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SUMMARY:“State of Democracy in India: Challenges and Prospects”
DESCRIPTION:The Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science (CUNY Graduate Center)\nThe Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies (CUNY Graduate Center)\nThe Hannah Arendt Center (Bard College) \n  \n“State of Democracy in India: Challenges and Prospects”\n  \nGuest Speaker: Yogendra Yadav (Political Activist) \nTuesday\, May 6\, 2025 \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n5th Floor (Room 5203) – Ralph Bunche Institute \nCUNY Graduate Center \n365 5th Avenue \nNew York\, NY 10016 \n  \n4:00pm-6:00pm (Reception to follow)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/state-of-democracy-in-india-challenges-and-prospects/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Contemporary China: Demystifying Economic and Social Changes
DESCRIPTION:A panel of experts helps us understand the complex realities of China today. \n\n\n\n\nElebash Recital Hall \nFrom the perspective of the West\, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist\, an adversary or a vital economic partner\, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? A panel of experts demystifies the vast economic and societal changes that have transformed China in recent decades. They discuss China’s remarkable strides toward eradicating poverty and the simultaneous growing inequality that has produced a new billionaire class; the decline in the birthrate despite the end of the One Child Policy; and how increased access to technology\, with the limitations of censorship\, is affecting the social landscape. \nFeaturing Yong Cai\, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill; Qin Gao\, professor of social policy and social work at Columbia University; Rongbin Han\, professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia; and Branko Milanovic\, research professor at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality\, CUNY Graduate Center\, author of Capitalism\, Alone and Visions of Inequality. Moderated by John Torpey\, professor of sociology and history and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. \nPresented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality\, the China at CUNY Initiative\, and the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. \nA video of this event will be posted a few days later on our YouTube Channel. \nPlease contact Jimmy Cok at jcok@gc.cuny.edu in advance for CART services or any additional accessibility requests or concerns for in-person events.​ This event will be livestreamed\, and closed captions will be provided. \nReview our Building Entry Policy for in-person events
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/contemporary-china-demystifying-economic-and-social-changes/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan: The Focus on the Intention of Citizenship Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first co-sponsored event of the Fall 2025 Semester \nPolitical Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan:\nThe Focus on the Intention of Citizenship Acquisition\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Public Policy Workshop and IRelevant – are collaborating with the Ralph Institute for International Studies and the International Migration Studies Program to sponsor a presentation by Prof. Hirohisa Takensohita\, who is visiting from the Department of Political Science at Keio University in Tokyo\, Japan. \nHe will speak on\, “Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan: The Focus on the Intention of Citizenship Acquisition\,” on Monday next week 9/8 at 4.15pm. The event will be in person in the Ralph Bunche Institute suite and remote. \nProf. Michael Sharpe will moderate the conversation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, September 8th\, 4:15 p.m. (ET) \nRalph Bunche Institute\n365 Fifth Ave\, Room 5203\nNew York\, NY 10016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCopyright © 2025 Ralph Bunche Institute\, All rights reserved.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/political-incorporation-of-immigrants-in-japan-the-focus-on-the-intention-of-citizenship-acquisition/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ukraine Moving Towards Peace?
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URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/ukraine-moving-towards-peace/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
DESCRIPTION:Join for a conversation between Laura Field and Richard Wolin on the intellectual descent from mid-century conservatism to Trumpism—one tracing its historical gestation\, the other its ideological mutation—and as a warning that the U.S. now faces a radical\, post-conservative right driven more by myth and ressentiment than by any genuine political philosophy.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/furious-minds-the-making-of-the-maga-new-right/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 8301\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Event: The Information State
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Jacob Siegel and Eli Karetny\n\n\nDate: March 16\, 2026 \nTime: 6:00PM \nPlace: Skylight Room\, Graduate Center CUNY 365 Fifth Ave\, New York. \n  \nWe’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? \nThe Information State is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel charts how the technological infrastructure built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Commercial Internet applications now double as military-grade surveillance and influence tools. Government tech partnerships established after 2001 in response to the global war on terror took on a life of their own and now target Americans. \nInstead of competing for voters’ support\, the information state uses censorship\, mass surveillance\, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality. Government officials requested that social media companies boost stories about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to Russia\, while censoring those about Hunter Biden’s laptops\, the origins of the COVID-19 virus\, and the war in Ukraine. \nAn alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. Laws signed by President Obama as he left office fused together the media\, NGOs\, the national security complex\, and big tech companies into an unelected ruling party. In short\, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information State is an urgent\, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? \nThe Information State is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel charts how the technological infrastructure built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Commercial Internet applications now double as military-grade surveillance and influence tools. Government tech partnerships established after 2001 in response to the global war on terror took on a life of their own and now target Americans. \nInstead of competing for voters’ support\, the information state uses censorship\, mass surveillance\, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality. Government officials requested that social media companies boost stories about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to Russia\, while censoring those about Hunter Biden’s laptops\, the origins of the COVID-19 virus\, and the war in Ukraine. \nAn alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. Laws signed by President Obama as he left office fused together the media\, NGOs\, the national security complex\, and big tech companies into an unelected ruling party. In short\, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information State is an urgent\, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/book-event-the-information-state/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Origins and Future of the United Nations
DESCRIPTION:Moderator\nJohn Torpey\, Director \nRalph Bunche Institute for International Studies \nPresenters\nLukas Haynes\, RBI Visiting Scholar\, discussing Peace Through Power: \nFDR’s Military Leaders and the Pragmatism of the UN Charter \nTapio Kanninen\, RBI Senior Fellow\, discussing Revitalizing the United Nations: \nMaking and Keeping the Peace \nCommentators\nRichard Gowan\, International Crisis Group \nStephen Schlesinger\, World Policy Institute (ret.) \nDate and time\nMonday\, April 20\, 2026 5-6:30pm \nWine and Cheese Reception to Follow \nPlace\nRalph Bunche Institute for International Studies\, Room 5203 \nCUNY Graduate Center \n365 Fifth Avenue \nNew York\, NY 10016
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-origins-and-future-of-the-united-nations/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Reality of UFOs/UAP
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by journalist Leslie Kean who has been investigating and reporting on the subject for over 25 years. Q&A moderated by RBI Acting Director\, Eli Karetny. \nRSVP for The Reality of UFOs/UAP - May 6. 6PM\n\n\n\n\n\nLeslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals\, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. She has been covering UFOs/UAP for the mainstream since 2000. Kean and reporter Ralph Blumenthal have contributed articles to The New York Times on UFOs/UAPs for eight years\, beginning with a game-changing front page story about a secret Pentagon UFO program in 2017\, written with Helene Cooper. Kean’s over two decades of reporting on UFOs was profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. Kean and Blumenthal broke the story of whistleblower David Grusch in The Debrief in 2023\, which led to an open Congressional hearing. Kean also helped produce two seasons of the NatGeo documentary series “UFOs: Investigating the Unknown” (2025) streaming on Hulu. \n\n\n\nKean is also the author of Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program and was Ezra Klein’s NY
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-reality-of-ufos-uap/
LOCATION:Proshansky Auditorium\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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