Democracy Day: Texas Legislation Edition

Texas Capitol 1100 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX, United States

Celebrate Texas legislation and democracy with us on Democracy Day - it's gonna be a blast!Welcome to Democracy Day: Texas Legislation Edition!Join us for Democracy Day: Texas Legislation Edition, an empowering event designed to bring community members, advocates, and changemakers together at the Texas Capitol! This is your opportunity to learn about key legislative issues, […]

Conquering the Datasphere: Assessing the Threat of Chinese Data Collection

The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

IWP MA graduate Laren Reesman will assess the threat, risk, and policy options to address Chinese global data collection**This lecture is part of the Student Speaker Series**About the Lecture:Through engagements like the Digital Silk Road and various state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has succeeded in creating an immense global network for data […]

Film Screening: JARA – Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan

CGIS South Building, S354 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

By sharing their pain, six women in the film tell a heart-wrenching testament to the collective pain of millions harmed by nuclear weapons.Amidst the vast steppes and boundless horizon, Kazakh land bears the scars of devastation and man-made catastrophe. JARA - Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan is an independent documentary that unearths the tragic legacy […]

Ukrainian and Russian Poets Against Russia’s War of Aggression

CGIS South, S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Nemirovskaya will discuss how editors of bilingual anthologies have created a repository of poems protesting against Russia's war.Poetry written by Russophone Ukrainians, by recent and long-term expatriates from Russia (and other former Soviet republics), and by poets still in the Russian Federation has been collected in numerous publications, including anthologies such as Yurii Leving’s "Poeziya […]

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