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SUMMARY:2021 SSRC Fellow Lecture: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
DESCRIPTION:Pratap Bhanu Mehta\nLaurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University\nSpeaks on: \nUniversities and Intellectual Life in The Age of Populism\nWednesday\, November 3\, 2021 \n11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (ET) \nfollowed by an informal conversation with \nIra Katznelson\nFormer SSRC President\nRuggles Professor of Political Science and History\, Columbia University  \nAnna Harvey\nSSRC President\nProfessor of Politics and Director\, Public Safety Lab\, New York University \n  \nEvent Recording\n \n\nAbout the Lecture\nAcross the world\, from Hungary to India\, United States to Brazil\, universities are increasingly becoming sites for battles over populism. Although the contexts vary\, the tropes deployed by populists in their engagement with the university are uncannily similar. Most of the discussion focuses on the institutional implications of populist politics for universities: regulation of syllabi\, codes governing free speech\, funding decisions\, erosion of autonomy of the university\, and a general attack on expertise and elitism. By the same token\, universities are often thought to relate to populism not as communities of scholars pursuing a vocation\, but rather as a privileged group defending its privileges. How did the university come to be a site of populist contestation? This lecture will place the populist interest in universities in the broader context of the relationship between universities and nationalism in the twentieth century. It will offer some comparative reflections on the phenomenon\, and argue that universities will have to confront some deeper contradictions if they are to overcome the challenge of populism. \nAbout Pratap Bhanu Mehta\nPratap Bhanu Mehta is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He was previously vice-chancellor of Ashoka University and president of the Center for Policy Research\, Delhi. He has been a professor at Harvard University\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\, and the Global Faculty Program at the New York University School of Law. Dr. Mehta has published widely in political theory\, constitutional law\, governance and political economy\, international affairs\, and on society and politics in India. \nHis most recent publications include The Oxford Handbook to the Indian Constitution (co-edited with Madhav Khosla and Sujit Choudhary)\, Rethinking Public Institutions in India (with Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav)\, Non-Alignment 2.0 (with Srinath Raghavan\, Sunil Khilnani\, et al.)\, The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (with Niraja Jayal)\, Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order (with Bruce Jones and W.P.S. Sidhu)\, and The Burden of Democracy. \nDr. Mehta has also served in a number of policy roles in India\, including as a member convenor of the Prime Minister of India’s National Knowledge Commission\, member of the National Security Advisory Board\, and member of the Lyngdoh Committee. He chairs the jury for the Holberg Prize. \nDr. Mehta has engaged prolifically in public affairs. He is an editorial consultant to Indian Express\, where he writes a regular column. In addition\, he has written for the Financial Times and a number of leading national and international publications. He is on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review and Journal of Democracy. \nDr. Mehta holds a BA (first class) in Philosophy\, Politics\, and Economics from Oxford and a PhD in politics from Princeton. He received the 2010 Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Award and the 2011 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences–Political Science.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2021-ssrc-fellow-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship Public Information Session 2
DESCRIPTION:The SSRC is proud to host a public information session answering your questions about the new Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship\, supporting year-long\, qualitative studies of arts organizations of color funded by the Wallace Foundation. \nThe upcoming public information session is scheduled for Tuesday\, November 9 at 4 p.m. ET. The session will cover details on application guidelines\, eligibility requirements\, and answer any questions that participants may have. Register here.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/arts-research-with-communities-of-color-arcc-fellowship-public-information-session-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T080000
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SUMMARY:Expert Brainstorming on Somalia (VTC)
DESCRIPTION:On 19 November 2021\, CPPF convened an expert briefing on Somalia with Amb. James Swan\, the UN Secretary-General’s Representative in Somalia.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/expert-brainstorming-on-somalia-vtc/
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SUMMARY:Workshop on International Community Engagement and Support to the P-DDRCS (VTC)
DESCRIPTION:On 22 November 2021\, CPPF held a preparatory workshop to unpack definitions and generate a shared understanding amongst the international community in DRC of ‘community-based’ approaches to DDR\, reintegration\, CVR\, and stabilization\, based on evidence and lesson learned.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/workshop-on-international-community-engagement-and-support-to-the-p-ddrcs-vtc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T160000
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SUMMARY:Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship Public Information Session 3
DESCRIPTION:The SSRC is proud to host a public information session answering your questions about the new Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship\, supporting year-long\, qualitative studies of arts organizations of color funded by the Wallace Foundation. \nThe upcoming public information session is scheduled for Tuesday\, November 30 at 4 p.m. ET. The session will cover details on application guidelines\, eligibility requirements\, and answer any questions that participants may have. Register here.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/arts-research-with-communities-of-color-arcc-fellowship-public-information-session-3/
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SUMMARY:Just Tech Fellowship Public Information Session 1
DESCRIPTION:The SSRC’s Just Tech program is proud to host a public information session answering your questions about the new Just Tech Fellowship\, a two-year\, full-time\, $100\,000 per year (plus supplementary funding) remote fellowship supporting a diverse community of researchers and practitioners investigating the intersection of technology and social justice. \nThe upcoming public information session is scheduled for Monday\, December 1\, 3:00–4:30 p.m. ET. The session will cover details on application guidelines\, eligibility requirements\, and answer any questions that participants may have. Register here. \nThe Just Tech program is funded by a broad range of philanthropic foundations committed to cultivating critical work on the intersection of technology and social justice\, including the Ford Foundation\, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Surdna Foundation\, and Democracy Fund.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/just-tech-fellowship-public-information-session-1/
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SUMMARY:Expert Brainstorming on Iraq (VTC)
DESCRIPTION:On 3 December 2021\, at the request of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs\, CPPF held an expert brainstorming on Iraq’s national and regional dynamics in its post-electoral period.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/expert-brainstorming-on-iraq-vtc/
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SUMMARY:Just Tech Fellowship Public Information Session 2
DESCRIPTION:The SSRC’s Just Tech program is proud to host a public information session answering your questions about the new Just Tech Fellowship\, a two-year\, full-time\, $100\,000 per year (plus supplementary funding) remote fellowship supporting a diverse community of researchers and practitioners investigating the intersection of technology and social justice. \nThe upcoming public information session is scheduled for Thursday\, December 9\, 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET. The session will cover details on application guidelines\, eligibility requirements\, and answer any questions that participants may have. Register here. \nThe Just Tech program is funded by a broad range of philanthropic foundations committed to cultivating critical work on the intersection of technology and social justice\, including the Ford Foundation\, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Surdna Foundation\, and Democracy Fund.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/just-tech-fellowship-public-information-session-2/
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SUMMARY:7th Annual MENA RC Forum (VTC)
DESCRIPTION:On 10-11 January 2022\, CPPF held the 7th Annual MENA RC Forum in collaboration with the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. This forum will brought together UN resident coordinators\, UN officials from across the MENA region\, and external experts to discuss regional trends and developments ten years after the Arab Spring.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/7th-annual-mena-rc-forum-vtc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T080000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa
DESCRIPTION:The event started with opening remarks and an introduction of the author\, Kenneth Omeje\, and two discussants\, Ndongo Samba Sylla and Toni Haastrup\, by the moderator and director of the SSRC’s APN and NextGen program\, Cyril Obi. This was followed by an overview of the book by the author. He identified the main objectives of the book as providing a critical assessment of capitalism in Africa\, providing explanations for the failure of capitalism to lead to Africa’s development\, and exploring options of transforming African political systems in ways that could lift millions of Africans out of poverty. \nOmeje noted that the book is provocatively titled partly to sensitize African leaders to their responsibility to change the unsustainable status quo. He made connections between the failure of capitalism\, poverty\, vulnerability to violence and conflict\, forced migration\, and the lack of socio-economic progress. In terms of its perspective\, the book argues that there were indigenous forms of capitalism in Africa that preceded colonialism and that their evolution was disrupted by European imperialism to develop Europe at Africa’s expense. The author posits that\, at independence\, African power elites and leaders inherited an aberrant form of capitalism into which they inserted their private accumulation interests that resulted in a dysfunctional form of capitalism bereft of robust domestic economies and economic sovereignty. \nIn his discussion of the book\, Ndongo Samba Sylla noted that it was didactic\, provocative\, cogent\, and intellectually stimulating. He identified chapters one and three for special mention and reflected on eight issues raised in the book. These ranged from its historical analysis\, use of economic indicators\, Africa’s over-integration into the global market\, the definitions of capitalism\, and its use of a neo-Weberian lens to explain Africa’s underdevelopment relative to Asia’s developmental states. Ndongo also spoke to the oversight in not reflecting on similar works by African development economists such as Thandika Mkandawire and Samir Amin and not exploring developmental options beyond capitalism. \nToni Haastrup noted that the book is extremely well-researched and was a tour de force in the political economy of development. She identified chapters three and six for special mention\, interrogated the definition of capitalism based on its failure\, and raised questions about alternatives. Toni also spoke on capitalism in Africa in relation to the coloniality of power and the continent’s security\, asking if the situation was redeemable. In addition\, she interrogated the agency of Africans and asked how issues of emancipation and justice could fit into the quest for workable alternatives or developmental transformation. \nBoth discussants commended the book for its analysis of the negative impact of French colonialism and neocolonialism in terms of the loss of monetary and economic sovereignty in Francophone Africa. They observed that France-Afrique had peaked and was beginning to wane. In their view\, the COVID-19 pandemic was creating new issues related to Africa’s place in the world and the prospects for transforming global power hierarchies. Participants raised questions about theoretical perspectives to capitalist development in Africa\, the scope of the book\, and the nature of Africa-China relations. In wrapping up\, the discussants recognized the need for greater reflection on how data is interpreted and used and how Africa could be better placed in the global value chain.  They agreed on the need for the continent to develop on its own terms\, after which the author thanked the discussants and participants for their incisive insights and contributions to the robust scholarly debate generated by the book. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/virtual-book-launch-the-failure-and-feasibility-of-capitalism-in-africa/
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