Einaudi Center for International Studies
The Death of Globalization? You Won’t Find It in New Orleans
Eswar Prasad, SAP
“Corporations do seem convinced still of the benefits of globalization, but what they’re trying to do is mitigate some of the risks,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy. “What you’re really looking at is changes in the pattern of globalization, rather than overall volumes of global trade or financial flows.”
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The U.S.-China Rift Is Only Growing Wider
Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP
"Efforts to reduce Beijing’s sense of urgency over Taiwan could help limit the degree of China-Russia alignment, strengthening the overall U.S. strategic position,” says A&S and Brooks School Professor Jessica Chen Weiss. “And Taiwan needs more time to muster the resources and political will to develop an asymmetric, whole-of-society defense.”
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A Bill Banning Chinese Citizens from Buying Property Has Some Wondering If They’re Welcome in Texas
Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP
“A ban that targets a person’s country of origin, particularly if it includes those on a pathway to U.S. citizenship, goes against everything that the United States stands for,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy.
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Cornell University Professor of Law, Robert Hockett on FDIC Proposals
Robert Hockett, CRADLE
Robert Hockett, professor of law, discusses FDIC proposals to help prevent another bank collapse.
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After Chat GPT CEO Says He’s ‘a Little Scared’ of AI, Should You Be?
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government, discusses the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence use.
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'Uncharted Territory': How Would a TikTok Ban in the US Work?
Sarah Kreps, PACS
“The hope with that would be to slow down the flywheel. You're not going to prevent every single user from using TikTok but that would certainly make it much more difficult to use.” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government.
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Laid-Off H-1B Workers May Get 6-Month Reprieve
Stephen Yale-Loehr, Migrations
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says if the USCIS were to extend the grace period from 60 to 180 days, it would be a lengthy multi-step process and suggests “laid-off H-1B workers should not get their hopes up yet. ”
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Drones in Modern War: Evolutionary or Revolutionary?
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps and Paul Lushenko dissect an ongoing debate among military and technology experts about the importance of drones on the modern battlefield.
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Lost in Translation
Eli Friedman, EAP
“We have a long history of scapegoating Chinese Americans in this country, going back to the 19th century,” said Eli Friedman, associate professor at the Industrial and Labor Relations School. “These are currents in American society that I would have thought we had a consensus on, and we see them sort of reemerging in some really unfortunate ways.”
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Human-ing Out Loud: Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean-Thought
April 19, 2023
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Jouvay, the midnight jamboree heralding the start of carnival on West Indian islands transposed to the Neerlandophone world, presents an ongoing conversation about how to human in singular-multiple ways which are sensitive to relations between so-called species, spirits, saints, mythical characters, and devils.
Another ecosystem, boundless and disenchanted by difference, is imagined and temporarily created in daaance. With three aaa’s, daaance rather than dance encompasses movement, singing, drumming, reverence, language, food, sacrifice, ritual, politics, politricks, and passion. This other ecosystem, perpetually negating systematicity, is a space and a short-offered time where inter- and intra-subjective play, sounding out, and daaance allow for different futures to be imagined and new forms of human-ing that embraces relations with non-human animals and life and death to be practiced. It is a refusal of exclusion and a move towards making inequity inexact.
In introducing Trans-Caribbean-Thought a queer cousin of decoloniality, critical race studies, postcoloniality, Marxism, and Feminism an extra option is offered for keepers of nonconformity to remain transmitters of one-pluriversal Love.
Dr. Francio Guadeloupe is senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean studies and Associate Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009) and Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology (University Press of Mississippi, 2022).
Hybrid Event (see registration link below)
Keywords: Trans-Caribbean-Thought; Neerlandophone; humanocentrism; music; human-ing; relationality
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies