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SUMMARY:Workshop: Local Governance and the Path to Peace in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:Date: September 12-13\, 2024 \nLocation: Center for Governance and Markets\, University of Pittsburgh \nJoin us for a critical workshop titled “Local Governance and the Path to Peace in Myanmar\,” organized by the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. This event is a timely response to the rapidly evolving situation in Myanmar\, aiming to foster discussions and strategies for resolving long-standing conflicts and building trust among diverse ethnic and regional groups in the country. \nWorkshop Overview: \nThis workshop will bring together scholars\, practitioners\, and civil society leaders\, along with US-based academics and political scientists\, to exchange experiences and strategies for tackling local challenges and fostering trust across ethnic and regional divides. The discussions will focus on alternative governance arrangements developed by civil society groups in Myanmar\, with particular attention to: \n\nGovernance and Conflict Resolution: Exploring innovative governance models and strategies that address the root causes of conflicts in Myanmar.\nRegional Stability: Analyzing the role of local governance in promoting regional stability and democratic governance.\nPublic Service Delivery: Discussing the organization of representation and public service delivery at local\, regional\, and national levels.\n\nWhy Attend? \nThe participation of ‘on the ground’ stakeholders from Myanmar is crucial for the success of this workshop. Their insights will significantly contribute to academic research and policy recommendations related to governance\, conflict resolution\, and regional stability. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with experts and practitioners working towards peace and stability in Myanmar\, making it a must-attend for anyone invested in these issues. \nContact: \nFor more information\, please contact the Center for Governance and Markets at (412) 648-7394 or info@cgm.pitt.edu.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/workshop-peace-myanmar-2024/
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SUMMARY:The Impact of Digital Management on Volunteer Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Hui Yin\, Zhejiang University \nDigital technologies have been widely used for volunteer management\, but their impact on volunteer outcomes has rarely been studied. Based on the motivation-hygiene theory\, this study divides digital management into two categories – monitoring and empowering\, and further applies the psychological contract theory to study the mechanism through which digital management affects volunteer outcomes. \nThrough a questionnaire survey of 1\,980 Chinese volunteers on digital platforms\, the results show that: empowerment-oriented digital management positively affects volunteer outcomes by positively influencing volunteers’ relational psychological contracts; monitoring-oriented digital management negatively affects volunteer outcomes by positively influencing volunteers’ transaction psychological contracts. The complexity of volunteer service weakens the mediating role of psychological contracts in the impact of digital management on volunteer outcomes. The research reveals differentiated influence mechanisms of various digital management strategies on volunteer productivity\, providing insights to advance the digital management for volunteers. \nRegister HERE.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/digital-management-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T110000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Government Funding and Nonprofit Performance: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Private Donations\, Volunteers and Network Quality
DESCRIPTION:Shen Yongdong\, Zhejiang University \nThere is a general consensus in the existing literature that government funding plays an important role in improving the performance of human services nonprofit organizations. However\, most of these studies focus on Western countries and we do not know the mechanisms through which such impacts take place in non-Western contexts. Taking advantage of a unique dataset of central government funding to nonprofits in China\, we find that private donations (Treasure)\, volunteers (Time)\, and network quality (Tie) are important mediators in this government funding–nonprofit performance relationship. While private donations mediate the impact of government funding on both types of nonprofit performance\, volunteers and network quality only have a mediating impact on service delivery and policy advocacy\, respectively. These findings suggest that government funding leverages divergent resources to influence nonprofit performance adapting local contexts.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/government-funding-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T133000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Harnessing Religion for Social Cohesion: Managing Ethnic Diversity in Haifa
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 28\, at 12 PM in Posvar 4130\, Uriel Simonsohn will present “Harnessing Religion for Social Cohesion: Managing Ethnic Diversity in Haifa.” This presentation will explore the fragility of intercommunal relations in Israel\, particularly in mixed cities\, where economic disparities and social divisions have historically fueled unrest. Drawing comparisons with the events of May 2021\, Simonsohn will highlight the role of interreligious dialogue in mitigating conflict and fostering coexistence. \nUriel Simonsohn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Haifa and the founding director of the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies (HLRS). His work focuses on fostering religious pluralism\, interfaith dialogue\, and the practical application of religious studies to contemporary challenges. \nThis talk is part of the Governing Deep Differences Series at the Center for Governance and Markets and is co-hosted with the Jewish Studies Program.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/religion-in-haifa/
LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 230 S Bouquet St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T110000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:The Future of Philanthropy and Volunteerism in China
DESCRIPTION:Reza Hasmath\, University of Alberta \nChina is experiencing increased socio-economic inequalities and reported social discontent in the 2020s. At the same time\, the Chinese state has reimagined the desired characteristics of a model citizen in the domain of philanthropy and volunteerism. Given the Chinese state’s signaling to suggest that a morally good citizen is one who engages in charity work and volunteerism\, the question remains why do we witness relatively high levels of citizen inaction in this domain? Leveraging data from the 2023 Chinese Altruistic Behaviour Survey\, a national survey conducted by the speaker that develops a socio-psychological profile of the altruistic citizen\, this talk delineates behavioral attributes of the citizenry that accounts for their philanthropic and voluntary action or inaction. The talk further discusses the implications of these findings for the future of state and civil society relations\, and more acutely\, for the state’s strategies for increasing philanthropic and voluntary action amongst the citizenry.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/the-future-of-philanthropy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T160000
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SUMMARY:Copyright Enforcement Decision-Making
DESCRIPTION:Kristelia Garcia\, Georgetown University\nIn private law\, private rights of action afford rights holders the authority—but not the obligation—to enforce a claim for remedies against a wrongdoer. This allows different rights holders to make different enforcement decisions in different circumstances and vis-à-vis different wrongdoers. In copyright law\, the enforcement decision can be especially variable. Some copyright owners enforce against one alleged infringer\, while declining to enforce against another. Some copyright owners delegate their enforcement decisions to an algorithm\, which may or may not consistently apply the criteria it is given (and which criteria may or may not comply with legal requirements). Others wield the threat of enforcement to accomplish ends either wholly or largely unrelated to the alleged infringement.  Relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to the enforcement decision-making process. \nPart of the challenge for study in this area is that private rights of action do not require an explanation; copyright owners may elect to enforce\, or forbear\, for a variety of reasons\, or for no reason.  Does enforcement necessarily imply wrongdoing? Does lack of enforcement necessarily suggest no harm? Is infringement necessarily harmful? Should we be as concerned about enforcement abuses in private law as we are in public law? More concerned?  The theory of selective enforcement developed here reveals the underappreciated role that private parties play in policymaking. \nRegister HERE.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/copyright-enforcement-decision-making-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:America Last: The Right's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
DESCRIPTION:Jacob Heilbrunn & Damir Marusic \nOn Thursday\, March 28 at 4:30 PM in Lawrence Hall Room 105\, Damir Marusic\, Assignment Editor at the Washington Post and host of the podcast and Substack Wisdom of Crowds will interview and debate Jacob Heilbrunn on his new book\, America Last (Liveright\, 2024). \nIn America Last\, Heilbrunn\, a leading observer of the right\, explains the long history behind Donald Trump’s admiration for Vladimir Putin and Ron DeSantis’s veneration of Victor Orban. Why is today’s Republican Party\, so drawn to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the brazenly illiberal Victor Orban\, who has crushed an independent judiciary and political dissent in Hungary? As Heilbrunn shows\, the affection conservatives display for foreign autocrats dates to the First World War. Since that time\, leading intellectuals\, journalists\, and politicians on the right have always been drawn to what they perceive as the impressive strength of authoritarians abroad―including Kaiser Wilhelm\, Francisco Franco\, Adolf Hitler\, and Augusto Pinochet―who offered models of how to fight back against liberalism and progressivism domestically. For decades\, conservatives railed against communist fellow travelers in America\, but have their own delusional history of apologetics. In this fast-paced\, often-droll account\, Heilbrunn argues that dictator worship is a longstanding romantic impulse that fits firmly within the modern American political tradition―and shows what it means for us today. \nHeilbrunn is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and editor of the National Interest\, a foreign policy magazine that was founded by Irving Kristol in 1985. He began his career as an assistant editor at the magazine\, where his first issue was one featuring Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” essay. He went on to become a senior editor at the New Republic and an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. He has written on both foreign and domestic issues for numerous publications including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, Reuters\, Washington Monthly\, and the Weekly Standard.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/america-last/
LOCATION:Lawrence Hall\, 3942 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15260\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T110000
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SUMMARY:Creating a Culture of Philanthropy and Volunteerism in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Teets\, Middlebury College \nIn contrast to previous regimes\, under Xi Jinping the Chinese Communist Party has pushed citizens to engage philanthropy and volunteerism. State messaging about “common prosperity” and “tertiary distribution” posits these prosocial behaviors as a way to alleviate inequality. Is this propaganda working in changing citizen behavior? This study uses national survey data from the 2018\, 2020\, and 2022 waves of the Civic Participation in China Survey (CPCS). It finds that Chinese citizens are donating and volunteering more than in the past\, and that they view these activities more positively. We find some evidence that the state propaganda may be a motivating factor for cadres\, who are exposed to these messages sooner and in higher doses than non-members. However\, there is less evidence that behavior and views of non-cadres has been influenced by propaganda\, as the uptick in philanthropy and volunteerism mostly precedes the new state discourse. Register here.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/culture-philanthropy-volunteerism-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
CREATED:20241007T145910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250929T171725Z
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SUMMARY:Liability Aspects of Using Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Sara Gerke\, Penn State University \nArtificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering healthcare and changing the practice of medicine. But who will likely be held liable for patient harm caused by AI? The physician\, hospital\, manufacturer\, and/or no one? This presentation tries to answer these questions\, looking at U.S. tort liability and new developments in the European Union.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/liability-aspects-of-using-ai-health/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T143000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:All the Kingdoms of the World: Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Vallier\, Bowling Green State University in Posvar 4130 \nThe 20th century had an unusual feature: global secularizing movements. In the 19th century\, those movements were confined mostly to Western Europe\, but in the 20th century\, they exploded\, suppressing the influence of religion around the world. In some milder cases\, these movements only suppressed the political expression of the great religions\, such as in Turkey and India. In other cases\, ferocious religious persecution was a daily occurrence\, such as in the USSR and Mao’s China. But today\, older religious influences are taking back their political influence as these regimes have receded. And they are doing so by rejecting the doctrine of liberalism that they have seen as their oppressors. Kevin Vallier will discuss these different movements\, critique them\, and explain how defenders of liberal democracy can respond. \nDr. Kevin Vallier\, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University (BGSU)\, specializes in political philosophy. Hailing from Fairhope\, Alabama\, he possesses a unique background rooted in the Georgist philosophy of public land ownership. With a PNP degree from Washington University in St. Louis and another degree in philosophy of religion at St. Louis University\, Dr. Vallier completed his PhD in political philosophy at Arizona. He held a post-doctoral position at Brown University’s Political Theory Project before joining BGSU. Currently\, he serves as the director of BGSU’s Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law (PPEL) program and contributes to insightful discussions on cooperation and reconciliation through his blog\, Reconciled.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/alternatives-to-liberalism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T140000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Timur Kuran\, Duke University in Alcoa Room\n \nAccording to diverse indices of political performance\, the Middle East is the world’s least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under Islamic law. This book by Timur Kuran\, author of the influential Long Divergence\, explores the lasting political effects of the Middle East’s lengthy exposure to Islamic law. It identifies several channels through which Islamic institutions\, both defunct and still active\, have limited the expansion of basic freedoms under political regimes of all stripes: secular dictatorships\, electoral democracies\, monarchies legitimated through Islam\, and theocracies. Kuran suggests that Islam’s rich history carries within it the seeds of liberalization on many fronts; and that the Middle East has already established certain prerequisites for a liberal order. But there is no quick fix for the region’s prevailing record of human freedoms.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/freedoms-delayed/
LOCATION:Venue Name\, 252 Gross Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T130000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Policy Workshop: Powerlessness and Populism: Does America Need a New Governing Vision?
DESCRIPTION:Powerlessness and Populism: Does America Need a New Governing Vision? A forum to explore overhaul of broken government operating structures. \n 
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/policy-workshop-powerlessness-and-populism-does-america-need-a-new-governing-vision/
LOCATION:William Pitt Union\, 3959 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15260\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T130000
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SUMMARY:Powerlessness and Populism: Does America Need a New Governing Vision?
DESCRIPTION:A forum to explore overhaul of broken government operating structures\nThis forum will address the broad resentment at government and social institutions and debate the provocative overhaul thesis of the new book by Philip K. Howard\, Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society (Rodin 2024). Howard argues that post-1960s governing frameworks disempower Americans in their daily choices\, causing public failure and alienation\, and must be replaced by simpler frameworks activated by human responsibility. \n  \nThe half-day forum will have three panels:\n\nPowerlessness in Government and Society: Is the problem political or structural?\nHelping Institutions Flourish Again: How to re-empower responsible cultures\nIs Change Impossible or Inevitable?: Proposing new public operating visions\n\n  \nPanelists include:\nPhilip K. Howard\, Common Good \nDonald Kettl\, University of Texas at Austin \nKevin Kosar\, American Enterprise Institute \nWill Marshall\, Progressive Policy Institute \nMichael Mazarr\, RAND \nMegan McArdle\, Washington Post \nJennifer Brick Murtazashvili\, University of Pittsburgh \nSally Satel\, American Enterprise Institute \nMene Ukueberuwa\, Wall Street Journal \nMichael Wear\, Center for Christianity and Public Life \nJason Willick\, Washington Post \nMichele Zanini\, Management Lab
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/powerlessness-and-populism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry
DESCRIPTION:Kim Krawiec\, University of Virginia  \nIn August of 2021\, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine published its most recent opinion on the financial compensation of oocyte (egg) donors. For those not steeped in the historical controversy surrounding egg donor compensation in the United States\, the document likely appears unexceptional. Within historical context\, however\, the guidelines represent an important change in conceptions of oocyte commodification. \nFirst\, and most importantly\, the most recent guidelines contain no mention of acceptable or recommended compensation levels\, nor do they analogize egg donation to sperm donation for purposes of payment comparison. The guidelines thus showcase the final abandonment of a decades-long attempt by the fertility industry to control egg donor compensation. Second\, after more than twenty years of promoting ethical worries about oocyte commodification\, the guidelines explicitly acknowledge — for the first time — that commodification concerns are rarely raised in the context of sperm donation. Finally\, the guidelines emphasize that a failure to treat egg donors as adult women capable of making their own risk-return tradeoffs regarding their bodies and livelihoods would be demeaning and unfair. \nThis chapter uses the development and eventual abandonment of these ASRM pricing guidelines over more than twenty-five years as a lens through which to understand commodification debates in both the sperm and egg markets.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/gametes-commodification-and-the-fertility-industry-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240224
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Overcoming Deep Differences
DESCRIPTION:Feb. 21-23\, 2024: Overcoming Deep Differences  \nThis manuscript workshop explored how individuals\, communities\, and societies address deep divisions caused by polarization\, economic\, social\, and cultural cleavages. 
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/overcoming-deep-differences/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200554
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SUMMARY:Two Cheers for Optimism: Liberal Democracy\, Its Critics and Virtues
DESCRIPTION:Aurelian Crăiuțu\, Indiana University Bloomington\nAlcoa Room \nThe crisis of liberal democracy and the question what we should do to save it would have been hardly conceivable three decades ago\, when the Berlin Wall was falling\, and we hailed the triumph of liberal democracy around the entire world. The mood is very different today: around the world liberal democracy is in crisis. The agents and causes of democratic decline are many. They range from antiliberal populist movements of the far-right which damage democracies internally through their dismissive attitude toward core civil and political rights\, to radical movements on the far Left whose push for radical reforms and endorsement of the controversial cancel culture erode the belief in the legitimacy of key liberal norms and values such as free speech and equality under the law. \nThis presentation\, based on a book manuscript in progress on liberal democracy that Crăiuțu is co-writing with Dan Cole and Michael McGinnis at Indiana University\, explores the reasons for which liberalism is under attack and revisits the diversity and eclecticism of the liberal family\, with emphasis on the relationship between liberalism and political moderation. They show that the doom industry has a long history and discuss the conceptual fluidity of liberalism and its implications for students of liberalism. They argue that by acknowledging the polysemantic nature of liberalism we can better answer its critics. After examining a few tropes in the anti-liberal literature\, the presentation concludes with a few practical recommendations for defending liberal democracy and rethinking liberal governance by drawing on the ideas of Karl Popper and the Bloomington School created by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/liberal-democracy-critics/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240213
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SUMMARY:Myanmar and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Relations  
DESCRIPTION:February 9-12\, 2025: Myanmar and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Relations  CGM and the Hollings Center co-hosted a regional dialogue in Kuala Lumpur focused on the challenges and opportunities in Myanmar–Southeast Asia relations. The event convened regional experts and stakeholders to discuss political dynamics\, economic ties\, and pathways for greater cooperation amid ongoing instability. 
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/myanmar-regional-relations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T130000
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SUMMARY:A Political Theory of Governance of Diversity
DESCRIPTION:Omar Sadr\, University of Pittsburgh\nPosvar 3911 \nThis talk presents a political theory of governance of cultural diversity developed in Sadr’s book\, Negotiating Cultural Diversity. It argues that a pluralistic society should forge a balance between three key elements: individual autonomy\, counter-homogenization measures\, and intercultural dialogue. \nContemporary societies are increasingly facing a tremendous challenge in terms of finding social cohesion. A major challenge comes from disagreement over the issues related to social justice and other fundamental principles and ethical issues that should govern our societies. The challenge compounds when these disagreements intertwine with group and cultural identities such as race\, ethnicity\, religion\, and sexual orientation. This leads to a conflict between individual rights such as freedom of speech\, freedom to practice religion\, or equal opportunity with group or community preferences. A theory of governance of diversity should not only present a solution on how to peacefully accommodate deep differences\, but should also present a way out on how to adjudicate disagreement between universal values and particularistic aspirations.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/a-political-theory-of-governance-of-diversity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T160000
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SUMMARY:Resilience in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Kristen Eichensehr\, University of Virginia \nThis presentation identifies tactics to bolster resilience against digitally enabled threats across three temporal phases: anticipating and preparing for disruptions\, adapting to and withstanding disruptions\, and recovering from disruptions. A resilience agenda is an essential part of protecting national security in a digital age. Digital technologies impact nearly all aspects of everyday life\, from communications and medical care to electricity and government services. Societal reliance on digital tools should be paired with efforts to secure societal resilience. A resilience agenda involves preparing for\, adapting to\, withstanding\, and recovering from disruptions in ways that advance societal interests\, goals\, and values. Emphasizing resilience offers several benefits: 1) It is threat agnostic or at least relatively threat neutral; 2) its inward focus emphasizes actions under the control of a targeted nation\, rather than attempting to change behaviors of external adversaries; and 3) because resilience can address multiple threats simultaneously\, it may be less subject to politicization. A resilience strategy is well-suited to address both disruptions to computer systems—whether from cyberattacks or natural disasters—and disruptions to the information environment from disinformation campaigns that sow discord. A resilience agenda is realistic\, not defeatist\, and fundamentally optimistic in its focus on how society can withstand and move forward from adverse events.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/resilience-in-the-digital-age-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T100000
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SUMMARY:The New Central Social Affairs Department of the Chinese Communist Party and its Impact on Social Policy in China
DESCRIPTION:Mark Sidel\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nWhile social policy and social affairs have long been under Party control in China\, new developments at and after the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2022 now promise to further strengthen that control and coordination. In this talk Professor Mark Sidel\, a longtime specialist in civil society and nonprofit issues in China\, will review what we know so far about the formation and developing roles of the Party’s Central Social Affairs Department\, the new Party group tasked with policy formation over a wide range of social policy issues\, and what this development may mean for Party-state policy coordination and boundaries on social policy issues and other possible implications.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/social-affairs-china-communist/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T113000
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SUMMARY:Affective Lockdown: Administrative Chaos and Informal Repairing in the Local Enactment of Immobility in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Yan Long\, University of California-Berkeley \nThis study investigates the installment and management of targeted lockdowns in urban China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Departing from the scholarly focus on either top-down governance mechanisms or the spontaneously rising societal (in)compliance\, it highlights the overlooked daily practices of government workers in soliciting consent and collaboration from residents. Through fifty in-depth interviews with frontline workers in a Southern Chinese city\, this research reveals that targeted lockdowns were not executed orchestrations of high formal state capacity. Instead\, they were fraught with procedural\, material\, and personnel deficiencies and digital breakdowns\, leading to administrative chaos and intensified resident disobedience. this research argue that it was frontline workers’ informal affective labor—interpersonal emotional engagement and communal relationship building—that were repairing social order and holding together the neighborhood governance system on the verge of collapse. These findings provide a granular reevaluation of the enforcement and eventually recession of targeted lockdowns that may continuously shape post-pandemic urban neighborhood governance.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/affective-lockdown-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T163000
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SUMMARY:The Identity Trap
DESCRIPTION:In The Identity Trap (Penguin Random House\, 2023)\, Mounk argues that although appreciating the cultural diversity is vital for our democracy\, a new ideology is on the rise: one that puts too much emphasis on group identity\, and in doing so\, deepens polarization and threatens democracy. \nMounk is a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge (BA\, History) and Harvard University (PhD\, Government). He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University\, where he holds appointments in both the School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. \nHe is also a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic\, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a Moynihan Public Fellow at City College of New York. He is the founder of the Substack Persuasion\, host of The Good Fight podcast\, and serves as a publisher (Herausgeber) at Die Zeit.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/the-identity-trap/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T163000
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SUMMARY:Humans Outside the Loop
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is not all artificial. After all\, despite the need for high-powered machines that can create complex algorithms and routinely improve them\, humans are instrumental in every step used to create it. Through data selection\, decisional design\, training\, testing\, and tuning to managing AI’s developments as it is used in the human world\, humans exert agency and control over these choices and practices. AI is now ubiquitous: it is part of every sector and\, for most people\, their everyday lives. When AI development companies create unsafe products\, however\, we might be surprised to discover that very few legal options exist to actually remedy any wrongs. \nThis paper introduces the myriad of choices humans make to create safe and effective AI products\, then explores key issues in existing liability models. Significant issues in negligence and products liability negligence schemes\, including contractual limitations on liability\, separate organizations creating AI products from the actual harm\, obscure the origin of issues\, and reduce the likelihood of plaintiff recovery. Principally\, AI offers a unique vantage point for analyzing the relative limits of tort law in these types of technologies\, challenging long-held divisions and theoretical constructs\, frustrating its goals. From the perspectives of both businesses licensing AI and AI users\, this paper identifies key impediments to realizing tort goals and proposes an alternative regulatory scheme that reframes liability from the human in the loop to the humans outside the loop. \nWatch here: Humans Outside the Loop
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/humans-outside-the-loop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T140000
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CREATED:20250912T140652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T173338Z
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SUMMARY:Rebel and Incumbent Law and the Durability of Post-Civil War Peace
DESCRIPTION:Liana Reyes from Purdue University discusses Rebel and Incumbent Law and the Durability of Post-Civil War Peace as part of the Governing Deep Differences series.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/rebel-and-incumbent/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T133000
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SUMMARY:Iran: Stoking Divides in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Mohamad Machine-Chian\, CGM Senior Research Scholar\, will discuss “Iran: Stoking Divides in the Middle East” as part of the Governing Deep Differences lecture series. This talk will analyze how Iran systematically exports terrorism through a network of organizations\, rooted in the country’s ruling ideology. Addressing how Iran’s revolutionary ideology drive its support for groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon\, Hamas in Gaza\, and the Houthis in Yemen\, Machine-Chian will discuss how this ideology shapes Iran’s foreign policy\, fostering regional instability and global security.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/iran-stoking-divides-in-the-middle-east/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T170000
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SUMMARY:Preserving Democracy: Political Violence and Polarization
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 28 at 4 PM ET for the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy Preserving Democracy Program. This program aims to uncover the underlying causes for increasing political violence and a consideration of whether our responses to it inadvertently contribute to its continuation. Lisa Nelson\, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) faculty and Co-Director of the Collaboratory Against Hate\, will discuss Political Violence and Polarization. Prof. Nelson will be joined in conversation by Chancellor Emeritus Mark Nordenberg\, who serves as Director of the Dick Thornburgh Forum and Chair of Pitt’s Institute of Politics. \nCo-Sponsors: The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs\, The Collaboratory Against Hate\, David C. Frederick Honors College\, Pitt Cyber and University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/preserving-democracy-political-violence-and-polarization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T170000
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CREATED:20250930T150348Z
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SUMMARY:The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter\, More Inclusive Future
DESCRIPTION:At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire\, in “The Equality Machine” Orly Lobel defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future. Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it to do better. She makes a compelling argument that while we cannot stop technological development\, we can direct its course according to our most fundamental values.  Lobel shows that digital technology frequently has a comparative advantage over humans in detecting discrimination\, correcting historical exclusions\, subverting long-standing stereotypes\, and addressing the world’s thorniest problems: climate\, poverty\, injustice\, literacy\, accessibility\, speech\, health\, and safety. Her examples—from labor markets to dating markets—provide powerful evidence for how we can harness technology for good.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/the-equality-machine-harnessing-digital-technology-for-a-brighter-more-inclusive-future/
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SUMMARY:Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference 2023
DESCRIPTION:CGM will host the Annual Conference for CESS 2023\, which will be held at the University of Pittsburgh October 19-22. The CESS 2023 annual conference keynote speaker is Dr. Ayse-Zarakol\, author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/central-eurasian-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T163000
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SUMMARY:Texting\, Texting: The Effect of Text Messages On Voting\, Volunteering\, and Giving
DESCRIPTION:Text messages have become ubiquitous in the world of politics\, but are they actually doing anything other than cluttering up your phone? Political communication scholar Katherine Haenschen shares her own experimental work and that of others showing how text messages are effective at increasing voter turnout\, volunteer participation\, and donations.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/texting-texting-the-effect-of-text-messages-on-voting-volunteering-and-giving/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T173000
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SUMMARY:Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing
DESCRIPTION:As the problems of misinformation\, child welfare\, and heightened political polarization on social media platforms grow more salient\, lawmakers and advocates are pushing to grant independent researchers access to social media data to better understand these problems. Yet researcher access is controversial. Privacy advocates and companies raise the potential privacy threats of researchers using such data irresponsibly. In addition\, social media companies raise concerns over trade secrecy: the data these companies hold\, and the algorithms powered by that data are secretive sources of competitive advantage. \nThis Article shows that one way to navigate this difficult strait is by drawing on lessons from the successful governance program that has emerged to regulate the sharing of clinical trial data. Like social media data\, clinical trial data implicates both individual privacy and trade secrecy concerns. Nonetheless\, clinical trial data’s governance regime was gradually legislated\, regulated\, and brokered into existence\, managing the interests of industry\, academia\, and other stakeholders. The result is a functionally successful (if yet imperfect) clinical trial data-sharing ecosystem. \nPart I sketches the status quo of researchers’ access to social media data and provides a novel taxonomy of the problems that arise under this regime. \nPart II reviews the legal structures governing how clinical trial data is shared and traces the history of scandals\, investigations\, industry protest\, and legislative response that gave rise to the mix of mandated sharing and experimental programs we have today. \nPart III applies lessons from clinical trial data sharing to social media data and charts a strategic course forward. Two primary lessons emerge: First\, law without institutions to implement the law is insufficient\, and second\, data access regimes must be tailored to the data they make available.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/researcher-access-to-social-media-data-lessons-from-clinical-trial-data-sharing/
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