The President and The First Lady arrive The White House
2025-03-04 23:30 (America/New_York) | South Portico
White House Press Pool

In-Town Pool Call Time
2025-03-05 09:00, 2025-03-06 09:00, 2025-03-07 09:00 (America/New_York) | PA
In-Town Pool

AI, Politics and Warfare: Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence
2025-03-05 09:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Innovate Carolina Junction, 136 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join us as Professor Mark McNeilly delves into the implications of artificial intelligence for politics and warfare.

Join us as Professor Mark McNeilly delves into the implications of artificial intelligence for politics and warfare and what it means for society and individuals. The talk will examine how AI will impact political campaigns, governance, regulations, and trust along with its transformative effects on military strategy, tactics and strategic competition.
Key topics will include AI’s role in campaign strategies, “fake news”, public services, autonomous weapons, intelligence gathering, and strategic decision-making, as well as the ethical considerations surrounding the use of AI in warfare. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the strategic importance of AI and its potential to shape the future of both domestic global affairs.
Professor McNeilly is the chair of the Provost’s AI Committee and teaches AI, marketing and leadership in UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. A former global marketing executive with IBM and Lenovo, he has authored books on strategy, leadership, and warfare, spoken to numerous business and military organizations on AI and strategy, and writes about AI in newsletter, Mimir’s Well.

State Unemployment (Annual)
2025-03-05 10:00 UTC | Washington, DC

Immigration: Is There a Way Forward? - Sue and Jeff White Dialogues
2025-03-05 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | USC University Club, 705 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
Join CPF for a discussion of the future of immigration policy in the United States.

od thing and that our current system is broken. And yet, the United States has not passed significant immigration reform since 1986. Why? And what reforms are even possible in today’s political climate? Is there a way forward? Join our impressive panel of immigration experts – from the left and the right – for a thoughtful and spirited discussion on the future of immigration policy. Lunch provided at the USC University Club Scriptorium.
ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_13qN0Wn1Q9ib3YGEzARB6g
We are immensely grateful to Sue and Jeff White for launching this nonpartisan dialogue series at USC. Additional partners for this event include Trojan Democrats, USC College Republicans, and the bipartisan USC Political Union.
“Immigration: Is There a Way Forward?” – Sue and Jeff White Dialogues – RUN OF SHOW11:30 am doors open; buffet lunch served12:00 pm Panel conversation begins in person, on Zoom, and on Facebook livestream1:00 pm Audience Q&A1:20 pm Conversation concludes; Zoom/livestream ends1:30 pm Doors close
Panelists include:Bob Shrum (moderator) Director, USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future; Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics; Author of Concessions of a Serial CampaignerAndrew Arthur – Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at Center for Immigration StudiesSteven Davis – Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)Deisy del Real – International Migration Scholar; USC Assistant Professor of SociologyEhsan Zaffar – Professor at ASU’s College of Law; Executive Director, The Difference Engine; Civil Rights AttorneyEd Goeas – Republican Pollster and Strategist, CPF Fellow
ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_13qN0Wn1Q9ib3YGEzARB6g

Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary
2025-03-05 13:00 (America/New_York) | James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
On Camera

Master Political Reputation Management with Kateryna Odarchenko
2025-03-05 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Reputation is the cornerstone of political success. Join this exclusive masterclass led by international political strategist Kateryna Odarc

Federico García Lorca, Flamenco, and the Harlem Renaissance
2025-03-05 17:30 - 18:45 (America/New_York) | Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
A Panel Discussion

Before the evening concert with Kiki Morente and Carlos de Jacoba, join Sybil Cooksey, José Javier León, Noël Valis, and moderator K. Meira Goldberg for a free panel discussion about Lorca’s legacy, almost 90 years after his assassination during the Spanish Civil War. A queer poet who drew inspiration from (and continues to inspire) flamenco, rooted in Gitano (Kalé, Spanish Roma, or so-called “Gypsy”) culture, Lorca was also deeply impacted by the Black artists he encountered during his stay in New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Still influential today is Lorca’s concept of duende, a dark and mysterious aesthetic power, which expresses a kind of tragic ecstasy for singer, dancer, and audience.

Featuring: Sybil Cooksey, assistant professor at New York University and author of the forthcoming book The Objective I: Black Life Writing and Inauthenticity in Post-Negrophilia Paris; K. Meira Goldberg, scholar-in-residence at the Foundation for Iberian Music, a flamenco performer and choreographer, and author of the award-winning monograph Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco; José Javier León, a professor at Centro de Lenguas Modernas de la Universidad de Granada and author of numerous books related to Lorca, including Finding Duende: Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion; and Noël Valis, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University and author of the award-winning book Lorca After Life.

Followed by a Q&A.

Science and the American Presidency
2025-03-05 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, United States
Explore how science has influenced past American presidencies and its role in shaping future policies at our event.

Science and technology play a critical role in addressing the complex challenges facing our world, from climate change and public health to national security and economic competitiveness. In this context, science advice has never been more important to effective policymaking, nor more publicly debated.

Join us for a panel discussion featuring three former presidential science advisors: Kelvin Droegemeier (Trump), Neal Lane (Clinton), and Alondra Nelson (Biden), moderated by Charles Henry, president of the Council of Library and Information Resources. The conversation will explore the panelists’ experiences leading the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). They will also discuss the OSTP’s critical role in shaping national policies to advance science, technology, innovation, and higher education.

The event will be complemented by an exhibit inside Baker Hall that displays the history of science advisors and the role of OSTP in presidential policymaking. Exhibit materials have been curated from the collections of U.S. presidential libraries and the White House Scientists Archive at Woodson Research Center Special Collections and Archives at Rice University’s Fondren Library. The event follows the annual Baker Institute Civic Science Lecture presented by Darío Gil, chair of the National Science Board and vice president for research at IBM, on Mar. 4, 2025. Together, these events highlight critical issues facing the U.S. national research and education enterprise.

This event is organized by the Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program and Rice Innovation. Additional support was provided by the Kavli Foundation and Rice University’s Fondren Library, Science and Technology Studies Program, and Creative Ventures Fund: Conference and Workshop grant.

Western Balkans in a Turbulent Global Landscape
2025-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | CGIS South Building, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
This panel will explore the geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics of the Western Balkans and proposes strategies to ensure longer stability.

This panel will explore the geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics of the Western Balkans, highlighting ongoing national divisions and shifting alliances amid global uncertainties. Discussions will cover the region’s alignment with Western powers, Russia’s hybrid warfare, and the influence of Chinese investments on Western Balkans countries and politics. Participants will analyze economic dependencies, trade, and investment trends, emphasizing the need for resilience and cooperation. The panel proposes strategies to ensure long-term stability and prosperity in this geopolitically significant region.
Event Speakers:
Albulenë Kastrati: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bridgewater State University; Fulbright Fellow, Duke University
Flora Ferati-Sachsenmaier: Research Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Taiwan Peace Fellowship Program, Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation
Pëllumb Çollaku: Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Davis Center; Research Fellow, CERGE-EI
Albana Shehaj: Political Scientist; Project Manager, Center for European Studies at Harvard University

Livestream- Science and the American Presidency
2025-03-05 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | PA
Join us for a livestream discussion on how science impacts the American Presidency.

Science and technology play a critical role in addressing the complex challenges facing our world, from climate change and public health to national security and economic competitiveness. In this context, science advice has never been more important to effective policymaking, nor more publicly debated.

Join us for a panel discussion featuring three former presidential science advisors: Kelvin Droegemeier (Trump), Neal Lane (Clinton), and Alondra Nelson (Biden), moderated by Charles Henry, president of the Council of Library and Information Resources. The conversation will explore the panelists’ experiences leading the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). They will also discuss the OSTP’s critical role in shaping national policies to advance science, technology, innovation, and higher education.

The event will be complemented by an exhibit inside Baker Hall that displays the history of science advisors and the role of OSTP in presidential policymaking. Exhibit materials have been curated from the collections of U.S. presidential libraries and the White House Scientists Archive at Woodson Research Center Special Collections and Archives at Rice University’s Fondren Library. The event follows the annual Baker Institute Civic Science Lecture presented by Darío Gil, chair of the National Science Board and vice president for research at IBM, on Mar. 3, 2025. Together, these events highlight critical issues facing the U.S. national research and education enterprise.

This event is organized by the Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program and Rice Innovation. Additional support was provided by the Kavli Foundation and Rice University’s Fondren Library, Science and Technology Studies Program, and Creative Ventures Fund: Conference and Workshop grant.

Kiki Morente Featuring Carlos de Jacoba: Lorquianos
2025-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Kiki Morente Featuring Carlos de Jacoba: Lorquianos

Kiki Morente and Carlos de Jacoba, two of the most captivating figures in contemporary flamenco, come together to honor the legacy of Federico García Lorca. Kiki Morente, son of the legendary Enrique Morente, carries the profound poetic essence of Lorca in his voice, weaving the words of the great poet into the deep-rooted traditions of flamenco. Carlos de Jacoba, a master guitarist known for his innovative style, complements this journey, blending Lorca’s timeless influence with the expressive power of flamenco guitar. Together, they create a dialogue between flamenco’s rich heritage and the lyrical soul of Lorca, paying homage to the poet’s enduring impact on Spanish culture.
Presented with Flamenco Festival New York; the Foundation for Iberian Music; the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies; the Ph.D. Program in Latin American Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures; and the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies.

Productivity and Costs
2025-03-06 08:30 UTC | Washington, DC

The Security of Identity Politics: The 2025 A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Symposium
2025-03-06 11:00 - 2025-03-07 16:30 (America/New_York) | 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, 20 Cooper Square, third floor, New York, NY, 10003, United States
This symposium will interrogate how different forms of A/P/A identity politics both serve and challenge notions of security.

Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
This symposium will interrogate how different forms of Asian/Pacific/American identity politics both serve and challenge notions of security amid the intensification of the border crisis, chauvinist populism, and forever wars. On one hand, representation-based identity politics offer security and comfort by widening membership into positions of power and privilege based on liberal capitalist promises of diversity. Concepts such as the model minority, affirmative action, and intersectionality have thus often been instrumentalized in the pursuit of defending and securitizing the existing political order against political challenges from both left and right. Alternatively, “Asian/Pacific/American” is an illustrative example of how identity can both gather marginalized peoples and generate forms of solidarity, knowledge, and activism across different geographies and cultures beyond the pursuit of belonging and security.
NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required. Registration to attend on Thursday, March 6 closes on Wednesday, March 5 at 5:00 p.m. Registration to attend on Friday, March 7 closes on Thursday, March 6 at 5:00 p.m.
Accessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall, all gender restrooms, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu

Symposium Schedule
Thursday, March 6, 2025

11:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration
11:45 a.m. Opening remarks

Crystal Parikh, Director, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
Linda Luu, NYU

12:00 p.m. Place-Based Cultural Work Chair: Ayami Hatanaka

Mariko Whitenack, NYU, “Growing Relations (in)to Place”
Yee Thao, UCLA, “‘Belong, Believe, Become:’ Reimagining Refugeehood and Spaces through Hmong Femme Weavership”
Jo Alvarado, UCLA, “BAHAYNIHAN: Reworlding the Philippine Spatial Imaginary”

1:15 p.m. Lunch
2:15 p.m. Securitizing Internationalism Chair: Adi Kumar

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk, UNC, “One Policeman and Two Colonies: America and Postwar Asian Liberal Internationalism”
Nidhi Satyagal, UCLA, “Privilege and Violence: The Indian Diaspora’s Complicity in Hindutva within Community Organizations”
Mich Ling, Rutgers, “Keeping House: On Contradiction, Care, and the Institutionalization of Asian American Studies”

4:00 p.m. Keynote: “The student as terrorist: Identity in the command forms of colonial racial capitalist worldmaking” by Dr. Jodi Melamed, Professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette University

Response by Dang Weiyu, NYU

5:30-6:30 p.m.: Keynote Reception

Friday, March 7, 2025
10:00 a.m.: Coffee
10:30 a.m. The Limits of DEI and Institutional Critique Chair: Linda Luu

Edna Wan, Cornell, “Cultural Preservation and Carceral Development: The Museum of Chinese America’s Politics of Property”
Christine Phan, UPenn, “Developing the Politics of Solidarity: The Nonprofit Neutralization of Asian American Political Identity”
Mariam Rahyab LCSW, NYU, “Decolonized Mental Health for Asian Americans”
Anou Vang, UCLA, “Mloog — How Hmong Students Reimagine Care”

12:00 p.m. Asian/Pacific/American Identity Politics after the Critical Ethnic Studies Turn Chair: Rui Liu

Joey Song, UMich, “Rejecting a Cohesive Asian American Identity in the Plight toward Empathy”
Daniel Jin, UMich, “Beyond the Trans-Pacific: LatinAsian Histories of Capitalism, Empire, Labor, and Migration”
Caroline Hsu, UMich, “‘Very Distinctly Asian in its Identity:’ Simu Liu, Bubble Tea, and Asian American ‘Common Sense’”

1:15 p.m.: Lunch
2:15 p.m. Racial Liberalisms and Entangled Colonialisms Chair: Violet Dong

Saomai Phuong Nguyen, Cornell, “Spectacular Journeys: From Vietnamese Boat Refugees Swimming to Astronauts Flying”
James Gui, Columbia, “Anti-War Aurality in the ‘US Navy of Rock and Roll’”
Nancy Billings, Yale, “’I left my native village and drifted to the American continent’: The Hemispheric Potential of the Poetry on Angel Island”

3:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

Ayami Hatanaka, NYU

3:45-4:30 p.m. Reception

Photograph by Emily Gerace.

Russia’s Pursuit of Repopulation: Abortion, Large Families, and Propaganda
2025-03-06 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | CGIS South Building, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Through 1944 pronatalist Family Law and Putin’s pronatalist policy, this talk identifies forces that affect the politics of reproduction.

Six months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, in August 2022, the Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Soviet title of “Mother Heroine” for mothers with ten or more children. Originally the Soviet government had introduced this title as a part of its postwar pronatalist Family Law adopted in 1944. Putin has been committed to increasing fertility in Russia for over a decade and has gradually restricted women’s access to abortion. With this background in mind, it may not seem surprising that he added one more measure from the post-WWII pronatalist toolkit when the “special military operation” threatened to accelerate the decrease in Russia’s population.However, the revival of the Mother Heroine award signifies a slight, but important shift. In general, postsocialist pronatalism carefully adapted the pronatalist ideas from the Soviet period, embracing some elements, while rejecting others. One of the rejected measures was the postwar Soviet policy of “one-parent pronatalism,” which made the father’s role in childrearing optional. Instead, postsocialist pronatalism has promoted “two-parent pronatalism,” which encouraged fathers to play an essential role in childrearing. This position manifested in the 2008 introduction of the “Parental Glory” title rather than reviving “Motherhood Glory” or “Mother Heroine.” The 2022 revival of Mother Heroine was a shift away from this earlier decision. How should we interpret this shift?Through a comparative analysis of the 1944 pronatalist Family Law and Putin’s pronatalist measures, this talk attempts to identify both constant and shifting choices as well as forces that affect the politics of reproduction today. In addition to policymakers, the talk will address the roles of women, doctors, and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Speakers:
Professor Mie Nakachi, Global Studies at Hokusei Gakuen University
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Historian and Davis Center Associate

The President signs Executive Orders
2025-03-06 14:00, 2025-03-07 14:30 (America/New_York) | Oval Office
Closed Press

Documentary Screening: Erase the Nation
2025-03-06 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Institute of World Politics, 1521 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Polish director and war reporter Tomasz Grzywaczewski will present his new documentary about the war in Ukraine followed by a discussion

Schedule:
4:30 – Brief Introduction by Tomasz
4:45 – Film Screening
5:35 – Q&A
6:00 – Event Concludes
About the Documentary:
**This screening is part of the Intermarium Lecture Series and the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies**
The documentary film ‘Erase the Nation,’ directed by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, shows the destruction of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, having been carried out by the Russian Federation’s troops since February 22, 2022. The film shows the deliberate destruction of Ukrainian monuments from Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ivankiv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv to Izium and Bohorodychy in eastern Ukraine. The crimes committed against secular and religious cultural heritage, from archaeological monuments to modern libraries and schools. Testimonies by Ukrainian cultural representatives paint a picture of a deliberate struggle of barbaric invaders against Ukrainian identity, for which Ukrainian heroes are giving their lives. The film also presents ways of securing and attempting to protect damaged sites and the scale of assistance that is and will be needed to protect and restore cultural heritage in Ukraine.

About the Speaker:
Tomasz Grzywaczewski is a journalist, writer, filmmaker, and expert in Central and Eastern Europe studies. Author of the books “The Erased Border” dedicated to the people who formed the multinational mosaic of the Second Polish Republic, “The Borders of Dreams”, devoted to the post-soviet unrecognized states, “Life and Death on the Dead Road” and “Across the Wild East”. Speaker i.a. at Georgetown University in Washington DC and The Explorers Club in NYC. Author of the articles for numerous magazines and websites including Foreign Policy, New Eastern Europe, Gość Niedzielny, Do Rzeczy, Wprost. Former editor-in-chief of the Koncept magazine. Alumni of Russian Security Studies Certificate at Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security, Washington DC. Co-screenwriter of a documentary feature “Shadows of the Empire” inspired by his book “Borders of Dreamlands”. The movie shot in Kaliningrad Oblast, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabakh was presented during e.g. Krakow Film Festival, Transatlantic Festival, a special screening at Georgetown University in Washington and released in Polish cinemas.
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War Crimes in Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
2025-03-06 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | CGIS South Building, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Grzebyk and Uczkiewicz’s book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War.

A book published by Patrycja Grzebyk and Dominika Uczkiewicz in late 2024, “The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes: Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution,” brings together contributors who examine the atrocities and war crimes perpetrated by Russian troops during the war against Ukraine that began in 2022. This seminar presents the major findings of the book.
Event Speakers:
Dominika Uczkiewicz: Assistant Professor of International Law and History, Pilecki Institute (Poland)
Patrycja Grzebyk: Associate Professor of International Law, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala: Professor in Political Sciences, Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, International Studies of the University of Warsaw.
Mark Kramer: Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Modernizing the Nuclear Triad
2025-03-06 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Riverside Room, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215, United States
Join us as Maj. Gen. Stacy Jo Huser discusses modernizing the U.S. nuclear triad to address global threats and ensure strategic superiority.

In this talk, Major General Stacy Jo Huser, Commander of the 20th Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command, will discuss the necessity of modernizing the U.S. nuclear triad to address emerging threats from China, Russia, and North Korea. Drawing from her extensive experience in nuclear operations and strategic planning, she will explore challenges like hypersonic weapons, cyber vulnerabilities, and artificial intelligence, emphasizing how modernization ensures effective deterrence and strategic superiority in an evolving global landscape.
Maj. Gen. Stacy Jo Huser is Commander, 20th Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. She is responsible for more than 12,000 Airmen providing nuclear global strike and nuclear weapons sustainment for the U.S. Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Huser commissioned through Officer Training School in 1996 after earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology from North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. She has extensive experience in space and missile operations. Maj. Gen. Huser has served as a space operations crew member, instructor and training manager, as well as an ICBM combat crew commander, evaluator and chief of emergency war order plans. She also completed staff tours in the Secretary of the Air Force’s Legislative Liaison Office and at United States Strategic Command. Maj. Gen. Huser commanded the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron, Offutt AFB, Nebraska; the 91st Missile Operations Group, Minot AFB, North Dakota; and the 90th Missile Wing at Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.
Prior to her current assignment, Maj. Gen. Huser served as the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. In that role, she assisted the Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Altars Archives
2025-03-06 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Artist, organizer, researcher, and director Emilia Yang will offer strategies for decolonizing participatory art, design and witnessing.

Part of the 2024-25 ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping Series:
Altars Archives: Strategies for Decolonizing Participatory Art, Design and Witnessing
Drawing on my experience as a victim/survivor, activist for memory, artist, designer, and researcher, I will share the process of creating AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity. This memory initiative was made in collaboration with the Association Mothers of April (AMA), a collective of families of victims of state violence organized in a context of authoritarian and brutal repression in Nicaragua. This endeavor was informed by the families’ use of altars as technologies of remembrance and connection to the spiritual realm to share our individual pain with a broader community. Through this example, I will share strategies for decolonizing participatory art, design, and witnessing through embodied practices.
Emilia Yang (She/her/hers/ella) is an artist, designer, organizer, researcher, and director of “AMA y No Olvida, Museum of Memory against Impunity” from Nicaragua. Her art practice utilizes expanded forms of expanded media for the creation of community-based feminist, anti-racist, and transformative justice projects and futures.
Her artworks have been exhibited in international spaces such as the Resistance Biennial in Guatemala, the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, the Museum of Jade and Pre-Columbian Culture in Costa Rica, Casa América and the Museum and Vanguard Art Center Neomudéjar in Spain, Le Commun Contemporary Art Building in Geneva, and the Games and the New Media Summit at Tribeca Film Festival.
She has been the recipient of multiple fellowships, including the Arts for Gender Equality Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation and CARE USA in 2023 and the Hunting Family Faculty Fellow at U-M Institute of the Humanities in 2024. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design with a focus on Anti-Racism by Design. www.emiliayang.org

About Incite at Columbia University
Incite is an interdisciplinary social science research institute at Columbia University.
Our mission is to create knowledge for public action—to catalyze conversations that lead to more just, equitable, and democratic societies.
For more information, visit our site.

Camp United Nations for Girls NYC Spring 2025 ft a Day at UN Headquarters
2025-03-07 08:00 - 2025-03-08 12:00 (America/New_York) | United Nations Plaza, 511 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Celebrate UN Day of the Girls with us at Camp United Nations for Girls NYC Spring 2025 featuring a Day at United Nations Headquarters!

Celebrate International Women’s Day with us at Camp United Nations for Girls NYC Spring 2025 featuring a Day at United Nations Headquarters! Girls (ages 8-17) will celebrate International Women’s Day, exploring the movement for the rights of women and girls. Camp United Nations for Girls NYC 2025 is a two-day program that includes the activities outlined below. This is a day-program with parents being responsible for accommodations and transportation of those traveling to NYC to participate; no financial assistance is available for this event.
Day 1 – United Nations Headquarters (9am to 3pm)
United Nations Headquarters Tour
United Nations Headquarters’ Exhibits
Lunch on site at Vienna Café
United Nations Private Briefing
International Women’s Day lesson
Day 2 – Conference Center (8am to 12pm)
Camp United Nations begins with a lesson on the history of the United Nations and the organization’s purpose. This is followed by a study of the structure, leadership, and the rules of procedure of the United Nations. Each student will be given an assignment to serve as a delegate for a UN Member State. When the General Assembly convenes delegates will propose a resolution. The resolution will be subject to negotiation and amendment by the UN Delegates before a vote on a final version of the resolution. Girl Scouts and Girl Guides earn a Global Action Award or World Thinking badge for participating in Camp United Nations for Girls.
The camp is strictly limited to 18 students per age group. Ticketing groups are ages 8-11 and ages 12-17. For additional information contact us at +1 866-226-5911 extension 1, via email at info@girlsinpolitics.com or visit our website at www.girlsinpolitics.com.

Employment Situation
2025-03-07 08:30 UTC | Washington, DC

The President delivers remarks
2025-03-07 11:00 (America/New_York) | Oval Office

Stand Up For Science, Buffalo!
2025-03-07 14:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Niagara Square, Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY, 14202, United States
We rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress. (Reg. is for planning and not required.)

On March 7, 2025, we rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.
We call on policymakers, institutions, and the scientific community to uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility, and ensure its benefits serve all people. To achieve this, we seek the following policy actions.
1. Secure and Expand Scientific Funding
Publicly funded science drives innovation, strengthens the economy, and improves lives. We demand:
Restoration of Federal Research Funding: Reinstate federal funding for scientific research across all disciplines to FY-2024 levels and commit a 20% increase in federal scientific funding over the next three years followed by annual increases indexed to inflation to ensure sustained scientific advancement.
Reinstatement of Wrongfully Dismissed Federal Employees: Rehire all unlawfully terminated scientists and administrators at federal agencies (including NSF, NIH, CDC, EPA, NOAA, NPS, NWS, FWS, and FDA) with full back pay and benefits.
Removal of the 15% cap on indirect funding for NIH-funded grants and reinstatement of indirect funding policies as they existed prior to January 1, 2025.
2. End Censorship and Political Interference in Science
Science thrives on open inquiry and evidence-based decision-making. We demand:
An End to Government Censorship: Prohibit all forms of political censorship in scientific research, including restrictions on the topics of scientific research that are eligible for federal funding.
Restoration of Public Access to Scientific Information: Restore all scientific data, reports, and resources on federal websites to pre-January 31st, 2025 status, ensuring full public access to primary scientific sources.
Protection of Research Independence: Mandate legal safeguards against political interference to preserve the integrity of federal research and communication.
A Commitment to Freedom of Scientific Expression: Protect scientists’ rights to communicate their findings freely, without fear of retaliation or suppression.
3. Defend Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Science
Science is strongest when it includes everyone. Attacks on DEIA initiatives are attacks on science itself. We demand:
Preservation of Equitable Access to STEM: Maintain and expand federal programs that broaden participation in STEM training and careers.
Protection for Minoritized Scientists: Enforce anti-discrimination protections for minoritized scientists to ensure equitable participation and impact.
Reinstatement of DEIA Initiatives: Restore all DEIA programs within federal agencies to pre-January 1, 2025 status, ensuring continued progress toward equity.
Science is for everyone. Science keeps us safe, and enables us to live longer, healthier lives. We call on leaders at every level, regardless of political affiliation, to champion and protect scientific research, education, and communication—for the progress, prosperity, and well-being of all.

Update From Kiyv
2025-03-07 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | K262 , Fischer Commons Gallery, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join two leaders from the Kyiv School of Economics for a discussion of the state of play in Kyiv, and their thoughts on what 2025 may bring.

This year is poised to bring significant changes to the war in Ukraine. While deadly battles continue across the front line, there is a sense of political movement. Trump is trying to force Putin into to the table. Putin has expressed a readiness to talk—with the US. Zelensky has impressed Trump with his willingness to negotiate a peace, but there is uneasiness in Kyiv over what the terms might look like. Meanwhile, Ukrainian society is exhausted and ready for peace, though not at any cost. Join two leaders from the Kyiv School of Economics for a discussion of the state of play in Kyiv, and their thoughts on what 2025 may bring.
Event Speakers:
Tymofii Brik: Rector, Kyiv School of Economics
Alexandra Vacroux: Executive Director, Davis Center (On Leave 2024-2025); Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

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