| | | | 2020-2021 Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Field Research Award Recipients
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| | CISSR is pleased to announce the 2020-2021 Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Field Research Award Recipients. Sixteen graduate students from across the social sciences division, including anthropology, comparative human development, history, political science, and sociology, were selected as the recipients.
The 2020-2021 round of funding will facilitate exciting new research from across the globe covering a wide range of topics, including civilian use of military technologies for agriculture, state violence against Afro-descendant women in Brazil and Columbia, and professional basketball teams in China during the post-socialist period.
See the full list of award recipients and read about their work here…
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| | TUESDAY, June 2Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
2020 Elections: Race, Youth, and the Impact of Covid-19
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, and Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago
12:00pm, Live Stream Registration Required
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| | WEDNESDAY, June 3University of Chicago Graham School
Pandemics In History: Modern Medicine in the Time of Pandemic Influenza Michael Rossi, University of Chicago
6:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Oriental Institute Oriental Institute Centennial Year Members Lecture
W. Raymond Johnson, Oriental Institute
7:00pm, YouTube
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| | THURSDAY, June 4Mansueto Institute Lunch Colloquium
Human Density at High Spatial Resolution is Key to Dengue Transmission within Urban Landscapes
Victoria Romeo Aznar, University of Chicago
12:00pm, Live Stream Registration Required
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| | Semiotics Workshop
“Code-Switching," Community, and Standardizing Singlish
Josh Babcock, University of Chicago
4:30pm, Live Stream Zoom link will be circulated via the listserv
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| | Pulitzer Center, Center for East Asian Studies
Understanding China from the Inside Out: A Conversation for Educators
Nick Schifrin, PBS
6:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | | FRIDAY, June 5Social Sciences Research Center
Remote Human Subjects Research
Panel Discussion 1:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop Global Modernisms and 'Homeless' Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani
Maki Kaneko, University of Kansas
4:30pm, Live Stream For Zoom link, contact the VMPEA coordinators
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| | MONDAY, June 8Harris Public Policy Center
Virtual Harper Lecture: Plagues and Faiths, Past and Present
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
6:30pm, Live Stream Registration Required
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| | WEDNESDAY, June 10Oriental Institute Lunchtime Talks
Discovering Katamuwa: Recent OI Excavations at Zincirli
Kathryn R. Morgan, Oriental Institute
12:00pm, FaceBook Live
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| | University of Chicago Graham School
Pandemics In History: AIDS, Politics, and Power
Michael Rossi, University of Chicago
6:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | THURSDAY, June 11Semiotics Workshop
History, Rupture, and Excess: Quran Translation in Adjara, Georgia Ricardo Rivera, University of California, Berkeley
4:30pm, Live Stream Zoom link will be circulated via the listserv
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| | June 2Warrenville Public Library Measuring Time: The Ancient Egyptian Invention of the Clock Foy Scalf, Oriental Institute
7:00pm, Live Stream Registration Required
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| | June 9Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Surveying the Social and Cultural Impacts of COVID-19
Beth Redbird, Northwestern University, and Tymofii Brik, Kyiv School of Economics
12:00pm, Webinar Registration Required
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| | June 10Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Business, Security, and the Global 5G Competition
Venkat Atluri, McKinsey & Company; Meg King, The Wilson Center; and Edward Smith, DLA Piper 1:00pm, Live Stream
Registration Required
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| | Onursal Erol Accepted a Postdoctoral Position in USC Department of Middle East Studies
Congratulations to CISSR Dissertation Fellow Onursal Erol (Political Science) for recently accepting a position in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California starting in Fall 2020! The USC Department of Middle East Studies is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the cultures, languages, societies, and peoples throughout the region. Onursal will participate in the lively academic environment of the department while continuing his research on the intersection of gender politics, urban spaces and geography, and social movements in the Middle East.
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| | “Security for some always means insecurity for others…"
In a colloquy for the new volume of Cultural Anthropology, CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li discussed the ways in which a poor state can conduct espionage, a state action more frequently associated with powerful states. Utilizing the story of an Algerian spy in Bosnia, Li explores the methodologies and risks associated with utilizing diaspora in intelligence gathering. Read more here...
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| | South America’s Growing Coronavirus Outbreak
Countries in South America have recently become an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and the region’s healthcare systems and governments have struggled to respond. In an article for Vox, CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus was quoted as part of a discussion examining how the economic situation before the pandemic is now affecting leaders' abilities to respond. Read more here...
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| | Sources of Leadership: Governments or Gangs
Recently, CISSR Faculty Fellow Benjamin Lessing was quoted in an article discussing the leadership role gangs and organized crime have asserted in Brazil and Mexico as a response to the coronavirus crisis. Coronavirus has brought into "sharp relief the places where gang governance is strong and state governance is weak…" Read more here...
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| | Some may find a novel about a mysterious, highly-contagious virus — originating in China and burgeoning into a terrible, global pandemic — to be a little too close to home. It's true that Severance displays alarming prescience, with its imagery of facemasks branded with designer logos, mesmerizing photographs of empty city streets, and the "slow burn" of a devastating pandemic. But the novel is so much more than an apocalyptic cautionary tale. It's an immigrant coming-of-age story; an epic "Why I'm Leaving New York City" essay; a sharp satire of capitalism and office life; and a profound reflection on routine, sentimentality, and all the habits we cling to in our attempts to inhabit normalcy in an era of profound catastrophe.
— Rochelle Terman, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and CISSR Book Workshop Awardee To visit Ling Ma’s University of Chicago faculty page... | |
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| | CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast has recently started a podcast discussing a wide range of national security topics. Poast’s most recent episode addressed the competing rationales among foreign policy experts who debate whether the coronavirus pandemic will lead to a new period of peace or to increased conflict between the United States and China. To listen...
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| | | | This is our last digest for the 2019-2020 Academic Year. We wish you and everyone in our CISSR community well during this summer break. We hope you can find moments of rest and joy despite the real challenges we face as a community here and across the globe.
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