Topic: Seminar Series

Book Talk: The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia

Book Panel Discussion: Becoming Nations Again: The Journey Toward Tribal Determination

Rethinking Aid Delivery: FinTech and the Future of Development

Adapting to the Changing Landscape of DA: Bridging Policy and Reality in Development Implementation

Development in Crisis: Can Blockchain Save What’s Left of the Aid System

The Future of the Middle East

FinTech and Capital Markets Development

Let’s Get the Prince Back into Hamlet

Swing State(s) of Mind

Advancing the Middle East Peace Plan: What’s Next?

National Digital Currency Strategy

The Future of FinTech

Regulating Nonprofit Organizations in China: History and Present

Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change

Transforming Landscapes of Aid: How Gulf Business, the War in Ukraine, and Equestrian Sports Change Small-Town Kyrgyzstan

Global Civil Society and China: Challenges and Prospects

Dynamics of Power in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan: Challenges and Survivability

Doing Policy that Prioritizes People: The Challenge of Reflexivism

Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession

How Qatar and Gulf Countries are Shaping Trajectories in Afghanistan

Beyond Free Expression: The Duty of Universities to Foster Conversation.

Uzbek Diaspora in the United States

The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market

Orchestrating Volunteer Service for State Interests: An Inquiry of Volunteering in Contemporary China

Regional Integration in Central Asia 2.0: New Crossroads

Masterly Inactivity? The U.S. as Offshore Unbalancer in Central Asia

Neighborhood Revitalization and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions

Looking at Chinese Foundations with a Western Lens

Afghanistan’s Education Crisis: A Scholarly Examination of Historical Decline, Systemic Barriers, and Grassroots Innovation

Inequality and Mobility in a Minimal Model for Evolving Income Distributions

Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in the Russian Empire

US – Russia Relations: A Conversation with Caroline Savage

Welcome to China? Foreign Donations and Domestic Contributions

Civil War to Civil Discourse: Lessons from the Middle East for Syria

Eurasia in an Age of Strategic Churn

Resilience and Resistance: Afghan Women’s Fight Against the Taliban and the Role of Global Economic Sanctions

You Can’t Buy Hope, So Where Can You Find It

The Dynamics of Ukraine’s Decentralized Crisis Response During the Full-Scale Russian Invasion

14th Five-Year Plan for Social Organization Development: China’s Nonprofit Sector in Transition

Losing Hearts and Minds: Ethnicity and Civilian Targeting in Myanmar’s Civil War

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

Who Fills the Seats? Publicly Employed Women in Russian Municipal Politics

Navigating Modernity: Contemporary Religiosities of Muslim and Druze Students in Israel

The Judeo-Islamic Tradition: A Forgotten Story

NGOs as Policy Entrepreneurs: Transnational Advocacy and Mechanisms for Greening the Belt and Road Initiative

Overcoming Polarization: Beginning with How We Think

Bohemia, Prague, and Franz Kafka – Intercultural Contexts in Central Europe

Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey Into the Heart of American Democracy

Enforcing Boundaries: China’s Overseas NGO Law and Operational Constraints for Global Civil Society

The Impact of Digital Management on Volunteer Outcomes

Government Funding and Nonprofit Performance: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Private Donations, Volunteers and Network Quality

Harnessing Religion for Social Cohesion: Managing Ethnic Diversity in Haifa

The Future of Philanthropy and Volunteerism in China

Copyright Enforcement Decision-Making

America Last: The Right’s Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

Creating a Culture of Philanthropy and Volunteerism in Contemporary China

All the Kingdoms of the World: Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism

Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East

Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry

Two Cheers for Optimism: Liberal Democracy, Its Critics and Virtues

A Political Theory of Governance of Diversity

Resilience in the Digital Age

The New Central Social Affairs Department of the Chinese Communist Party and its Impact on Social Policy in China

Affective Lockdown: Administrative Chaos and Informal Repairing in the Local Enactment of Immobility in Urban China

The Identity Trap

Humans Outside the Loop

Rebel and Incumbent Law and the Durability of Post-Civil War Peace

Iran: Stoking Divides in the Middle East

Preserving Democracy: Political Violence and Polarization

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

Texting, Texting: The Effect of Text Messages On Voting, Volunteering, and Giving

Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing

Identity and Security in the Black Sea Region

Turkish Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan during the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Era

Book Talk: Solving Social Dilemmas

Textual Speculations: How Generative AI Predicts the Next Word

A Year of Resilience in Ukraine

Introduction to AI Ethics

Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons

Using Information Privacy Standards to Build Governance Markets

Automating Early Warning: The Possibilities and Limits of Predicting Conflict

Artificial Justice

Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021)

The Ethics & Regulation of Generative AI

Future-Proofing the US-European Relationship

Judging the Black Box: AI and Administrative Law

What Makes Ukraine Resilient in an Asymmetric War?

Predicting Well-Being in the Real-World and Real-Time: Possibilities and Challenges

Data Privacy and Security Concerns after Roe v. Wade

The Constitution and Laws of the Taliban 1994-2001

Computational Entities for Regular People

The Problem of Democracy

Algorithms in Criminal Justice

The Balkh School of Islamic Thought: An Approach Towards Pluralist Coexistence for the Muslim World

Afghanistan One Year Later: The Economics of a Collapsed State

Navigating Differences in an Age of Toxic Polarization

Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Institutions in Politics and Development

Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?

Modeling the Caselaw Access Project

Afghanistan One Year Later: Human Rights and Civil Society under Taliban Rule

The Art and Science of Election Polling

Dysfunctional Centralization and Growing Fragility under Taliban Rule

Perspectives on Ukraine: Tymofiy Mylovanov Shares His Thoughts with GSPIA

Unrest in Iran

Unrest in Iran with Mohamad Machine-Chian

Ukrainian Independence and the Future of the World

Algorithmic Cartels

Expertise and Bad Predictions: How Can We Do Better?

The State of Academia and Afghanistan under Taliban Rule: A Virtual Webinar

The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

Unpacking the Genocide of Hazaras in Afghanistan: A Virtual Seminar

Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions

How Can State Governments Support Healthier Housing Markets?

Book Talk: Patriarchal Hierarchy; Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan (2001-2021)

Information Privacy and the Inference Economy

Information Privacy and the Inference Economy

The Contingency of Neighborhood Diversity

Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today’s Land Use Regulations

The Surveillant University

War in Ukraine: Voices From Kyiv

Every Rotten Idea Since Adam: How ERISA Reform Made Modern Venture Capital

Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education

The Institutional Grammar Research Initiative, Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design

Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law

Haroun Rahimi: Afghanistan’s Informal Economy

NFTs, Digital Scarcity, and the Computational Aura

The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law

(Book Launch) Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far from Home

Smart City Governance Presentations by Associate Director Martin Weiss

The Big Data Constitution

Possessive Individualism: A Crisis of Capitalism

The Socio-Historical Conditions of Sharing Sacred Sites: Reflections on Contemporary Cases Across the Mediterranean

To What End? On Infrastructural Governance

Community and Belonging in Fracturing Societies

Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment

Indigenous Nations and the Development of the US Economy

Policing and Political Participation

Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York

Misdemeanor Prosecution

Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic

A New Institutional History of Allotment: Evidence from the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1904-1934

How Might We Govern Ourselves Digitally – Roundtable Discussion

Watched, Stopped, and Handcuffed: The Effects of Direct and Indirect Police Contact on the Health of Black Women

The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe

Governance in Digitalized Electricity Systems: The Economics of Transactive Energy

The Rule of Code: Challenges in Regulating Decentralized Blockchain-based Systems

Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

The Law and Economics of Crime on Indian Reservations

Going the Extra Mile: the Cost of Complaint Filing, Accountability, and Law Enforcement Outcomes in Chicago

Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling

The Siren Song: Algorithmic Governance By Blockchain

Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket

Roundtable on Police Reform in Pittsburgh

Admins, Mods, & Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism

Land Use Regulation and Individual Welfare (with Brian Beach)

Capitalism after Satoshi: On the Economic Organization of a Digital Economy

Lessons from the Prison Education Project

The Issues the Candidates Aren’t Discussing: Governance Reform

A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations

Digital Decentralization by Design: Escaping the Paradox of Power

The Incubated Revolution: Education, Cohort Effects, and the Linguistic Wage Gap in Quebec, 1970 to 2000

Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System

Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Payment Mechanism?

Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment

Overcoming Governance Challenges and Partisan Divides

Misdemeanor Prosecution

The Plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China

Virtual Conversastion: Belarus at the Brink? Domestic and Global Dimensions

The Competitive Governance of Units of Account in the 21st Century