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CISSR seeks to support doctoral research on international, transnational, and global questions through Dissertation Support Grants. Now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 term, this grant provides funding and office space for doctoral students who have completed most of their fieldwork and are at the write-up stage of their dissertation. Learn more about CISSR Dissertation Support Grants here...
Eligibility & Requirements University of Chicago doctoral students in the Division of the Social Sciences who have defended their dissertation proposal and collected most of their data/empirical evidence may apply.
Applications Submit applications via uchicago.infoready4.com no later than 11:59pm on March 13, 2020. All applications require: - Application forms are available on the University of Chicago’s funding portal. You will need to submit contact information for a faculty sponsor as part of the application process (no letter of recommendation is required, but students must identify a member of the faculty who is familiar with the work and can speak to the feasibility and promise of the proposed project)
- A CV
- A cover letter
- A dissertation precis
Financial Support The CISSR award is a residential fellowship, in which fellows are provided shared office space in Pick Hall 102 and a $4,000 research allowance that can be used for travel, computing, books, or conference costs.
Application Deadline March 13, 2020 | |
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| | TUESDAY, 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
RSVP Requested
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| | WEDNESDAY, Mar. 4Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper
Mallika Kaur, University of California- Berkeley
4:30pm, Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105) 5733 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Oriental 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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| | THURSDAY, 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 Requested
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| | Seminary Co-Op, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, CISSR
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 RSVP Requested
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| | THURSDAY, Mar. 5 & FRIDAY, Mar. 6Southern Asia at Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Graduate Council, Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Nicholson Center for British Studies, Theory and Practice of South Asia Workshop, Divinity Students Association, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Anthropology, CISSR
The Seventeenth South Asia Graduate Student Conference Reception, Tradition, Canonization: Pasts and Presents in South Asia
Conference 8:30am, Swift Hall 1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | FRIDAY, Mar. 6Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop
Méng Subculture and Cyber Nationalism in Year, Hare, Affair
Jiarui Sun, University of Chicago
3:00pm, Center for East Asian Studies, Room 319 1155 E 60th St., Chicago, IL
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| | | MONDAY, Mar. 9Center for Latin American Studies
Camera Ocupa: Photo-Ethnography of Vanguard Youth Movements in Brazil
Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, University of Chicago
12:00pm, Foster Hall, Room 103 Refreshments will be provided 1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Center for Latin American Studies
Lost Illusions: Democracy, Socialism, and Bankruptcy in Venezuela
Tomás Straka, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello; Margarita López Maya, Universidad Central de Venezuela; Armando Chaguaceda, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales Iberoamericanos; and Benigno Alarcón, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
5:00pm, Classics Building, Room 110 1010 E 59th St., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | Chicago Institute of Politics
Iran: The Long Game
Kelly Magsamen, Center for American Progress, and Behnam Ben Taleblu, Foundation for Defense of Democracies 5:30pm, Quadrangle Club 1155 E 57th St., Chicago, IL Registration Required
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| | TUESDAY, Mar. 10Mexican 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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| | African Studies Workshop MAPSS and Early Student Presenters
Anthony Beall, University of Chicago; Dmitri Diagne, University of Chicago; and David Boze, University of Chicago 5:30pm, Foster Hall, Room 107 1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Seminary 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 RSVP Requested
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| | THURSDAY, Mar. 12Demography Workshop Matching Across Markets: Selection of Cross-Market Matches and Its Impact on the Overall Market in the Context of Cross-Border Marriage
So Yoon Ahn, University of Illinois at Chicago 12:30pm, NORC Seminar Room 232/233 1155 E 60th St., Chicago, IL
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| | FRIDAY, 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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| | Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop
Reenacting War: National Stories, Military Pageantry, and Spatial Remembrance in Postwar Tokyo
Spencer Cohen, University of Tokyo
4:30pm, Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 152 5540 S Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Mar. 12Seminary Co-Op Dark Lens
Françoise Meltzer, University of Chicago
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | Mar. 13Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Iran and the United States: Charting a New Path Toward Peace
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Former Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations
4:00pm, 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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| | Seminary Co-Op Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China
Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University-Bloomington
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | Mar. 16Seminary Co-Op Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | Mar. 17International House, the Chicago Warburg Chapter of the ACG, German Consulate General in Chicago.
The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
Niels Annen, Minister of State of the German Federal Foreign Office
5:00pm, International House, Coulter Lounge 1414 E 59th St., Chicago, IL Registration is required
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| | Mar. 19East Asia: Transregional Histories
Making Scientific Japanese: Integration of the Scientific spirit and the ‘Japanese’ spirit by Secondary Educators in the 1930s in Japan
Huh Dium, University of Tokyo
4:00pm, Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224) Refreshments will be provided 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Apr. 1Oriental Institute
OI Centennial Year Members Lecture
David Schloen, Oriental Institute
7:00pm, Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall 1155 E 58th St., Chicago, IL Registration Recommended
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| | Apr. 2Center for East Asian Studies, International House
Najita Distinguished Lecture Series: Disappearing Japan? Few Marriages and Fewer Births in 21st-Century Japan
Mary Brinton, Harvard University
5:00pm, International House, Assembly Hall 1414 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | | Apr. 6Divinity School, Martin Marty Center
Global Christianities Lecture
Philip Gorski, Yale University
4:30pm, Swift Hall, Common Room. 1025 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Apr. 7African Studies Workshop
Wealth Acquisition and Marital Quality among Young Couples in Malawi
Johanna Oh, University of Chicago
5:30pm, Foster Hall, Room 107 1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Seminary Co-Op Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England
Benjamin Saltzman, University of Chicago
6:00pm, Seminary Co-op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL RSVP Requested
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| | Apr. 9Oriental Institute
Gallery Talk: Multiculturalism, Prestige, and Daily Life in the Medieval Near East
Jeff Cumonow, Oriental Institute
12:15pm, Oriental Institute 1155 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Apr. 10CISSR Empires and Atlantics Forum
Abigail Swingen, Texas Tech
12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105 Refreshments will be provided 5828 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | Apr. 13Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Polish Migrations Through a European (and American) Lens
Kris Van Heuckelom, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
4:30pm, Foster Hall, Room 505 1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Gender, Sexuality and Global Capitalism Project
Carceral Migration as Theory and Method: The Sociologies of Race, Space, and Punishment
Susila Gurusami, University of Illinois-Chicago
4:30pm, Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105) 5733 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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| | 13 University of Chicago Graduate Students Awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program Awards
CISSR Field Research Grant Recipient Carl Kubler has been selected as a recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award to continue his research on late imperial and modern China. Fulbright Grants offer opportunities for graduate students to participate in international study, advanced research, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide for 8-12 months. Read more here...
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| | “We are helping to develop new research methods and modes of inquiry…"
The Neubauer Collegium recently announced 13 new research projects addressing questions that cross disciplinary boundaries and engage partnerships with other institutions. CISSR faculty fellows Marco Garrido, Sabina Shaikh, Austin Carson, and Sarah Newman will join other scholars in exploring topics ranging from urbanity in Cambodia to human manipulation of the environment and the intersection of politics and international relations in America’s global turn. Read more here...
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| | A Continent Remade
In 1960, 17 African countries joined the United Nations, leading some to declare 1960 the Year of Africa. CISSR Book Workshop awardee Adom Getachew contributed to The New York Times’s new interactive essay collection exploring images around this milestone and how these images provide insights into the triumphs and challenges that arose from independence and cultural change. Read more here...
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| | The Pulwama Attack: India and Pakistan Relations One Year Later
In a recent interview with The Kashmir Walla, CISSR Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland discussed the tensions between India and Pakistan after a series of attacks in early 2019. The interview ranged from the response of both countries’ leadership and the more recent conflicts in Kashmir and Jammu to the potential for diplomatic dialogue in the future. Read more here...
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| | | | Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law
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| | In September, CISSR Faculty Fellow Angela Garcia discussed her book Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law for UC Berkeley’s Center for Research on Social Change Colloquia Series. Analyzing the effects of federal, state, and local immigration laws, Professor Garcia explores how undocumented individuals attempt to navigate spaces of varying levels of inclusion and exclusion.
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