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Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey
Speaker: Zeynep Ozgen, Associate Professor of Sociology, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University.
The Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz: Rethinking the Future of Energy Politics
Speakers: Dania Arayassi, Assistant Director, New Lines Institute.
Hamad Althunayyan, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.
Sultan Alamer, Senior...
Edgy Aftermaths: Affective Legacies of Disaster in Post-Earthquake Turkey
Speaker: Dr. Chris Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College.
Book Talk: Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy
Speaker: Isabella Weber, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Governing Technology in an Age of Geopolitical Risk: Economic Security and Public Contestation in Japan
Speaker: Kristin Vekasi, Mansfield Chair of Japan and Indo-Pacific Affairs, University of Montana.
Whose AI? Whose Justice? Congressional Approaches to a Just AI Future
Speaker: Mark Lannigan, Regional Director for U.S. Senator Ed Markey; Fellow, Program on Science, Technology & Society, Harvard Kennedy School.
Risk Aversion and Barriers to Firm Growth: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers
Speaker: Grady Killeen, 2027 Assistant Professor, University of Chicago.
Far Right in Power
Speakers: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Professor of Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Director, Laboratory for the Study of the Far Right (Ultra-Lab).
Gabriel Vommaro, Professor of Political Sociology...
Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo
Speaker: Jelena Golubović, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Northeastern University.
Remaking the Economy: Performing Digital Sovereignty in Postcolonial Kenya
Speaker: Bulelani Jili, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust
Speaker: Aliza Luft, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Critical Minerals, Geopolitics, and the Green Transition
Speaker: Allan Hsiao, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
