840 results in Meetings & Events

1.2019 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

2.2019 Democratic Erosion Conference

Date

August 28^th 2019, 9:00am – 5:00pm

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

3.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

4.Abe Fellowship Setsumeikai 2019 - Tokyo

Date

July 9^th 2019, 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Location

Japan Foundation, Sakura Hall

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

5.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

6.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

7.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

8.The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation

Date

June 24^th–26^th 2019

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

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

Date

June 13^th–14^th 2019

Program

Media & Democracy

10.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

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

Date

June 3^rd 2019, 8:00am

Program

Media & Democracy

12.Media & Democracy at ICA 2019

Date

May 25^th–29^th 2019

Program

Media & Democracy

13.Media, Technology, and Democracy in Historical Context

Date

May 16^th–17^th 2019

Location

Social Science Research Council

Program

Media & Democracy

14.Race, Gender, and Toxicity Online

Date

April 25^th–26^th 2019

Location

University of Texas at Austin

Program

Media & Democracy

15.Abe Fellowship Colloquium - Difficult Subjects: Religious Freedom, the Allied Occupation, and Postwar Education

Focusing on postwar debates about morality education, changes to the Fundamental Law on Education, and constitutional revision, Dr. Jolyon Thomas (Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and 2017 Abe Fellow) argues that disagreements about how religion should be defined are central to understanding Japanese political life today.

Date

April 18^th 2019, 5:00am – 7:00am

Location

International House of Japan, Seminar Room 404, West Wing 4F

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

16.Next Generation African Peacebuilding: New Voices, Perspectives, and Approaches

Wilton Park, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the African Leadership Centre (ALC), organized and hosted a conference on “Next generation African peacebuilding: new voices, new networks and new strategies” in Steyning, England, from April 10-12, 2019. The three-day conference was supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).

Date

April 9^th–11^th 2019

Program

African Peacebuilding Network

17.Immigration: The Politics of Inclusion and the Politics of Threat

Date

March 29^th 2019, 9:00am – 5:00pm

Location

Social Science Research Council 300 Cadman Plaza West, 15 Fl

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

18.International Studies Association Conference (ISA) 2019, Toronto

Date

March 27^th–30^th 2019

Program

Understanding Violent Conflict

19.International Studies Association 60th Annual Convention

Date

March 27^th–31^st 2019

Program

African Peacebuilding Network

20.IGAD-UN Deliberate on Developments in the Horn of Africa (Djibouti)

Date

March 11^th–12^th 2019

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

21.Great Lakes (Geneva)

In partnership with the Government of Switzerland and the Office of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, CPPF convened the 4th Special Envoy Expert Retreat, in Geneva, from 27-28 February 2019. The expert workshop brought together a dozen Special Envoys and Special Representatives working on the Great Lakes region, as well as experts on and from the Great Lakes. They were joined by international decision makers from regional institutions, member states, and peace operations. The retreat primarily explored the role of the private sector, as well as regional mechanisms, in conflict prevention for the Great Lakes region.

Date

February 27^th–28^th 2019

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

22.Identity, Community, and Political Participation

Date

February 7^th–8^th 2019

Location

Social Science Research Council 300 Cadman Plaza West, 15 Fl

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

23.Sudan (New York)

On February 5, CPPF convened a one-day, closed-doors expert workshop on Sudan, which brought together UN officials and Sudan experts to discuss the ongoing crisis in Sudan, as well as current conflict dynamics. The meeting was held at the Penn Club of New York.

Date

February 5^th 2019, 9:00am

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

24.2019 SSRC Fellow Lecture: Lorraine Daston

Date

February 5^th 2019, 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Location

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

25.Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective

Date

January 31^st–February 1^st 2019

Location

Columbia University School for International & Public Affairs

Program

Anxieties of Democracy