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 …
Friday, November 30, 2018 Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street at Park Avenue | New York, NY 10065 Cocktail Reception at 4:30 p.m. | Lecture at 5:30 p.m. On November 30, 2018, the Social Science Research Council, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study, awarded the 2018 Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of …
On November 30th, 2018, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s working group on the Politics of Distribution will convene at Yale University for the presentation of book chapters. The book chapters will explore many topics, including: the roots of urban-rural sectionalism, perceptions of wealth inequality, and the spatial geography of wealth and precarity in the United …
Overview Both the United States and Japan have long taken pride in their robust scientific research communities’ contributions to economic growth and human welfare. But the slowing pace and rising costs of research, along with strong competition from China and India, have challenged both governments to rethink their approaches to science and technology policy and …
Event Livestream Overview Both the United States and Japan have long taken pride in their robust scientific research communities’ contributions to economic growth and human welfare. But the slowing pace and rising costs of research, along with strong competition from China and India, have challenged both governments to rethink their approaches to science and technology …
The President of SSRC and the President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences signed a memorandum of understanding to extend over 30 years of collaboration in research, training, and scientific collaboration. Meeting participants: (Seated left to right) Alondra Nelson and Nguyen Quang Thuan.(Standing left to right) Van Tran, Mary McDonnell, Dang Nguyen Anh, Nguyen …
Workshop Directors Wasana Wongsurawat Assistant Professor, History, Chulalongkorn University wwongsurawat@hotmail.com Michael K. Connors Associate Professor, School of Politics History and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus michael.connors@nottingham.edu.my Call for Workshop Papers The myth of the divine or virtuous ruler—the son of heaven, the Buddha reincarnated, the avatar of Vishnu, the descendant of the sun …
Workshop Directors Salvatore Babones Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Sydney sbabones@sydney.edu.au Vinh Duc Nguyen Vice-Director, Institute of Sociology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences nguyenducvinh@ios.org.vn Call for Workshop Papers Social networks, the sharing economy, and the internet of things are all forms of netware: networks in which value is generated by bringing people and things together …
Workshop Directors Melissa L. Caldwell Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz lissa@ucsc.edu Izumi Nakayama Research Officer & Honorary Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong nakayama@hku.hk Call for Workshop Papers This workshop will focus on how technological interventions in food and health have informed projects …
Workshop Directors Susan Brownell Professor, Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Missouri-St. Louis sbrownell@umsl.edu Gwang Ok Professor, Physical Education, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea gwangok47@gmail.com Call for Workshop Papers Between 2018 and 2022, three consecutive Olympics will take place in East Asia: the PyeongChang Winter Olympics (2018), Tokyo Summer Olympics (2020), and Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics …
Workshop Directors Bixia Chen Assistant Professor, Agricultural Science, University of the Ryukyus chenbx@agr.u-ryukyu.ac.jp Christopher Coggins Professor, Geography/Asian Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock ccoggins@simons-rock.edu Call for Workshop Papers This workshop analyzes the political ecology of sacred forests in East, South, and Southeast Asia, convening scholars engaged in field and archival research on the relationship between …
Workshop Directors Eren Tasar Assistant Professor, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill etasar@email.unc.edu Mustafa Tuna Associate Professor, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Duke University mustafa.tuna@duke.edu Call for Workshop Papers For much of the twentieth century, Muslim intellectuals in virtually all the countries of Eurasia engaged with socialism as a utopian vision of progress and …
WORKSHOP DIRECTORS: Anh Nguyen Dang Vice-President, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences danganhphat1609@gmail.com Wenfei Winnie Wang Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Bristol w.wang@bristol.ac.uk CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS: In 2013, Chinese premier Xi Jinping announced a pair of new development and trade initiatives for China and the surrounding region: the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and …
The Social Science Research Council was pleased to convene a group of seventeen esteemed scholars who have been working in ways that might be identified as Anticipatory Social Research (ASR). This group will begin the work of defining ASR, identifying potential sites for ASR inside and outside the academy, and ascertaining examples of emerging phenomena …
