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SUMMARY:Information Privacy and the Inference Economy
DESCRIPTION:The event was on ‘Information Privacy and the Inference Economy’ featuring speaker Alicia Solow-Niederman. Michael Maddison for the Future Law Project will moderate.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/information-privacy-and-the-inference-economy-2/
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SUMMARY:Information Privacy and the Inference Economy
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Solow-Niederman\, Harvard Law School
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Patriarchal Hierarchy; Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
DESCRIPTION:The event discusses a book by Dr Kambaiz Rafi which is derived and builds on his PhD research on manufacturing activities in Afghanistan that he completed at UCL in mid-2021. The book is the product of Dr Rafi’s nearly four years of research which analyses extensive empirical data gathered in the field during a year in Afghanistan in 2018. The book’s theoretical contribution takes aim at the methodological foundations of market-led economic policy. This approach to economic development has been advocated by international financial institutions since the 1970s-80s\, and was implemented in Afghanistan as part of the state institution (re-)building during 2001–2021. \nThe book draws on debates in institutionalist political economy and economic sociology (mainly concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu) but\, importantly\, deals critically with epistemological issues in how individual economic interest is theorized in contemporary economics\, with implications that are seen in practice. The book’s empirical component focuses on manufacturing activities as one area of investment\, examining individual motivation to invest in an environment marred by insecurity. It is of great importance to political economy of development to learn the implications of a market-oriented ‘non-intervention’ policy for manufacturing sector in a country which arguably witnessed the inflow of unprecedented international financial and human resources among least developed economies in the recent history of such outside assistance. \nWhile much attention has been devoted to the security aspects of the US-led campaign in Afghanistan\, the book attempts to fill a gap by focusing on the technical aspects of economic policy. The book event can be an opportunity to also discuss the wider implications of Afghanistan’s political economy during 2002-2021 after more than a year since the former political system’s collapse. \nAbout Kambaiz Rafi: Kambaiz Rafi is a postdoctoral fellow under the Economic and Social Research Council program of the UK Research and Innovation\, hosted at SOAS University of London. He finished his doctorate at UCL (University College London) in development policy\, where he also worked as Postgraduate Teaching Assistant. His research adapted an institutionalist framework to the study of private investments in manufacturing in a conflict-affected market economy\, taking Kabul\, Afghanistan during 2002-2018 as a case study. His doctoral thesis was published by Palgrave Macmillan under the title ‘Patriarchal Hierarchy; Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan’. Kambaiz’s independent work in English and Persian has been published in academic and online media. He has an MA in International Political Economy from King’s College London\, a BA majoring in Economics with minors in Political Science and Psychology from University of Pune\, India\, and a Diploma in National Security and International Relations from JRVGT Institute\, Pune\, India. He has worked as adviser to the Minister of Economy of Afghanistan on Sustainable Development Goals\, has experience working at the United Nations headquarters on ECOSOC and Security Council issues\, and has think-tank experience in Washington\, D.C. Kambaiz practices fine arts and has been taught at the Arts Students League of New York\, UCL Arts Society and most recently at the Université Populaire Européenne in Strasbourg\, France.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/book-talk-patriarchal-hierarchy-market-capitalism-and-production-in-afghanistan-2001-2021/
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SUMMARY:How Can State Governments Support Healthier Housing Markets?
DESCRIPTION:Apr. 21 2022 3:00pm ET Jenny Shuetz
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/how-can-state-governments-support-healthier-housing-markets/
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions
DESCRIPTION:PPApr. 14 2022 3:00pm ET Jake Krimmel: Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/reclaiming-local-control-school-finance-reforms-and-housing-supply-restrictions/
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SUMMARY:Unpacking the Genocide of Hazaras in Afghanistan: A Virtual Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, April 29 at 10 am ET for a virtual seminar: Unpacking the Genocide of Hazaras in Afghanistan. Event co-hosted by CGM and the Porsesh Research and Studies Organization. \nSeminar will feature insights from Dr. Farkhondeh Akbari (Monash University)\, Dr. Melissa Chiovenda (Zayed University)\, and Dr. Nazif Shahrani (University of Indiana\, Bloomington) on the recent attacks on the Hazara population of Afghanistan. \nAbout our Panel:  \nDr. Nazif Shahrani is an Afghan-American anthropologist specializing in political anthropology and anthropological approached to the study of religion with a focus on Islam. Specifically he is interested in institutional dynamics and political culture of Muslims\, Islamist movements\, problems of state-failure\, role of nationalism in the social fragmentation of multi-ethnic nation-states\, and the political economy of international assistance to postcolonial failing states and its consequences. \nDr. Farkhondeh Akbari is a postdoctoral fellow at the Gender\, Peace and Security Centre at Monash University.  Farkhondeh completed her PhD in diplomatic studies at the Australian National University. Dr. Akbari has work experience at the United Nations Headquarters in New York\, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and Afghanistan’s Independent Directorate of Local Governance in Kabul. Farkhondeh is also an activist\, using her research to advocate for human rights – especially the rights of women and girls\, and vulnerable ethnic groups in Afghanistan. \nDr. Melissa Kerr Chiovenda is an assistant professor of anthropology at Zayed University\, AbuDhabi. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Hazara civil society activists in Bamyan\, Afghanistan from 2010-2013\, with follow-up visits in 2016 and 2019. She focuses on the transmission of collective and cultural trauma through the activists’ activities\, and how this affects political identity and subjectivity. She has currently been conducting ethnographic fieldwork with Afghan refugees in Athens\, Greece\, each summer since 2016 focusing on political and transnational placemaking. She has published extensive articles and chapters on these topics\, and has a completed book manuscript she is proposing to publishers. \n 
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/unpacking-the-genocide-of-hazaras-in-afghanistan-a-virtual-seminar/
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