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African Peacebuilding Network Grantee Research Methods Training Workshop

Peduase Valley Resort Peduase, Aburi, Ghana

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program held a week-long joint workshop in Peduase, Aburi, Ghana for the 2019 cohort of APN Individual Research Grant (IRG) recipients and the 2019 cohort of Next Gen fellows. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the University of Ghana, Legon from June 24—28, 2019. 15 APN Individual Research Grant participants benefited from lectures, working group sessions, and one-on-one dialogues with experienced facilitators, including senior scholars, and current and former APN Advisory Board members. The grantees met from June 24th to June 26th, 2019. The workshop …

China-Africa Peace Fellowship Preparatory Workshop

On June 28, 2019, Understanding Violent Conflict Director Tatiana Carayannis and Program Associate Nisreen Yonis participated in the first of three workshops for the 2018-2020 cohort of China-Africa Peace Fellows. Guided by program staff and hosted by Professor Wang Yi Zhou, the deputy dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, the Fellows reflected on findings, challenges, and the current status of their fieldwork research and writing.

Abe Fellowship Setsumeikai 2019 – Tokyo

Japan Foundation, Sakura Hall

安倍フェローシップ・プログラムへの申請をお考えの皆様を対象に、下記の通り申請説明会を開催いたします。当日は、申請書・研究計画書の書き方についてご説明する他、過去の安倍フェローを迎えて質疑応答の時間も予定しております。ぜひ万障お繰り合わせの上ご参加下さいますようお願い申し上げます。   DATE&TIME：July 9, 2019 1:30 PM~3 PM  2019年7月9日（火曜日）13時30分〜15時   PLACE：2F Sakura Hall, Japan Foundation (4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) 国際交流基金（ジャパンファウンデーション）2階JFICさくらホール 東京都新宿区四谷4-4-1 http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/access/map.html   SPEAKER：Nishikawa Kunio  西川 邦夫 Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University | 2016 Abe Fellow 茨城大学農学部地域総合農学科 准教授  | 2016 年安倍フェロー 参加ご希望の方は、メールでabetokyossrc.orgまでお申し込み下さい。

Abe Fellowship Setsumeikai 2019 – Osaka

Kansai University Room, Umeda Campus, Kandai MeRise, Rm 705, 7th Floor 1-5 Tsurunocho, Kita Ward, Osaka, Kita Ward, Osaka, Japan

安倍フェローシップ・プログラムへの申請をお考えの皆様を対象に、下記の通り申請説明会を開催いたします。当日は、申請書・研究計画書の書き方についてご説明する他、過去の安倍フェローを迎えて質疑応答の時間も予定しております。ぜひ万障お繰り合わせの上ご参加下さいますようお願い申し上げます。   DATE&TIME：July 11, 2019 5:30 PM~7 PM  2019年7月11日（木曜日）17時30分〜19時   PLACE：Kansai University Room, Umeda Campus, Kandai MeRise, Rm 705, 7th Floor (1-5 Tsurunocho, Kita Ward, Osaka) 関西大学梅田キャンパスKandai MeRise　7階705号室 (大阪府大阪市北区鶴野町1-5) http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/umeda/access/index.html   SPEAKER：岡本 章    Okamoto Akira Professor, Faculty of Economics, Okayama University (2015 Abe Fellow) 岡山大学経済学部社会文化学科　教授  (2015年安倍フェロー   参加ご希望の方は、メールでabetokyossrc.orgまでお申し込み下さい。

Digital Threats to Democracy: Comparative Lessons and Possible Remedies

"Digital Threats to Democracy: Comparative Lessons and Possible Remedies" was a two-day research workshop that brought together both emerging and senior scholars to present comparative research on the impact of digital media on democratic processes and institutions, including topics such as dis- and misinformation, propaganda, and political polarization. The workshop was held June 13-14 at the Social Science Research Council in Brooklyn, New York. The workshop was organized in partnership with the International Journal of Press/Politics. Participants in the workshop were invited to submit their work for a special issue in IJPP, an open call for which is now available here (deadline: …

2019 Democratic Erosion Conference

To mark the conclusion of the second year of Democratic Erosion, a student conference will be held at American University on August 28, 2019. Democratic Erosion is a cross-institutional collaborative course that aims to help students critically and systematically evaluate the risks to democracy both in the US and abroad through the lens of theory, history, and social science. The syllabus project began in 2017, and the Anxieties of Democracy program is a proud co-sponsor. You may learn more about the initiative here.

Experts Consultative Meeting for Developing A Course Module for Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Africa

This meeting, organised jointly by the University of Ghana (School of Information and Communication Studies) and the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Network, convened on the 19th of September, starting off at 9 am. The two conveners, former APN grantees Dr. Admire Mare (Namibia University of Technology) and Prof. Audrey Gadzepo (University of Ghana), also the Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies, welcomed guests and proceeded to give opening presentations. In attendance were an expert group of media practitioners, lecturers of media studies and journalism across the continent, most of whom are former grantees of the …

2019 College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference

The Present and Future of Transnational and Global Research Monday, September 23, 2019 New York University New York, NY The 2019 gathering of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences brought together representatives from the fund’s member institutions to discuss persistent challenges and potential opportunities for the social sciences on their campuses. This year’s conference focused on the present and future of transnational and global research, and featured panel sessions on “Thinking Global AND Local: International Knowledge Production Today,” “Experiments in Global and Transnational Studies: Intellectual and Institutional Innovations,” and “The Internationalization of Higher Education: Peering Into the …

Sowing Resolution: The Case for Reparations in Action

What is the true impact of racial slavery in the United States today? Newly available archival sources and new technological methods create unprecedented possibilities for understanding America’s past, especially as it pertains to racial and ethnic groups that have been systematically excluded from traditional social and historical analyses. In 1838, Georgetown College (now University) sold more than 272 enslaved people (the GU272) “down river” to secure its financial health. The Georgetown Slavery Archive is beginning to bring to light, in unprecedented detail, how an entire community was transformed by slavery. https://youtu.be/ounvfHfjHCY As a national conversation about reparations takes root, the …

Sowing Resolution: The Case for Reparations in Action

Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

What is the true impact of racial slavery in the United States today? Newly available archival sources and new technological methods create unprecedented possibilities for understanding America’s past, especially as it pertains to racial and ethnic groups that have been systematically excluded from traditional social and historical analyses. In 1838, Georgetown College (now University) sold more than 272 enslaved people (the GU272) “down river” to secure its financial health. The Georgetown Slavery Archive is beginning to bring to light, in unprecedented detail, how an entire community was transformed by slavery. As a national conversation about reparations takes root, the Social …

Congolese Research Network on Peace and Security (ResCongo) – Annual Conference 2019

ResCongo held its second annual conference from 9-10 October 2019, in collaboration with the SSRC’s Understanding Violent Conflict (UVC) program, the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN), Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Bukavu (ISP-Bukavu), and the Conflict Research Group (CRG) at Ghent University, at Hôtel Beau Lieu in Bukavu. UVC director Dr. Tatiana Carayannis was invited to attend as a member of the advisory committee. ResCongo invited members and interested researchers to submit abstracts, draft papers, and present their work through a call for proposals. The theme of the conference was “Citizenship, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobility: A Look at DRC and its Neighbors.”The conference began with opening …

China-Africa Peace Research Fellowship, Writing and Research Workshops (New York)

The 2018-2020 cohort of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) China-Africa Peace Fellowship met for a second time for a research and writing workshop in New York. The first day of the workshop, (18 November 2019) served as an opportunity for Fellows to workshop and refine first drafts of their research papers through a collaborative exchange of ideas with Program Director Tatiana Carayannis, and a small group of invited scholars working on their topics. The SSRC’s China-Africa Peace Fellows received training and research support to travel to five field-work sites (Juba, South Sudan, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monrovia, Liberia, and Johannesburg, …

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