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SUMMARY:Myanmar and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Relations  
DESCRIPTION:February 9-12\, 2025: Myanmar and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Relations  CGM and the Hollings Center co-hosted a regional dialogue in Kuala Lumpur focused on the challenges and opportunities in Myanmar–Southeast Asia relations. The event convened regional experts and stakeholders to discuss political dynamics\, economic ties\, and pathways for greater cooperation amid ongoing instability. 
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/myanmar-regional-relations/
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SUMMARY:Two Cheers for Optimism: Liberal Democracy\, Its Critics and Virtues
DESCRIPTION:Aurelian Crăiuțu\, Indiana University Bloomington\nAlcoa Room \nThe crisis of liberal democracy and the question what we should do to save it would have been hardly conceivable three decades ago\, when the Berlin Wall was falling\, and we hailed the triumph of liberal democracy around the entire world. The mood is very different today: around the world liberal democracy is in crisis. The agents and causes of democratic decline are many. They range from antiliberal populist movements of the far-right which damage democracies internally through their dismissive attitude toward core civil and political rights\, to radical movements on the far Left whose push for radical reforms and endorsement of the controversial cancel culture erode the belief in the legitimacy of key liberal norms and values such as free speech and equality under the law. \nThis presentation\, based on a book manuscript in progress on liberal democracy that Crăiuțu is co-writing with Dan Cole and Michael McGinnis at Indiana University\, explores the reasons for which liberalism is under attack and revisits the diversity and eclecticism of the liberal family\, with emphasis on the relationship between liberalism and political moderation. They show that the doom industry has a long history and discuss the conceptual fluidity of liberalism and its implications for students of liberalism. They argue that by acknowledging the polysemantic nature of liberalism we can better answer its critics. After examining a few tropes in the anti-liberal literature\, the presentation concludes with a few practical recommendations for defending liberal democracy and rethinking liberal governance by drawing on the ideas of Karl Popper and the Bloomington School created by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/liberal-democracy-critics/
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SUMMARY:Overcoming Deep Differences
DESCRIPTION:Feb. 21-23\, 2024: Overcoming Deep Differences  \nThis manuscript workshop explored how individuals\, communities\, and societies address deep divisions caused by polarization\, economic\, social\, and cultural cleavages. 
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/overcoming-deep-differences/
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SUMMARY:Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry
DESCRIPTION:Kim Krawiec\, University of Virginia  \nIn August of 2021\, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine published its most recent opinion on the financial compensation of oocyte (egg) donors. For those not steeped in the historical controversy surrounding egg donor compensation in the United States\, the document likely appears unexceptional. Within historical context\, however\, the guidelines represent an important change in conceptions of oocyte commodification. \nFirst\, and most importantly\, the most recent guidelines contain no mention of acceptable or recommended compensation levels\, nor do they analogize egg donation to sperm donation for purposes of payment comparison. The guidelines thus showcase the final abandonment of a decades-long attempt by the fertility industry to control egg donor compensation. Second\, after more than twenty years of promoting ethical worries about oocyte commodification\, the guidelines explicitly acknowledge — for the first time — that commodification concerns are rarely raised in the context of sperm donation. Finally\, the guidelines emphasize that a failure to treat egg donors as adult women capable of making their own risk-return tradeoffs regarding their bodies and livelihoods would be demeaning and unfair. \nThis chapter uses the development and eventual abandonment of these ASRM pricing guidelines over more than twenty-five years as a lens through which to understand commodification debates in both the sperm and egg markets.
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