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Nov 10 2022

The Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s “Phaedo”

Jackie Murray focuses on the significance of Phaedo's role as she explores the function of the slavery analogy in Plato's famed dialogue.

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Nov 08 2022

China and the Uyghurs: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Assessment of Mass Atrocities in Xinjiang

Naomi Kikoler, of the Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the plight of the Uyghurs.

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Nov 03 2022

Accountable Democracy? Representative Politics in America

In this lecture, Alma Steingart investigates how changing computational practices insinuated themselves into the most basic definitions of “fairness” in the American electorate in the twentieth century.

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Nov 03 2022

Fellow Spotlight: Alma Steingart

Alma Steingart is an assistant professor of history and Columbia University who studies the intersection of mathematical thought and electoral politics in the United States.

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Nov 03 2022

Fellow Spotlight: Alexandra Chreiteh

Alexandra Chreiteh's novel-in-progress, “Sweetmeats,” tells the story of a Syrian family living in a Lebanese border town at the cusp of the Syrian revolution.

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Nov 01 2022

Creativity and Resilience: Prison Art in Ming China, 1368-1644

In this talk, Ying Zhang examines the relationship between imprisonment and religious freedom.

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Nov 01 2022

Fellow Spotlight: Ying Zhang

Ying Zhang's project is the first book-length study of the imprisoned officials and prison culture in pre-modern China.

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Oct 27 2022

Geopolitics and the Emerging Structure of Global Supply Chains

In this geopolitical talk, Etel Solingen will explore the emerging structure of global supply chains as a critical geopolitical link for transatlantic relations.

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Oct 26 2022

The Fight for Congress: The 2022 Midterm Elections and What They Portend for America’s Democracy

In this special Academy Zoom event, Doug Sosnik — White House political director during the Clinton administration and one of America’s foremost electoral analysts — explains the dynamics shaping the unpredictable 2022 midterm election and the evolution of the American electorate.

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Oct 25 2022

Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury

Evan Osnos's book "Wildland" seeks to explain the national crisis that reached a crescendo in 2020, through the stories of ordinary individuals navigating twenty-first-century America.

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