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1.2019 SSRC Fellow Lecture: Lorraine Daston

Date

February 5^th 2019, 5:30pm

Location

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

2.Paul Williams on "Fighting for Peace in Somalia: AMISOM and the War Against al-Shabaab"

Date

January 31^st 2019, 3:30pm – 5:00pm

Location

Social Science Research Council 300 Cadman Plaza West, 15th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 Main Conference Room

Program

African Peacebuilding Network

3.Race and Gender in American Politics

Date

January 16^th 2019, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Program

Media & Democracy

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

Date

December 13^th–14^th 2018

Program

Media & Democracy

5.4th Annual CPPF-DPA MENA RC Forum (Geneva)

On 10-11 December, CPPF convened the 4th annual CPPF-DPA MENA Resident Coordinators’ Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. The closed-door workshop came at a strategic moment for the UN system operating in the region, and focused on the theme of prevention. The discussion convened 13 UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators, decision-makers from diverse UN agencies, experts from academia, and key stakeholders from the region to examine cross-cutting challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa, the challenges of returning foreign fighters, and various socio-cultural shifts in the region.

Date

December 10^th–11^th 2018

Program

CPPF Activities: Europe/Caucasus/Middle East

6.Climate Change Working Group Meeting 2018

Date

December 7^th 2018, 9:00am – 4:00pm

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

7.Governance-In-Conflict Network Annual Meeting

Date

December 6^th–7^th 2018

Location

Ghent University

Program

Understanding Violent Conflict

8.Colombia (New York)

On December 6, CPPF organized a briefing with expert Dr. Manuel Ramiro Muñoz of Javeriana University. The session focused on local dialogues and territorial peace in Colombia, and was attended by various UN stakeholders and country missions.

Date

December 6^th 2018, 8:00am

Program

CPPF Activities: Latin America and the Caribbean

9.VASS and SSRC Sign Memorandum of Understanding 30 Years after First MOU

Date

December 4^th 2018

Location

Hanoi, Vietnam

Program

Vietnam Program

10.Abe Global Washington, DC | Japanese and American Innovation in the Global Age

Date

December 3^rd 2018, 3:00pm – 7:00pm

Location

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

11.Abe Global Atlanta | Japanese and American Innovation in a Global Age

Date

December 1^st 2018, 2:00pm – 6:30pm

Location

Georgia Institute of Technology, Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center, 225 North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

Program

Abe Fellowship Program

12.Politics of Distribution Conference

Date

November 30^th 2018, 8:00am – 4:00pm

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

13.2018 Albert O. Hirschman Prize Ceremony

Date

November 30^th 2018, 4:30pm – 7:45pm

Location

Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065

Program

The Albert O. Hirschman Prize

14.African Studies Association 2018 Annual Meeting

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) participated in the 61st African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (November 29–December 1, 2018). The APN convened a special panel on “Harnessing Unbounded Social Energies of Farmer-Pastoralist Interactions in Changing Environments for Conflict Transformation in Africa,” which featured four APN alumni: Patience Adzande (IRG 2017), Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil (IRG 2015), Mary Setrana (IRG 2017), and Pamela Khanakwa (IRG 2015). Five other APN alumni participated in panels and roundtables at ASA 2018.

Date

November 30^th–December 3^rd 2018

Program

African Peacebuilding Network

15.A Central Africa Policy Forum Discussion Looking Ahead at Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Date

November 29^th 2018, 11:00am – 12:30pm

Location

Security Council Report

Program

Understanding Violent Conflict

16.The New Research Compact: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good

Date

November 28^th 2018, 12:30pm – 2:00pm

17.Rawia Tawfik's ASA Lectures

APN alumnus Dr. Rawia Tawfik delivered three lectures as part of her 2018 African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential Fellowship.

Date

November 26^th–December 27^th 2018

Location

New York University Columbia University Rutgers University-Newark

Program

African Peacebuilding Network

18.SSRC-IFS Workshop: "The Will of the People"

Date

November 15^th–16^th 2018

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

19.Elections in the Age of Trump

On the eve of the midterm elections, FiveThirtyEight Senior Political Writer Clare Malone leads a conversation with John Sides, professor of political science at George Washington University and coauthor of the new book, Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America, which provides a gripping, in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election from the bruising primaries, to the election night that defied the predictions of pundits and pollsters. The Media & Democracy program presents this event in partnership with the Brooklyn Historical Society. With support from: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The Democracy Fund The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Date

November 5^th 2018, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Program

Media & Democracy

20.“Democracy at a Crossroads” co-sponsored conference

Date

October 30^th–31^st 2018

Program

International Research Collaborations

21.2018 Negotiating Agreement in Congress Grantees' Workshop

Date

October 25^th–26^th 2018

Program

Anxieties of Democracy

22.El Salvador (New York)

On 24-25 October 2018, CPPF organized a two-day, closed-doors meeting in partnership with the UN Development Programme on responses to situations of high criminal violence, focused on the case of El Salvador. The meeting took place at the Penn Club of New York, and was attended by several experts from the field, UN agency representatives, two UN Special Rapporteurs, and the UN Resident Coordinator for El Salvador.

Date

October 24^th–25^th 2018

Program

CPPF Activities: Latin America and the Caribbean

23.Central African Republic (New York)

At the request of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, CPPF and the UVC collaboratively organized a meeting on "Security Sector Reform in the Central African Republic (CAR)." The meeting, held at the Penn Club of New York, was attended by representatives from the CAR defense ministry, officials from UN Headquarters, MINUSCA (the UN peacekeeping mission in CAR), Central African scholars, and international experts on reforming security forces. The closed-door session also delved into topics such as reintegration of ex-combatants and recommendations for UN engagement.

Date

October 18^th 2018, 7:00am

Program

CPPF Activities: Africa

24.Michael Dawson and Nancy Fraser in Conversation

Please join us at The New School's Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies for an upcoming debate between Michael Dawson (University of Chicago) and Nancy Fraser (The New School) on the relationship between Race and Capitalism. The conversation will center on two distinct themes, "Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order" and "Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism." The debate will be recorded as an episode of Race and Capitalism's New Dawn Podcast. The work of Race and Capitalism is supported in part through a partnership with the Scholarly Borderlands Initiative.

Date

October 17^th 2018, 5:00pm

Location

The New School's Wolff Conference Room at 6 E 16th Street, room 1103

Program

Race and Capitalism

25.Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding

Date

October 11^th 2018, 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Location

Security Council Report

Program

Understanding Violent Conflict