A bi-weekly roundup of events and research news |
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
 
 

COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS

Power grabs and protest in Poland
With Polish nationalism in the headlines, CISSR Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa (Department of Political Science) is adding depth and perspective  to the news with recent articles in the Chicago Tribune and Washington Post.


Learn about Nalepa’s project and research at CISSR »

 
 
   
  
 
 
 

CAMPUS EVENTS   

 
 
 
 

THIS WEEK

 
 
 

TUESDAY November 28

 
 
 

The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” Before the Court. The Bern Trial (1933-1935) and the “Anti-Semitic International”

Michael Hagemeister
(Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)

 
 
 

On Kings

Marshall Sahlins (UChicago)

w/ Bruce Lincoln (UChicago)

 
 
 

WEDNESDAY November 29

 
 
 

Future Café

Undergraduate event with Shannon Dawdy  and Bill Brown (UChicago)

 
 
 

The Tramp's Tale: Travels Within the Soviet Union and Across Its Borders, 1920-1950

Sheila Fitzpatrick (UChicago)

 
 
 

The Sources of North Korean Conduct

Bruce Cumings (UChicago)
w/ Robert Pape (UChicago)

 
 
 

FRIDAY December 1

 
 
 

Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture

Mehammed Mack (Smith College)

 
 
 

Natsume Soseki Anniversary Conference

 
 
 
 

FRIDAY-SATURDAY
December 1-2

 
 
 

All Day   Multiple Locations

 
 
 

NEXT WEEK

 
 
 

WEDNESDAY December 6

 
 
 

Reflections: 10 Years at the Site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman

Christopher Thornton
(National Geographic Society / Penn Museum)

 
 
 

FRIDAY December 8

 
 
 

Belief Materialized in Deeds

Mayra Rivera (Harvard)

 
 
 

Gurumbe: Afro-Andalusian Memories

Screening & conversation with filmmaker Miguel Angel Rosales and dancer Yinka Graves

 
 
 

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY
December 11-13

 
 
 

2017 Latin American Fiscal Studies Conference

The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America

All Day  •  Saieh Hall for Economics 

 
 
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
 
 

NOVEMBER 29

 
 
 

Judith Kroll (U. California, Riverside)

 
 
 

DECEMBER 1

 
 
 

The Reformation in Germany: A Thematic Tour of Religious Change & Print 

Led by curator Suzanne Karr Schmidt 

 
 
 

DECEMBER 4

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

DECEMBER 10

 
 
 

Winter Fundraiser for the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial

 
 
 

ONGOING

 
 
 

Michael Rakowitz:
Backstroke of the West

Through March 4, 2018

 
 
 

SAVE THE DATE

 
 
 

Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government

 
 
 

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NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

 
 
   
  
 

Occultism and New Age take off in Iran

Alireza Doostdar, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion in the Divinity School, discusses the  ideas motivating his first book, The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny.

 
 
 

The bodies finally caught up with the 'Butcher of Bosnia'

Writing in the Chicago Tribune, postdoctoral instructor Peggy O’Donnell (Pozen Family Center for Human Rights) reflects on the role of human remains as evidence in court and of history.

 
 
 

Delhi's deadly air: How India is falling short on fighting pollution

Santosh Harish, Associate Director-Research at the Energy Policy Institute’s India center, explains that industrial pollution is inadequately addressed by current health policies in India, and points to potential solutions.

 
 
   
 

New UChicago course examines legacy of Nuclear Age

(Chicago Tonight / WTTW)

 
 
 

Pushing Crime Around the Corner? Estimating Experimental Impacts of Large-Scale Security Interventions

Analyzing police deployment in Bogotá, Colombia, Pearson Institute professor Christopher Blattman finds that place-based interventions against crime may simply displace it.

 
 
 

Collège de France Exchange Fellowship

Full year of doctoral dissertation support in Paris.

Be a delegate to the 2018 Global Engagement Summit

Open to all college-aged persons with projects or ideas for social change.

 
 
 
 
 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

 
 
Quantitative Analysis in International Relations / NewGene Tutorial
 
 

CISSR is proud to present a lecture and tutorial by Paul Poast, Assistant Professor of Political Science and member of CISSR's Advisory Board. Poast discussed the origins of the quantitative tradition in International Relations at the University of Chicago, and demonstrated NewGene, his free software for quantitative analysis. New Gene is a program that combines data from different sources to produce easily analyzable datasets for researchers in political science and across the social sciences.