| CISSR Dissertation Fellow founds new publication ‘Ethnographic Marginalia’ | | |
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| Congratulations to 2019-2020 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Sneha Annavarapu, who recently launched the digital publication Ethnographic Marginalia in partnership with UT Austin doctoral candidate Alex Diamond. The digital magazine centers ethnographic practice and is open to pitches from ethnographers of any discipline, publishing longform essays, photo essays, field notes, and a podcast.
Among its most recent contributors has been 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow Marco Garrido, who also serves on the publication’s advisory board. His essay, “Populism as Witchcraft: notes from the Philippines”, explores the similarities between magical belief and political belief. The notion of belief, he argues, is located not so much in the heads of individuals as “in the air” of a particular social milieu and thus “contagious”. Ultimately, he says, this notion can help us understand why support for populist leaders, such as the Philippines’ former president Joseph Estrada, persists despite the existence of discrediting information. You can read more here...
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| January 26Katz Center for Mexican Studies José Vasconcelos and the Ideology of MORENA 1:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| UChicago DACA and Immigration Working Group, the Center for College Student Success, and UChicago Without Borders Post-Inauguration Immigration Panel 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| Tenth Anniversary of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing Chemistry: A Tool for Understanding Human Health 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| January 27CISSR History & Social Sciences Forum More Than a Number: Perception and Misperception of Aging Leaders in International Politics Austin Carson, CISSR 2020-2021 Faculty Fellow 11:30am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| UChicago Professional Education The Global Energy Transition: Economic, Political, and Social Implications 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| January 28Chicago Center for Jewish Studies The Role of Religion in Healing the Liberal-Conservative Divide: Lessons From Israel 12:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question 5:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| Tenth Anniversary of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing The Future of Higher Education: A Presidential Perspective 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| January 26The University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Indigenous Voices, Global Echoes: Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature and the “Transnational Tribal Solidarity" 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| Northwestern University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Department of African American Studies, Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group Phases of Blackness: Afro-Argentines, Anti-Blackness, and Argentina’s National Identity 12:30pm, Live Stream
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| University of Michigan Nam Center Colloquium Series Sacred Translations: Parasite, English Subtitles, and Global Korean Cinema 3:30pm, Live Stream
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| January 27University of Michigan Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture: U.S. Race Relations and Foreign Policy 3:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs The Current Crisis of American Democracy: Domestic and International Implications
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| Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University Feminist Mobilizations at the Time of COVID-19: Experiences from the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean
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| Rebuilding American institutions
In his 2011 book Why Nations Fail, co-authored with Daron Acemoglu, 2018-2019 CISSR Faculty Fellow James Robinson argues that political institutions, rather than culture or geography, explains why some nations become rich while others remain poor. In an interview with NPR a decade on, Robinson and Acemoglu say that we are now tasked with rebuilding the Americans institutions that have declined in inclusivity since the release of their book. You can read more here...
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| How to save the planet
For the Chicago Tribune, 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow Sabina Shaikh shares insight on how one can do their part to protect the earth from environmental degradation. Supporting environmental activists, reducing consumer waste, and becoming informed about the challenges faced by the planet are all places to start. You can read more here...
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| Lessons on democracy from Latin America
For Foreign Policy, 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus argues that protecting the future of democracy often entails ousting the authoritarian figures who threaten to undermine it. Using evidence from across Latin America, Professor Albertus shows that representation and accountability suffer when authoritarians linger, and that banning Trump from seeking future office is critical to protecting American institutions. You can read more here...
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| Paul Staniland on ensuring democratic accountability for Vox
In two articles for Vox, 2019-2020 CISSR Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland comments on the need to hold politicians who engage in anti-democratic practices accountable for their actions. Without punishment, he says, democracy-undermining figures continue to have incentives to “play with fire”. Putting an end to violence, he says, is much more difficult than unleashing it in the first place. You can read the full text here and here.
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| Why do dictators institute executive constraints that limit their own power? | |
| For Ufahamu Africa, former UChicago Visiting Assistant Professor and CISSR Affiliate Fellow Anne Meng discusses her new book Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes. Using data from 64 sub-Saharan African countries between 1960 and 2010, she argues that when leaders enter office but are threatened by other elites, they choose to extend power-sharing measures in order to buy their support and remain in power. You can listen to the full conversation here, and learn more about the book here.
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