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SUMMARY:DATA2GO.NYC @ Queens Borough Cabinet
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URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/data2go-nyc-queens-borough-cabinet/
LOCATION:Queens\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T143000
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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
DTSTAMP:20210915T162044Z
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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
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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
DTSTAMP:20200928T152823Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131105
DTSTAMP:20210910T220550Z
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SUMMARY:Delegation from Renmin University visits CPPF
DESCRIPTION:A delegation from the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies\, Renmin University of China visited SSRC and met with CPPF Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis and Program Associate Ciara Aucoin to discuss the history of CPPF\, areas of work (particularly those related to China-Africa)\, and possible future collaboration.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/delegation-from-renmin-university-visits-cppf/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131002T080000
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SUMMARY:The Sounds and Scripts of Languages in Motion
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nJing Tsu\nProfessor of Modern Chinese Literature & Culture\nYale University\njing.tsu@yale.edu \nRonit Ricci\nSenior Lecturer\, School of Culture\, History and Language\, College of Asia-Pacific\nThe Australian National University\nronit.ricci@anu.edu.au \nWorkshop Participants\nRaja Adal\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of Cincinnati\n“The Law of the Land: What does it Look Like? An Epigraphic Study of Laws Signed by Heads of State in Japan\, Lebanon\, and Turkey\, 1923-1928” \nAttiya Ahmad\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, The George Washington University\n“Difference and Repetition: Plural Languages\, Islamic Da’wa and Cosmpolitan Muslim Belongings in Kuwait” \nRebecca Gould (in absentia)\, Assistant Professor\, Literature Department\, Yale-NUS College\n“Cosmopolitan and Vernacular: World Literary History Before Modernity” \nPei-yin Lin\, Assistant Professor\, School of Chinese\, University of Hong Kong\n“Language\, Culture and Identity: Romanization in Taiwan and its Implications” \nTram Ly (in absentia)\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Comparative Literature\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison and Hy Do (in absentia)\, Lecturer\, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam National University\n“The Tension between Chinese Legacies and Romanized Script in Contemporary Vietnamese” \nMaya Petrovich\, PhD\, Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“Between Serbian and Chaghatay: The Janus-Faced Multilinguality of Ottoman Turks” \nIan Rapley\, DPhil in Oriental Studies\, Oriental Institute\, University of Oxford\n“A Language for Asia? Transnational Connections and the Japanese Esperanto Movement” \nFernando Rosa (in absentia)\, Senior Visiting Research Fellow\, University of Malaya\n“Revisiting Creoles and Other Languages in the Lusophone Indian Ocean” \nEric Tagliacozzo\, Professor of History\, Cornell University\n“Historiographies of Vietnam in Collision\, 960-1920 CE” \nAudrey Truschke\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Religious Studies\, Stanford University\n“Sounds of Empire: Hearing Sanskrit in Early Modern Indo-Persian Courts” \nMark Turin\, Program Director\, Yale Himalaya Initiative\, Yale University & Associate Research Scientist\, Anthropology\, Cambridge University\n“Orality\, Script and Language Hierarchies along the Trans-Himalayan Arc” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nIn recent years\, the burgeoning of interest in interconnectivity and assembled spaces across Asia has opened up new areas of inquiry. Historically fluid and contested boundaries continue to turn Asia inside out\, forcing to the surface old and new networks that are now colliding with one another in innovative ways. Amidst the different ongoing conversations\, however\, the question of language has been remarkably absent. To be sure\, the movement of ideas\, things\, and people forge important material nexes of transculturation and influence. Our emphasis on language\, however\, proposes a crucial interface that tracks connectivity through the changes in the sounds and scripts of language. These include the institutional governance as well as everyday innovations of multilingualism and multiculturalism\, such as language policies\, oral transmission\, dialects\, mother tongues\, pidgin creolization\, literature and literacy\, and national languages. \nOur proposal is prompted by the recognition that language has been\, and is\, at the heart of most inter-Asian connections. Whether one considers the 8th century translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Tibetan\, the rendering of the Quran from Arabic into Javanese or Urdu in periods of religious and cultural expansion\, the lasting impact of British and Dutch colonial language policies on post-colonial India and Indonesia\, or the long-standing use of Malay as a language of trade\, travel and Islamization\, language provides a pivotal lens through which to explore the histories\, textures and meanings of inter-Asian connections. From East Asia to Southeast Asia\, Chinese\, once the common script of Vietnam\, Korea\, and Japan\, and later a minor ethnic marker in hybrid languages like Baba Malay in Indonesia\, Malaysia\, and Singapore\, compels one to rethink the standards of language. As the formal and informal rules of dialects and national languages adapt to new formations of intraregional and local-global influence\, even purported global languages—such as English—are becoming locally inflected variants. \nStraddling questions of cultural translation\, the media of written and oral cultures\, inter-area dynamics\, and identities in motion\, this workshop invites participants to join in a collective examination of how different usages of “language” exemplify interconnectivity across literature\, cultural studies\, anthropology\, linguistics\, sociology\, history\, political science\, art history\, and religious studies. \nPaper proposals should address an inter-Asian topic\, question\, process or event through the prism of language. Possible themes include\, but are not limited to: \n\nHistories of particular languages across time and/or space\nLegacies of colonial language policies in post-colonial Asia\nThe politics of national languages\nLanguage and power in Asian contexts\nScript continuity and change\nInter-Asian translation\nLanguages of contemporary popular cultures\nLanguages within and across national boundaries
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-sounds-and-scripts-of-languages-in-motion/
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SUMMARY:Rescuing Taste from the Nation: Oceans\, Borders and Culinary Flows
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nKrishnendu Ray\nAssociate Professor and Chair\, Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies & Public Health\nNew York University\nkrishnendu.ray@nyu.edu \nCecilia Leong-Salobir\nPostdoctoral Research Fellow\nUniversity of Wollongong\ncecilias@uow.edu.au \nWorkshop Participants\nVirginia Brown Keyder\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Political Science\, State University of New York at Binghamton\n“Olive Oil\, Law and Asia” \nMelissa Caldwell\, Professor\, Anthropology Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n“From Kimchi to Sushi: Training the Russian Palate as a Form of Colonial and Post-Colonial State-Making” \nMay-bo Ching\, Professor\, History\, Sun Yat-sen University\n“The Flow of Turtle Soup: From the Caribbean via Europe to Canton” \nJean Duruz\, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow\, Hawke Research Institute\, University of South Australia\n“Love in a Hot Climate: Foodscapes of Trade\, Travel\, War and Intimacy” \nMari Firkatian\, Professor of History\, Hillyer College\, University of Hartford\n“Using Survivor Recipes to Map Taste Across Spaces of Armenian Settlement in the Ottoman Empire” \nAshutosh Kumar\, Assistant Professor\, Daulat Ram College\, University of Delhi\n“Provisioning the Girmitiya: Food and Drink on Indentured Ships” \nJeffrey Pilcher\, Professor\, History Department\, University of Minnesota\n“‘Tastes Like Grain’: Asian Encounters with European Beer” \nJaclyn Rohel\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies and Public Health\, New York University\n“Imagining Asias? The Politics of Taste\, Space and Betel Quid Chewing in the British Imperial Imagination” \nKhaldoun Samman\, Associate Professor\, Sociology Department\, Macalester College\n“Nationalist Thought and the Colonial Culinary World: The Colonizer’s Gaze and the Making of the ‘New’ Jew\, Turk\, and Arab” \nZafer Yenal\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Boğaziçi University and Michael Kubiena\, Independent Researcher\n“Culinary work at the crossroads & emerging food discourses in Istanbul” \nCalls for Workshop Papers\nThe world of taste and trade in comestibles opens a window into the space between nations. National cuisines have been amply theorized. Indeed\, the basic tools of modern cultural history and demographics have become so nationalized that they have repressed the centrality of other connections and imaginings\, for instance\, between neighboring territorial regions of Asia or among port cities of the Indian Ocean (Mombasa\, Hormuz\, Mumbai\, Malacca)\, linked through flows of knowledge\, resources and material culture. When we examine the edges and intersections of continents and territories\, however\, we begin to see how narratives of cultural difference rub up against the reality of shared tastes\, culinary ingredients and technologies. \nWithin and across Asia\, a new history of oceans and renewed visibility of transnational circulation is reinvigorating discussions of cultural domains that exceed the nation-state. Instead of heartlands and national wholes we propose a productive mapping of taste and place that is encapsulated in the Hindustani saying\, Kosa kosa per pani badle\, chara kosa per vani\, every two miles the water changes – where water is a metonym for taste – and every four miles the language. This locates taste at the center of the ethnoscape that extends beyond the edges\, borders and boundaries of the four-colored maps of modernity. The workshop seeks to question the centrality of the modern nation-state as a vehicle for collective gustemic identity and to propose alternative ways of classifying and mapping taste across inter-Asian foodways. \nWhat are the conditions that produce (or preclude) the possibility of culinary flows between nations? How do territorial proximity\, agro-ecology\, history\, language\, conflict\, colonization and mobility (migration\, media\, technology) enable or constrain the imagination of trans-national configurations of culinary identity across Asia? We invite papers that interrogate the connections\, convergences and conflicts around foodways between and within nations across Asia\, from contemporary or historical perspectives. Papers should attend to culinary cultures\, products\, tools\, collective tastes\, systems of preparation or forms of knowledge (culinary texts\, oral histories) that escape or stretch beyond national circumscription. Possible themes and topics include: \n\nextra-colonial comestibles that pre-date Western imperial interventions and the transnational pathways of dispersal (e.g. historical analysis of palm toddy\, betel nut or halvah); colonial foodways (e.g. curries that have proliferated); fusions old and new\npatterns of fish migration and cookery techniques (e.g. political-ecology of fish stocks and processes of preparation at diverse coastal cities); shared and distinct uses of tamarind\, curry leaf\, coconut\, etc.\ncontemporary migrant labor practices and mobility of culinary knowledge (e.g. multi-sited ethnographies of plantation workers\, street peddlers\, cooks\, and chefs); gender and scripts of professionalization; embourgeoisment of taste and talk\ntrans-national politics of taste and Geographical Indications across borders or in disputed territories (e.g. the cultural politics of saffron in Kashmir)\nmicrocosmic sites (e.g. hawker stall\, café\, domestic kitchen\, blog) as spaces of class- and gender-based collective remembering and reworked meanings of belonging.\n\nWe encourage submissions from junior and senior scholars (in the fields of History\, Anthropology\, Sociology\, Geography\, Cultural Studies\, Communication\, Material Culture and Food Studies)\, as well as policymakers and cultural producers so as to generate a shared language for multidisciplinary research. All participants will be invited to deliver a brief commentary on two other papers during the workshop. Participants will be invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in an edited volume\, to be compiled after the workshop.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/rescuing-taste-from-the-nation-oceans-borders-and-culinary-flows/
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SUMMARY:Porous Enclaves: Inter-Asian Residential Projects and the Popular Classes from Istanbul to Seoul
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nJohn Friedmann\nHonorary Professor\, School of Community and Regional Planning\nUniversity of British Columbia\nProfessor Emeritus\, School of Public Policy and Social Research\nUniversity of California Los Angeles\njrpf@exchange.ubc.ca \nErik Harms\nAssistant Professor of Anthropology and International & Area Studies\nYale University\nerik.harms@yale.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nLisa Björkman\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“Watering the World Class City: ‘Islands of luxury’ and networked infrastructures in Mumbai” \nRyan Centner\, Lecturer\, Urban Geography\, London School of Economics\n“Neo-Ottomanism Out of the Ashes: Contentions of Cosmopolitan Rebuilding in Beirut & Beyond” \nGökçe Günel\, ACLS New Faculty Fellow\, Department of Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Authoritarian Governance and Iconic Infrastructures in Inter-Asian Cities” \nMax Hirsh\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Architecture\, ETH Zurich\, Future Cities Laboratory\n“A Home Away From Home: Ascott and the Development of the Asian Serviced Apartment Industry” \nLaavanya Kathiravelu\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“Looking over the walls: aspiration & sociality in enclaved communities in Singapore and Dubai” \nDanielle Labbé\, Assistant Professor\, Urban Planning\, University of Montreal and Julie-Anne Boudreau (in absentia)\, The Urbanisation\, Culture\, Société Research Centre\n“Exploring Local Integration Experiments in the New Urban Areas of Hanoi: A New Form of Asian Urbanism?” \nMichael Leaf\, Associate Professor\, School of Community and Regional Planning\, University of British Columbia\n“Exporting Indonesian Urbanism: Ciputra and the Developmental Vision of Market Modernism” \nRohit Mujumdar\, PhD Student\, School of Community and Regional Planning\, University of British Columbia\n“Made in U.S.A.: Worlding on Mumbai’s Periphery” \nChristina Schwenkel\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies Department\, University of California\, Riverside\n“Reclaiming Rights to the Post/Socialist City: Bureaucratic Artifacts and the Affective Appeal of Petitions” \nAbdouMaliq Simone\, Research Professor at the University of South Australia\, Bob Hawke Research Centre\n“What you see is not always what you know: struggles against re-containment and the capacities to remake urban life in Jakarta’s majority world” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nOver the past two decades\, strikingly similar master-planned\, mixed-used residential projects have emerged across Asia—from South Korea and China to the Middle East and Turkey. These projects\, built to serve a rising middle class of consumers\, are often advertised as exclusive\, self-contained bubbles. Yet their seemingly rigid boundaries are in fact porous and can be seen as key nodes of horizontal and vertical integration across Asia. Horizontally\, they are financed through familiar and well-studied circuits of global capital that criss-cross and connect Asian economies. Visually similar in conceptions of space and style\, their master plans tend to bear the familiar logos of a handful of global firms that often come from within Asia itself. These projects also facilitate horizontal Inter-Asian connections in more intimate ways: for instance\, Asian business elites or members of the new middle class increasingly establish their home away from home in these spaces\, while Southeast Asian domestic workers live in them as well (albeit with severely restricted rights). A new kind of urban landscape is thus taking shape in and among these spaces\, the habitat of an identifiable social life of Inter-Asian capital. \nThis emerging horizontal Inter-Asian fellowship of elite and middle class urban living is founded on a familiar and oft-repeated set of vertical connections and disjunctures. We seek to compare and contrast the conflicts and class tensions between residential communities that depend upon yet actively endeavor to remove from their sight the popular classes who continue to live beyond their walls and whose work is essential to support their way of life. The social life of Inter-Asian capital is not only about lifestyles that often mimic an imagined West but also about the relations of production\, new service economies\, class conflicts\, and accompanying policing and control of the city that surrounds them. Zones of “majority” urbanism typically emerge alongside and in interaction with the very processes that produce the master-planned residential projects for the new middle class and political elites. \nFor a rounded view of urban social life\, Inter-Asian connections must thus be studied along both the globalizing circuits of capital & labor\, commodities & ideas\, and their grounded intersections with specific places. We seek contributions that make both horizontal and vertical connections\, showing how different levels of capital and life intersect within and across major Asian cities\, how high-level capital connects with micro-capital\, and how back-alley production links with elite housing and global markets. \nWe seek papers from scholars in the social-sciences and humanities at different stages in their careers and with in-depth experience in at least one Asian city between Seoul and Istanbul. Contributions should take master-planned residential projects as their point of reference without being confined to them. The range of papers might include\, but should not be limited to\, the following topics: \n\nSocial life within\, among\, and around middle class and elite residential complexes in Asia\n“Global Householding” and Inter-Asian household formation\nConnections between back-alley production\, local housing enclaves\, and Inter-Asian trade\nInter-Asian circulations of capital and ideas (e.g. remittances; real estate capital\, finance\, and land speculation; expertise\, architecture\, & design)\nVertical and horizontal mobilities in and among Asian residential communities (e.g.\, movements between and among these places\, social life and livelihood of Inter-Asian migrant workers)\nVertical connections and conflicts between urban elites\, middle classes\, and popular classes
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/porous-enclaves-inter-asian-residential-projects-and-the-popular-classes-from-istanbul-to-seoul/
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SUMMARY:Inequalities in Asian Societies: Bringing Back Class Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nDeniz Yükseker\nAssociate Professor\, Sociology Department\nKoç University\nDYUKSEKER@ku.edu.tr \nChing Kwan Lee\nProfessor of Sociology\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles\ncklee@soc.ucla.edu \nCan Nacar\nAssistant Professor\, Department of History\nKoç University\nCNACAR@KU.EDU.TR \nWorkshop Participants\nDennis Arnold\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Human Geography\, Planning and International Development\, University of Amsterdam\n“Class Fragments and Emerging Forms: Political Agency and Economic Transition in Cambodia” \nAlpkan Birelma\, PhD candidate\, Ataturk Institute\, Bogazici University\n“Working-class Subjectivities: A View of Capitalism from Below” \nHae Yeon Choo\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology\, University of Toronto\, Mississauga\n“In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea” \nMichael Goldman\, Associate Professor\, Sociology and Global Studies Department\, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities\n“Liquidating — and mobilizing — labor in the making of Asia’s global cities” \nAndrew Hao\, Lauder Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wharton School of Business\, University of Pennsylvania\n“Moral Inequalities and Contemporary Chinese ‘Ethical Capitalism’: Expertise\, the Knowledge Economy\, and Emerging Forms of Moral Life” \nKevan Harris\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“The Middle and the Masses: Class Structure\, Distinction and Unrest in Post-Revolutionary Iran” \nAndrew Liu\, Doctoral Candidate\, History Department\, Columbia University\n“The coolie and the comprador: agrarian tea labor in eastern India and coastal China\, 1834-1937” \nSaori Shibata\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Political Science and International Studies\, University of Birmingham\n“From social harmony to class conflict? The rise of labour protest in response to Japanese neoliberalisation” \nAnand Vaidya\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Harvard University\n“Trajectories of Legal Knowledge: India’s Forest Rights Act and translations between caste and class” \nErdem Yörük\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology\, Koç University\n“Grassroots Politics in Turkey: 1970-2010” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nReferring to the worldwide phenomenon of decreasing gaps between richer and poorer countries\, but enduring socio-economic inequalities inside each\, Göran Therborn (Global Dialogue\, 2(1)\, 2011) has observed that “this amounts to a return of class” in the twenty-first century. At the forefront of the remarkable rates of economic growth in the Global South are Asian countries\, from Turkey to India and China\, despite the disruptions caused by recent financial crises. At the same time\, Asia remains the continent with the largest number of poor people\, signaling that the degree of within-country inequalities is nowhere close to declining. Although this no doubt points to class polarization\, the patterns of social change in Asian societies do not easily avail themselves to class analysis of the type prevalent in West Europe and North America in a previous period. \nThis workshop calls for a renewal of class analysis in Asian countries from a theoretically and conceptually grounded perspective. The workshop directors invite papers that focus on formations of classes\, the transformation of class structures and class-based collective action in ways that pay attention to national and regional particularities. \nWhat are some of the processes that might inform class analytics in Asia that papers in this workshop can focus on? (1) From the west to the east\, the continent is the stage for the ongoing process of proletarianization\, understood in the classical sense of dispossession from the means of production. What are the roles of the state\, the rural economy and migration in shaping the various paths and forms of proletarianization in Asia? (2) Asia dominates global industrial production\, thanks to China but also to South Korea\, India and Indonesia. Countries ranging from Turkey to Egypt\, Bangladesh and Malaysia also participate in the global competition for industrial exports. This has brought along a rise of the industrial labor force at intensified levels of labor control and surplus extraction. The organization and politics at the point of production may be entirely different from previous and Western modes of industrialization. How have labor conditions in the factory been transformed\, with what consequences for labor politics or cross-class mobilization in Asia? (3) A faster growing segment of laborers in Asia works in service sectors\, partly boosted by the growth in tourism and hospitality\, and partly by the growing demand for domestic labor. Intensified labor control is also a feature of the formal and informal service sectors. (4) But more palpable has been the rise in the ranks of informal workers (also called the precariat\, the subproletariat) across Asia\, who earn less\, work irregularly and have fewer or no social rights compared to formal workers. (5) On the one hand\, as a result of dispossession\, labor protests have erupted and taken on different characteristics in different countries\, but such protests have been absent in others. On the other hand\, social movements for democratization and the political rifts within them are arguably based on class alliances and class cleavages\, as witnessed during the ongoing revolution in Egypt. (6) An analytical axis that cuts across all of these processes is gender\, in terms of labor force participation\, workplace subjectivities and activism. (7) The polarization between popular classes on the one hand and the industrialists and financiers who vie for spots in the global capitalist class on the other is politically and economically mitigated by the growth of thin layers of middle classes everywhere in Asia\, who albeit are the major consumers in their respective countries. \nAlthough there are rich scholarly literatures that focus on some aspect of the above-described processes\, works that scrutinize them in terms of class analytics are only recently emerging\, and then only for single counties. The goal of this workshop is precisely to focus attention on class dynamics in Asian societies in terms of both convergences and comparisons with respect to the seven processes outlined above. Papers may\, using case studies or comparative quantitative and qualitative data\, address one or more of the following issues\, and adopt various theoretical perspectives of class drawing from Marx\, Polanyi\, Bourdieu\, feminism\, etc.: the debate on class-in-itself and class-for-itself; classed and gendered subjectivities in the labor process; the effects of semi- or full proletarianization on labor protest; resistance to dispossession; the overlaps or contradictions between ethnic\, national and class identities; waves of labor protest; the falling and rising impact of labor unionism; class bases of democratization movements; class compromises in neoliberal contexts\, and so on. \nTheoretically\, this workshop calls for a renewal of class analysis. Although there is a large body of scholarship on labor in various Asian countries\, the concept of class is often not used. The theoretical benefit of class analysis might be at least two-fold. First of all\, labor relations can be viewed relationally\, as emerging within processes of dispossession\, exploitation and production. Secondly\, the long-standing debate about the relation between the objective axes of inequality and the subjective (im)possibilities for collective class action can be revived in theoretically fruitful ways. Papers that address these issues would also provide empirical material for comparatives studies on class in Asia. \nEthnographies and qualitative case studies as well as works that use quantitative data for comparisons would be welcome. Workplace ethnographies\, ethnographic studies of labor activism\, comparative analyses of labor movements in different countries or between different periods in a single country\, archival research on labor movements in the past\, comparative historical studies of the class base of social movements are some of the possible methodologies that may be used in the papers.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/inequalities-in-asian-societies-bringing-back-class-analysis/
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nAlice Jim\nAssociate Professor of Contemporary Art\nConcordia University\nalice.jim@concordia.ca \nHenry Tsang\nAssociate Professor\, Faculty of Culture + Community\nemily carr university of art + design\nhtsang@ecuad.ca \nWorkshop Participants\nRachel Amtzis\, Research Division\, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, National University of Singapore\n“Canvassing the City: Street Art\, Protest\, and Counter-Politics in Kathmandu” \nJacqueline Armijo\, Associate Professor\, Department of International Affairs\, Qatar University\n“Qatar\, Cai Guo-qiang and Reimagining Historical and Cultural Transmissions” \nGay Breyley\, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2013-15)\, Faculty of Arts\, Monash University\n“Uninvited Artistic Connections: From Iranian to Inter-Asian Imaginaries” \nManuela Ciotti\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\, Aarhus University and ‘Framing the Global’ Fellow (2011–14)\, Indiana University Bloomington\n“Mumbai in Shanghai and back: Biennale imaginaries\, talking cities\, and the India-China contemporary art exchange” \nViệt Lê\, Assistant Professor\, Visual Studies Program\, California College of the Arts\n“Town and Country: Sopheap Pich and Phan Quang’s Urban-Rural Developments” \nsusan pui san lok\, Reader in Fine Art in the School of Art and Design at Middlesex University\, and an Editor of the Journal of Visual Culture\n“RoCH Fans & Legends” \nIan Alden Russell\, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art\, Curation and Cultural Heritage Koç University\, Istanbul\n“The presence of the past: Art\, heritage\, and inter-Asian imaginaries” \nValerie Soe\, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University\n“Open-source Identities: Identity and Resistance in the work of four Asian American artists” \nJune Yap\, PhD candidate\, National University of Singapore\n“The ends of curation” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop examines artistic practices and presentation strategies given recent directions and complicities in Asian and inter-Asian contexts. At stake is how cultural production is influenced and informed by\, and\, in turn\, contributes to the ongoing articulation and complication of local\, regional\, national and transnational identities. We invite scholars\, curators\, artists\, activists\, policymakers\, and cultural producers from any discipline or interdisciplinary perspective to propose papers on artistic practices\, organizations\, institutions and exhibitions that explore the diverse ways the inter-Asian imaginary has manifested in contemporary art and visual culture. \nJust as there is no one Asia\, there are no overarching trends binding the diverse practices\, histories and geographies that fall under the heading of contemporary Asian art or exhibitions produced in inter-Asian contexts. Much scholarship in contemporary art in the last decade has focused on the worldwide biennale phenomenon\, i.e.\, the dramatic increase in international art exhibitions accompanied by a rapidly growing representation of Asian artists. However\, critical inquiry into inter-Asian artistic collaborations and activities has only just begun to enter into scholarly discussions in theory and in practice. As cultural critic C.J. Wan-Ling Wee noted\, in the 1980s and 1990s the idea of contemporary “New Asia” was curated into “being”’ as one that imagined “a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to transcend national boundaries\, even as there was the awareness that the region’s cultural diversity and history of political fractures made this endeavor difficult.” In the new millennium\, the renewed emphasis on inter-Asian cooperation has led to the concomitant realization of the notion of a Global Asia and distinctions between the Global South and the Global North. \nWhat kinds of ideas\, ideologies and theoretical frameworks are at play and at stake in the evolving and layering of inter-Asian cultural constructions\, social relations and dimensions? How has this manifestation of an inter-Asian imaginary in the past two decades impacted research-creation (art/cultural production)\, curatorial/exhibition practices and arts criticism/writing? An example is the 2013 Istanbul Biennial which coincides with the Inter-Asia conference\, providing an ideal opportunity and platform to examine current categories\, spaces and frameworks constructing the inter-Asian imaginary in the global exhibitionary complex and implications for identity formation and the local over the last two decades. Another approach might be to consider how an exhibition of contemporary Indian art in China (i.e.\, “Indian Highway” at Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in 2012) differs from an exhibition about “India in China.” Furthermore\, Asian biennales are not necessarily located in Asia proper writ large: Manchester hosts the Asian Triennial in the UK\, and the Asia Pacific Triennial is based in Brisbane\, Australia. Meanwhile Istanbul in West Asia which hosts one of the most prestigious international art biennales alongside Venice\, Sydney and Sao Paolo\, is uniquely situated between Europe and Asia. For the purposes of the workshop’s research agenda then\, Inter-Asia refers to not only regional networks but also transnational connections between residents in the Middle East through Eurasia\, East Asia\, South Asia and Southeast Asia\, and the overseas Asian diaspora as well as the Asian Pacific Rim region. \nPossible ideas or topics might include\, but are not limited to\, the following: \n\nConvergences between Inter-Asian studies and discourses of the Global Asia\, New Asia or Global South: epistemologies\, methodologies and comparative analyses.\nBiennials and the Globalization of Art: the Istanbul Biennial and the place of the local.\nSpaces of Protest: pro-democracy movements\, war\, and the Arab Spring.\nDifferential Mobilities: capitalizing Asian diasporas\, migrant communities and overseas citizenship.\nResistance and Identity Politics in Contact Zones: assimilation\, friction and hybridity.\nTranslation and Resisting Regimes of Identification: negotiating national imaginaries and other identity categories such as gender\, class and ethnicities.\nThe Political Economy of Art Production: arts policy and infrastructure\, cultural capital and institutional critique\, the impact of social and participatory media in pop culture.\nCollaboration and Collectivism: overlapping urban networks and artist-activist spaces.
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SUMMARY:Asian Early Modernities: Empires\, Bureaucrats\, Confessions\, Borders\, Merchants
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nKaya Sahin\nAssistant Professor\, Department of History\nIndiana University\niksahin@indiana.edu \nHendrik Spruyt\nNorman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations; Director\, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies\nNorthwestern University\nh-spruyt@northwestern.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nChristopher P. Atwood\, Professor of Mongolian Studies\, Central Eurasian Studies Department and adjunct professor of History at Indiana University (Bloomington)\n“Partners in Profit: Empires\, Merchants\, and Local Governments in the Mongol Empire and Qing Mongolia” \nCemil Aydin\, Associate Professor\, History Department\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\n“Transformation of Inter-Asian Regional Connections from Early Modern to Modern Period” \nHayden Bellenoit (in absentia)\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, US Naval Academy\n“Paper\, revenue administration and munshi-gari in 18th century India” \nKate Boehme\, PhD Candidate\, History Department\, University of Cambridge\n“Capitalism and Inter-Asian Linkages: The Impact of China on Developing Business Networks in Western India\, 1750-1850” \nEdward Boyle\, PhD Candidate\, Graduate School of Law and Politics\, Hokkaido University\n“Bounding States: Mapping Asian Expansion 1500-1750” \nNaindeep Chann\, PhD Candidate\, History Department\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Searching for the Sahib-Qiran: Claims\, Contestations\, and Connections in the Early Modern Islamicate Empires” \nJi-Young Lee\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Service\, American University\n“The Chinese World Order in Practice: Symbolic Domination and Hierarchy in Early Modern East Asia” \nJohn D. Wong\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, School of Modern Languages and Culture\, University of Hong Kong\n“Traversing the Laws of the Lands: The Strategic Use of Different Legal Systems by Houqua and his China Trade Partners in the Canton System” \nLan Wu\, PhD Candidate in History\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University\n“Kinship\, Religious Institution\, and Imperial Management at the Borders of Qing China” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe Inter-Asian Connections IV conference and specifically the theme of Connected Empires is a particularly rich and fruitful avenue for inter-disciplinary exploration by historians\, political scientists\, sociologists and related fields. We particularly welcome\, therefore\, proposals that explore the multitude of ways in which early modern Asian empires have interacted at the material\, cultural and political level. Research that examines such connections in a comparative vein would be desirable. \nThis workshop proposes to discuss the dynamism of the Asian continent in the early modern period\, between roughly 1450 and 1750. The scholarship on the “European expansion” often misses the fact that this period witnessed an “Asian expansion” as well. Our objective is to investigate the contours and contents of this pan-Asian early modernity. Our aim is to use Asia as a zone that produced its own brand of early modernity. Part of this Asian early modernity was created as an answer to European incursions into Asia; most of it\, however\, came into being as a result of internal dynamics. \nTopics of particular interest might cover: \n\nMutual exchanges between empires\, such as the Ottoman\, Safavid\, Mughal\, Russian and Chinese (Ming and Qing) empires and the Tokugawa Shogunate\nThe emergence of imperial and local bureaucracies as agents of management\nThe relationship between empire and confession building\nMerchants and merchant communities as agents of interaction and exchange\nEmpire and state building\nThe regulation of international order across empires and regions
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/asian-early-modernities-empires-bureaucrats-confessions-borders-merchants/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131002T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131005T170000
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SUMMARY:“After Neoliberalism?” The Future of Postneoliberal State and Society in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nEmel Akçali\nAssistant Professor\, Department of International Relations and European Studies\nCentral European University\nAkcaliE@ceu.hu \nHo-Fung Hung\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Sociology\nJohns Hopkins University\nhofung@jhu.edu \nLerna K. Yanik\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Political Science and Public Administration\nKadir Has University\nlerna.yanik@khas.edu.tr \nWorkshop Participants\nBipasha Baruah\, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues\, Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research\, Western University\n“NGOs as Intermediaries in Pro-Poor Electrification in India: Urban Development in a Postneoliberal Era?” \nThiem Hai Bui\, PhD Candidate\, School of Political Science and International Studies\, University of Queensland\n“In Search of a Postsocialist Mode of Governmentality: The Emergence of Amorphous Postneoliberalism in Vietnam” \nRami Farouk Daher\, Associate Professor of Architecture at the German Jordanian University\, Amman\, Jordan\n“Welfare Genocide: rentierism\, neoliberalism\, and the corporatization of the public sector in Jordan” \nAzam Khatam\, PhD Candidate\, Environmental Studies\, York University\n“Domesticated Neoliberalism in Iran: Political Economy of Reconstruction” \nNatalie Koch\, Assistant Professor\, Geography Department\, The Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs\, Syracuse University\n“Technostates of the GCC and Central Asia: Postneoliberalism and ‘domesticating’ elite higher education” \nNikolay Murashkin\, Doctoral Candidate\, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Cambridge\n“Japanese financial assistance in Central Asia: its driving forces and architects of local gradualism” \nStephanie D. Santos\, PhD Candidate\, Gender Studies\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“We were not poor; we were made poor”: Development and Dispossession in Metro Manila” \nClaudio Sopranzetti\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, All Souls College\, Oxford University\n“A Return to Regulated Neoliberalism: the case of Thailand” \nTakaaki Suzuki\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Ohio University\n“After Neoliberalism?: The Curious Non-death of Neoliberalism in Japan” \nWEN Zhuoyi\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Applied Social Studies\, City University of Hong Kong\n“Towards Solidarity and Recognition in Post Neoliberalism? Social Citizenship in China after One Decade of Social Policy Development” \nGizem Zencirci\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Providence College\n“A Neoliberal ‘Logic of Relief’ or a Post-neoliberal ‘Logic of Rights’? A Critical Analysis of the Welfare Regime in Turkey” \nCall for Workshop Papers\n“Postneoliberalism” or “after neoliberalism” is a term associated with forms of governance that emerged in the mid-late 1990s with the Third Way and social investment states in the UK\, Canada\, and Aotearoa/New Zealand and in some of the Latin American countries – such as Brazil under and after Lula — that started looking for alternatives beyond the neoliberal one as result of the unfulfilled promises and incompatibility of neoliberalism in non-Western settings. Neoliberalism establishes fundamental connections between economic rationality and socio-political life and despite the fact that it promotes non-intervention into market mechanisms\, it is concerned with the governance of individuals from a distance. However\, there has been no strict definition of what postneoliberalism is except that postneoliberal projects of governance seek to retain elements of the previous export-led growth model and combine it with social-democratic welfare policies and that post-neoliberalism is considered a “detachment” from the principles of neoliberalism\, leading to the emergence of “policies and ideas linked to the left rather than to the right.” We regard this conceptual haziness in the formulation of postneoliberalism as an opportunity to rethink possible alternatives to neoliberalism. \nIn this workshop\, our first goal is to seek papers that will exposit this amalgam of forms of postneoliberalism and the emergent postneoliberal state\, which have already started to develop in Latin America and elsewhere\, and to understand and to theorize what postneoliberalism entails in states and societies across Asia. \nOur second objective is to elaborate on the emerging “governmentality (ies)” as a result of this transition from neoliberalism to postneoliberalism\, or to the variants of postneoliberalism\, to be more correct. With basic tenets of neoliberalism being in question and various attempts to move beyond neoliberalism still being debated\, we are curious to find out whether these governmentalities are also being left behind\, or are they morphing into some other form? What happens to welfare politics? What happens to cities\, urban transformation\, or to gentrification in big cities? How do the developmental states or paternalistic authoritarian states in Asia transform amidst the global shift from neoliberalism to postneoliberalism? Does the shift enlarge or reduce spaces of democratic changes? Does it strengthen or weaken the region’s link to the US hegemony? Can we talk about the reversal of the neo-liberalization of education\, most specifically higher education? Or\, alternatively\, could it be that governmentality is an explanatory framework only applicable to Western liberal states and societies\, and no such Foucaldian conception of governmenality can actually be applied to post neoliberal formations in Asia? \nThird\, we are interested in exploring the link between postneoliberalism and ethnic and religious pluralism in Asian societies. How do\, for instance\, various groups respond to this transition away from neoliberalism\, especially given the fact that what is termed as postneoliberalism in Latin America has often been associated with the consequences of the push from indigenous people’s empowerment and involvement in local politics? \nWhen tracing the life of the term in Asia\, this very vague definition of postneoliberalism might be considered a challenge. But the variety of state\, regime and society types combined with different economic development models across Asia\, ranging from the developmental state to the very neoliberal state\, presents us a better chance to define\, or to redefine the term postneoliberal and the postneoliberal state\, and thus to distinguish between different variants of postneoliberalism. To give several (possible) examples: can Russia with increased social spending due to resource boom on the one hand\, and acceleration of statisim and renationalizations on the other\, be counted as an example of a postneoliberal state? Can the Chinese government’s programs to raise workers’ wages and support agrarian development after 2005 effectively ameliorate the many social crises unleashed by unfettered neoliberalism in the 1990s\, or are they no more than cosmetic improvements that will never be able to reverse the long march of neoliberalism in China? If these two countries are accepted as variants of postneoliberalism\, how then does New Zealand\, which has already received the postneoliberal title\, stand out in comparison to the two? Asia\, to sum up\, might be a more fertile ground to explore the meaning of postneoliberalism and its implications. For this workshop\, we define Asia to include the Middle East\, Eurasia\, Central Asia\, South Asia\, Southeast Asia and East Asia as well as Asia-Pacific and Asia’s connections that extend and flow well beyond Asia. We are\, in other words\, not only interested in “fixities\,” but also in “flows” (political\, economic and social) in and out of Asia that make and shape the postneoliberal state and society within and across Asia. \nPossible Themes: \n\nDemarcating the line between postneoliberalism and neoliberalism\nThe current economic crises and postneoliberalism\nPostneoliberalism and democratic politics\nPostneoliberalism and the US hegemony in Asia\nPostneoliberalism and postdevelopmental states\nPostneoliberalism and the state of various issues: poverty\, poverty reduction\, higher education\, cities\, arts\, media etc.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/after-neoliberalism-the-future-of-postneoliberal-state-and-society-in-asia/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130910
DTSTAMP:20210910T220337Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commision visits SSRC
DESCRIPTION:A delegation from the Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission visited SSRC for a workshop on preventing ethnic conflict\, looking at the cases of South Africa\, Myanmar\, Bosnia\, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/chinese-state-ethnic-affairs-commision-visits-ssrc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130513T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130514T170000
DTSTAMP:20211018T161037Z
CREATED:20210910T215242Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Towards Coordinated Responses to Conflict (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
DESCRIPTION:A conference to discuss perspectives on United Nations peacemaking\, peacekeeping\, and peacebuilding with scholars and policymakers from Africa\, China\, and the West. Hosted at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)\, the two-day conference was convened by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)\, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The conference sought to share perspectives and explore changes in peacekeeping\, peacemaking\, and peacebuilding theory and practice\, specifically aiming to develop new and constructive linkages between UN efforts and China on matters of conflict response as China continues to enhance its contributions in this area. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conference-towards-coordinated-responses-to-conflict-beijing-foreign-studies-university/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130315
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130317
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SUMMARY:Authority\, Community\, Identity I
DESCRIPTION:The goal of the first consultation on Authority\, Community\, and Identity was to explore themes\, methods\, and possible participants for a working group that will spend three years examining the ways that modern Catholic\, Muslim and secular actors understand and navigate interactions among these three defining elements of associational life and public presence. In keeping with Contending Modernities’ constructive agenda\, the meeting aimed to provide guidance for the potential working group as it attempted to identify creative responses to the challenges facing communities.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/authority-community-identity-i/
LOCATION:Social Science Research Council\, 300 Cadman Plaza West\, 15 Fl\, New York\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121112
DTSTAMP:20201008T191830Z
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SUMMARY:Science and the Human Person: Engaging Tradition and Informing Public Discourse
DESCRIPTION:Rapid advances in science and technology are raising fundamental questions about human life\, flourishing\, suffering\, and death. When does human life begin and deserve protection? How is deeper knowledge of genetics reshaping our conceptions of the human person? What does it mean to live and die with dignity amid 21st century medical technologies? These and other ethical questions at the intersection of science and the human person have a global character\, encompassing all of humanity\, cutting across national\, cultural\, and religious boundaries. The Science and the Human Person working group will advance a global\, interreligious and intercultural conversation about science\, ethics\, and the human future. Its activities will foster collaboration among secular scientific communities and the world’s two largest faith traditions\, Islam and Catholicism\, along with other secular and religious voices.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/science-and-the-human-person-engaging-tradition-and-informing-public-discourse/
LOCATION:Berkley Center for Religion\, Peace\, & World Affairs
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120905
DTSTAMP:20210910T220203Z
CREATED:20210910T220203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210910T220203Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission visits SSRC
DESCRIPTION:A delegation from the Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission visited SSRC and met with Tatiana Carayannis and Renata Segura of CPPF for a workshop on preventing ethnic conflict.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/chinese-state-ethnic-affairs-commission-visits-ssrc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
DTSTAMP:20201026T185442Z
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SUMMARY:Sustainability and Citizenship in Asian Cities
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nAnne M. Rademacher\nNew York University\nar131@nyu.edu \nK. Sivaramakrishnan\nYale University\nk.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu \nBilly Kee-long So\nHong Kong University of Science and Technology\nbillyso@ust.hk \nWorkshop Participants\nNikhil Anand\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, Haverford College\n“Leaky States: On Ignorance and Absence in Mumbai’s Water Supply” \nDebjani Bhattacharyya\, Ph.D. Candidate\, History\, Emory University\n“From the Maidan to the Wetlands of Kolkata: Reappraising the Aesthetics of Nature and Ideologies of Urban Environmental Sustainability” \nCari An Coe\, Assistant Professor of International Affairs\, Lewis & Clark College\n“‘Civilized City:’ State-Society Relations and the Emergence of Notions of Environmental Sustainability in Hanoi\, Vietnam” \nRajib Dasgupta\, Associate Professor\, Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\n“The Multi-Dimensions of Vulnerability to Cholera in Delhi: An Eco-social Exploration” \nEli Elinoff\, C.Phil\, Department of Anthropology\, University of California\, San Diego\n“‘Sufficient’ Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Sustainability and the Redistribution of the Sensible in Northeastern Thailand” \nMax Hirsh\, Post-doc\, ETH Zurich’s Future Cities Laboratory\, Singapore; Ph.D. Candidate\, Harvard University\, Department of Architecture\, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning\n“The ‘Green’ Airport? Rethinking Environmental Sustainability in the Pearl River Delta” \nAshish Nangia\, Indo Global Education Foundation\, India and Anna Nangia\, Graphic Designer\n“Sustainability and the Traditional: Shared Spatial Realms in Hampi\, India” \nAnoma Pieris\, Senior Lecturer\, Faculty of Architecture\, Building and Planning\, University of Melbourne\n“Southern invasions: Post Disaster Tourism in Sri Lanka” \nJerome Whitington\, Research & Teaching Fellow\, Asia Research Institute & Timbusu College\, National University of Singapore\n“Apprehension/Commitment: Infrastructure\, Urbanism and Weather Insurance in the Thai Climate Change Imaginary” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nIn recent decades\, rapid urban growth has stretched the resilience of cities and the ecological integrity of urban forms throughout Asia. Taking new shape\, they leave unprecedented ecological imprints on their hinterlands and the populations they displace or marginalize. As urban sprawl and incessant redevelopment fray urban ecologies\, the environment is strained with pollution\, resource scarcity\, and public health hazards. Despite this\, public sentiment\, government policy\, and social action aspire as never before toward sustainability\, environmental improvement\, and more “livable” cities. Asian cities are witnessing rising conflict from disparate groups seeking a place in an unstable urban ecology. In the process\, ideologies of environmental improvement are becoming increasingly important for producing or reproducing important modes of expertise\, moralities of belonging\, and justifications for social action. \nThis workshop will explore the dynamics of environmental sustainability and citizenship in Asian urban settings by addressing how\, in specific cities\, urban social processes intersect with assessments of urban environmental order and disorder. Participants ask: how are relationships between environments and societies made\, and made meaningful\, in an urban setting? How do biophysical properties\, rules\, and histories of nature matter in contemporary Asian cities? How is the urban environment used to construct social identities and demarcate political spaces? \nCitizenship and environmental sustainability are the key themes through which these questions are explored. Citizenship invokes the question of rights and their formulation and negotiation in law\, government and social conflict. Through this lens we will consider issues of livelihood and residence in cities\, as well as the way people make claims upon\, and experience\, urban forms in historical development and contemporary transformation. Environmental sustainability raises multiple\, sometimes conflicting ideas of nature\, and aspirations for renewal that connect contemporary urban environmental realities to imagined futures. It highlights how environmentally responsible action is defined\, promoted\, and articulated in private and public sectors\, and how logics of green consumption and growth intersect with the politics of urban sustainability. Government and private enterprise work to refashion the city through ideas of sustainability\, affecting both ecological processes and the exercise of citizenship. \nWe anticipate participants in the workshop will focus on several inter-linked questions and topics\, including: \n\nHow claims to natural resources are forged\, appealed\, and mediated in urban contexts.\nHow such claims—be they to ‘open space\,’ water\, or land—resonate with questions of citizenship\, informality\, equity\, and social strife.\nThe changing realms of urban expertise\, such as planning\, architecture\, hazardous waste management\, and public health engineering.\nHistorically-shaped moments of encounter and contest between various urban actors and their impact on the nature\, environmental sustainability\, and political economy in Asia’s diverse but connected urban forms.\n\nThe workshop will draw together scholars of the environment and urban experience from interdisciplinary backgrounds. Building on strong traditions of political ecology research\, it will outline a research agenda for urban environments in East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, South Asia\, and the Middle East\, regions that are deeply connected historically and interlinked in the present through urban ecological processes and circuits of labor\, capital\, and information.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/sustainability-and-citizenship-in-asian-cities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
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SUMMARY:Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and New Spatial Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nÇağlar Keyder\nBoğaziçi University\nkeyder@boun.edu.tr \nRavi Arvind Palat\nState University of New York at Binghamton\npalat@binghamton.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nMichelle Antoinette\, Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, School of Cultural Inquiry\, Research School of Humanities and the Arts\, College of Arts and Social Sciences\, The Australian National University\n“Asian Art and its Shifting Topologies: Creating New Identities for Asia through Contemporary Art Networks: The Asia Art Archive” \nAinur Begim\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Anthropology\, Yale University\n“Oil\, Geopolitics\, and the State in Postsocialist Kazakhstan” \nAna Maria Candela\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n“Qiaoxiang on the Silk Road: Cultural Imaginaries as Structures of Feeling in the Making of a Global China” \nNora Fisher Onar\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Bahçeşehir University (Turkey); Visiting Fellow\, Centre for International Studies\, University of Oxford\n“Historical Legacies in Rising Powers: Towards an (Eur) Asian Approach” \nSonja Ganseforth\, Research assistant\, Institute of Oriental Studies / Centre for Area Studies\, University of Leipzig\n“Anti-Imperialist Solidarity\, Pan-Asianism and Neo-Colonial Interventions Imagining Japan’s Role in the Middle East” \nRada Ivekovic\, Professor\, Sociology Department\, University Jeran-Monnet at Saint-Etienne\n“Sovereignty\, citizenship and subjectivation in a new context\, as Asia emerges” \nHasan H. Karrar\, Assistant Professor\, Humanities and Social Sciences\, Lahore University of Management Sciences\n“Merchants\, Markets\, and Crony Capitalism: Explaining the Frontier Economy in Chinese Central Asia Today” \nTim Summers\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Centre for East Asian Studies\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“Yunnan and Southern Silk Roads: Provincial history and contemporary Chinese policy formation” \nLerna K. Yanık\, Associate Professor and Chair\, Department of Political Science and Public Administration\, Kadir Has University\, Istanbul\n“Economic Matters\, Geopolitical Outcomes: Politics of Capital\, Place\, and Time in Turkish Foreign Policy\, 1945-1960\, 1970-85 and 2002-2011” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAsia as an area of study was contoured by the geopolitical imperatives of the Cold War – despite a long history of interactions across this geographical expanse\, before the end of the Second World War\, there were few references to Asia as a coherent unit and there is no term for the continent in any indigenous language. This constitution of Asia\, accompanied by the independence of former colonies\, also led West Asia to be restructured as the ‘Middle East’ and separated from ‘South Asia’ to which it had long historical connections. ‘Southeast Asia’ was similarly divorced from both ‘South’ and ‘East’ Asia. These arrangements were framed by U.S.-sponsored alliances (SEATO and CENTO) in which Pakistan played a bridging role as a member of both\, while India\, Indonesia\, and many other regional states joined together to launch the Non-Aligned Movement. \nThe end of the Cold War has created new fractures as the demise and breakup of the Soviet Union rendered Non-Alignment anachronistic\, and new cultural geographies have come into being in material and political practice\, as well as in the imaginary of the elites and the populations involved. The changed geopolitical ecologies reconfigure alliances which parallel earlier historical patterns. \nThis is evident in West and South Asia where deeper American involvement has been accompanied by Turkish and Indian bids for regional prominence\, evoking memories of coeval dominions of Ottoman and Mughal empires. Sited at the confluence of several emerging networks\, this region is crucial in understanding new realities of strategic alliances and interests. The expanded scale of production in China and India has intensified trade relations with the energy-rich states of West Asia. Denser trade in the neighboring seas accompanied by state failures in east Africa has also spurred a rise of piracy inviting new forms of cooperation between global and regional powers. If increased prosperity has made the ‘emerging economies’ more confident in their dealings with the West\, their roles in their ‘near abroad’ has been akin to satrapies vying for greater autonomy. At the same time\, the end of the Cold War has encouraged ethnic groups to tap into and revive their collective memories to challenge their fragmentation across national borders. \nThis workshop examines these realignments in their historical context. It is based on the premise that spatial imaginaries are generated by a broad parallelogram of forces\, but have to resonate successfully with collective historical memories and cultural practices. We invite original contributions from scholars of different disciplinary affiliations and regional interests to situate historical and contemporary spatial imaginaries of Asia within a broader global geopolitical and historical framework. \nPossible themes include: \n\nhistorical roots of emerging alliances;\ncollective memories and new identities;\nchanging self-perceptions of states and their implications for global politics;\nnew patterns of cooperation and conflict; and\nemerging security concerns in finance\, energy\, and other arenas.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/shifting-geopolitical-ecologies-and-new-spatial-imaginaries/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
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SUMMARY:Networks of Religious Learning and the Dissemination of Religious Knowledge across Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nChristophe Jaffrelot\nCentre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales\, Sciences Po\njaffrelot@ceri-sciences-po.org \nMirjam Künkler\nPrinceton University\nkuenkler@princeton.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nAnya Bernstein\, (in absentia) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Michigan\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows\, and as of fall 2012\, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Social Studies\, Harvard University\n“Gendered Cosmopolitanisms: Networks Of Buddhist Learning In Postsocialist Eurasia” \nThomas Borchert\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Religion\, University of Vermont\n“Transnational Monastic Education and Buddhist Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Asia” \nElvire Corboz\, Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“Localising Transnational Connections of Learning: Abu al-Qasim Khu’i’s Knowledge Promotion across the Shi’i World” \nFaried Fachruddin Saenong\, Ph.D. Student Anthropology\, Australian National University\n“UPHOLDING SANAD: Indonesian Islam and Egyptian al-Azhar” \nSimon Wolfgang Fuchs\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“This is not Khāliṣtān: The legacy of Muḥammad al-Khāliṣī’s scientific reading of Shīism in South Asia” \nRadhika Gupta\, D.Phil\, University of Oxford\, Institute for Social & Cultural Anthropology\n“Experiments with Khomeini’s revolution in Kargil: Contemporary Shi’a networks between India and West Asia” \nWai-Yip Ho\, Department of Social Sciences\, Hong Kong Institute of Education\n“The Rise of Inter-Asian Madrasah Networks: From British Raj to China’s Hong Kong” \nNur Amali Ibrahim\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University\n“The Indonesian Trinity: Islam\, Youths\, and the Nation-State” \nEva F. Nisa\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Anthropology\, The Australian National University\n“Insights into the Lives of Indonesian Female Tablighi Jamā’at in Traditional Muslim Boarding School” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nNetworks of religious learning make up an important part of inter-Asian connections. They account for significant flows of educational migration\, and play a considerable role in defining and re-defining the relations between countries and their people. \nIn this workshop\, we trace the connections of religious learning across Asia\, including West Asia and the Gulf. While well-developed bodies of literatures exist on institutions of religious learning within certain countries\, very few studies thus far take account of the role religious education plays in structuring transnational connections between and within Asia. In addition\, most extant studies on international education\, in particular at the university level\, focus on “secular” education\, whereas little is known about educational migration between institutions of religious learning. Finally\, the fact that networks of religious learning often feature prominently in countries’ cultural foreign policy is yet to be reflected in scholarship – we know very little about the organization and finances states provide to attract foreign students to their institutions of religious learning\, and conversely\, to facilitate or limit the emigration of students to institutions of religious learning outside their purview. \nWe invite papers that focus on the transnational travel of people and religious ideas both with a contemporary or historical focus. Principally\, proposals on any topic relating to the themes outlined above are welcome. Specific paper topics could include\, but are not limited to: \n\nwomen in transnational religious education\nthe diffusion of the Jami’at al-Tabligh and its recruitment methods across Asia\ntransnational Shi‘a networks of religious learning\nAligarh Muslim University and Al-Azhar\, two transnational learning centers?\nthe role of the Pakistani madrassas in the making of the Taliban movement\nthe revival of Najaf and Karbala as international centers of religious learning\nthe Sangh Parivar’s attempts at re-Hinduising the children of the Indian diaspora in South East Asia\nBuddhist educational networks across Asia – the case of Dalit converts studying in South East and East Asia\nQum: reaching out to Central Asia?\nthe teaching of Tibetan Buddhism in India\nthe seminar of Deoband\, a pan-Islamic seminar?\ncomparisons between different state approaches to facilitating or constraining transnational religious education.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/networks-of-religious-learning-and-the-dissemination-of-religious-knowledge-across-asia/
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SUMMARY:Just Society at Last? Ideals and Projects of the Common Good across Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nSyed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied\nNational University of Singapore\nmlsasmk@nus.edu.sg \nMorgan Y. Liu\nThe Ohio State University\nliu.737@osu.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nRachana Bhangaokar\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Human Development and Family Studies\, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Dulari Mehta (in absentia)\, project fellow at the UGC – Center for Advanced Study (CAS) program (Phase II) at Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS)\, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda\n“Journeys of Civically Engaged Indian Youth: Shifts in Moral Perspectives From Self to Just Society” \nJenny Chao\, Associate Research Scholar\, Law Department\, Columbia University (Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment)\n“Achieving Sustainable Infrastructure Development on the Mekong River” \nChen Chao-ju\, Associate Professor of Law\, National Taiwan University\, College of Law\n“Constituting and Contesting Equality: Feminist Constitutional Activism in Taiwan” \nLynette J. Chua\, Assistant Professor\, Faculty of Law\, National University of Singapore\n“Covert Resistance and Social Movements: The Case of Pragmatic Resistance in Singapore’s Gay and Lesbian Movement” \nJohn Heathershaw\, Senior Lecturer in International Relations\, University of Exeter\n“Non-electoral protest groups in an electoral environment: the ‘new settlements’ of Bishkek and the 2011 presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan” \nSetrag Manoukian\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Islamic Studies and Department of Anthropology\, McGill University\n“Temporality and Disillusionment in Contemporary Iran” \nDaromir Rudnyckyj\, Assistant Professor\, Pacific and Asian Studies\, University of Victoria\n“Justice\, Equality and Calculative Reason in Islamic Economic Action” \nSanjay Ruparelia\, Assistant Professor of Politics and Fellow of the India China Institute\, New School for Social Research\n“The evolving right-to-development in India: origins\, promises\, risks” \nTimothy Shea\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Visual Arts Department (Art History\, Theory\, and Criticism)\, University of California\, San Diego\n“Renewing Revolution\, Renewing Art: Ideals and Realities of The Long March Project in China and Mainland Southeast Asia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nWhat can address structural inequality in societies? How do various actors in Asia imagine solutions to poverty\, injustice\, or patronage? These are perhaps the most intractable problems\, because they are deeply embedded in the workings of societies\, where the majority perpetuates the deleterious states of affairs through perpetration\, complicity\, or acquiescence\, so that responsibility may not be assignable solely to state leadership or elites. A “culture of corruption” pervades everyday economic and institutional activity that punishes non-compliance and resists efforts at reform. \nIn response to the long history of elite power abuse throughout Asia\, various visions and movements have sought to enact notions of social justice. Some are religious: Islamic revivalisms\, Christian millenarianisms\, Hindu activisms\, Buddhist reformisms\, and other religious-oriented projects across Asia envision transcendental orders for societal problems. Other non-religious conceptions work from varieties of moral reasoning about the common good in opposition to elite exploitation. Environmental movements in Indonesia or Russia\, citizen activisms in China or Iran\, the growing support for socialist parties in South Asia\, the “Color Revolutions” of the 2000s\, and most recently\, the popular uprisings of 2011 in West Asia (the Middle East) are some examples of this. The question is\, can these ideals and projects actually ameliorate systemic injustice and inequalities of wealth or power when other approaches have fallen short? More often than not\, these various efforts appropriate and critique liberal discourses of freedoms and rights\, and Marxian discourses of class and power\, offering compelling alternatives to neoliberal and state socialist conceptions of just society. \nThis workshop convenes scholars and experts that would take stock of ideas and action templates regarding just society across the Asia. We seek studies that examine conceptions about good society or good government\, or movements that attempt to implement them. The workshop invites submissions that attend to how the utopian aspirations and models “catch on\,” as well as in-depth cases of movements from across Asia that localize universal narratives. We welcome research from any time period (with emphasis on the 20th century-present)\, from any part of the Asian space (which we take to include the Middle East and Russia)\, and from diverse disciplinary approaches. Activists and professionals with sufficient conceptual grounding in their paper proposals are encouraged to apply. \nPossible paper topics include: \n\nHow socio-political critiques about inequality and elite excesses are articulated within moral narratives and with respect to class\, ethnic\, sectarian\, and regional interests.\nThe media or venues where such discourses are disseminated and the mobilization of people via internet\, social media\, TV\, pamphlet\, cassette\, gatherings\, etc.\nThe activities or impact of such movements in societies\, in areas such as education\, welfare services\, laws\, politics\, the economy\, the environment\, etc.\n\nWe are keen on proposals that look at actors engaging the specifically structural nature of these problems\, who seek systemic rather than palliative remedies. Together as a workshop\, our goal is to provide historical depth\, geographical synopticism\, and multi-methodological perspectives on novel ways of interpreting and responding to structural inequality and social injustice.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/just-society-at-last-ideals-and-projects-of-the-common-good-across-asia/
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SUMMARY:Asian Crossings\, 1789–1914
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nRoss Forman\nNational University of Singapore\nellrgf@nus.edu.sg \nJulia Kuehn\nThe University of Hong Kong\njkuehn@hku.hk \nWorkshop Participant\nElizabeth Chang\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English\, University of Missouri\n“On Empire’s Frontier: Personal Narrative from the Asian Borderlands” \nLawrence Chua\, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies\, History of Art Department\, Hamilton College\n“Chinks in the Works: Race\, Architecture\, and Nationalism In Early 20th Century Bangkok” \nJames Cook\, Associate Director\, Asian Studies Center\, University of Pittsburgh\n“Concrete Transnationalism: Urban Development and Identity within Hokkien China” \nSuzanne Daly\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Massachusetts Amherst\n“Beggary and Philanthropy in South Asia\, 1800-1913: The Real and Imagined Poor” \nJen Hill\, Director of the Gender\, Race\, and Identity program and Associate Professor of English\, University of Nevada\, Reno\n“Extraterritorial Logic: The Chronicle and Directory for China\, Corea\, Japan\, and the Philippines\, Its “Chronology of Remarkable Events\,” and the 1883 Trial of James Henry Logan” \nJohn Kleinen\, Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology\, University of Amsterdam\n“Side streets of History: A Dutchman’s stereoscopic views on colonial Vietnam at the end of the long 19th century” \nMichael Christopher Low\, Ph.D. Candidate\, International and Global History\, Columbia University\n“From Pilgrimage to Plantation: Indentured Labor\, Muslim Capital\, and the Making of the Colonial Hajj\, 1860-1900” \nDavid Porter\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, University of Michigan\n“Historicizing the History of Chinese Literature” \nRonit Ricci\, Senior Lecturer\, School of Culture\, History and Language\, Australian National University\n“South and Southeast Asian Crossings in the Newspaper Age: the case of Alamat Langkapuri” \nNurfadzilah Yahaya\, Ph.D. Candidate\, History\, Princeton University\n“Powers that Bind –Tracing the Impact of Powers of Attorney in the Indian Ocean from 1880 to 1970” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe long nineteenth century was a period of major social\, economic\, and cultural shifts in Asia that were often spurred by colonialism\, even when not specifically linked to it. Some of the most noteworthy drives and effects of these shifts include: competition between European imperial projects (French\, British\, Russian\, Dutch\, Portuguese); the growth of intra-Asian imperialist projects (in Korea\, Taiwan\, Manchuria and elsewhere); changes to historical trade routes in the Indian Ocean and between China and her neighbors; large-scale labor movements both within the region (from China to Southeast Asia\, for instance) and beyond (from India to Mauritius\, Southern Africa and the Caribbean or from Japan to Brazil and Peru); and the development of multicultural urban spaces as a product of these and other forces. These larger concerns also had a significant impact on local geographies. For example\, the East India Company’s opium trade with China altered the lives of peasants in Bengal and Bihar and\, in many cases\, drove them to emigration. Similarly\, the foreign presence in Shanghai had a direct impact on the development of the Chinese periodical press. \nOur workshop proceeds from the premise that textual artifacts—be they maps\, travel narratives\, account ledgers\, novels\, newspapers\, or personal papers—offer a privileged means to assess what some of the effects of “Asian Crossings” were and how they manifested themselves. \nWe invite participants from the humanities and social sciences to join us in investigating how “Asian Crossings” reshaped the real and imaginative geography of the region. Our aim is to bring together scholars in a range of disciplines—including literary studies\, history\, geography\, South Asian Studies\, and East and Southeast Asian Studies—to map some of the ways in which the direct and indirect impact of imperialisms during the long nineteenth century gave rise to contemporary Asian modernities. We also welcome the participation of writers\, artists\, and filmmakers whose work engages with Asian pasts. We hope to attract scholars not only from different disciplinary backgrounds\, but also from different linguistic traditions. In our own field of literature\, for instance\, it is rare that specialists working on Francophone literature\, culture\, and history in Asia speak to those working on Anglophone traditions—and equally rare that scholars of literature in English dialogue with scholars of Chinese\, Hindi\, or Arabic. Thus an important goal of “Asian Crossings” is not just to explore old geographies\, but also to create new conceptual geographies of exchange for scholars working on a variety of Asia-centered topics. \nThe initial research questions for the project are as follows: \n\nHow can postcolonial methodologies be revisited so that they take into account relationships other than those between colonizers and colonizeds? How can a better understanding of the multiple exchanges between different Asian locations help us to imagine alternative ways of studying Asia?\nIn what ways has the area studies model interfered with our ability to see the interconnectedness of different Asian spaces to each other and to other parts of the world during the long nineteenth century?\nTo what degree can imperialism be considered a process common to different Asian societies during the long nineteenth century? To what degree did it create new “crossings” within Asia and beyond? The workshop is just the beginning of our deliberations. We hope that participants will work with us to produce an edited special issue and/or anthology and will collaborate with us on further inter-institutional and web-based projects on the theme of “Asian Crossings.”
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/asian-crossings-1789-1914/
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