Past Program Events 2021-22

Global Economics

Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China

With Ruixue Jia, associate professor of economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. November 15, 2021. Recording

Understanding and Managing Climate Risk

With Frances C. Moore, assistant professor of environmental science and policy, University of California Davis. March 28, 2022. Recording

The Economic Implications of Connections between Corporations and Politicians

With Cihan Artunç, assistant professor of economics, Middlebury College. April 12, 2022. Recording

Trapped: High Inequality and Low Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

With Marcela Meléndez, UNDP chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. May 2, 2022. Recording

Global Health and Medicine

Learning to Be Healthy, and Being Healthy to Learn

With Scott Pulizzi, visiting associate professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. October 7, 2021.Recording

Exemplars in Vaccine Delivery: How Understanding Positive Outliers Can Inform Global Health Policy and Practice

With Nancy Fullman ‘07, research fellow, and Gloria Ikilezi, associate director, Exemplars in Global Health, Gates Ventures. February 1, 2022. Recording

Digital Health: Supporting the Decentralization of Health Care to Increase Access to Quality Care Globally

With Megan McLaughlin, ThinkMD and Fordham University. March 2, 2022. Recording

Global and International History

Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Soviet Science

With Pey-Yi Chu, associate professor of history, Pomona College. November 11, 2021. No Recording.

Fascism and Its Global Rise

Panel with Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame, and Geoff Eley, University of Michigan. November 30, 2022. No Recording.

Ukraine-Russian Relations in Historical Context

With Serhy Yekelchyk, professor of history and Germanic and Slavic studies, University of Victoria (Canada). February 24, 2022. Recording

Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

With Victor Seow, assistant professor of the history of science, Harvard University. April 18, 2022. No Recording.

Power, Wealth and Global Political Economy

The Israeli Left

With Lior Erez, University of Haifa, Israel. October 5, 2021. Recording

Argentina: Economic Challenges, Sovereign Debt, and Implications for the Global Economy

With Cecilia Nahón, alternate executive director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, World Bank Group. December 2, 2021. Recording

Commerce, Coalitions and the Rise of the Firm: The New Politics of New Trade

With Mary Anne Madeira, assistant professor of international relations, Lehigh University. March 3, 2022. No Recording.

Security and Global Affairs

The War Origins of the Liberal Order: World War I and the Founding of International Economic Organizations

With Paul Poast, associate professor of political science, University of Chicago.October 25, 2021. Recording

Impact of the Fall of Afghanistan on the US in Asia

With Lisa Curtis, senior fellow and director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for New American Security. March 3, 2022. Recording

The UK and the World from Brexit to Boris: Toward “Global Britain” or Back to “Little England?”

With James Morrison, assistant professor, International Relations Department, London School of Economics. March 16, 2022. Recording

Information Warfare and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Ukraine and Kenya

With Theo Dolan ‘94, peacebuilding technical advisor. April 27, 2022. Recording

The Ukraine War’s Middle East Nexus

With Hanna Notte, senior research associate, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. May 6, 2022. Recording.

From the former Program on Global Anti-Racism:

The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy

With Daniel Q. Gillion, the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. October 4, 2021. No Recording.

Can Israel Become and Inclusive Society?

With Yael Tamir, president, Beit Berl College, Israel. November 3, 2021. Recording

Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonial Futures

With Yin Paradies, Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations Deakin University, Australia. March 17, 2022. Recording

The Caribbeanization of Black Politics

With Sharon Wright Austin, professor of political science, University of Florida. April 4, 2022. Recording