Brasília, 14 February 2021.
Dear colleagues,
This is the selection of free webinars for this week about political economy, public policy and business-government relations.
Please, observe the time zones, and thanks for all the suggestions.
Best regards,
Arthur Wittenberg.
Monday, 15 February
3:30pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – UCL – Public Banks at a time of COVID-19: Opportunities, threats, just transitions
Tuesday, 16 February
9:30am – 10:30am (GMT) – Chatham House – Disinformation and Censorship: Freedom of Expression Online in Southeast Asia
1:00pm – 2:00pm (GMT) – Oxford – Cyber Law and Norms: Why they fail us
1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST) – Harvard – Finding ‘Global Britain’: From political slogan to hard economic policy choices
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – Chatham House – The Future of Global Trade
5:00pm – 6:30pm (GMT) – Oxford – The Masks of the Political God: Religion and Political Parties in Contemporary Democracies
6:00pm – 7:30pm (GMT) – LSE – “World on the Edge”: the crisis of the western liberal order
Wednesday, 17 February
1:30pm – 3:30pm (GMT) – QMUL – Why don’t we get the pharmaceutical industry we deserve? And what we can do about it
5:00pm – 6:00pm (GMT) – Cambridge – Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism, with Professor Jonathan Hopkin, LSE
Thursday, 18 February
10:00am – 12:00pm (CET) – European Policy Center – European cohesion through the pandemic: The state of play one year into COVID-19
12:00pm – 1:00pm (CT) – Chicago Booth – Can Antitrust Tackle the Political Power of Economic Conglomerates?
1:20pm – 7:50pm (GMT) – Oxford – The Politics of Egalitarianism
4:00pm – 5:00pm (EST) – Wilson Center – A Conversation with President Francisco Sagasti of Peru
4:30pm – 6:30pm (GMT) – King’s – Governance and media in an age of misinformation
Friday, 19 February
9:00am – 11:00am (EST) – Columbia – 2021 Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Research Conference
1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST) – Harvard – Jacob Grumbach – American Politics Speaker Series
Arthur Wittenberg 