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November 15, 2022
State-Sponsored Transnational Repression: A Conversation with the FBI
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November 15, 2022
CITP Seminar: Shaddi Hasan – Lessons From the Edge: What Rural Connectivity Teaches Us About Next-Generation Networks
Despite significant increases in availability of Internet connectivity globally, hundreds of millions of people today are unable to access the Internet, the consequences of which have come into sharp focus in recent years. This talk will present research building systems to provide communications service effectively and…
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November 14, 2022
C-PREE Bradford Seminar: Taking Science to the Streets: Participatory Research Approaches to Improve Environment, Health, and Quality of Life in Urban Areas
Environmental justice communities, those disproportionately affected by pollutants, are simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental stressors and also experience social and cultural factors that may heighten their health risks in comparison to other communities. Availability of fine-grained, community-level data is limited…
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November 14, 2022
Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets
Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets (with Craig McIntosh and Meredith Startz) Search costs may be a barrier to market integration in developing countries, harming both producers and consumers. We present evidence from the large-scale experimental rollout of a mobile…
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November 11, 2022
MPP Forum: Policy and the Promise and Peril of Narrative
Behind every public policy, there is a curated narrative that compels policymakers and a subset of the public to support it. The presenter will draw on her years of experience as a communications director for progressive policy organizations and her 2021 research on how the so-called Great Tax Revolt of the 1970s sowed anti…
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November 10, 2022
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art" Lecture II: Negative Capability
ABSTRACT: The relationship between democracy and art has shifted simultaneously in opposite directions. On the one hand, very few people still believe that aesthetic experience has a positive political value. Yet, on the other, democratic practice is increasingly saturated in performativity and the fictional narratives of…
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November 10, 2022
'Imperial Knowledge' and Anti-Colonial Wars: What the Russo-Ukrainian 'Conflict' Teaches Us
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November 09, 2022
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art"
ABSTRACT: The relationship between democracy and art has shifted simultaneously in opposite directions. On the one hand, very few people still believe that aesthetic experience has a positive political value. Yet, on the other, democratic practice is increasingly saturated in performativity and the fictional narratives of…
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November 09, 2022
Princeton Live from COP27
The Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University/SPIA is sending a delegation of students, researchers, and faculty to attend COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18. We will be hosting two livestreams from Egypt on: Wednesday, November 9 from 12:00-1:00pm EST Wednesday,…
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November 08, 2022
CITP Seminar: Kathy Kleiman – Author of Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly…
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