BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Social Science Research Council (SSRC) X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ssrc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Social Science Research Council (SSRC) REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164657Z CREATED:20201026T164657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164657Z UID:10000667-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Genealogies of Financialization: Reframing Sovereignty in Asia (1600–present) DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nSankaran Krishna\nProfessor of Political Science\, University of Hawaii at Manoa\nkrishna@hawaii.edu \nSaeyoung Park\nAssistant Professor\, Modern Korean Studies\, Leiden University\nspark34@jhu.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nColin Agur\, Postdoctoral Associate\, Yale Law School\, Yale University\n“Communication Technology\, Illicit Flows of Capital\, and State-Society Tensions” \nGiulia Dal Maso\, PhD Candidate\, Cultural Studies\, Institute for Culture and Society “Past and present mass financialization: continuity in state legitimation” \nLaura Elder\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\, Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame\n“Banking Like a State: An alternative genealogy of Islamic finance” \nHarald Fuess\, Professor\, Cultural Economic History\, Heidelberg University\n“Undermining the Sovereignty of Korea? Capital Flows\, Investments\, and Trade\, 1876-1910” \nHoward Kahm\, Assistant Professor\, Underwood International College\, Yonsei University\n“Currency Smuggling: Monetary Sovereignty\, Decolonization\, and Undercover Financial Networks during the American Occupation of Korea\, 1945-1948” \nGeeta Patel\, Associate Professor\, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Virginia\n“Liquid Capital\, Illiquid Entities: The East India Company and the Madras Civil Fund” \nAditi Saraf\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Frontier’s Signature: Trade and Territory at the Edges of Empire” \nKellee Tsai\, Head and Chair Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\n“Moving Merchants and Money: Zhejiang and Gujarat’s Transnational Traders” \nLeilah Vevaina\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Religious Diversity\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“To Hong Kong and Back Again: Building Bombay and Redeveloping Mumbai” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe Great Recession of 2007 and the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 have ignited interest in how state power and peoples’ will are transmuted\, amplified\, and undermined by global financial regimes. Few may know of earlier financial crises\, such as those in late Ming China (1368–1644) that led to the Single-Whip silver tax reform that sparked the first global integration of currency markets. Financial crises and state responses have shifted state-society boundaries for centuries\, giving rise to novel transnational financial orders that discipline and engender new ideas of personhood and political subjectivities. Situated at the nexus of state power and finance from 1600 to the present\, our objective is to explore non-Eurocentric genealogies of financialization across Asia. \nWe conceive of financialization broadly as an apparatus or a set of practices\, discourses\, and epistemologies that mediate the contested reordering of the world along lines of credit\, assets\, capital mobility and extraction. Whether it’s pilgrimage financing through informal credit associations in the eighteenth century\, nineteenth century indentured service practices\, or a twentieth century M&A deal\, our daily transactions and their attendant logics of financialization are deeply imbricated in systems of value\, security\, and regulation that give rise to the ubiquitous yet unseen architecture of transborder finance. \nExploring new ways to periodize and historicize financialization\, this workshop focuses on three inter-related themes: \n\nFinancialization and Nation/Empire making: First\, we will interrogate the ways in which financialization and its accompanying socio-legal technologies are deployed in state and empire building from 1600–present. Triumphalist western narratives often fall short in explaining global finance’s failures to displace local\, often older\, parallel systems of credit\, or assume institutionalization occurs only by alien imposition and with little local mediation. Hence\, a study of financialization over the longue durée reinscribes Asian experiences into teleologies of finance\, e.g. highlighting how the house of Jagat Seth\, a giant Jain indigenous banking firm brokered the rise of Company Raj\, hastening the eighteenth century decline of the Mughal Empire. How do such analyses trouble a convergent understanding of the state as postcolonial restorer of sovereignty and as a neoliberal shepherd of economic development?\nForgotten intermediaries of finance: Our vantage renders visible mobile middle men and women whose political alliances do not neatly align with geopolitical boundaries. State-centered scholarship awkwardly accommodates the individuals\, private banks\, and black market financiers that have historically facilitated credit flows through the “plumbing” of regional and global finance that existed prior to the modern institutionalization of international finance. The slippery spaces between money and morality can foster unlikely alliances that cross racial\, gender\, and political lines. Hence\, this workshop seeks new studies that explore how people and institutions have navigated scales of financialization (simultaneously global/local; Islamic/Western; colonial/postcolonial) that disrupt traditional territorial orders that undergird sovereignty by producing new geographies that bring Shanghai and faraway Mumbai closer together than Shanghai and Shenyang.\nProblematizing the state-market binary: International financial institutions (IFIs such as the World Bank and the IMF) have broken out of their “straitjackets of transactional legal work\,” to invest in the construction of economic foundations—work formerly within the domain of states. The recursive dynamics through which IFIs and their partners acquire state functions\, sometimes against sovereign resistance\, but at times in collusion with states (often against other states) complicates straightforward analyses. Further\, is what we think of as the “work of a state” stable when states themselves have been reconfigured by waves of financialization? How has financialization shaped continuities in state practice over the five-century decline and re-emergence of Asian economic hegemonies?\n\nParticipants are not required to engage the entire longue durée of Asian financialization (1600–present)\, but we seek papers on the theme of finance and sovereignty that use multidisciplinary methods\, trace historical lineages\, and preferably range across more than one (nation-)state. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/genealogies-of-financialization-reframing-sovereignty-in-asia-1600-present/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164505Z CREATED:20201026T164505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164505Z UID:10000666-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Frontier Assemblages: Political Economies of Margins and Resource Frontiers in Asia DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nMichael Eilenberg\nAssociate Professor\, Culture and Society\, Aarhus University\netnome@cas.au.dk \nJason Cons\nResearch Assistant Professor\, LBJ School of Public Affairs\, University of Texas at Austin\njasoncons@utexas.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nZachary Anderson\, PhD Candidate\, Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto\n“Pragmatism and politics: Translating the green economy in an Indonesian frontier” \nYoung Rae Choi\, Graduate Student (Post-Defense)\, Geography\, Ohio State University\n“Spaces of sustainability? China’s coastal reclamation boom and the sustainability controversy” \nMichael Dwyer\, Associate Researcher\, Centre for Development and Environment\, University of Bern\n“Concession development: Timber financing and risk modulation at Southeast Asia’s upland frontier” \nGökçe Günel\, Lecturer in Discipline\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Subsurface Workings: the Production of Carbon Capture and Storage Policy in the United Arab Emirates” \nDolly Kikon\, Lecturer\, Department of Anthropology and Development Studies\, University of Melbourne\n“Carbon Connections” \nDuncan McDuie-Ra\, Associate Dean Research\, Arts and Social Sciences\, UNSW\n“Frontier Land Dynamics and the Private Health Boom in Imphal\, Manipur” \nKasia Paprocki\, PhD Candidate\, Development Sociology\, Cornell University\n“The Climate Frontier: Political Economies of Shrimp Aquaculture and Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Bangladesh” \nIgor Rubinov\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Princeton University\n“Growing at the margins: Grafting families and trees on a former Soviet frontier” \nJasnea Sarma\, PhD Student\, Comparative Asian Studies\, National University Of Singapore\n“Explorations of Space\, Time and Political Subjectivities in India and China’s Resource Frontier’s In Myanmar” \nMax Woodworth\, Assistant Professor\, Geography\, Ohio State University\n“Frontier Landscapes of the Gigantic and the Ghost Town in Ordos\, Inner Mongolia” \nJerry Zee\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, Science and Technology Studies\, University of California\, Davis\n“Groundwork: Experiments with Environment on a Chinese Airstream” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop interrogates the contemporary expansion of so-called resource frontiers into marginal spaces throughout Asia. The past decades have seen a radical and unprecedented transformation in margins—borders\, upland areas\, and “waste” zones—throughout Asia. Millions of acres of land have been rapidly converted to large-scale\, export-oriented monoculture production. Often\, though not exclusively\, the funding and management of these resource frontiers comes from elsewhere in Asia. We are interested in exploring the implications for the sovereignty\, security\, and political economy of the states in which these transformations are occurring; the new financial configurations that are driving it; the environmental impact of this expansion in these often ecologically vulnerable zones; and the impacts on the people who live in these rapidly transforming margins. \nWhile scholars have begun to direct attention towards these individual transformations\, very little is known about their similarities and differences across space. It is clear that the expansion of palm oil\, rubber\, aquaculture\, and other mono-culture commodities have radically altered territorial sovereignty\, ecology\, and human security throughout the region. Yet\, what similarities and differences do these transformations share? What are the broad and micro dynamics of resource frontier transformation? And what do these shifts portend for margins\, which have and continue to be sites of intense securitization\, conflict\, and expansion? Understanding these dynamics helps to clarify processes that are reshaping the geopolitics of the region and reformatting millions of people’s relationship to land. \nWe understand the linkages between foreign direct investment\, large-scale resource extraction and territorial politics in the margins of Asia as frontier assemblages to engage the multiple meanings and notions associated with regions where resource frontiers and marginal spaces interlock. We use the term “assemblage” to indicate a historically contingent convergence that facilitates expansion into frontier zones. We conceptualize frontiers as\, first\, a discourse of untouched wilderness and infinite unexploited resources and\, second\, as moving zones of state control and resource extraction. We see frontier assemblages as projects in the making\, which are unstable and in flux. We understand these frontier assemblages as broad\, yet historically and spatially specific forms of resource exploitation now unfolding in the margins of Asia. \nThis workshop interrogates this unprecedented transformation and the complex array of actors\, forces\, and ecologies that constitute it. We wish to explore four key questions: (1) What are the commonalities and differences in frontier development and resource exploitation across different national borders in Asia; (2) What kinds of framings of “space” and “territory” legitimatize and mobilize expansion into frontier zones and subsequent land enclosures; (3) what kinds of capital flows and financial configurations are mobilized to produce new resource frontiers; (4) and how do largescale development schemes in marginal areas articulate with projects of national security\, sovereignty\, and state-formation in different geopolitical contexts? \nWe invite participation from scholars working on\, but not limited to\, such topics as: \n\nThe development of new export processing zones;\nThe financialization of new extractive economies;\nThe political ecology of resource extraction;\nLand grabbing and land dynamics in frontier zones;\nThe dynamics of new plantation economies. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/frontier-assemblages-political-economies-of-margins-and-resource-frontiers-in-asia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164309Z CREATED:20201026T164309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164309Z UID:10000665-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Forced Migration in/of Asia: Connections\, Convergences\, Comparisons DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nElaine Lynn-Ee Ho\nAssociate Professor\, Geography\, National University of Singapore\nelaine.ho@nus.edu.sg \nCabeiri Robinson\nAssociate Professor\, International Studies & Anthropology\, University of Washington\ncdr33@uw.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nJosee Huennekes\, PhD Candidate\, Swinburne Institute for Social Research\, Swinburne University of Technology\n“Remittances and Responsibilities among Rohingya Families in Kuala Lumpur’s Suburbs” \nUmut Korkut\, Reader (Associate Professor)\, Glasgow School for Business and Society\, Glasgow Caledonian University\n“The Discursive governance of forced migration management: The Turkish shift from reticence to activism in Asia” \nSang Kook Lee\, Associate Professor\, Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\n“From Activists to Entrepreneurs: Burmese Refugees in South Korea” \nKirsten Mcconnachie\, Assistant Professor\, Law\, University of Warwick\n“Boundaries and Belonging in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Chin refugees in Mizoram” \nAnne McNevin\, Associate Professor\, Politics\, New School for Social Research\, The New School\n“Human Displacement and the Crisis of Hospitality: Reflections on the Spirit of Refugee Law and the Example of Acehnese Fishermen” \nMallica Mishra\, Associate Faculty\, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (Development Studies)\, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India\n“Tibetan Refugees in India: Learnings in Exile” \nRebecca Nedostup\, Associate Professor\, History\, Brown University\n“Home & Land: Profiting from the Displaced during Wartime” \nGlen Peterson\, Professor\, History\, University of British Columbia\n“Refugees\, Forced Migration and China’s Entry into the “Family of Nations” \nNatasha Raheja\, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor\, Anthropology\, New York University\n“From Minority to Majority: Pakistani Hindu Claims to Indian Citizenship” \nWen-Ching Ting\, PhD Candidate\, Migration Studies\, School of Global Studies\, University of Sussex\n“Actors\, Constellations of Mobility and ‘Home’ Territory: case of displaced Shanmigrants along the Thai-Burma border” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nForced migration in Asian countries and dispersing across Asia (henceforth Asian forced migration) is drawing international attention to the extent and nature of humanitarian assistance made available to displaced persons. The conduct of the International Refugee Regime (IRR)\, which evolved out of post-war European agendas\, may have limited reach over the different types of forced migration happening in Asia. Critically examining Asian forced migration reveals the sustained effects of colonial and imperial legacies and how culturally specific notions of territory\, sovereignty\, legal systems\, and kinship\, co-ethnic or other social ties influence the treatment of refugees\, internally displaced people and other types of human displacement. The challenge is to write the Asian forced migration experience into a wider global narrative without losing sight of the specificity of particular regional situations. \nOur workshop seeks to critically examine the InterAsian connections forged through forced migration experiences\, lending to revised inflections upon the way we approach studies of forced migration through hitherto accepted national or regional framings. Through our workshop\, we also examine convergences in how framings of territory\, sovereignty and legal systems in Asian societies impact the way forced migration is managed or experienced by forced migrants themselves. We further elicit comparisons of how Asian states have responded to forced migration in relation to the categorization and management norms that developed in Europe and internationally during the post-war decades. \nThe workshop aims to develop a research agenda concerning how studying Asian forced migration might contribute to wider debates in the fields of refugee\, migration and Asian studies. We encourage papers that focus on one or both of the following themes: \n\nConsider the multiplicity of Asian forced migration such as the multiple ways in which forced migration is experienced and managed and thus the possibility of multiple regimes governing forced migration in an interAsian context. Exploring the presence of multiple regimes requires investigating the history and contemporary experiences of of refugees\, displaced persons and forced migrants on their own terms\, rather than fitting them into conventional legal definitions. It also provides the opportunity to critically engage with the empirical diversity of political and social power that can generate regimes of refugee recognition and managements\, rather than assuming the singularity of primacy of the IRR).\nExamine the interface of an array of social actors implicated in Asian forced migration\, ranging from the ground level to institutionally organized interventions\, locally and transnationally. Such interfaces include\, but are not limited to\, the interactions of community-based organisations or other local networks\, national governments from source or receiving countries of forced migration\, governments-in-exile\, international organisations\, and international non-governmental organisations. Investigating the interface of such interactions open up a dialogue on how knowledge structures and practices pertaining to forced migration circulate in an InterAsian context with global influences in mind.\n\nBy curating papers that explore the multiplicity of forced migration and the interfaces of actors and institutions\, our workshop aims to reposition “Asia” as a central theoretical and empirical site for studies of forced migration. It seeks to do this by examining how local dynamics and social interactions that arise out of displacement experiences shape InterAsian and international knowledge\, and ultimately how international practices and norms are re-appropriated locally. The InterAsian analyses that we undertake through this workshop bring into view how the imagery and functioning of “Asia” has been sedimented through accrued layers and episodes of forced migration. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/forced-migration-in-of-asia-connections-convergences-comparisons/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T170000 DTSTAMP:20201026T164118Z CREATED:20201026T164118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T164118Z UID:10000664-1461744000-1462035600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Conviviality beyond the Urban Centre: Theorizing the “Marginal Hub” DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nMagnus Marsden\nProfessor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Sussex Asia Centre\, University of Sussex\nM.Marsden@sussex.ac.uk \nMadeleine Reeves Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology\, University of Manchester Madeleine.Reeves@manchester.ac.uk \nWorkshop Participants\nItty Abraham\, Associate Professor\, Southeast Asian Studies\, National University of Singapore\n“Poaching as Conviviality in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands” \nKalzang Dorjee Bhutia\, Lecturer\, Religious Studies\, Grinnell College and Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa\, Assistant Professor\, Religious Studies\, Grinnell College\n“Alternative Geographies of Global Connection: The Making and Unmaking of Conviviality among Buddhist Hubs of the Tea Horse Road” \nThomas Chambers\, Teaching Fellow\, School of Global Studies\, University of Sussex\n“Scaling Conviviality: The Spatial Economics of a ‘Marginal Hub’” \nYasmin Cho\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Anthropology\, University of Michigan\n“Purposefully Marginal: Gender\, Wilderness\, and (Dis)connectivity in Tibetan Buddhist Revivalism in Post-Mao China” \nNellie Chu\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Center for Transregional Research Network\, University of Göttingen\n“Displacement and Maternal Longing: The Production of Jiagongchang as Marginal Hubs of Subcontracted Labor in Guangzhou\, China” \nTill Mostowlansky\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Faraway siblings\, so close: marginality\, connectivity and mediated conviviality across the Pakistan-Tajikistan frontier” \nJacob Nerenberg\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Toronto\n“The Terminal Economy: Frontier Dreams and Confrontational Gathering in Highlands Papua (Indonesia)” \nAnton Nikolotov\, PhD Student\, Central Asian Studies\, Humboldt University and Frei University\n“Volatile shashlyk and shopfloor convivialities in a peripheral market in Moscow: skills\, emotionality and exchange” \nMalini Sur\, Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Garrison Conviviality: Longing at the Nation’s Margins” \nStacey Van Vleet\, Visiting Lecturer\, History\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Medicine\, Monasteries\, and Scholarly Networks between Qing China and the Tibetan Buddhist World” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nHow might we conceive of places of encounter with difference beyond the major centers that have dominated the study of urbanism in Asia? What forms of social interaction are to be found in such sites? And how are such hubs connected to one another and to major urban centers? This workshop seeks to answer these questions by foregrounding the empirical and conceptual exploration of what we call ‘marginal hubs’ in diverse Asian contexts. \nBy ‘marginal hubs’ we denote sites that may be institutionally or geographically remote from historic centers of urban sociality or political power\, but which are\, or have been\, places of interaction between people\, things\, and ideas from diverse backgrounds. A non-exhaustive list of such sites might include border markets\, caravanserais\, army bases\, peri-urban container camps\, madrassas\, ports\, or the Soviet-era “village of urban type” in which workers of diverse linguistic and confessional backgrounds were posted to work in a single factory or mine. During the workshop we will explore the modes of social interaction that are to be found in such hubs\, the forms of extraction and violence by which they may be characterized in the present or past\, as well as the distinct forms of sociality or conviviality that may shape social life within and around them. We enquire what role such hubs might play in the emergence of new cultural expressions (for instance\, in music\, in manners and etiquette\, in rituals of politeness and hospitality\, in food and consumption\, in dress and clothing) and the degree to which the forms of sociability found in such hubs might be traced to settings beyond. \nThe workshop proceeds from a recognition that while there has been a flourishing of literature on urban life in Asia on the one hand\, and on borders\, frontiers and rural margins on the other\, we know comparatively little about those forms of sensibility and sociability that emerge in hubs that may be remote from\, or peripheral to\, traditional urban centers. By inviting historically and ethnographically informed papers that study ‘marginal hubs’ in diverse Asian settings\, we seek to diversify and unsettle the category of the ‘Asian urban’ and to draw attention to forms of non-elite mobility that link diverse Asian hubs\, including the movement of soldiers\, traders\, construction workers\, members of religious orders\, domestic workers\, and engineers. We invite contributions from junior and senior scholars from anthropology\, history\, geography and allied fields that draw upon a close empirical analysis of hub(s) in one or more Asian setting. We particularly welcome papers that speak to questions of connectivity\, durability or comparability by engaging one or more of the following questions: \n\nIn what ways are marginal hubs connected both to one another and to major urban centers? What forms (infrastructural\, imaginary\, familial\, personal) do such connections take? Are such marginal hubs dependent upon urban centers or do they exist in parallel to them? Are there regular forms of symbiosis and mutual dependency between them?\nIn what ways is it possible to historicize hubs in the margin? Are marginal hubs that apparently emerge almost overnight (e.g. container markets) actually informed by longer histories? How do hubs change through time\, and what temporal scales might be helpful in thinking about this: linearity\, cycles\, stop-start transformations? In what ways do marginal hubs from the past (e.g. caravanserais\, military bases\, or border markets) maintain a place in the life of local communities even after decline? Has the state found it easier to suppress such hubs or to harness them?\nDoes the particular type of flow with which a hub is connected influence the nature of its dynamics\, or is it possible to recognize similarities and parallels across apparently different kinds of marginal hub? For example\, are hubs or religious learning different from or comparable to hubs of trade and commerce? URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conviviality-beyond-the-urban-centre-theorizing-the-marginal-hub/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/street-view_seoul-56d881b4bab83.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160509T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160509T193000 DTSTAMP:20201008T170511Z CREATED:20201008T170511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T170511Z UID:10000650-1462815000-1462822200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Social Science Knowledge and Its Future DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Ken Prewitt will reflect on the past half-century of social science research\, a “golden era” marked (in the U.S.) by the arrival of “big science\,” the huge increase in readily-available government data\, the significant dedication of foundation funds\, the explosion of numbers in both PhDs and job opportunities\, and the growth of a policy enterprise.  As features of this golden era fade\, Prewitt will identify a few key features emerging in the search for a new platform for advancing the social sciences. \nLecture by: Kenneth Prewitt\, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs\, Columbia University \n \nKenneth Prewitt — Carnegie Professor (SIPA); Director\,  Future  of Scholarly Knowledge; Special Advisor to the  President\,  Columbia University.  Non-academic posts include Director of  the Census Bureau\, President of the Social Science  Research  Council\, and Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller  Foundation. He currently chairs the Division on Social &  Behavioral Sciences of the National Academies of Science & is  President of the American Academy of Political and Social  Sciences. Most recent book: What is Your Race?  The Census  and Our Flawed Effort to Classify Americans (Princeton\, 2013).   \n Response by: danah boyd\, Principal Researcher\, Microsoft Research; Founder\, Data & Society \n \ndanah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society\, a research institute focused on understanding the role of data- driven technologies in society. She is also a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Visiting Professor at New York University. Her research is focused on addressing social and cultural inequities by understanding the relationship between technology and society. In 2014\, she published a monograph on how young people use social media: “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”. Dr. boyd was selected as a 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and is currently an active member. She is a director of the Crisis Text Line and on the board of trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nDiscussion to follow\, moderated by: Margaret Levi\, Director for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences\, Stanford University \n \nMargaret Levi is the director of the Center for Advanced Study  in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and professor of political  science\, Stanford University\, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor  Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political  Science at the University of Washington. She earned her BA  from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard  University in 1974. She became a fellow of the American  Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and a John Simon  Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. She served as president of the  American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014 she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science\, and in 2015 became a member of the National Academy of Science. Her  books include the sole-authored Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press\, 1988) and Consent\, Dissent\, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press\, 1997); and the coauthored Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press\, 1998); and Cooperation without Trust? (Russell Sage\, 2005). Her most recent book is In the Interest of Others (Princeton\, 2013)\, with John Ahlquist. She is co–general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science and an editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Levi serves on the boards of the Social Science Research Council\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Watson School of International Studies at Brown University\, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS) in Madrid\, and the Scholar and Research Group of the World Justice Project. \nRSVP with Roosevelt House here. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/social-science-knowledge-and-its-future/ LOCATION:Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/social-science-knowledge-and-its-future-1-e1602176696791.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160608T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160608T170000 DTSTAMP:20210831T163745Z CREATED:20210831T163745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T163745Z UID:10000713-1465372800-1465405200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:FitCity 2016 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/fitcity-2016/ LOCATION:Brooklyn\, NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160825T170000 DTSTAMP:20211013T170425Z CREATED:20211013T170425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T170425Z UID:10000781-1472025600-1472144400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health DESCRIPTION:Two research teams from the SSRC-VASS Vietnam Population Health Study presented their teams’ research findings at the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health in Bangkok. \nDr. Tran Thi Hong (left) and Tran Quy Long (right) co-presented their team’s paper on “Improving Antenatal Care for Vulnerable Women in Vietnam.” Their research found a large increase in the number of pregnant women receiving antenatal care and taking iron supplements within the 12 communes studied. This improvement was less significant\, however\, among the most vulnerable women in the study\, including ethnic minorities and women with lower incomes or education levels. \nDr. Nguyen Duc Vinh presented his team’s paper on “Using Health Insurance of Rural Patients at Public Health Facilities in Vietnam.” Their research is investigating the functioning of health insurance in Vietnam\, including barriers to health insurance use; differences in use by commune\, province\, socioeconomic group\, or gender; factors that are depressing health insurance use and possible ways in which these might be overcome; and the changing role of the commune health center due to changes in health insurance rules and regulations. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/6th-asia-pacific-conference-on-public-health/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T193000 DTSTAMP:20210915T160912Z CREATED:20210915T160845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T160912Z UID:10000693-1476727200-1476732600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:'Ways Democracy Can Slip Away\,' a talk by Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:The Anxieties of Democracy program is pleased to invite you to its first public 2016 ‘Democracy in the City’ event\, at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute on Monday\, October 17\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.\nJoin us and Professor Charles Taylor\, our 2016 Democracy Fellow\, for this examination of the fragility of democracy on the eve of the 2016 election. Introduced and moderated by the eminent political theorist Nancy Rosenblum\, Charles Taylor’s talk\, the ensuing dialogue with the audience\, and the reception afterward seek to invigorate a thoughtful public conversation about current stressors on democratic theory and practice. \nYou may find a video of the event here. \nCharles Taylor\, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University\, is the recipient of the prestigious John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Taylor’s philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity\, democracy\, equality\, and inclusion in key texts such as A Secular Age (2007)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994) have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout his career\, Taylor has exemplified the crucial civic role played by university research\, entwining his theoretical approaches with political participation in several domains: from the 1960s\, when Taylor ran in three federal elections in Mount Royal to his key role in constitutional negotiations in Canada. \nNancy Rosenblum is Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Emerita. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought. Rosenblum’s most recent book is Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America\, published by Princeton University Press in 2016. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings\, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy\, past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association\, past Board Member of the Russell Sage Foundation\, and past Chair of Harvard’s Department of Government\, from 2004 to 2011. She is currently Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science\, serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee\, and co-Chairs its Working Group on Climate Change. \nThe Anxieties of Democracy program is generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, The Ford Foundation\, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ways-democracy-can-slip-away-a-talk-by-charles-taylor-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T193000 DTSTAMP:20201005T154121Z CREATED:20201005T153647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T154121Z UID:10000646-1476727200-1476732600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:'Ways Democracy Can Slip Away\,' a talk by Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:The Anxieties of Democracy program is pleased to invite you to its first public 2016 ‘Democracy in the City’ event\, at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute on Monday\, October 17\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. \nJoin us and Professor Charles Taylor\, our 2016 Democracy Fellow\, for this examination of the fragility of democracy on the eve of the 2016 election. Introduced and moderated by the eminent political theorist Nancy Rosenblum\, Charles Taylor’s talk\, the ensuing dialogue with the audience\, and the reception afterward seek to invigorate a thoughtful public conversation about current stressors on democratic theory and practice. \nYou may find a video of the event here. \nCharles Taylor\, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University\, is the recipient of the prestigious John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Taylor’s philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity\, democracy\, equality\, and inclusion in key texts such as A Secular Age (2007)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994) have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout his career\, Taylor has exemplified the crucial civic role played by university research\, entwining his theoretical approaches with political participation in several domains: from the 1960s\, when Taylor ran in three federal elections in Mount Royal to his key role in constitutional negotiations in Canada. \nNancy Rosenblum is Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Emerita. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought. Rosenblum’s most recent book is Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America\, published by Princeton University Press in 2016. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings\, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy\, past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association\, past Board Member of the Russell Sage Foundation\, and past Chair of Harvard’s Department of Government\, from 2004 to 2011. She is currently Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science\, serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee\, and co-Chairs its Working Group on Climate Change. \nThe Anxieties of Democracy program is generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, The Ford Foundation\, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ways-democracy-can-slip-away-a-talk-by-charles-taylor/ LOCATION:Roosevelt House\, 47-49 East 65th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161021 DTSTAMP:20210915T160256Z CREATED:20210915T160256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T160256Z UID:10000692-1476748800-1477007999@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:2016 Democracy Seminar with Professor Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:As part of his residency with us in 2016\, Professor Charles Taylor\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s second Democracy Fellow\, led a two-part Seminar on current ‘anxieties of democracy’. Twelve doctoral students\, from diverse disciplines and universities\, competed for a spot at the table. This year\, The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman was also in attendance\, and featured Taylor’s Democracy Seminar and its participants in his widely-circulated piece\, ‘How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy.’ \nCharles Taylor is Emeritus Professor at McGill University and the recipient of the prestigious Berggruen\, John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Regarded as one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers\, Taylor has also played an important role in bridging theory and practice throughout his career. His philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity and democracy—in key texts including Sources of the Self (1989) and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994)—have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Taylor’s longstanding political participation has been equally illustrious. \nSeminar Participants\n  \nAlyssa Battistoni (Political Science)\, Yale University\nJoshua Braver (Political Science)\, Yale University\nMatthew Denney (Political Science)\, Yale University\nPatrick Gilger (Sociology)\, New School\nSelim Heper (Politics)\, New School\nSalman Hussain (Anthropology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nMie Inouye (Political Science/Religious Studies)\, Yale University\nJordan Jochim (Government)\, Cornell University\nPersis Milani (Politics)\, New School\nSarah Molinari (Anthropology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nBen Mylius (Political Philosophy)\, Columbia University\nDavid Raggazoni (Politics)\, Columbia University\nEdward Quish (Government)\, Cornell University\nAnna Zhelnina (Sociology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY \n\nPart I (October 18)\, Readings:\nJames Madison\, “Federalist No. 10.” \nJean-Jacques Rousseau\, The Social Contract\, All (in a pinch\, Book I). \nJoseph Schumpeter\, Capitalism\, Socialism and Democracy\, Chapters 21-23. \nPart 2 (October 20)\, Readings:\nCharles Taylor\, unpublished essay: “Some Crises of Democracy” URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2016-democracy-seminar-with-professor-charles-taylor-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T170000 DTSTAMP:20201005T153425Z CREATED:20201005T153425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T153425Z UID:10000645-1476777600-1476982800@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:2016 Democracy Seminar with Professor Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:As part of his residency with us in 2016\, Professor Charles Taylor\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s second Democracy Fellow\, led a two-part Seminar on current ‘anxieties of democracy’. Twelve doctoral students\, from diverse disciplines and universities\, competed for a spot at the table. This year\, The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman was also in attendance\, and featured Taylor’s Democracy Seminar and its participants in his widely-circulated piece\, ‘How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy.’ \n \nCharles Taylor is Emeritus Professor at McGill University and the recipient of the prestigious Berggruen\, John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Regarded as one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers\, Taylor has also played an important role in bridging theory and practice throughout his career. His philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity and democracy—in key texts including Sources of the Self (1989) and Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition (1994)—have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Taylor’s longstanding political participation has been equally illustrious. \nSeminar Participants \n\nAlyssa Battistoni (Political Science)\, Yale University\nJoshua Braver (Political Science)\, Yale University\nMatthew Denney (Political Science)\, Yale University\nPatrick Gilger (Sociology)\, New School\nSelim Heper (Politics)\, New School\nSalman Hussain (Anthroplogy)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nMie Inouye (Political Science/Religious Studies)\, Yale University\nJordan Jochim (Government)\, Cornell University\nPersis Milani (Politics)\, New School\nSarah Molinari (Anthropology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\nBen Mylius (Political Philosophy)\, Columbia University\nDavid Raggazoni (Politics)\, Columbia University\nEdward Quish (Government)\, Cornell University\nAnna Zhelnina (Sociology)\, Graduate Center\, CUNY\n\nPart I (October 18)\, Readings: \nJames Madison\, “Federalist No. 10.” \nJean-Jacques Rousseau\, The Social Contract\, All (in a pinch\, Book I). \nJoseph Schumpeter\, Capitalism\, Socialism and Democracy\, Chapters 21-23. \nPart 2 (October 20)\, Readings: \nCharles Taylor\, unpublished essay: “Some Crises of Democracy” URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2016-democracy-seminar-with-professor-charles-taylor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T200000 DTSTAMP:20201005T151147Z CREATED:20201005T151147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T151147Z UID:10000644-1477072800-1477080000@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:'Democratic Exclusion: A Think-In in Three Acts\,' featuring Charles Taylor DESCRIPTION:*Update: Although Professor Taylor was unable to join us for this event due to illness\, our explorations were carried out\, with his blessing. Please enjoy the livestream below. \nThe Anxieties of Democracy program is delighted to invite you to its second public 2016  “Democracy in the City” event\, at Civic Hall: on Friday\, October 21\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. \nPlease join us for “Democratic Exclusion: A Think-In in Three Acts\,” featuring world-renowned political philosopher Charles Taylor in conversation with civic leaders Keesha Gaskins-Nathan\, Sarah Leonard\, and Tova Wang. Orchestral music conducted by Benjamin Hochman invites further reflection on the theme. \nEvent Live Stream\n \nThe program:  \nDemocracy\, at its roots\, means “the power of the people.” Yet around the world\, people living in self-styled democracies are excluded from power. How do we understand exclusion in a democratic context\, and can we do anything about it? \nAct 1: Our event opens with the Finale of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 45\, “Farewell.” In 1772\, the piece demonstrated to Haydn’s patron what a world without musicians would look like. Here\, the “Farewell” hints at what the democratic space resembles when it has been emptied due to exclusion. \nAct 2: Keesha Gaskins-Nathan will then launch an exploration of the meanings and boundaries of democratic exclusion\, initiated by Charles Taylor\, in conversation with Sarah Leonard and Tova Wang\, and continued with members of the audience. \nAct 3: The Think-In concludes with a second moment of reflection provided by a performance of Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst. \nA reception follows\, offering a space for audience members to continue discussion and connect with the speakers. \nCivic Hall is the ideal locus for this exploration as a “one-of-a-kind community center for the world’s civic innovators.” In a space that defines “civic tech” as the “use of technology for public good\,” our program introduces earlier forms of “civic tech\,” eighteenth-century musical instruments\, to inspire reflection about the repercussions of exclusion in democracies\, and the avenues for inclusion. \nAbout the speakers:  \nCharles Taylor\, Emeritus Professor of philosophy at McGill University\, is the recipient of the prestigious Berggruen\, John W. Kluge\, Templeton\, and Kyoto prizes\, among other honors. Taylor’s philosophical approaches to the issues of modernity\, democracy\, equality\, and inclusion in key texts such as A Secular Age (2007)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, and Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (1994) have transformed conceptual categories in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout his career\, Taylor has exemplified the crucial civic role played by university research\, entwining his theoretical approaches with political participation in several domains: from the 1960s when Taylor ran in federal elections\, to his key counsel for constitutional negotiations in Canada and around the world. \nKeesha Gaskins-Nathan’s civic leadership is long-standing. Currently serving as Director of Democratic Practice at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund\, she previously directed the Redistricting and Representation program at Brennan Center for Justice. Gaskins-Nathan served as executive director for the League of Women Voters Minnesota and worked for a number of years as a trial attorney. Gaskins-Nathan is a frequent lecturer and writer on issues related to women and politics\, movement building\, and democratic reform. \nOf pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman’s performances\, The New York Times wrote\, “Classical music doesn’t get better than this.” Praised by the New Yorker for the “unabashed emphasis he has given to modern repertory\, which he balances effortlessly with the classics in his recitals and recordings\,” Hochman is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes\, including the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2011. Most recently\, Hochman was appointed as the musical assistant to Louis Langrée at the 2016 Mostly Mozart Festival\, also working with Thierry Fischer\, Jeffrey Kahane\, Matthew Halls\, and Paavo Järvi. Hochman is a Steinway Artist. \nSarah Leonard is senior editor at The Nation and editor-at-large at the political quarterly Dissent. She has co-edited two books: Occupy!: An OWS-Inspired Gazette (Verso\, 2011) with literary magazine n+1\, and The Future We Want: Radical Solutions for the 21st Century (Metropolitan\, 2016). Her writing focuses on feminism\, work\, technology\, and the exclusion that comes from economic inequality. \nViolinist\, composer\, and music educator Jessie Montgomery’s compositions have been recognized by the American Composers Orchestra\, the Sphinx Organization\, the Joyce Foundation\, and the Sorel Organization. Active with the Sphinx Organization\, which supports the accomplishments of young African-American and Latino string players\, Montgomery has also performed with the Catalyst Quartet\, acclaimed by The New York Times as “invariably energetic and finely burnished…performing with earthly vigor.” Praised for its inventiveness\, her work has received commissions from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, the Young People’s Chorus of New York\, and Cygnus Ensemble. \nTova Wang is Senior Democracy Fellow at Demos and formerly Director of Democracy Programs for the Communications Workers of America. Wang’s critically acclaimed book\, The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote (2012)\, and her commentary in The New York Times and The Washington Post\, has focused on political inclusion in the United States\, particularly\, increasing voter participation rates among low income people\, communities of color\, naturalized immigrants\, women\, and indigenous peoples. Wang has also conducted global analysis of election procedures and laws for the National Democratic Institute (NDI)\, Democracy Reporting International (DRI)\, The Carter Center\, and The ACE Project. \nThis event is cosponsored by Civic Hall and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/democratic-exclusion-a-think-in-in-three-acts-featuring-charles-taylor/ LOCATION:Civic Hall\, 156 5th Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CH-Event-680px-1-e1601910686605.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161030 DTSTAMP:20200930T170636Z CREATED:20200930T170636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200930T170636Z UID:10000630-1477612800-1477785599@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Working Group on Institutions Conference DESCRIPTION:On October 28-29\, 2016\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Working Group on Institutions convened its first conference at Princeton University. The conference was generously sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs’ Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and Princeton University’s Department of Politics. \nThe conference brought our Working Group on Institutions’ members into conversation with a diverse array of young scholars and experts\, who presented new research and together tested the Working Group’s principal axes of investigation regarding the capacity and performance of democratic institutions. \nThe conference was organized by the Working Group’s co-chairs: Frances Lee\, Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland\, and Nolan McCarty\, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. \nConference participants authored and examined papers on the following themes: \nParty Structure and the Political System \nSam Rosenfeld\nAssistant Professor of Government\, Hamilton College \nDaniel Schlozman\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, Johns Hopkins University \nThe Influence of Business on American Democracy \nAnthony Chen*\nAssociate Professor of Sociology\, Northwestern University \nCathie Jo Martin\nProfessor of Political Science\, Boston University \nThe Influence of Protest \nDaniel Gillion*\nPresidential Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Pennsylvania \nMegan Ming Francis\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Washington \nLobbying Inequality and American Governance \nLee Drutman\nSenior Fellow: Program on Political Reform\, New America \nMatthew Grossmann*\nAssociate Professor of Political Science\, Michigan State University\nDirector\, Institute for Public Policy and Social Research \nTim LaPira\nAssociate Professor of Political Science\, James Madison University \nDara Strolovitch\nAssociate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Princeton University \nMining Data to Measure Political Sophistication \nKen Benoit\nProfessor of Political Science Research Methodology\, London School of Economics \nBurt Monroe\nProfessor of Political Science\, Penn State University \nKevin Munger\nPhD Candidate in Politics\, New York University \nArthur Spirling*\nAssociate Professor of Politics and Data Science\, New York University \nLegislative Capacity in the Contemporary Congress \nR. Douglas Arnold\nWilliam Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs\, Princeton University \nJames Curry\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Utah \nFrances Lee*\nProfessor of Government and Politics\, University of Maryland \nPublic Policy & Political Dysfunction \nSarah Binder\nProfessor of Political Science\, George Washington University \nClaire Leavitt\nPhD Candidate in American Politics\, Cornell University \nSuzanne Mettler*\nClinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions\, Cornell University \nThe Impact of Polarization on Administration \nGillian Metzger*\nStanley H. Fuld Professor of Law\, Columbia Law School \nDavid Spence\nProfessor of Law\, Politics & Regulation\, University of Texas at Austin \nRegular Order in Congress \nLee Drutman\nSenior Fellow: Program on Political Reform\, New America \nPeter Hanson\nAssistant Professor of Political Science\, Grinnell College \nMark Schmitt*\nDirector: Program on Political Reform\, New America \nResponsiveness to the Donorate \nBrandice Canes-Wrone*\nDonald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs\, Princeton University \nCharles Stewart III*\nKenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nPolarization and Congressional Dysfunction \nDan Carpenter*\nAllie S. Freed Professor of Government\, Harvard University\nDirector of Social Research\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University \nNolan McCarty*\nSusan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs\, Princeton University \nComparative Perspectives on American Anxieties \nHenry Farrell\nAssociate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs\, George Washington University \nIra Katznelson\nRuggles Professor of Political Science and History\, Columbia University\nPresident\, Social Science Research Council \nCathie Jo Martin\nProfessor of Political Science\, Boston University \nDavid Samuels*\nDistinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science\, University of Minnesota\n\n*Member\, Working Group on Institutions  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/working-group-on-institutions-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T130000 DTSTAMP:20210831T164414Z CREATED:20210831T164414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T164414Z UID:10000714-1479812400-1479819600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:New York City Council Hearing on Disconnected Youth DESCRIPTION:Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps was asked to give expert testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Youth Services’ Task Force on Out of School\, Out of Work Youth on November 22. Burd-Sharps apprised committee members of the key research data on disconnected youth\, and discussed with the members the ramifications\, potential and extant\, of the disengagement of young people in the City. \nThe hearing was led by Council member Dr. Mathieu Eugene\, joined by Council members Margaret Chin\, Laurie Cumbo\, and Darlene Mealy. Joining Burd-Sharps in providing the task force with valuable insight on the issue were representatives of key City agencies\, including the Departments of Education\, Youth and Community Development and Small Business Services\, as well as leaders of community social service providers from across New York City. \n\n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit: Matthew Kotowski URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/new-york-city-council-hearing-on-disconnected-youth/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161217 DTSTAMP:20200928T153138Z CREATED:20200928T153138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T153138Z UID:10000617-1481673600-1481932799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:APN Training Workshop II on Writing and Dissemination DESCRIPTION:The African Peacebuilding Network (APN)\, in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and Public Administration\, Makerere University\, held its second training workshop for the program’s 2016 cohort of individual research grantees at the Lake Victoria Serena Resort in Kampala\, Uganda\, on December 14-16\, 2016. The workshop focused on the writing and dissemination of grantees’ research findings following six months of APN-supported field-based research projects. Combining lectures\, working group sessions\, and one-on-one dialogues with mentors who are also well-published experts in the field of peacebuilding\, grantees were able to engage with each other\, network\, and get constructive feedback on their draft publications as well as strategies for further disseminating the results of their research projects. \nThe workshop kicked off with opening remarks by the Prof. Nansozi Muwanga\, Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration\, Makerere University\, Uganda\, and Dr. Cyril Obi\, APN Program Director\, while Prof. Edward Kirumira\, Principal\, College of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Makerere University\, also gave welcoming remarks. \nLectures were delivered by Prof. Abu Bakarr Bah (Northern Illinois University)\, Prof. Gilbert Khadiagala (APN Advisory Board member\, University of Witwatersrand)\, Dr. Arthur Bainomugisha (Makerere University)\, Prof. Pamela Mbabazi (APN Advisory Board member\, Mbarara University of Science and Technology)\, Prof. Thomas Tieku (APN Advisory Board member\, King’s University College at Western University\, Canada)\, Prof. Duncan Omanga (2014 APN Alumnus\, Moi University)\, and Prof. Ismail Rashid (APN Advisory Board member\, Vassar College). Professors Bah\, Tieku\, Rashid\, and Khadiagala and Dr. Amy Niang (2013 APN Alumnus\, University of Witwatersrand) also led\, and provided mentorship to the five working groups of workshop participants. \nProf. Bah’s lecture on “Perspectives to Peacebuilding in Africa: An Overview” focused on various peacebuilding approaches. His view that some of the approaches do not sufficiently problematize the nature of political and economic institutions in Africa sparked a strong debate over   the limitations of making   broad generalizations about the complex roots and drivers of conflict in Africa. \nIt was followed by Prof. Khadiagala’s lecture\, which addressed the topic “Bridging the Gaps in African Peace and Security Research: Challenges and Interventions.” He underlined the need for African peacebuilding researchers to understand those aspects of the current universal understanding of security that relate to Africa’s realities\, drawing upon Thomas Kuhn’s notion of epistemological paradigm shifts in knowledge production. He concluded his presentation by suggesting potential research directions in African peace and security\, and invited grantees’ to explore how their research can fit into and expand the existing research agendas. \nFocusing on the policy-relevant aspects of research-based production of knowledge\, Dr. Bainomugisha’s lecture on “Transforming Research Findings into Policy Inputs: Things to Note When Writing for a Policy Audience” spoke to the content and techniques of writing for policy-makers and practitioners. He emphasized the importance of being aware of both the intended and unintended consequences of policy\, noting as follows\, that “the cost of policy engagement is very high. Activists and researchers should plan for this reality.” He then identified various strategies for engaging policy makers\, and outlets for publishing research findings\, including the pros and cons of each approach. Dr. Bainomugisha admitted that “research is challenging and unattractive\, but is essential to reforming society”. He also emphasized the need to pay attention to facts; creativity\, autonomy\, and ethical conduct which engaging with policymakers. \nDay two of the conference opened with a lecture by Prof. Mbabazi on “Understanding the Natural Resource Conflict Nexus in African Peacebuilding.” She explored the rich literature on the natural resource-violent conflict debate\, and spoke to how this nexus fits into Africa’s conflict landscape. Of note were the debates around the room on the “resource curse thesis\,” and African perspectives to the natural resource-conflict linkage. However\, there was a broad agreement that the drivers of conflict in Africa were complex and dependent on certain specificities\, and that the natural resources–conflict linkage could at best only partially explain Africa’s conflicts. \nProf. Tieku’s presentation focused on strategies for the dissemination of research findings. His lecture on “Disseminating Research Findings through Peer-reviewed Journals” spoke to the importance of publishing research findings in reputable peer-reviewed Journals. According to him\, “When publishing in peer-reviewed journals young scholars must target top-rated journals.” \nOn his part\, 2014 APN Alumnus Dr. Duncan Omanga gave an engaging lecture on innovative strategies and platforms for disseminating research-based knowledge. His talk on “Disseminating Research Findings through New and Social Media and Web-Based Platforms: What Works Best\, Why\, and How?” explored ways other than traditional approaches to publish research findings. He identified the different audiences that can be reached by publishing in academic journals in contrast to academic journals. He noted\, “this means that apart from publishing in professional journals\, or presenting at a conference\, there is a clear and urgent need to go beyond the ‘ivory tower’ and push that knowledge to those who need it most.” Dr. Omanga concluded by sharing insights from his personal experience with publishing in both traditional and new media\, including his experience with his most used social media platforms for dissemination: Twitter\, Facebook\, and Academia.edu. \nThe final lecture of the workshop\, titled “Writing on African Peacebuilding: Reflections on Personal Experiences\,” was delivered by Prof. Ismail. He started his presentation by sharing his personal experience on important questions to consider prior to publishing a book. For him\, two questions stood out: which format will best serve as a platform for disseminating research findings\, and what is the intended audience for the published work? He also spoke to the important steps grantees’ must go through to ensure the production of a high-quality book\, including what he identified as arguably the most tedious step\, but an important one\, responding to the comments of peer reviewers and copy editors. \nAt the concluding plenary of the workshop\, a representative of each of the five working groups presented feedback from their activities to all participants and resource persons. They also spoke about their plans for continued networking\, and future engagement with mentors. \nPlease see additional photos from the event on the APN Flickr URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/apn-training-workshop-ii-on-writing-and-dissemination/ LOCATION:Kampala\, Uganda ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/apn-training-workshop-ii-e1601307059465.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170122 DTSTAMP:20200909T143407Z CREATED:20200909T143407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T143407Z UID:10000612-1484524800-1485043199@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:IIAS-SSRC Winter School “Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures” DESCRIPTION:Co-organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI).\n\nHosted by C-Centre (Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong \nONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday 13 June 2016\, 9.00 am CET \nWe are pleased to invite applications for six days of interactive Winter School training on Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures. \nConveners: Francis Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong); Zaharom Nain (The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus\, Malaysia); Srirupa Roy (University of Gottingen’s Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)\, Germany) \nGuest Co-Convener: Paula Chakravartty (Department of Media\, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School\, New York University\, US)\nHost Co-Convener: Jack Linchuan Qiu (School of Journalism and Communication\, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the C-Centre\, Hong Kong) \nCALL FOR APPLICATIONS\nThere has been growing scholarly interest in better understanding the role of media technologies—from Weibo and WhatsApp to cloud computing and location-based services – in transforming the nature of social movements worldwide. But “Twitter revolutions” that subvert existing structures of media and political power are only a part of this story. The Arab Uprisings also taught states across the Middle East\, North Africa and Asia how to tame media activism and deploy digital tools for control. Media activism spread across ideological spectrums and has brought to the forefront not only youth and pro-democracy movements. It has also been used successfully by political parties to embrace ethno-nationalist agendas and enable closer alliances with neoliberal capital and military power. These varied political logics and fates of media activism since 2011 make clear that triumphalist accounts of “media technologies-as-liberation” require revision; there is a pressing need to embed media and technology-centric perspectives on activism in an account of historical context and institutional power. \nIn this Winter School\, we are interested in exploring these multivalent dynamics of digital media activism in postcolonial contexts where historical and contemporary legacies of global power relations shape and inflect media and political practices. Specifically\, we will trace how media industries\, from news to entertainment\, from social networking services to commercialized broadcasting sectors\, create new modes of politics building on existing political divides between middle class minorities and majority publics. We will also consider how the politics of ethnicity\, religion\, caste/race\, gender and sexuality shape these new modes of political engagement.  In this process we will pay attention to the role of the state and the expanded influence of established commercial media industries in generating new forms of public-private surveillance and control. Finally\, we will consider the shifting political valences of digital activism\, paying attention to how political energies have been re-oriented towards right-wing populism and new digitally enhanced modes of authoritarianism. \nThe Winter School will allow PhD students and advanced research masters’ students with significant professional experience\, including journalists and researchers allied with social movements\, to problematize these questions in the politically dynamic setting of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is an ideal city to discuss the dynamics of media activism historically and in the present given its postcolonial status\, unique media systems in relation to mainland China\, and its ongoing power struggle following the Umbrella Movement of 2014. \nConversations at the Hong Kong Winter School will revolve around critical reflections on media activism in the Asian\, including West Asia\, or the Middle East\, and North African context around the following sub-themes\, among others: \n\nContemporary forms of media activism in historical context\, in relation to earlier 20th century movements\, parties\, and struggles\nDynamics of the relationship between media activism and state and corporate control and surveillance\nModes of cross-class media activism (middle class\, working class/subaltern media campaigns)\nInterAsian (by which we mean historical and/or contemporary transnational/cross-national/trans-regional processes\, structures\, practices\, and flows within\, across and beyond the territorial and imaginative space of Asia)/transborder social movements and media\nMedia and populism/authoritarianism\nThe genres of mediated expression and the question of “political voice”\n\n  \nThe Winter School will be held from Jan 16-21\, 2017\, at the C-Centre (Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition to lectures by leading scholars in the field\, students will also conduct group projects and enjoy fieldtrips to important sites of media politics in Hong Kong\, such as public broadcasters\, commercial press\, independent media platforms\, NGOs\, and new and old sites of activist struggles. At the end of the Winter School\, students will make final presentations to the public including the social movement and media organizations they study. \nFrancis Lee\, Zaharom Nain and Srirupa Roy will lead the Winter School with Paula Chakravartty as guest co-convenor and Jack Qiu as host co-convenor. Coming from different academic traditions with diverse theoretical and methodological expertise\, the lead trainers and co-convenors shall foster an active atmosphere of open discussion\, critique\, and empirical inquiry. The goal is to facilitate students’ existing research projects in a related field of study through a combination of lectures\, fieldtrips\, and group work. \n  \nApplication\nWe welcome applications from doctoral students and advanced research master’s students with significant related professional experience from all social science and humanities disciplines\, based in Asia (including West Asia) and globally. \nFor additional details on eligibility criteria and how to apply\, see the online Application form. \nThe registration fee for participation at the IIAS/SSRC Winter School is 250 Euro. For more information on what is included in this fee\, please see General information. \n  \nInformation\nPlease visit the Winter School website for more information: http://iias.asia/winterschool2017 \nFor questions\, please contact Ms Martina van den Haak at m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl  \n  \nPhoto Credit: “DSC_4082” [cropped] by Max / C.C. 2.0. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/iias-ssrc-winter-school-media-activism-and-postcolonial-futures/ LOCATION:C-Centre\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/iias-ssrc-winter-school-media-activism-and-postcolonial-futures.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170215 DTSTAMP:20210913T145347Z CREATED:20210913T145347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T145347Z UID:10000742-1486944000-1487116799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:China-Africa Peace and Security Fellows Visit DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council welcomed the cohort of China-Africa Peace and Security Research Fellows\, an initiative of the SSRC’s China-Africa Knowledge Project (CAKP) for a two-day event in New York on February 13-14\, 2017. The CAKP is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The fellowship program is a collaboration of and based on contributions from the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)\, and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). \nThe CAKP fellowship was launched in the spring of 2016\, as a pilot program for junior Chinese scholars conducting research on China’s engagement with the United Nations (UN) on African peace and security issues. China continues to rapidly expand its participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations\, and is becoming more involved in supporting peace operations and peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected areas\, especially in Africa. With support from the joint SSRC-AFSC fellowship\, a group of Chinese scholars has recently returned from fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Kenya\, and Zimbabwe\, as well as at the African Union in Ethiopia\, where they looked at China’s engagement in UN peace operations\, regional partnerships\, and the role that China’s commercial interests can play in sustaining peace. The event provided the opportunity for them to first discuss their findings with one another and present them to the staff members of the SSRC\, AFSC\, and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)\, and then to share their research findings with a broader policy audience. \nThe first day welcomed the fellows to the SSRC’s office for a Research Workshop. Staff members and fellows from China\, Ethiopia\, and the United States convened to discuss progress that has been made on a group book project\, during which the contributors presented drafts of their chapters and received feedback from other group members. APN Alumnus\, Dr. Asebe Regassa Debelo (2015\, Ethiopia) presented on his contribution to the book\, which is one of several chapters by African academics intended to contextualize the findings of the Chinese researchers in Africa. \nThe second day of the workshop provided an opportunity for the researchers to present their research findings to a broader policy audience at the Security Council Report\, through a discussion on “Chinese Perspectives on Africa’s Peace and Security Challenges: Views from the Field.” The discussion centered on two panels\, “UN Peace Operations and Regional Partnerships\,” chaired by APN Program Director\, Dr. Cyril Obi\, and “The Role of Business in Prevention and Sustaining Peace.” Dr. Debelo—currently the Research Coordinator\, Institute of Indigenous Studies\, Dilla University\, Ethiopia—served as a discussant for the session on “UN Peace Operations and Regional Partnerships” as well\, highlighting questions about which new practices and discourses are introduced by China’s engagement with peacekeeping and peacebuilding initiatives in Africa. He also raised the issues of the interests of various actors in these missions\, particularly the unsustainable nature of unilateral missions and what role China might play in bridging the gap between the African Union and the UN. If China is to continue its involvement\, he pushes for further research into its vantage point\, its interests in the region\, and if it is possible for China to be an objective mediator. \nPlease see additional photos from the event on the APN’s Flickr. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-africa-peace-and-security-fellows-visit/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T170000 DTSTAMP:20210913T150252Z CREATED:20210910T215525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T150252Z UID:10000726-1486972800-1487091600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:China-Africa Peace and Security Fellows\, NY Workshops DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council welcomed the cohort of China-Africa Peace and Security Research Fellows\, an initiative of the SSRC’s China-Africa Knowledge Project (CAKP) for a two-day event in New York on February 13-14\, 2017. The CAKP is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The fellowship program is a collaboration of and based on contributions from the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)\, and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). \nThe CAKP fellowship was launched in the spring of 2016\, as a pilot program for junior Chinese scholars conducting research on China’s engagement with the United Nations (UN) on African peace and security issues. China continues to rapidly expand its participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations\, and is becoming more involved in supporting peace operations and peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected areas\, especially in Africa. With support from the joint SSRC-AFSC fellowship\, a group of Chinese scholars has recently returned from fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Kenya\, and Zimbabwe\, as well as at the African Union in Ethiopia\, where they looked at China’s engagement in UN peace operations\, regional partnerships\, and the role that China’s commercial interests can play in sustaining peace. The event provided the opportunity for them to first discuss their findings with one another and present them to the staff members of the SSRC\, AFSC\, and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)\, and then to share their research findings with a broader policy audience. \nOn the first day\, the SSRC welcomed the fellows to its office for a research workshop. The fellows convened with staff members and advisers—including Jason Tower of the AFSC\, Liu Tiewa of Beijing Foreign Studies University\, and Tatiana Carayannis of the SSRC—to discuss their research and receive feedback. Tower\, Liu\, and Carayannis plan to edit an upcoming bilingual academic book featuring the fellows’ fieldwork and connecting it to broader civil society and security issues in Africa. \nOn the second day\, the fellows presented their research to a broader policy audience at the Security Council Report\, through a discussion on “Chinese Perspectives on Africa’s Peace and Security Challenges: Views from the Field.” The discussion started with a panel on “UN Peace Operations and Regional Partnerships\,” in which Cheng Zilong of Fudan University and Yang Hong of Beijing Foreign Studies University presented their fieldwork research based in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia. Cheng’s research focused on the African Peace and Security Architecture\, while Yang’s research was a case study of the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The first panel was moderated by Dr. Cyril Obi of the APN. \nFor a second panel on “The Role of Business in Prevention and Sustaining Peace\,” Jason Tower of the AFSC moderated a presentation and discussion of four more fellows’ research: Wang Duanyong of the Shanghai International Studies University\, Song Qing of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies\, and Liu Suwen and Yang Jian of the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.Song and Wang discussed their fieldwork undertaken at the University of Kinshasa\, where they investigated the intersection of business and peacebuilding and the DRC’s mineral-for-infrastructure deal\, respectively. Liu and Yang presented their fieldwork based in Kenya and Zimbabwe examining Chinese companies’ relations with local communities. \nYou can find additional photos from the event on the APN’s Flickr  and more information on the first cohort of the CAKP Peace and Security Research Fellows here. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-africa-peace-and-security-fellows-ny-workshops/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170316T142000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200316T151000 DTSTAMP:20200825T195421Z CREATED:20200825T195421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T195421Z UID:10000587-1489674000-1584371400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. \nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170328T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170328T153000 DTSTAMP:20210831T164703Z CREATED:20210831T164703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T164703Z UID:10000715-1490709600-1490715000@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:"Opening Doors for Youth" hosted by Rep. Bobby Scott DESCRIPTION:Congressman Bobby Scott will host “Opening Doors for Youth: Investments in Employment Opportunities for Opportunity Youth Are Investments in Our Communities and Our Nation”\, a discussion with youth\, community leaders\, advocates\, and experts about the Opening Doors for Youth Act\, which would expand federal investment to maintain youth connected to school and work. Measure of America co-director Kristen Lewis will participate as a panelist and discuss the latest data and findings on youth disconnection. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/opening-doors-for-youth-hosted-by-rep-bobby-scott/ LOCATION:2226 Rayburn House Office Building\, Washington\, D.C.\, 20515 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T140000 DTSTAMP:20210831T165152Z CREATED:20210831T165152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T165152Z UID:10000716-1490878800-1490882400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Webinar: Moving the Needle on Youth Disconnection DESCRIPTION:Measure of America and the National League of Cities Institute for Youth\, Education\, and Families will host a joint webinar on MOA’s latest youth disconnection report. The expert panel in “Moving the Needle on Youth Disconnection: Insights from Measure of America’s New Report: ‘Promising Gains\, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America’” will feature MOA co-directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis\, as well as NLC YEF Institute’s Director of Youth and Young Adult Connections\, Andrew Moore. Please see description link to register. \n  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/webinar-moving-the-needle-on-youth-disconnection/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T150000 DTSTAMP:20210831T165630Z CREATED:20210831T165509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T165630Z UID:10000717-1492588800-1492614000@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Career360 Innovation Session DESCRIPTION:Measure of America co-director Kristen Lewis facilitated LeadersUp’s Career360 Innovation Session\, a day-long convening of young adults\, employers and community partners to brainstorm new solutions to help disconnected young adults achieve workforce readiness in Chicago. Kristen presented Measure of America’s latest findings on youth disconnection and led the group discussions. \n\n  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/career360-innovation-session/ LOCATION:Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/career360-innovation-session.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170521 DTSTAMP:20200909T142227Z CREATED:20200909T142139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T142227Z UID:10000611-1495065600-1495324799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:University of Michigan/SSRC Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10\, 2017 \nThe Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute\, “Media\, Activism and the New Political: InterAsian Perspectives\,” is pleased to announce the inaugural Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication. We aim to facilitate and advance rigorous inter-disciplinary doctoral dissertation research on global media and communication in a range of contexts worldwide. \nWe seek to create a sustained and diverse network of advanced graduate students by providing the opportunity to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress. \n\nGoals\nBy bringing together PhD students from media and communication programs (and allied disciplines) from around the world\, this doctoral institute creates a space to discuss and develop critical approaches to the study of global media and communication. The goals of the institute are as follows: \n\nDeepen participants’ theoretical and empirical foundations for the study of media and globalization.\nIntroduce applicants to the intersections of area studies and global media and communication studies.\nFoster comparative and cross- and trans-regional research\, particularly focused on InterAsian and Afro-Asian perspectives.\nFacilitate logistical preparation for field research\, archival research\, and other forms of\nqualitative and critical research. Develop a diverse network of advanced graduate\nstudents working on their dissertations.\n\n\nTopics\nWe are interested in receiving applications from PhD students from communication\, media studies\, and related fields who are embarking on their dissertation research in the areas of global and transnational media\, broadly defined. Productive topics may be area-specific or investigate mobilities across countries and/or regions; consider the rapidly changing technological landscape in shaping new temporal media rhythms and spatial flows of information; look at global transformations in production cultures and industry logics; design\, entrepreneurship\, and maker/tech cultures; emergent user/audience practices; the history and contemporary politics of media infrastructures and governance; media texts\, genres\, and trans-media flows. This list is not exhaustive but intended to indicate the scope of projects of interest to the institute. \n\nFormat\nThe 2-day Doctoral Institute will include intensive feedback sessions on each participant’s dissertation project\, including both faculty mentors and peers\, and an opportunity to distill the project in response to this feedback. We will be running methods workshops\, writing sessions\, and a workshop on academic publishing. By the end of the Institute\, participants will have had the opportunity to hone their dissertation research questions\, consolidate their methodological approach\, and keep in focus their longer-term publication goals. \n\nFaculty Mentors\nThe institute will be led by a small group of University of Michigan Communication Studies faculty and two other leading global media scholars invited to serve as faculty mentors. Participants will also have an opportunity to attend a publishing institute led by Mary Francis\, Editorial Director of Michigan Publishing. 2017 Institute Faculty include: \n\nAswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan)\nKatherine Sender (University of Michigan)\nDerek Vaillant (University of Michigan)\nPaula Chakravartty (New York University)\nJonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin-Madison)\n\n\n\nTo Apply\nA cohort of 10 PhD students will be chosen from an open\, international pool of applicants through a competitive selection process. Applicants must have at least drafted a dissertation research proposal\, but applications are also welcome from doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations. \nApplication Deadline: January 10\, 2017 | Notification of Decision: By February 15\, 2017 \nAll applicants must submit the following materials via email to globalcomm@umich.edu: \n\n Cover Letter (must include reasons for applying to the institute; summary of research agenda; description of academic preparation).\n Current Curriculum Vitae (CV).\n Narrative description of the dissertation topic (no more than 8 double-spaced typed pages + a 2-page bibliography).\n Letter of Recommendation from Primary Advisor and/or Dissertation Chair: Send directly to globalcomm@umich.edu\, with subject line: Recommendation – 2017 Michigan Doctoral Institute Applicant.\n\nFunding: We will be able to provide three nights’ accommodations and meals\, and partial\nneed-based travel funds. Students are encouraged to approach their home institutions for\nadditional support. \nQuestions? Contact globalcomm@umich.edu  URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/university-of-michigan-ssrc-doctoral-institute-on-global-media-and-communication/ LOCATION:University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/university-of-michigan-ssrc-doctoral-institute-on-global-media-and-communication-1-e1599661338265.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T160000 DTSTAMP:20210816T182623Z CREATED:20210816T182623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T182623Z UID:10000701-1495180800-1495209600@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:SSRC-IFS Workshop: "Performance of Democracies" DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/democracy-retreat-anxieties-democracy-programme\n\n  \nThis workshop\, held at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government\, was the first in a series of convening’s organized as part of a collaboration between the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program and our namesake Swedish partner program\, The Anxieties of Democracy Program. \nThe workshop addressed the question of democratic performance\, and why democracies are sometimes outperformed by autocracies. Topics included political legitimacy\, socio-economic inequality\, control of corruption\, and sustainable public finances. The workshop was generously supported by the Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute for Future Studies. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ssrc-ifs-workshop-performance-of-democracies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T180000 DTSTAMP:20210831T170052Z CREATED:20210831T170052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T170052Z UID:10000718-1495699200-1495735200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:County of Los Angeles 2017 Leadership Conference DESCRIPTION:Measure of America co-director Sarah Burd-Sharps participated in the County of Los Angeles’ 2017 Commissioners’ Leadership Conference\, Embracing a Changing Demography as a speaker. Sarah presented the upcoming Portrait of Los Angeles County report to the County’s public policy community. See Sarah’s presentation here: https://vimeo.com/219230958 \n      URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/county-of-los-angeles-2017-leadership-conference/ LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssrc_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170714T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170716T170000 DTSTAMP:20211013T170640Z CREATED:20211013T170640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T170640Z UID:10000782-1500019200-1500224400@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:SSRC and VASS Workshop on Developing Policy-oriented Presentations DESCRIPTION:On July 14-16\, 2017\, SSRC Vietnam Program staff organized a workshop on developing policy-oriented presentations\, in which the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) – SSRC research team participated. This was the final workshop of the longitudinal “Vietnam Population Health Study in Three Provinces.” The study is meant to measure the results of the Atlantic Philanthropies’ comprehensive programming aimed at improving the commune health center (CHC) system in rural areas. The project goals include an assessment of how well the CHC model and its components work for different populations\, particularly the disadvantaged\, and an examination of change over time with respect to health-seeking behaviors and care utilization and satisfaction\, perceptions of CHCs\, health knowledge and practices\, and health status. \n    \n  \n    \nThis workshop provided an opportunity to clarify policy messages and ensure their close alignment with evidence\, make effective oral and visual presentations to policy stakeholders\, develop dissemination plans for each topic\, and finalize the agenda for the July 18 Policy Roundtable. \nGroups presented their findings and policy recommendations and revised them after getting feedback from workshop participants in a mini-workshop on refining policy presentations. The team presentations included: \nChoices of health facility among disadvantaged groups\nWhat makes investments in Commune Health Centers effective\nAssessing the quality of Commune Health Centers: Key elements of models that work\nImproving the quality of health insurance and health services at the grassroots level\nImproving maternal care among vulnerable women\nAt the end of the workshop\, the teams developed dissemination plans for their findings and recommendations. \n \nInternational advisors\, SSRC program staff and Vietnamese project team members. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ssrc-and-vass-workshop-on-developing-policy-oriented-presentations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170718 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170719 DTSTAMP:20211013T170843Z CREATED:20211013T170843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T170843Z UID:10000783-1500336000-1500422399@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Policy Roundtable: "Improving the Quality of Health Care at the Grassroots Level in Viet Nam" DESCRIPTION:Professor Hy Van Luong presents key findings and policy recommendations from the Population Health Study.\nOn July 18\, 2017\, SSRC Vietnam Program staff organized a Policy Roundtable to engage stakeholders in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS)-SSRC logitudinal “Population Health Study in Three Provinces” and highlight key findings and policy recommendations from the study. The 49 roundtable participants comprised high-level and influential Party and government members\, representatives from the Ministry of Health (MoH) and key national agencies and local NGOs\, and project team members. The policy community welcomed the study’s focus on commune-level health\, emphasizing their importance to policymakers and relevance to ongoing policy debates. \nThe Population Health Study was designed to measure the results of the Atlantic Philanthropies’ comprehensive programming aimed at improving the commune health center (CHC) system in rural areas. The project goals include an assessment of how well the CHC model and its components work for different populations\, particularly the disadvantaged\, and an examination of change over time with respect to health-seeking behaviors and care utilization and satisfaction\, perceptions of CHCs\, health knowledge and practices\, and health status. \nKey findings from the Population Health Study:\n(1) From 2013-14\, among the 12 communes surveyed\, from 19% to 63% of insured patients did not use their health insurance for care and treatment of an acute illness. Investment in CHCs has helped increase utilization of health services among insured patients.\n(2) CHCs that received more investment in facilities\, equipment\, customer service and professional training have operated more effectively than those with less investment. In the more treated communes\, average self-reported health improvement has also increased from Round 1 to Round 2\, both overall and in sub-groups\, whereas in the less treated communes\, average self-reported health improvement remained the same or decreased. \nThe study’s researchers presented on seven topics: \n\nIntroduction to the Population Health Study in three provinces of Vietnam\nThe big picture: overview of main findings\nChoices of health facility among disadvantaged groups: a case study in Thai Nguyen\, Khanh Hoa and Vinh Long\nWhat makes investments in CHCs effective? Lessons from the case studies of selected CHCs in Thai Nguyen\, Khanh Hoa and Vinh Long\nAssessing the quality of CHCs: key elements of models that work\nImproving the quality of health insurance and health services at the grassroots level\nImproving maternal care among vulnerable women\n\n     \nParticipants from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; the Ministry of Labor\, Invalids\, and Social Affairs (MOLISA); Vietnam Women’s Union; and the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs consider the policy implications of the findings presented.\n\n\n\n“Iron supplement intake and antenatal care visits have increased in CHCs that have received Atlantic Philanthropies investments\, compared to those that did not.” \nProf. Minh\, Director\, Institute for Family and Gender Studies (right) \n“We would like to know more [about] the demand side. Are the CHCs sufficiently meeting the demands for antenatal and postnatal care?” \nHead\, Dept. of Maternal and Child Health\, MoH\n\n \nProf. Minh presents data on maternal care among vulnerable women in Vietnam.\n\n\n \nAssoc. Prof. Dr. Sang presents flexible\, diversified models for CHCs\, based on context\, demand\, population\, geography and available resources.\n \n“The model of the CHC for today must be different from the one we had before. I really appreciate the model that you’ve proposed. My recommendation is that you social researchers\, SSRC\, and we should find funding to continue this type of study.” \nDirector\, Institute of Health\, Environment and Development\, Health Strategy and Policy Institute\, MoH and Vice President\, Vietnam Association of Family Physicians \n“There is still little assessment of family doctor model or effectiveness of public-private partnership. If CHCs are [privatized]\, how can this be done with equity and equality? There should be more policy analysis research on this.” \nActing Director\, Institute of Sociology\, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics\n\n\n“We can still have more opportunities to continue with this research. Your research is of good value and it has introduced very good procedures and recommendations.” \nHead\, Dept. of Health Insurance\, MoH\n\n \nThe Head of the Dept. of Health Insurance\, upon hearing that there is perceived discrimination in service quality in using health insurance as opposed to paying directly for services\, agrees that the MoH would like more research to help solve this problem.\n\n\n\nDuring the two discussion sessions on Feasibility and Implementation Challenges\, participants voiced their appreciation for the value of the information and timeliness of policy recommendations provided\, and also identified several of the Study’s critical focus areas that address immediate policy concerns. These include health insurance (HI) utilization and perceived discrimination\, or inferior services\, when using HI as opposed to out-of-pocket pay; assessing whether CHCs have the capacity to provide antenatal and postnatal care needs; and determining whether CHCs can form effective public-private partnerships that will not undermine their function in providing public health care and preventative health services. \n“The MoH has not agreed on the policy of public-private partnership for healthcare for the CHC\, because we have had very short assessment … As a person who would advice MoH leaders in making policies\, I welcome all the opinions and recommendations today. I wish that in there future there would be cooperation between the [Vietnam] Academy of Social Sciences and the healthcare sector in research. I believe the result would be more helpful to the recommendations for policymaking.”\n-Deputy Head\, Dept. of Personnel and Organization\, MoH\n \nParticipant recommendations included sharing access to data\, presenting findings to the highest tier of policymakers\, increasing the pace of dissemination to meet the rapidly changing policy context\, and continuing policy-oriented research with even closer cooperation between social scientists and the health sector. Many participants expressed their appreciation for the findings\, the opportunity for dialogue\, the value of social research on health topics and a hope for continued engagement among researchers\, the health sector\, civil society and government. \n“I’m now 80 years old and this is the first time I heard social researchers talk about health care. I would like to thank [Atlantic Philanthropies] for the money to organize this and SSRC in helping with this\, so that we can have a seminar like this. I have only one recommendation: How we can have similar opportunities like this so that we can share our opinions. We would really like to hear your opinions and contributions. What we heard today in the report is very good.”\n-Director\, Institute of Health\, Environment and Development\, Health Strategy and Policy Institute\, Ministry of Health and Vice President\, Vietnam Association of Family Physicians\n \n“…[S]eminars like this should have been put in a different level\, organized at a higher level. For example\, I think there should have been the participation of the National Assembly and leaders in the MoH\, because these are the agents that make recommendations for policies for healthcare at the grassroots level\, they research issues related to the backbone of the healthcare sector in Vietnam … Therefore\, if possible\, I think when there are research findings like this\, if we could have disseminated these findings to those people\, I think it would have been very good.”\n–Head\, Dept. of Maternal and Child Health\, MoH\n \n“…[T]his is the first time we had the chance to sit with each other like this between social researchers and healthcare experts to share our opinions. We hope we have similar opportunities in the future\, because it is impossible to separate what is called healthcare and what is called society or sociology\, because they are related to humans and their related issues. If we separate the two\, we cannot solve the current problems.”\n-President\, Vietnam Public Health Association URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/policy-roundtable-improving-the-quality-of-health-care-at-the-grassroots-level-in-viet-nam/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170816T142000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170816T151000 DTSTAMP:20201012T040230Z CREATED:20200821T164721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201012T040230Z UID:10000586-1502893200-1502896200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration.\n\nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/post_title_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170819 DTSTAMP:20200903T153731Z CREATED:20200827T195847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200903T153731Z UID:10000604-1502928000-1503100799@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Lineages of the People: Embedded and transregional histories of contemporary populism DESCRIPTION:Alte Mensa\, Wilhelmsplatz 1\, University of Göttingen\, Germany\nhttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/565338.html\n\n  \nOrganizers\nSrirupa Roy\, Paula Chakravartty\, Gianpaolo Baiocchi \nInstitutions\nUniversity of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies & Global and Transregional Studies Platform)\nSocial Science Research Council\, New York (InterAsia Program)\nNew York University (Urban Democracy Lab) \nOverview\nThe US presidential elections of November 2016 have shaken the enduring myth of American exceptionalism. For many international observers\, the surprise and shock of Donald Trump’s electoral victory and the ascendancy of populist politics have occasioned a strong sense of political déjà-vu. The Trump victory seems to fit well into a wider global series. India\, Turkey\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, the Philippines\, China under Xi Jinping\, Russia under Putin\, Egypt under Sisi: the populist style of politics is clearly the new commonsense in much of our world. \nThis international workshop explores the causes and the democratic consequences of this contemporary populist zeitgeist (Mudde 2004). We are specifically interested in developing embedded histories of populist politics that go beyond the “shock and exception” mode of analysis to examine how contemporary populisms build on\, refract\, and contest earlier projects of people-making and other\, non-populist notions of the people. What is the relationship between racial\, ethnic\, religious\, and class-based projects of boundary-making\, and the populist politics of “frontier-making” (Laclau 2006)? What are the social\, political\, and cultural repertoires that the populist “moral monopoly claim” of being the only representative of the “true people” (Müller 2016) draws upon? How do contemporary ideas of the people-versus-elites divide resonate with earlier\, equally Manichean binaries of the war on terror\, Cold War\, or colonialism? Did the phenomena of technocratic politics\, judicialized politics and other forms of non-electoral politics pave the way for the contemporary rise of populist outsiders? How have the legacies of economic reform that unfolded across much of the global South in the 1990s shaped the populist imaginaries of political reform in these regions two decades later? What exactly is the relationship between “truth” and “post-truth” – what are the political and institutional continuities between “fake news” and the media logics and news values of commercial\, mainstream media? \nWe will address these questions from a transregional perspective that widens the usual Euro-American terrain of populism scholarship to include Asia and the Middle East. The point is not to update the Fukuyama thesis of global convergence by asserting that all political roads must lead to populism and that a universal\, one-size-fits-all theory of populism is at hand. Nor is it to reverse modernization teleology and assert that America’s present is India’s (or Turkey’s) past; that the answer to the question of “why Trump?” can be found in Modi’s or Erdogan’s rise. Instead\, the relocation of the populism debate outside Europe and America can bring us to formulate the question of populist politics in new ways\, and move us from choice-centric and electoralist discussions of the “populist vote” to a consideration of the organizational contexts\, quotidian rhythms\, and historical pathways that shape populist political agency. \nParticipants\nSinem Adar\, University of Göttingen\nWalter Armbrust\, University of Oxford\nGianpaolo Baiocchi\, New York University\nAnuj Bhuwania\, South Asian University\nPaula Chakravartty\, New York University\nRiccardo Chesta\, European University Institute\nGholam Khiabany\, Goldsmiths College Cedric de Leon\, Tufts University\nManali Desai\, University of Cambridge\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Univ. of British Columbia\nGhassan Hage\, University of Melbourne\nYoav Halperin\, New York University\nRan Hirschl\, University of Göttingen\nSrirupa Roy\, University of Göttingen\nAradhana Sharma\, Wesleyan College\nOlle Törnquist\, University of Oslo\nCihan Tugal\, University of California-Berkeley\nGulay Türkmen\, University of Göttingen\nGabriel Vommaro\, National University of General Sarmiento\, Argentina \nChairs/discussants\nRupa Viswanath\, Dominic Sachsenmeier\, Matthias Koenig\, Andreas Busch\, Srirupa Roy: University of Göttingen\nPaula Chakravartty\, Gianpaolo Baiocchi: NYU\nFor more information\, contact:\nbirgit.priemer@cemis.uni-goettingen.de URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism-e1598558317226.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T170000 DTSTAMP:20210830T135526Z CREATED:20210830T135526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T135526Z UID:10000706-1506412800-1506445200@www.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Portrait of Los Angeles County Sneak Peek DESCRIPTION:Measure of America’s Kristen Lewis will present a sneak peek of our upcoming Portrait of Los Angeles County report at the Southern California Grantmakers annual conference. URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/portrait-of-los-angeles-county-sneak-peek/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/portrait-of-los-angeles-county-sneak-peek.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR