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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160608T080000
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SUMMARY:FitCity 2016
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URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/fitcity-2016/
LOCATION:Brooklyn\, NY
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:DATA2GO.NYC @ Queens Borough Cabinet
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LOCATION:Queens\, NY
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SUMMARY:China – Latin America and the Caribbean Relations (New York)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nAt the request of DPA\, CPPF organized a meeting on the changing role of China in Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting brought together academic and policy experts and UN counterparts\, and examined the role of China as a growing economic and political presence in the region; and how this role has been affected by recent economic troubles in the Asian countries and the shifting political tendencies in key countries in Latin America. The meeting also examined how this changing relation with China has impacted intra-regional alliances\, and the standing role of the United States as the hegemonic power in the region.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-relations-new-york/
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SUMMARY:Seminar by APN Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jeremiah Arowosegbe at Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:African Peacebuilding Network (APN) 2015 residential postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jeremiah Arowosegbe presented a seminar at the Institute of African Studies (IAS)\, Columbia University\, New York\, December 9\, 2015. Dr. Arowosegbe’s presentation\, titled “Ethnic Minorities and Land Conflicts in Southwestern Nigeria\,” discussed the often neglected insecurities caused by land conflict in southwestern Nigeria. The seminar was moderated by Professor Mamadou Diouf\, director of IAS and SSRC board of directors chair. \nDr. Arowosegbe stressed the importance of identity formation in Nigerian statebuilding\, paying special attention to migrant and native populations. He also addressed the history of land use in southwestern Nigeria\, mentioning the impact that migrating trade\, missionary groups\, and British colonialism have all had on current land conflicts between different Nigerian ethnic and minority groups. Time was left for Q&A\, in which participants discussed other issues that could potentially lead to land conflict in South-Western Nigeria\, such as a lack of available legal instruments for displaced persons and religious conflict. \nThis seminar was part of Dr. Arowosegbe’s one-month affiliation to IAS as visiting scholar\, which took place during his three-month APN postdoctoral fellowship period. Prior to his time at Columbia University\, Dr. Arowosegbe was in residency at the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar\, Senegal. \nDr. Arowosegbe teaches political science at the University of Ibadan\, Ibadan\, Nigeria. He obtained a PhD in politics at the University of Ibadan in 2010. His major areas of research and teaching interest are African intellectual history\, African history\, and Indian and South-Asian histories\, as well as African politics\, African political thought\, and political theory. His other areas of interest include development studies\, postcolonial studies\, and subaltern studies. \nThe APN residential postdoctoral fellowship helps early-career African PhD holders based in African universities to complete ongoing research projects focusing on a topic related to African peacebuilding. \nThe APN wishes to express its sincere gratitude to Columbia University\, as well as WARC\, for hosting Dr. Arowosegbe.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/seminar-by-apn-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-jeremiah-arowosegbe-at-columbia-university/
LOCATION:Institute of African Studies\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151205
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SUMMARY:APN 2015 Grantee Workshop II in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
DESCRIPTION:The African Peacebuilding Network (APN)\, in collaboration with the Institute of Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\, held its second training workshop for the program’s 2015 cohort of individual research grantees and residential postdoctoral fellows. The event\, which took place December 2–4\, 2015\, focused on the writing and dissemination of grantees’ and fellows’ project findings. Through a series of presentations and one-on-one interactions with experts in the field of peacebuilding\, participants were given practical skills to translate their evidence-based research into high-quality\, peer-reviewed publications following their six-month fieldwork and three-month postdoctoral residences\, respectively. Emphasis was also placed on making that knowledge easily accessible to various scholarly\, policy\, and practitioner communities at the national\, regional\, and global levels. Participants were exposed to various platforms for sharing their research\, including mainstream and new and social media\, and encouraged to present their knowledge in such ways that can easily be consumed by various publics. The event was also open to several PhD students from IPSS. \nLectures were given by Professor Gilbert Khadiagala (University of the Witwatersrand)\, Professor Said Adejumobi (Economic Commission for Africa)\, Professor Kenneth Omeje (APN 2013 grantee\, University of Bradford)\, Dr. Duncan Omanga (APN 2014 grantee\, current Cambridge fellow)\, and Dr. Charles Ukeje (APN 2014-2016 collaborative working group grantee\, IPSS)\, as well as APN advisory board member Dr. Devon Curtis (University of Cambridge). \nPresentations engaged participants with a critical understanding of the context and politics of the conflict and peacebuilding nexus in Africa\, and how best to promote their findings within such an expanding network. The lectures were given by leadings scholars and experts in African peacebuilding\, many of whom serve on international and regional peer-reviewed journals and other publications (as either editors or editorial board members) and are experts in digital communications. Topics covered included the changing dynamics of conflict of Africa\, the gaps in African peace and security research\, strategies for disseminating research in peer-review publications and social and mainstream media\, and how to transform research findings into policy inputs. The presentations were followed by question-and-answer sessions and lively debates among participants. \nThe issue was raised over producing research that is “problem-solving oriented\,” versus “policy-oriented.” As Prof. Omeje remarked\, “It is important to use research to highlight policy gaps\, and know what the current policies are\, if any at all.” He also stressed the importance of publishing in Africa\, not just Western journals and book publishers. Dr. Ukeje went further to say that\, “We need to understand the nature of research\, and we need to understand the nature of policy.” Not only must researchers be “cutting edge” and aspire for brevity when writing for policymakers\, but he also encouraged others to “think critically of what our role should be as scholars in the developing world.” Meanwhile\, Dr. Omanga commented on the fact that “As academics\, we can’t underestimate the importance of social media in disseminating our work\, but also for cultivating research.” He spoke to the uses of social media\, blogging\, and op-eds\, and other ways one can make research visible to multiple constituents. \nThe cohorts—composed of junior\, midcareer\, and senior scholars and practitioners working across various institutions and universities in Africa—also had the chance to interact and further develop working relationships with one another\, while also exchanging ideas within smaller training groups facilitated by key resource persons. These smaller groups allowed participants to crystallize their ideas about publishing their research results (i.e.\, where and in what form) and get constructive feedback on their draft publications through group and one-on-one consultations with trainers. \nOverall\, participants felt the mentoring they received to be useful and informative\, and they left the event feeling excited by the prospect of their research being translated into material that could be used to influence policy. Going forward\, the APN hopes participants will use the networks they have cultivated to further collaborate on peacebuilding projects\, and possibly compete for publishing awards and other scholarly endeavors together in the future. \nA presentation was also made by IPSS director Mr. Ato Kidane Kiros\, who focused on the Institute’s main areas of expertise and work on education\, research\, and outreach. Attention was paid to the IPSS’s involvement with the Tana High Level Forum on Security in Africa\, as well as its executive Master’s in managing peace and security in Africa (MPSA) and the African-centered Solutions (AfSol) workshop series. \nAPN also worked with IPSS to coordinate a visit to the African Union\, where participants had a firsthand exposure to the inner workings of the AU’s peace and security and political affairs offices. Presentations were made by Taye Abdulkadir and Dr. Kwaku-Asante Darko. These speakers focused on the objectives of the AU\, the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and its core components—including the Peace and Security Council—and the protocols and frameworks of the Continental Early Warning System (CEWS). Participants then paid a special visit to the Situation Room\, which is a special feature of the AU and operates on a 24/7 basis\, allowing analysts to quickly monitor\, gather\, and assess information across Africa on dynamic indicators of conflict\, structural indicators\, and country profiles. A data tool that quickly visualizes country situations in real-time\, the Situation Room produces daily reports as well as weekly updates and flash reports. AU staff emphasized the role of academics in publishing books and journals to help inform the policymaking community\, stressing the need for more bridges between policy and scholarly communities. They also spoke to the gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed in order to help policymakers tackle peace and security on the continent\, such as cyber-terrorism\, climate change\, China\, and maritime security. \nThe APN wishes to thank IPSS and the African Union for ensuring a successful event.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/apn-2015-grantee-workshop-ii-in-addis-ababa-ethiopia/
LOCATION:Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151113
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SUMMARY:"Equality in a New Age of Inequalities\," a lecture by Pierre Rosanvallon
DESCRIPTION:On November 12\, 2015\, Roosevelt House welcomed the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program in a continuing series during which scholars and practitioners analyze current anxieties of democracy. The evening featured Professor Pierre Rosanvallon of the Collège de France in his inaugural lecture as the Council’s first Democracy Fellow. His lecture and the ensuing dialogue with the audience sought to energize the conversation and inspire thoughtful and original solutions to the growing democratic problem of inequality. \n \nThe event was introduced and moderated by Ira Katznelson\, President of the Social Science Research Council\, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University\, and Roosevelt House Advisory Board Member. \nThe lecture is open for viewing here: http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/pierre-rosanvallon/
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/equality-in-a-new-age-of-inequalities-a-lecture-by-pierre-rosanvallon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151109T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151116T170000
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SUMMARY:2015 Democracy Seminar with Professor Pierre Rosanvallon
DESCRIPTION:Professor Pierre Rosanvallon\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s inaugural Democracy Fellow\, led a two-part Seminar on current ‘anxieties of democracy’ with twelve doctoral students\, representing a range of disciplines and universities\, who competed for a spot at the table. \nPierre Rosanvallon\, Professor and Chair of Modern and Contemporary History of Politics at the Collège de France\, is renowned for his original historical and theoretical approach to the study of contemporary democracy. He has just released Le bon gouvernement (Seuil\, 2015)\, the fourth volume in a series on the transformations of democracy in the twenty-first century. \nSeminar Participants\nSarah DeMott (International Education)\, New York University\nZoltan Dujisin (Sociology)\, Columbia University\nEmmanuel Guerisoli (Sociology)\, The New School\nNizar Harake (Public Policy)\, New York University\nIsaac Jabola-Carolus (Sociology)\, CUNY Graduate Center\nGustav Kalm (Anthropology)\, Columbia University\nLuise Papcke (Political Science)\, Columbia University\nLuca Provenzano (History)\, Columbia University\nHari Ramesh (Political Science)\, Yale University\nSally Sharif (Political Science)\, CUNY Graduate Center\nDaria Vaisman (Sociology/Criminal Justice)\, CUNY-John Jay College\nGreg Yudin (Politics)\, The New School \nPart I (November 9)\, Readings:\nHall\, Peter A. 2014. “Anxieties of Democracy: Why Now?” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nKatznelson\, Ira. “Opening the Debate” in Anxieties of Democracy Forum. Fortieth Anniversary Issue\, Boston Review\, September/October 2015. \nKatznelson\, Ira. “Reply” in Anxieties of Democracy Forum. Fortieth Anniversary Issue\, Boston Review\, September/October 2015. \nMansbridge\, Jane. 2014. “Negotiation in the Crisis of Democracy” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nMehta\, Uday Singh. 2014. “Democratic and Institutional Anxieties” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nMoravcsik\, Andrew. 2014. “Multilateralism and Democracy” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nRosenblum\, Nancy. 2014. “Why a Philosophy of History in which the Present Moment Is World-Altering Is Not Hubris and Is Politically Necessary” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nPart II (November 16)\, Reading:\nRosanvallon\, Pierre. 2011. Introduction to Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality\, Reflexivity\, Proximity. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2015-democracy-seminar-with-professor-pierre-rosanvallon/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150916
DTSTAMP:20210913T144027Z
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SUMMARY:New Area Studies in an Era of Global Transformation\, SSRC Roundtable at the Inaugural Africa-Asia Conference\, Accra
DESCRIPTION:Tatiana Carayannis\, project director of the China-Africa Knowledge Project chaired a roundtable on “New Area Studies in an Era of Global Transformation\,” sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) at the inaugural Africa-Asia conference in Accra\, Ghana. Roundtable participants included Thomas Asher\, program director of the SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences Program\, Seteney Shami\, program director of the SSRC’s Inter-Asia Program\, and SSRC board of directors chair Mamadou Diouf. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/new-area-studies-in-an-era-of-global-transformation-ssrc-roundtable-at-the-inaugural-africa-asia-conference-accra/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150715
DTSTAMP:20210910T220802Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Views on Global Peace Practice: New Directions in UN Peace Operations\, UNA-China\, Beijing
DESCRIPTION:On 14 and 15 July 2015\, the SSRC’s China-Africa Knowledge Project\, in collaboration with the United Nations Association of China\, the American Friends Service Committee\, and the Quaker United Nations Office convened a workshop entitled “Emerging Views on Global Peace Practice: New Directions in UN Peace Operations” to discuss current UN peace practice. The workshop\, held around the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations\, brought together a network of Chinese\, African\, and western scholars and some expert practitioners. \nIt sought to consider\, examine China’s engagement on issues of women\, peace and security in light of the High-Level eview of Security Council Resolution 1325\, and assess key challenges in the implementation of the Reviews’ recommendations. Tatiana Carayannis\, deputy director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum and project director of the China-Africa Knowledge Project co-chaired the event.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/emerging-views-on-global-peace-practice-new-directions-in-un-peace-operations-una-china-beijing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150604T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150605T170000
DTSTAMP:20210913T132732Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting of the SSRC Working Group on China-Africa
DESCRIPTION:The SSRC Working Group on China-Africa and a number of colleagues convened at the SSRC in New York over two days to discuss the project’s work and future goals. The Working Group and partners provided continued advice and guidance for a planning process to help identify priorities and design a substantial intervention or series of interventions in research collaboration and capacity building. Discussions spanned the emerging areas of China-Africa research and challenges and capacity gaps in teaching the next generation of scholars\, among a number of other topics.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/meeting-of-the-ssrc-working-group-on-china-africa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150208
DTSTAMP:20201008T193723Z
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SUMMARY:Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer
DESCRIPTION:On February 6-7\, 2015\, the SSRC’s Religion and the Public Sphere program hosted the capstone conference for its New Directions in the Study of Prayer (NDSP) project. Over the course of two days\, more than 60 participants gathered at the Italian Academy at Columbia University for a series of panels and roundtable discussions that addressed topics ranging from religious technologies to the intersection of religion and politics to the challenges and rewards of covering prayer and religion in journalism. \nAmong the many presentations on Friday was a discussion of “Prayer Machines\,” one of several interdisciplinary collaborations that developed out of the NDSP working groups. Saturday’s talks included a set of papers on “Honing the Sensorium in Individual and Collective Prayer: Case Studies from Eastern Orthodox Christianity\,” with guests traveling from as far afield as Hungary to take part. In addition to the full schedule of discussions\, some grantees also took part in the Prayer Expo—a set of exhibits highlighting material and multimedia aspects of the study of prayer. \n \nThe NDSP project\, launched in 2011 with funding from the John Templeton Foundation\, brought together 28 scholars and journalists engaged in innovative research and reporting on the social\, cultural\, historical\, psychological\, and cognitive dimensions of the practice of prayer\, under the leadership of a multidisciplinary advisory committee. With grantees having completed their two-year research projects\, the conference offered an invaluable opportunity to look back at the wide variety of scholarship supported by the program and to look forward to further exploration and continued collaboration. \nFor a full list of panels and participants\, please download the full agenda here. For more information on the grantees and their research\, read our Why Prayer? brochure here.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/why-prayer-a-conference-on-new-directions-in-the-study-of-prayer/
LOCATION:Italian Academy\, Columbia University
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141214T150000
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SUMMARY:Seminar in New York by APN Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Gbemisola Animasawun
DESCRIPTION:African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Residential Postdoctoral Fellow (2014) Dr. Gbemisola Animasawun presented a seminar at the Institute of African Studies\, Columbia University\, New York\, December 12\, 2014. His presentation\, titled “The ‘Booboisie\,’ Conflict Drivers\, and Peacebuilding in Lagos and Accra Informal Economies\,” stressed the need for more localized peace research and the setup of early warning mechanisms to deter future conflicts and called upon policymakers and practitioners to better engage with actors of these informal economies. The seminar was facilitated by professor Abosede George of Barnard College. \nDr. Animasawun visited New York at the conclusion of his three month fellowship residency period\, having spent two months at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC)\, Ghana\, and one month at the Department of African and African American Studies\, Harvard University. The title of his APN project was “Autochthony\, Horizontal Inequalities\, and Ethnic Insecurity: Implications for Peaceful Co-existence and Inter-ethnic Crisis in Select Markets in Lagos\, Nigeria.” \nThe APN postdoctoral fellowship is meant to help African PhD holders based in African universities who are in the early postdoctoral phase of their scholarly careers to complete ongoing research projects focusing on a topic related to African peacebuilding. \nClick here for more information about the APN Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship competition.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/seminar-in-new-york-by-apn-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-gbemisola-animasawun/
LOCATION:Institute of African Studies\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131119T170000
DTSTAMP:20210913T144340Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Making Sense of the China-Africa Relationship: Theoretical Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:On 18-19 November 2013\, the SSRC hosted a two-day conference with Yale University at Yale’s Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center. The conference\, which helped launch the SSRC’s new China-Africa Knowledge Project\, brought together a small number of leading scholars and graduate students from China\, Africa\, North America\, and Europe to explore questions about the production of knowledge and the theoretical underpinnings of China-Africa scholarship—specifically\, how to connect the growing body of work on China’s re-engagement with Africa in the last decade to broader scholarly and policy discourses about the economic\, political and cultural dimensions of globalization. \nThe conference kicked off with a panel entitled The Politics of Knowledge\, in which researchers located in different geographical and disciplinary locations presented and debated “think pieces” about the international production of knowledge on the evolving relationship between China and Africa. It continued with panels entitled Migration and Diasporas\, International Peace and Security\, and Trade\, Aid\, and Development. Each set of panel presentations was followed by a lively discussion and exchange of ideas. A final panel on Theoretical Approaches and China-Africa Scholarshipfurther explored epistemological questions generated by emerging empirical research in this space. \nFollowing the first day of panels\, Professor Immanuel Wallerstein of Yale University gave a public lecture in the Henry Luce Hall titled “China\, Africa\, and the World-System Since 1945.” The hour-long lecture (video below) situated the China-Africa discussion within a wider and changing\, global order. \nThe conference was a fruitful and engaging gathering. The discussions that emerged brought new insights to the topic\, and even generated some interesting suggestions on research collaborations moving forward. Participants concluded that while the last decade of research on Africa’s engagement with China sought to make sense of a rapidly evolving relationship between a country and a continent\, this conference was an important next step in theory-building\, and in both deepening and broadening this analysis.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conference-making-sense-of-the-china-africa-relationship-theoretical-approaches-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-yale-university/
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