Peter Berger, Sociologist, Dies at 88

Interview with Peter L. Berger on The Social Construction of Reality 

Globalization and the Rise of Pentacostalism - Peter Berger 

Peter Berger on the failure of the secularization hypothesis

10th Meeting of the Global Studies Consortium - Shanghai University June 9-10, 2017

SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY
JUNE 9-10, 2017

9:15-9:30: New Directions for GSC, Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB)
9:30 Opening plenary:“Global Studies Status Report, 2007-2017: Trends Across the Regions”
Co-chairs: GUO Changgang, Mark Juergensmeyer
Presenters: GUO Changgang (China); David Wank (Japan); Paul Battersby (Australia); Matthias Middell (Europe); Ilya Ilyin (Russia); Evelyn Davidheiser (N. America); Mahendra Lama (India/South Asia); ZHAO Wuming (discussant, Shantou University). [8 speakers @ 7-10 minutes ea.]
11:00 COFFEE / TEA
11:20 Plenary Session
Interdisciplinarity as a Research Framework in GS. Vladimir Pacheco Cueva
(chair, Aarhus); ZHAO Wuming (Shantou); Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh); Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang); Tommaso Durante (respondent, RMIT)
12:45 Working LUNCH: new program introductions (Florida International University;
Nankai University; China University of Political Science and Law)
14:00Parallel Session I
Panel 1: Internships and Service Learning: Beyond Study Abroad. Aigul Kulnazarova (chair, Tama); Donna Tonini (U of Illinois); Marek Musiol (Wroclaw); Danielle Dadras (respondent, Minnesota)
Panel 2: Publication initiatives, editorial opportunities. Jonathan Lewis (chair,
Hitotsubashi); Victor Faessel (UCSB); David Famiano (UCPress) 

15:30 COFFEE / TEA

15:45 Parallel Session II
Panel 3: GS Curriculum Design: From Undergrad to Grad. Hilary Jane Chung (chair,
Auckland); Li Si Ming (Hong Kong Baptist); Qing Lai (Florida
International); Gabriel Garcia Ocha (Monash); Dai NOMIYA (respondent, Chuo)
Panel 4: Global Learning and Global Language Studies. Guosheng Cheng (chair, RMIT); Veronica Dristas (Pittsburgh); Christian Hess (Sophia); Kelly Nicholson (Shantou); Lynne Li (discussant, RMIT)
17:30 RECONVENE, PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 17:45 DAY ONE END

9:00 Convene, Announcements
9:15 Parallel Session III
Panel 5: Populist Movements and the Challenge for GS. Matthias Middell (chair, Leipzig) Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB); Marek Wroblewski (Wrozlaw); Evelyn Davidheiser
(Minnesota); Alexander Gasparishvilli (respondent, Moscow State)
Panel 6: Publication Initiatives. chair, Victor Faessel (UCSB); David Famiano (UCPress)
10:45 COFFEE/TEA
11:00 Closing Plenary/Discussion: “GS Consortium – The Next 10 Years” Reports: 1) session chairs; 2) GSC Survey (Michael Goodhart, Pittsburgh); 3) Intra-GSC networking/info sharing (Jonathan Lewis, Hitotsubashi);

Discussion: GSC directions, next 10 years

12:30 General Meeting Adjourns
12:45 LUNCH
13:45 GS Consortium Business Meeting 15:30 CONCLUSION
15:45 OPTIONAL: discussion on editorial roles in GS journals, UC Press and global-e
(with David Famiano of UC Press and Victor Faessel, global-e)
18:00 GSC Dinner

Plenary panel: Interdisciplinarity as a research framework in Global Studies.
Panel organizer: Vladimir Pacheco Cueva, Aarhus University
The field of Global Studies opens new ways of examining socio-economic, political and cultural phenomena that transcends the national, regional and area studies perspectives, yielding ground breaking studies that expose the connections between seemingly unrelated concepts or that show how local issues are reflected at the global level. Even as the new epistemology creates knowledge that is both temporally and spatially inclusive, Global Studies is, to a large extent, still dependent on traditional disciplinary approaches of knowledge creation; the disciplinary “blinkers” inherent in these approaches weaken our ability to understand some of the complex

problems our societies currently face.

This panel will engage questions of whether moving beyond purely disciplinary approaches in Global Studies provides any conceptual breakthroughs, the types of interdisciplinarity that currently exist, and the uses they are put to. We may also examine the claims by Darian-Smith and McCarty (2016) that a new interdisciplinary research framework for Global Studies has the potential to: 1) become applicable and accessible to many scholars even when their research interests are not explicitly ‘global‘ in nature; 2) open up western scholarship to non-western modes of thinking; 3) foster inclusive, productive and relevant globally informed scholarship.

Panel 1: Internship and service learning: Beyond study abroad
Proposed by/Chair: Aigul Kulnazarova, Tama University
Global studies scholars, including practitioners and theorists, search for a clear sense of the unique mission of the global studies curriculum. Community engagement, which is significantly promoted through internship and service learning activities, could be one of the fundamental aspects of such mission because the field of global studies is aimed at educating globally- and practically-oriented citizens beyond knowledge and skills acquired “on campus.” Both internship and service learning are experiential in context; they involve the important element of active learning by integrating the “lived experience” approach into the academic curriculum that should itself distinguish the field from similar fields in that it notably transforms the self through self-learning (Nicolescu, and see Kulnazarova essay in global-e).
In light of this task, the panel invites global studies scholars to review past and current programs, and explore new trends and opportunities for global studies internship and service learning. Presentations are especially invited, but not limited, to engaging with transformation of traditional study abroad programs to address experiential learning practices and methodology covering the various aspects of global studies education, to discuss cultural, social and academic perspectives pertinent to different institutional locations and/or geographic regions, and challenges facing the development of global

studies internship and service learning programs.

Panel 2: Publication initiatives, editorial opportunities.
Proposed by Victor Faessel (UCSB), David Famiano (University of California Press)
The session will be devoted primarily to a brief update on the new rollout of the global studies online journal global-e and editorial board roles available to Consortium participants, followed by a presentation by David Famiano, Journals Editor at the University of California Press, updating last year’s presentation about the NOW APPROVED UC Press online journal platform Global Perspectives, and editorial and contributor opportunities for GSC scholars.

Panel 3: GS Curriculum design: From Undergrad to Grad.
Framing the Consortium’s perennial topics of curriculum design and “foundational courses” in such a way as to engage new participants representing undergrad and graduate programs (as well as those only dreaming of one), this session discusses types of courses, intended outcomes in terms of student skills/knowledge from different types and their combination, and how these integrate with and meet the overarching themes or goals of the program. This panel will include representatives of programs ranging from BA to MA/PhD. 

Panel 4: “Global Learning and Global Language Studies"
Proposed by Paul Battersby, Lynne Li, and Guosheng Chen, RMIT University
University academics generally fail to acknowledge the importance of multilingual knowledge and skills for the future careers of their graduates. This panel endeavours to explore the role of language learning, teaching, and research in the context of the “global” education underway today in diverse settings, including contemporary entrepreneur-style universities. Discussion topics include the business and economic value and the political power of languages that are looking to drive today's education and global learning agenda. 

Panel 5: Populist movements and the challenge for GS
Proposed by/Chair: Matthias Middell, Leipzig University
The years 2016 and 2017 have seen a growing concern with so called populist movements, governments, and politics. The common denominator seems to be an insistence on priority given to national interest and an opposition to “globalization” identified by many with transregional migration, while others address also injustices and inequalities caused by "global neoliberalism" or "neoliberal globalization." But what is the exact relationship of these movements and policies towards global connectivity, transnational entanglements, international policy, etc? This panel invites responses to the question: Is there a challenge to GS when populist politicians or parties argue heavily against globalization, and if so how do you react to it with your program? It is evident that participants in a global meeting of GS-programs can profit from the variety of situations with which we are confronted, as perhaps the story is not everywhere the same. Our strategies may also differ when it comes to the defense of “the global” in the name of our programs. There could also be inspiration for cross-program activities, since students may like the comparison as well. Therefore, also encouraged are proposals for teaching activities that may combine the strengths of our programs.

2017 Shanghai University New International Student Scholarship

Shanghai University New International Student Scholarship

http://www.apply.shu.edu.cn/sys/web/Scholarships.asp

* Applicable Programs:
(1) Bachelor’s degree programs
(2) Master’s degree programs (except MBA and MTCSOL*)
Note: MBA is short for Master of Business Administration;
    MTCSOL refers to Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.
(3) Doctoral degree programs

Go to apply :www.study-shanghai.org/
* Scholarship Coverage:
Full Scholarship:
(1) a waiver of tuition fee
(2) free on-campus dormitory accommodation
(3) Stipend:     Bachelor: RMB 1100/ month; Master: RMB 1700/ month; PhD: RMB 2100/ month
(4) Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Protection Scheme for International Students in China.
Partial Scholarship:

(1) a waiver of tuition fee
(2) Free on-campus dormitory accommodation
(3) Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Protection Scheme for International Students in China
* Schooling & Duration:
(1) Bachelor’s Degree Program: 4 to 5 years
(2) Master’s degree programs: 2 to 3 years
(3) Doctoral degree programs: 3 to 4 years
Note: The actual scholarship duration is subject to the information on Admission Notice, which cannot be extended in general.
* When to Apply: from present to April 15, 2017(fall intake only)
* ApplicantEligibility：
(1)Be a non-Chinese citizen in good health.
(2) Not be an enrolled degree student in Chinese universities at the time of application.
(3) Be a high school graduate under the age of 25 when applying for the undergraduate programs;                     
(4) Be a master’s degree holder under the age of 40 when applying for doctoral programs.
(5)Be a bachelor’s degree holder under the age of 35 when applying for master’s programs.
(6)Be excellent in academic and extra-curricular performance and yet not be rewarded any other scholarships offered by Chinese govern
* ContactEmail：apply8@oa.shu.edu.cn

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Economic Myths and Public Opinion by Milton Friedman

Economic Myths and Public Opinion by Milton Friedman
The Alternative: An American Spectator  9, no. 4 , January 1976 , pp.  5 - 9

T his morning I’m going to deliver a sermon. My theme comes from Josh Billings, the famous  American humorist of the nineteenth century, who said, “The trouble with people ain’t  ignorance, it’s what they know that ain’t so.” I propose to discuss five myths ab out American  society which are very widely accepted, which have a great deal of influence on public attitudes  and public opinions, and yet which in my opinion are wholly false.
The Myth of the 19th Century Robber Baron 
The first myth might be called the ro bber baron myth. In your courses in history — ordinary  political history, to a lesser extent even in courses on economic history — you will have learned  that the nineteenth century in the United States was an era of rugged, unrestrained individualism  in which  heartless monopoly capitalists exploited the poor unmercifully, ground the helpless  under their heels, and profited at the expense of the rest of the community. The rich got richer  and the poor got poorer; Wall Street was set against the working man. You w ill have learned  from the standard history book that the farmers in the Middle West were being ground between  the millstones of falling prices for the products they sold and higher prices for the products they  purchased. You will have learned that that was the reason for interest in the greenback political  movement, the reason for the development of the populist sentiment in the Middle West and the  South, the reason for that magnificent speech by William Jennings Bryan in 1896, when he asked  whether mankind shall be crucified on a cross of gold.

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Britons suffer 'historical amnesia' over atrocities of their former empire, says author

'Britain came to one of the richest countries in the world in the 18th century and reduced it, after two centuries of plunder, to one of the poorest'    

Matt Broomfield

The Independent – March 6, 2017

Britons suffer “historical amnesia” over the atrocities and plunder committed by their empire, Indian MP and author Shashi Tharoor has said.
Dr Tharoor said the British educational system failed to tell the real story of empire, and claimed Britain would have to accept Indian workers and students freely moving across its borders if it wanted to sell its goods in Indian markets following Brexit.
The former UN under-secretary general was speaking to Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow, and was introduced as “one of the world’s foremost diplomats”. He is the author of 15 best-selling works of fiction and non-fiction, all of which address Indian history, culture and society.
Asked whether colonialism was a British or an Indian problem, he said: “It is a British problem, first of all because there is so much historical amnesia about what the empire really entailed.
“The fact you don’t really teach colonial history in your schools... children doing A-Levels in history don’t learn a line of colonial history.

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Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER

The New York Times - MARCH 5, 2017

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named Renty, gazing sorrowfully but steadily at the camera. Taken on a South Carolina plantation in 1850, it had been used by the Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to formulate his now-discredited ideas about racial difference.
On Friday, Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, stood at a lectern under a projection of Renty’s face and began a rather different enterprise: a major public conference exploring the long-neglected connections between universities and slavery.
Harvard had been “directly complicit” in slavery, Ms. Faust acknowledged, before moving to a more present-minded statement of purpose.

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Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations

(WEEK 10) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Quiz-4, Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,
 
For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.

Global Governance
What Is Global Governance? By Lawrence S. Finkelstein
Globalization and Governance By Michael Zurn
Political Economy of EUROPEAN UNION by Tugrul Keskin

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of Global Governance.

QUIZ - 4: You will take the quiz-4 on TUESDAY. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING READINGS:

Global Inequality: Unemployment and Poverty
Inequality, Causes and Possible Future By Jeff Frieden

Human Rights and Women Rights
Sociology of Human Rights: Chapter 1. Introduction - Mark Frezzo (Sent by email)
Sen, Amartya "More than 100 Million Women are Missing.
Economist (2010) “Gendercide” The Worldwide war on baby girls” Print Edition. March 4.
"The Sex Market" NY Times.
"Women's Rights: Why Not?" NY Times. 
 
Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Political Economy of EUROPEAN UNION by Tugrul Keskin
Documentaries:
Global Warming or Global Governance? Documentary Environment
The Great Euro Crisis BBC Documentary
The Battle For Europe - After Brexit | BBC Documentary

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
Shanghai University

Free Online Courses:Qualitative Research Methods; Global Diplomacy; The Emergence of the Modern Middle East and Global History since 1910

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(WEEK 9) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Quiz-3, Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,
 
For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.

Human Rights and Women Rights
Sociology of Human Rights: Chapter 1. Introduction - Mark Frezzo (You will receive by email)
Sen, Amartya "More than 100 Million Women are Missing.
Economist (2010) “Gendercide” The Worldwide war on baby girls” Print Edition. March 4.
"The Sex Market" NY Times.
"Women's Rights: Why Not?" NY Times.

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of Human Rights in the USA and Europe.

Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 8 newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/, under the external links section. Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the Economist.
    
QUIZ - 3: You will take the quiz-3 on TUESDAY. YOU WIL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING READINGS:

Energy
World Energy Consumption and Resources By Gian Paolo Beretta
World Energy Outlook 2014 By International Energy Agency
Environment
Global Environmental Issues By S Vijay Anand
Water Security – National and Global Issues By U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program
Education
Rethinking Global Education in the Twenty-first Century By Sadiq A. Abdullahi (You will receive by email)
 
Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Human Rights in the World and Political Economy of China.
Documentaries:
Inside Story - Can China be a global economic leader? 
China Rises - City of Dreams (New York Times Television)

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
Shanghai University

(WEEK 7) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,

For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.

Global Inequality: Unemployment and Poverty
Inequality, Causes and Possible Future By Jeff Frieden
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfrieden/files/inequalitiesfutures_0.pdf
Political Economy of the MIDDLE EAST by Tugrul Keskin

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of Unemployment and Poverty in the Middle East.

Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Political Economy of the MIDDLE EAST
Documentary:
The Arab Awakening - Absolute Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtAG-eTri8E

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
Shanghai University - http://en.shu.edu.cn/Default.aspx

Final Paper Proposals For Global and Regional Development at Shanghai University

Global and Regional Development

Winter 2016-17

SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY

http://en.shu.edu.cn/Default.aspx

FINAL PAPER PROPOSALS FOR GLOBAL AND REGIONA DEVELOPMETN COURSE:

1.     Naxalite Movement in India: A Movement for getting Social and Economic Benefits for a Marginalized Community. Muhammad Qasim Sodhar

2.     On New Developments of Nationalism under the Trend of Globalization. Zhang Xiaowen

3.     The Changing Dynamics of Relationship between Bangladesh, India and China in the Context of Sharing of the Brahmaputra River Water. Hasina Afruj Shanta. 

4.     Chinese Migration Since the “Reform and Openness” Ma Ning.

5.     The Development of Social Welfare in the Post-crisis Era(2001-2013) of Argentina. Fan Wenhao. 

6.     Introduction to Modern Means of Communication and Its Impact on Socio-Political Thoughts of people of Turkestan during Tsar Era (1853-1917). Zahid Khan.

7.     The Authoritarian Neoliberalism: repression and economic reforms in Argentina during the military regime (1976-1983). Guillermo Salvador Marinaro. 

8.     Turkey’s Role in Southern Gas Corridor. Yi Dandan.

9.  Nationalism and ethnicities of Argentina in the XXI Century. Xia Tingting.

10.  “Was Neoliberalism? The economic reform (and it effects) in the third world during the nineties. The cases of People’s Republic of China and Argentina” Gonzalo Ghiggino.

11.  Land Acquisition for Urbanization and Social Security Policy for the Displaced People in Shanghai. Mazhar Abbas.

(WEEK 6) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Quiz-2, Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,

For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.

Education
Rethinking Global Education in the Twenty-first Century By Sadiq A. Abdullahi
(You will receive it by email.)
Ethnic/Religious Conflict
Crime and Security
Globalization, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationalism By Daniele Conversi
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/conversi/Globalization.pdf
Political Economy of LATIN AMERICA by Tugrul Keskin
Williamson, John. "What Washington Means by Policy Reform." Latin American Adjustment: How Much has Happened 7 (1990): 7–20.
Ocampo, José Antonio. "The Latin American Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective." Life After Debt: The Origins and Resolutions of Debt Crisis 87, 2014.

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of Education in China and USA or ethnic conflict in South East Asia.

Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 8 newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/, under the external links section. Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the Economist.
   
QUIZ - 2: You will take the quiz-1 on TUESDAY. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING READINGS:

Sociology of Work: Chapter 1 By Keith Grint
(You will receive it by email.)
Nunn, Nathan. "The Long-term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13367, 2007.
Political Economy of AFRICA by Tugrul Keskin
Nation-State, Nationalism, Citizenship and Immigration
Nationalism and Ethnicity By Craig Calhoun
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/U6800/readings-sm/calhoun.pdf
Ethnicity versus Nationalism By Thomas Hylland Eriksen
http://www.hyllanderiksen.net/Ethnnat.pdf
 
Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Education, Religious and ethnic conflicts and political economy of Latin America.
Documentary:
A balanced insight into the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict - "Common Differences"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8QfZw0XUo

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
China: 86+15000-465734
Turkey Cell: (90) 533-607-8465


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New Editorial Board: Sociology of Islam 2017

Dear all,

Greetings from Istanbul. We have a new editorial board for the Sociology of Islam, which you will see below. 2017 will be our 4th year and we appreciate your support and activity as part of the mailing list. So far, we have published 16 issues including three ‘special issues.’ We are happy to accept articles related with the Sociology of Islam and Sociology of the Middle East which are related directly with the topics of inequality, social movements, political sociology, religion, nationalism and ethnicity, modernity, work and labor, criminology, aging, environment, health, deviance, sexuality, education, and social change. For your submission, we accept articles from 8000–12.000 words in length. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me, Gary Wood or other members of the editorial board. Additionally, we are open to special issue proposals, please email your ideas to us!

You can submit your article to the following website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/SOI/default.aspx 
or send it to us for a prescreening process.  

Please remember that this is not a religious studies journal! All submissions must be related with the themes of Sociology of Islam and the Middle East.     

Our special issues can be found at the following website pages:

The Gülen Movement (Volume 1, Issue 3-4, 2014 )
A Guest editor: Joshua Hendrick, Loyola University of Maryland.
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22131418/1/3-4

Contemporary Social Movements in the Middle East and Beyond, 2014 (Volume 2,  Issue 3-4, 2014)
A Guest editor: Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22131418/2/3-4

China, Islam and Middle East (Volume 4, Issue 1-2, 2016)
A Guest editor: Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22131418/4/1-2

SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM:
http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/sociology-islam

Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Gary Wood, Virginia Tech
Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University

Assistant Editors
Sara Swetzoff, Howard University
Michael McCall, American University of Beirut

Associate Editors
Rachel Rinaldo, University of Colorado-Boulder
Joshua Hendrick, Loyola University of Maryland
Isabel David, University of Lisbon
Mark Gould, Haverford College
Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut
Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State University

Book Reviews Editor:
Joshua Hendrick, Loyola University of Maryland

International Advisory Board
Amr Osman, Qatar University
Armando Salvatore, McGill University
Asef Bayat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego
Bryan S. Turner, City University of New York
Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill
Cihan Tugal, UC Berkeley
Ed Webb, Dickinson College
Geoffrey F. Gresh, National Defense University
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
Husnul Amin, International Islamic University, Islamabad
Khalil al-Anani, Johns Hopkins University
Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University
Marc Andrew, Yale University
Mariusz Turowski, The University of Wroclaw
Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta
Mohammedmoin Sadeq, Qatar University
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh
Najm al-Din Yousefi, California State University, Chico
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University
Ted Fuller, Virginia Tech
Tim Luke, Virginia Tech
Zakia Salime, Rutgers University

Indexing and Abstracting
ERIH PLUS
Index Islamicus

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2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

James G . Mc Gann
University of Pennsylvania  
jmcgann@sas.upenn.edu

JANUARY 26, 2017

ABSTRACT:
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the r ole policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. Often referred to as the “ think tanks’ think tank,” TTCSP examines the evolving role and character of public policy research organizations. Over the last 26 years, the TTCSP has developed and led a series of global initiatives that have helped bridge the gap between knowledge and policy in critical policy areas such as international peace and security, globalization and governance, international economics, environmental issues, information and society, poverty alleviation, and healthcare and global health. These international collaborative efforts are designed to establish regional and international networks of policy institutes and communities that improve policy making while strengthening democratic institutions and civil societies around the world.
The TTCSP works with leading scholars and practitioners from think t anks and universities in a variety of collaborative efforts and programs, and produces the annual Global Go To Think T ank Index that ranks the world’s leading think t anks in a variety of categories. This is achieved with the he lp of a panel of over 1,900 peer institutions and experts from the pr int and electronic me dia, academia, public and private donor institutions, and governments around the w orld. We have strong relationships with leading think t anks around the world, and our a nnual Think T ank Index is used by academics, journalists, donor s and the pub lic to locate and connect with the le ading centers of public policy research around the w orld. Our goal is to increase the profile and performance of think t anks and raise the pub lic awareness of the impor tant role think t anks play in governments and civil societies around the glo be.
Since its inception in 1989, the TTCSP has focused on collecting data and conducting research on think tank trends and the role think tanks play as civil society actors in the policymaking process. In 2007, the TTCSP developed and launched the global index of think tanks, which is designed to identify and recognize centers of excellence in all the major areas of public policy research and in every region of the world. To date TTCSP has provided technical assistance and capacity building programs in 81 countries. We are now working to create regional and global networks of think tanks in an effort to facilitate collaboration and the production of a modest yet achievable set of global public goods. Our goal is to create lasting institutional and state-level partnerships by engaging and mobilizing think tanks that have demonstrated their ability to produce high quality policy research and shape popular and elite opinion and actions for public good.

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When Baghdad Was Beautiful and Old Baghdad بغداد قديماً 1966

When Baghdad Was Beautiful 

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4th International Course On Shia Islamic Studies" March 4-14, 2017 - The University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran

From: Ahmad Moghri
Date: Monday, January 16, 2017 at 8:23 PM
To: Sociology of Islam <sociology_of_islam-g@vt.edu>
Subject: Last call for: 4th International Course on Shia Islamic Studies (Iran, March 2017)

Dear Tugrul,

Would you please circulate the Last Call for the "4th International Course On Shia Islamic Studies" attached to this mail? It refers to a 6-Day academic workshop and 5-Day cultural tour In 5 cities of Iran in March 2017 organized by the University of Religions and Denominations (Iran, Qom) in collaboration with the Ferdusi University (Iran, Mashhad).

Registration deadline: January 31, 2017.

More information on details and costs is available at ​shiacourse (at) urd.ac.ir

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards

Ahmad Moghri,

Program Director

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Ahmad Moghri
Program Director,
University of Religions and Denominations
Qom, Iran

​shiacourse (at) urd.ac.ir