| | | | CISSR SPOTLIGHT2020-21 CISSR Review: Monograph Enhancement & Book Awards | | | |
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| | | | Undeniably our faculty fellows and graduate student fellows faced difficulty in the past year to make progress on international projects, but many researchers were able to pivot their timelines or adapted their plans to fit remote kinds of research or turned to publishing their work. Every year CISSR funds multiple book awards for publication costs and book workshops, and during 2020-21, we have awarded six faculty with book awards for translations and manuscripts in political science, history, and sociology, all forthcoming in the next few years with announcements to be shared in upcoming digests. Additionally, this year we celebrated two (virtual) book releases with faculty who were awarded CISSR Book Workshop and Monograph Enhancement Awards previously: Property Without Rights: Origins
and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap by Michael Albertus was released by Cambridge University Press in March 2021 (18-19 Book Workshop Award) Watch his book talk held on March 23rd moderated by Susan Stokes and hosted by CISSR, Seminary Co-op & the Center for Latin American Studies. He shares further insight on his research methods, the consequences of specific reform programs, and how land and property rights are linked to poverty and inequality. Violencia
y Paz en la Guerra Contra Las Drogas: Ofensivas Estatales y Carteleles en
America Latina was published by Universidad de Los Andes Press / CESED and
translated by Patricia Torres Londoño, translated from Benjamin Lessing's 2018 book Making
Peace In Drug Wars: Cartels and Crackdowns in Latin America, originally published by Cambridge University Press Studies in Comparative
Politics in 2018 (18-19 Translation Book Award). Watch CISSR's co-hosted launch event from November 24th to celebrate the publication of the Spanish-language translation of Making Peace in Drug Wars. The Spanish-language event featured a conversation with Lessing, Angélica Durán, and Daniel Mejía and was co-hosted the Center for Latin American Studies and the Centro de Estudios Sobre Seguridad y Drogas at the Universidad de los Andes. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic, the international research community remains adaptable and committed to global questions which affect us all. The outcomes of their research amid a world-changing pandemic drive CISSR’s dedication to supporting creative ways to continue researching our world and providing funding to publish the best of the University’s international social science research to reach the most audiences. For more information about our various programs and fellows’ activities, our digest archive can be found on our website.
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CISSR Paid Student Internship Positions
Please consider sharing applying for the student jobs linked below. All students at the University of Chicago are eligible to apply. For questions, please email Alexis Puzon at apuzon@uchicago.edu.
The CISSR Media Intern will assist CISSR’s Center Supervisor by creating a bi-weekly digest
during the Fall, Winter, Spring quarters. The CISSR Media Intern will manage the email lists and
disseminate miscellaneous announcements through CISSR lists. Intern may assist with creating
event posters, posting content to Youtube and social media, and coordinating virtual event
invitations and registration in coordination with CISSR Program Assistant. This position is 8-10 hours per week at an hourly rate between $15 - $20. | | | |
| | The Program Assistant Intern will assist Center Supervisor with events and meetings to support
CISSR faculty, staff, and student fellows. Program Assistant Intern will help maintain the CISSR
website, including an event calendar, and will revise the website to meet new accessibility
standards. The Program Assistant intern will also work with the Center Supervisor on
programmatic initiatives and office management (as allowed and needed with current UChicago
forward guidelines) and may assist with creating event posters in coordination with CISSR Media
Intern and Center Supervisor. Additionally, the Program Assistant intern may prepare financial
and administrative reports for Center Supervisor and CISSR Director. There may also be
opportunities to participate in research and other activities with CISSR faculty and fellows, and
the Center Supervisor will work with the Program Assistant intern to manage their schedule and
work responsibilities throughout the year. This position is 10-15 hours per week at an hourly rate between $15 - $20. | | | |
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| | June 22Seminary Co-op & Alliance Française de Chicago 11:00 am, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | June 23UChicago Center for East Asian Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies & Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 9:45 am, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | June 24UChicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong, Marine Biological Laboratory
7:00 am, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | UChicago Center for East Asian Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies & Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
4:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | June 24 & 25UChicago Center for East Asian Studies 7:50 am, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | June 25UChicago Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art & Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe 4:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | | June 28The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong; Yuen Campus Series Speaker: CISSR Fellow 19-20 Paul Staniland 7:30 am, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | UChicago Center for East Asian Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies & Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
4:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | June 29Crown Family School: Professional Development Program 2:00 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | UChicago Center for East Asian Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies & Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
4:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Seminary Co-op, Illinois Science Council, & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 6:00 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | June 30Energy Policy Institute at UChicago (EPIC) 9:45 am, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | July 8Workshop on International Politics “Do Words Matter in InternationalRelations?” & “Revisiting the Second Image Reversed: International Relations and American Political Development”3:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | July 22Workshop on International Politics “International Recognition of Government inthe Context of a Domestic Dispute” & “Government-Citizen Dispute Resolution inChina”3:30 pm, Live Stream
20-21 Rudolph Fellow Elsy Gonzalez Registration is required
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| | | July 29Workshop on International Politics “Military Effectiveness” &“Defining Aggression in International Law:What was at Stake in the Prolonged MidCentury Debates?”3:30 pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | August 5Workshop on International Politics “Populism and International Cooperation inthe European Union” & “Deep Neural Networks for Inference in IR”3:30 pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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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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| | June 22University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering GSAC 12:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required.
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| | June 24Northwestern University Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) & NU Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute 12:00 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required.
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| | | Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; CESSI Lecture Series 4:00 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required.
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| | June 29Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Global Health Tuesday Series 4:30 pm, Live Stream
Registration is required.
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| | CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus evaluates outcome of Peru’s presidential election
Following a nail-biting election, Leftist outsider Pedro Castillo recently emerged victorious in Peru’s presidential election—an outcome that no one predicted months ago, rattling investors and the political establishment. Should they be so worried? In a new article for Foreign Policy, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus suggests this panic is overblown: Castillo has thus far signaled his intention to adopt a more centrist political agenda. Instead, the greatest political risk posed by Castillo is that, in the face of stark political opposition, he may force a referendum on a new constitution—a move that could forge a much-needed egalitarian social contract in Peru, but one that could also be “hijacked by radicals” nonetheless.
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| | CISSR Rudolph Fellow reflects on Sheikh Jarrah & Palestinian mobilization in university panel
20-21 CISSR Rudolph Fellow Hadeel Badarni recently participated in a panel discussion co-hosted by UChicago’s Global Studies program, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, 3CT, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Arab Studies Institute. In “Ongoing Nakba: Reflections on Palestine from Sheikh-Jarrah to Gaza”, five scholars discussed the most recent developments and mobilizations across Palestine; in particular, panelists noted the intersections between various anti-colonial social movements around the world, such as those connecting Palestinian activists with U.S. abolitionists.
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Thank you for a wonderful, if unique year! We will be back in Fall 2021. Have a great summer break!
Special thank you to our CISSR Media Intern, Carolina Marques de Mesquita for helping us put together great digests all year. Best of luck in D.C.!
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