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The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections
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J. Paul Goode | Rallying or Normalizing? War and Sanctions in Putin's Russia
Eggers Hall, 341
Drawing from analysis of Russian broadcast transcripts (2022-2025), J. Paul Goode (Carleton University) argues that the Kremlin seeks to normalize war and sanctions rather than rallying support.
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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
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Ezequiel González-Ocantos (Oxford Univ.) will discuss how the transnational bribery investigation spread throughout Latin America, paralyzed economies, upended elections and collapsed governments.