Z CREATED:20210831T163745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T163745Z UID:10000713-1465372800-1465405200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:FitCity 2016 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/fitcity-2016/ LOCATION:Brooklyn\, NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160509T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160509T193000 DTSTAMP:20201008T170511Z CREATED:20201008T170511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T170511Z UID:10000650-1462815000-1462822200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Social Science Knowledge and Its Future DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Ken Prewitt will reflect on the past half-century of social science research\, a “golden era” marked (in the U.S.) by the arrival of “big science\,” the huge increase in readily-available government data\, the significant dedication of foundation funds\, the explosion of numbers in both PhDs and job opportunities\, and the growth of a policy enterprise.  As features of this golden era fade\, Prewitt will identify a few key features emerging in the search for a new platform for advancing the social sciences. \nLecture by: Kenneth Prewitt\, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs\, Columbia University \n \nKenneth Prewitt — Carnegie Professor (SIPA); Director\,  Future  of Scholarly Knowledge; Special Advisor to the  President\,  Columbia University.  Non-academic posts include Director of  the Census Bureau\, President of the Social Science  Research  Council\, and Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller  Foundation. He currently chairs the Division on Social &  Behavioral Sciences of the National Academies of Science & is  President of the American Academy of Political and Social  Sciences. Most recent book: What is Your Race?  The Census  and Our Flawed Effort to Classify Americans (Princeton\, 2013).   \n Response by: danah boyd\, Principal Researcher\, Microsoft Research; Founder\, Data & Society \n \ndanah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society\, a research institute focused on understanding the role of data- driven technologies in society. She is also a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Visiting Professor at New York University. Her research is focused on addressing social and cultural inequities by understanding the relationship between technology and society. In 2014\, she published a monograph on how young people use social media: “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”. Dr. boyd was selected as a 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and is currently an active member. She is a director of the Crisis Text Line and on the board of trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nDiscussion to follow\, moderated by: Margaret Levi\, Director for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences\, Stanford University \n \nMargaret Levi is the director of the Center for Advanced Study  in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and professor of political  science\, Stanford University\, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor  Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political  Science at the University of Washington. She earned her BA  from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard  University in 1974. She became a fellow of the American  Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and a John Simon  Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. She served as president of the  American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014 she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science\, and in 2015 became a member of the National Academy of Science. Her  books include the sole-authored Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press\, 1988) and Consent\, Dissent\, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press\, 1997); and the coauthored Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press\, 1998); and Cooperation without Trust? (Russell Sage\, 2005). Her most recent book is In the Interest of Others (Princeton\, 2013)\, with John Ahlquist. She is co–general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science and an editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Levi serves on the boards of the Social Science Research Council\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Watson School of International Studies at Brown University\, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS) in Madrid\, and the Scholar and Research Group of the World Justice Project. \nRSVP with Roosevelt House here. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/social-science-knowledge-and-its-future/ LOCATION:Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/social-science-knowledge-and-its-future-1-e1602176696791.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T165804Z CREATED:20201026T165804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T165804Z UID:10000673-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:The Social Economy and Alternative Development Models in Asia DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nEuiyoung Kim\nProfessor and Director\, Political Science and International Relations\, Institute for Korean Politics\, Seoul National University\neuiyoungkim@snu.ac.kr \nHiroki Miura\nResearcher\, Institute of Korean Political Studies\, Seoul National University\nsugeun@msn.com \nWorkshop Participants\nBipasha Baruah\, Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues\, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research\, Western University\n“Social Innovation and Gender Equality in India: Moving Beyond the Numbers Game” \n(Mohammad) Anwar Hossen\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, University of Dhaka\n“Village as the Model Organization for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh” \nYu Huang\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“‘Get Organized!:’ Contradictions between Capital and Labor in a Nascent Shrimp Farmers’ Cooperative in South China” \nMarguerite Mendell\, Professor\, School of Community and Public Affairs\, Concordia University and Gi Bin Hong\, Karl Polanyi Institute\n“Is the Social Economy the Seed of a New Economic Paradigm? Some Reflections” \nAkihiro Ogawa\, Professor of Japanese Studies\, Asia Institute\, University of Melbourne\n“Lessons from Fukushima: A green economy built by social enterprises focused on renewable\, sustainable energy” \nMasanari Sakurai\, Professer\, College of Policy Science\, Ritsumeikan University\n“Did Japanese social welfare NPOs fail? Some evaluation about emerging social enterprises and major transformation” \nIlcheong Yi\, Research Coordinator\, Social Policy and Inclusive Development\, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development\n“Transformative interactions between social policy and SSEs in Developing Countries” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe social economy refers to an economic activity of enterprises and organizations whose primary objectives are the creation of social values and the facilitation of solidarity rather than profit seeking and capital accumulation. In general\, social economy organizations include cooperatives\, mutual benefit societies\, civic associations\, foundations\, social enterprises\, community enterprises and so on. Recently\, we have been witnessing a worldwide boom of this old but renewed concept. Various policies and institutions as well as creative and innovative business practices have been introduced. The UN designated the year 2012 as “The International Year of the Cooperatives” and encouraged every member state to facilitate effective institutionalization of the cooperatives. In 2013\, UN agencies and other intergovernmental organizations\, including UNRISD\, ILO\, UNDP\, UNEP\, UNESCO\, OECD\, established the “UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy\,” aiming to raise awareness and support the policy environment of social economy. At the same time\, research on the social economy is also in rapid progress\, introducing or renewing such interesting concepts and theories as social innovation\, civic entrepreneurship\, shared values\, corporate citizenship\, co-production\, and social eco-system. \nAsia is no exception to this global rise of the social economy. The concept has been widely received and diverse policy fields throughout the region are undergoing institutional reforms. In China\, the basic model of the provision of social welfare has shifted in the 2000s from the large-scale and unit-centered Danwei system to the community-centered Shequ system\, resulting in a rapid increase of grass-root nonprofit organizations and residential groups. The government has also supported such national level events as the China Social Innovation Award and the China Poverty Eradication Award\, through which creative and innovative ideas and business methods are learned and spread. The Japanese government consecutively presented new policy visions: “The New Public” in 2009\, “The Mutual-help Society” in 2013\, both of which emphasize the collaboration among non-profit\, for-profit\, and governmental organizations for realizing a more effective and sustainable welfare system. In South Korea\, several laws have been established to qualitatively improve the social service system by reducing government expenditure and facilitating public-private collaboration. The Social Enterprise Promotion Act and the Framework Act on Cooperatives were enacted in 2006 and 2013 respectively\, and a new comprehensive law for promoting the social economy was recently introduced and is being deliberated on in the National Assembly. In Thailand\, the government set up the Thai Social Enterprise Office (TSEO) in 2010 to implement the Social Enterprises Master Plan (2010–14)\, which called for strengthening cooperation among social enterprises in Thailand and developing various support tools such as incubation system and social finance and investment. While the President’s Office of Singapore launched the President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Award in 2012 to honor outstanding social enterprises for their contributions to the local community. Recently\, the government set up the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise (raiSE) in 2015 to bring together multiple stakeholders of the social enterprise sector. \nThis workshop aims to analyze the current status of social economy in Asia\, where the traditional ‘Asian Capitalism’ and the state-led development model are in transition on the one hand and non-Western style models and practices of social economy are emerging on the other hand. The basic assumption is that social economy\, with its virtues of creativity and hybridity\, empathy and community\, participation and solidarity\, and new collaborative modes of governance\, can help address various social problems and may provide a viable\, alternative model of development in the region. This workshop calls for papers from various academic disciplines to understand the diverse and hybrid nature of the social economy. It also encourages the participation of practitioners with working knowledge and hands-on experience on the subject. It will also invite established scholars and experts on the Western models and practices of social economy\, who can provide valuable comparative perspectives. \nMore specifically\, this workshop anticipates paper presentations in following themes: \n\nresearch on the conceptual or institutional development of the social economy in East Asia and Asia more broadly\nin-depth case study of policies or practices of the social economy in various policy fields including social welfare\, education\, environment\, energy\, culture\, and local community\nexploration of new models or modes of Asian capitalism\, governance\, and/or civic participation in relation to the development of social economy URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-social-economy-and-alternative-development-models-in-asia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T165620Z CREATED:20201026T165620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T165620Z UID:10000672-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Mediatized Populism across InterAsia DESCRIPTION:Organized by InterAsia Transregional Virtual Research Institute\, “Media\, Activism and the New Political” \n\nWorkshop Directors\nPaula Chakravartty\nAssociate Professor\, Gallatin School\, Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, New York University\npuc1@nyu.edu \nZeynep Gambetti\nAssociate Professor\, Political Science and International Relations\, Bogaziçi University\ngambetti@boun.edu.tr \nSrirupa Roy\nDirector and Professor\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies and Political Science\, University of Göttingen\nsroy@uni-goettingen.de \nWorkshop Participants\nMiriyam Aouragh\, Leverhulme Fellow\, Communication And Media Research Institute\, University of Westminster\n“Mediating the Makhzan: Counter-revolution & populism in the digital age” \nErgin Bulut\, Assistant Professor\, Media and Visual Arts\, Koç University and Erdem Yörük\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology\, Koç University\n“Contentious Politics and Trolling in Turkey’s Social Media” \nMurat Es\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography and Resource Management\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Rolien Hoyng\, Visiting Assistant Professor\, Department of Cultural Studies\, Lingnan University\n“Conspiratorial Webs: Media Ecologies and Parallel Realities in Turkey” \nJiyeon Kang\, Assistant Professor\, Communication Studies\, University of Iowa\n“Internet Activism Transforming Street Politics: The 2008 ‘Mad Cow’ Candlelight Festivals and New Democratic Sensibilities” \nAlison Lamont\, PhD Fellow\, Sociology\, University of Duisburg-Essen\n“The Utopian Politics of Disaster in the People’s Republic of China” \nJinee Lokaneeta\, Associate Professor\, Political Science and International Relations\, Drew University\n“Policing\, Law and the Public: Truth and Justice in a Media Trial” \nDuncan McCargo\, Professor of Political Science\, School of Politics and International Studies\, University of Leeds\n“New Media\, New Partisanship: Divided Virtual Politics Beyond Thailand” \nAyesha Mulla\, PhD candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Chicago\n“Broadcasting the Dharna: Mediating ‘Contained’ Populism in Contemporary Pakistan” \nBabak Rahimi\, Associate Professor\, Literature and Cultural Studies\, University of California\, San Diego\n“History\, Context Collapse\, and Transnational Internet Activism in Iran” \nCatherine Sameh\, Assistant Professor\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, University of California\, Irvine\n“Mediating Gender Equality in Iran” \nValerie Soe\, Associate Professor\, Asian American Studies\, San Francisco State University\n“Migrating Revolution Across Platforms: Social Media and the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAcross the globe today\, from Thailand to Egypt\, India to Spain\, we are witnessing the emergence of new political movements passionately advancing the claims of “the people” against the ruling “political classes”. Such populist vocabularies are not just confined to the domain of street or protest politics\, but are also harnessed by governing incumbents and aspirants to political office\, whose bid to join the political establishment is paradoxically furthered through anti-establishment claims and stances. Media of various kinds\, from television and social media to camera-enabled mobile phones and text messages\, play a key role—whether as tool\, site\, or agent—in enabling and extending such a politics. This particular formation of “mediated populism” is the focus of our workshop\, which seeks to understand the political historical dynamics and implications of mediated projects of “people-making” that have gained prominence in regions across Asia (from MENA to East Asia) in recent years. \nOur workshop has five interrelated objectives. First\, we seek papers that consider the distinctive institutional contexts of mediated populism across InterAsian space. In contrast to both the European and Latin American contexts\, the mass-mediated spectacle of popular politics is a relatively new phenomenon across much of Asia\, the Middle East and Africa\, where it was only since the last decade of the 20th century that the government-monopolized propagandist architectures of television were replaced by commercial television news. In the intervening years\, media—both old and new—have become privileged domains of politics for the first time. What\, if any\, difference does this relatively late arrival of mediated politics in these regions make to the logic of mediated populism in particular: to what extent do the institutional dynamics of media commercialization and economic liberalization shape the terrain of populist politics across Asia? How do state-institutional contexts shape the media field\, and hence the politics of mediated populism: do media-enabled projects of “people-making” unfold differently in countries where states have more direct control over the media\, whether in Egypt\, China or Iran\, versus those of the seemingly democratic polities of Turkey\, Israel and India? By addressing such questions\, we hope to unpack and disaggregate the idea of a singular “media logic” of populist politics and examine instead the institutional and political-economic dynamics of mediation\, and the variegated structures of media fields\, in which contemporary forms of populist politics are embedded. \nSecond\, we seek papers that engage analytically with the very idea of a politics in the name of “the people”. Twenty-first century mediated populism does not emerge out of an historical or political vacuum; there are multiple and contending constructions of “the people” sedimented and circulating within political arenas at any given point in time. As Ernesto Laclau argues\, populist reason brings together disparate popular demands in critical historical conjunctures not as an aberration or deviation of democracy but instead as the very stuff of democratic politics: populism is the “royal road to the political” in Laclau’s words. We are interested in the intersections\, collusions\, and collisions of these different “road-building” projects. And so\, to what extent do mediated populisms make and remake “the people” differently from other cognate ideas\, whether of the demos\, the nation\, the masses\, the multitude? What are the new lines of agonism and antagonism opened up and elided by the insistence on the division between “the people” and “those in power” that lies at the heart of contemporary political assertions? \nThird\, we welcome contributions that consider the historical distinctiveness of a mediated production of the people/the popular that twenty-first century technologies and processes of mediation might be seen to enable. For Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt or Manuel Castells\, contemporary media and information technologies enable novel\, horizontally connected networks to produce new social relations and political subjectivites. For Judith Butler\, mediated connectivity between “bodies in action” produces a new sense and visibility of “the people” embodied in public protests and popular demands. These are among the theoretical perspectives that have recently been used to conceptualize populist politics in the twenty-first century\, and we are interested in building and innovating upon these approaches. \nFourth\, we are interested in the question of how ideologies fare in the contemporary era of mediated populism. A commonly heard refrain of many populist movements today is that of being “beyond ideology” or “post-ideological”. How might we assess this claim\, on empirical as well as theoretical grounds? What new visions of politics and society emerge from contemporary popular demands? Can they be classified as New Social Movements (Alain Touraine and Claus Offe); social “non-movements” (Asef Bayat) or “political society” (Partha Chatterjee); or should we develop new frames of analysis to grasp their form and content? In addressing these questions about the nature of the “new” political\, we are equally interested in the question of how movements organized around “old”\, “left” and “right” ideological affiliations engage the terrain of mediated politics. For instance\, how have nationalist and religious extremist parties and movements reformulated their politics in the age of both growing inequality and media spectacle? Similarly\, how has the Left reinvented itself in the age of mediated populism? \nFinally\, and this is where the InterAsia dimension of our project is particularly salient\, and useful\, we seek papers that explore the supra-national spatial dynamics that shape the politics of mediated populism. The modularity\, diffusion and “inter-referencing” of ideas\, techniques\, and technologies of populist politics across national territorial spaces; the ways in which cross-border media flows and geopolitical dynamics shape and enable the politics of populism in national contexts\, are among the issues that interest us here. \nPossible Themes: \n\nMedia and the rise of “new populisms” in InterAsian contexts\nInstitutional dynamics of media liberalization and the reshaping of state-society relations\nHistorical perspectives on mediated politics and “people-making” projects in and across Asian regions; comparisons of “old” and “new” mediated populisms\nThe normative politics of transparency and visibility in InterAsian contexts\nRemaking “left” and “right” in the era of twenty-first century mediated populism\n“Inter-referencing” and diffusion of populist ideas\, practices\, and technologies across InterAsian spaces\nGeopolitical dynamics (e.g. wars in Iraq\, Syria\, Afghanistan and Pakistan; “refugee crises” in Asia) and the shaping of national populist politics URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/mediatized-populism-across-interasia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T165431Z CREATED:20201026T165431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T165431Z UID:10000671-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Mecca InterAsia DESCRIPTION:Organized in association with the Muhammad Alagil Chair in Arabia Asia Studies\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore \n\nWorkshop Directors\nCemil Aydin\nAssociate Professor\, Department of History\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\ncaydin@email.unc.edu \nEngseng Ho\nProfessor of History and Anthropology\, Duke University; Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor in Arabia Asia Studies\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\nengseng.ho@duke.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nJawaher Al Sudairy\, Research Fellow\, Evidence for Policy Design\, Harvard University\n“The State Within: The Burmese Community in Makkah” \nGuy Burak\, The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian\, Division of Libraries\, New York University\n“Mecca\, Its Descriptions and Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean: Jar Allah Ibn Fahd and His The Best of Joy of the Time for the Construction of Mecca by the Kings of the Ottoman Dynasty” \nLale Can\, Assistant Professor\, History\, City College of New York\n“Central Asians in an “Exceptional” City?: The Politics of Imperial Citizenship in Ottoman Mecca” \nTeresita Cruz-del Rosario\, Senior Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Return to Mecca: Balik-Islam among Filipino Migrants in Southeast Asia” \nDadi Darmadi\, Center for the Study of Islam and Society\, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta\n“State versus Private: Pilgrimage to Mecca as a Contested Space” \nHyeju (Janice) Jeong\, Graduate Student\, History\, Duke University\n“Home Away from Home: Community and Networks of Chinese-Muslim Political Exiles at Mecca (Hejaz) during the Cold War” \nMahmood Kooria\, PhD Candidate\, Institute for History\, Leiden University\n“Introducing a Meccan Version of Law: Networks of Shāfiʿī fuqahā in the Sixteenth Century” \nMichael Christopher Low\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Iowa State University\n“Unfurling the Flag of Extraterritoriality: Foreign Muslims\, Muslim Consular Agents\, and the Evolution of the Capitulations in the Indian Ocean Hijaz” \nSebastian Maisel\, Associate Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies\, Modern Languages\, Area Studies\, Grand Valley State University\n“Private versus public service-provision and revenue-sharing for Hajj and Umrah” \nMuhammad Arafat Mohamad\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Southeast Asian Studies\, National University of Singapore\n“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Saudization\, Belonging\, and the Migration Dilemma of Mecca’s Diasporic Residents” \nMohamed Sbitli\, Senior Fellow\, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies\n“The Society of the Ulama of Macca “Ilm\, Trade\, and Tawafa” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nMecca has long been revered\, studied and celebrated as a unique place\, a destination without equal that bestows its name onto other destinations\, other meccas. While scholarly attention lavished on Mecca has been largely ideographic in persuasion\, this workshop invites historical and contemporary studies on Mecca that speak to themes which have been central to the InterAsia conferences\, such as mobility; transregional connections across Asia; transcultural relations; religious\, intellectual\, literary\, political and diasporic networks; varieties of international society. Such themes engage data with historical depth and geographical reach that go far beyond the breathless abstractions of globalization-speak and the false culturalism of anti-terrorism security analysis. \nBy employing Mecca as a dynamic and live focal point\, this workshop seeks to bring these themes together over two days of discussion. Mecca provides a challenge and an opportunity to interweave these themes so as to construct notions of transregional society that are not narrowly local yet are ethnographically rich\, that are local yet cosmopolitan\, and that constantly navigate states that are not set up to recognize or administer such transregional societies. \nWe invite proposals for papers that would contribute to such discussion\, especially those drawing on non-European sources\, historical and contemporary. We are open to a wide range of topics\, which may include: \n\nMecca as refuge in exile;\nendowments by distant persons;\npilgrim organizers/brokers (mutawwif) who chaperone pilgrims from given regions;\nscholarly\, sufi or diasporic networks past or present;\nregional pilgrimages to mini Meccas elsewhere;\nlogistics;\ngenerations of Meccans without citizenship papers or rights;\nMeccan communities and neighbourhoods;\ntrade and pilgrimage;\nredevelopment of Mecca\, Meccan urban developments as stable\, longterm investments;\nbureaucratization and marketization of organized pilgrimage;\nMeccan legal framework for an international city;\nSignificance of Mecca in transregional circuits of ideas and mobility of people across centuries;\nWhat different modes of transport entail for the pilgrimage\, and their consequences: walking\, sailboats\, buses\, steamships\, trains\, aircraft; from the Indian Ocean zone\, Central Asia and China\, as well as nearer by;\nMecca as a symbolic and actual center of Muslim internationalism\, as well as colonial fears of Pan-Islam;\nMecca as a hub of political networking during the era of imperial rivalries\, decolonization\, and the Cold War;\nChallenges of administering pilgrimage and Mecca as a global Muslim city during the 20th century;\nImpact of travel writings to Mecca on the intellectual\, religious and cultural history of diverse Muslim societies;\nUrban Architecture\, neighborhoods\, hospitality industry and ethnic diversity of Mecca in the past and present. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/mecca-interasia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T165240Z CREATED:20201026T165240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T165240Z UID:10000670-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization: Infrastructure\, Software\, Labor DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nBrett Neilson\nResearch Director\, Institute for Culture and Society\, University of Western Sydney\nb.neilson@uws.edu.au \nRanabir Samaddar\nDirector\, Calcutta Research Group\nranabir@mcrg.ac.in \nWorkshop Participants\nMajed Akhter\, Assistant Professor\, Geography\, Indiana University Bloomington\n“An infrastructural approach to region: Corridor controversies\, emergent Asias\, and the afterlives of the developmental state” \nPaula Banerjee\, Professor\, South and Southeast Asian Studies\, Calcutta University\n“Multiplying Insecurity” \nGiorgio Grappi\, Research fellow\, Political and Social Sciences\, University of Bologna\n“Corridors as political discourse? Decoding the language of logistical governance” \nRolien Hoyng\, Visiting Assistant Professor\, Cultural Studies\, Lingnan University\n“Multiplying logistics: undoing and redoing categorization in e-waste recycling in Hong Kong” \nThilini Kahandawaarachchi\, Attorney-at-Law\n“Politics of ports – China’s investments in Pakistan\, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh” \nNelli Kambouri\, Researcher\, Centre for Gender Studies\, Panteion University and Pavlos Hatzopoulos\, Centre for Gender Studies\, Panteion University\n“Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour\, Precarity and Struggles” \nIman Kumar Mitra\, Research Associate\, Economics\, Calcutta Research Group\n“Spatialization of Calculability\, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port” \nNed Rossiter\, Professor of Communication\, Institute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University\n“Imperial Infrastructures: Data Centers\, State Formation and the Territory of Logistical Media” \nKaustubh Mani Sengupta\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Bankura University\nThe Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia\, 1870s-1950s” \nPing (Sophie) Sun\, PhD Student\, School of Journalism and Communication\, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Michelangelo Magasic\, Curtin University\n“Knowledge Workers\, Identities\, and Communication Practices: Understanding Code Farmers in China” \nJohn Walsh\, Director\, SIU Research Centre\, School of Management\, Shinawatra University\n“Thailand’s Border Special Economic Zones and the Reconfiguration of Cross-Border Social\, Labour and Commercial Relations” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAsia’s emergence as one of the world’s most important trading regions is giving rise to new global connections and spatial economic networks. Recent attention has focused on China’s “One Belt\, One Road” policy\, which seeks to revive historical Silk Road transport routes\, but infrastructural and informational installations across the region are fast changing geopolitical visions\, renderings of urban space\, and understandings of historical transition. From the Asian Highway Network to the Yuxinou freight railway connecting Chongqing to Duisburg in Germany\, from the proliferation of discount airline hubs to the tangle of fiber optic cables surrounding data centers in Hong Kong’s New Territories or the Jurong district of Singapore\, logistical developments are reconfiguring both Asia’s relation to the world and its internal logics of transport and communication. Building on critical perspectives that understand logistics as a political technology for producing and organizing space and power\, this workshop will enlist a diversity of scholars to discuss how digital technologies and material infrastructure combine to remake urban and regional territories and produce new forms of governance and subjectivity. \nLogistics mobilizes infrastructure\, labor\, data\, and software to create a smooth world for the circulation of commodities and capital but\, at every juncture\, must negotiate social and cultural frictions. This tension lends itself at once to innovation in governmental technologies and to the organization of dissent\, resistance\, and violence. In urban settings\, logistics presents a model of space\, time\, and economy distinct from the global city of finance capital or the industrial city of factories. The logistical city tends to locate itself on the urban periphery\, taking advantage of cheap land\, lower labor costs and\, ideally\, a clean slate for the installation of infrastructure. This clean slate\, however\, is a planner’s unfulfilled dream. Logistical spaces are commonly occupied by workers\, peasants\, migrants\, and other marginal subjects who have their own vision and version of these spaces. There is a tussle between competing visions\, which produces a narrative of urban transformation that is uneven\, contentious\, and overtly political. Understanding the stakes and consequences of this politics means not only examining conflicts on the ground but also studying how logistical technologies marshal populations in ways that parallel\, rival\, and influence the statecraft of traditional political bodies. \nThis workshop welcomes papers that explore global extensions of Asian economic power by examining the conflicts and complexities generated when logistical operations hit the ground. We invite interventions that critically investigate resonances and divergences in the making of logistical connections between different sites\, sectors\, and practices of mobility. Contributions may focus on developments in Asia or examine how infrastructural and informational strategies extend from Asia to other continents in ways that reorganize both Asia’s internal regions and the wider spatial patterning of the world. We are particularly interested in papers that utilize data analytics or other digital methods to offer insights into how logistical practices guide current global mobilities. More widely\, we seek presentations from a range of disciplinary and conceptual orientations – including feminism\, political economy\, postcolonial theory\, critical geography\, and communication/media studies – to explore the power-laden operations of logistics in and beyond Asian urbanities\, socialities\, and regionalisms. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/logistics-of-asia-led-globalization-infrastructure-software-labor/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T165033Z CREATED:20201026T165033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T165033Z UID:10000669-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Knowledge Mobilities and the Prospects for InterAsian Urbanisation DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nFrancis Collins\nSenior Lecturer\, Geography\, School of Environment\, University of Auckland\nf.collins@auckland.ac.nz \nKong Chong Ho\nAssociate Professor\, Sociology\, National University of Singapore\nsochokc@nus.edu.sg \nWorkshop Participants\nJacqueline Armijo\, Associate Professor\, International Affairs\, Qatar University\n“Islamic Knowledge Mobilities\, DragonMart\, and the Growing Chinese Muslim Community in Dubai” \nSujin Eom\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Architecture\, UC Berkeley\n“The Idea of Chinatown: Policy Mobilities and the Making of New Economic Imaginations in South Korea” \nMaureen Hickey\, Instructor\, International and Global Studies Program\, Portland State University\n“‘English Fever\,’ Migrant Teachers\, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations in an Interconnected Asia” \nNithila Kanagasabai\, Junior Research Fellow\, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies\, Tata Institute of Social Sciences\n“Possibilities of Transformation: Women’s Studies in Tier II Cities in India” \nYoonhee Kang\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Seoul National University\n“A Pathway to ‘Constant Becoming’: Time\, Temporalities and the Construction of Self among South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore” \nStephanie Kim\, Program Director\, Center for Korean Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Flexible Citizenship or Pejorative Privilege? Student Dynamics in an International Higher Education Space in South Korea” \nSuray Agung Nugroho\, PhD Student\, Korean Studies\, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Younghan Cho\, Associate Professor/Associate Dean\, Korean Studies\, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\n“Unwarranted Students: Changing Subjectivities of Indonesian Workers Studying at Indonesian Open University in South Korea” \nHyun Joo Sandy Oh\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Toronto\n“Escaping obsolescence: The shift from subject to skill based education in a South Korean International School” \nYasmin Patrice Ortiga\, Research Fellow\, Public Policy and Global Affairs\, Nanyang Technological University\n“Constructing a Global Education Hub: The Unlikely Case of Manila” \nLe-Ha Phan\, Professor\, College of Education\, University of Hawaii at Manoa\n“Transnational Education\, English\, the Idea of ‘the West’\, Reaching to ASEAN\, and Dream Realization: A Case Study of a Regional University in Vietnam” \nLiliia Zemnukhova\, Research Fellow\, Center for Science and Technology Studies\, European University at St. Petersburg and Melanie Feakins\, Research Associate\, Institute of Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“’I’m not a gastarbeiter anymore”: Liminal Mobility of Young Kazakh IT Professionals in Russia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nOver the last two decades\, Asian nations have embarked on ambitious political projects that seek to reconfigure education\, research\, and knowledge as critical drivers of competitiveness\, productivity\, and economic growth. Heralded as the pathway to global emergence\, these knowledge projects hinge on the cultivation and circulation of people\, the transfer of skills and knowledge\, and the generation of new InterAsian connections that cut across traditional hierarchies of nations\, cities\, and institutions. These aspirations speak to the multiplex challenges of interconnected Asian modernities: demographic growth in some places and a desire for renewal in others; the human capital demands of service and technology-centered economies in an era of growing trade; the impact of regional mobility and ethnic diversity on national identities; the place of meritocracy\, privilege and inequality in the making of knowledge economies; and the social and ecological consequences of economic growth. \nIn the Asian region\, a select group of regionally and globally connected cities are key sites for the generation and articulation of knowledge-based political projects and migration trajectories. Stretching from Dubai and Riyadh in West Asia\, Delhi and Mumbai in South Asia\, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in Southeast Asia\, to Hong Kong\, Seoul\, Shanghai and Tokyo in East Asia. Long seen as critical spaces for nation-building projects\, these cities are being re-crafted as post-industrial zones\, desirable destinations for knowledge migrants\, and regional hubs for education\, research and technology. These cities are being re-assembled through transnational flows of popular culture\, symbolic and aesthetic expressions\, governmentalities of migration regimes\, and materialities of new built forms. Concomitantly\, this reworking of the Asian urban also articulates through a range of deterritorialising and reterritorialising effects as universities seek out global status and regional networks beyond the nation\, workplaces become more diversified\, urban spaces are reshaped to attract foreign students and workers\, and principles of citizenship and political participation are re-examined. \nThis workshop will explore the emerging role of knowledge migration and the InterAsian connections that are being reconfigured in and through major urban centres in the region. Participants are asked to address specific forms of knowledge migration – student\, scholar\, scientist\, professional – and examine the ways in which these mobilities are generated in and generative of new InterAsian connections; involve the de/reterritorialisation of urban\, national and regional spaces; and articulate through new political anxieties and subjectivities. We seek papers from scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are working empirically in Asia on the role of education and knowledge in migration. Contributions are encouraged from scholars advancing new conceptualisations of the interconnections between mobility\, cities\, and knowledge flows. Potential themes include: \n\nThe desires/aspirations of people on the move and the role of knowledge as driver and enabler of migration.\nCities as desirable destinations for students\, scholars\, and professionals\, and the ways in which such desirability is generated in transnational flows of popular culture\, governmental discourses\, institutional narratives and other symbolic endeavours.\nThe role of population mobilities in reconfiguring the role of cities within national\, regional\, and global spaces.\nEmergence of various intra-regional Asian connections: Islamic\, Southeast Asian\, diasporic\, mobility in the wider spheres of China and India\, cross-regional movement.\nInterAsian knowledge flows and the challenge of Anglophone hegemony in research\, teaching and practice; alternative centres of knowledge production and circulation.\nNormative and alternative globalization and regionalization of urban knowledge endeavours – policy mobility and learning in government\, institutions\, civil society.\nPolitical anxieties and subjectivities in knowledge migration: demographic renewal\, diversity and national identity; challenges to authoritarian rule; regional identities. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/knowledge-mobilities-and-the-prospects-for-interasian-urbanisation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164837Z CREATED:20201026T164837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164837Z UID:10000668-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Geo-political Economies of (Post) Developmental Urbanization in East Asia DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nJamie Doucette\nLecturer\, School of Environment and Development\, University of Manchester\njamie.doucette@manchester.ac.uk \nBae-Gyoon Park\nProfessor\, Geography Education\, Seoul National University\ngeopbg@snu.ac.kr \nWorkshop Participants\nCarolyn Cartier\, Professor of Geography and China Studies\, School of International Studies\, University of Technology Sydney\n“‘Cut from the County’: Mao-era Cities and their Territorial Legacies in Contemporary China” \nEli Friedman\, Assistant Professor\, International and Comparative Labor\, Cornell University\n“Just-in-Time Urbanization? Managing migration\, citizenship\, and schooling in the Chinese city” \nJim Glassman\, Professor\, Geography\, University of British Columbia\n“Developmental Bureaucratic States\, Developmental Network States and the Geopolitical Economy of Cold War Industrialization in Ulsan and Kaohsiung” \nHeidi Gottfried\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, Wayne State University\n“The Phoenix Rises: Tokyo’s Origin as a Global city” \nLaam Hae\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, York University\n“Traveling Policy: City Marketing and the Neoliberal Turn of Urban Studies in South Korea” \nJinn-yuh Hsu\, Professor\, Department of Geography\, National Taiwan University\n“Hsinchu Technopolis: A Socio-technical Imaginary of Modernity in Taiwan?” \nJoo-Hyoung Ji\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology Department\, Kyungnam University\n“The Making of the (Real) Gangnam Style: A Cultural Political Economy of Compressed Urbanization in South Korea” \nChristina Kim\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, The New School for Social Research\n“Bridges of Ambition to North Korea: Economy of Anticipation and Materiality of Aspiration in Dandong\, China” \nJana Kleibert\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Dynamics of Economic Spaces\, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning\n“Enclave urbanism in Metro Manila” \nKah-Wee Lee\, Assistant Professor\, Architecture\, National University of Singapore\n“Normalizing Exception/Beyond consumerism: Casino Urbanisms in Singapore and Macau ” \nChristina Moon\, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies\, School of Art and Design History and Theory\, The New School\, Parsons School of Design\n“Fashion City: zones\, markets\, and diaspora across the US and Asia” \nJoanna Phua\, Doctoral Candidate\, Political Science\, The Graduate Center\, City University of New York\n“Circuits and Transfers of the Cold War: From Prescriptive to Neo-Developmental Urbanism in Asia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nProcesses of East Asian urbanization are unique because they have been deeply influenced by state-led strategies of national development that were deeply interwoven with Cold War geo-political economies of capitalist development. Existing studies on East Asian cities\, however\, have not been able to properly address this unique feature of urbanization because they have not made sufficient efforts to understand cities in relation to broader politico-economic processes of East Asian capitalist development. These studies tend to take a localist approach that regards the city as a social object that is territorially contained and institutionally coherent. As such\, previous works on East Asian cities have privileged the urban scale as their primary unit of analysis\, to the neglect of wider socio-spatial processes that condition urban development. For instance\, the roles played by transnational networks of capital\, migrants\, and various forms of expertise in creating spaces of ‘national’ urban development during the Cold War have often been neglected. Likewise\, the multi-scalar interactions between urban development and wider configurations of power\, regulation\, and ideology have remained understudied. \nWith this problem orientation\, this workshop aims to collect papers that address the multi-scalar dynamics and geo-political economic contexts of East Asian capitalist development. We seek work that characterizes the processes of East Asian urbanization as a form of “developmental urbanization” by paying special attention to how East Asian urban development during the period from the 1950s to the 1980s was heavily influenced by socio-spatial processes of national development that included 1) state-led developmentalist industrialization and 2) post-colonial nation-building activities. East Asian states actively promoted the development of national urban networks to enhance the territorial integrity of the nation\, and prioritized urban infrastructure to support mass production and economic growth. Under the state’s big push\, urban processes took place very rapidly in strategically selected areas of political and economic importance. The outcome was 1) spatio-temporal compression of urban development (thereby resulting in ‘compressed urbanization’)\, 2) spatial selectivity in urban development (thereby producing ‘spaces of exception’)\, and 3) uneven geographies of power (thereby shaping uneven geographies of urban contestation). \nWhile neoliberal and market-friendly processes of urban development have gradually become more influential than national developmentalist efforts since the end of the Cold War\, the institutional and material legacies of developmental urbanism are still influential in East Asian urban development. The legacies of developmental urbanism\, combined with the influences of post-Cold War geo-political economies and neo-liberal globalization\, have resulted in the rise of ‘neo-developmental urbanization.’ This process has thus contributed to existing urban problems in East Asia such as urban displacement\, divided cities\, and struggles over public space and the right to the city. Therefore\, this workshop equally solicits papers that address how processes of developmental urbanization have been transformed since the 1990s in relation to neoliberal globalization and post-cold war geo-political economies. \nSome topics might include but are not limited to: compressed urbanization\, trans-local connections\, postcolonial urbanism\, urban mega projects\, speculative urbanization\, the construction state\, spaces of exceptions\, zoning technologies\, urban-industrial experiments\, circuits of developmentalist expertise\, infrastructural spaces\, contentious politics and urban development\, and urban social movements. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/geo-political-economies-of-post-developmental-urbanization-in-east-asia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164657Z CREATED:20201026T164657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164657Z UID:10000667-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Genealogies of Financialization: Reframing Sovereignty in Asia (1600–present) DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nSankaran Krishna\nProfessor of Political Science\, University of Hawaii at Manoa\nkrishna@hawaii.edu \nSaeyoung Park\nAssistant Professor\, Modern Korean Studies\, Leiden University\nspark34@jhu.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nColin Agur\, Postdoctoral Associate\, Yale Law School\, Yale University\n“Communication Technology\, Illicit Flows of Capital\, and State-Society Tensions” \nGiulia Dal Maso\, PhD Candidate\, Cultural Studies\, Institute for Culture and Society “Past and present mass financialization: continuity in state legitimation” \nLaura Elder\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\, Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame\n“Banking Like a State: An alternative genealogy of Islamic finance” \nHarald Fuess\, Professor\, Cultural Economic History\, Heidelberg University\n“Undermining the Sovereignty of Korea? Capital Flows\, Investments\, and Trade\, 1876-1910” \nHoward Kahm\, Assistant Professor\, Underwood International College\, Yonsei University\n“Currency Smuggling: Monetary Sovereignty\, Decolonization\, and Undercover Financial Networks during the American Occupation of Korea\, 1945-1948” \nGeeta Patel\, Associate Professor\, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Virginia\n“Liquid Capital\, Illiquid Entities: The East India Company and the Madras Civil Fund” \nAditi Saraf\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Frontier’s Signature: Trade and Territory at the Edges of Empire” \nKellee Tsai\, Head and Chair Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\n“Moving Merchants and Money: Zhejiang and Gujarat’s Transnational Traders” \nLeilah Vevaina\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Religious Diversity\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“To Hong Kong and Back Again: Building Bombay and Redeveloping Mumbai” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe Great Recession of 2007 and the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 have ignited interest in how state power and peoples’ will are transmuted\, amplified\, and undermined by global financial regimes. Few may know of earlier financial crises\, such as those in late Ming China (1368–1644) that led to the Single-Whip silver tax reform that sparked the first global integration of currency markets. Financial crises and state responses have shifted state-society boundaries for centuries\, giving rise to novel transnational financial orders that discipline and engender new ideas of personhood and political subjectivities. Situated at the nexus of state power and finance from 1600 to the present\, our objective is to explore non-Eurocentric genealogies of financialization across Asia. \nWe conceive of financialization broadly as an apparatus or a set of practices\, discourses\, and epistemologies that mediate the contested reordering of the world along lines of credit\, assets\, capital mobility and extraction. Whether it’s pilgrimage financing through informal credit associations in the eighteenth century\, nineteenth century indentured service practices\, or a twentieth century M&A deal\, our daily transactions and their attendant logics of financialization are deeply imbricated in systems of value\, security\, and regulation that give rise to the ubiquitous yet unseen architecture of transborder finance. \nExploring new ways to periodize and historicize financialization\, this workshop focuses on three inter-related themes: \n\nFinancialization and Nation/Empire making: First\, we will interrogate the ways in which financialization and its accompanying socio-legal technologies are deployed in state and empire building from 1600–present. Triumphalist western narratives often fall short in explaining global finance’s failures to displace local\, often older\, parallel systems of credit\, or assume institutionalization occurs only by alien imposition and with little local mediation. Hence\, a study of financialization over the longue durée reinscribes Asian experiences into teleologies of finance\, e.g. highlighting how the house of Jagat Seth\, a giant Jain indigenous banking firm brokered the rise of Company Raj\, hastening the eighteenth century decline of the Mughal Empire. How do such analyses trouble a convergent understanding of the state as postcolonial restorer of sovereignty and as a neoliberal shepherd of economic development?\nForgotten intermediaries of finance: Our vantage renders visible mobile middle men and women whose political alliances do not neatly align with geopolitical boundaries. State-centered scholarship awkwardly accommodates the individuals\, private banks\, and black market financiers that have historically facilitated credit flows through the “plumbing” of regional and global finance that existed prior to the modern institutionalization of international finance. The slippery spaces between money and morality can foster unlikely alliances that cross racial\, gender\, and political lines. Hence\, this workshop seeks new studies that explore how people and institutions have navigated scales of financialization (simultaneously global/local; Islamic/Western; colonial/postcolonial) that disrupt traditional territorial orders that undergird sovereignty by producing new geographies that bring Shanghai and faraway Mumbai closer together than Shanghai and Shenyang.\nProblematizing the state-market binary: International financial institutions (IFIs such as the World Bank and the IMF) have broken out of their “straitjackets of transactional legal work\,” to invest in the construction of economic foundations—work formerly within the domain of states. The recursive dynamics through which IFIs and their partners acquire state functions\, sometimes against sovereign resistance\, but at times in collusion with states (often against other states) complicates straightforward analyses. Further\, is what we think of as the “work of a state” stable when states themselves have been reconfigured by waves of financialization? How has financialization shaped continuities in state practice over the five-century decline and re-emergence of Asian economic hegemonies?\n\nParticipants are not required to engage the entire longue durée of Asian financialization (1600–present)\, but we seek papers on the theme of finance and sovereignty that use multidisciplinary methods\, trace historical lineages\, and preferably range across more than one (nation-)state. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/genealogies-of-financialization-reframing-sovereignty-in-asia-1600-present/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164505Z CREATED:20201026T164505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164505Z UID:10000666-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Frontier Assemblages: Political Economies of Margins and Resource Frontiers in Asia DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nMichael Eilenberg\nAssociate Professor\, Culture and Society\, Aarhus University\netnome@cas.au.dk \nJason Cons\nResearch Assistant Professor\, LBJ School of Public Affairs\, University of Texas at Austin\njasoncons@utexas.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nZachary Anderson\, PhD Candidate\, Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto\n“Pragmatism and politics: Translating the green economy in an Indonesian frontier” \nYoung Rae Choi\, Graduate Student (Post-Defense)\, Geography\, Ohio State University\n“Spaces of sustainability? China’s coastal reclamation boom and the sustainability controversy” \nMichael Dwyer\, Associate Researcher\, Centre for Development and Environment\, University of Bern\n“Concession development: Timber financing and risk modulation at Southeast Asia’s upland frontier” \nGökçe Günel\, Lecturer in Discipline\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Subsurface Workings: the Production of Carbon Capture and Storage Policy in the United Arab Emirates” \nDolly Kikon\, Lecturer\, Department of Anthropology and Development Studies\, University of Melbourne\n“Carbon Connections” \nDuncan McDuie-Ra\, Associate Dean Research\, Arts and Social Sciences\, UNSW\n“Frontier Land Dynamics and the Private Health Boom in Imphal\, Manipur” \nKasia Paprocki\, PhD Candidate\, Development Sociology\, Cornell University\n“The Climate Frontier: Political Economies of Shrimp Aquaculture and Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Bangladesh” \nIgor Rubinov\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Princeton University\n“Growing at the margins: Grafting families and trees on a former Soviet frontier” \nJasnea Sarma\, PhD Student\, Comparative Asian Studies\, National University Of Singapore\n“Explorations of Space\, Time and Political Subjectivities in India and China’s Resource Frontier’s In Myanmar” \nMax Woodworth\, Assistant Professor\, Geography\, Ohio State University\n“Frontier Landscapes of the Gigantic and the Ghost Town in Ordos\, Inner Mongolia” \nJerry Zee\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, Science and Technology Studies\, University of California\, Davis\n“Groundwork: Experiments with Environment on a Chinese Airstream” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop interrogates the contemporary expansion of so-called resource frontiers into marginal spaces throughout Asia. The past decades have seen a radical and unprecedented transformation in margins—borders\, upland areas\, and “waste” zones—throughout Asia. Millions of acres of land have been rapidly converted to large-scale\, export-oriented monoculture production. Often\, though not exclusively\, the funding and management of these resource frontiers comes from elsewhere in Asia. We are interested in exploring the implications for the sovereignty\, security\, and political economy of the states in which these transformations are occurring; the new financial configurations that are driving it; the environmental impact of this expansion in these often ecologically vulnerable zones; and the impacts on the people who live in these rapidly transforming margins. \nWhile scholars have begun to direct attention towards these individual transformations\, very little is known about their similarities and differences across space. It is clear that the expansion of palm oil\, rubber\, aquaculture\, and other mono-culture commodities have radically altered territorial sovereignty\, ecology\, and human security throughout the region. Yet\, what similarities and differences do these transformations share? What are the broad and micro dynamics of resource frontier transformation? And what do these shifts portend for margins\, which have and continue to be sites of intense securitization\, conflict\, and expansion? Understanding these dynamics helps to clarify processes that are reshaping the geopolitics of the region and reformatting millions of people’s relationship to land. \nWe understand the linkages between foreign direct investment\, large-scale resource extraction and territorial politics in the margins of Asia as frontier assemblages to engage the multiple meanings and notions associated with regions where resource frontiers and marginal spaces interlock. We use the term “assemblage” to indicate a historically contingent convergence that facilitates expansion into frontier zones. We conceptualize frontiers as\, first\, a discourse of untouched wilderness and infinite unexploited resources and\, second\, as moving zones of state control and resource extraction. We see frontier assemblages as projects in the making\, which are unstable and in flux. We understand these frontier assemblages as broad\, yet historically and spatially specific forms of resource exploitation now unfolding in the margins of Asia. \nThis workshop interrogates this unprecedented transformation and the complex array of actors\, forces\, and ecologies that constitute it. We wish to explore four key questions: (1) What are the commonalities and differences in frontier development and resource exploitation across different national borders in Asia; (2) What kinds of framings of “space” and “territory” legitimatize and mobilize expansion into frontier zones and subsequent land enclosures; (3) what kinds of capital flows and financial configurations are mobilized to produce new resource frontiers; (4) and how do largescale development schemes in marginal areas articulate with projects of national security\, sovereignty\, and state-formation in different geopolitical contexts? \nWe invite participation from scholars working on\, but not limited to\, such topics as: \n\nThe development of new export processing zones;\nThe financialization of new extractive economies;\nThe political ecology of resource extraction;\nLand grabbing and land dynamics in frontier zones;\nThe dynamics of new plantation economies. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/frontier-assemblages-political-economies-of-margins-and-resource-frontiers-in-asia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164309Z CREATED:20201026T164309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164309Z UID:10000665-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Forced Migration in/of Asia: Connections\, Convergences\, Comparisons DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nElaine Lynn-Ee Ho\nAssociate Professor\, Geography\, National University of Singapore\nelaine.ho@nus.edu.sg \nCabeiri Robinson\nAssociate Professor\, International Studies & Anthropology\, University of Washington\ncdr33@uw.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nJosee Huennekes\, PhD Candidate\, Swinburne Institute for Social Research\, Swinburne University of Technology\n“Remittances and Responsibilities among Rohingya Families in Kuala Lumpur’s Suburbs” \nUmut Korkut\, Reader (Associate Professor)\, Glasgow School for Business and Society\, Glasgow Caledonian University\n“The Discursive governance of forced migration management: The Turkish shift from reticence to activism in Asia” \nSang Kook Lee\, Associate Professor\, Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\n“From Activists to Entrepreneurs: Burmese Refugees in South Korea” \nKirsten Mcconnachie\, Assistant Professor\, Law\, University of Warwick\n“Boundaries and Belonging in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Chin refugees in Mizoram” \nAnne McNevin\, Associate Professor\, Politics\, New School for Social Research\, The New School\n“Human Displacement and the Crisis of Hospitality: Reflections on the Spirit of Refugee Law and the Example of Acehnese Fishermen” \nMallica Mishra\, Associate Faculty\, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (Development Studies)\, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India\n“Tibetan Refugees in India: Learnings in Exile” \nRebecca Nedostup\, Associate Professor\, History\, Brown University\n“Home & Land: Profiting from the Displaced during Wartime” \nGlen Peterson\, Professor\, History\, University of British Columbia\n“Refugees\, Forced Migration and China’s Entry into the “Family of Nations” \nNatasha Raheja\, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor\, Anthropology\, New York University\n“From Minority to Majority: Pakistani Hindu Claims to Indian Citizenship” \nWen-Ching Ting\, PhD Candidate\, Migration Studies\, School of Global Studies\, University of Sussex\n“Actors\, Constellations of Mobility and ‘Home’ Territory: case of displaced Shanmigrants along the Thai-Burma border” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nForced migration in Asian countries and dispersing across Asia (henceforth Asian forced migration) is drawing international attention to the extent and nature of humanitarian assistance made available to displaced persons. The conduct of the International Refugee Regime (IRR)\, which evolved out of post-war European agendas\, may have limited reach over the different types of forced migration happening in Asia. Critically examining Asian forced migration reveals the sustained effects of colonial and imperial legacies and how culturally specific notions of territory\, sovereignty\, legal systems\, and kinship\, co-ethnic or other social ties influence the treatment of refugees\, internally displaced people and other types of human displacement. The challenge is to write the Asian forced migration experience into a wider global narrative without losing sight of the specificity of particular regional situations. \nOur workshop seeks to critically examine the InterAsian connections forged through forced migration experiences\, lending to revised inflections upon the way we approach studies of forced migration through hitherto accepted national or regional framings. Through our workshop\, we also examine convergences in how framings of territory\, sovereignty and legal systems in Asian societies impact the way forced migration is managed or experienced by forced migrants themselves. We further elicit comparisons of how Asian states have responded to forced migration in relation to the categorization and management norms that developed in Europe and internationally during the post-war decades. \nThe workshop aims to develop a research agenda concerning how studying Asian forced migration might contribute to wider debates in the fields of refugee\, migration and Asian studies. We encourage papers that focus on one or both of the following themes: \n\nConsider the multiplicity of Asian forced migration such as the multiple ways in which forced migration is experienced and managed and thus the possibility of multiple regimes governing forced migration in an interAsian context. Exploring the presence of multiple regimes requires investigating the history and contemporary experiences of of refugees\, displaced persons and forced migrants on their own terms\, rather than fitting them into conventional legal definitions. It also provides the opportunity to critically engage with the empirical diversity of political and social power that can generate regimes of refugee recognition and managements\, rather than assuming the singularity of primacy of the IRR).\nExamine the interface of an array of social actors implicated in Asian forced migration\, ranging from the ground level to institutionally organized interventions\, locally and transnationally. Such interfaces include\, but are not limited to\, the interactions of community-based organisations or other local networks\, national governments from source or receiving countries of forced migration\, governments-in-exile\, international organisations\, and international non-governmental organisations. Investigating the interface of such interactions open up a dialogue on how knowledge structures and practices pertaining to forced migration circulate in an InterAsian context with global influences in mind.\n\nBy curating papers that explore the multiplicity of forced migration and the interfaces of actors and institutions\, our workshop aims to reposition “Asia” as a central theoretical and empirical site for studies of forced migration. It seeks to do this by examining how local dynamics and social interactions that arise out of displacement experiences shape InterAsian and international knowledge\, and ultimately how international practices and norms are re-appropriated locally. The InterAsian analyses that we undertake through this workshop bring into view how the imagery and functioning of “Asia” has been sedimented through accrued layers and episodes of forced migration. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/forced-migration-in-of-asia-connections-convergences-comparisons/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164118Z CREATED:20201026T164118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164118Z UID:10000664-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Conviviality beyond the Urban Centre: Theorizing the “Marginal Hub” DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nMagnus Marsden\nProfessor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Sussex Asia Centre\, University of Sussex\nM.Marsden@sussex.ac.uk \nMadeleine Reeves Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology\, University of Manchester Madeleine.Reeves@manchester.ac.uk \nWorkshop Participants\nItty Abraham\, Associate Professor\, Southeast Asian Studies\, National University of Singapore\n“Poaching as Conviviality in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands” \nKalzang Dorjee Bhutia\, Lecturer\, Religious Studies\, Grinnell College and Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa\, Assistant Professor\, Religious Studies\, Grinnell College\n“Alternative Geographies of Global Connection: The Making and Unmaking of Conviviality among Buddhist Hubs of the Tea Horse Road” \nThomas Chambers\, Teaching Fellow\, School of Global Studies\, University of Sussex\n“Scaling Conviviality: The Spatial Economics of a ‘Marginal Hub’” \nYasmin Cho\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Anthropology\, University of Michigan\n“Purposefully Marginal: Gender\, Wilderness\, and (Dis)connectivity in Tibetan Buddhist Revivalism in Post-Mao China” \nNellie Chu\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Center for Transregional Research Network\, University of Göttingen\n“Displacement and Maternal Longing: The Production of Jiagongchang as Marginal Hubs of Subcontracted Labor in Guangzhou\, China” \nTill Mostowlansky\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Faraway siblings\, so close: marginality\, connectivity and mediated conviviality across the Pakistan-Tajikistan frontier” \nJacob Nerenberg\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Toronto\n“The Terminal Economy: Frontier Dreams and Confrontational Gathering in Highlands Papua (Indonesia)” \nAnton Nikolotov\, PhD Student\, Central Asian Studies\, Humboldt University and Frei University\n“Volatile shashlyk and shopfloor convivialities in a peripheral market in Moscow: skills\, emotionality and exchange” \nMalini Sur\, Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Garrison Conviviality: Longing at the Nation’s Margins” \nStacey Van Vleet\, Visiting Lecturer\, History\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Medicine\, Monasteries\, and Scholarly Networks between Qing China and the Tibetan Buddhist World” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nHow might we conceive of places of encounter with difference beyond the major centers that have dominated the study of urbanism in Asia? What forms of social interaction are to be found in such sites? And how are such hubs connected to one another and to major urban centers? This workshop seeks to answer these questions by foregrounding the empirical and conceptual exploration of what we call ‘marginal hubs’ in diverse Asian contexts. \nBy ‘marginal hubs’ we denote sites that may be institutionally or geographically remote from historic centers of urban sociality or political power\, but which are\, or have been\, places of interaction between people\, things\, and ideas from diverse backgrounds. A non-exhaustive list of such sites might include border markets\, caravanserais\, army bases\, peri-urban container camps\, madrassas\, ports\, or the Soviet-era “village of urban type” in which workers of diverse linguistic and confessional backgrounds were posted to work in a single factory or mine. During the workshop we will explore the modes of social interaction that are to be found in such hubs\, the forms of extraction and violence by which they may be characterized in the present or past\, as well as the distinct forms of sociality or conviviality that may shape social life within and around them. We enquire what role such hubs might play in the emergence of new cultural expressions (for instance\, in music\, in manners and etiquette\, in rituals of politeness and hospitality\, in food and consumption\, in dress and clothing) and the degree to which the forms of sociability found in such hubs might be traced to settings beyond. \nThe workshop proceeds from a recognition that while there has been a flourishing of literature on urban life in Asia on the one hand\, and on borders\, frontiers and rural margins on the other\, we know comparatively little about those forms of sensibility and sociability that emerge in hubs that may be remote from\, or peripheral to\, traditional urban centers. By inviting historically and ethnographically informed papers that study ‘marginal hubs’ in diverse Asian settings\, we seek to diversify and unsettle the category of the ‘Asian urban’ and to draw attention to forms of non-elite mobility that link diverse Asian hubs\, including the movement of soldiers\, traders\, construction workers\, members of religious orders\, domestic workers\, and engineers. We invite contributions from junior and senior scholars from anthropology\, history\, geography and allied fields that draw upon a close empirical analysis of hub(s) in one or more Asian setting. We particularly welcome papers that speak to questions of connectivity\, durability or comparability by engaging one or more of the following questions: \n\nIn what ways are marginal hubs connected both to one another and to major urban centers? What forms (infrastructural\, imaginary\, familial\, personal) do such connections take? Are such marginal hubs dependent upon urban centers or do they exist in parallel to them? Are there regular forms of symbiosis and mutual dependency between them?\nIn what ways is it possible to historicize hubs in the margin? Are marginal hubs that apparently emerge almost overnight (e.g. container markets) actually informed by longer histories? How do hubs change through time\, and what temporal scales might be helpful in thinking about this: linearity\, cycles\, stop-start transformations? In what ways do marginal hubs from the past (e.g. caravanserais\, military bases\, or border markets) maintain a place in the life of local communities even after decline? Has the state found it easier to suppress such hubs or to harness them?\nDoes the particular type of flow with which a hub is connected influence the nature of its dynamics\, or is it possible to recognize similarities and parallels across apparently different kinds of marginal hub? For example\, are hubs or religious learning different from or comparable to hubs of trade and commerce? URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conviviality-beyond-the-urban-centre-theorizing-the-marginal-hub/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T170000 DTSTAMP:20210831T163416Z CREATED:20210831T163416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T163416Z UID:10000712-1461052800-1461085200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:DATA2GO.NYC @ Queens Borough Cabinet DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/data2go-nyc-queens-borough-cabinet/ LOCATION:Queens\, NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR