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Founding Week 2023
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Data Science in the Liberal Arts: Discuss the Berkeley experience with Eric Van Dusen, Kseniya Usovich, and Samantha Chean-Udell
Join us for a talk with Eric Van Dusen and his team to learn more about integrating Data Science education in the liberal arts curriculum. Eric Van Dusen will present Berkeley’s two flagship programs: Data Science Connectors- two-unit domain seminars to a ...
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African Philosophy and Global Justice
Professor Okeja is an Associate Professor in the department of philosophy at Rhodes University and Director of the Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy (forthcoming) and ...
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Demos21 Talk by Carlo Burelli (University of Genova): No Virtue like Resilience – A new Machiavellian justification of democracy
Political realism claims that normative evaluations of politics should be grounded on political rather than moral values (Rossi and Sleat 2014). This paper revives Machiavelli’s justification of republican government (Machiavelli 2003), and seeks to updat ...
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The Democratic Boundary Problem – A Function-Sensitive View
In response to the democratic boundary problem, two principles have been seen as competitors: the all-affected interests principle and the all-subjected principle. This article claims that these principles are in fact compatible, being justified vis-à-vis ...
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Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice
Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice This paper aims at proposing a definition of the concept of “postcolonial justice” in view of elaborating an empirically-informed theory of postcolonial justice qua reparative justice. For this purpose, it suggests ...
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Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments
Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments During the XX century, many western countries introduced balanced budget constitutional amendments (BBCA), i.e. they reformed their constitution ...
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Prof. Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po Paris): Democracy in Selection
Should we replace elections with lotteries? Bernard Manin’s famous book on representative government first taught many of us that the Greeks thought of elections as an aristocratic, not a democratic, way to select people for political power and authority ...
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Marc Hecker and Élie Tenenbaum: The End of the War on Terror?
The lecture will draw on the book The Twenty Years’ War: Jihadism and Counterterrorism in the XXIst Century. Based on several years of field investigations, this book, which was recently awarded the Prix du livre géopolitique, offers the first history of ...
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D.Rad Symposium: Trends of Radicalization in Europe and Beyond
The Symposium will present the findings of 17 countries on trends of radicalization in Europe and the Middle East. The reports analyze specific moments – or “hotspots” – of radicalization in historical, social, and cultural context and are part of the D.R ...