Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins

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The surprising results of India’s election

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Mark and Carrie: The Taylor Swift Marshall Plan

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William Miles –Niger’s Coup in Context: A Four-Decade Retrospective from the World’s Poorest Country

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Sama Alshaibi | Re-imagining the Female Figure in War and Conflict

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Mark and Carrie dare you to say “everything is great” right now

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Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia

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,Join us for Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia with subject matter experts Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah K. Khan, Deepa S. Reddy, Sylvia Houghteling and Yael Rice. “Nala as a Mirror to Buttermilks: Accessing Place and Time” with Deepa Reddy and Andrea Gutierrez “Ephemeral Tie-and-Dye” with Sylvia Houghteling Engage with your sense of smell while creating a foldable book that highlights the ovens depicted in an illustrated recipe book from early sixteenth-century central India. Art historian Yael Rice and artist Sarah Khan will guide you through the process and reveal invisible histories and narratives untold that include the migration of people, plants and ideas. Andrea Gutierrez teaches at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Asian Studies. Andrea uses Sanskrit, Prakrits, and Tamil languages to conduct research on projects concerning food history of South Asia and animal studies for the region. Andrea has recently published on medieval temple food in the Journal of Hindu Studies (“Toward a Better Understanding of Medieval Food Practices: The View from Srirangam” https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiad016) and on medieval captive elephant training (“Elephant Education, Linguistic Articulation, or Punishment? Gajasiksha as Interspecies Communication in Elephant Manuals of Early India” https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/conversations-with-the-animate-other-9789356403055/). Gutiérrez is presently preparing a book manuscript tentatively called Royal Pleasures: Recipes & Dining in India’s History. Sylvia Houghteling is an Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr. She specializes in early modern visual and material culture with a focus on the history of textiles, South Asian art and architecture, and the material legacies and ruptures of European colonialism. Houghteling’s first book, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Princeton University Press, 2022), a recipient of a College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant, examined the textiles crafted and collected across the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, showing how woven objects helped to shape the social, political, religious, and aesthetic life of early modern South Asia. Her ongoing research is concerned with questions of temporality and the unique material histories of the Indian Ocean trade. Sarah K Khan (b. Mangla, Pakistan) utilizes food to provoke thought about injustice towards people and the planet. She explores food, culture, women, migration, and identity in urban and rural environments. A maker and scholar, she uses photography, films, print-making, maps, ceramics and writing. A two-time Fulbright recipient, Khan earned a BA in Middle Eastern history and Arabic (Smith College), two Masters (public health and nutrition, Columbia University) and a Ph.D. (traditional ecological knowledge systems, plant sciences, New York Botanical Garden-CUNY). She has received numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies to pursue her work. Most recent residencies include Anderson Ranch Residency (2024), Women Studio Workshop (2023), Kohler Arts/Industry Residency (2022), Princeton Artist-in-Residence ArtHx (2021-22), Ellis Beauregard (2021), Monson Arts (2021), Project for Empty Space Feminist Residency (2020), Indigo Arts Alliance (2019), and as the Boren Chertkov Residency for Labor and Justice at Blue Mountain Center (2019). Deepa S Reddy is a cultural anthropologist with the University of Houston-Clear Lake: tenured faculty and then part-time working from India since 2000. Her book, Religious Identity and Political Destiny, was published with Rowman and Littlefield in 2006; she was part of an editorial collective that curated a volume on public expressions of hinduness, Public Hinduisms (Sage, 2010), which is currently being revised for re-publication. From 2004-8 she was co-investigator on an NIH-funded project to understand “Indian and Hindu perspectives on Genetic Variation Research”; between 2017-18, she was lead researcher (Chennai) for “The Asthma Files”: a global, multi-city study of air quality and environmental governance in cities around the world, including six in India. She has also published on the Indian women’s movement, caste politics, and religious nationalism, as well as on Indian and Hindu perspectives on human genetic variation, bio-politics, and constructions of the civic. Yael Rice is associate professor of art history and of Asian languages and civilizations at Amherst College. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia, Central Asia, and Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. She is the author of the recently published The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court (University of Washington Press, 2023).

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Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia

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,Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Khan, Sylvia Houghteling and Yael Rice — Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia Friday, December 1, 2023 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST McKinney, 111 Thayer Street Join us for Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia with subject matter experts Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Khan, Sylvia Houghteling and Yael Rice. Andrea Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. In her work, she researches Pre-modern South Asia, South Asian Food History, and Animal Studies in South Asia. She has delved into the historical intersections of food and spirituality in early India, and has not only explored diverse topics such as animal language in ancient texts and temple rituals but has also been recognized for their exceptional research through prestigious awards such as the ICAS Book Prize and the Getty Library Research Grant Sarah Khan is the EPE Director of Undergraduate Studies/Assistant Professor at Yale University. She researches gender and comparative politics, with a regional specialization in South Asia. In her work, she studies gender gaps in political preferences, and the barriers to women’s political participation and representation. She also researches strategies to prevent and address violence against women in the developing world. Sylvia Houghteling is an Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr. She specializes in early modern visual and material culture with a focus on the history of textiles, South Asian art and architecture, and the material legacies and ruptures of European colonialism. Houghteling’s first book, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Princeton University Press, 2022), a recipient of a College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant, examined the textiles crafted and collected across the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, showing how woven objects helped to shape the social, political, religious, and aesthetic life of early modern South Asia. Her ongoing research is concerned with questions of temporality and the unique material histories of the Indian Ocean trade. Yael Rice is the Chair of Architectural Studies/Associate Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia and Greater Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Between 2009-12, she held the position of Assistant Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in that capacity curated exhibitions of court portraits from South Asia, ragamala paintings, and works by Rabindranath Tagore and other seminal Bengali artists of the early twentieth century.

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Woman Life Freedom: The Art, Music, and Poetry of Recent Protests in Iran

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The Rhodes Center Podcast: An Immigrant Economist in the Land of Inequality

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Current Events in Israel–Gaza: The Abuse of Historical Analogy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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Palanivel Thiaga Rajan — Democracy in India: Constitutional Design and Realized Outcomes

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Mark & Carrie: Is the world worse because of Mark and Carrie?

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Mike Mochizuki ’72 — Is Japan Entrapped by US-China Rivalry?

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Polish, Ukrainian and Global Solidarities and Transformations in Epoch Ends

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Yamini Aiyer — Citizen vs Labharthi (beneficiary): Interrogating India’s Emerging Welfare State

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Current Events in Israel–Gaza: with Shaul Magid and Yuval Evri

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Chandra Bhan Prasad — Dalit Capitalism, A Memoir: A Self-Respect Movement

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Tariq Thachil Book Adda — Migrants and Machine Politics

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The Impact of War: An Update and Analysis on the Crisis in Ukraine

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Susan Moffitt – Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State

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,An expansive study of the problems encountered by educational leaders in pursuit of reform, and how these issues cyclically translate into future topics of reform. School reform is almost always born out of big dreams and well-meaning desires to change the status quo. But between lofty reform legislation and the students whose education is at stake, there are numerous additional policies and policymakers who determine how reforms operate. Even in the best cases, school reform initiatives can perpetuate problems created by earlier reforms or existing injustices, all while introducing new complications. In Reforming the Reform, political scientist Susan L. Moffitt, education policy scholar Michaela Krug O’Neill, and the late policy and education scholar David K. Cohen take on a wide-ranging examination of the many intricacies of school reform. With a particular focus on policymakers in the spaces between legislation and implementation, such as the countless school superintendents and district leaders tasked with developing new policies in the unique context of their district or schools, the authors identify common problems that arise when trying to operationalize ambitious reform ideas. Their research draws on more than 250 interviews with administrators in Tennessee and California (chosen as contrasts for their different political makeup and centralization of the education system) and is presented here alongside survey data from across the United States as well as archival data to demonstrate how public schools shoulder enormous responsibilities for the American social safety net. They provide a general explanation for problems facing social policy reforms in federalist systems (including healthcare) and offer pathways forward for education policy in particular. Conversation with the Authors Susan Moffitt, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of Academic Programs, Brown University Michaela Krug O’Neill, Research Investigator, University of Michigan Discussants: Andrea Louise Campbell, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT Magdalene Lampert, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, Boston Teacher Residency Design and Development Coordinator 2011 - 2017 Domingo Morel, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Service, NYU Suzanne Wilson, Neag Endowed Professor of Teacher Education, UCONN

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New Books in Public Anthropology Virtual Café

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Democracy Project Book Series Panel, Juliet Hooker, Black Grief/White Grievance The Politics of Loss

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Kiran Garimella ─ Misinformation and its Moderation on WhatsApp

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Colleen Grogan – Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State

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Industry, Sports and Corporate Careers in India: A Conversation with Parth Jindal ’12

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Lecture, Prof. John Aldrich, “Power, Policy, and Democratic Principles: Challenges Facing Congress”

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The Rhodes Center Podcast: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Part Three

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Defiant Bodies: New Research in Caribbean Sexualities

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Faculty-Student Research: The Issue of Domestic Violence and Gun Safety Reform in the United States

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Rethinking Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America

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Robinson Meyer — Bidenomics and the New Politics of Climate Change in America

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Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prisons, 1970-2020

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,Out of a pre-war Syrian population of 24 million, at some point during the ongoing conflict, there were about 250,000 Syrians detained in its many prisons, a percentage of the population (1%) that dwarfs that of many other authoritarian regimes. Imprisonment may well be a defining characteristic of postcolonial Syrian history, and its widespread violence under especially the Assad regime since 1970 has made a profound impact on Syrian society. Yet due to the strict secrecy, censorship, and pervasive fear surrounding prisons, as well as the ‘conspiracy of silence’ between perpetrators and victims, Syrian prisons have not been examined systematically. The initiative for Syrian Gulag emerged out of a 2017 meeting between novelist, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist, researcher, and former detainee Jaber Baker, and Üngör. The book offers an examination of Syria’s prison system, using a combination of sources and methods, including published sources such as memoirs, social media data, leaked regime files, and oral history interviews. It looks into the structure and functioning of arrest, detention, and torture, discusses the identities of the perpetrators, and probes the experiences of the survivors, including how they overall fared after fleeing abroad. About the speaker Uğur Ümit Üngör is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. His main area of interest is the history and sociology of mass violence, with a particular focus on the modern and contemporary Middle East. He has won several academic awards and held visiting positions in Dublin, Vancouver, Budapest, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Edinburgh. He has published books and articles on various aspects and cases of mass violence and genocide, including The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State (Oxford University Press, 2020), and the forthcoming Assad’s Militias and Mass Violence in Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

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Rohini Somonathan — Scheduling Caste: State-shaped Identity and Inequality in India

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BRIDGES Symposium- Cutting Edge Research by Young South African Scholars

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Protecting the Ballot: How First Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption

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,The Political Science Department presents A Distinguished Lecture Series on Emerging Trends in 21st Century Domestic and Global Politics Generously sponsored by Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureships Fund and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs October 4, 2023 at 4:30pm Stephen Robert Hall/280 Brook Street with reception to follow Protecting the ballot: How first wave democracies ended electoral corruption Isabela Mares, Yale University Between 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Such reforms came in a variety of forms. Some reforms imposed harsher punishments for bribing or the politicization of state resources during campaigns. Other changes improved electoral secrecy, providing better protection of voters’ autonomy. By mandating the presence of candidate representatives supervising electoral operations, reforms also reduced the incidence of electoral fraud. Drawing on an analysis of parliamentary deliberations and roll call votes in France, Germany, Belgium and the United States, this study explores how these electoral changes came about. It documents how elite splits facilitated the formation of parliamentary majorities in support of electoral reforms. The political composition of these majorities varied across countries and across reform dimension, depending on the distribution of political resources and the economic and electoral costs incurred by politicians with opportunities to engage in malfeasance. Unpacking the electoral determinants of the demand for reforms, the study provides an alternative to theories of democratization that emphasize economic considerations alone. Isabela Mares is the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and the Director of the European Union Center at Yale. She specializes in the comparative politics of Europe. Professor Mares has written extensively on labor market and social policy reforms, the political economy of taxation, electoral clientelism, reforms limiting electoral corruption. Her current research examines the political responses to antiparliamentarism in both contemporary and historical settings. Professor Mares is the author of five books. These include The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development (New York: Cambridge University Press 2003), Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment (New York: Cambridge University Press 2006), From Open Secrets to Secret Voting (New York: Cambridge University Press 2015), Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe (co-authored with Lauren Young, Oxford University Press 2018) and Protecting the Ballot: How First Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2022). The Politics of Social Risk was awarded the Gregory Luebbert best book in comparative politics award by the American Political Science Association and the best book in European Politics by the Council for European Studies. Conditionality and Coercion was awarded the William Riker award for Best Book in Political Economy by the American Political Science Association, the Best book in European Politics and was a runner up for the Gregory Luebbert Award. Her articles have been awarded best prizes by the APSA sections on Comparative Politics, Representation and Electoral Systems and History and Politics, among others. Professor Mares is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

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Admiral Scott Swift - A Responsible US Approach to the Chinese Military Challenge

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Watson Hispanic Heritage Month: Fireside Chat with Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders

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Watson Hispanic Heritage Month: Fireside Chat with Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders

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Total Information Awareness: High Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Mass Surveillance & Current Policy Issues

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Heroes to Hostages, America and Iran 1800-1988

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Annabel Daou | Declarations from the Fleeting Present

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,In conversation with visual and performance artist Annabel Daou, Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali and Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots will introduce her art and the social and political significance of her work. What role do rituals and day-to-day gestures play in her art? How does her work connect individual experience to collective action, memory and trauma? This conversation is part of a joint Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas. The series examines intersecting inequalities and body politics expressed, represented, and transgressed in both visual and performance art. About the Artist Annabel Daou’s work takes form in paper-based constructions, sound, performance, and video. Daou suspends, carves out, or records the language of daily life: from the ordinary or mundane to the intimately personal and urgently political. In her performance work, she explores questions of trust, intimacy, cross-cultural exchange, and the operations of power. Her work frequently evokes moments of rupture and chaos but with the tenuous possibility for repair. Daou was born and raised in Beirut and lives in New York. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including recently at The National Museum of Beirut; DG Kunstraum, Munich; and Arter, Istanbul. Recent solo exhibitions include “DECLARATION” at Ulrich Museum of Art, “Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and “Only If” at signs and symbols, New York. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, ARTnews, and Canvas Magazine. Public collections include The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; The Ulrich Museum of Art; The Warehouse, Dallas; The Morgan Library; and The Yale University Art Gallery. Recent residencies include the Pollock-Krasner Award at ISCP in New York and Haus Des Papiers in Berlin.

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When Will We Be Free? Scenes from a Historical Memoir on Colonialism and Freedom - Simukai Chigudo

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