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SUMMARY:The African Peacebuilding Network Grantee Research Methods Training and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Bi-Annual Fellows Joint Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs had their first virtually held joint fellows workshop from August 31st\, 2020 to September 3rd\, 2020. Before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected all parts of the world\, the joint workshop was originally scheduled to be held in Kampala\, Uganda in collaboration with Makerere University. \n18 APN Individual Research fellows and 35 Next Gen Proposal Development\, Dissertation Research\, and Dissertation Completion fellows participated in the workshop\, whose activities included lectures\, working group sessions\, and one-on-one mentoring sessions led by experienced scholars\, professors\, and current and former APN and Next Gen Advisory Board members.  During the small working group sessions\, fellows presented and received constructive feedback and comments on their research proposals\, updates\, workshop assignments\, and dissertation chapters from their peers and facilitators/mentors. The workshop also provided an opportunity for APN and Next Gen fellows to learn more about each other’s research\, interact with highly experienced scholars and facilitators\, and engage in interactive activities aimed at expanding their knowledge on coping with the challenges of conducting research during a pandemic\, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives to peacebuilding\, security\, and development in Africa. \nThe opening session of day 1 of the workshop featured welcome remarks by Cyril Obi\, Program Director of APN and Next Gen. He spoke about the Covid-19 pandemic had changed the nature and scope of research and how this would require the use of new tools and techniques\, including digital technologies. Duncan Omanga\, Program Officer of APN and Next Gen also gave welcome remarks and introduced the APN and Next Gen Advisory Board Chairs\, Prof. Rita Abrahamsen and Prof. Sarah Ssali\, workshop facilitators\, and the APN and Next Gen fellows. \nThe first keynote lecture\, titled\, “Making up African Worlds – How to avoid being fooled by concepts\,” was delivered by Professor Elisio Macamo from the University of Basel. He identified the key challenge in the pursuit of social science in Africa to be how to actually produce knowledge\, cautioning against being “fooled by concepts.” He also introduced fellows to three concepts pertaining to explanation: worlds implied by social science vocabulary\, the challenge of description\, and relationship between concept and reality. Furthermore\, Professor Macamo emphasized that a lot of the things that we can learn from in Africa can help render Africa intelligible by Africans\, and by interrogating assumptions and received knowledge. He then underlined the critical importance of the agency of the African researcher in possessing the power to conceptualize and theorize Africa’s reality and contribute towards improving the social sciences universally. \nThe second day of the workshop began with an interactive session Professor Morten Boas of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)\, Oslo. The session was based on the video of his keynote lecture\, titled\, “Fieldwork in Violent and Dangerous Places: Do’s\, Don’ts\, and the Question Marks\,” which fellows had watched in advance. At the beginning of the discussion\, Professor Boas spoke about how researchers and scholars have to acknowledge that they make mistakes and get confused during fieldwork\, and shouldn’t be afraid to talk about such failures\, and learn from them. He pointed to the need to reflect more on practices in the field or “social landscape\,” particularly issues around ethics\, and risks as they affect members of research teams\, and respondents.  Prof. Boas also explored the need to interrogate the unequal international research partnerships\, and what to do to ameliorate such structural imbalances that often adversely affect African researchers/partners. During the Q & A portion of the discussion\, many fellows pointed to the importance of interrogating the concept of “dangerous places” and asked about the implications of using such terms to describe certain conflict-affected spaces. \nOn day 3\, fellows were mainly in their small working group sessions\, and one-on-one sessions with their mentors. The fourth and last day of the workshop consisted of more working group sessions and one-on-one sessions and ended with a joint APN-Next Gen panel discussion\, titled\, “Doing Research in Time of Covid-19: Risks\, Innovation\, and Adaptation.” The following panelists\, Steve Akoth\, Lydia Amoah\, Amy Niang\, and Tapiwa Madimu\, spoke to their own personal experiences with conducting research during the pandemic and shared insights on how they had responded to emerging challenges\, including what scholars need to keep in mind about revising research plans and deciding on when to head out into the field to collect data. Lydia Amoah\, a Next Gen fellow\, narrated how she had to postpone data collection for her project to 2021 because of safety precautions. Amy Niang\, an APN advisory board member (and former fellow\,) emphasized the need to understand that Covid-19 affects everyone and that some of the most affected scholars will be those going into the field to gather information/data. Tapiwa Madimu\, an APN fellow\, spoke about the problem of accessing research materials since public archives had been closed due to the pandemic\, noting also how research had been impacted by the difficulty of accessing digitized archive materials. In his presentation\, Steve Akoth (Next Gen advisory board member (and former fellow) advised that scholars and researchers need to have more empathy for the people they want to take part in their research because they are also dealing with their own circumstances in relation to the pandemic. \nThe four-day virtual workshop ended with closing remarks from Program Director Cyril Obi\, Rita Abrahamsen (Chair of the APN Advisory Board)\, Sarah Ssali (Chair of the Next Gen Advisory Board)\, and Program Officer Duncan Omanga.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-african-peacebuilding-network-grantee-research-methods-training-and-the-next-generation-social-sciences-in-africa-bi-annual-fellows-joint-virtual-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Abe Global Washington\, DC | Cyber Challenges: The Internet\, Global Competition\, and National Security
DESCRIPTION:  \nLivestream\n \nOverview\n“Information” has become an integral part of our daily lives. We have all become accustomed to the use of apps that ease daily life\, and rarely stop to think of the masses of big data that have made them so effective. At the same time\, there are worries every time a government\, or a company\, or an internet server reports a breach of its databases\, exposing the private data of millions of people. The worries about information extend from the most intimate personal concerns\, to the grand strategies related to national security and defense. While governments have increasingly fine-grained tools for identifying and gathering information on individuals\, at the same time\, they struggle to defend their systems against attacks from rival powers. As states move to introduce new 5G technology\, the commercial interests of tech companies have become entangled with nationalist interests of states\, and legitimate concerns about cyber security.  These issues are of particular concern in Japan as it prepares to host the Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Olympics; will current cyber security institutions be strong enough to protect such global events? Drawing on the research of Abe fellows this session will examine how these issues are being discussed in the US\, Japan\, and other parts of Asia\, and what new institutions have been developed to deal with the increasingly contentious world of information. \nOver nearly three decades\, the Abe Fellowship Program has supported several fellows whose research projects discuss the repercussions and benefits of how changing technology has allowed for the increased capacity to create\, store\, and trade information/data. For this event three Abe fellows will address multi-national cybersecurity coalitions\, strategies\, and cyber-resilient methods critical to sustaining national functions in inevitable attacks; US-China trade war and techno-nationalism’s implications for suppliers\, customers\, and the global supply chains; and Japan’s 2018 National Defense Program Guidelines which focus on Multi-Domain Operations including cyberspace\, outer space and electromagnetic space. \nAn initiative of the Abe Fellowship Program\, the Abe Fellows Global Forum (Abe Global) is designed to bring Abe Fellow research and expertise on pressing issues of global concern to broader audiences. Abe Global will host several events each year in partnership with academic and civic organizations throughout the United States. The Abe Fellowship Program is a partnership between the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. \nHudson Institute\, Stern Policy Center\, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue\, N.W.\, Suite 400\, Washington\, DC 20004\, USA\nhttps://www.hudson.org/events/1715-cyber-challenges-the-internet-global-competition-and-national-security92019
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/abe-global-washington-dc-cyber-challenges-the-internet-global-competition-and-national-security/
LOCATION:Hudson Institute\, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue
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SUMMARY:Chad and the Region (New York)
DESCRIPTION:On 27 January\, CPPF organized an expert brainstorming on Chad and the Region. The meeting assessed recent developments in the region and explored opportunities for enhancing cross-border coordination of UN conflict prevention activities in Chad’s border areas.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/chad-and-the-region-new-york/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Historical Society\, 128 Pierrepont Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa
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SUMMARY:2020 SSRC Fellow Seminar with Aihwa Ong
DESCRIPTION:Near-Humans\, Cloned Monkeys\, & CRISPR Babies: Productive Uncertainty in China’s Quest for Biosecurity\n\nSeptember 24\, 2020 \nThe Social Science Research Council invites applications to participate in an exclusive seminar on “Near-Humans\, Cloned Monkeys\, & CRISPR Babies: Productive Uncertainty in China’s Quest for Biosecurity” led by the Council’s 2020 SSRC Fellow\, Professor Aihwa Ong. The seminar will take place via Zoom on Thursday\, September 24\, 2020\, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. eastern time. \nThe SSRC Fellow initiative invites distinguished scholars to the Council to strengthen research and programming in the areas in which we currently work or aspire to work. Professor Ong will be in virtual residency at the Council from September 23–25\, 2020\, during which time she will also give a public lecture on the same theme as the seminar. \nThis is an exclusive opportunity open only to advanced graduate students and junior faculty of the member institutions of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences. \nThe Social Science Research Council’s College and University Fund for the Social Sciences is a consortium of higher education partners providing annual support to the SSRC to enhance the infrastructure of global social science research\, catalyze interdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations\, and help launch the careers of junior scholars through fellowships\, workshops\, and mentorship. For more information on the College and University Fund\, please contact CUF@ssrc.org or call (718) 517-3713. \nSeminar Abstract\nAnthropological inquiry enhances STS (science\, technology\, and society studies) by analyzing the diversity of contexts and perspectives that participate in contemporary knowledge-making processes. The focal point for the discipline concerns how values and beliefs about being human mutate and what modes of living and forms of life modernity subsequently puts at stake. Reflexive ethnographic research illuminates how specific cases and contingent circumstances connect to big questions and situated practices contribute to globalized change. Ong’s approach has always been poised at the intersections of particularity and globality\, difference and interconnectivity\, human and nonhuman\, and stability and uncertainty. Such a vantage point analyzes how Asia’s emerging biomedical sites productively engage and transform contemporary science through a process of de- and recontextualization\, thus making it cosmopolitan. \nTo RSVP\nAdvanced graduate students and junior faculty in the social sciences are invited to attend. Attendees must be affiliated with one of the member institutions of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences. Please RSVP to CUF@ssrc.org\, with the subject line “SSRC Fellow Ong Seminar.” Our program staff will contact you with the Zoom details for the seminar. For more information\, please contact us at CUF@ssrc.org. \nAbout Aihwa Ong\nAihwa Ong is professor of anthropology at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a member of the Science Council of the International Panel on Social Progress. Ong has published on a range of topics including the anthropology of labor\, governance\, sovereignty\, cities\, citizenship\, life sciences\, and experimental art in the Asia-Pacific. She has lectured internationally and been invited to the World Economic Forum. Her awards include grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation\, and some book prizes. Ong is the author of five works: Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life (2016); Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006); Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees\, Citizenship\, the New America (2003); Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999); and Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1986).
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2020-ssrc-fellow-seminar-with-aihwa-ong/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T160000
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SUMMARY:A Discussion on Race and Racism
DESCRIPTION:On September 30\, 2020\, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) held a discussion on race and racism moderated by SSRC president Alondra Nelson and Joy Connolly\, president of ACLS\, featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad\, professor of history\, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School\, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies\, and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project; and Bianca Williams\, associate professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \n\nThis event is presented as part of the Social Science Research Council’s Inequality Initiative\, a series of programs and projects that bring innovative social science analysis to bear on our understanding of the roots and consequences of unequal participation in political\, economic\, and social systems across the globe.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/a-discussion-on-race-and-racism/
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