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SUMMARY:2021 College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference
DESCRIPTION:Social Science Reckonings\n  \nOn October 4\, 2021\, the Social Science Research Council will convene the institutions of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences for a virtual conference centered on the theme of “Social Science Reckonings.” \nIn the past year\, the social sciences have been extraordinarily active in furthering understanding of the multiple upheavals we have all experienced – a pandemic\, a US electoral crisis\, and a racial reckoning sparked by police violence but with deep historical and structural roots. At the same time\, the historical and structural roots of racism and exclusion within the social sciences (and elsewhere in the academy) are now foregrounded in ways that call for recognition and action. This conference will be a forum to openly and critically discuss and debate the need for reckonings in social science\, and to investigate paths forward for making the social sciences more inclusive. \nConference Program\nWelcome and Opening Remarks\nAnna Harvey\, SSRC President \nPanel Conversation: Reckoning with the Canon\nDarrick Hamilton\nThe New School for Social Research \nShose Kessi\nUniversity of Cape Town \nAldon Morris\nNorthwestern University \nPanel Conversation: Reckoning with Research Methods and Ethics\nJill A. Fisher\nThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \nFarhana Sultana\nSyracuse University \nDeborah Thomas\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \nPanel Conversation: Reckoning with Institutional Practices and Incentive Structure\nRyan Cecil Jobson\nUniversity of Chicago \nChristopher P. Long\nMichigan State University \nKimberly Mealy\nAmerican Political Science Association \nNext Steps\nAnna Harvey\, SSRC President \nThe conference agenda was developed in coordination with the 2021 conference planning committee: \nEd Balleisen – Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies\nDuke University \nBill Maurer – Dean\, School of Social Sciences\nUniversity of California\, Irvine \nMelissa Nobles – Chancellor\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology \nRaka Ray – Dean\, Social Sciences Division\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nAmanda Woodward – Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences\nUniversity of Chicago \nHeld every other year\, the College and University Fund Conference provides a rare opportunity for academic leaders to devote a full day to collectively considering shared opportunities and challenges facing the social sciences and related fields. The 2019 conference focused on the present and future of transregional and global research. Highlights and recommendations from the 2019 event are available here. \nFor more information about the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference\, please contact us at CUF@ssrc.org.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2021-college-and-university-fund-for-the-social-sciences-conference/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch of When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudan
DESCRIPTION:The virtual book launch commenced with brief introductions of the author of When Peace Kills Politics\, Sharath Srinivasan\, and discussant\, Devon Curtis\, by the program director of the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs\, Cyril Obi. Sharath Srinivasan provided an overview of the book against the background of the theories\, history\, and practices of peacemaking in Sudan. He examined the roles of various national\, regional\, and continental actors such as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)\, the African Union (AU)\, and the United Nations (UN)\, focusing on how international interventions have fed into violence. Noting the messy nature of peacemaking\, the author analyzed how such interventions have undervalued and undermined non-violent political action. The author drew on Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on political action to explain the relationship between politics and violence\, including how international solutions and models get caught up in local politics with rather violent consequences. He also interrogated the assumption that it is possible for all political actors to come together equally without some form of domination or cooptation coming into play\, deepening existing contradictions and crises. \nNoting that the book addresses the ineffectiveness of actions by outsiders in terms of institutional fixes aimed at advancing peace in the conflict-affected (North-South) Sudans\, Sharath observed that such depoliticized approaches to peacemaking risk and kill the political dimensions of civil war\, thereby complicating the nature of conflict with rather tragic consequences for peacebuilding. He also raised concerns that the means had overrun the ends\, resulting in a paradox of peace—achieving its exact opposite by fostering authoritarianism and conflict in the Sudans. In examining the dialectics of peacemaking\, he argued against simplifying the war as a North-South conflict\, urging instead that more attention be directed at the ways peacemaking in the Sudan has prioritized edifice-building over political action. \nIn her discussion of the issues raised during the overview\, Devon Curtis drew attention to the structural factors and idealism that shape and constrict the space for civil and political action\, resulting in the legitimization of violence for political purposes by contending interests. Some of the issues raised during the question-and-answer session that followed ranged from what research methods to adopt in war zones\, how to access local gatekeepers\, and the nature of the contending local forces and the State in the Sudan. Others included the possibility of having peace without politics\, the nature of conflict and international peacemaking\, and where attention should be directed in understanding the politics of peacemaking in the Sudan. The importance of critiquing the dominant peacemaking project was noted alongside the possibilities that need to be explored. The event provided an opportunity for the author and participants to exchange views on a rather innovative book that opens the door to a critical perspective on international peacemaking in Africa\, drawing on the case of the Sudans.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/virtual-book-launch-of-when-peace-kills-politics-international-intervention-and-unending-wars-in-the-sudan/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch of Media\, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations
DESCRIPTION:The virtual launch commenced with a brief introduction of the book\, Media\, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa\, the co-editors\, and reviewers by the program director of the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs\, Cyril Obi.  Professor Karoi Mbugua—chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies\, University of Nairobi—and the representative of Dr. Pilisano Masake—dean of Human Sciences\, Namibia University of Science and Technology—also provided remarks. The co-editors Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare provided an overview of the book and some of the contributors spoke on their chapters. \nMare provided a concise description of the book’s Africa-centered approach to peace journalism as a modality for giving voice to the poor\, the marginalized\, and politically disenfranchised people in Africa. Maweu elaborated on how the book goes beyond the usual narrative of conflict by speaking to the nexus between media and peacebuilding. She also explained how the book explores the structural and cultural underpinnings of conflict and peacebuilding by using media as its lens. Yiva Rodny-Gumede spoke to her coauthored chapter with Colin Chasi\, underscoring the importance of African notions of harmony and applying the decolonization of scholarship to peace journalism. Noting that peace is not a neutral concept\, Phillip Santos\, whose contribution adopted a human rights approach to journalism\, discussed the importance of challenging the Western canon in a context where it continues to disempower the media and its mediatory or peacebuilding role. In his contribution\, Fredrick Ogenga pointed to the important role of African values such as Umoja\, Utu\, Ubuntu\, and Harambee in African peace journalism\, calling for a form of intellectual democracy in projecting Southern Voices on peace in ways that transcend the polarization of ideas\, borders\, and practices. \nIn the question-and-answer session and discussions that followed\, the importance of adopting a position that acknowledges and recognizes Africa’s unique context and the importance of avoiding polarization was emphasized. It was broadly agreed that the key issue was to focus on a shared human identity. Other issues discussed included how journalism can contribute to peace in different contexts and circumstances. The discussion also included the relevance of factors like place of conflict\, poverty\, values\, identity\, culture\, and ethos in relation to the practice of peace journalism. There was an emphasis of the need to recognize the heterogeneity of the media\, the role and influence of social media\, and the growing role of citizen-journalists. It was also noted that journalism would need to go beyond reporting on direct/physical violence to include cultural violence\, focus on the media-mediation process\, and unpack issues around the concept of ethos. The event closed on a positive note that underscored the important contribution of the book to the development of African peace journalism and its connection to the notions and practices of African peacebuilding.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/virtual-book-launch-of-media-conflict-and-peacebuilding-in-africa-conceptual-and-empirical-considerations/
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SUMMARY:SSRC/NEH Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP) Grant Informational Webinar
DESCRIPTION:On October 28 at 1 p.m. ET\, join the SSRC for an informational webinar that will cover the NEH/SHIP Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program application process\, eligibility criteria\, and will end with a 10 minute Q&A segment.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/neh-ssrc-sustaining-humanities-infrastructure-program-ship-grant-informational-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship Public Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join the SSRC for a public information session answering your questions on the new Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship\, supporting year-long\, qualitative studies of arts organizations of color. \nThe first information session is scheduled for Thursday\, October 28 at 4 p.m. ET. An additional public information session will be offered on Tuesday\, November 9 at 4 p.m. ET.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/arts-research-with-communities-of-color-arcc-fellowship-public-information-session/
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