[Sci-tech-public] "Global Peace and Insecurity" Zoom Seminar Series, Fall 2020

[Gus Zahariadis]

For More Information:  https://radius.mit.edu/programs/global-peace-and-insecurity-seminar-series <https://radius.mit.edu/programs/global-peace-and-insecurity-seminar-series>

“GLOBAL PEACE AND INSECURITY” 

ZOOM SEMINAR SERIES 

TUESDAYS, 12 PM – 1:30 PM  (Unless otherwise noted)

From September 28 – December 8, 2020

 Sponsors: Program in Science, Technology, and Society and MIT Radius

 Seminar Leader: Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Affiliate, STS

 

September   28*     	SPECIAL SEMINAR (Note: different day) 

				Hon. Shireen Mazari, Minister of Human Rights, Pakistan 

				“Is third party mediation necessary for resolution of the dispute in Kashmir?”

 

October        6        Vladimir Kozin, Ph. D., Member of two Russian Academies

Military, and Natural Sciences. Author of 16 monographs on arms control.

                               “Whither US – Russia nuclear arms control?”

 

October        13       Monica Zoppe, Ph. D., Institute of Biophysics,

 Italian National Research Council (CNR), Milan, Italy

"Accidents, mistakes and COVID-19: risks and necessity of high-level biosafety labs"

 

October        20       Heidi Peltier, Ph. D, Director, “20 Years of War” Project,

 Boston University 

“The bang and the bucks:  Post-9/11 military spending and the shortchanging of other urgent needs"

 

October        27       Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and

 Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona

                                “Biden or Trump: What’s at stake on November 3?”



November    3         To be announced

 

November    10       Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University,

 Vancouver. Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament

 “NPT at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?”


November    17**   Jun Tateno, Ph.D., Executive Director, Nuclear and Energy-

Related Information Center (NERIC), Tokyo, Japan

“Ten years after Fukushima: the future of nuclear power in Japan”


November    24      Saurabh Kumar, Former Ambassador of India to Ireland,

Austria, and the United Nations in Vienna

(Topic and date to be confirmed)


December    1**      Masako Ikegami, Ph. D., Professor, School of Environment and

 Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

 “Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asia”

 

December    8         To be announced


*Note seminar is on Monday

**Seminar is at 6 PM – 7:30 PM

Free and open to the public, but prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link. For more information, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy ghoshroy at mit.edu <mailto:ghoshroy at mit.edu> or visit https://radius.mit.edu/ <https://radius.mit.edu/>

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