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Sarah Cohen's Senate Testimony on the Freedom of Information Act
Professor Sarah Cohen, Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 15. Professor Cohen testified on behalf of the Sunshine in Government Initiative on "Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Digital Age." Cohen is introduced at 86:25
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Michael Hardt on Reaching out to Latin America (Al Jazeera)
Barack Obama, the US president, visits Latin America in an attempt to rebuild lost influence in the region. Duke's Michael Hardt, professor in the Program in Literature, comments.Published 2 years ago
Team Kenan Presents: Morality, Neuroscience, and Religion
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, the Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Sam Wells, Dean of the Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School, discussed where the desire to be good originates.Published 2 years ago
Big-Time Sports In American Universities
Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, talks about his new book "Big-Time Sports in American Universities".Published 2 years ago
Nancy MacLean on the Wisconsin Standoff
Nancy MacLean is Arts & Sciences Professor of History at Duke University. She responded to questions about the political standoff in Wisconsin during a live "Office Hours" webcast March 4, 2011. Learn more at http://history.duke.edu/people?Gurl=/aas/history&Uil=nm71&subpage=profilePublished 2 years ago
What's Up in Washington? with Sandy Darity
On January 28, 2011, Dr. William "Sandy" Darity, professor of public policy, African and African-American studies, and economics presented his proposal for a federal jobs guarantee before the Congressional Black Caucus Budget Deficit Commission.Dr. Darity participated in the panel entitled "Surviving the Recession and Accelerating Recovery."
You can learn more about Professor Darity here: http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/william.darity
Find out more about the panel here: http://www.duke.edu/federalrelations/documents/Testimony/CBC%20Budget%20Commission%20Panels%201.28.11.pdf
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Certifying Virtue Panel
The panel was prompted by Duke Chapel's current exhibit "Faces of Freedom," a display of photos of children taken out of child labor by GoodWeave. GoodWeave helps remove children from labor positions, places them in schools, and certifies that carpets from South Asia have been made without child labor. While GoodWeave is to be lauded for its attempt to effect change in the carpet industry, its approach also prompts some questions that extend beyond its particular organization. Some of the questions this panel addressed included:• To whom are certifiers accountable and whose interests do they represent?
• How does certification compare with other means of securing human rights or environmental sustainability or other desired goals?
• Is the market the best way to achieve social change?
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Lessons From the Financial Crisis: Canada in Comparative Perspective
What is it about the Canadian economy and regulatory structures that allowed Canada to avoid the most devastating effects of a global financial crisis?While the U.S. and other developed nations reeled from the global financial crisis, Canada remained relatively insulated.
Nicholas Le Pan, Superintendent of Financial Institutions for Canada from September 2001 to October 2006, Vice Chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Chair of the Basel Accord Implementation Group, director of the Toronto International Leadership Centre for Financial Sector Supervision and currently a consultant on financial services and regulatory matters, discussed his view of this topic.
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Howard Gardner Discusses Challenges of 'GoodWork' in America
Harvard professor, psychologist and co-founder of the GoodWork Project Howard Gardner gave the 2011 Crown Lecture in Ethics on Feb. 24 at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.Published 2 years ago
Peter Ubel on Making Medical Decisions
Peter Ubel is a physician, a professor of public policy and the Jack O. Blackburn Professor of Marketing at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. He answered questions about his research on how people make health choices during a live "Office Hours" webcast on February 25, 2011.Published 2 years ago
Abdeslam Maghraoui on the Middle East Uprisings
Abdeslam Maghraoui is an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Political Science at Duke University and the author of "Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1939." He answered questions about the recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere during a live "Office Hours" webcast interview February 18, 2011. He was joined, via Skype, by Duke alumnus Andrew Simon who witnessed the Cairo protests in Tahrir Square.Published 2 years ago
Bruce Jentleson: The Obama National Security Strategy
Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy and political science at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, talks with the London School of Economics.
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Muslim Campus Community Responds to Egyptian Uprising
Duke campus Imam Abdullah Antepli says students have been reflecting before responding publicly.Published 2 years ago
Candlelight Vigil for Egypt
Duke community members gather to respond to events in Egypt.Published 2 years ago
Brandon Gorman: Discourses of the Democracy in Authoritarian Contexts
Brandon Gorman speaks at the February 2nd, Tunisia Teach-In.Published 2 years ago
