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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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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:20260616T053057
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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:20260616T053057
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T150000
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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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LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T164147Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T120000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20240320T233026Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T183000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20250930T172623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T164109Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T150000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T173414Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T152943Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20250930T150348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T164028Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231024
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20260120T145225Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20250930T143603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T164002Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20250929T142439Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T133000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20250912T135327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T173550Z
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SUMMARY:Identity and Security in the Black Sea Region
DESCRIPTION:Marian Zulean is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Bucharest. This year\, he is a Fulbright Scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington\, DC. Previously\, he was director of the Black Sea Area program at the University of Bucharest and served as a national security advisor to the Office of the President in Romania. \nThe discussion was based his new co-edited volume\, Social Values and Identities in the Black Sea  Region (Roman & Littlefield\, 2023)\, which explores the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural frameworks in the Black Sea region. He also discussed how the war in Ukraine affects regional dynamics. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili moderated the discussion. \nWatch the video\, here: Identity and Security in the Black Sea Region
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/identity-black-sea/
LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 230 S Bouquet St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230730
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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SUMMARY:Reading Workshop: Governing Deep Differences
DESCRIPTION:This workshop brought together scholars to discuss approaches to governing deep-seated societal differences and identified frameworks to foster tolerance\, peaceful coexistence\, and collaboration among diverse communities.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/reading-workshop-gdd-2023/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230730
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251021T144107Z
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SUMMARY:Modus Vivendi\, Polycentrism\, and Institutional Diversity: Reading Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Date and Time: Thursday\, July 27 at 4:30 pm to Saturday\, July 29 at 1:00 pm EST\nLocation:  Barco Law Building\, Alcoa Room\, 3900 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15260\nHosts: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Paul Dragos Aligica\nOrganizers: Noah Fair\, Luna Kwak\, and Aditi Upadhyaya \nThe Center for Governance and Markets invited scholars to discuss readings that serve as the theoretical and empirical foundations of the project\, Governing Deep Differences. This project examines factors explaining how individuals and communities overcome difference\, drawing on modus vivendi approaches to pluralism and polycentric theories of governance. The workshop readings analyzed these issues from theoretical and practical perspectives. \nParticipants \nAdam Shear\, University of Pittsburgh \nAlec Crisman\, McGill University \nAlexandru Dincovici\, New Europe College \nAli Palida\, University of Pittsburgh \nAylon Manor\, University of Maryland \nBryan Cheang\, King’s College London \nCaleb Petitt\, George Mason University \nJaime Carini\, Indiana University \nKaleb Demerew\, West Texas A&M University \nKristin Kanthak\, University of Pittsburgh \nOleksandra Keudel\, Kyiv School of Economics \nRebecca Yemo\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nSamuel Kimbriel\, Aspen Institute \nParticipation in the workshop was by invitation only. Scholars who study topics related to pluralism\, governance theory\, and empirical studies of governance attended. For questions\, please contact cgm@pitt.edu. \nThis workshop was made possible through the support of Grant 62701 from the John Templeton Foundation.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/modus-vivendi-polycentrism/
LOCATION:Barco Law Building\, 3900 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15260\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230630
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251113T195758Z
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SUMMARY:New Frameworks for Troubled Times: A Focus on the Global Fisheries Commons
DESCRIPTION:Interdisciplinary Workshop on Global Overfishing Casts a Wide Net\nFishing fleets around the world are taking more from our oceans than can be sustained by its biomes. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says that 90 percent of the world’s fisheries are either fully exploited (55 percent) or are overexploited past the point of sustainability (35 percent). \nIncreasing numbers of people are drawing more heavily on dwindling stocks of fish. Richer nations have the option to modernize their fishing fleets to explore new fisheries while poorer nations may not. Moreover\, fishing communities in developing countries often experience limited access to their own fisheries because of encroachment by other larger and richer countries. Those who would solve the overfishing problem confront a Gordian tangle of formal and informal agreements\, economic policies\, local traditions\, extra-legal activities\, and environmental pressures. \nThere is no single-stroke solution. In June\, a unique symposium was convened to bring an interdisciplinary approach to the issue. Organized by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in partnership with the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) at the University of Pittsburgh\, the workshop brought together academics\, practitioners\, and experts from a wide variety of fields for two days on the Pittsburgh campus. \nPrompted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) 2022 agreement on rules to curb certain harmful fishing subsidies\, workshop creators strove to build on that achievement to help inform a scheduled WTO ministerial conference in early 2024 that will include further negotiations. \nLed by scholars Christine McDaniel and Weifeng Zhong of Mercatus and Ilia Murtazashvilli of CGM\, the workshop assembled about two dozen biologists\, economists\, environmental scientists\, political scientists\, and natural resources experts. The format enabled a lively exchange across this diverse group of people that focused on defining actionable ideas for real-world solutions to global overfishing. \n“Our oceans are a global commons resource\, and for the WTO to tackle the subsidies aspect of that is exciting\,” McDaniel said. “The gathering enabled us to bring Elinor Ostrom’s work to bear on today’s international policy challenges.” \nThe workshop focused on addressing three specific aspects of the overfishing problem: \nThe WTO and other international efforts (top-down solution to arrive on a global fisheries agreement);\nLearning from community fishing practices (bottom-up solutions); and\nTechnology\, data\, and monitoring (transparency and understanding).\nQuesting for International Rules \nThe WTO plays a significant role in setting the rules and norms for fishing in the world’s oceans through international agreements. It is also able to enlist cooperation and design legal mechanisms to enforce compliance among nations. This is what makes the current agreement so valuable in many minds. \nHaving an agreement—any agreement—that targets harmful subsidies is the primary source of this support. The status of the new agreement along with hopes for future ones were raised even higher when the People’s Republic of China formally signed on at the end of June. China is a relatively large source of the world’s subsidies deemed most damaging to fisheries\, and it operates the world’s largest fishing fleet. Beijing’s cooperation is essential to any effective international approach to curb overfishing. \nYet many of the most vocal activists working to protect fish stocks and marine biomes are patently unhappy with the limited scope of the existing WTO subsidies agreement\, which covers a narrow range of practices that account for a negligible portion of the world’s live fish catch. There is a fear that more effective international rules targeting harmful subsidies to reduce overfishing may be unattainable through the WTO. \nFor this reason\, some participants in the fisheries workshop pointed out that bilateral agreements between fishing nations and those with fisheries resources in their exclusive economic zones (EEZs) might serve as a more practical focus for protecting fish stocks. In particular\, rich fishing nations routinely make formal and informal agreements that deplete the resources of host nations that receive little benefit in return. This may be through a lack of understanding or even corruption on the part of host country officials. \nLearning from Fishing Communities\nIf international organizations cannot be counted on to provide solutions\, perhaps progress can be made in smaller increments at the local level. Small fishing communities tend to regulate themselves using rules and traditions to ensure sustainable harvests. The fishers in a certain area today will be the same fishers in that same area tomorrow\, the next day\, and the next year. It is in their interest to catch enough to make a living but not so much as to deplete next year’s catch. \nThose most affected by the health of a fishery are those best situated to receive the signals of the fishery’s status and take appropriate action (e.g.\, refrain from fishing for a while). Unfortunately\, these communities often do not have the political power to convey this information to policymakers or to resist harmful policies. The opacity around most fisheries management leads to faulty approaches to unsustainable overfishing. \nWorkshop participants underscored the need for transparency and clarity around the actual goals of specific policies. Are the policies meant to improve economics or to enable conservation or to elevate marginal fishing communities? What is the scientific basis behind the actions of the organization regulating a fishery? All are important for the effective management of fisheries. \nPiercing the Veil\nLack of information about who is fishing for what\, where\, and how bedevils efforts to curb overfishing\, both at the local level in EEZs and on the international commons of the high seas. Identifying individual ships is difficult\, even with satellites. Thus\, some system of monitoring individual fishing boats is needed\, both to collect data to support science-driven policies and to ensure compliance with existing rules. \nThe problem is how to place monitoring equipment on fishing vessels. Even then\, selective use of ship monitoring systems produces uneven and incomplete information. Also\, different ship monitoring networks from different countries make standard comparisons difficult. \nThe technology problem is not so much one of research and development of systems but of implementation and of countries’ willingness to utilize the information. Workshop participants proposed market-driven solutions to incentivize suppliers to operate with greater transparency. Consumers do not like to be lied to about what they are eating and where it comes from. Retailers could require their seafood suppliers to use transparency-enhancing technologies. \nLifting All Boats\nAs the WTO prepares to meet again on fisheries in Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates\, in February 2024\, the Mercatus Center and CGM hope to build on the success of its June workshop with a series of articles\, podcasts\, and other content on the topic under its new Future Fisheries Management project. By convening experts from a wide variety of perspectives who agree on the critical significance of the overfishing problem\, the goal is to surface new thinking and find fresh approaches to addressing one of the many challenges facing global economies and governance systems in the 21st century. \n“Our multidisciplinary approach adds value to the policy discussion searching for solutions to global overfishing\,” Mercatus’ McDaniel said. \nLink to article: https://www.mercatus.org/workshop-on-overfishing-casts-a-wide-net
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/new-frameworks-for-troubled-times-a-focus-on-the-global-fisheries-commons/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T143000
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CREATED:20251113T191258Z
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SUMMARY:Turkish Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan during the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Era
DESCRIPTION:Turkish Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan during the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Era \nThe aim of this presentation is first to examine the key determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) during the Justice and Development Party Era\, and second to explore TFP towards Afghanistan. This talk particularly focuses on what NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan means for Turkey\, and how Turkey responds to Taliban takeover. \nProfessor Gorkem Atsungur\, the Head of the Social Science Division and Chair of the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia\, is visiting the Center for Governance and Markets as part of our partnership with the Open Society University Network to share his groundbreaking research on Turkish Foreign Policy.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/turkish-foreign-policy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T120000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251029T134157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T134244Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Solving Social Dilemmas
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 2\, 10 a.m. | Zoom \nRoger D. Congleton\, West Virginia University \nRoger Congleton\, BB&T chair of economics at West Virginia University\, will discuss his new book: Solving Social Dilemmas. This book provides a compelling account of the role of ethical dispositions in the development of prosperous commercial societies. Congleton uses game theory to show how social dilemmas tend to impede social\, economic\, and political development. Additionally\, the book provides a short intellectual history of how ideas about commerce changed during the nineteenth century.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/social-dilemma/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230427
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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SUMMARY:Conference on Afghanistan: Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead
DESCRIPTION:The Islamic Republic collapsed in August 2021\, giving way to the return on the Taliban Emirate. The resurgence of the Taliban was made possible\, in part\, by deep divisions among citizens as well as growing divides between political leaders and the people they were supposed to serve. Violent conflict and uncertainty in Afghanistan over two generations have yielded polarization of various forms that represents a challenge to peace\, security\, and governance. Since the Taliban came to power\, Afghanistan has seen a rise in violence directed at specific religious\, ethnic\, and regional communities. \nCGM\, the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies\, and the U.S. Institute of Peace will convene a 2-day conference of Afghan scholars and practitioners to consider how Afghan society can begin to overcome these differences and build on past and present forms of social cohesion (and whether this can be done author authoritarian Taliban rule). On day one\, the conference will compromise of three panels\, each on a different theme (see below). On day two\, participants will engage in facilitated discussion and networking. \nDay one of the conference will be structured into three sequential panel discussions along the following themes: \nPanel 1: Social Cohesion & Coesitence: Lessons from the Past \nWhat are examples of social cohesion and pluralism in Aghan history\, either at the national level of the local level? What can these teach us about how to heal divisions and establish peaceful coexistence and tolerance\, both among citizens and between citizens and the state? What resources are needed\, from whom\, to replate these successful examples? \nPanel 2: Engagement from the Outside In? Lessons from Past Roles of the Diaspora \nIn the 1980s and 1990s\, what roles did external Afghan actors play in enabling\, mitigating\, and transcending the divisions that took hold? What lessons can we take from the past role of diaspora communities? \nPanel 3: Managing Difference through Systems of Governance \nHow can various governance models enable coexistence and inclusion? What lessons can we take from previous institutions and governing systems in Afghanistan? Can effective models be implemented at national or subnational levels amid the authoritarian rule of the Taliban\, and if so\, how?
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/afghanistan-negotiating-difference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230426
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
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SUMMARY:Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead: A Conference on Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Governance and Markets along with the United States Institute of Peace\, the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies\, and The Hollings Center for International Dialogue invites the University of Pittsburgh community to join us for Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead: A Conference on Afghanistan. \nThis conference of scholars and practitioners from Afghanistan explores how society in that country can begin to overcome differences and build on past and present forms of social cohesion—and whether this can be done under authoritarian Taliban rule.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/negotiating-difference-afghanistan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T143000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251009T225502Z
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SUMMARY:Textual Speculations: How Generative AI Predicts the Next Word
DESCRIPTION:The current discourse around generative AI is steeped in speculation: how effective can large language models get? How will they affect employment and education? And are they leading to artificial general intelligence (AGI)? But beyond the discourse\, the models themselves are built on speculation: drawing from a giant dataset of natural language in text\, they predict the next word in a sequence. Earlier approaches to natural language generation (such as Markov models) also predicted the next word\, but recent large language models (LLMs) combine more complicated algorithms\, concepts of attention\, and larger datasets to conceal their predictive nature and produce far more coherent and plausible natural language. Yet AI writing detectors operate on this idea that AI writing is more predictable than that of humans: humans tend to write with greater “burstiness” and “perplexity.” \nWith the contrast between human and AI writing as a framing device\, this talk traces the ways that prediction has operated in generative AI and other historical attempts to automate writing. Attendees of the talk will come away with an understanding of: current Large Language Models driving generative AI writing and how they differ from earlier models; how AI models do and don’t replicate human writing; and the practical effects of generative AI in writing and pedagogy. \nAnnette Vee is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at the University of Pittsburgh\, where she teaches writing and digital composition. She is the author of Coding Literacy (MIT Press\, 2017) and has published on computer programming\, digital literacy\, blockchain technologies\, intellectual property\, and AI-based text generators. \n  \nZoom Recording
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/textual-speculations-how-generative-ai-predicts-the-next-word/
LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 230 S Bouquet St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T170000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251029T134525Z
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SUMMARY:A Year of Resilience in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:April 17 at 3 PM ET\nIn-person: Posvar Hall 3911 \nJust one year ago Tymofiy Brik became the youngest university rector (provost) in the history of independent Ukraine. As the academic leader of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)\, he has managed the univesrsity faculty\, staff\, and students through incredible challenges. In this talk\, Brik will speak about the resilience of KSE and communities in Ukraine as they confront war. \nTymofii Brik\, the Rector (Provost) at the Kyiv School of Economics\, is currently serving as the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University in Spring 2023. His research interests focus on religious markets\, long-term social mobility\, and social network analysis. Since 2021\, Brik has been serving as the national coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine\, which is an international comparative study conducted in most European countries since 2002. Additionally\, he serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Kyiv-based CEDOS think tank\, as an advisory board member of the Texty.org “Rating Sellers” project and of Gradus Research. Furthermore\, Brik is also a co-founder of the public restaurant Urban Space 500 in Kyiv.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/a-year-of-resilience-in-ukraine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251020T175708Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to AI Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Ravit Dotan\, University of Pittsburgh Center for Governance and Markets \nAI tools can be helpful when used well\, but they are dangerous when used irresponsibly. AI ethics is the field that aims to understand and manage the opportunities and risks of using AI. This talk introduces the audience to prominent AI risks\, the current state of AI ethics\, the landscape of AI regulation worldwide\, and what organizations should do to develop and use AI responsibly. \nWatch the seminar here.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/introduction-to-ai-ethics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T133000
DTSTAMP:20260616T053057
CREATED:20251029T135051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T135444Z
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SUMMARY:Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons
DESCRIPTION:Please join Pitt Cyber\, the School of Law\, and the Center for Governance and Markets to celebrate the launch of Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons. \nThe collection\, edited by Brett M. Frischmann\, Michael J. Madison\, and Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo\, features essays by Pitt’s Michael Madison and other thought leaders exploring the governance of smart cities\, shaping our understanding of increasingly critical regulatory and policy issues through case studies and a knowledge commons framework. This is the fifth book in the Governing Knowledge Commons series. \nThe event will feature commentary from Michael Madison and Karen Lightman\, Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Metro21: Smart Cities Institute.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/governing-smart-cities-as-knowledge-commons/
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