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Fireside Chat with Carolyn Ainslie, Chief Financial Officer, Gates Foundation
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 4:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Robertson Hall
Stewardship in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Gates FoundationThis fireside chat will explore what it means to be a steward of resources, mission, and reputation at the highest level. Drawing on her leadership role at the Gates Foundation, Carolyn will discuss how institutions can manage vast resources responsibly, and…
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Arvind Narayanan
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CITP Seminar: Could AI Get Worse? Bracing for Enshittification
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 12:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Sherrerd Hall
It’s a truism that AI is the worst it will ever be. But while model capabilities do tend to improve over time, users’ experience of AI as a consumer product is affected by many other factors. In a draft paper, Akash Kapur and Arvind Narayanan adapt Cory Doctorow’s enshittification thesis to AI, and argue that degradation of…
Arvind Narayanan
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Dilemmas in Inequality Speaker Series
Monday, September 8, 2025 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Wallace Hall
Suresh Naidu, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics, Columbia University Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.
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A Conversation on Developments in the European Union
Monday, September 8, 2025 4:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Robertson Hall
Philippe Etienne, a graduate of France's prestigious École Normale Supérieure (ENS rue d'Ulm) in mathematics, became a diplomat upon completing his civil service training at ENA in 1980.He has served in the former Yugoslavia (1981/83), in Moscow (at a time of important changes, 1991/1994, in charge of cultural , scientific and…
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Book Talk: We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
Monday, September 8, 2025 4:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Robertson Hall
Best-selling author, prize-winning journalist and New York Times corresponding opinion writer Michael Grunwald will discuss how to feed the world without frying it and how to fill nearly 10 billion bellies by 2050 without tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. Telling the stories and lessons from his rollicking…
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C-PREE Bradford Seminar: Conservation Biology of the Giant Panda
Monday, September 8, 2025 12:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Wallace Hall
During past decades, genomics and metagenomics have developed very fast, and are widely applied to non-model species especially wild animals to provide new insights to properly conserve the wildlife. The giant panda is not only the symbol of the world biodiversity conservation, but also a model to address questions of the…
the Parikh Family Fellow at the University of Southern California, Dornsife Center
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The Reagan Doctrine: Lessons for Today
Thursday, September 4, 2025 4:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Robertson Hall
Foreign policy during the Cold War served as a model for the US for decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but recent years have shown increased dissatisfaction with US international leadership and alliance management—whether you look at Obama's reduction in US commitment to NATO, Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan,…
the Parikh Family Fellow at the University of Southern California, Dornsife Center
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Non-violent Resistance and Pathways to Peace: Afghanistan's Struggle for Justice and Reconciliation - Organized by the Afghanistan Policy Lab (APL) and Central Asia Institute (CAI
Thursday, August 21, 2025 9:00 AM – 8:30 PM
By Invitation
Over the past four decades, Afghanistan has endured relentless violence and authoritarian rule, with the Taliban's return to power in 2021 creating a context where conventional political avenues for change have been severely constrained. Yet, across Afghanistan, diverse forms of non-violent resistance continue to emerge, from…
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Protecting the Network Traffic of One Billion People: Transport Security in the Global Mobile Ecosystem
Monday, August 18, 2025 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Sherrerd Hall
Final Public Oral (FPO)TLS is the de-facto standard for encrypting network communications. Today, upwards of 80% of pages loaded on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are encrypted with TLS. This might be the story for web, but what about mobile? Existing measurements of mobile network encryption fall short: they often focus on the…
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Her Right to Learn: The Crisis in Afghanistan
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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The Afghanistan Policy Lab (APL) and the Central Asia Institute (CAI) co-host a webinar on the situation in Afghanistan, with a focus on the situation of women and girls. This 60-minute webinar will share information on the four years since the Taliban retook control, with a focus on the disproportionate impacts on Afghan…
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