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Sacred Forests and Political Ecology: Cosmological Properties and Environmentality

Workshop Directors Bixia Chen Assistant Professor, Agricultural Science, University of the Ryukyus chenbx@agr.u-ryukyu.ac.jp Christopher Coggins Professor, Geography/Asian Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock ccoggins@simons-rock.edu Call for Workshop Papers This workshop analyzes the political ecology of sacred forests in East, South, and Southeast Asia, convening scholars engaged in field and archival research on the relationship between forests and the production of sacred space. Working within the theme of environmental humanities in Asia, we examine the vast geographic range of sacred groves in these regions in light of the diversity of cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems …

Sport Mega-Events as Hubs for InterAsian Interactions

Workshop Directors Susan Brownell Professor, Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Missouri-St. Louis sbrownell@umsl.edu Gwang Ok Professor, Physical Education, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea gwangok47@gmail.com Call for Workshop Papers Between 2018 and 2022, three consecutive Olympics will take place in East Asia: the PyeongChang Winter Olympics (2018), Tokyo Summer Olympics (2020), and Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics (2022). In the 122-year history of the Olympic Games, this will be the first time that multiple installments will be held consecutively in one world region outside the cultural West. Further, the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar, only the second hosting …

States of Fortification: Connecting Asia through Technologies of Food and Health

Workshop Directors Melissa L. Caldwell Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz lissa@ucsc.edu Izumi Nakayama Research Officer & Honorary Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong nakayama@hku.hk Call for Workshop Papers This workshop will focus on how technological interventions in food and health have informed projects of modernity, sovereignty, empire building, and subjectivity across Asia, with particular attention to the temporal and geopolitical modalities that have shaped and been shaped by these phenomena. Central to the workshop will be considering how “Asia” and its regions might be retheorized and remapped – …

The Netware of the New Asian Economy under the Industrial Revolution 4.0

Workshop Directors Salvatore Babones Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Sydney sbabones@sydney.edu.au Vinh Duc Nguyen Vice-Director, Institute of Sociology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences nguyenducvinh@ios.org.vn Call for Workshop Papers Social networks, the sharing economy, and the internet of things are all forms of netware: networks in which value is generated by bringing people and things together (consumers, providers, cars, bicycles, payment systems, etc.). These digital networks are driving forward a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” or “Industrial Revolution 4.0.” The fourth industrial revolution builds on the electronics revolution (IR3.0) to connect people and things in digital networks. The electronics and computer hardware value …

Climate Change Working Group Meeting 2018

The working group on climate change seeks to make the study of climate change a distinct and recognized area of study in the social sciences. Its steering committee convened to discuss several meetings and events of the past year, as well as new initiatives.

Anticipatory Social Research Working Group Inaugural Convening

The Social Science Research Council was pleased to convene a group of seventeen esteemed scholars who have been working in ways that might be identified as Anticipatory Social Research (ASR). This group will begin the work of defining ASR, identifying potential sites for ASR inside and outside the academy, and ascertaining examples of emerging phenomena that may be opaque to existing methodologies and in need of a more anticipatory approach.   Attendees Crystal Abidin Simone Browne Courtney Cogburn Kate Crawford Jen Croissant Carl DiSalvo Gary Downey Virginia Eubanks* Marion Fourcade David Custon Ava Kofman Andrew Lakoff Bill Maurer Shobita Parthasarathy …

Bi-Annual Fellows Workshop

United States International University-Africa Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya – Fellows from the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, during the second week of January for the 14th bi-annual fellows workshop.  The event was held in partnership with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), and in collaboration with the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) program, which held its grantees workshop from January 9-11, 2019. 28 doctoral dissertation proposal development and research fellows from eight African countries were joined by five dynamic workshop facilitators and convened in Nairobi for the three-day event.  The workshop was designed to help …

The Other Uncertainty: Social, Political, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts.

American Meterological Society Annual Meeting

Earlier this month, program staff from SSRC’s Scholarly Borderlands initiative attended the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Phoenix, where they hosted a series of panels entitled “The Other Uncertainty: Social, Political, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts.” These multidisciplinary panels aimed to bring deeper understanding of the complex social aspects of uncertainty into conversation with a field that is primarily focused on eliminating uncertainty from probabilistic forecasting models. Invited speakers from across the social sciences spoke to the myriad sources of individual, social, and cultural ambiguity that emerge, interact, operate, and propagate throughout the life …

DATA2GOHEALTH.NYC Webinar

Measure of America and the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York present DATA2GOHEALTH.NYC in the webinar "Unlocking Potential: New Health-Related Data for Decision Making & Community Well-Being."

Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective

Columbia University School for International & Public Affairs

The “Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective” conference, co-organized by the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program and Stanford University’s Global Populisms project, brought together scholars of comparative and American politics to present research on the role of parties, the legislature, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and other institutions in moments that challenge democracy. The conference was held in New York City January 31-February 1, 2019. Questions addressed at the conference included: • What role, if any, do democratic institutions play in enabling or exacerbating the growth of antisystem sentiment and/or populist appeals? How do the responses of mainstream parties and politicians affect …

Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective

Columbia University School for International & Public Affairs

The “Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy: America in Comparative Perspective” conference, co-organized by the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program and Stanford University’s Global Populisms project, brought together scholars of comparative and American politics to present research on the role of parties, the legislature, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and other institutions in moments that challenge democracy. The conference was held in New York City January 31-February 1, 2019. Questions addressed at the conference included: • What role, if any, do democratic institutions play in enabling or exacerbating the growth of antisystem sentiment and/or populist appeals? How do the responses of mainstream parties and politicians affect …

2019 SSRC Fellow Lecture: Lorraine Daston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xErFnyjMAA About the Lecture Long before there were computers or even reliable calculating machines, there were algorithms, recipes, and other rigid rules. But for just as long, stretching back to ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, the rule-as-algorithm coexisted peacefully and fruitfully with another idea of a rule: the rule-as-pattern. For us, who live in the age of algorithms, this centuries-long cohabitation between the most rigid of rules—the algorithm to be followed to the letter—and the most supple of rules—the pattern or model to be imitated but not slavishly copied—seems paradoxical. Lorraine Daston’s …

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