CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
 

Photo by 🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash

 
 
 

Director’s Letter

 
 
 

Dear CISSR Community,


In these unprecedented and chaotic times, our first hope is that this message finds you safe and healthy. While the University works to implement major changes to our usual routines, we all are feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic — both at home in our personal lives and on campus with respect to our teaching and research. In step with what you’re witnessing worldwide, CISSR's planned programs, events, conferences, and travel have been canceled, suspended, and postponed. This makes for a pretty brief Digest — a mere skeleton of our usual offerings. But the bones are still in place, and we’ll adapt to advance our mission to fuel social science research on an international scale in the face of these new challenges. 


We do not yet know exactly what forms our research initiatives will take in the coming weeks and months, but we know that social science research will only become more relevant to the collective task of understanding the patterns and consequences of a borderless medical emergency that is socially patterned, politically managed, historically situated, and economically consequential. 


Upcoming Digests will be brief this Spring Quarter, as classes move online and the gatherings we usually organize and promote will be limited. But we will continue to share Digests on a bi-weekly basis, with the goal of connecting scholars to one another and maintaining a sense of community among CISSR fellows and friends.


We’ve been heartened by the good energy, humor, and compassion members have shared with us in the past week. We’ll close by sharing two very specific digital interactions that brought smiles to our faces: Rudolph Field Research Fellow Pranathi Diwakar’s playlist for pandemic times and CISSR Board Member Paul Poast’s endlessly energetic and informative Twitter feed.


Wishing you peace and good health in this uncertain moment,

Jenny Trinitapoli, CISSR Director

& Alexis Puzon, CISSR Center Supervisor


 
 
 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
 
 

All Events are Subject to Change, Cancelation, or Postponement

 
 
 

Mar. 17

Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Can’t Touch This: Anthropological Reflections on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Adia Benton, Northwestern University

12:00pm, Webinar


 
 
 
 

NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

How Well Do We Listen?


CISSR Faculty Fellow Boaz Keysar and Anne Henly’s research on the difference between our perceived and actual ability to communicate clearly was recently cited in the article “Mind Healing: Why We Stop Listening to Our Loved Ones” in The Telegraph. In order to explore the concept of ‘closeness-communication bias,’ the article explores the science behind listening to loved ones and suggests methods for increasing understanding. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

"I hope to bring systematic research skills to bear on important real-world questions…"


Recently, CISSR Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland was named a nonresident scholar in the Southeast Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Professor Staniland will continue his research on non-state armed groups, public opinion, insurgency and counterinsurgency, political actors’ use of social media, and civil-military relations. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Money and Materials Among Allies


CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast and Rosella Cappella Zielinski of Boston University collaborated on the article "Supplying Allies: Political Economy of Coalition Warfare” which appeared in the Journal of Global Security Studies. Looking at the methods of coordinating resources among allies, Poast and Zielinski explore the role of various determinants of alliance politics from distribution of power to market forces. Read more here...


 
 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Worldmaking After Empire

 
 
 

In October, CISSR Book Workshop awardee Adom Getachew discussed her book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination on The Dig podcast. Through an exploration of racial hierarchy and unequal integration, Getachew attempts to trace attempts at anti-colonial world making  in the 20th century as the world transitioned from empires to nations. For the interview, go to 7:45. To listen...


 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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