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| | In collaboration with Labex TEPSIS at l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (l'EHESS) in Paris, CISSR recently hosted the Young Researcher International Workshop, where UChicago and l’EHESS graduate students shared insights from their dissertation projects to an interdisciplinary and international audience of scholars from both Chicago and Paris. Additionally, the workshop featured two dissertation prospectus projects. Among the projects presented were: a paper examining the ways that ex-FARC female guerrillas contest gender violence in post-war Colombia (Mélina Gautrand, l’EHESS), an examination of contemporary Zimbabweans’ reinvention of spiritual practices as expressions of queerness (20-21 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Raffaella Taylor-Seymour, UChicago), and a project using sociology and political science to analyze the “diversity” in French cinema and television (Evélia Mayenga, l’EHESS).
CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli, Board Member Steven Pincus, and l’EHESS faculty member Jean-Frédéric Schaub organized this unique collaboration between CISSR and l’EHESS, and hope that in future years the conference will convene in person, alternating between Paris and Chicago.
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CISSR Board Member and Faculty Fellows awarded Provost’s Global Faculty Awards for Research, Events
Please join us in congratulating CISSR Board Member Steven Pincus, 19-20 Faculty Fellow Benjamin Lessing, and 20-21 Fellow Angela Garcia. Each is a 2021-2022 recipient of a UChicago Provost’s Global Faculty Award in Delhi or Latin America.
Professor Pincus’ award, awarded jointly with Professor Sunit Singh, will support an academic event titled “From Mughal Rule to the Raj: Reassessing the Imperial Transition in South Asia.” Professor Lessing’s award will support an academic event titled “Criminal Justice in the Americas”. Meanwhile, Angela Garcia’s award, awarded jointly with Susan Gzesh, will support a research project and related academic event titled “New Drivers of Migration: Violence & Migration in North and Central America”. Congratulations to all awardees!
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| | June 8UChicago Graduate Council, Black Grad Coalition, Office of Multicultural Student Affairs Sharing Our Stories: The Black Graduate Experience at UChicago 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | June 10Seminary Co-op, University of Minnesota Press, Institute of African-American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University "Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect” with Romi Crawford 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | UChicago Graduate Council, Black Grad Coalition, Office of Multicultural Student Affairs Black@UC: Social 5:00pm, Live Stream
Open to all self-identified Black graduate students.
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| | June 14UChicago Center in Paris; UChicago Press; UChicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Afrofuturism, Sun Ra, and Others: A Transatlantic Perspective 11:00am, Live Stream
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| | June 15UChicago Graduate Council, Black Grad Coalition, and Office of Multicultural Student Affairs Allyship and Anti-racist Training 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | | Lifecycle Working Group, Center for the Economics of Human Development Measuring systemic discrimination among large US employers 1:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Kenneth Pomeranz discusses COVID-19, climate change, and the “collective breakdown of responsibility” for Jacobin
In a new interview published by Jacobin, 20-21 CISSR Book Fellow Kenneth Pomeranz compares public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the West and East Asia. One of the reasons that the West has had a difficult time addressing out-of-control outbreaks, Pomeranz suggests, is because of the breakdown of a “popular enlightenment consensus.” The lack of a real or imagined geopolitical threat in the West, for example, can be liberating; it has also eroded solidarity and "freed some of the most irresponsible elements on the Right to be even more irresponsible in promoting narrow-minded selfishness.” Pomeranz further considers the relationship between COVID-19 and climate change, the implications of track and trace technologies, and the U.S.’s relationship with the WHO in this interview.
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| | Marco Garrido examines contention over the terms of democracy in U.S., Philippines
In a new essay for the journal Contexts, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Marco Garrido examines how the Trump administration may have accelerated disenchantment with American democracy within the Philippines. Over the course of the last 30 years, he writes, many developing countries have sought to consolidate their democracies; for the Philippines, this has meant making democracy more closely resemble U.S. democracy. Yet the Trump administration undermined the status of the U.S. as a symbol of liberal democracy, and illiberal variants of democracy now appear increasingly viable.
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| | Is the international human rights community divided?
In a new paper published in International Studies Quarterly, 19-20 CISSR Book Fellow Rochelle Terman and co-author Zoltán Búzás use data from the Universal Periodic Review—a UN mechanism where states “peer review” others’ human rights practices—to examine fragmentation in the international human rights regime. The authors find four interstate clusters emerging from this process: Civil Libertarians, Developmentalists, Institutionalists, and Egalitarians. The results indicate that rather than comprising a single community, the human rights regime reflects a series of communities.
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| | Rethinking ‘extraction’ in La Guajira, Colombia
In a new article for the journal Economic Anthropology, 18-19 CISSR Rudolph Field Research Fellow Steven Schwartz examines the circulation of gifts between the indigenous Wayúu communities of Colombia and Jemeiwaa Kai, a wind energy corporation seeking to to build five wind farms in Colombia’s La Guajira region. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Schwartz suggests that local gift-giving practices allow the Wayúu to carve out spaces of accountability in their relations with the wind corporation; for this reason, Schwartz suggests the concept of ‘extraction’ falls short of capturing the full picture of the interactions and dilemmas characterizing wind energy in La Guajira.
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| | Kathleen Belew examines the rise of the white power movement | |
| | In a July 2019 episode of the podcast Big Brains, 20-21 CISSR Book Fellow Kathleen Belew describes how the Vietnam War contributed to the rise of the white power movement, a claim that she makes in her book Bring the War Home. Using archival material, Belew shows how a small group of returning veterans played a central role in the formation of a fringe movement. In conversation with host Paul M. Rand, Belew further considers the relevance of this research for our understanding of contemporary events, saying "I see history and the archive as tools we can use to shed light on the present, rather than as ways to cast the present into historical interpretation."
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