Week of April 29, 2024

Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash. "The Rise and Fall of ESG." Forbes.com, April 23, 2024. 

Jennifer Hadden and Aseem Prakash. "The Value of Unrealistic Targets: Why Some Climate Activists are Unwilling to Abandon the 1.5° C target." npj Climate Action, 2024, 3(29)  

Aseem Prakash was quoted in the Nature magazine news feature, "How five crucial elections in 2024 could shape climate action for decades," on the climate dimension of India's ongoing parliamentary elections. 

Wall Street Journal article (He’s a Renewable-Power Billionaire, Not an Environmentalist) referenced a recent paper by Inhwan Ko, Nives Dolsak, and Aseem Prakash (Wind Turbines as New Smokestacks).  

Seattle Times published a new story, Why environmental justice matters, from the founder himself on Dr. Robert Bullard's recent UW visit which was hosted by the Center for Environmental Politics.

Tony Gill was just elected to membership in the Philadelphia Society at their semi-annual meeting in Tampa, FL.  

Zhaowen Guo won the Exceptional Excellence Award at the RAISE-2024 data science competition at Rutgers University, which had 103 nationwide entries. This competition encouraged participants to use NLP techniques to examine media coverage of AI. 

UWISC, JSIS and the China Studies Program present: Thomas Christensen, Professor, Columbia University, "Thomas Shelling, the United States and China’s Rise,” Monday, April 29, 2024, at 3:30-4:50 in HUB room 334.   

Note:  Thomas Christensen serves as a Senior Advisor to the Office of China Coordination at the U.S. Department of State.  All opinions expressed in this talk and in the discussion that follows are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government. This talk is under Chatham House Rules. 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Zhaowen Guo (University of Washington), “Does News Media Spread Fear of AI?”. Thursday, May 2nd, Olson 1A, 3:00-4:00 pm 

Center for Environmental Politics presents Mahalet Fikru (Missouri University of Science and Technology), “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador”. Friday, May 10th, Gowen – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

POL S & LSJ presents UW scholar Stuart Streichler will discuss his new book Presidential Accountability in Wartime, in a conversation led by Jamie Mayerfeld. Monday, May 13, Petersen Room in Allen Library, 3:30-5:00 pm.

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Rutger Ceballos (University of Washington), “Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation,”. Thursday, May 16^th, Gowen - Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Tao Lin (University of Washington), “Code-showcasing 'Relation: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives' by Ash et al. (2024).” Thursday, May 16^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

WISIR hosts a Lunch Workshare for Jose Jorge Mendoza (UW Philosophy), "Latinx, Whiteness, and American Democracy”. Friday, May 17^th, Gowen- Olson 1A, 12:30–1:30pm  

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Lauren Collins (University of Washington), Title TBA . Thursday, May 23rd, Gowen- Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Nela Mrchkovska (Vienna University of Economics and Business), “Fine-tuning a Topic Classification Model with Sermons Data”. Thursday, May 30^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm.

CWES presents Dr. Florent Bernard (Counselor for Research and Innovation at the EU Delegation (Embassy) to the USA on a Horizon Europe: Opportunities for US Researchers. Wednesday, May 1, 2:00-3:00pm in Simpson Center Room 202 

REECAS presents Professor Oxana Shevel, Tufts University - "Book talk: Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States," Thursday, May 2, 2024, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m, HUB 214 

CSSS presents Sarah Glick (University of Washington), “Project NEXUS: Methodlogy and Results from a Survey of Underrepresented People Who Use Drugs: 9 U.S. Syringe Services Programs.” Wednesday, May 8^th, 12:30-1:30pm, Savery 409 

REECAS presents Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion And Ukraine's War Of Independence," May 13, 6:00-7:30 PM, HUB 145 

CSSS presents Jason Williams (University of Washington), “The Promise and Peril of State Administrative Data: An Example from an Evaluation from an Evaluation of Low-Barrier Buprenophine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.” Wednesday, May 22^th, 12:30-1:30pm, Savery 409 

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