TODAY CARGC Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss on "Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era" Annenberg School bit.ly/2B8PoJ3 Mitchell L Stevens Seteney Shami Penn Global Penn Sociology Penn GSE Perry World House Princeton University Press #CARGC1819

Fantastic idea to do short videos with speakers, love this CARGC approach. So glad to talk with Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social about #SeeingtheWorld. SSRC Alondra Nelson Seteney Shami Mitchell L Stevens Princeton University Press @Meagan_Levinson

not so concerned about furthering their particular discipline, as they are about how social sciences, and by implication higher education generally, can contribute to knowledge that will improve the human condition and promote productive engagement between different cultures."

On a lighter note, ACSS had green almonds and loquats at the morning coffee break #MakingConferencesGreatAgain #ACSSConf2019

#latineast at the ACSS conference. Fernando Camacho Padilla digging through the OSPAAL and the Tricontinental archives in Havana to recover the history of Cuban-Middle East relations in the 1960s

TONIGHT @ 6.30 PM Seteney Shami will present on the politics of #knowledge production in the U.S. #academy and the future of knowledge in a #global era. RSVP here: ow.ly/xoNZ50puawv

Un gran trabajo de la SE de CLACSO que prosigue su camino iniciado hace CODESRIA y ACSS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ la construcción de sociedades más justas, con la escucha de las voces del Sur y sus experiencias de memorias ancestrales. Gracias thanks! Karina Batthyány Seteney Shami

Honored to read George Steinmetz's review of Seeing the World, the book out of our long-term SSRC research, in Contemporary Sociology Mitchell L Stevens Seteney Shami @jzfriedman Alondra Nelson Methodological Homelandism - George Steinmetz, 2019 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

After co-editing a volume w sami atallah in 2015 arguing in favor of decentralization in Leb, we are now seriously considering writing a sequel arguing against it. Decentralization assumes an accountable centrality, which Lebanon lacks.

Field visit to Baalbek, starts off with a meeting with the mayor #CSSInstitute2019

Mr. Sami Ramadan head of the cultural centre in the city explains its unique political landscape that is cross confessional and politically pluralistic , elected local council represent all political stripes #CSSInstitute2019

الدكتورة مشيرة الجزيري، المديرة المشاركة في المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعية تتحدث عن أفضل الممارسات لكتابة المقترحات للحصول على منح بحثية #CSSInstitute2019

Honored to be here! 🙏🏽

I've given up on a better future for Lebanon, we should work for a better past instead

We are hiring! please spread the word

I wish such a program was available when I was still a student!

Looking forward to this important conversation next week. Join if you can.

There's a heated debate going on about spoken versus Classical Arabic that's being conducted entirely in English.

Watch the full interview of Dr. Seteney Shami, ACSS Director General, on the Leadership Moves series with Mallika Dutt here: bit.ly/3Gsm66p Ford Foundation #interconnected #leadershipmoves

We call on the international community to condemn recent raids by Israeli armed forces on the offices of internationally respected Palestinian civil society groups, including our grantee Al-Haq الحق, a leading human rights organization. #StandWithThe6 opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-…