2020/12/01 zoom webinar 6-7:30pm EDT | 0-1:30am +1 CET
To be announced
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30) | 18-19:30 CET
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1: Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asia
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2020/11/24 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
What’s next for the US-India strategic partnership?
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24: What’s next for the US-India strategic partnership?
Dr. George Perkovich: Olivier and Nomellini Chair, vice president for studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, author of India’s Nuclear Bomb, co-author of Not War, Not Peace?
2020/11/17 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
Ten years After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Power in Japan
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 6:00PM-7:30PM EST (Please note differnt time): Ten years After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Power in Japan
Speaker: Jun Tateno, Ph.D., Executive Director, Nuclear and Energy-Related Information Center (NERIC), Tokyo, Japan
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2020/11/10 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30) | 18-19:30 CET
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10: The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?
Speaker: Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Continue reading →
2020/11/03 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
Climate Change and International Security
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3: Climate Change and International Security
Jurgen Scheffran, Head of the Research Group Climate Change and Security, University of Hamburg, Germany
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2020/10/27 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
Biden or Trump: What’s at Stake on November 3?
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27: Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Biden or Trump: What’s at Stake on November 3?
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2020/10/20 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
The Bang and the Bucks: Post-9/11 Military Spending and the Shortchanging of Other
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, 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
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2020/10/13 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
Accidents, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, 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; MODERATOR: Professor Jonathan King
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2020/10/12 zoom webinar 12:00 – 17:30 CEST
Webinar: Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security
Invitation INES Webinar on Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security 12 October, 16:00 – 17:30 CEST With: Prof. Jürgen Scheffran (University of Hamburg, Germany) Prof. em. Dave Webb (Leeds Beckett University, U.K.) Subrata Ghoshroy (MIT, USA) Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__s5nreJXQQKp0p9q-bbTXw Introduction: When President Trump established the U.S. Space Force December, 2019, he said that it marked “a big moment” and that there was “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s … Continue reading →
2020/10/06 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
Whither US-Russia Nuclear Arms Control?
Global Peace and Insecurity
A Semester-Long Seminar Series
Whither US-Russia Nuclear Arms Control?
Tuesday, October 6; 12noon-1:30pm
2020/09/19 zoom conference
International Action Meeting For a Nuclear Free Europe
Introduction & Context
September 19th, 2020 | 11:00 am – 17:00 pm |
De Markten, Oude Graanmarkt 5, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Since the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago we have lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation. This omnicidal power and the outrageous amount of resources spent on it is unacceptable, especially at a time where climate change is challenging our survival. The COVID-19 pandemic and the recession which will follow, teach lessons we must embrace to overcome the existential threats of the 21st century: nuclear war and global warming. Continue reading →
THE POLITICS OF DEFENSE SPENDING (Video report)
SCIENCE, PROFIT AND ENDLESS WARS
Here is the link to the video from yesterday’s event. There were more than 50 people, mostly MIT students. We were thrilled.
2020/01/07+14+21 Massachusette, USA
THE POLITICS OF DEFENSE SPENDING
SCIENCE, PROFIT AND ENDLESS WARS
Tuesdays: January 7, 14 and 21
5:00pm
MIT Room 2-105
The US federal government spends billions of dollars each year on highly questionable warfare and unnecessary anti-missile systems that don’t work.
In Gedenken an Dietrich Schulze
Irresponsible Science?
Dear friends and colleagues I’m writing to let you know about Scientists for Global Responsibility’s latest in-depth report – which I’ve attached as a pdf. It’s called: ‘Irresponsible Science? How the fossil fuel and arms industries finance professional engineering and science organisations’ SGR_IrresponsibleScience.pdf The report was published earlier this month and received coverage in, for example, ‘The Sunday Times’.* It reveals an extensive pattern of financial links between the arms and fossil fuel industries on the one hand, and some … Continue reading →