Human Centered
87 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsConversations about projects and research undertaken by scholars & affiliates of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University; interviews with renowned fellows from CASBS history; and audio versions of some CASBS live events.
CASBS is a scholarly community like no other for collaborative, cross-disciplinary, generative research. It brings together deep thinkers to address wicked problems and significant societal challenges. It empowers them to challenge boundaries and assumptions in order to advance our understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. As a leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS is a place that is, well…human centered.
Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
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Episodes
Bridging Adaptive Algorithms and the Public Good
March 25, 2024 15:12 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBPulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Nathan Matias about often-overlooked public interest questions and concerns regarding the deployment of tech platform algorithms and AI models. Specifically, Matias is a player in filling the two-way knowledge gaps between civil society and tech firms with an eye on governance, safety, accountability, and advancing the science — including the social science — of human-algorithm behavior. Nathan Matias: Cor...
A Social Science of Caregiving
February 26, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBRecorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.] Article on CASBS's project on The...
The Shadow of Cybersecurity Expertise
January 17, 2024 16:02 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBPulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Rebecca Slayton on how the field of computing expertise evolved, eventually giving rise to the niche of professionals who protect systems from cyber-attacks. Slayton's forthcoming book explores the governance & risk implications emerging from the fact that cybersecurity experts must establish their authority by paradoxically revealing vulnerabilities and insecurities of that which they ...
Challenging History Erasures to Expand Possible Futures
December 13, 2023 23:22 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBTwo-time CASBS fellow Fred Turner engages CASBS board of directors chair Abby Smith Rumsey before a live audience to discuss her new book "Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History." When the erasure or distortion of collective memory through storytelling hijacks fact, truth, and history itself, what kind of information infrastructures can effectively confront those false narratives? Turner and Rumsey explore the tensions between history and storytelling and resulting implications for po...
Toward a Society of Shared Recognition
November 28, 2023 17:40 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBRenowned sociologist Michèle Lamont (CASBS fellow, 2002-03) discusses her new book, Seeing Others, with former CASBS director Woody Powell. The book assembles decades of Lamont’s scholarship, engaging some of contemporary society’s most elemental challenges and advancing key building blocks toward a shared human experience marked by greater inclusion, belonging, dignity, empathy, and equality. MICHÈLE LAMONT: Harvard University faculty page | Harvard sociology page Personal website | Simo...
Toward Cross-disciplinary Consensus About Our (Mis)Information Environment
November 02, 2023 23:50 - 49 minutes - 45 MBFully understanding and regulating our complex information ecosystems will require creating new cultures and modes of collaborating, new organizational frameworks and, yes, working with generative AI models in service of aggregating actionable scientific knowledge. Angela Aristidou (CASBS fellow, 2022-23) navigates the crucial questions and challenges with Phil Howard (CASBS fellow, 2008-09), a renowned scholar of tech innovation and public policy as well as co-founder and chair of the new I...
The Memory Science Disruptor
September 11, 2023 14:47 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBDan Simon, a 2022-23 CASBS fellow and USC law professor, joins in conversation with Elizabeth Loftus, a 1978-79 CASBS fellow and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine. Loftus is known in the public sphere through her decades-long study of memory – specifically, its malleability and fallibility – as well as her application of findings as an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of legal cases. Loftus's book "Eyewitness Testimony," completed at the Center, charted the course of her career th...
Jonathan Jansen's Power of Craft
August 28, 2023 19:23 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBWhile you're listening to this episode, 2016-17 CASBS fellow Jonathan Jansen likely will write another few thousand words. As a scholar of education & leader of education institutions, Jansen is South Africa's most towering figure. To call him prolific is a gross understatement. He writes a steady stream of books & more books. As a public intellectual he writes a separate steady stream of columns & essays. And he's written a family memoir too. We bring 2022-23 CASBS fellow Zimitri Erasmus, a...
Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest
August 01, 2023 18:07 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBWhat are the most effective collective actions that social protest movements can or should undertake in the context of deep societal conflict and polarization? CASBS fellows Eran Halperin (2022-23) & Robb Willer (2012-13, 2020-21) compare their cross-national research findings and explore Halperin's real-time applied work with the dramatic, ongoing protests in Israel. ERAN HALPERIN links: Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation Lab (PCIL) Halperin on Google Scholar aChord: S...
Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History
July 10, 2023 17:57 - 45 minutes - 42 MBDrawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23 fellows Jean Beaman and Martin Williams – gives a master class on how critical and relational thinking serve historical inquiries that advance our understandings. Frederick Cooper, CASBS fellow 1990-91, 1995-96, 2002-03 NYU faculty page Wikipedia pa...
Developing AI Like Raising Kids - Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang
June 01, 2023 15:05 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBThis episode is produced in association with the CASBS project "The Social Science of Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies." Learn more about both: https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/social-science-caregiving https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/imagining-adaptive-societies CASBS program director Zachary Ugolnik served as co-producer of this episode. Ted Chiang on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chia...
New Visions for Effective Worker Influence
May 22, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBThis is a podcast version of a live CASBS webcast event. View video of the event here. The event was produced in association with CASBS's program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy. Learn about the program here. CASBS's moral political economy program guest-curated the Winter 2023 issue of Dædalus, a publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The entire issue is open access here. Panelist John Ahlquist's essay in the issue provided impetus for the organization of the ...
A Different Glenn Loury
April 27, 2023 14:36 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBGlenn Loury on Google Scholar Coate & Loury (1993), "Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?" Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The Du Bois Lectures) The Tanner Lectures at Stanford (2007) Lecture 1 | Lecture 2 Loury (2008), Race, Incarceration, and American Values Loury (2019), "Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?" Somanathan and Allen, eds. (2020) Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies Loury public symposium at CASBS (2...
Interdependence & Climate Change - Robert Keohane
March 27, 2023 15:09 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBRobert Keohane bios: CASBS | Princeton | Wikipedia Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy workshops at CASBS Complex interdependence After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy 2016 Balzan Prize | prize speech Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research Johan Skytte Prize Keohane & Ostrom, Local Commons and Global Interdependence CASBS: website | Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn | podcast | latest newsletter | signup | outreach...
Bob Scott is Trending
December 06, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBEmerging Trends in The Social and Behavioral Sciences Bob’s Introduction to the project About the Robert A. Scott Lectureship Fund The classic mud volleyball photo (click then scroll to the bottom of the article) Human Centered episode featuring Richard Wrangham CASBS in the History of Behavioral Economics CASBS Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach...
Toward Better Evidence-Based Policymaking
December 02, 2022 15:22 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBCausal Inference for Social Impact Lab EGAP Jake Bowers Carrie S. Cihak Dan Hopkins Ruth Levine Piyush Tantia CASBS Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Creating A New Political Economy Framework
September 01, 2022 21:51 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBModerator Debra Satz Panelists Elizabeth Anderson University of Michigan Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton Princeton Amy Kapczynski Yale Law CASBS @CasbsStanford Creating a New Moral Political Economy program at CASBS Social Science for a World in Crisis Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Pr...
Movements & Contentious Politics - Sid Tarrow
July 26, 2022 15:39 - 49 minutes - 56.3 MBSid Tarrow "Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" - Cambridge University Press Ed Walker CASBS @CasbsStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Better AI Through Social Science
July 05, 2022 15:27 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBJacob Ward Kristian Hammond Daniel Ho Jennifer Logg CASBS @CASBSStanford Social Science for a World in Crisis Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Don Norman: By Design
June 06, 2022 14:19 - 38 minutes - 44.1 MBDon Norman Piyush Tantia's Ideas42 CASBS @CasbsStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Understanding Gen Z
April 07, 2022 01:26 - 1 hour - 76.6 MB"Gen Z Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age" Roberta Katz Sarah Ogilvie Jane Shaw Linda Woodhead Kat Tenbarge CASBS CASBS project: Understanding the iGeneration Social Science for a World in Crisis @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Psychology of Political Beliefs - David O. Sears
February 28, 2022 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBDavid Sears Vivian Zayas UCLA Political Psychology Lab CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Dreaming a New Academy - Gloria Ladson-Billings
December 15, 2021 13:59 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBGloria Ladson Billings Nuraan Davids CASBS CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
High-tech Modernism
December 01, 2021 16:25 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBdana boyd Henry Farrell Marion Fourcade William Janeway Charlton McIlwain Zeynep Tufekci Suggested Reading "The Moral Economy of High Tech Modernism" "Making Space for Black Software" "Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age" "Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook" "The Ecology of Innovation" CASBS @CasbsStanford Social Science for a World in Crisis Creating a New Moral Political Economy Center for Advanced Study in th...
Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett
November 09, 2021 15:54 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBAllison Stanger Daniel Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds CASBS @casbsstanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Violence & Self-domestication - Richard Wrangham
September 28, 2021 20:15 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBJames Holland Jones Richard Wrangham Kimbale Chimpanzee Park CASBS Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
The Voices of Americans in Crisis
September 14, 2021 16:48 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBAmerican Voices Project crisis reports Our Towns James Fallows Corey Fields David Grusky Hazel Markus CASBS CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
The Active Society - Amitai Etzioni
August 31, 2021 16:16 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBJerry Davis Amitai Etzioni Civil Dialogues CASBS Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
How Social Science Advances our Understanding of Pandemics
July 15, 2021 22:10 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBPanelists Peter Loewen Adrian Raftery Prerna Singh Robb Willer Alexis Madrigal Suggested Readings, Event Info and more Visit CASBS online CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
What Does Human Flourishing Look Like?
June 25, 2021 15:22 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBJenna Bednar Hilary Cottam James Manyika Gillian Tett Suggested Readings “Governance for Human Flourishing” “The Social Contract in the 21st Century” “Welfare 5.0: Why We Need a Social Revolution and How to Make it Happen” Vist CASBS online @casbsstanford on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | En...
An Earth-friendly Political Economy
May 28, 2021 15:45 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBCreating a New Moral Political Economy Arun Majumdar Eric Beinhocker Genevieve Bell Kim Stanley Robinson Suggested Readings “I am a carbon abolitionist” “Making the Fed’s Money Printer Go Brrrr for the Planet” “The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI” “Touching the future: Stories of systems, serendipity and grace” CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedI...
The Death of Nature - Carolyn Merchant
April 29, 2021 14:58 - 26 minutes - 24 MBCarolyn Merchant Paula Findlen "Science Turned Upside Down: Carolyn Merchant’s Vision of Nature, 40 Years Later" "The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution" "The Anthropocene and The Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability" CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Prod...
America's Black-White Divide: Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward
April 23, 2021 15:22 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBLawrence D. Bobo Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Claude Steele Margaret Levi Social Science for a World in Crisis Series CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
What Institutional Courage Looks Like
February 26, 2021 16:37 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBModerator Estelle Freedman Panelists Jennifer Freyd Jennifer Gómez Carolyn Warner ---- Social Science for a World in Crisis Event Page with Info CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
The Digital Dilemma in the Time of COVID
January 26, 2021 18:40 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBShow page with suggested readings John Markoff Nilam Ram Byron Reeves Abby Smith Rumsey Maryanne Wolf The Human Screenome Project Social Science for a World in Crisis Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Reforming Democratic Institutions and Practices
January 15, 2021 19:03 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBShow page with Suggested Readings Luis Fraga James Fishkin Martin Gilens Jane Mansbridge @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
The Persistence of Racial Inequality
December 11, 2020 16:49 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBCASBS promo flyer for this discussion "Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? Culture, Causation, and Responsibility" Glenn's paper discussed by the panel Glenn C. Loury Joshua Cohen Francis Fukuyama Alondra Nelson CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Can We Rebuild Social Cohesion in The U.S.?
November 24, 2020 04:33 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBCASBS Episode Page Panelists: Danielle Allen Shaylyn Romney Garrett Eric Klinenberg Robert Putnam Moderator: David Brooks @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
What Will Become of Work and Workers?
November 13, 2020 15:37 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBModerator: Margaret Levi Panelists: Tara Behrend Louis Hyman John Irons Phyllis Moen Social Science for a World in Crisis Series @CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Analyzing Social Media Influence - Sandra González-Bailón
November 06, 2020 16:10 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBSandra González-Bailón A great thread on her recent paper “Exposure to News Grows Less Fragmented with an Increase in Mobile Access” “Bots are Less Central than Verified Accounts during Contentious Political Events” Her book Decoding the Social World Facebook 2020 Election Research portal CASBS CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreac...
Higher Ed at the Crossroads
September 30, 2020 00:31 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBSocial Science for a World in Crisis Panelists Nina Bandelj Jonathan David Jansen Caitlin Zaloom Moderator Debra Satz Twitter @CASBSSTANFORD Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Reimagining the Corporation
September 15, 2020 16:35 - 1 hour - 75 MBPanelists: Shona Brown Colin Mayer Margaret O’Mara Moderator: Paul Brest Social Science for a World in Crisis CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Metrics & Misconduct in Scholarly Publishing - Mario Biagioli
September 08, 2020 16:47 - 38 minutes - 35 MBMario Biagioli's UCLA Profile Mario's article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, "Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Midconduct" Mario’s book “Gaming The Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research” 2019-20 CASBS fellow Brian Arthur’s paper “All Systems Will Be Gamed: Exploitative Behavior in Economic and Social Systems” Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcas...
Race and the Movement for Justice in America
August 26, 2020 22:08 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBRace and the Movement for Justice in America Video of the conversation CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Polarization and Contentious Politics in the Age of Covid
August 06, 2020 16:28 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBVideo of this conversation Social Science for a World in Crisis CASBS director Margaret Levi, co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, recently curated discussions with Christian Davenport and Rachel Kleinfeld that explore findings in articles they published in the Review. The Long-Term Consequences of Street Clashes "Privilege Violence", or How Governments Use Violence to Maintain Inequality Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University...
America As a Developing Country?
July 21, 2020 00:16 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBVideo of this conversation Their paper in the Harvard Journal on Legislation "Twentieth-Century America as a Developing Country: Conflict, Institutions, and The Evolution of Public Law" Web page for CASBS's webcast series, Social Science for a World in Crisis Notable events mentioned in this episode: The West Virginia Coal Wars The National Labor Relations Act The Taft-Hartley Act Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at ...
Welfare as Tool of Repression in China - Jennifer Pan
July 17, 2020 04:12 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBJen Pan’s homepage Her recent book “Welfare for Autocrats” Big thanks to CASBS staff member Teresita Heiser for opening the episode for us! Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |
Ethically Editing Genomes - Alta Charo
June 23, 2020 03:36 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBAlta Charo She recommends checking out the documentary “Human Nature,” in which she appears. Learn about CRISPR gene editing Revive & Restore, the organization working on “genetic rescue” of endangered and extinct species. The controversy over He Jiankui’s genetic modification of human embryos Visit CASBS on the web Visit CASBS on Twitter CASBS staff member Jason Gonzales read this episode's opening line. Woohoo! Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanfor...
Ethically Editing Genomes
June 23, 2020 03:36 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBAlta Charo She recommends checking out the documentary “Human Nature,” in which she appears. Learn about CRISPR gene editing Revive & Restore, the organization working on “genetic rescue” of endangered and extinct species. The controversy over He Jiankui’s genetic modification of human embryos Visit CASBS on the web Visit CASBS on Twitter CASBS staff member Jason Gonzales read this episode's opening line. Woohoo!
Freedom To Oppress - Jefferson Cowie
May 28, 2020 18:15 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBJefferson Cowie Jefferson’s recent New York Times Piece “The ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Was a Preview of Today’s Political Divisions” The illuminating CASBS symposium “_Contesting the Nation_”, with Jefferson Cowie, Kathleen Belew, and Catherine Ramírez Richard Rorty, CASBS fellow 1982-83 “Achieving Our Country” Donald F. Kettl’s “The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work” Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stranger in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” Thomas Pik...