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| | Monika Nalepa recognized for outstanding graduate teaching & mentoring | | | |
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| | Please join us in congratulating 17-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow and 20-21 CISSR Book Fellow Monika Nalepa, who was recently recognized with the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. Professor Nalepa studies authoritarian regimes and transitional justice in post-communist Europe and serves as Director of UChicago’s Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab. Outside of research, Professor Nalepa dedicates her time to supporting graduate students and women in particular. Her nomination for this award was supported by five students whose nominating letters noted the collaborative dissertation meetings she organizes every week. According to Professor Nalepa, these group meetings have facilitated cooperation among her advisees while also helping her become a better advisor. Congratulations, Professor Nalepa! | | | |
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| | May 25Neubauer Collegium; Committee on Southern Asian Studies; Dept. of Art History; Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies; Dept. of Music Across the Bay of Bengal: Interwoven Voices, Lives, and Images 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; Seminary Co-op A City in Fragments 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | UChicago Global Social Theory Lecture Series Beyond the Sociological Canon: Towards Reconstruction 2:45pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies Shakespeare in East Asia 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 26UChicago Center for Effective Government; Chicago Center on Democracy; Democracy Fund Bureaucratic Resistance to Autocratic Ambitions 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory Exploring the New Regional Dynamics of the Middle East 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; Dept. of History; Center for East Asia Studies The Olympic Games and Human Rights in China 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; Seminary Co-op; Dept. of Sociology; Dept. of Philosophy; Dept. of Political Science Human Rights Book Salon: The Privatized State 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Romance Languages and Literatures Dept. Religion in Brazil 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | CEERES; Seminary Co-op CEERES of Voices: The Gentle Barbarian 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 27The Hong Kong Jockey Club; UChicago Academic Complex; UChicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong Revisiting the Paris Agreement and Asia’s Impact 7:30am, Live Stream
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| | Center for East Asian Studies Cassette Tapes and Bell Bottoms: Indians on Screen in Reform Era China 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Love in the Drug war: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border 19-20 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Sneha Annavarapu 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 28Committee on Social Thought Heidegger: Politics, History, and Modernity Graduate Student Conference (Day 1) 9:00am, Live Stream
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| | | UChicago Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group
Conference on Prejudice and Stigma 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow René D. Flores 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
Treasure Hunting and Necrospeculation in Turkey 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 29Committee on Social Thought Heidegger: Politics, History, and Modernity Graduate Student Conference (Day 2) 9:15am, Live Stream
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| | Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | June 3Mass Incarceration Working Group, Pozen Center Human Rights Lab; Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture “Changing the Things We Cannot Accept”: Black Women’s Vision and Leadership in Prison Organizing and Abolition Movements 3:00pm, Live Stream
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| | June 4Neubauer Collegium Gender and Sexuality at the End of History 10:30am, Live Stream
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| | June 7CEERES Director’s Lecture Khamstvo and Smiling: Neoliberalism Meets Post-Soviet Bureaucracy 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 26Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Global Affairs; Equality, Development, and Globalization Studies; EDGS Graduate Lecture Series on Political Ecology The Political Ecology of Native Presence, American Psyche, and John Muir 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | May 27Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Global Affairs Global Careers Speaker Series: Catherine Kelly 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignModern Greek Studies Program; Department of the Classics
Revolutionary Lives: Re-invented Selves Among the Greek Revolution of 1821 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | UC, Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies
Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | May 28Northwestern University Weinberg College Center for International and Area studies The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | “All eyes in Latin America will be on Chile”, says Michael Albertus
In a new article for Foreign Policy, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus examines the outcome of Chile’s recent election to choose delegates for a new constitutional assembly. According to Professor Albertus, democracies that shed authoritarian-era constitutions tend to make a progressive turn in forging new ones, helping pluralism, inclusiveness, and egalitarianism blossom. Nonetheless, the process of developing a new constitution carries risks: as the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela have shown, populist and nationalist impulses can win out, and without checks on power, some may be tempted to use the constitution to manipulate electoral rules or shuffle political bodies in their favor.
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| | Explaining political opposition in non-democracies
What explains increased protests during the 1953 uprisings in East Germany? When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would later become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was under Allied control, and was only ceded to Soviet control two months later. In a new paper, 19-20 CISSR Faculty Fellow Luis Martinez, Jonas Jessen, and Guo Xu argue that this brief period of Allied control increased protests during the major 1953 uprising. Using novel data on the appointment of local mayors and a retrospective survey, the authors show that even brief exposure to better governance and a more disciplined occupying force—what they call “a glimpse of freedom”—can increase resistance to autocratic rule during the early stages of nation building.
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| | Sneha Annavarapu publishes new study on gender, class, and cabs in Hyderabad
Women often manage their self-presentation and perceptions of sexual risk when navigating urban spaces. How do these strategies interact with a society’s existing class relations? In a new study recently published by Social Problems, 19-20 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Sneha Annavarapu investigates how upwardly-mobile women who use ride-share apps and lower-class men who work as drivers navigate temporarily shared space in Hyderabad, India. Using interview data and participant observation, Professor Annavarapu shows that women commuters and men drivers view the other suspiciously and as relatively more powerful than themselves, reproducing class and gender hierarchies.
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| | What will the world look like after the pandemic? | |
| | In a conversation with Euronews, 20-21 CISSR Book Fellow Karina Knorr-Cetina responds to this question and reflects on the lessons we’ve learned more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. While she doesn’t believe that the practice of social distancing is here to stay, Professor Knorr-Cetina does argue that the pandemic has revealed deep divisions within “the imagined community of us […] as a united people," and that these divisions show little indication of improving in the United States.
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