Brasília, 20 June 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, 21 June
8:30am – 9:30am (BST) – QMUL – Stakeholder Perspectives on an Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement: Services, Innovation and Our Shared Digital Future
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Brookings – How should the United States approach China and Russia?
12:00pm – 1:15pm (EDT) – Brookings – Prioritizing clean energy investments in emerging and developing economies
1:00pm – 2:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – A conversation with US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken
1:00pm – 2:30pm (BST) – LSE – COVID-19: Africa’s Vaccine Challenge
3:30pm – 4:30pm (BST) – Chatham House – The future of corporate governance
4:00pm – 5:00pm (BST) – King’s – Adam Shapiro: Taking the Fed at its Word: A New Approach to Estimating Central Bank Objectives using Text Analysis
Tuesday, 22 June
10:00am – 11:15pm (EDT) – Brookings – Global China: Assessing China’s growing role in the world
11:00am – 12:00pm (EDT) – PIIE – Climate risk and the Fed: Preparing for an uncertain certaint
12:00pm – 1:15pm (EDT) – Harvard – Public Narratives and Organizing: A Case Study of the Stand Up with the Teachers Campaign in Jordan
6:00pm – 7:30pm (BST) – King’s – Lawfare: Waging War through Law with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
Wednesday, 23 June
9:30am – 10:30am (BST) – Chatham House – Emerging threats in cyber, space and biosecurity
11:00am – 12:30pm (BST) – LSE – Achieving Peace in an Age of Chaos: solutions for a sustainable future
1:00pm – 2:15pm (PDT) – Stanford – How Social Science Advances Our Understanding of Pandemics
1:00pm – 2:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Live from Capitol Hill: How to cover an insurrection
2:00pm – 4:00pm (BST) – Canning House – LatAm Outlook: Colombia
3:00pm – 4:15pm (BST) – King’s – Is Violence Ever Right? Violence and developmental pathways in Brazil and Colombia
4:00pm – 5:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Greater Boston Debate Series: Can (and Should) Public Transit Be Free?
5:00pm – 6:15pm (BST) – King’s – The Geopolitics of Trade: what the origins of mercantilism can tell us about the future of international trade disputes
Thursday, 24 June
12:30pm – 1:30pm (BST) – Institute for Government – The Brexit referendum: five years on
5:00pm – 7:00pm (BST) – UCL – Book Launch: The Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and the Law
Friday, 25 June
10:00am – 11:00am (BST) – Canning House – Chile’s National Green Hydrogen Strategy
4:00pm – 5:30pm (BST) – LSE – The Politics of the Far-Right in Central and South-East Europe
Arthur Wittenberg 