| | Kazuo Yamaguchi Recognized as Person of Cultural Merit by Japanese Government | | | |
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| | 2017-2018 CISSR Book Fellow and Ralph Lewis Professor in Sociology Kazuo Yamaguchi was recently recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government. The honor recognizes those who have contributed to the development of Japanese culture across a number of fields, including academia, arts, science, and sports. A ceremony honoring the achievements of 20 awardees was held in Tokyo on November 3. Please join us in congratulating Professor Yamaguchi for this recognition. You can read more about the award in English and in Japanese. A new English-language translation of Professor Yamaguchi’s book Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment was supported by a CISSR Monograph Enhancement Award.
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| | November 10The University of Chicago Divinity School Esoteric Theravada Meditation: Corruption or Abhidhamma? 11:20am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | November 11Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, 3CT, Division of the Social Sciences, and the College 2020 Kirchner Lecture: From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism 7:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | November 12CEERES Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes 1:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Committee on Southern Asia Studies The Federal Turn: Political and Legal Thought in Interwar India 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State Freedom of Speech: Hong Kong After the National Security Law 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | November 13Globalization & Anti-Globalism in Central Europe Virtual Conference Interwar Deglobalization and International Mobility 12:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | | Islamic Studies Workshop 2:00pm, Live Stream
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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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| | | | | | AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD | | | |
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| | Forging a more equal discipline: Adom Getachew interviewed by E-International Relations
In an interview with E-International Relations, 2016-2017 CISSR Book Fellow Adom Getachew speaks about her book Worldmaking After Empire and about exciting developments in the fields of Black Political Thought and postcolonial political theory. Professor Getachew also speaks about her current project, an edited volume titled W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Writings, and provides advice to young scholars of international relations. You can read the interview here...
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| | New research from Paul Staniland investigates the militarization of U.S. politics
For Foreign Affairs, 2019-2020 CISSR Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland and co-author Aila M. Matanock discuss their current research project. Drawing on the experiences of other countries and previous periods in American history, they consider the conditions under which armed groups interfere with electoral politics. By encouraging the involvement of armed groups in U.S. politics, they argue, the Trump administration has "opened the doors" to electoral violence in the future. Read more here...
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| | COVID-19’s Impact on Prisons in Colombia
For the Colombian newspaper El Espectador, 2020-2021 Rudolph Fellow Ángela Zorro Medina writes about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon Colombian prisons. Overcrowding and lack of adequate sanitation have led to more than 1,255 active COVID-19 cases in Colombian prisons, exposing deep-rooted problems in the country’s criminal justice system and the social cost of ignoring the human rights of the country's incarcerated. You can read the op-ed in Spanish here...
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| | Austin Carson interviewed by Big Brains Podcast | |
| | How do governments balance democracy and secrecy in foreign policy? For the Big Brains podcast, 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow Austin Carson speaks about the ways that governments employ secrecy to deescalate conflict and maintain peace. He also speaks about his frequent use of declassified materials in his research and makes the case for declassifying more historical government secrets. Professor Carson’s recent book, Secrets in Global Governance, was co-authored with Allison Carnegie and considers the role of secrecy in international organizations. You can discover more about their book here, and listen to the Big Brains podcast here.
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| | | | CISSR will return with a new digest on December 1. We wish our CISSR community a safe and happy Thanksgiving break! | | | |
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