CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
  
 
 
 

Assistant Professor of Political Science Robert Gulotty's Book Narrowing the Channel 

Now Available

 
 
 


In the 2016-2107 academic year, CISSR hosted a book workshop for Robert Gulotty, and Narrowing the Channel: The Politics of Regulatory Protection in International Trade is now in print. Utilizing deep analysis of the effects of regulations on international trade, Professor Gulotty discusses how current market systems benefit larger firms and how new rules could expand the benefits of trade. Further information on CISSR book support here...


 
 
 
 

Reminder: Call for Graduate Field Research Proposals 2020

 
 
 


CISSR’s Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Field Research Award supports MA and PhD students conducting short-term research abroad. The grant provides students with resources that can be used to carry out fieldwork in support of MA theses, qualifying papers, pilot projects, and/or portions of their dissertation research. Students engaging in original data-collection efforts and traveling to access archives abroad are especially encouraged to apply. Learn more about CISSR and the Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Field Research Awards for Graduate Students here...


Submit applications via uchicago.infoready4.com no later than 11:59 pm CST on February 21, 2020.


 
 
 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 
 
  
 
 

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22

Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture

The Castrato Phantom: Masculinity and the Sacred Vernacular in Twentieth-Century Rome

Martha Feldman, University of Chicago

4:30pm, Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105)

5733 S University Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 

Center for Latin American Studies

A Blast from the Past: Bolsonaro's Metapolitical Crusade for a New Brazilian Identity

Guilherme Stolle Paixão e Casarões, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

12:00pm, Foster Hall, Room 103

Refreshments will be provided

1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Seminary Co-Op

Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

6:00pm, Seminary Co-Op

5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

RSVP Requested


 
 

THURSDAY, Jan. 23

Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago Library

Oe Kenzaburo's Non-Alignment: Political Solidarity in the Bandung Era

Christopher Hill, University of Michigan

5:00pm, Regenstein Library, Room 122A

1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy, and Society

Unitary Socialism and an Intellectual History of the Korean War's Origins as a Civil War

Kyu-hyun Jo, University of Chicago

5:00pm, Social Science Research Building, Tea Room 

1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Committee on African Studies, Film Studies Center, Center for the Study for Gender and Sexuality, Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideology Workshop, the Division of Social Sciences

Rafiki

Erin Moore, Columbia University

7:00pm, Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

915 E 60th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

FRIDAY, Jan. 24

Film Studies Center

Fragment of an Empire with live score by Donald Sosin

Film Screening

7:00pm, Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

915 E 60th St., Chicago, IL


 
 
  
 
 

SUNDAY, Jan. 26

Seminary Co-Op, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies

Slavica Publishers Americans in Revolutionary Russia

William Benton Whisenhunt, College of DuPage

3:00pm, Seminary Co-Op

5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

RSVP Requested


 
 

MONDAY, Jan. 27

Center for Latin American Studies

La Referida: Maroon Women Testify in Spanish Louisiana

Sarah Jessica Johnson, University of Chicago

12:00pm, Foster Hall, Room 103 

Refreshments will be provided

1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Divinity School, Center for the Study for Gender and Sexuality

When a Woman Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species in Late Antiquity

Rachel Rafael Neis, University of Michigan

4:30pm, Swift Hall, Common Room

1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

TUESDAY, Jan. 28

Jewish Studies Workshop

Normalcy in the Face of Violence: SS Perpetrators’ Homes

Tahel Goldsmith, University of Chicago

5:00pm, Swift Hall, Room 200

1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29

Divinity School, Center for the Study for Gender and Sexuality

An Unholy Spectacle: The Ordeal of the Accused Adulteress in the Early Synagogue

Laura Lieber, Duke University

4:30pm, Swift Hall, Common Room

1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

THURSDAY, Jan. 30

East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy, and Society

Empires and Religious Toleration

Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University

5:00pm, Social Science Research Building, Tea Room  

1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Film Studies Center, Arts + Public Life

We Tell: Environments of Race and Place

Susan Gzesh, University of Chicago, and Alaka Wali, Field Museum

7:00pm, Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

915 E 60th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

FRIDAY, Jan. 31

CISSR

Empires and Atlantics Forum

Mara Caden, University of Chicago

12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105

Refreshments will be provided

5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 

Pearson Institute

Russian Hybrid War, Ukraine, and US Policy

Col. Liam Collins

12:15pm, Keller Center, Room 1002

Lunch will be provided

1307 E 60th St., Chicago, IL

Regestration Required


 
 

SATURDAY, Feb. 1

Seminary Co-Op, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Ronak K. Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago

3:00pm, Seminary Co-Op

5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

RSVP Requested


 
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
   
 

Jan. 22

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

The New Era of US-China Competition

Oriana Skylar Mastro, Georgetown University, and Ivo H. Daalder, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

5:30pm, Chicago Council on Global Affairs Conference Center, McCormick Foundation Hall

130 E Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601

Must purchase a ticket to attend


 
 

Jan. 23

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

US-Iran Conflict: Prospects for De-Escalation

Kelly Magsamen, Center for American Progress, and Matthew Abbott, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

5:30pm, Chicago Council on Global Affairs Conference Center, McCormick Foundation Hall

130 E Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601

Must purchase a ticket to attend


 
 

Jan. 24

Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

The Making of Turkey's Mobile Labor Force: From Kurds to Syrian Refugees

Deniz Duruiz, Northwestern University

12:00pm, Buffett Event Space, Suite 3-000

Lunch will be provided

1800 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201


 
 

Jan. 29

The Newberry Library

Captives and Cannibals: How History Gets Told in the Browning Manuscript

Heather Allen, University of Mississippi

4:00pm, Newberry Library, Towner Fellows’ Lounge

Refreshments will be provided

60 W Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610


 
 

Feb. 4

Seminary Co-Op, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, Committee on African Studies

Identity, Spirit, and Freedom in the Atlantic World: The Gold Coast and the African Diaspora

Robert Hanserd, Columbia College Chicago

6:00pm, Seminary Co-Op

5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

RSVP Requested


 
 

Feb. 5

Oriental Institute: The Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture

Anatolians on the Move: From Kurgans to Kanesh

Petra Goedegebuure, Oriental Institute

7:00pm, Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall

1155 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

RSVP Recommended


 
 

Feb. 6

The Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky

6:00pm, Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall

60 W Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610

RSVP Required


 
 

Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Politics of Black Inclusion in Peru and Ecuador

John Thomas III, University of Chicago

5:00pm, Kelly Hall, Room 114 

5848 S University Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 

Feb. 7

Seminary Co-Op, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies

Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life

Susan Gal, University of Chicago, and Judith T. Irvine, University of Michigan

6:00pm, Seminary Co-Op

5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

RSVP Requested


 
 

Feb. 10

Oriental Institute, Deerfield Public Library

Mystery Cults in Ancient Egypt

Foy Scalf, Oriental Institute

7:00pm, Deerfield Public Library, Room B/C

920 Waukegan Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015

RSVP Required


 
 

Feb. 11

African Studies Workshop Distinguished Lecture

The African Revolution vs. Academic Freedom:  Legon, 1964

Jean Allman, Washington University in St. Louis

5:30pm, Franke Institute of the Humanities, Regenstein Library

1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Feb. 14

CISSR

Empires and Atlantics Forum

Sarah Johnson, University of Chicago

12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105

Refreshments will be provided

5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 

Feb. 20

Politics, History, and Society Workshop, France Chicago Center

Living in Politics: Careers and Powers after the Second Moment of Political Professionalization in France

Etienne Ollion, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

5:00pm, Social Sciences Research Building, Room 401

1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

ONGOING

 
 

Through Apr. 24

University of Chicago Library

Expanding Sources: Recent Additions to Special Collections

Exhibit

Regenstein Library, Special Collections Research Center 

1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL


 
 
 
 

NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Baghdad is trying to surgically remove a tumor and save the patient...”


In the aftermath of the United States’ drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, new sanctions against Iran were announced. Given the attacks on Iraqi bases and recent discussions of reducing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, CISSR Field Research Grant recipient Ramzy Mardidni was quoted in a Los Angeles Times piece to help explore the tensions in the region and what might happen next.  Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Country, Home, and the Other


CISSR Dissertation fellow Sneha Annavarapu explores the concept of home in the context of India’s new restrictions on citizenship. Questioning the relationship between country, politics, and the concept of home or homeland, Annavarapu looks forward to the day when India can be ‘home’ as well as ‘country' and when “'home' will stand to mean an inclusive and egalitarian space where dissent and comradeship thrive…" Read more here…


 
 
 
 
 
 

Anatomy of a Protest


The first significant public protest in Chennai against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens occurred in December. Field Research Grant Recipient Pranathi Diwakar recounts her experience participating in the protest and examines the significance of student protests in challenging authoritarian impulses.  Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

India’s New Security Order


In a piece for War on the Rocks, CISSR Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland discusses the recent changes in India’s security order. Professor Staniland discusses recent policies and actions undertaken by India as well as the potential implications for India and the United States.   Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Trade, Borders, and Barriers


UChicago News article covered CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast’s research in the journal International Organization. Through an investigation of international border barriers from 1800 to 2014, the analysis investigates the effects of physical walls on trade. “The American public should understand that while we associate the wall with U.S.-Mexico relations and the rhetoric of Donald Trump, both represent a global phenomenon that has been unfolding for decades...” Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

China and the “70-Year Itch"


CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus was recently quoted in an ABC News article discussing the fate of the Chinese Communist Party which recently celebrated its 70th anniversary. Looking at the history of past one-party governments and the current state of China, Professor Abertus and others explore the successes of the Chinese Communist Party and what changes could lead to the end of one-party rule. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

"A more fundamental issue of world-view…"


CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li participated in an interview about his book The Universal Enemy with the Third World Approaches to International Law Review. Discussing the process of creating his project and the themes he hoped to explore, Professor Li explains how exploring the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina can provide new insights into concepts like universalism, foreign, and international.  Read more here...


 
 
 
 

Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Summer and Academic Year Fellowships 

This fellowship program is currently accepting applications

 
 
 
Learn More Here
 
 
 
 
 

Populism and Theopolitical Charisma Graduate Student Competition Call for Abstracts

From Occupy Wall Street to Brexit, contemporary, global forms of populism have allied with claims and counter-claims to sovereignty and territorial borders. In 2019, demonstrations in Chile, Hong Kong, and Lebanon have further attested to political crises of representing “the people” across liberal-democratic and authoritarian states. Imaginaries of public opinion and the vox populi loom large in the upcoming 2020 elections in the U.S, having already attracted electorates this past year in Brazil, Italy, Britain, and Canada. Throughout these contexts and elsewhere, the rise of populisms has intensified discussion around critiques of authority, expertise, individualism, and liberalism.

Our workshop invites abstracts for original research papers that address the theopolitical elements of populist movements and expressions worldwide. We are interested in papers dealing with past as well as present forms of populism. What histories of charismatic politics and theology shape the promises and perils of populism? What forces of authority unsettle and exceed the normative political imagination of “the people”? What forms of media, technology, and representation mobilize populist imaginaries and movements? How are such populisms shaped into scenes of protest, potential anarchic formations, and demagogic images of “the people”? We welcome work on various topics including but not limited to the following: nationalism, migration, diaspora, climate change, public culture, aesthetics and architecture, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, native and indigeneity studies, political theology, and religious movements.

Eligibility

Masters and PhD students from the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto in all fields and disciplines are eligible. If selected, students will be expected to pre-circulate their 5,000 word (minimum) papers by April 17, 2020 and to participate in a workshop at the University of Chicago on May 8 and 9, 2020.

Applications

Applications must include a 750-word abstract for the proposed paper, a 250-word statement of the papers relevance to the workshop themes, and a full CV. Submit applications as a single PDF file to heo@uchicago.edu with the subject heading “Populism 2020” by January 24, 2020

 
 
 
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


 
 
 
India's Cultural Past and Public Life: UChicago Center in Delhi 5th Anniversary
 
 
 
 

India’s Cultural Past and Public Life

 
 
 

In December, the University of Chicago Center in Dehli celebrated its 5th anniversary. While celebrating this important milestone, a panel of experts from the University of Chicago and the Center in Dehli discussed the wide range of questions and research about India and their significance.


 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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