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Questions and Answers from The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010, given by Professor Bruno Latour: "May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics".
Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11 2010. The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture is given every spring at the Nobel Museum by an international scholar of excellence.
Why mainstreaming corporate social responsibility still makes good business sense
With the recession in full swing and no reprieve in sight, one might expect interest in corporate social responsibility to wane, or perhaps even die a natural death.
Quidditch for Muggles at the College of Charleston
B.Y.O.B. -- Bring Your Own Broom!
Join the CofC Quidditch team around Marion Square and on campus as they play the sport popularized in the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling.
CofC Quidditch on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=186708751528
International Quidditch Association:
http://www.internationalquidditch.org
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar 10/26/2010 #1: Introduction by Dukakis
Creating Access to Services: The Case of the Massachusetts Health Connector
Jon Kingsdale, Founding Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Connector
Jim Stergios, Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
Moderator:
Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University; former Governor of Massachusetts
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar 10/26/2010 #2: Jon Kingsdale
Creating Access to Services: The Case of the Massachusetts Health Connector
Jon Kingsdale, Founding Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Connector
Jim Stergios, Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
Moderator:
Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University; former Governor of Massachusetts
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar 10/26/2010 #3: Comment by Dukakis
Creating Access to Services: The Case of the Massachusetts Health Connector
Jon Kingsdale, Founding Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Connector
Jim Stergios, Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
Moderator:
Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University; former Governor of Massachusetts
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar 10/26/2010 #4: Jim Stergios
Creating Access to Services: The Case of the Massachusetts Health Connector
Jon Kingsdale, Founding Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Connector
Jim Stergios, Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
Moderator:
Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University; former Governor of Massachusetts
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar 10/26/2010 #5: Q and A
Creating Access to Services: The Case of the Massachusetts Health Connector
Jon Kingsdale, Founding Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Connector
Jim Stergios, Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
Moderator:
Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University; former Governor of Massachusetts
Michigan Conference of Political Scientists: Grading the Obama Administration's Foreign Policy
A presentation held at GRCC during the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists.
Michigan Conference of Political Scientists: Michigan Politics
A presentation held at GRCC during the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists.
Michigan Conference of Political Scientists: The Death of Newspapers
A presentation held at GRCC during the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists.
Michigan Conference of Political Scientists: The Supreme Court's 2009-2010 Term
A presentation held at GRCC during the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists.
ANUpoll on population - launch at Parliament House, 26 October 2010
ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb launches the seventh ANUpoll at Parliament House on 26 October 2010. He is joined at the launch by ANUpoll researchers Professor Ian McAllister, Dr Juliet Pietsch and Aaron Martin.
The poll -- Public opinion towards population growth in Australia -- took a wide-ranging snapshot of Australian attitudes towards population policy, environment and infrastructure, immigration and fertility and the ageing population. The results show diverse attitudes towards p
Public Bailout of Bank’s Recklessness
In response to the ongoing sub-prime crisis, the recently published Crosby Report recommends that the Government uses public money to swap bank’s seriously damaged mortgage-backed securities for pristine government bonds. Matthew Watson from the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University talks about these recommendations, and how the global ‘credit crunch’ is affecting Labour’s popularity with the electorate.
The Challenges of the Saddam Hussein Trial
Judge Raid Juhi al-Saedi, Former Chief investigative Judge; Iraqi High Tribunal; Visiting Jurist in Residence, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center LL.M. Candidate, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
John the Baptist NestLearning.com presents the video John the Baptist. John the Baptist is a story of courage, kindness, and conviction seen through the life of one of God's greatest prophets, John the Baptiser. It begins with the blessing John's birth to his aging parents, Zacharias and Elisabeth. Dedicating his life to preparing the way for Jesus Christ, John the Baptist faces both political and spiritual a
Constitutionalism in Latin America: A North American Perspective
Professor Barker will make a presentation on "Constitutionalism in Latin America: a North American Perspective" Moderators: Dante Figueroa, Adjunct Professor, WCL and Georgetown Law Center, Senior Legal Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress.
11.949 Cities in Conflict: Theory and Practice (MIT)
This course's aims are two-fold:
to offer students the theoretical and practical tools to understand how and why cities become torn by ethnic, religious, racial, nationalist, and/or other forms of identity that end up leading to conflict, violence, inequality, and social injustice; and
to use this knowledge and insight in the search for solutions
As preparation, students will be required to become familiar with social and political theories of the city and the nation and their relationship to
15.342J Organizations and Environments (MIT)
The goal of this doctoral course is to familiarize students with major conceptual frameworks, debates, and developments in contemporary organization theory. This is an inter-disciplinary domain of inquiry drawing primarily from sociology, and secondarily from economics, psychology, anthropology, and political science. The course focuses on inter-organizational processes, and also addresses the economic, institutional and cultural contexts that organizations must face.
This is an introduction to
Adelaida Sourdis: Independence in the Colombian Caribbean at ANU
Adelaida Sourdis gives this lecture at The Australian National University entitled 'Independence in the Colombian Caribbean: A History of Magic Realism' at The Australian National University.
This talk discusses and describes what happened in the Colombian Caribbean within and in relation to its geographical, political and social context, and the destruction of Cartagena, considered the centre or power in the region. Two historical moments are studied, the independence process and the price pai
