CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
  
 
 
 

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...


Eligibility & Requirements

All University of Chicago graduate students (MA or PhD) in the Division of the Social Sciences are eligible. Applicants can familiarize themselves with CISSR’s mission and scope through our website and by attending our events.


Applications

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


Financial Support

CISSR will provide graduate students with up to $5,000 for fieldwork expenses.


Application Deadline

February 21, 2020



 
 
 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 
 
  
 
 

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8

Divinity School, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Gender Separation in the Literature of the Late Antique Synagogue

Tzvi Novick, University of Notre Dame

4:30pm,  Swift Hall, Common Room

1025 East 58th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Comparative Politics Workshop

Entangled Elites: Business Ties and Wealth Defense in Authoritarian Regimes

Yan Xu, University of Chicago

12:00pm, Foster Hall, Room 107

Refreshments will be provided

1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

THURSDAY, Jan. 9

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: A Revisionist Account

Khaled Fahmy, University of Cambridge

1:00pm,  Stuart Hall, Room 104 

5835 S Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 
  
 
 

MONDAY, Jan. 13

Center for Latin American Studies

The Chee Kung Tong: Chinese Sworn Brotherhoods in Twentieth Century Latin America and the Caribbean

Fredy González, University of Illinois at Chicago

12:00pm,  Foster Hall, Room 103 

Refreshments will be provided

1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

TUESDAY, Jan. 14

African Studies Workshop

Sovereignty for Hire: Histories of Slavery, Imperial Formations, and the Seligman’s Divine Kingship

Katie Hickerson, University of Chicago

5:30pm,  Foster Hall, Room 107 

1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

THURSDAY, Jan. 16

Latin American History Workshop, Environmental Studies Workshop, Grad Council

The Enduring Climate of Conflict: Drought, Impoverishment and the Long Aftermath of Civil War in Peru

Javier Puente, Smith College

4:30pm,  Kelly Hall, Room 114 

5848 S University Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 

FRIDAY, Jan. 17

CISSR

Empires and Atlantics Forum

Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame

12:00pm, CISSR Suite, Room 105

Refreshments will be provided

5828 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL


 
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
   
 

Jan. 8

The Newberry Library

Is He Hitler? How the Geopolitical Became Personal in the 1930s

Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University

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

Refreshments will be provided

60 W Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610


 
 

NewsCounts, Public Narrative

Covering the 2020 Census: What does the count mean to Chicago?

Panel Discussion

5:00pm, Columbia College Chicago, Suite 610H

33 E Ida B. Wells Dr., Chicago, IL


 
 

Jan. 9

The Chicago Center on Global Affairs

Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship

Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago

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. 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


 
 

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 

1130 E 59th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

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


 
 

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Seminary Co-Op

Authoritarian Apprehensions

Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

6:00pm, Seminary Co-Op

5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

RSVP Requested


 
 

Jan. 23

Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago Library

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

Lecture

5:00pm,  Regenstein Library, Room 122A

1100 E 57th St., Chicago, IL


 
 

Committee on African Studies, Film Studies Center, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, 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, Screening Room 201

915 E 60th 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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Traversing Boundaries


Field Research Grant Recipient Pranathi Diwakar shared updates about her field work through the SECTORS Newsletter of the American Sociological Association. Reflecting on caste and class distinctions in Chennai’s music scene, Diwakar relays three vignettes that illustrate how cultural practices illuminate the processes by which urban social actors mark distinction. Diwakar’s note can be found on page 28.  Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

War and the International Order


CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast and Tanisha M. Fazal’s article “War Is Not Over: What the Optimists Get Wrong About Conflict" was featured in Foreign Affairs' “Best of 2019” list. Contesting the idea that the world is beyond an era of war, Poast and Fazal discuss how this optimistic idea entered academia and argue “If anything, the opposite is true…" Read more here…


 
 
 
 
 
 

"A unity slate might just be the answer…"


CISSR Faculty Fellow Mike Albertus collaborated with Jefferson Cowie on an Opinion piece for The Hill. Albertus and Cowie discuss the possibility of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates forming a unity slate and the potential benefits of this strategy in the upcoming presidential election.  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

 
 
 
For More Information About the Entangled Worlds Research Project
 
 
 

To suggest an item for a future digest, please send details via this submission form.

 
 
  
 
 


 
 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


 
 
 
Brazil under Bolsonaro: What Is Emerging? What Is Submerging?
 
 
 
 

Conflict, the Other, and Identity

 
 
 

In October, CISSR Faculty Fellow Benjamin Lessing took part in a panel discussion at the University of Michigan about the trends in Brazil’s politics and the influence of President Jair Bolsonoro. Topics covered ranged from shifts in environmental policy to attacks on the press.


 
 
  
 
  
 
 
Direct Mail for Mac This email is powered by Direct Mail for Mac. Learn MoreReport Spam