Brasília, 25 April 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, 26 April
11:00am – 11:30am (EDT) – MIT – ‘How Corporate America Can Advance Social Justice and Racial Equity’
12:00pm – 1:15pm (EDT) – Harvard – The Tools of the Trade: Enabling Public Purpose in Science and Technology Policy
12:30pm – 2:00pm (BST) – LSE – Debating Capital and Ideology, with Professor Thomas Piketty
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – King’s – Professor Samuel G Hanson: Predictable Financial Crises
4:00pm – 5:30pm (EDT) – Wilson Center – Latin America & the Global Cold War
5:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – Post-Truth Politics: Demystifying Conspiracy Theories
6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – FORUM: Behavioral Economics, Nudge, and Public Policy: A conversation with Richard Thaler
6:00pm – 7:00pm (BST) – LSE – Irrationality – A History of the Dark Side of Reason
Tuesday, 27 April
9:00am – 10:00am (BST) – Institute for Government – How to respond to a crisis: lessons from the Covid pandemic
12:00pm – 1:30pm (EDT) – Brookings – The Biden administration’s drug policy strategy and lessons from Portugal
3:00pm – 5:00pm (BST) – King’s – Multinational Security Coalitions in the Middle East
6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT) – MIT – The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Some Statistics and Thoughts
6:00pm – 7:15pm (BST) – King’s – Book Launch: ‘The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City’, Dr Jack Brown & Catherine McGuinness
Wednesday, 28 April
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – PIIE – Prospects for the post-Brexit UK financial sector
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Brookings – Examining China’s telecommunications ambitions
9:30am – 11:00am (BRT) – Cebri – A governança da China e as cooperações sino-brasileiras na nova ordem global
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – Sustaining the response: Vaccine access, diplomacy and soft power
5:30pm – 6:30pm (BST) – Cambridge – Are Britain’s Structures for Government Still Fit for Purpose?, with Sir Mark Sedwill
Thursday, 29 April
3:00pm – 4:00pm (BST) – Oxford Analytica – Geopolitics and the vaccine
6:00pm – 7:00pm (BST) – Cambridge – The power of geography. Ten maps that reveal the future of our world
Friday, 30 April
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – Harvard – The Path Ahead for Climate Change Policy
9:30am – 10:30am (BRT) – Aberje – Vaccines for Covid19: Actions and Narratives
1:30pm – 2:30pm (BST) – Institute for Government – The future of UK digital government: in conversation with Paul Willmott, Joanna Davinson and Tom Read
Arthur Wittenberg 