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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/
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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
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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/
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