Putin and Zelensky, and their Armies

Polina Beliakova (Dickey Center), Monday April 3 at 5 pm, room TBD

What explains the difference between Russian and Ukrainian military performance in the current war? Most commentary focuses on the Western support to Ukraine, Russian military corruption, and Russia's poor intelligence capabilities. Dr. Beliakova adds another crucial and often overlooked component to this puzzle: the respective governments' relations with their militaries. 

Pratap Mehta (Princeton), Democracy in India, Democracy in the World

A conversation with Russ Muirhead (Government) and Victoria Holt (Dickey Center).

Thursday April 6 at 5 pm. Haldeman 041.

Mehta (Princeton) is the former Vice Chancellor and co-founder of Ashoka University in Delhi, a position he was pressured to abandon because of his public dissent from policies of the Modi government. He is a political theorist and a columnist in India as recognizable there as Thomas Friedman is in the United States.  

The event is co-sponsored by Rocky and the Dickey Center.

Emma Rothschild (Harvard), "Adam Smith and 300 Years of Economic History"

Monday April 10, at 4:30 pm room TBD. One of the world's leading historians marks the tercentenary of Adam Smith's birth with some timely reflections on the past and present state of the global economy. 

This is an Adam Smith tercentenary event.

Catherine Mann (Bank of England), "Thoughts on Monetary Policy Today"

Wednesday April 12 at 4:30 pm in room TBD.

Graduate of Harvard and MIT, and Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University, Mann is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. She also contributes to the research program of The Productivity Institute and is a Science Advisor to the European Investment Bank. Prior to her current appointment, she was Chief Economist at the OECD (2014 to 2017). She will discuss the challenges facing monetary policy today.

Helena Rosenblatt, "Liberalism, Past and Present"

Thursday April 13 at 4:30 pm. Room TBD.

Recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Rosenblatt teaches in the Ph.D. programs in History, French, and Political Science. In this talk, she will discuss her recent book The Lost History of Liberalism. What is “liberalism,” where did it come from, and how can a better understanding of its history help us chart our way forward today?