857 results in Meetings & Events

1.Sowing Resolution: The Case for Reparations in Action

Date

October 2^nd 2019, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Location

Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street

Program

Scholarly Borderlands

2.2019 College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference

Date

September 23^rd 2019, 8:00am

Program

College and University Fund for the Social Sciences

3.Sudan (Khartoum)

Date

September 7^th 2019, 8:00am

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

4.Abe Global Washington, DC | Cyber Challenges: The Internet, Global Competition, and National Security

Date

September 5^th 2019, 3:00pm – 6:00pm

Location

Hudson Institute, Stern Policy Center, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20004, USA

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

5.2019 Democratic Erosion Conference

Date

August 28^th 2019, 9:00am – 5:00pm

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

6.Central African Republic (New York)

Date

August 5^th 2019

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

7.King's College/University of Nairobi, African Leadership Centre Fellows

Date

July 30^th 2019, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Location

New York

Program

Understanding Violent Conflict

8.Politics of Return 'When We Return' Exhibition Launch

Date

July 25^th–26^th 2019

Location

TAKS Art Centre

Program

Politics of Return (PoR)

9.Horn of Africa (Nairobi)

Date

July 12^th–13^th 2019

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

10.Abe Fellowship Setsumeikai 2019 - Osaka

Date

July 11^th 2019, 5:30pm – 7:00pm

Location

Kansai University, Umeda Campus, Kandai MeRise

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

11.Abe Fellowship Setsumeikai 2019 - Tokyo

Date

July 9^th 2019, 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Location

Japan Foundation, Sakura Hall

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

12.SSRC Global Scholars Initiative: Invitation to Attend a Meeting of Journal Editors

The Social Science Research Council has launched a Global Scholars Initiative designed to strengthen the English-language writing skills of Asian scholars working in Asia and to increase their success in publishing articles in English-medium journals. With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the SSRC is exploring ways to support English-language journals published in Asia as a part of this effort. The SSRC is sponsoring a gathering of journal editors on Thursday 4 July 2019 at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers following the AAS-in-Asia conference in Bangkok, Thailand from 1-3 July 2019. The meeting will be an opportunity to share information about issues that journal editors face in producing and distributing their publications and will explore ways that the SSRC might be able to provide assistance. The journal editors meeting will take place between 10 am and 1 pm on Thursday July (please see the note below for details). Lunch will be provided. To indicate your interest and confirm your participation, please fill out the journal editors meeting invitation (located under "Resources") and send to Nicole Restrick Levit at levit@ssrc.org by 25 June 2019.

Date

July 4^th 2019, 10:00am – 1:00pm

Location

Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers

Program

Global Scholars Initiative

13.China-Africa Peace Fellowship Preparatory Workshop

Date

June 28^th 2019, 9:00am – 5:00pm

Location

Peking University

Program

China-Africa Peace Fellowship

14.Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa joint Bi-Annual Fellows Workshop

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program held a week-long joint workshop in Peduase, Aburi, Ghana for the 2019 cohort of APN Individual Research Grant (IRG) recipients and the 2019 cohort of Next Gen fellows. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the University of Ghana, Legon, from June 24—28, 2019.

Date

June 26^th–28^th 2019

Location

Peduase, Aburi, Ghana - Peduase Valley Resort

Program

Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa

15.African Peacebuilding Network Grantee Research Methods Training Workshop

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program held a week-long joint workshop in Peduase, Aburi, Ghana for the 2019 cohort of APN Individual Research Grant (IRG) recipients and the 2019 cohort of Next Gen fellows. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the University of Ghana, Legon from June 24—28, 2019.

Date

June 24^th–26^th 2019

Location

Peduase, Aburi, Ghana - Peduase Valley Resort

Program

African Peacebuilding Network

16.The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation

Date

June 24^th–26^th 2019

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

17.Digital Threats to Democracy: Comparative Lessons and Possible Remedies

Date

June 13^th–14^th 2019

Program

Media & Democracy

18.Abe Fellowship Colloquium - Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation (University of California Press, 2018), Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots—humanoids, androids, and animaloids—are “imagineered” in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. She traces the early 20th century and wartime backstories informing the images, applications, and receptions of robots today. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether “civil rights” should be granted to robots. How robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the “normal body” (gotai manzoku 五体満足) is discussed together with a critique of Mori Masahiro’s much-invoked but misconstrued concept of bukimi no tani (不気味の谷), or “uncanny valley”.

Date

June 7^th 2019, 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Location

International House of Japan | Lecture Hall | 5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

19.Mali (New York)

Date

June 3^rd 2019

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

20.Democratic Republic of Congo (New York)

Date

June 3^rd 2019, 8:00am – 9:00am

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

21.A Modern History of the Disinformation Age: Communication, Technology, and Democracy in Transition Workshop

Date

June 3^rd 2019, 8:00am

Program

Media & Democracy

22.Central African Republic (New York)

Date

May 29^th 2019

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

23.Media & Democracy at ICA 2019

Date

May 25^th–29^th 2019

Program

Media & Democracy

24.Media, Technology, and Democracy in Historical Context

Date

May 16^th–17^th 2019

Location

Social Science Research Council

Program

Media & Democracy

25.An Objective Media—Fact or Fiction?

Date

May 15^th 2019, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Program

Media & Democracy