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SUMMARY:Powerlessness and Populism: Does America Need a New Governing Vision?
DESCRIPTION:A forum to explore overhaul of broken government operating structures\nThis forum will address the broad resentment at government and social institutions and debate the provocative overhaul thesis of the new book by Philip K. Howard\, Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society (Rodin 2024). Howard argues that post-1960s governing frameworks disempower Americans in their daily choices\, causing public failure and alienation\, and must be replaced by simpler frameworks activated by human responsibility. \n  \nThe half-day forum will have three panels:\n\nPowerlessness in Government and Society: Is the problem political or structural?\nHelping Institutions Flourish Again: How to re-empower responsible cultures\nIs Change Impossible or Inevitable?: Proposing new public operating visions\n\n  \nPanelists include:\nPhilip K. Howard\, Common Good \nDonald Kettl\, University of Texas at Austin \nKevin Kosar\, American Enterprise Institute \nWill Marshall\, Progressive Policy Institute \nMichael Mazarr\, RAND \nMegan McArdle\, Washington Post \nJennifer Brick Murtazashvili\, University of Pittsburgh \nSally Satel\, American Enterprise Institute \nMene Ukueberuwa\, Wall Street Journal \nMichael Wear\, Center for Christianity and Public Life \nJason Willick\, Washington Post \nMichele Zanini\, Management Lab
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/powerlessness-and-populism/
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SUMMARY:Policy Workshop: Powerlessness and Populism: Does America Need a New Governing Vision?
DESCRIPTION:Powerlessness and Populism: Does America Need a New Governing Vision? A forum to explore overhaul of broken government operating structures. \n 
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/policy-workshop-powerlessness-and-populism-does-america-need-a-new-governing-vision/
LOCATION:William Pitt Union\, 3959 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15260\, United States
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SUMMARY:Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Timur Kuran\, Duke University in Alcoa Room\n \nAccording to diverse indices of political performance\, the Middle East is the world’s least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under Islamic law. This book by Timur Kuran\, author of the influential Long Divergence\, explores the lasting political effects of the Middle East’s lengthy exposure to Islamic law. It identifies several channels through which Islamic institutions\, both defunct and still active\, have limited the expansion of basic freedoms under political regimes of all stripes: secular dictatorships\, electoral democracies\, monarchies legitimated through Islam\, and theocracies. Kuran suggests that Islam’s rich history carries within it the seeds of liberalization on many fronts; and that the Middle East has already established certain prerequisites for a liberal order. But there is no quick fix for the region’s prevailing record of human freedoms.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/freedoms-delayed/
LOCATION:Venue Name\, 252 Gross Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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SUMMARY:All the Kingdoms of the World: Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Vallier\, Bowling Green State University in Posvar 4130 \nThe 20th century had an unusual feature: global secularizing movements. In the 19th century\, those movements were confined mostly to Western Europe\, but in the 20th century\, they exploded\, suppressing the influence of religion around the world. In some milder cases\, these movements only suppressed the political expression of the great religions\, such as in Turkey and India. In other cases\, ferocious religious persecution was a daily occurrence\, such as in the USSR and Mao’s China. But today\, older religious influences are taking back their political influence as these regimes have receded. And they are doing so by rejecting the doctrine of liberalism that they have seen as their oppressors. Kevin Vallier will discuss these different movements\, critique them\, and explain how defenders of liberal democracy can respond. \nDr. Kevin Vallier\, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University (BGSU)\, specializes in political philosophy. Hailing from Fairhope\, Alabama\, he possesses a unique background rooted in the Georgist philosophy of public land ownership. With a PNP degree from Washington University in St. Louis and another degree in philosophy of religion at St. Louis University\, Dr. Vallier completed his PhD in political philosophy at Arizona. He held a post-doctoral position at Brown University’s Political Theory Project before joining BGSU. Currently\, he serves as the director of BGSU’s Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law (PPEL) program and contributes to insightful discussions on cooperation and reconciliation through his blog\, Reconciled.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/alternatives-to-liberalism/
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SUMMARY:Liability Aspects of Using Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Sara Gerke\, Penn State University \nArtificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering healthcare and changing the practice of medicine. But who will likely be held liable for patient harm caused by AI? The physician\, hospital\, manufacturer\, and/or no one? This presentation tries to answer these questions\, looking at U.S. tort liability and new developments in the European Union.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/liability-aspects-of-using-ai-health/
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SUMMARY:Creating a Culture of Philanthropy and Volunteerism in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Teets\, Middlebury College \nIn contrast to previous regimes\, under Xi Jinping the Chinese Communist Party has pushed citizens to engage philanthropy and volunteerism. State messaging about “common prosperity” and “tertiary distribution” posits these prosocial behaviors as a way to alleviate inequality. Is this propaganda working in changing citizen behavior? This study uses national survey data from the 2018\, 2020\, and 2022 waves of the Civic Participation in China Survey (CPCS). It finds that Chinese citizens are donating and volunteering more than in the past\, and that they view these activities more positively. We find some evidence that the state propaganda may be a motivating factor for cadres\, who are exposed to these messages sooner and in higher doses than non-members. However\, there is less evidence that behavior and views of non-cadres has been influenced by propaganda\, as the uptick in philanthropy and volunteerism mostly precedes the new state discourse. Register here.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/culture-philanthropy-volunteerism-china/
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SUMMARY:America Last: The Right's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
DESCRIPTION:Jacob Heilbrunn & Damir Marusic \nOn Thursday\, March 28 at 4:30 PM in Lawrence Hall Room 105\, Damir Marusic\, Assignment Editor at the Washington Post and host of the podcast and Substack Wisdom of Crowds will interview and debate Jacob Heilbrunn on his new book\, America Last (Liveright\, 2024). \nIn America Last\, Heilbrunn\, a leading observer of the right\, explains the long history behind Donald Trump’s admiration for Vladimir Putin and Ron DeSantis’s veneration of Victor Orban. Why is today’s Republican Party\, so drawn to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the brazenly illiberal Victor Orban\, who has crushed an independent judiciary and political dissent in Hungary? As Heilbrunn shows\, the affection conservatives display for foreign autocrats dates to the First World War. Since that time\, leading intellectuals\, journalists\, and politicians on the right have always been drawn to what they perceive as the impressive strength of authoritarians abroad―including Kaiser Wilhelm\, Francisco Franco\, Adolf Hitler\, and Augusto Pinochet―who offered models of how to fight back against liberalism and progressivism domestically. For decades\, conservatives railed against communist fellow travelers in America\, but have their own delusional history of apologetics. In this fast-paced\, often-droll account\, Heilbrunn argues that dictator worship is a longstanding romantic impulse that fits firmly within the modern American political tradition―and shows what it means for us today. \nHeilbrunn is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and editor of the National Interest\, a foreign policy magazine that was founded by Irving Kristol in 1985. He began his career as an assistant editor at the magazine\, where his first issue was one featuring Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” essay. He went on to become a senior editor at the New Republic and an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. He has written on both foreign and domestic issues for numerous publications including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, Reuters\, Washington Monthly\, and the Weekly Standard.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/america-last/
LOCATION:Lawrence Hall\, 3942 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15260\, United States
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