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The Pandemic Journaling Project: A New Dataset of First-Person Accounts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Co-authored by Sebastian Karcher, director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry and the Qualitative Data Repository, was published in PLOS One.
See related: COVID-19
Failure. Russia Under Putin
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, contributed a chapter to the recently published book Failure. Russia Under Putin (Bloomsbury, 2025). He is one of multiple authors who share their views on Russia’s failures under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.
See related: International Affairs, Russia, United States
How Maxwell Alum Chris Meek Honors the Victims and Survivors of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Inspired by the bravery of the first responders, Meek dedicated his life to giving back to our soldiers and to preserving the memory of those who died that day. He launched the 9/11 Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to educate, commemorate and inspire action by telling the stories of the survivors, first responders and the families of those lost.
See related: Alumni Experience
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Seva Gunitsky | Autocratic Resilience in the Age of AI
Eggers Hall, 341
Seva Gunitsky (Univ. of Toronto) will discuss three AI governance strategies—panopticism, discourse management and agency alignment—and link them to old institutional tradeoffs in closed regimes.
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Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato
Virtual
Ezequiel González-Ocantos (Oxford Univ.) will discuss how the transnational bribery investigation spread throughout Latin America, paralyzed economies, upended elections and collapsed governments.