Join us for a fireside chat with Desirée Cormier Smith, the US State Department Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice. The first person to hold the position, Ms. Cormier leads the State Department’s efforts to protect and advance the human rights of people belonging to marginalized racial and ethnic communities…
Machine learning (ML) is being deployed to a vast array of real-world applications with profound impacts on society. ML can have positive impacts, such as aiding in the discovery of new cures for diseases and improving government transparency and efficiency. But it can also be harmful: reinforcing authoritarian regimes, scaling…
Joseph Bahout and Salam Fayyad will discuss the domestic implications for Lebanon of the regional rehabilitation of Assad’s Syria, and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.
Tuesday, April 18 | 4:00PM Beirut Time
This is an online event via zoom. Please register to attend.
Professor Patrick Devine-Wright’s expertise spans human geography and environmental psychology with a primary interest in the social acceptance of energy infrastructures, community engagement and place attachment. He is Director of the ESRC-funded ACCESS (Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science) leadership…
In this talk, Prof. Plan will present forthcoming work from two projects with an emphasis on their theoretical and methodological grounding probing connections between health and time.
