| | | | Prof. René Flores & CISSR Dissertation Fellow Ariel Azar Discuss Immigrant Archetypes in the American Imagination in NY Times | | | |
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For the New York Times, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow René Flores (Sociology) recently spoke about American attitudes towards immigration and the challenge
facing pro-immigration politicians.“Exposing U.S. individuals to positive
messages about immigration has no effect on their policy attitudes,” he says,
because when “individuals read negative messages on immigrants, they become
motivated to express restrictionist views.” Relying on narratives of success
and exceptionalism isn’t enough, he argues, because of “deep-seated cultural
representations of perceiving immigrants as a threat and as undeserving.” Professor Flores was joined by several other scholars in the guest essay, “The ‘Third Rail of American Politics’ is Still Electrifying”, on the political, economic, and sociological implications of immigration
The essay also cites a paper cowritten by Professor Flores and
Ariel Azar, a 21-22 CISSR Dissertation Fellow and PhD student in Sociology. Through surveys, they identified
five main classes or archetypes that come to white people’s minds when asked
about immigrants: the “undocumented Latino man,” the “poor, nonwhite
immigrant,” the “high-status worker,” the “documented Latina worker,” and the
“rainbow undocumented immigrant.” Those who held images of immigrants as
undocumented had the highest opposition to immigration. Survey respondents most
resistance to immigration have many attributes typical of Southern white
conservatives with many living in rural areas, retired with low levels of
education, and from the least diverse communities relative to all other
classes. With the impending 2022 Midterm elections, understanding the attitudes of voters and charting a path forward is critical.
As a nation which claims to accept all immigrants who work hard, the U.S. should continue this kind of research to further analyze how these social structures and institutions helped to create and encourage these kinds of “negative” characterizations of immigrants, which will further enlighten what steps can be made to find common ground between immigrants and those who aim to restrict immigration. Professor Flores in 2020-21 with a grant from CISSR Faculty Fellowship launched a project in Mexico about skin-color-based inequalities and will help scholars better theorize race-setting outside of U.S. contexts.
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| | | | Reminder: Faculty Fellowship Call for Proposals | | | |
| | 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. The deadline to apply is December 1st, 2021. | | | |
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12:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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4:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Center for Latin American Studies5:30pm, Social Science Research Building, Room 122
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| | Seminary Co-op & The Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City” with Andrew Lawler
7:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Becker Friedman Institute China Biweekly Seminar on Public Economics — Survival of the City
8:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
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| | Seminary Co-op & Department of Art History Peter Chametzky - "Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art"
4:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies
“Who—or What—Were the First Blacks of China?” Lecture by Don J. Wyatt
5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Becker Friedman Institute U.S. Market Concentration and Import Competition with Mary Amiti
1:30pm, Saieh Hall 021 / Live Stream
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| | Becker Friedman Institute Equilibrium Port Delay and Social Cost with Thomas J. Holmes
3:30pm, Saieh Hall 021 / Live Stream
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| | Center for Latin American Studies
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| | | Social Sciences Division With CISSR Fellows Marco Garrido & Monika Nalepa 12:00pm, Live stream
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A Meeting of the Minds: The Impact of Effective Storytelling12:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required | |
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| | Slavic Languages and Literatures Department
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| | UChicago Global With CISSR Fellow Angela García 6:00pm, Rubenstein Forum Registration is required
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| | Department of Economics Tuesdays 3:30pm - 4:50pm, Saieh 146 Nov 9: Marta Prato, Ph.D. - Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago; "The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer and Growth”
Nov 16: Ufuk Akcigit - Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago; "Navigating Stormy Waters: Crisis, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics under Financial Frictions"
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| | Council on Advanced Studies East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Zoom Nov 18: Carl Kubler, CISSR Dissertation Fellow, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago. Title: “Dealing with Barbarians: Negotiating and Contextualizing Conflict between East and West” Discussant: Yuan Tian
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| | The Center for Health and the Social Sciences Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00pm, KCBD Building Nov 16: Lee Lockwood, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Economics University of Virginia
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| | Division of the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop
Fridays, 3:30pm, Tea Room Nov 19: “Caricature, Skeleton, and the Baudelairean Self: the Emergence of Comicality in ‘Danse Macabre'”, by Xin Yan, MAPH Student, The University of Chicago.
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| | Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Haskell 315 / Zoom Nov 11: [virtual] Julian Thibeau (Lab Assistant, CAMEL Lab, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago); “Mapping the Irrigation System of the Greco-Roman Fayum Using CORONA Imagery”
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| | Division of the Social Sciences Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30pm, Livestream Nov 12: Arlen Wiesenthal (NELC): “The Traveling Court as Locus of Death: The Ottoman Traveler Evliya Çelebi on Sultan Mehmed IV’s “Bloodthirst””
Nov 19: Prof. Ahmed El Shamsy (Associate Professor of Islamic Thought, NELC): “A fourteenth century Muslim theory of religion”
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| | Center for the Economics of Human DevelopmentTuesdays 1:30 - 3:00pm, Livestream Nov 9: Daron Acemoglu, MIT: Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
Nov 16: Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?
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| | Center for Latin American StudiesLatin American History WorkshopTuesdays 4:30 - 6:00pm, Kelly 114/Livestream Nov 16: Keegan Boyar, "Vendors and Police Power in Early Twentieth Century Mexico City"
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| | | Katz Center for Mexican Studies Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:00pm, Livestream Nov 9: Eric Van Young “A Life Together: Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792-1853”
Nov 16: Gabriela Torres-Mazuera "Privatización Selectiva de Tierra Comunal en la Península de Yucatán: Antes y Después del Tren Maya
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| | Division of the Social Sciences
Thursdays 5:00pm - 6:20pm, Zoom Nov 18: Ningning Zhao (PhD student UIC, Sociology): “The State and Political Education in China and Taiwan since 1949: A Comparative Historical Perspective” Discussant: Assistant Professor Atef Said (UIC, Sociology)
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Public Policy & Economics Workshop
Wednesdays, 3:00 - 4:20pm, Keller Center 1022 / Zoom Nov 10: Heather Royer, University of California-Santa Barbara
Nov 17: Christopher Walters, University of California-Berkeley
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| | Council on Advanced Studies Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:00pm, Zoom Nov 10: Fabian Baumann, Postdoctoral Fellow, History. Title: “Diverging Paths: An Intimate History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism in Late Imperial Kiev.”
Nov 17: Roy Kimmey, PhD Candidate, History. Title: “Life beyond Labor: The ‘New (Romani) Socialist Man.’”
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| | Division of the Social Sciences Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group Thursday, 4:00pm, Zoom Nov 17: Prof. C.C. McKee at Bryn Mawr College, “At the Threshold of Human and Vegetable: Painting Black Monstrosity in the French Atlantic”
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| | Center for Latin American Studies Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean
Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Kelly 114 / Zoom Nov 10: Pablo Ottonello, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, “No sé para qué escribo”: el fracaso en los diarios de Ricardo Piglia
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| | Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences Workshop on Quantitative Research Methods in Education, Health, and Social Sciences
Friday, Zoom Nov 19: Stephane Bonhomme, Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. “Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters.” | |
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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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| | Ipek Cinar, 21-22 Rudolph Field Research Fellow, and Prof. Robert Gulotty consider the role of uncertainty on trade agreements
Ipek Cinar, PhD student in Political Science and a 2021-22 Rudolph Field Research Fellow with Prof. Robert Gulotty (Political Science) wrote a paper titled “Negotiating Exclusion: Regulatory Barriers in Preferential Trade Agreements.” Published in Economics and Politics, their paper explores how international trade negotiations now center on regulations, resulting in raising uncertainty over fixed costs. Using a simple model of exporter competition, Cinar and Gulotty show how uncertainty from these negotiations redistributes profits while showing that regulatory uncertainty can deter entry for producers outside of the trade agreement. Additionally, this serves to benefit the top producers, the most integrated and productive firms, because the ability of firms to take advantage of the intensive margin determines the effects of regulatory uncertainty. Their case study of the automotive and automotive parts sectors during North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations highlights how trade politics act to benefit few large firms over the interests of more numerous but marginal exporters.
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| | Prof. Maryam Alemzadeh, CISSR Dissertation Alum Postdoctoral Research Associate & CISSR Dissertation Fellow writes on the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in the Iranian Kurdish Conflict
In an article published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Maryam Alemzadeh, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University and previous CISSR Dissertation Fellow, explores how the repression campaign of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shaped its organization, structure, and practice. Focusing on the 1979-80 Iranian Kurdish conflict, the most intensive example of repression of an armed movement by IRGC, Alemzadeh identifies two ways IRGC’s involvement formed the institution. Politically, fighting for the state made IRGC a legitimate organization independent of the regular army and organizationally, learning combat in a low intensity war allowed IRGC to adopt a structure based on direct action. Using documents collected in Iran and interviews with IRGC veterans and Iranian Army Officers, this paper argues post-revolutionary civil conflict allows for different paths of institution building as it defies the need for rapid centralization.
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| | PhD Candidate Ariel Azar with co-authors Ignacio Madero-Cabib and Josefa Guerra writes on employment and depression in retirement-age adults in Chile
Ariel Azar, PhD Candidate in Sociology and a CISSR 2021-22 Dissertation Fellow, co-authored an article in Aging & Mental Health with Ignacio Madero-Cabib (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and Josefa Guerra (Millennium Nucleus for the Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability) about a study on employment and depression symptom trajectories around retirement age in Chile. Employment status is a crucial determinant in empirical studies of long-term patterns of depression in retirement-age adults. Previous studies have overlooked the changing nature of employment status and solely focus on developed countries in Western Europe and North America. By studying how employment and depression evolve across time among adults and can vary throughout old age, this study seeks to better understand the connection through trajectories rather than fixed data. Using population-representative data and longitudinal statistical methods, the authors identified different trajectory types among adults aged 56-65 and aged 66-75 and organized them by social and health characteristics. Trajectories defined by permanent employment are linked with lower depressive symptoms than those indicating retirement or inactivity, though health and social status greatly affect inactivity or retirement and depressive symptoms. As policy reforms emerge that are designed to encourage adults to delay retirement, this study emerges at a critical time to better inform these decisions and support older adults.
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| | A Field Guide to White Supremacy - A discussion with Kathleen Below and Ramón Gutiérrez | |
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In a book event presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC), Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Department of History, Kathleen Belew, Assistant Professor of U.S. History and the College, discussed her recently released book “A Field Guide to White Supremacy” co-edited with Professor Ramón Gutiérrez (History). The manuscript’s indexing was supported by a 2020-21 CISSR Monograph Enhancement. Prof. Belew was joined by Trayce Matthews, Executive Director of CSRPC, and Roderick Ferguson, a Professor of Women’s Gerder, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. The interdisciplinary book gathers experts on white supremacy in modern society, and provides a valuable source to understand how these movements form and what recent history shows us about those who join them and act with violence. While focused on the American white supremacy, the book addresses how globalization, foreign wars, and xenophobia play critical roles in white supremacist ideology in the U.S.
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