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… globe on December 6-7 to discuss some of the most pressing social, political and cultural issues facing Europe today.  … (see slideshow) The conference opened with a panel on contemporary cultural production in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. … international partners continued during the day’s final event—a keynote speech about contemporary security challenges …

… (Yale, Anthropology) The Workshop on Rural Modernities in Contemporary India was envisaged as a workshop that would bring perspectives from across the social sciences and humanities together, on the theme of how … historicizing vernacular modernities beyond the colonial event of modernity, and of interrogating the category of the …

… surrounding questions of citizenship and belonging in contemporary Europe. I will also draw some comparison to the … shaped by political and institutional rather than narrowly social and economic forces, any account of slave portraiture needs to move beyond the techniques of social and cultural history (the techniques espouse by the …

… Professor Seth Jacobowitz’s Writing Technology in Meiji Japan was awarded the 2017 International Convention of Asia … conference: Superbly written, Writing Technology in Meiji Japan deploys a sophisticated analytical prism to examine the … for its increasing efforts toward standardization. Meiji Japan is masterfully placed in conversation with the global …

… and how works like Yamashiro’s may intervene in the social and intersubjective experience of living under … is an Associate Professor in the international program of “Japan-in-Asia” Cultural Studies (JACS) and Screen Studies … the author of Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). In …

… and how works like Yamashiro’s may intervene in the social and intersubjective experience of living under … is an Associate Professor in the international program of “Japan-in-Asia” Cultural Studies (JACS) and Screen Studies … the author of Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). In …

… over her house in Novoazovsk for a long time), and for her social media activity. Lyudmila was initially detained in the …

… borders that separated Ewe-speaking communities between contemporary Togo and Ghana. But these individual stories … women about the birth of their first child because this event is seen as the marker of the transition to womanhood in … individual histories only gain meaning when they reaffirm social relations within the community as whole. While many …

… . Julia Cross is a historian of medieval Japan, specializing in religion, death, and the body. Drawing … and art, her research examines how people in medieval Japan attributed religious and social significance to the body, specifically the sacred …

… His research focuses on political communication in contemporary China. With the rise of the internet, smartphones, and social media, social science is becoming increasingly … than 700 million, respond to an unprecedented political event, for example, the most recent announcements of …

… of Cape Town, South Africa; Director, Centre for Social Science Research; Head, AIDS and Society Research … University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Research interest: Agency, anti-slavery, parliament and the era of Reform in the … Moscow State University, Russia Research interest: Health care reform and the Clinton Administration (1993-2000) Rupert …