Brasília, 13 September 2020.
Dear colleagues,
This is the selection of webinars for this week about political economy, public policy and business-government relations. All webinars are in English, except the ones with a title in Portuguese.
Please, observe the time zones, and thanks for all the suggestions.
Best regards,
Arthur Wittenberg.
Monday, 14 September
10:00am – 11:30am (EDT) – Columbia – Data Science Day 2020, Ethics & Privacy: Terms of Usage
10:00am – 11:00am (BST) – Financial Times – Building a More Sustainable Future: The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Progress
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – NILE – How Capitol Hill Consumes Media & Its Impact on Advocacy
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Leah Stokes on “Short-Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States”
3:00pm – 4:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – Reforming the World Trade Organization
3:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Latin America during and after COVID-19: A conversation with IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno
6:30pm – 7:30pm (BST) – LSE – Narrative Economics, with Professor Robert J Shiller
Tuesday, 15 September
9:15am – 9:45am (EDT) – Atlantic Council – A conversation with US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo
11:00am – 12:00am (BRT) – Valor – Affonso Celso Pastore, economista e ex-presidente do BC
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Wilson Center – A Conversation with President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador
12:00pm – 1:00pm (PT) – Stanford – Meeting on the Economic Policies of the Presidential Candidates: A Conversation with Austan Goolsbee & Kevin Hassett
12:30pm – 1:30pm (EDT) – Columbia – Race, Justice & Brand Accountability: Turning Dialogue Into Action
2:00pm – 3:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Imagining the Next Global Economy
2:00pm – 3:00pm (EDT) – Brookings – Defense policy and the 2020 election
3:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Operational energy across the Atlantic: US military & NATO perspectives
3:00pm – 4:30pm (BST) – King’s – Arms Control Idol 2020
6:00pm – 7:30pm (BRT) – Cebri – Tensões EUA-China e onde fica o Brasil
Wednesday, 16 September
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – PIIE – Can digital trade agreements spur the next round of growth?
9:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Project Syndicate – The Green Recovery
11:00am – 12:00pm (PT) – Stanford – COVID-19: The Impact in Africa
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump, a talk with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
2:00pm – 3:00pm (EST) – The Public Affairs Association of Canada – Women Leading the Way in Public Affairs
5:00pm – 6:00pm (ET) – Yale – Terrell Carver, “Das Kapital: Critique, History, Knowledge”
7:00pm – 8:30pm (EDT) – Cornell – Racism in America: Policing and Incarceration
Thursday, 17 September
9:00am – 10:00am (BST) – King’s – Nuclear Security Regulation for Radioactive Sources
9:00am – 12:00pm (EDT) – Project Syndicate – The Green Recovery
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Should Europe go its own way?
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Harvard Circular Economy Information Session I
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Harvard – COVID-19 and the Stakes for Democracy in South America
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Pompeo’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights”: Shrinking US Human Rights Policy
3:00pm – 4:00pm (BST) – PRCA – Engaging in Governments in Crisis: Lessons from Latin America
3:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – Cambridge – The Cyber Ecosystem 2020
4:10pm – 5:40pm (ET) – Yale – Law, Economics & Organization Workshop: “Elite Kinship Network and State Strengthening: Theory and Evidence from Imperial China” with Harvard Gov. Prof. Yuhua Wang
8:00pm – 9:30pm (EDT) – Cornell – Pandemic Politics in Southeast Asia: Society, Governance, and the State
Friday, 18 September
12:30pm – 1:30pm (EDT) – Georgetown – Evolution of the U.S.-China Relationship Under Xi Jinping
12:30pm – 1:30pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Trade flows in the age of automation
2:00pm – 3:15pm (EDT) – Cornell – Destroying or Deploying the “Deep State”
8:00pm – 9:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Harvard Circular Economy Information Session II
Arthur Wittenberg 