Gearty Grillings

MIT professor Sinan Aral draws on two decades of his own research and business experience and go under the hood of the biggest, most powerful social networks

Dr. Clive James Nwonka hosts a conversation with Melanie Hoyes, Dr. Luisa Heredia, and Dr. Shelley Cobb about the films American Honey and The Florida Project.

The biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Is there an even more general theory that can make sense of all the sciences?

In this lecture, Julia Lynch will examine the political dynamics underlying the “new normal” of high and rising inequality since 1980.

This year’s Fred Halliday Memorial Event will explore how and why the symbolic investment in republican discourse and the building of republican institutions can be so detrimental to the rights of the very public that they are meant to represent.

When SYRIZA came to power in January 2015, it promised an end to the bailouts and to austerity. In this conversation with Kevin Featherstone, Euclid Tsakalotos will discuss its achievements and setbacks.

Asia has successfully transitioned from a low-income agrarian region in the 1960s to a global manufacturing powerhouse today, driving growth around the world. COVID-19 is threatening to turn back the clock on some of that progress.

At this event, our panelists will celebrate the achievements of Celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020 and assess her legacy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed extraordinary challenges to all sectors of society and underscored the centrality of human health and well-being to the very survival of economies and societies at large.

Diseases present us with obvious health costs, but there are significant economic costs to illness too.