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State of the Nation: American Inequality in the Age of the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into paralysis, exposing weaknesses in public health policies, and revealing large inequalities of class, race, and gender. In the United States the crisis was compounded by nation-wide demonstrations in support of racial justice following the murder of George Floyd. Among those most…

Ari Waldman

QPP Webinar: Queer Lawyers and Queer Identity

Ari E. Waldman Professor of Law and Computer Science; Faculty Director, Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) at Northeastern University How has the movement for queer legal equality reckoned with sometimes conflicting questions of identity and litigation strategy? To what extent is queer identity front-and-center…

Ari Waldman

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CITP Seminar - Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past

This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision…

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C-PREE Bradford Seminar: Carbon Neutrality in China by 2060: An Energy Company's Perspective

Register here to obtain the zoom link China’s commitment to peak CO2 by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 is an ambitious target. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions from China in 2019 were about 10 GtCO2, with about half this total arising from coal power plants. A pivot away from coal as China’s primary energy source is a necessary…

Scott Siegel

QPP Webinar: Explaining Positions on Same-sex Marriage in Europe among Would-be MPs

Scott N. Siegel Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at San Francisco State University What affects the views of parliamentary candidates on gay rights, independent of public opinion? Political ideology and partisanship do not tell the whole story. Candidates' positions on same…

Scott Siegel

Lessons from Working across Faith Lines: What could a case study of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Boston offer our country?

Join LISD for a public lecture on "Lessons from Working across Faith Lines: What could a case study of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Boston offer our country?" with Yusufi Vali '05, Director of Immigrant Advancement for the City of Boston as part of LISD's Seminar on Global Diplomatic and Security Challenges and Program on…

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CITP Seminar: Combining Social Media and Survey Methods for Health and Migration Research

This talk discusses recent developments in the use of social media platforms as a source of data, and as a tool for survey research, in order to improve our understanding of migration and population health, and to support policy decisions. It concentrates on two main components: (i) the use of Facebook data to measure migration…

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Harold James

Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003 (book talk), Harold James, Princeton University

Zoom registration required. "Making a Modern Central Bank" examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy. This authoritative guide explores how the Bank of England shifted its traditional mechanisms to accommodate a newly internationalized financial and economic system. The Bank's transformation into a modern inflation…

Harold James

A Time to Build: How to Recover Trust in Institutions

Yuval Levin is the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy and director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and the editor of National Affairs. He is a contributing editor to National Review and his essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications including The…

CISS Academic Colloquium Series Presents: Russian Nuclear Strategy and Conventional Inferiority

Russian Nuclear Strategy and Conventional Inferiority Contemporary debates on Russian nuclear strategy focus on making sense of Russia’s nuclear capabilities, signaling and nuclear declarations. This paper argues that understanding how nuclear capabilities and strategy interact with conventional capabilities is fundamental to…