Human Centered

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Human Centered episodes

September 30, 2020 Higher Ed at the Crossroads
Social Science for a World in Crisis
Panelists
Nina Bandelj
Jonathan David Jansen
Caitlin Zaloom
Moderator
Debra Satz

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Human Centered
Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
1 hr 18 min
September 15, 2020 Reimagining the Corporation
Panelists:
Shona Brown
Colin Mayer
Margaret O’Mara
Moderator:
Paul Brest
Social Science for a World in Crisis
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
1 hr 22 min
September 08, 2020 Metrics & Misconduct in Scholarly Publishing - Mario Biagioli
Mario 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”

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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
39 min
August 26, 2020 Race and the Movement for Justice in America
Race and the Movement for Justice in America
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
1 hr 9 min
August 06, 2020 Polarization and Contentious Politics in the Age of Covid
Video 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
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
1 hr 4 min
July 21, 2020 America As a Developing Country?
Video 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
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
54 min
July 17, 2020 Welfare as Tool of Repression in China - Jennifer Pan
Jen Pan’s homepage
Her recent book “Welfare for Autocrats”

Big thanks to CASBS staff member Teresita Heiser for opening the episode for us!
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
36 min
June 23, 2020 Ethically Editing Genomes - Alta Charo
Alta 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
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CASBS staff member Jason Gonzales read this episode's opening line. Woohoo!
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
39 min
June 22, 2020 Ethically Editing Genomes - Alta Charo
Alta Charo, a 2019-20 CASBS, is a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin. Host John Markoff spoke with Charo about the ethics of genome editing in the fields of ecology and human biology.
Shout out to CASBS information manager Jason Gonzales for opening this episode for us!
39 min
May 28, 2020 Freedom To Oppress - Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson 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 Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
Special thanks to CASBS staff member Paola Dios for the opening the episode!
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Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel
45 min

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Conversations 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 occasional CASBS live events.