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University of Michigan/SSRC Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2017 The Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute, “Media, Activism and the New Political: InterAsian Perspectives,” is pleased to announce the inaugural Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication. We aim to facilitate and advance rigorous inter-disciplinary doctoral dissertation research on global media and communication in a range of contexts worldwide. We seek to create a sustained and diverse network of advanced graduate students by providing the opportunity to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress. Goals By bringing together PhD students from media and communication programs (and allied …

SSRC-IFS Workshop: “Performance of Democracies”

https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/democracy-retreat-anxieties-democracy-programme   This workshop, held at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, was the first in a series of convening's organized as part of a collaboration between the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program and our namesake Swedish partner program, The Anxieties of Democracy Program. The workshop addressed the question of democratic performance, and why democracies are sometimes outperformed by autocracies. Topics included political legitimacy, socio-economic inequality, control of corruption, and sustainable public finances. The workshop was generously supported by the Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute for Future Studies.

County of Los Angeles 2017 Leadership Conference

Los Angeles, CA

Measure of America co-director Sarah Burd-Sharps participated in the County of Los Angeles’ 2017 Commissioners’ Leadership Conference, Embracing a Changing Demography as a speaker. Sarah presented the upcoming Portrait of Los Angeles County report to the County’s public policy community. See Sarah's presentation here: https://vimeo.com/219230958      

SSRC and VASS Workshop on Developing Policy-oriented Presentations

On July 14-16, 2017, SSRC Vietnam Program staff organized a workshop on developing policy-oriented presentations, in which the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) - SSRC research team participated. This was the final workshop of the longitudinal “Vietnam Population Health Study in Three Provinces.” The study is meant to measure the results of the Atlantic Philanthropies' comprehensive programming aimed at improving the commune health center (CHC) system in rural areas. The project goals include an assessment of how well the CHC model and its components work for different populations, particularly the disadvantaged, and an examination of change over time with …

Policy Roundtable: “Improving the Quality of Health Care at the Grassroots Level in Viet Nam”

Professor Hy Van Luong presents key findings and policy recommendations from the Population Health Study. On July 18, 2017, SSRC Vietnam Program staff organized a Policy Roundtable to engage stakeholders in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS)-SSRC logitudinal "Population Health Study in Three Provinces" and highlight key findings and policy recommendations from the study. The 49 roundtable participants comprised high-level and influential Party and government members, representatives from the Ministry of Health (MoH) and key national agencies and local NGOs, and project team members. The policy community welcomed the study's focus on commune-level health, emphasizing their importance to policymakers …

Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean

Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. The latest …

Lineages of the People: Embedded and transregional histories of contemporary populism

Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 1, University of Göttingen, Germany https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/565338.html   Organizers Srirupa Roy, Paula Chakravartty, Gianpaolo Baiocchi Institutions University of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies & Global and Transregional Studies Platform) Social Science Research Council, New York (InterAsia Program) New York University (Urban Democracy Lab) Overview The US presidential elections of November 2016 have shaken the enduring myth of American exceptionalism. For many international observers, the surprise and shock of Donald Trump's electoral victory and the ascendancy of populist politics have occasioned a strong sense of political déjà-vu. The Trump victory seems to fit well into a wider global series. India, …

Portrait of Los Angeles County Sneak Peek

Measure of America's Kristen Lewis will present a sneak peek of our upcoming Portrait of Los Angeles County report at the Southern California Grantmakers annual conference.

Health, Wealth, and Housing: Promoting Cross-Sector Collaborations for Equity Conference

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Los Angeles, CA

Measure of America co-director Sarah Burd-Sharps will participate in the Health, Wealth, and Housing: Promoting Cross-Sector Collaborations for Equity Conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Sarah will discuss the latest research and evidence-based strategies that move the needle on improving the quality of life for low-income families with other expert panelists.

SSRC-DFG Workshop: “Polarization, Institutional Design and the Future of Representative Democracy”

http://www.democratic-anxieties.eu/berlin/   This workshop, held in Berlin, Germany, continued the partnership between SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program and the Democratic Anxieties project supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The workshop provided an opportunity for American and German scholars of political institutions to present their research. Topics included legislative polarization, democratic institutional safeguards, the positives and setbacks of majoritarian institutions, and more.

2017 College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference

The inaugural gathering of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences brought together representatives from the then thirty-five institutional members of the Fund for a full day to discuss opportunities and challenges for the social sciences on their campuses and more broadly, and to explore the concerns of the SSRC's recently launched To Secure Knowledge Task Force. Born from the SSRC’s essential obligation to support the infrastructure of social research, the College and University Fund community discussed the current state of social science research, the integrity and accessibility of data and national statistical systems, and the institutional arrangements …

Abe Global Houston | Confronting Climate Change: What Can the US and Japan Contribute to Creating Sustainable Societies?

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Overview Please click here to view a video of the event. Energy-intensive production has been both a leading contributor to climate change as well as one of the keys to modern economic growth over the last several centuries. In the post-WWII era, the “economic miracles” of Asian growth—starting with Japan, and followed by South Korea, Taiwan, China, and now increasingly India—have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. At the same time, these “economic miracles” have created huge pollution problems which have adversely affected the health of millions of people while speeding up the effects of climate change. Some early …

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