Brasília, 23 May 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, 24 May
11:30am – 12:45pm (BST) – LSE – A New Global Purpose for Education?
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – At the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism & Digital Development
12:00pm – 1:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – Looking beyond states: Who should shape cyberspace?
1:00pm – 5:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – The Climate Change 2021 Conference
4:00pm – 5:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – The race to vaccinate: Chinese vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean
4:00pm – 5:00pm (BST) – King’s – Reflections on the Integrated Review: ‘In Conversation’ with Air Marshal Andrew Turner
6:30pm – 8:00pm (BST) – LSE – Unconditional Equals
Tuesday, 25 May
9:00am – 5:15pm (EDT) – Harvard – Japan in the World: A Symposium in Honor of Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University
10:00am – 11:30am (EDT) – PIIE – ECB Listens: Review of its monetary policy strategy
10:00am – 12:00am (BRT) – FGV – II Fórum de Regulação – Banco Central: Autonomia e democracia
10:00am – 11:30am (EDT) – Brookings – Mexico’s midterm elections: The future of the López Obrador presidency and US-Mexico relations
10:00am – 11:30am (EDT) – The World Bank – World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives—Research Directions and Measuring Country Capacity
1:00pm – 5:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – The Climate Change 2021 Conference
1:00pm – 2:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – A studio conversation with Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia Marta Lucía Ramírez
2:00pm – 3:00pm (EDT) – Wilson Center – Beyond #StopAsianHate: The Way Forward for Asian Americans and Public Policy Prescriptions
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – Cambridge – Comparing public attitudes towards energy technologies in Australia and the UK: The role of political ideology
4:00pm – 5:30pm (BST) – LSE – Modern Greek Politics
5:00pm – 6:00pm (EDT) – Georgetown – The Global Economy and the Future of Private Equity
5:30pm – 6:30pm (BST) – Oxford – Imperialism in the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT) – Columbia – 21st-Century Populism, Nationalism, Socialism
Wednesday, 26 May
9:00am – 10:00am (BST) – King’s – Building and sustaining a nuclear security system
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Harvard – Book talk: Framers–Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil.
10:30am – 12:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Moving Forward: Assessing the Impact of Feminist Movements in Latin America
3:00pm – 4:30pm (EDT) – Brookings – The economic outlook: A conversation with the Fed’s Randal Quarles
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – LSE – Rescue: from global crisis to a better world
6:30pm – 7:30pm (BST) – LSE – For a Reparatory Social Science
Thursday, 27 May
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – PIIE – International cooperation on sustainable finance
11:00am – 12:15pm (EDT) – Brookings – Strengthening US foreign policy through subnational diplomacy
12:00pm – 1:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – Director’s briefing: NATO 2030
3:00pm – 6:00pm (CET) – OECD – 13th edition of the International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean
3:30pm – 4:30pm (BST) – King’s – Launch event: Global Biolabs
4:00pm – 7:20pm (BST) – King’s – The Military in Politics in Brazil Conference, day 1
Friday, 28 May
4:00pm – 7:20pm (BST) – King’s – The Military in Politics in Brazil Conference, day 2
6:00pm – 7:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Corporate Boards and the Post-Covid Recovery
Arthur Wittenberg 