International Institute of Research in Paris (IIRP)

A multi-year collaboration led by Professor Paolo Privitera will establish a long-term collaboration with two leading Italian research institutions in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology to work collaboratively on open questions at the forefront of three research areas: Cosmic Rays, Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves.

With seed funding from the IIRP, the Center for Effective Government and the Chicago Center on Democracy will organize a series of programs as part of a new Cross-Atlantic Democracy Initiative, involving scholars and practitioners from multiple continents with deep knowledge about the vulnerabilities of democracy and the political forces that, by turn, reinforce and undermine its expansion.

Led by Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Kenneth Warren, this project seeks to leverage the partnership between the University of Chicago and the Institut des Amériques in order to advance research into African American and black studies across the Transatlantic area while creating and fostering new transnational networks of scholars who study the black histories of the 20th century.