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Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University, investigates how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform global economies, for bet…

As global content becomes increasingly localized, Hollywood producers need to navigate a complex web of cultures and business styles. From creating China’s number one TV Show to running Bollywood’s second largest stream…

Lisa Forman Cody, associate professor of history and author of "Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Construction of Eighteenth-Century Britons," will address the history and culture of abortion in the United Stat…

Christopher Reid, a London-based poet and editor, will read his poems and talk about some of the great poets with whom he worked at the publisher Faber and Faber in the 1990s. Winner of  the Hawthornden Prize for his fi…

Those of us who read or write stories know that a fictional tale can have a great impact on a person’s life. But the most powerful narratives in our lives often are the stories that are shared in our daily lives, from o…

Since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the total wealth held in the Black community in the U.S. has barely budged. In The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of law at UC Irvine, investigates th…

Mathematical models play a very prominent role in financial institutions for decision making. The use of models including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) carry both financial and non-financial ris…

Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of…

Mukulika Banerjee, associate professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will explore recent mobilizations by social movements in India (such as the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra (a re…

Policymakers and the public are focusing renewed attention on how diplomats, national security officials, and multinational corporations are navigating challenges involving international conflict and cooperation, global…