CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
 

Photo by Pranathi Diwakar

 
 
 

Pranathi Diwakar Awarded Second Place in the Rachel Tanur Prize for Visual Sociology

 
 
 

Congratulations to Rudolph Award Recipient Pranathi Diwakar for recently being awarded second place in the Rachel Tanur Prize for Visual Sociology! Pranathi submitted a photo from her field research in Chennai depicting 12-year-old Poonga as he watches a group of Gaana singers recording a music video. In Pranathi’s field research, she explores the way in which Gaana musicians navigate caste, class, and stigma, and the photo “captures a moment in the process of Dalit self-assertion and their reclamation of stigmatized identities through style, music, and art."


 
 
 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 
 
  
 
 

Apr. 21

Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

International Law and Pandemics: An Overview in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis

Pedro A. Villarreal, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

12:15pm, Live Stream


 
 

African Studies Workshop

Wealth Acquisition and Marital Quality among Young Couples in Malawi

Johanna Oh, University of Chicago

5:30pm, Live Stream

Zoom link will be circulated via the ASW listserv


 
 

Apr. 24

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop

Simplification and Integration: Revisiting hun-ping (Spirit-Jar) in the 1st to 4th Centuries CE

Jin Hongxiang, Sichuan University 

4:30pm, Live Stream

For Zoom link, contact the VMPEA coordinators


 
 
  
 
 

Apr. 30

The Reproductions of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop

Song of Myself: Proximity, Reflexivity and Carnality in Migration Studies

Brandon Sward, University of Chicago

5:00pm, Live Stream

Zoom link TBA


 
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
   
 

Apr. 21

Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Thinking AIDS, Thinking COVID-19: Political Responses, Necropolitics, and Marginalized Populations

Steven W. Thrasher, Northwestern University

12:00pm, Webinar


 
 

Apr. 22

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Leadership and the COVID-19 Response

Anne-Marie Slaughter, New America

3:00pm, Live Stream

Registration Required


 
 

Apr. 28

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

From Islam to Oil: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Influence

Krithika Varagur, Correspondent, The Guardian

1:00pm, Live Stream

Registration Required


 
   
 

May 5

African Studies Workshop

Agrarianism against Empire: The Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa, 1953-64

Geoffrey Traugh, University of Chicago

5:30pm, Live Stream

Zoom link will be circulated via the ASW listserv


 
 

May 15

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop

Reconstructing the Nation: Contemporary Korean Photography Since the 1990s

Boyoung Chang, University of Chicago

4:30pm, Live Stream

For Zoom link, contact the VMPEA coordinators


 
 

ONLINE EXHIBITS

 
 

Oriental Institute

Hieroglyphic

Persepolis

Doing Business in the Ancient World


 
 

Smart Museum of Art

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China


 
 
 
 

NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Chicago, the Spanish Flu, and Coronavirus


Recently, Christopher Kindell, a postdoctoral fellow in the History department, participated in an interview for the article "How Can Chicago Reopen After Coronavirus? Here’s How We Did It After 1918’s Spanish Flu” in Block Club Chicago. By studying how Chicago and Illinois responded to the Spanish Flu, and how the city reopened, Kindell explains the similarities and differences between the two pandemics and what this might mean for reopening after coronavirus. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Emily Lynn Osborn Named 

Interim Dean of the Graham School


Congratulations to CISSR Faculty Board Member Emily Lynn Osborn for being named the Interim Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies! Professor Osborn currently serves as the chair of the Graham Faculty Board, and university leadership recognized Professor Osborn’s excellent work across campus and across disciplines in their announcement.


 
 
 
 
 
 

The Implications of Coronavirus in South Asia


CISSR Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland recently wrote a piece for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Coronavirus in Conflict Zones: A Sobering Landscape about how the coronavirus pandemic may affect politics in India, Pakistan, and Kashmir.  "In South Asia, the coronavirus will likely entrench the status quo, as state actors and mass publics focus their attention and effort on getting through the pandemic…" Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Coronavirus and Latin America’s 

Economic and Political Futures


Recently, CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus wrote "The Coronavirus Will Cause New Crises in Latin America” for Foreign Policy. With economic and political systems already strained, Albertus explores how many countries in Latin America responded to past economic and political challenges and what this may mean for the consequences that will follow the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

"The people will care for the people…"


In the midst of the coronavirus in the United States, citizens and leaders are responding with volunteerism and partnerships with private organizations and philanthropists. Sociology Professor Elisabeth S. Clemens explores the history of the United States’ limitations in initiating federal responses to crises in her Washington Post article "Our fear of government power has left us fighting covid-19 with volunteerism” and questions whether the current crisis could spark change. Read more here...


 
 

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Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh provides a dazzlingly rich ethnographic account of popular politics, crowds and mass protests in a country that is often known for its “bankrupt” democratic practices. I recommend it for its writing style, theoretical insight and its interdisciplinary nature. This book would be of interest to anyone remotely interested in social movements, postcolonial governance, affect theory, citizenship, and, most importantly, populism. 

— Sneha Annavarapu, CISSR Dissertation Fellow 

To visit Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury’s Amherst College faculty page...

 
 
 


 
 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


 
 
 
Yamaguchi, Tsunoda & Itakura: "Discrimination against women in entrance exam for medical school"
 
 
 

Discrimination Against Women in Entrance Exams for Medical School

 
 
 

A year ago, CISSR Book Award recipient Kazuo Yamaguchi participated in a discussion with two lawyers helping bring a gender discrimination suit against several Japanese medical schools  for  the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. Following the revelation that Tokyo Medical University manipulated scores of women applicants to keep the number of women in medical schools artificially low for at least a decade, an investigation into other Japanese medical schools found multiple instances of manipulating scores which became the subject of the lawsuit. 


 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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