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202. Starr Forum: The Israel-Hamas conflict: Expert perspectives on the ongoing crisis
- Author:
- Marsin Alshamary, David Kirkpatrick, Peter Krause, Steven Simon, and Evan Lieberman
- Publication Date:
- 11-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Speakers: Marsin Alshamary on the regional impact. Alshamary, MIT PhD '20, is an assistant professor at Boston College, and an expert on religion, civil society and social movements in the Shi’a Middle East. David Kirkpatrick on Hamas’s strategy. Kirkpatrick is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has worked for more than two decades as a reporter for the New York Times. Peter Krause on the historical context and Israeli strategy. Krause, MIT PhD '11, is an associate professor of political science at Boston College, and an expert on international security, Middle East politics, terrorism and political violence, nationalism, and rebels and revolution. Steven Simon on US policy. Simon, a former Robert E Wilhelm Fellow at CIS, served as the National Security Council (NSC) senior director for the Middle East and North Africa during the Obama Administration and as the NSC senior director for counterterrorism in the Clinton White House. Moderator: Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT and the director of the Center for International Studies (CIS).
- Topic:
- Security, Human Rights, Hamas, and Armed Conflict
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and Gaza
203. Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America
- Author:
- Susan Eckstein
- Publication Date:
- 10-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- About the speaker: Susan Eckstein is a Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and in the Sociology Department at Boston University. She has written numerous books and articles on Mexican urban poor, political-economic developments in Cuba, Cuban immigrants, immigration policy, impacts of Latin American revolutions, and edited books on Latin American social movements and social rights, and on immigrant impacts in their homelands.
- Topic:
- Poverty, Inequality, and Immigrants
- Political Geography:
- Cuba, North America, and United States of America
204. Starr Forum: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- Author:
- Daron Acemoglu and Fotini Christia
- Publication Date:
- 10-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity. Today, digital technologies and artificial intelligence threaten jobs and democracy through excessive automation, massive data collection, and intrusive surveillance. Will the next decades bring shared prosperity or a further move in the direction of two-tiered societies? Join us for this important discussion with Daron Acemoglu, the co-author of Power and Progress.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology, Communications, Inequality, Elites, Prosperity, and Production
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
205. Starr Forum: Rebuilding Ukraine While Under Fire
- Author:
- Oleg Ustenko and Simon Johnson
- Publication Date:
- 09-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- A discussion with experts--including Oleg Ustenko, the economic advisor to President Zelensky--on rebuilding Ukraine in the midst of the ongoing war. Joining Ustenko is Simon Johnson, professor at MIT Sloan and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
- Topic:
- Economics, Reconstruction, Armed Conflict, and Russia-Ukraine War
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Europe, and Ukraine
206. MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Future Leaders
- Author:
- Oby Ezekwesili and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 03-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The final webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Oby Ezekwesili is the former Minister of Education in Nigeria and a co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement. She is an economic policy expert, an advocate for transparency, accountability, good governance and human capital development, a humanitarian and an activist.
- Topic:
- Development, Governance, Leadership, Sustainable Development Goals, and Human Capital
- Political Geography:
- Africa
207. MIT X TAU Series: Africa's New Data
- Author:
- Kenfield Griffith and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 05-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The sixth webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Kenfield Griffith is the CEO and co-founder at Tappi.
- Topic:
- Development, Investment, Sustainability, and Data
- Political Geography:
- Africa
208. MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Forgotten Heroes
- Author:
- Kudzanai Chiurai and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 05-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The fifth webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Kudzanai Chiurai is a Zimbabwean artist and activist. His repertoire of art combines the use of mixed media which involves the use of paintings, drawings, videos and photographs to address and tackle social, political and cultural issues in Zimbabwe.
- Topic:
- Development, Culture, Sustainability, and Activism
- Political Geography:
- Africa
209. MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s New Activists
- Author:
- Busisiwe Seabe and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 05-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The fourth webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Busisiwe Seabe is a social justice activist in South Africa and a co-founder of the #FeesMustFall movement.
- Topic:
- Development, Social Justice, and Activism
- Political Geography:
- Africa and South Africa
210. Starr Forum: Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
- Author:
- Steven Simon and Andrew Bacevich
- Publication Date:
- 05-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Speaker: Steve Simon is the Robert E Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS). He is a non-resident senior research analyst with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—a think tank based in Washington, DC. He served as the National Security Council (NSC) senior director for the Middle East and North Africa during the Obama Administration and as the NSC senior director for counterterrorism in the Clinton White House. These assignments followed a fifteen-year career at the US Department of State and academic teaching posts. His newly published book is “Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East” (Penguin Random House, April 2023). The book will be available for purchase at the event.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Syrian War, and State Department
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Syria, and United States of America
211. MIT X TAU Series: Africa's New Development Models
- Author:
- Nicolas Kazadi and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The third webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Nicolas Kazadi is is a Congolese politician and career diplomat who has been Ambassador-at-large for the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 7 March 2019 and Minister of Finance since 12 April 2021.
- Topic:
- Development, Politics, Sustainability, and Models
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Congo
212. Emile Bustani Seminar: "The Egyptian army in the 1967 Six-Day War: Lessons for the present"
- Author:
- Khaled Fahmy
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Few events in modern Middle Eastern history were as central as the Six-Day War of 1967. Surpassed in its significance probably only by the Nakba of 1948, the Naksa, or “setback,” as the 1967 war was euphemistically called, saw Israel inflicting a decisive defeat on three of its Arab neighbors combined. Of all the belligerent countries, Egypt was the most deeply affected. Its army was obliterated; its territory occupied; its leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, once the undisputed leader of Egypt and the Arab World, was a broken man; and Nasserism was dealt a death blow. This talk looks closely into the performance of the Egyptian army in Sinai over the 36 hours of combat. It argues that while the defeat was inevitable, given Israel’s military, diplomatic and economic superiority, the scale, speed and depth of the Egyptian army’s defeat requires a close look at civil-military relations. Specifically, it looks at how the Egyptian army, starting from 1961, had deviated from its military mandate and encroached on all aspects of the economy, creating what was termed “a state within a state”. The paper also tracks the fatal steps undertaken by Abdel-Hakim Amir, the Army’s Commander-in-Chief, to snatch control of the army from Nasser, so much so that by the outbreak of the war in June 1967 Nasser was ignorant of his army’s true capabilities. The talk concludes by drawing comparisons with the present-day army under President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and asks to what degree the current army’s preoccupation running its economic empire has affected its fighting capabilitie
- Topic:
- History, Armed Conflict, Military, and Six-Day War
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Israel, Palestine, North Africa, and Egypt
213. Starr Forum: Chornobyl to Zaporizhzhia: The Atom and its Impact on Ukraine’s Politics and Security
- Author:
- Kate Brown and Mariana Budjeryn
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Speakers: Kate Brown is the Thomas M Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science at MIT. She is on leave from MIT AY2022-23 and at the Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies. Brown’s research interests illuminate the point where history, science, technology and bio-politics converge to create large-scale disasters and modernist wastelands. She has written four books about topics ranging from population politics, linguistic mapping, the production of nuclear weapons and concomitant utopian communities, the health and environmental consequences of nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster to narrative innovations of history writing in the 21st century.
- Topic:
- Security, Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Nuclear Power, and Chernobyl Disaster
- Political Geography:
- Ukraine and Eastern Europe
214. Majority Minority: How do societies respond to great demographic change?
- Author:
- Justin Gest
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Justin Gest is an Associate Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. He is the author of six books and a variety of peer-reviewed articles on immigration and the politics of demographic change. He co-edits the Oxford University Press book series, “Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship” and has provided reporting or commentary for ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, NPR, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, Vox, and The Washington Post. In 2014 and 2020, Professor Gest received Harvard University’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and George Mason University’s Teaching Excellence Award, respectively each university’s highest award for faculty teaching. In 2013, he received the Star Family Prize for Student Advising, Harvard’s highest award for student advising. In 2007, he co-founded the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE).
- Topic:
- Demographics, Immigration, Minorities, and Society
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
215. Starr Forum | Reinventing Japan...Again?
- Author:
- Richard Samuels, Mary Brinton, Eric Heginbotham, Ulrike Schaede, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Panelists discussed the changes underway in Japan across three domains: business, national security, social relations, and—undergirding each, in public opinion.
- Topic:
- National Security, Public Opinion, Business, and Social Relations
- Political Geography:
- Japan and Asia
216. MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Next Startups
- Author:
- Tidjane Deme and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The second webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Tidjane Deme is General Partner at Partech, co-leading Partech Africa Fund, Partech’s multi-stages tech fund exclusively dedicated to Africa's digital markets. He joined in May 2016. Prior to joining Partech, Tidjane worked for 15+ years in the tech industry in Africa, as an entrepreneur, a consultant and a senior business manager. He worked for 7 years as a senior manager at Google, leading activities in Africa. He started the Google Francophone Africa office in Dakar in 2009, led ecosystem efforts to support developer communities and tech startups across 15+ countries and led Google’s Africa Content Strategy, launching and growing YouTube in 6 markets. He also led business development for Google’s Infrastructure investments in Africa. Prior to Google, Tidjane was a tech entrepreneur who founded and led CommonSys, a consulting and integration company deploying e-gov platforms and enterprise solutions in west Africa. He also cofounded 2 startups, an e-reputation platform in Europe and a SaaS platform for African SMEs. Tidjane started his career working with Cap Gemini in France before joining Cosine Communications, a Silicon Valley startup building network virtualization technology for carriers. Tidjane grew up in Senegal until age 18, then moved to France to attend Ecole Polytechnique (Msc Physics), did an exchange program at Imperial College London, and attended Ensta-Paritech (Telecom and IT Engineering).
- Topic:
- Development, Digital Economy, Sustainability, Venture Capital, and Startup
- Political Geography:
- Africa
217. MIT X TAU Series: Africa's E-Governance, feat. President José Maria Neves
- Author:
- José Maria Neves and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 04-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- This special event is part of the MIT X TAU webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Speaker: His Excellency José Maria Neves is currently the President of the Republic of Cabo Verde. Neves was born on the island of Santiago and became interested in politics as a teenager. He graduated at the School of Business Administration of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil. Neves was Prime Minister and Head of the Government from February 2001 to April 2016. He presided over the PAICV - Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Cabo Verde), having won three national legislative elections. Moderator: Claude Grunitzky is the CEO of the Equity Alliance, a fund that invests in venture capital firms and startups led by people of color and women. Claude is also the founder of TRACE and TRUE Africa, two media companies championing the creativity of African youth. A graduate of London University and MIT, where he received an MBA as a Sloan Fellow, he is launching TRUE Africa University because he wants to help find actionable ways to nurture Africa's talent.
- Topic:
- Development, Politics, Governance, Sustainability, and E-Government
- Political Geography:
- Africa
218. Starr Forum | The Iraq Invasion: 20 years Later
- Author:
- Peter Krause, Marsin Alshamary, Roger Petersen, and Steven Simon
- Publication Date:
- 03-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, experts discuss the history behind the war, lessons learned on state-building, and provide commentary on that nation's future.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, History, State Building, Iraq War, and Invasion
- Political Geography:
- Iraq, Middle East, and United States of America
219. MIT X TAU Series: Sustainable Development In Africa: Africa's New Narratives
- Author:
- Moky Makura and Claude Grunitzky
- Publication Date:
- 03-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The first webinar in the third annual webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Featuring: Moky Makura is a Nigerian author, journalist, actress, and businesswoman who serves as an executive director of Africa No Filter, an organization aiming at inducing changes in Africa by means of mass media. She has a degree in politics, economics, and law from University of Buckingham. In 1998, she moved to South Africa, and in 1999, started her own consultancy company. She was Deputy Director for Communications Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and since 2017 the representative of the Foundation in South Africa. Moderator: Claude Grunitzky - CEO, The Equity Alliance; Chairman, TRUE Africa Claude Grunitzky is the CEO of the Equity Alliance, a fund that invests in venture capital firms and startups led by people of color and women. Claude is also the founder of TRACE and TRUE Africa, two media companies championing the creativity of African youth. A graduate of London University and MIT, where he received an MBA as a Sloan Fellow, he is launching TRUE Africa University because he wants to help find actionable ways to nurture Africa's talent.
- Topic:
- Development, Media, Sustainability, and Narrative
- Political Geography:
- Africa
220. Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender
- Author:
- Linda McDougall
- Publication Date:
- 11-2023
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Abstract:
- Over a decade before Margaret Thatcher swept to power in May 1979, another woman was running Britain from 10 Downing Street: Marcia Williams, private and political secretary to Harold Wilson. Having worked for Wilson since 1956, Williams became the Prime Minister’s trusted adviser and confidante forming, as the historian Ben Pimlott once described it, ‘the most famous and mysterious partnership in modern political history’. To mark the publication of Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by @BitebackPublishing, the @mileendinstitute4300 and Tides of History welcomed her biographer, Linda McDougall, to @QMUL@QMUL, where Marcia Field (as she then was) studied History from 1951 to 1954 and was Secretary of the Labour Society. Linda McDougall is a leading journalist, television producer and author of several books on women in politics. In addition to charting Williams’ rise through the Labour Party, Linda examined the assumptions and accusations that were a constant accompaniment to her political career and charted her influence on British politics and policy.
- Topic:
- Politics, Women, Domestic Politics, Labour Party, and Marcia Williams
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom and Europe