| | | | 2021-22 Research Faculty Fellowship
Call for Proposals | | | |
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| | The Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) invites University of Chicago faculty to submit proposals to join our cohort of Research Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. Through the Research Faculty Fellows program, CISSR funds individual and collaborative international, transnational and global projects that address contemporary and historical questions. Projects should be theoretically informed and empirically grounded and should stand to benefit from critical dialogue across disciplinary, methodological, and geographic boundaries. - University of Chicago faculty in any discipline or unit are welcome to apply.
- CISSR provides up to $25,000 for faculty research projects at any stage of development. Funds maybe used for a wide range of research-related activities, including:
- field and archival research
- purchasing data
- research assistance
- organizing a conference to plan and publish a special issue or edited volume
- CISSR provides faculty fellows with administrative and outreach support, including:
- the production of multimedia content to promote projects through various platforms
- CISSR financial support cannot be used for course releases, academic leave, or summer salary.
Read all about our fellowship and complete instructions on our website. Apply on Infoready at competition #1851607 by December 1, 2021.
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| | Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) “Navigating Perilous Times: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Pandemics” 12:30pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Divinity School 2021 Nuveen Lecture by Agnes Callard (live and livestream)
4:30pm, Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Room
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Middle East Report: Race—Legacies and Challenges 3:00pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Institute of Politics
12:00pm, Ida Noyes Hall Registration is required
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| | The Center for Latin American Studies
12:40pm, International House, Assembly Hall Registration is required
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| | Jiaxun Wu, Chinese Studies Librarian
3:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Center for Middle Eastern Studies
4:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | | Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
5:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Division of the Humanities
9:00am, Hybrid Registration is required
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| | Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys 6:00pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) “The Biden Administration & Health Care Reform: Moving Beyond the War over Obamacare”
12:30pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Oriental Institute Fragmentary Pasts: Representing Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 5:00pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Department of English & Seminary Co-op
6:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality & Global Studies
Manning up for the Nation: State, Media, and China’s Regulation against "Sissy" Men 7:00pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
5:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
12:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Division of the Humanities Mondays 5:00 - 6:30pm, Rosenwald 405 - Oct 18: “Night Effects: Decadent Poetics and Anti-Colonial Critique in Ananda Coomaraswamy’s Essay Anthology, Art and Swadeshi (1910).” Author: Jacob Harris (Humanities Teaching Fellow in English, University of Chicago)
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| | Division of the Social SciencesMondays 4:30 - 6:00pm, TBC - Oct 25: Srikanth Reddy, Professor, Department of English. “Wonder, A Syzygy: A Poetics of Wonder in The Iliad, Paradise Lost, and Radi Os”
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| | The Committee on African Studies
Tuesdays 5:30pm, Livestream - Oct 19: Raffaella Taylor Seymour (CISSR Dissertation Fellow), PhD Candidate in Anthropology. “A Healer or a Witch?: Spirits, Kinship, and the Struggle over Spiritual Authority”
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| | Department of Classics
Tuesdays 3:30 - 5:20pm, Classics Building Room 21 - Oct 12: Laura Bevilacqua (UChicago, Classics) "Dice oracles, polytheism and the mechanisms of decision-making in imperial Asia Minor"
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| | Council on Advanced Studies East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30pm, CEAS Room 319 / Zoom - Oct 14: [in-person] Gabriel Groz, History, “‘All Under Heaven a Commonwealth’: The Fengjian Theory of the State in Ming China”
- Oct 21: [TBA] Zhengyuan Lin, MA Candidate, MAPH, “Sheng Xuanhuai’s dingyou and the private-public boundary in the 1900s China: the political, intellectual, and technological changes in late imperial China”
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| | Division of Social Sciences Environmental Studies Workshop
Fridays, 12:00pm - Oct 22: Sachaet Pandey, Department of History, Hydro-electric City: Textile Mills and Hydro-electricity in Colonial Bombay
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| | Division of the Humanities Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:30pm, Chicago Center for Teaching | |
| | Division of the Social SciencesMondays 1:00 - 2:30pm, Chicago Center for Teaching | |
| | Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Tuesdays 5:00 - 6:20pm, Livestream - Oct 19: “Problem Child: Social Feminization, Abuse Etiologies, and Trans Feminine Narratives,” by Eva Pensis, PhD Candidate in Music/Theatre & Performance Studies
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| | Department of Philosophy German Philosophy Workshop
Fridays, 3:00 - 5:20pm, Wieboldt 408 - Oct 15: Michael Powell, "The First Person and the Concept of a Person"
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| | Divisions of the Humanities & Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Haskell 315 / Zoom - Oct 14: [in-person / hybrid] Jon Clindaniel, Computational Social Science, “A Logic of Cord Color Signs in the Inka Khipu: A Computational Investigation”
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| | Division of the Social Sciences Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00pm, Livestream - Oct 20: Adi Shiran, Divinity School "Bloody Wrath and Healing Touches: Joseph and his Brothers in Early Twelver Shī‛ī Tafsīr.”
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| | | Katz Center for Mexican Studies
Tuesdays 1:00pm, Livestream Registration Required - Oct 12: ¿Quién conquistó a México?
- Oct 19: The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
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| | Department of Economics Wednesdays 3:05 - 4:35pm, Booth HC05 - Oct 13: Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University
- Oct 20: Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota
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| | Division of the Social Sciences Politics, History, and Society Thursdays, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Zoom - Oct 21: Hanning Luo, MAPSS Student, "The Embedded Red Engines": Organizational Foundations of Delegated Governance in China, Discussant: Yinghui Zhou
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| | Department of Economics Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:20pm, Livestream - Oct 13: Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- Oct 20: Martin Rotemberg, New York University
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| | Division of the Humanities Mondays 5:00 - 6:30pm, Rosenwald 405 - Oct 25: John Harpham, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, “‘The Causes of Complexion” *chapter five of book MS titled The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
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| | The Oriental Institute Wednesdays, October 13, 20, and 27 4:00–5:00 p.m., via Zoom Registration is required - Oct 13: Studying Persons with disabilities in the Ancient and Medieval Middle East and North Africa
- Oct 20: Studying Enslavement: Texts
- Oct 27: Studying Trade in Antiquity
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| | Council on Advanced Studies Wednesdays 4:30 - 6:00pm, Livestream - Oct 13: Gregory Valdespino, “At Home in Empire: Dwelling, Domesticity, and Welfare in France and Senegal, 1914-1974.” Respondent: Ben Van Zee
- Oct 20: Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota
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| | Department of Economics
Workshop in Economic Theory Joint With Applied Theory Workshop
Tuesdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm, SHFE Room 112 / Zoom - Oct 12: [in-person] Raphael Boleslavsky, University of Miami, "Make It 'Til You Fake It”
- Oct 19: [via Zoom] Matt Weinberg, Princeton University, Topic TBD
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| | Divisions of the Social Sciences Workshop on International Politics
Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Hybrid - Oct 14: Joshua Byun, “The Wicked Problem of Grand Strategy: Why Great Powers Fail to Achieve Strategic Coherence in Their Military Alliances”
- Oct 21: Pete Cuppernull, “You Have One New Notification: Digital Trace Data and the Role of Technology Firms in International Politics”
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| | Center for Latin American Studies Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean
Thursdays, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Kelly Hall Room 114 / Zoom - Oct 14: [in-person] Eduardo Leão, Romance Languages and Literatures, “La plaga somos nosotros: el apocalipsis epidémico en narrativas de México y Brasil”
- Oct 21: [hybrid] Eduardo Terra Romero, History, “An International Perspective on the Brazilian Miracle and its Aftermath,” 4:30-6:00pm
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Please note: Workshops are scholarly communities that pre-circulate papers. They meet regularly throughout the year and are generally not open to the public.
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Paul Staniland’s "Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed
Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation" to
be released December 2021
Paul Staniland, Associate Professor of
Political Science and 19-20 CISSR Faculty Fellow recently , announced
that his new book Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations From
Conflict to Cooperation can be pre-ordered from Cornell University
Press and will be released this December. Professor Staniland’s book focuses
empirically on South Asia, exploring the causes and dynamics of conflict,
cooperation, and mutual toleration between governments and armed groups
in places like India, Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
Using this data, he argues that governments’ perception of the
ideological threats posed by armed groups serves as the driving force behind
their responses and interactions. Throughout Ordering Violence, Professor
Staniland tests and examines when and
how threat perception results in repression, collusion, or mutual
neglect in state armed group interaction in South Asia and beyond.
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| | Michele Friedner Writes on Deaf Anthropology
Michele Friedner, Assistant Professor of Comparative Human
Development and 2021-22 CISSR Book Fellow co-authored an article titled "Deaf
Anthropology" for the Annual Review of Anthropology last year where she explains
the history and current research aims in deaf anthropology studies. With a
special focus on researching deafness and disability in India, Professor
Friedner is an anthropologist interested in understanding disabled peoples’
social, moral, religious, and economic practices, both in regards to policy and
their everyday life. In the review, Prof. Friedner traces the literature of
deaf anthropology, using four overlapping sections title “Socialities and
Similitudes” “Mobilities, Spaces, and Networks” Modalities and the Sensorium”
and “Technologies and Futures.” Prof. Friedner argues that even with
interdisciplinary deaf studies, the field can be expanded to better understand
how deaf people interact with the world and lead to other research in similar
areas of disabilities. Indeed, Prof. Friedner and her co-author Annelies
Kusters use this paper to highlight the way deaf anthropology can illuminate on
the universal human experiences across space and time.
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| | Geographic Information System of the Third Republic
In a newly published article from Historical
Methods title “Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information
System of France (1870–1940),” Victor Gay, 17-18 CISSR Dissertation Fellow and
current Assistant Professor at Toulouse School of Economics, maps out a
comprehensive geographic information system of Third Republic France called the
TRF-GIS. Besides the general administrative constituencies, the TRF-GIS also
includes the most significant special administrative constituencies:
military, judicial and penitentiary, electoral, academic, labor
inspection, and ecclesiastical constituencies. Prof. Victor Gay explains the
reasons for developing this Geographic Information System in the introduction: “By providing a
comprehensively-curated common frame of reference that encompasses all aspects
of the French society, the TRF-GIS will help create the conditions for a better
understanding of the dramatic socio-economic changes that France underwent
during the seven decades that lasted the Third Republic.” GIS helps enhance histories which rely on
constituency data by providing visual breakdowns for these specific places in
space and time.
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| | Aims of Education address with Kimberly Kay Hoang
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As part of the annual
O-Week tradition, Associate Professor of
Sociology and Director of Global Studies, Kimberly Kay Hoang delivered the Aims
of Education address on September 23rd at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Prof. Hoang
shared her personal journey at UChicago and discussed the joy of finding an
intellectual community. “If you take this journey of self-discovery
seriously,” Prof. Hoang said, “you will pave your own path that brings all of
your unique interests together.” In the speech, she divides the discussion of
discovery into self, social, and scientific discoveries, complementing each
with her own experiencse as a first-generation college student raised by
Vietnamese refugees. Prof. Hoang was a previous CISSR Research Fellow in 2018-19 where she conducted research on emerging markets using economics of global markets, international law, and ethnographies of criminal networks, sex work, and shadow banking to find a holistic view of these illicit and licit activities on a global scale.
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