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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Workshop Directors Eren Tasar Assistant Professor, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill etasar@email.unc.edu Mustafa Tuna Associate Professor, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Duke University mustafa.tuna@duke.edu Call for Workshop Papers For much of the twentieth century, Muslim intellectuals in virtually all the countries of Eurasia engaged with socialism as a utopian vision of progress and liberation for Muslim peoples. A vast constellation of figures promoted some form of socialism as a vehicle for national liberation and decolonization, from members of the ‘ulama sympathetic to socialism’s egalitarian tenets; to secular intellectuals educated in Westernized universities; to atheist communists who retained some …
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 …
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 …
