The publication centers ethnographic practice and is open to pitches from ethnographers of any discipline
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

CISSR Dissertation Fellow founds new publication ‘Ethnographic Marginalia’

 
 
 

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...


 
 
 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 
 
  
 
 

January 26

Katz Center for Mexican Studies

José Vasconcelos and the Ideology of MORENA

1:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

UChicago DACA and Immigration Working Group, the Center for College Student Success, and UChicago Without Borders

Post-Inauguration Immigration  Panel

6:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Tenth Anniversary of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing

Chemistry: A Tool for Understanding Human Health

7:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

January 27

CISSR 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


 
 

UChicago Professional Education

The Global Energy Transition: Economic, Political, and Social Implications

5:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

January 28

Chicago Center for Jewish Studies

The Role of Religion in Healing the Liberal-Conservative Divide: Lessons From Israel

12:30pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

5:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Center for East Asian Studies

The Varieties of Secularism: China, Japan and India in the era of Abrahamic Modernity

5:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Tenth Anniversary of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing

The Future of Higher Education: A Presidential Perspective

7:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
   
 

January 29

CISSR Empires & Atlantics Forum

Stumbling Across Revolutions: An Eighteenth-Century Franco-Irish Experience

12:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

#MoreThanDiversity Campaign Department Formation Committee

Global Black Studies with Edmund T. Gordon and Jafari Allen

3:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 1

UChicago Center for Latin American Studies & Department of Anthropology

GIS in Latin America Webinar Series: Geospatial Data and Human-Centered Landscapes in Guatemala

12:30pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

Human Rights Book Salon: Delivering Health: Midwifery and the Development of Mexico

5:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 2

Katz Center for Mexican Studies

Reset or Turbulence in US-Mexico Relations

1:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Center for Health Administration Studies

The Impact of Foreign Language Use on Health-Related Decisions

Boaz Keysar, 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow

12:30pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 4

Center for East Asian Studies

Giraffes and Elephants: Circulation of Exotic Animals in the Longue Durée History of the Indian Ocean

7:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 8

UChicagoGRAD, the Office of International Affairs, and International House

Global Hangouts: Mental Health & Wellness Support Group

8:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 
  
 
 

January 26

The Comparative Politics Workshop

Wartime Victims and Forms of Political Engagement During Post-Conflict Transitions

12:30pm, Live Stream


 
 

African Studies Workshop

The Political Vision of Intermediary Intelligentsia: Political Innovation in the Early African Nationalist Movement, 1860-1900

5:30pm, Live Stream


 
 

January 28

Workshop on International Politics

Rationality in International Politics

3:30pm, Live Stream


 
 

Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop

Colonialism and Agrarian Change: Towards an Archaeology of Land

Sandy Hunter, 2020-2021 CISSR Dissertation Fellow

4:00pm, Live Stream


 
 

Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean

Enslaved Men of Feeling: Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854) and Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (1830-1882)

Sandy Hunter, 2020-2021 CISSR Dissertation Fellow

5:00pm, Live Stream


 
   
 

February 1

Jewish Studies Workshop

Glikl’s Circulation: Philology, Gender, and Translation

2:00pm, Live Stream


 
 

February 2

Comparative Politics Workshop

“A Private Kingdom”: Youth, Entrepreneurial Citizenship, and Authoritarian Renewal in Jordan

12:30pm, Live Stream


 
 

February 3

Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop

Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War

4:30pm, Live Stream


 
 

February 4

Workshop on International Politics

Modular Sovereignty and the Case of the Private Intelligence Industry

3:30pm, Live Stream


 
 

February 5

Environmental Studies Workshop

Cleanness, Kinship, Property and the “Unpolluted” Sociality of Wind Power in La Guajira

12:00pm, Live Stream


 
 

Please note: Workshops are scholarly communities that pre-circulate papers. They meet regularly throughout the year and are generally not open to the public.

 
   
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
   
 

January 26

The 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


 
 

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

Registration is required


 
 

University of Michigan Nam Center Colloquium Series

Sacred Translations: Parasite, English Subtitles, and Global Korean Cinema

3:30pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

January 27

University 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


 
 

Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

The Current Crisis of American Democracy: Domestic and International Implications

11:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

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

11:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
   
 

January 28

University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

11:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and European Union Studies Association

Creating Europe Through Crisis

11:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Northwestern University Institute for Global Affairs

Global Careers Speaker Series: Owain Johnstone

12:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

Indiana University 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative

“Training" Foreign Workers, Cultivating Bias: Japan’s Guest Worker System

6:30pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 1

Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University

How Populism Reshapes Global Governance

11:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 5

Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UW Madison

Malaysian Politics: State of Play

12:00pm, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 

February 8

Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

U.S. Military Bases and Japan’s National Security Strategy

11:00am, Live Stream

Registration is required


 
 
  
 
 

January 28-January 31

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University

Majdhar (1984) with filmmaker  Ahmed Jamal

7:00pm, Online screening 

Registration is required


 
 
 
 

NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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...


 
 
 
 
 
 

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...


 
 
 
 
 
 

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...


 
 
 
 
 
 

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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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


 
 
 
 
 
 

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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