Einaudi Center for International Studies
Mexico Warns Against Potential U.S. Drone Strikes on Cartels
Gustavo Flores-Macías, LACS
“Unilateral U.S. strikes on Mexican soil would be devastating for the bilateral relations and could be detrimental to the objective of fighting drug cartels,” says Gustavo Flores-Macías, professor of government.
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Trump Not Considering Pausing Tariffs
Nicholas Mulder, IES/PACS
In this broadcast clip, Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, discusses the history of tariffs.
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Trees Capture Toxic Fingerprint of Gold Mining in the Amazon
Jacqueline Gerson, LACS
Jacqueline Gerson, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, discusses mercury pollution accumulated in trees.
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Reciprocal Tariffs Baffling; Some Adverse Effects will be on India
Kaushik Basu, SAP/IES
Einaudi CRADLE cofounder and former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu discusses U.S. “reciprocal” tariffs with the Times of India.
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China hit brakes on TikTok Deal After Trump Announced Wide-ranging Tariffs, AP Source Says
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute, discusses TikTok.
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‘Liberation Day’ Is Here. 5 Things to Watch For.
Eswar Prasad, SAP
“The era of increasingly free and unfettered trade is coming to a crashing end as the Trump tariffs lead to a surge of protectionist measures around the world,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.
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Why No One is Challenging Trump’s Executive Order that Keeps TikTok Running
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute, discusses TikTok still functioning despite bipartisan consensus about the application's risk to national security.
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Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark
April 18, 2025
12:15 pm
White Hall, 106
Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers imagined mass schools as the foundation for a great society and economic growth. Their depictions fortified the mandate to educate all people and showed neglecting low-skill youth would waste societal resources and threaten the social fabric. Conversely, British authors pictured mass education as harming social stability, lower-class work, and national culture. Their stories of youths who overcame structural injustices with individual determination made it easier to blame students who failed to seize educational opportunities. Novel and compelling, Education for All? uses a multidisciplinary perspective to offer a unique gaze into historical policymaking.
Hosted by the Government Department and co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Institute for European Studies Graduate Fellows Symposium
May 6, 2025
11:30 am
Uris Hall, G08
New Perspectives in European Studies: IES Graduate Fellows 2025 Spring Research Symposium
IES Graduate Fellows will be presenting their work in conference style presentations followed by time for discussions.
Lunch: 11:30am
Panel 1: Texts and Translation (11:45am - 12:30pm)
"Biblical Translation and Courtly Assimilation: the Socio-Political Imagination of 12th-Century Anglo-Norman Biblical Translations"
Chiara Visentin, Medieval Studies
"Iberia and the Partisan: Locating the Spanish Mind of Carl Schmitt"
Madeleine Lemos, History
5 minute break
Panel 2: Civic Engagement and Contemporary Challenges (12:35pm-1:20pm)
"Civic Engagement, Depolarization, and Crisis"
Frances Cayton, Government
"The International Political Economy of Contemporary Surveillance Technologies"
Amelia C. Arsenault, Government
10 minute break
Panel 3: Interpreting the Twentieth Century (1:30pm - 2:30pm)
"The Origins of Mussolini’s Decade of War"
Chris Mingo, History
"Straight Making as Organized Crime"
Angela Elissa Kothe, Government
"Diaspora and Displacement: Tracking the 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion in Empire's Aftermath"
Priyanka Sen, History of Architecture and Urban Development
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
‘Cosmic Verdict’ Fears Grip Myanmar Junta in Earthquake’s Aftermath
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, SEAP
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, graduate student with our Southeast Asia Program, says “The regime will take this as an opportunity to show it is ‘in control’ of the relief effort.”