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SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. \nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180512T090000
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SUMMARY:Witnessing Professionals and Climate Change Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Anxieties of Democracy program’s Working Group on Climate Change\, in collaboration with Princeton University\, hosted “Witnessing Professionals and Climate Change” a workshop on the ethics of professionals in the face of climate change. Chaired by Professor Nancy Rosenblum and Professor Melissa Lane\, “Witnessing Professionals” featured panels with lawyers\, scientists\, public health\, and university officials in order to discuss the role of professionals and institutions in combating climate change. \nVideo proceedings of the workshop may be found here. Some of the presenters have also made lightly-edited transcripts of their remarks available (links in the agenda below). \nThis event was made possible with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. \nAgenda \n9:00 am – Welcome: Melissa Lane\, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the University Center for Human Values \n9:15 am – Introduction: Nancy Rosenblum\, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University (emerita) \n9:30-10:00 am – Witnessing Professionals: Robert Jay Lifton\, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at the City University of New York \n10:00-11:15 am – Panel 1: Scientists\nChair: Elke Weber\, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment\, and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University \nRobert Socolow\, Princeton University\, Climate Futures Initiative and Carbon Mitigation Initiative [Transcript] \nNaomi Oreskes\, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University \n11:30-12:45 pm – Panel 2: Public Health\nChair: Adriana Petryna\, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania \nPatrick Kinney\, Beverly A. Brown Professor for the Improvement of Urban Health\, Environmental Health\, Boston University School of Public Health \nLise Van Susteren\, The Climate Project; Our Children’s Trust \nMark A. Mitchell\, President\, Mitchell Environmental Health Associates; Co-Chair\, National Medical Association Commission on Environental Health; Founder and Senior Policy Advisor\, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice \n12:45-1:30 pm – Lunch Break \n1:30 – 2:30 pm – Panel 3: Law\nChair: Samuel Issacharoff\, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law\, New York University School of Law [Transcript] \nJustice Antonio Herman Benjamin\, National High Court\, Brazil; Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law \nKatrina F. Kuh\, Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University [Transcript] \n2:30-4:00 pm – Panel 4: Academia\nChair: Nancy Rosenblum\, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University (emerita) \nHarold T. Shapiro\, President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University \nJessica F. Green\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University\nJacob Lipton\, Program Director of the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School \n4:00-5:00 pm – Summary and Discussion\nDennis F. Thompson\, Professor of Government and the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (emeritus) [Transcript]
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/witnessing-professionals-and-climate-change-workshop/
LOCATION:Princeton University\, Wallace Hall\, Room 300
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SUMMARY:Confronting Algorithms of Oppression
DESCRIPTION:Safiya Umoja Noble\, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California\, gave a public talk on her new book\, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism\, on Monday\, May 14th at the Roosevelt House at Hunter College. \n \nAlgorithms of Oppression contests the idea that search engines are unbiased marketplaces of ideas. Rather\, Noble argues that search engines reflect the underlying power structures of the societies in which they are built\, and often weaken the voices of historically underrepresented groups. Following Prof. Noble’s talk\, Meredith Broussard\, Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\, New York University and author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World\, responded. A book signing and reception followed. \n \nThis event was made possible by funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation\, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Democracy Fund.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/confronting-algorithms-of-oppression/
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SUMMARY:SSRC-IFS Workshop: "The Future of Political Parties"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop\, held at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin\, was the third in a series of convenings organized as part of a collaboration between the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program and our namesake European partner program\, Anxieties of Democracy\, at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies. \nThe workshop explored political parties as an institution\, seeking to assess their current state and explore their future. Topics included changes in the typical left-right cleavages of parties\, the decline of traditional parties\, the rise of populist parties\, and the institutional and social contexts shaping political parties today\, such as personalism\, non-majoritarianism\, and direct democracy. The workshop was generously supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ssrc-ifs-workshop-the-future-of-political-parties/
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SUMMARY:Workshop on the state of Cuban studies in the United States
DESCRIPTION:The workshop on the State of Cubans Studies in the United States\, which was organized in collaboration with John Jay College of the City University of New York and Cuba’s Revista Temas convened in Barcelona May 21-22\, 2018 prior to the start of LASA. The workshop was a resounding success in accomplishing its stated purpose: to bring together scholars who reside in Cuba with those who reside outside the island for an intensive dialogue on the development of the field of Cuban Studies in the United States. A seminar on that same topic was held at Florida International University in 1990\, but with participation of only U.S.-based scholars. Since that initial seminar\, we have witnessed the multiplication of contacts between scholars on both shores\, the expansion in the scope of studies in Cuba of the island’s society and culture\, and the greater acceptance in Cuba of the work done by colleagues who do not reside in the island. A reassessment of the field of Cuban Studies in the United States was long overdue
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/workshop-on-the-state-of-cuban-studies-in-the-united-states/
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SUMMARY:The Consequences of Misinformation
DESCRIPTION:The spread and correction of false information has historical roots in sensationalist journalism\, political disagreement\, foreign espionage\, state\, religious or ethnic propaganda\, and partisan debates: a collection of approaches far richer than suggested by the phrase “fake news.” “The Consequences of Misinformation” was a symposium on the history\, circulation\, and management of misinformation (untruths circulated without the intention to deceive) and disinformation (untruths intended to deceive). \nThe symposium was informed by social scientific and journalistic perspectives on the most effective means of understanding and countering false information\, even as it explores the challenges in doing so. The panelists spoke to three aspects of the current moment in misinformation: the status of facts/persistence of misinformation\, the speed\, virality\, and spread of misinformation\, and what we—or anyone—can do to correct or manage the misinformation that already exists. \n \nConference chairs:\nE.J. Dionne\, Senior Fellow\, The Brookings Institution and Syndicated Columnist\, The Washington Post\nJohn Sides\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, George Washington University \nConference hosts:\nMedia & Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council\nThe Brookings Institution \nWith support from:\nThe John S. and James L. Knight Foundation\nThe Democracy Fund\nThe William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-consequences-of-misinformation/
LOCATION:Falk Auditorium\, The Brookings Institution
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