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Tuesday, October 3, 2023 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Colloquium with Charles Fawell
International Security Studies continues its Fall 2023 ISS Colloquium series with a presentation by Charles Fawell. Fawell is an ISS postdoctoral associate and Assistant Director of the Maritime and Naval Studies Project. His research examines the interimperial politics of global shipping and its intersection with histories of migration and mobility, …
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Horchow Hall
American Strategy for the Decisive Decade
How can the United States develop and implement strategies to prepare for an era of sustained great power competition with China? Elbridge (“Bridge”) Colby, co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative has thought deeply about these challenges as both a scholar and national security practitioner. Colby is the author of …
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Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What To Do About Them Thumbnail
Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Horchow Hall
Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What To Do About Them
The Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs will host Ram Shankar Siva Kumar for a conversation about his book Not With A Bug, But With A Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What To Do About Them (coauthored with …
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ISS Colloquium with Sean Case Thumbnail
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Colloquium with Sean Case
International Security Studies will continue its Fall 2023 colloquium series with a presentation by Sean Case, a Kissinger Visiting Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at ISS. An interdisciplinary scholar, Sean’s research bridges modern American political and intellectual history and international relations. He received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University in …
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The Rise of Xi Jinping: Book Talk with the Wall Street Journal’s Chun Han Wong Thumbnail
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Horchow Hall
The Rise of Xi Jinping: Book Talk with the Wall Street Journal’s Chun Han Wong
International Security Studies (ISS) hosts a discussion with Wall Street Journal correspondent Chun Han Wong, whose important new book profiles the life and political vision of Xi Jinping. “Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future” offers a bold new account of Xi’s rise to the …
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Unlocking Digital Public Infrastructure for Global Growth & Inclusion Thumbnail
Thursday, October 12, 2023 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Henry R. Luce Hall
Unlocking Digital Public Infrastructure for Global Growth & Inclusion
Digital public infrastructure is quietly transforming the world, accelerating economic development and transforming economies. Can it also include the excluded, who face challenges in digital access? And is India’s transformative model of digital inclusion possible for low-income countries globally? Join us for a conversation about the promise and challenges in …
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The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the War in Ukraine with Heather Williams Thumbnail
Thursday, October 12, 2023 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the War in Ukraine with Heather Williams
This talk will present the findings of a recent CSIS study tracking Russian and NATO nuclear rhetoric and activities since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It examines the impact of nuclear weapons on the war, crisis escalation, and the role of nuclear weapons in Russian strategic thinking.
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ISS Colloquium with Daniel Chardell Thumbnail
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Colloquium with Daniel Chardell
International Security Studies will continue its Fall 2023 colloquium series with a presentation by Daniel Chardell, a Henry Chauncey ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. He received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, where he specialized in the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Middle …
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ISS Book Series: The Ideological Scramble for Africa with Frank Gerits Thumbnail
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Book Series: The Ideological Scramble for Africa with Frank Gerits
Join Professor Paul Kennedy for a conversation with Frank Gerits on his book, The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966. The book examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War …
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ISS Colloquium with Adriane Sanctis Thumbnail
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Colloquium with Adriane Sanctis
International Security Studies will continue its Fall 2023 colloquium series with a presentation by Adriane Sanctis, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School. She co-founded LAUT, an independent think tank focusing on rights and rising authoritarianism in Brazil. Her research interests include the contemporary …
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ISS Colloquium with Ian Seavey Thumbnail
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Colloquium with Ian Seavey
International Security Studies continues its Fall 2023 ISS Colloquium series with a presentation by Ian Seavey, a Brady-Johnson Predoctoral Fellow at ISS. He is a PhD candidate in History at Texas A&M University where he is completing a dissertation that tells the story of the colonial relationship between the U.S. …
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ISS Book Series: Arrested Development with Alessandro Iandolo Thumbnail
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Book Series: Arrested Development with Alessandro Iandolo
Join ISS Director Arne Westad for a conversation with Alessandro Iandolo author of Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968. The book examines the USSR’s involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence …
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ISS Colloquium with Mattie Webb Thumbnail
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
ISS Colloquium with Mattie Webb
International Security Studies will continue its Fall 2023 colloquium series with a presentation by Kissinger Visiting Scholar Mattie Webb. A historian of the United States and southern Africa, Mattie’s research cuts across questions of race in foreign policy, labor and the workplace, and social movements more broadly. She will share …
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ISS Book Series: Worldmaking in the Long Great War with Jonathan Wyrtzen Thumbnail
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Horchow Hall
ISS Book Series: Worldmaking in the Long Great War with Jonathan Wyrtzen
Join ISS Director Arne Westad for a conversation with Jonathan Wyrtzen on his award-winning new book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2022). Wyrtzen shows how the cataclysm of the war opened new possibilities for both European …
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