Past Events
Yearbook for the History of Global Development

The Yearbook for the History of Global Development is a serial publication dedicated to the study of past developmental theories, policies, and practices, including those with a direct bearing on contemporary challenges in international development.

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January 2023, Wednesday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 17:30
Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation

This book examines the skill systems in Mexico and Turkey, with a focus on auto parts producers, and the implications of these systems for these countries' development. It adopts a multi-layered understanding of the term 'skill system', which comprises firm-level hiring and tra

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05
December 2022, Monday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 15:30
Data Science for Migration and Mobility

Migration is a complex phenomenon with multi-dimensional factors. With ever-expanding data storage and processing capabilities, new data sources (such as social media, mobile call data records, and satellite imaging) are becoming available to study migration from both qualitati

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09
November 2022, Wednesday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 14:00
When race meets gender

Black Lives Matter and MeToo, two social movements that went viral around the globe, have been actively supporting each other. This paper studies what kind of grievances and demands become prominent at the intersection of these movements. Building on the intersectionality theor

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26
May 2022, Thursday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 05:30 PM
Into the Thick of It: Mapping the Emerging Landscape of Military AI Strategic Partnerships

Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs) are reshaping military institutions and challenging traditional understandings of these actors’ tools, environment, and mission. This article explores how the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is set to drive

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20
May 2022, Friday
Location: Zoom Webinar Time: 11:30 AM
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