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Congolese Research Network on Peace and Security (ResCongo) – Annual Conference 2018

ResCongo held its inaugural annual conference from September 27–28, 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 the Centre Culturel Boboto in Kinshasa. UVC director Dr. Tatiana Carayannis and program manager Aaron Pangburn were invited to attend as members of the advisory committee. ResCongo was created in October 2016 and is coordinated by Professor Jose Bazonzi (UNIKIN) and Professor Godefroid Muzalia Kihangu (ISP-Bukavu).ResCongo, the first national Congolese network of researchers working on peace and security issues, is …

2018 Negotiating Agreement in Congress Grantees’ Workshop

On Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26, 2018 the second cohort of grantees in the Negotiating Agreement in Congress grants program gathered for a closed workshop at the SSRC headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. The Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grants are designed to open a robust field of research that explores various dimensions of political negotiation in the United States Congress. The grants seek to inspire a young cohort of researchers, with diverse backgrounds and expertise, to jointly address the challenges of political negotiation. At this workshop, the second cohort of grantees assembled to present and discuss interim findings. …

“Democracy at a Crossroads” co-sponsored conference

The SSRC proudly co-sponsored the “Democracy at a Crossroads” conference, held in Mexico City, Mexico on October 30-31, 2018. The event was hosted by the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) with support from the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program, Columbia University, and Universidad de Guadalaraja. The conference brought together scholars from Latin America, the United States, and Europe, to discuss popular legitimacy, drugs and security, inequality, populism, and neoliberalism, among other topics.

APHA Annual Conference

Measure of America presents its latest youth disconnection report "Two Futures: The Economic Case for Keeping Youth on Track" about the long-term impacts of disconnection at the American Public Health Association's Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

SSRC-IFS Workshop: “The Will of the People”

This workshop, held at Columbia University, is the fourth in a series of convenings organized as part of a collaboration between the SSRC's Anxieties of Democracy program and our namesake European partner program, Anxieties of Democracy, at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies. The workshop explores the idea of popular sovereignty and how to define "the will of the people." Questions addressed include: What does it mean for the people to be sovereign? What is “the will of the people”?  By what criteria and by whom should this will be ascertained, judged, and acted upon? What is a valid method …

2018 Albert O. Hirschman Prize Ceremony

Friday, November 30, 2018 Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street at Park Avenue | New York, NY 10065 Cocktail Reception at 4:30 p.m. | Lecture at 5:30 p.m. On November 30, 2018, the Social Science Research Council, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study, awarded the 2018 Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Professor Jasanoff spoke on "Theory, Critique, and Discipline in a Post-Truth Age." Awarded every two years, the Albert O. Hirschman Prize is the highest honor of the Social Science Research Council. It recognizes excellence in …

Politics of Distribution Conference

On November 30th, 2018, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s working group on the Politics of Distribution will convene at Yale University for the presentation of book chapters. The book chapters will explore many topics, including: the roots of urban-rural sectionalism, perceptions of wealth inequality, and the spatial geography of wealth and precarity in the United States.

Abe Global Atlanta | Japanese and American Innovation in a Global Age

Georgia Institute of Technology, Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center 225 North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA, United States

Overview Both the United States and Japan have long taken pride in their robust scientific research communities’ contributions to economic growth and human welfare. But the slowing pace and rising costs of research, along with strong competition from China and India, have challenged both governments to rethink their approaches to science and technology policy and set agendas that encourage innovation towards solving demanding social problems. The Abe Fellows Global Forum will bring together experts to discuss how the United States and Japan are responding to these challenges, as well as the rapidly rising innovation hubs in China, India, and Singapore. …

Abe Global Washington, DC | Japanese and American Innovation in the Global Age

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States

Event Livestream Overview Both the United States and Japan have long taken pride in their robust scientific research communities’ contributions to economic growth and human welfare. But the slowing pace and rising costs of research, along with strong competition from China and India, have challenged both governments to rethink their approaches to science and technology policy and set agendas that encourage innovation towards solving demanding social problems. The Abe Fellows Global Forum will bring together experts to discuss how the United States and Japan are responding to these challenges, as well as the rapidly rising innovation hubs in China, India, …

VASS and SSRC Sign Memorandum of Understanding 30 Years after First MOU

The President of SSRC and the President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences signed a memorandum of understanding to extend over 30 years of collaboration in research, training, and scientific collaboration. Meeting participants: (Seated left to right) Alondra Nelson and Nguyen Quang Thuan.(Standing left to right) Van Tran, Mary McDonnell, Dang Nguyen Anh, Nguyen Thanh Ha, Nguyen Thi Hoai Le, and Nguyen Duc Vinh.   Thirty years after signing the first historic memorandum of understanding in September 1988, SSRC and VASS affirmed their intent to continue to cooperate in social science research, training, exchange, knowledge and data sharing, and …

China’s OBOR Initiative and Its Impacts for Asian Countries

WORKSHOP DIRECTORS: Anh Nguyen Dang Vice-President, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences danganhphat1609@gmail.com Wenfei Winnie Wang Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Bristol w.wang@bristol.ac.uk CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS: In 2013, Chinese premier Xi Jinping announced a pair of new development and trade initiatives for China and the surrounding region: the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “Twenty-First- Century Maritime Silk Road,” together known as “One Belt, One Road“ (OBOR). Along with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the OBOR policies represent an ambitious spatial expansion of Chinese state capitalism, driven by an excess of industrial production capacity, as well as …

Divine/Transcendent Rulers of Imagined Communities: The Rise and Fall of Royal Nationhood in Asia

Workshop Directors Wasana Wongsurawat Assistant Professor, History, Chulalongkorn University wwongsurawat@hotmail.com Michael K. Connors Associate Professor, School of Politics History and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus michael.connors@nottingham.edu.my Call for Workshop Papers The myth of the divine or virtuous ruler—the son of heaven, the Buddha reincarnated, the avatar of Vishnu, the descendant of the sun goddess, etc.—is just about as visceral and grounded in lived existence as the imagined community that is the modern nation-state, a form which has become dominant in the postcolonial era. And they largely shared the same technologies of propagation. Yet, these two imaginaries that have …

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