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Colloquium on Race, Education and Social Transformation
5pm, Kelly Hall, Room 108
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Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Colloquium
12:30pm, 1155 E. 60th Street, Room 101, Virtual
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January 12
Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
10:30 am, Social Science Research Building (SSRB), Tea Room
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January 16
Divinity School and the Martin Marty Center
9am - 5pm, Swift Hall
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The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts
12:30pm, Keller Center Room 0001
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Department of Romance Languages and Literature
12:30pm, Classics Room 110
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Katz Center for Mexican Studies
1pm, Virtual
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January 17
EPIC
8am, Virtual
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Center for Latin American Studies
12:30pm, Classics Room 110
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Film Studies Center
7pm, Logan Center Screening Room
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Department of Anthropology
3pm, Haskell Room 315
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Around Town and Down the Road
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January 9
The Council on Foreign Relations
9:45am, Virtual
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January 10
Northwestern University
1:00pm, Virtual
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Tuesdays 3:30 - 4:50pm in Pick 506
January 11: In the Hegemon’s Shadow: How Security Amendments to a U.S. Government Grant Shape Firm Behavior (Pre-analysis Plan)” - Zikai Li and Alex Tippett *joint with Workshop on International Politics
January 18: Kate Baldwin, Yale University
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Thursdays 12:30 - 1:50pm in NORC conference room, Room 232 at 1155 & Virtual
January 11: "How good are we at measuring global health? A case study of road traffic injury estimates" - Kavi Bhalla, University of Chicago
January 18: "Aggregating Inequalities: Analyzing the Regional Predictors of Child Maltreatment Investigation and Substantiation Density" - Tanya Rajan & Melanie Nadon
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Mondays 12:30 - 2:00pm in Pick 105
January 22: “Re-inventing the Schoolmaster, teacher training in early 19th century London” - Ksenia Podvoiskaia, Department of History
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Virtually on alternate Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm Central Time
January 9: “Feminist Aspirations and ‘The Thing Everyone Seems to Worry About Being Mistaken for Doing: Theology'” - Hannah Jones, CSGS Dissertation Fellow, PhD Candidate, Divinity School
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Various Wednesdays 4:30 - 6pm in Pick 105
January 11: "Whispers of Free Labor: A New Reading of the Bracero Program's Demise" - Nahomi Esquivel, specail joint seassion with Latin American History Workshop *special date/location: Pick 118
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Various Wednesdays 4:30 - 6pm in Pick 105
January 10: "No estan solos, You Are Not Alone: Resisting U.S. Immigrant Detention from the Inside-Out" - Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz
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Typically on alternating Wednesdays 12:30-2 pm CST in Stuart 104
January 10: Plant-Human Hybrids in the Peruvian Amazon, Lorna Hadlock
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Mondays 12 - 1:20pm in Pick 506
January 22: “Materializing intersectional oppression: An exploitation-first theory of class, gender, and race” - Nicholas Vrousalis
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Wednesdays 4:30 - 6pm in Pick 105
January 17: “Translating Nahua Textile Knowledge, Language and Femineity in the Early Hispanic World” - Andrea Reed Leal
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Fridays from 10:30am until 12:00pm
January 19: Dalton Conley, Professor in Sociology, Princeton University
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Thursdays 3:30 - 5pm in Pick Hall 506 & Zoom
January 11: In the Hegemon’s Shadow: How Security Amendments to a U.S. Government Grant Shape Firm Behavior (Pre-analysis Plan)” - Zikai Li and Alex Tippett *joint with Comparative Politics Workshop
January 18: “From the Bronze Age to Bismarck: Reconceptualizing Power as Adaptive Problem Solving and State Fitness in International Relations” - Meghan Iverson
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Ilana Ventura and Asst. Prof. Angela García Survey Remittances and the COVID-19 Pandemic Effect on Economic Resiliency
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Ilana Ventura, a PhD candidate in sociology and Angela García, an Assistant Professor of the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice & previous CISSR 20-21 Fellow explore the economic and socio-psychological migrant remittances from the U.S. during the pandemic. Remittances refers to the act of migrants sending money to their countries of origin for their family residing in the homeland. Within the scope of their paper, Ventura and García explain that especially for the smaller economies in the Global South, remittances can contribute more to the household economy than the domestically-earned active incomes of the family members, and for the some of the poorest states in the world, the remittances can sometimes accumulate to a larger portion of or even exceed the country’s GDP. Since many of these immigrant workers were employed within the service sector, and the service sector was among the hardest hit, the income consistency, security, and financial sustainability became topics of concern for the migrant workers. According to Ventura and García’s analysis, the remittance networks widened in the spirit of community and cooperation during the pandemic and the circulation schemes flexed to include not only direct family members but also acquaintances, and the social environment of these family members. Beyond these widened networks of circulation, remittances remained the same or even increased for migrant workers who were considered essential staff during the pandemic, such as nurses, direct supply chain workers like long distance transportation and medical cold chain employees, and employees whose jobs could also be performed remotely. For the food and short distance transportation industry, entertainment, hospitality, and some other sectors, the limiting effect of the pandemic was more pronounced and hence was the direct effect of the process to the money-making abilities of the workers in these industries. So, for workers in those industries, remittances slowed down, decreased in frequency, or periodically stopped during the pandemic. Still, as noted above, these decreases were sometimes compensated by the wider social networks and communal care that took place. Read the article published in the International Migration Review.
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Asst. Prof. Ryan Jobson Writes About Melville Herskovitz, Anthropological Imagination & Trinidad in American Enthnologist
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In his article "Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the anthropological imagination", Assistant Professor of Anthropology & 23-24 CISSR Book Fellow, Ryan Cecil Jobson, looks at the work of anthropologist Melville Herskowirz in Africa during the early twentieth century. Twentieth century was a time during which social sciences had split more and more into sub-disciplines, flexed their scope, and these differences between disciplines became more prominent. During this time, Herskowitz studied Trinidad, a country with a colonial history, and looked carefully at the cultural practices and rituals of an island, Toco, within the country. Shortly before Herskowitz’s visit to the country, an oil production facility had caught fire and many people lost their jobs. Focusing on this critical moment, Jobson asks why Herskovitz excluded such a traumatic and tectonic experience from his analysis, and why he focused exclusively on the cultural peculiarities of the region. Asst. Prof. Jobson asks, employing a counterfactual thought experiment, how the dynamics of labor, economic disadvantage, colonialism, and production interact with cultural texture. In the end, Asst. Prof, Jobson proposes the discipline of anthropology move beyond relativist and culture-oriented analyses and plunge more deeply into the structural and experiential junctures of the human practices. Read the full article in American Ethnologist.
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstore Publishes the 2023 Notables of the Year
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In December, The Seminary Co-Op released their notable books list for titles published in 2023 including many from faculty authors at the University of Chicago. The selection, which includes over fifty titles, features a rich and diverse selection that encompasses a wide variety of topics and disciplines. Among the highlighted titles from the selection, there is the freshly released book of our director Prof. Jenny Trinitapoli and the book released by previous fellow Asst. Prof. Sarah Newman. In An Epidemic of Uncertainty, Prof. Trinitapoli argues that Malawi’s AIDS epidemic and the possibility of having the HIV virus amplifies the uncertainty involved in reaching adulthood in Malawian youth. Prof. Trinitapoli argues that this uncertainty that affects roughly the half of all Malawian youth has effects that cannot be explained or remedied by exclusive medical or biological approaches. In Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things Asst. Prof. Sarah Newman argues that “waste is neither universal nor self-evident” and claims instead that waste—what we deem “unwanted”—is a relatively recent idea. According to Newman, Western assumptions about waste begin with an imagined long, dirty stretch of “ancient past” broken up by a few expectations. Newman moves away from this sanitized narrative and heads to ancient Mesoamerica where the story of waste is far from linear. Using examples and archeological evidence from before and during colonization, Newman shows that people have thought about—and used—“trash” in many different ways. Read more about these books and other titles in the Bookstore’s 2023 selection.
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