Past Events
Surveillance Technologies in Migration Management/Border Security

Surveillance capitalism has recently emerged as a key concept in interpretations of global technology companies’ business models as seen in Zuboff’s (2019) study analysing the transition of some Silicon Valley companies into global monopolies within just a few decades. In this

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28
April 2022, Thursday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 14:30
Negotiating Internet Governance

This book provides an incisive analysis of the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, revealing its mechanisms, key actors and dominant community practices. Based on extensive empirical analysis covering more than four decades, it presents the evolution of Inter

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07
April 2022, Thursday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 17:30
Data Science for SDGs

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Frontier technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, and

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24
March 2022, Thursday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 17:30
Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies

When widely used, eco-certification has the potential to effectively reduce sustainability impacts of global commodity chains. While this mode of transnational governance has quickly thrived in the markets of developed countries, its ultimate contribution to the achievement of

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18
March 2022, Friday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 13:00
Emergence & Development of Behavioral Public Policy Units In Government: The Case of Türkiye

The last two decades witnessed a significant rise in the use of behavioural insights in the design and successful implementation of public policies. This creative method of policy design and implementation, also known as “nudging”, makes use of biases in individual decision-mak

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21
October 2021, Thursday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 2:30 p.m.
Kentlerin Türkiyesi: Ekonomi, Demokrasi, Kimlik

Koç Üniversitesi’nin Küreselleşme, Barış ve Demokratik Yönetişim Araştırma Merkezi (GLODEM), küreselleşme, bölgeselleşme, barış, kamu yönetimi ve siyasası ile yönetişim konularında çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Bu kapsamdaki bazı güncel sorunları ve çözüm önerilerini konunun uzmanl

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26
May 2021, Wednesday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 17:00
Practice and Governance of AI Ethics

In this talk, Dr. Canca will explain the scope and focus of AI ethics as a discipline and how its concerns materialize within the innovation cycle. She will introduce a model to integrate AI ethics into the innovation process and into the organizational structure. And finally,

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21
May 2021, Friday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 18:00
Publicly-Conducted Missile Tests, Crises and Wars

Countries like China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Iran frequently test-launch missiles in public. Many experts are concerned with these tests for the sake of global security. Surprisingly, until now, no scientific studies explored whether a country’s more frequent

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12
May 2021, Wednesday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 5:00 p.m.
China and Russia in High-Level Forums on Energy Governance

This study investigates the participation of China and Russia in the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). In which policy initiatives have these two countries participated? In which initiatives have they taken the lead? Building on the club theory and international relations litera

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07
May 2021, Friday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 13:00
How AI is Eating the World?

“Today, AI is eating the World”. With the development of AI, we are witnessing a series of fundamental changes ranging from driverless vehicles to image processing; from natural language processing, to optimization problems; from robotic systems to “drones”; or from speech reco

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30
April 2021, Friday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 18:00
21.yy’de Türkiye’nin Demografik Dönüşümü: Doğurganlık, Yaşlanma ve Göç

Son yüzyıl içinde hemen hemen her toplumda doğurganlık hızları tarihsel olarak en düşük seviyelerine gelmiş oldular. Bu dönüşüm süreci içerisinde toplumlarda yaşlanma oranları da yine tarihsel olarak en yüksek seviyelerine ulaştılar. Söz konusu değişim modernleşme süreci ile b

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21
April 2021, Wednesday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 17:00
Legal Challenges of AI: An Overview and Current Developments

The talk will take to its compass, the legal effects, and new legal questions deriving from the usage and the development of artificial intelligence technologies. For the quest for effective legal answers with this regard, some questions are vital to be asked: “Why do we need b

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16
April 2021, Friday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 18:00