| | Announcing our 2021-22 Rudolph Field Research Fellows | | | |
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| | CISSR is pleased to announce the 2021-22 Lloyd & Susanne Rudolph Field Research Fellows. These sixteen students and their projects continue the legacy of field work research pioneered by Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph. Our newest cohort represents six departments, with projects spanning the study of Amazonian culture and spatial cognition, online media and politics in Europe, Senegal’s harbor spaces, domestic labor practices in Karachi, the legacy of memory and politics in post-genocide Rwanda, gender-affirming healthcare in China, the role of law enforcement in building authoritarians like Putin, and more projects all asking critical questions about our world. While encouraging all researchers to follow guidelines for ethical fieldwork research amid the continuing COVID pandemic, CISSR proudly provides this support to deepen their understanding and improve their research. With interdisciplinary rigor and international dimensions, our fieldwork Fellows build upon ideas and ultimately transform their projects for the better. | | | |
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| | May 11Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts Addressing Internal Displacement: A Critical Step Towards Peace and Sustainable Development 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Recovering Histories: Immigrants, Immigration and Social Work 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 12Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies What is Happening in Russia? Understanding the 2021 Protests 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | 3CT; The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Academic Labor in Crisis Times: Kandice Chuh and Heather Steffen 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | The Tsinghua University-UChicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance; Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China; the National Institute for Fiscal Studies; School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University China Biweekly Seminar on Public Economics: Silvia Vannutelli 8:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 13Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society The Formation of Fin de Siècle Vienna 9:30am, Live Stream
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| | UChicago Department of Political Science; 3CT; the Chicago Center on Democracy; and the Arab Studies Institute Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom: Hungary, India, Turkey, and Beyond 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | The Black Freedom Lectures Racism & Medicine with Dorothy E. Roberts 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Engendering citizenship: Global mobilizations for equality, autonomy, and life 6:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Chicago Humanities Festival and Seminary Co-op Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 14Division of the Social Sciences The 27th Annual Trial Research Conference 9:00am, Live Stream
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| | Center for International Social Science Research Resistance & Opposition to Liberal International Institutions 9:00am, Live Stream
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| | | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School Making Gender Equality a Reality: Women’s Rights and Constitutional Reform in the Americas 9:15am, Live Stream
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| | May 17Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion Chinese Public Theology: Significance of Limitations for World Christianity 11:20am, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies
The Dharma of Sex: The Body in Medieval Tendai Sexual Consecrations 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies My Life as a Spy: A CEERES of Voices Conversation with Katherine Verdery 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 18Chicago Global and the Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago A Cross-Border Journey to Advance Breast Cancer Research 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies Reading as Surveillance Work: YuJian’s File Zero 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; the Department of History; and the Center for East Asian Studies 1989: Tiananmen, the Chinese Democracy Movement, the Massacre, and its Impact 7:40pm, Live Stream
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| | May 19Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; and the Department of English at the University of Chicago Human Rights Book Salon: “Runaway Genres" 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 203CT; The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Academic Labor in Crisis Times: Jennifer Doyle and Nick Mitchell 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | The Black Freedom Lectures Black Internationalism, Marxism, and Anti-Fascism with Barbara Ransby 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies 2021 Dumanian Lecture Series: “Towards as an Armenian Futurism” 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Becker Friedman Institute China China in Today’s World Seminar Series—The Party: Past, Present and Future 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 21Center for Middle Eastern Studies Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture Series Christian doctors and secretaries as poets in Ottoman Syria (17th and 18th centuries)
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| | | African Studies WorkshopMatthew Knisley Matthew Knisley, 18-19 CISSR Dissertation Fellow 5:30pm, 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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| | May 11Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Food Security Symposium 2021 10:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Northwestern University Latin American and Caribbean Studies; African American Studies Department; Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group Questioning the Racial Thermometer: Black Intellectual Vanguards and their Arguments for Equality in Colombia, 1885-1948 12:30pm, Live Stream
Registration is required. This event will be in Spanish.
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| | Harvard Radcliffe Institute Vaccine Equity and Efficacy in the United States and the World 3:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 12Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Global Affairs; Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Decentralizing as Self-Determination?: Reframing the question of minority rights in Turkey 1:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Stanford University Center for South Asia, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Farmers’ Protest in India 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 13Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Global Affairs Global Careers Speaker Series: Sakhile Matlhare 12:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | The Harvard Global Health Institute; FXB Center for Health and Human Rights A Perpetual Crisis: Reflections on Renewed Public Health Failures at the U.S./Mexico Border 11:00am, Live Stream
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| | May 14Stanford University Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, The Europe Center Eurovision and Intervision: The Politics of Europe’s Song Contests 2:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University
The End of the World as They Knew It: Crisis and Collapse in History 1:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Hiroko Kumaki receives Richard Saller Dissertation Prize
Please join us in congratulations 19-20 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Hiroko Kumaki for receiving the Richard Saller Dissertation Prize, awarded each year to the most outstanding dissertations within the Social Sciences Division. Dr. Kumaki is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. Her dissertation is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during reconstruction from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Congratulations, Dr. Kumaki!
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| | Theorizing international law from the journey of the enslaved
In a new essay for the UCLA Law Review, 19-20 CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li poses the following question: What would international legal theorizing look like not from the place of the metropole or the colony, but rather from the journey of the enslaved, from the barracoon to the hold of the slave ship to the plantation? In response to limited accounts of race in contemporary international legal doctrine, Professor Li turns to the work of Jamaican thinker Sylvia Wynter. Doing so, he argues, can help reframe international law’s “origin myth” about 1492 as a triangular encounter between Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and enslaved Africans. “Theorizing from the history of Atlantic slavery,” writes Professor Li, “is useful for confronting the key weaknesses in international law’s prevailing approaches to race and, by extension, its assumptions about the category of humanity.”
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| | Carl Kubler awarded Mellon/ACLS Fellowship
21-22 Dissertation Fellow and 19-20 Rudolph Field Research Grantee Carl Kubler was recently selected as a 2021 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies. Carl’s dissertation examines 19th century daily life in the South China Coast. Whereas most scholars have argued that 19th century encounters between China and the West were characterized by cross-cultural misunderstanding and legal disputes, Carl shows that active problem solving, often driven by shared economic incentives, was actually the norm in this “globally entangled society”. Carl previously received a summer travel grant from the Henry Luce/ACLS Program in 2017. Congratulations, Carl!
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| | Mary Brinton & Kazuo Yamaguchi discuss errors in Japanese family policy | |
| | For three decades, the Japanese government has enacted a series of measures to increase the country's birth rate. Despite these efforts, the birth rate remains far below what is required for the country’s population to reproduce itself. For the 14th Annual Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies, Harvard sociologist Mary Brinton is joined by 17-18 CISSR Book Workshop Fellow and discussant Kazuo Yamaguchi to examine why such policies have not only failed to make a population-level impact, but have arguably exacerbated gender inequality.
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