| | | | Call for Book Workshop or Monograph Enhancement Award Applications
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CISSR invites University of Chicago faculty to submit applications for a book workshop or a monograph enhancement award to prepare a manuscript for publication. Applications for book workshop and monograph enhancement awards are accepted on a rolling basis with a deadline at the end of each quarter.
Book workshops provide faculty an opportunity to improve their manuscripts through an intensive day-long workshop in which colleagues, editors, and other key readers gather to provide critical input and suggestions.
Monograph enhancement awards support scholarly book projects in a myriad of ways. Awards are intended to offset the costs of obligatory press subsidies, open access subvention fees, translations, indexing, permissions, cartographic services, and other expenses that are essential to the completion of the highest quality manuscripts. Learn more about CISSR Faculty Book Workshops and Monograph Enhancement Awards here...
Eligibility & Requirements All University of Chicago faculty are eligible, provided their manuscripts 1) focus on international, transnational, or global issues and 2) use social scientific methods.
Applications Submit applications via uchicago.infoready4.com by March 21, 2020.
Financial Support CISSR will provide up to $7,500 for a book workshop. Funding covers the costs of a day-long workshop with up to four guest discussants. CISSR will provide up to $10,000 for expenses related to manuscript enhancement.
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| | | | | | Last Call: Call for Graduate Field Research Proposals 2020
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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.
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| | TUESDAY, Feb. 18Divinity School
Rethinking Colonial Time: Zapotec Cosmology and the Local Politics of the Universe
David Tavarez, Vassar College
4:30pm, Swift Hall, Common Room 1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Chicago Studies, Franke Institute for the Humanities, the College Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
On the History of Kino Clubs and the Politics of Amateurism in Socialist Yugoslavia
Greg de Cuir Jr.
5:00pm, Regenstein Library, Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL
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| | WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19Center for East Asian Studies
Shusenjo Documentary Screening
Miki Dezuki, Director
5:45pm, Social Science Research Building, Room 122 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | THURSDAY, Feb. 20Politics, 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
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| | Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean
Nunca dejarla sola: Masculinity and Sonhood among Former Non-State Armed Group (NSAG) Members in Mexico and Colombia
Erin McFee, University of Chicago
5:00pm, Kelly Hall, Room 114 5848 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy, and Society
Research on How Taiwanese Intellectuals Represented Their Identities from Analysing Publications in the 1930s
Shih-Fen Wang, University of Tokyo
5:00pm, Social Science Research Building, Tea Room 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Seminary Co-Op, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed
Michał Murawski, University College London
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | FRIDAY, Feb. 21 CISSR
CISSR Lunch Talk
Etienne Ollion, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105 Refreshments will be provided 5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL RSVP Required
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| | Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Comparative Literature, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Elissa Washuta, Ohio State University, and Theresa Warburton, Western Washington University
12:30pm, Social Science Research Building, Room 302 Refreshments will be provided 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Oriental Institute
Investigating the Early Dynastic to Akkadian Period Transition in the Diyala Region: A Re-Excavation of Khafajah
Arthur Stefanski, University of Toronto
3:30pm, Oriental Institute, LaSalle Banks Room 1155 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | CISSR, Nicholson Center for British Studies, Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop
Educating Conscience in Mid-Nineteenth Century India
Seth Koven, Rutgers University
4:30pm, Rosenwald Hall, Room 405 Refreshments will be provided 1115 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | | MONDAY, Feb. 24Center for Latin American Studies
The Racial Politics of Asylum in Brazil
Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00pm, Foster Hall, Room 103 Refreshments will be provided 1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | The Sociology Department Colloquium
Ten Years in Balaka
Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Chicago
12:30pm, Social Science Research Building, Albion Small Room 305 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | TUESDAY, Feb. 25CISSR CISSR Rudolph Fellows Lunch 12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105 Refreshments will be provided 5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL RSVP Required
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| | WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Committee on African Studies Where Have All the Workers Gone? Labor and the Social Question in Postcolonial Africa
Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University
5:00pm, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory 1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | THURSDAY, Feb. 27University of Chicago Library
Preparing for Overseas Research
Laura Ring
12:00pm, Regenstein Library, Room A-11 1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Latin American History Workshop
Filibuster Revolution: Nicaragua’s Encounter with Manifest Destiny, 1855–1857
Michel Gobat, University of Pittsburgh
4:30pm, Kelly Hall, Room 114 5848 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Divinity School
Religion in the Closet: Heterosecularisms and Police Practitioners of African Diaspora Religions
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Princeton University
4:30pm, Swift Hall, Common Room 1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | University of Chicago Library, Center for East Asian Studies
CEAS Lecture Series
Brett de Bary, Cornell University
5:00pm, Regenstein Library, Room 122A 1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Politics, History, and Society Workshop
Social Roots of Perpetual Civil Wars: War Cultures and Civil Conflict in Mexico and Colombia
Laura Acosta Gonzalez, Northwestern University
5:00pm, Social Sciences Research Building, Room 401 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Center of Hellenic Studies, Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop
Imagining Utopia: The Lost World of European Socialists at Europe's Margins
Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 5:00pm, Social Science Research Building, Tea Room 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | FRIDAY, Feb. 28CISSR Empires and Atlantics Forum
Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University
12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105 Refreshments will be provided 5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Seminary Co-Op, Center for Latin American Studies
Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
Michel Gobat, University of Pittsburgh
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | MONDAY, Mar. 2East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy, and Society, Religion and Human Sciences Workshop
Methodologies of Fieldwork Research in Japan
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
5:00pm, Social Science Research Building, Tea Room 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Feb. 18Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Hong Kong and the Future of One Country, Two Systems
Victoria Tin-bor Hui, University of Notre Dame, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California-Irvine
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
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| | Feb. 26Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Culture as Logistics: Infrastructure, Power, and China
Anthony Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
3:30pm, Suite 3-000, Room 3029 1800 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201
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| | Mar. 3Mexican Studies Seminar
Homelands in Trump Era: From the Wall to Remain in Mexico
Alfredo Corchado
12:30pm, Social Science Research Building, Room 224 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
RSVP Requested
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| | Seminary Co-Op, Center for East Asian Studies Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
5:00pm, Seminary Co-Op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Mar. 4Oriental Institute Centennial Year Members' Lecture
On Judicial Violence in Mesopotamian: The Problem of An Eye For An Eye
Martha Roth, Oriental Institute
7:00pm, Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall 1155 E 58th St., Chicago, IL Registration Requested
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| | Mar. 5Demography Workshop Demography as Diplomacy in the Cold War World
Emily Rose Merchant, University of California-Davis 12:30pm, NORC Seminar Room 232/233 1155 E 60th St., Chicago, IL
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| | International House, Center for Latin American Studies, UChicago Presents
Music as Politics: The Role of Plena in Contemporary Puerto Rico
Plena Libre
12:30pm, International House, Coulter Lounge Refreshments will be provided 1414 E 59th St., Chicago, IL RSVP Recommended
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| | Seminary Co-Op, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
Darryl Li, University of Chicago
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | | Mar. 10Seminary Co-Op, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
Tomas Matza, University of Pittsburgh
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Mexican Studies Seminar
Tortillas in History: From the Slavery of Metate to the Corn Flour Oligopoly
Aurora Gómez, Colegio de México
12:30pm, Social Science Research Building, Room 224 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | Mar. 13CISSR Empires and Atlantics Forum
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Berkeley
12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105 Refreshments will be provided 5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Through Apr. 24University of Chicago Library Expanding Sources: Recent Additions to Special Collections
Exhibit Regenstein Library, Special Collections Research Center 1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Through May 3Smart Museum of Art The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
Exhibit Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Irked US Squeezes Iraq
United States policy toward Iraq has recently focused on economic measures including sanctions and delaying cash deliveries and sanctions waivers. CISSR Field Research Grant recipient Ramzy Mardidni was quoted in a February 15 article by France 24 to discuss how much leverage the United States has in these interactions and how this policy might affect the US-Iraq relationship. Read more here...
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| | “Jihadism is simply not a useful term for understanding political violence...”
In a recent interview with The Intercept, CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li discussed his critique of academic studies of jihad. Professor Li attempts to explore the concept of jihadism in his new book The Universal Enemy as well as the association between this term and a specific geography and religion, and he argues for a more nuanced understanding of non state armed actors. Read more here...
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| | Child Mortality and the Burden of Loss
CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli and Emily Smith-Greenaway, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, recently published their article "Maternal cumulative prevalence measures of child mortality show heavy burden in sub-Saharan Africa" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Measuring mortality rates among three populations of children in 20 sub-Saharan African countries over 20 years, the authors discuss the proportion of mothers experiencing the death of a child and the implications of this data for understanding mortality change, population dynamics, and bereavement within a public health context. Read more here...
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| | | | America First vs. Spider-Man — A Debate on Supporting Pro-Democracy Protests
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| | In January, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’s Deep Dish podcast hosted CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast and CISSR Book Workshop award recipient Rochelle Terman to discuss the United States’ role in supporting foreign democracies. Debating benefits and costs of a ‘America First’ or ‘Spiderman’ foreign policy, Poast and Terman provide two options for how the United States might respond to growing pro-democracy protests. To listen...
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