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| | CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli, Emily Smith-Greenaway, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, and Emilio Zagheni recently published the article “Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss” in BMJ Global Health. The contribution is being discussed in venues like Big Think, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and UChicago’s Social Sciences Division.
The international team of authors provided the first global estimates of the proportion of mothers who have experienced the loss of a child. Across three new indicators—the maternal cumulative prevalence of infant mortality (mIM), under-five mortality (mU5M), and offspring mortality (mOM)—the authors identify astonishing disparities. In places such as Japan, Finland, and Spain, fewer than five in 1,000 mothers between the ages of 20 and 44 have ever lost a child younger than a year old. In Afghanistan, Niger, and 28 other countries, that number currently exceeds 300. In high-mortality contexts, the authors argue that parental bereavement represents its own unique, threat to public health.
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| | April 27Seminary Co-op, Committee on African Studies, and UChicago’s Office of the Provost “Shades of Black” with Nathalie Etoke 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and the Department of Political Science at the American University in Cairo Disciplinary Woes and Possibilities: Political Science in the Context of the Uprisings 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 28University of Chicago Professional Education Future of Global Energy: Ethical Dimensions of Energy and Climate Change 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 29Romance Languages and Literatures Department Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for Race, Politics, and Culture Annual Public Lecture; presented in partnership with the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and the Mass Incarceration Working Group A Performance by poet and legal scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts followed by a conversation with Eve L. Ewing 4:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture The Black Freedom Lectures Series: Colorism with Ellis Monk 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 30Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory Pop Archaeology in London 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 3Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Anthropology GIS in Latin America Series: Domains: Mapping Jurisdictions to Understand Spanish Colonialism 12:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES) Social Thought Colloquium: Rationality and the Rules of the Cold War Game 12:30pm, Live Stream
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| | | Marty Martin Center for the Public Understanding of Religion What’s ‘White’ About White Christian Nationalism: Race, Religion, and War in the Making of America 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies The Body and the Stars: Astral-Physiological Thinking in Medieval China 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 4Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and Seminary Co-op The Objects That Remain 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, Department of History, and Center for East Asian Studies What is the Future for Hong Kong’s Rule of Law and Democracy? 7:40pm, Live Stream
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| | May 5Center for Latin American Studies Capturing, Using, and Crediting Images from Latin America 3:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies Oh Baby: The Birth Dearth in Postindustrial Societies 12:30pm, Live Stream
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| | May 6Center for East Asian Studies Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies & Seminary Co-op Prague: Belonging in the Modern City 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture The Black Freedom Lectures Presents: Black and Indigenous Solidarities with Alaina E. Roberts 6:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Marty Martin Center for the Public Understanding of Religion and the Collegium Institute The Crisis of Mysticism 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 10Center for East Asian Studies Castration Fever: On Trans, Body, and Psychoanalysis in Modern China 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | EXHIBITIONSOriental Institute Antoin Sevruguin: “photographing artistiques” of the Iranian Past 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | | Northwestern University Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program Russia Policy Forum: Democracy Promotion and the New Competition with Russia 2:00pm, Live Stream
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| | UW Madison Center for East Asian Studies Medical Authority, Body Conformity, and Intersex Livelihood in Cold War South Korea 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 30The Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee COVID-19: Human Rights and International Cooperation 8:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | May 2Northwestern University Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Program for Middle East and North African Studies Arab-Jewish Culture in Israel Today: Producers, Consumers, and Gatekeepers 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | May 4Chicago Council on Global Affairs New Transatlantic Perspectives on Global Challenges 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | May 6Northwestern University Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program & the Department of African American Studies Trópico Andino Series: Grieving Words: Colonial and the Construction of the Afro-Andean Otherness (16th, 17th, and 19th Centuries) 11:00am, Live Stream
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| | Northwestern University Comparative Literary Studies and South Asia Research Forum Humanity Matters: Intersections of Dalit and Black Lives 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Why do voters in democracies support or ignore incumbents’ antidemocratic actions?
In a new open-access article for the Journal of Democracy, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus shares results from his CISSR project in collaboration with co-author Guy Grossman, examining public opinion on antidemocratic actions by elected leaders in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Using survey data from each of these countries, the authors find that the majority of citizens recognize and oppose the violation of democratic principles, laws, and norms. However, minorities ranging from 10 to 35% of the population support efforts to erode democracy—groups the authors say are too large in size to be dismissed as a “radical fringe”.
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| | CISSR Dissertation Fellow examines relationship between health and employment in Chile
In a new article for SSM - Population Health, 21-22 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Ariel Azar and co-authors Ignacio Madero-Cabib and Claudia Bambs examine the health effects of employment trajectories along with other major risk factors such as tobacco and alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Drawing on a comprehensive life history data set, the authors analyze a cohort of individuals age 65-75 in Chile. Among other results, the authors show that a trajectory of formal employment together with no tobacco and alcohol use reduces CVD risk by 36 percentage points relative to a similar employment trajectory but with regular tobacco and alcohol use, underlining "the importance of health policies that consider CVD as a condition that strongly depends on individual experiences in multiple life domains and across different life stages”.
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| | James Robinson explores developmental consequences of the Protestant Reformation
What was the long-run economic impact of the 1535 Dissolution of the English monasteries? 18-19 CISSR Faculty Fellow James Robinson examines this question in a new article for Development Economics with co-authors Leander Heldring and Sebastian Vollmer. They find that parishes impacted by the Dissolution ultimately experienced a “rise of the Gentry”, higher agricultural yields, a greater share of the population working outside of agriculture, and eventually greater levels of industrialization—results consistent with existing explanations that emphasize the commercialization of society as a pre-condition for technological change.
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| | How do we create a sustainable urban future in Chicago and beyond?
“Meet a Chicagoan”, a series by UChicago News, recently spotlighted the teaching and research of 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Sabina Shaikh. As director of the Program on the Global Environment and the Chicago Studies Program, Professor Shaikh seeks to encourage students’ engagement with the city of Chicago and sustainability initiatives on campus. “Paying attention to and embracing nature in cities is not a new concept by any means,” says Professor Shaikh, "but I think there’s so much more we can do if we’re engaging with the spaces we inhabit”.
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| | How will China’s creation of its own regional banking and investment vehicles affect Western-dominated global financial institutions? For the International Horizons Podcast, 18-19 CISSR Faculty Fellow Kimberly Kay Hoang discusses economic soft power and Asian ascendancy. She also discusses the changing nature of the U.S.’s leadership in higher education and global finance and shares insights from her new book Playing in the Gray: Offshoring and Foreign Investment in Frontier Markets.
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