Exporting Capitalism with Ethan Kapstein: A PIIRS Director’s Book Forum.
Speakers
Ethan Kapstein, Co-Director, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project
Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies; Professor of History and International Affairs
Join us for a discussion regarding Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times by Eszter Hargittai, CITP Visiting Research Scholar. The book examines the hidden disparities that emerged during the global pandemic when access to education, work and even healthcare, hinged not only on access to the web, but…
The digital domain is fast emerging as a new site of global competition and conflict. The benefits of digitization have been immense, but so have the harms — rampant disinformation, privacy violations, cyberattacks, and the worsening of inequalities, to name a few. As harms proliferate and the technology rapidly broaches new…
From autocomplete and smart replies to video filters and deepfakes, we increasingly live in a world where communication between humans is augmented by artificial intelligence. AI often operates on behalf of a human communicator by recommending, suggesting, modifying, or generating messages to accomplish communication goals. We…
Now that the 2022 Midterm elections are (mostly) behind us, let’s have a bipartisan conversation about civil discourse: Why are we so polarized as a nation? How did we get here? Why don’t people on either side of the aisle seem to know how to disagree without being “disagreeable”? And what does all of this mean for the future…
Join us for a conversation between Naomi Murakawa and Ray Acheson about the connections between various forms of state violence, and the movements to abolish them.
From police and prisons to war and nuclear weapons, state violence is sustained by racism, patriarchy, militarism, and capitalism. Acheson’s new book Abolishing…
Tobias Schmidt is Associate (tenured) Professor and head of the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zurich. He also serves as the director of Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP). He is currently a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment as well as the Center for…
This talk will shed light on a facet of American life that legal and policy scholars have insufficiently attended to despite its conspicuity: leisure. Basic and sophisticated understandings of leisure define the term as time that is used for one’s personal enjoyment that is untied to work or duties. With this definition in hand…
Particulate matter dramatically lowers life expectancy in India, especially in north India where crop residue burning is a significant contributor to the air pollution burden. We use a randomized controlled trial in the state of Punjab to test the efficacy of conditional cash transfers (i.e., payments for ecosystem services, or…
