Humans in Their Habitats: A Research Agenda for Resilience
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- Senior Fellow - Centre for Environment and Development and Director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation - Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University Summary: Humans’ choices affect the environment, and the environment shapes human opportunities. So why do we persist in modeling the dynamics of natural and social systems separately? This research gap has enormous practical consequences: The costs of climate change, for example, depend heavily on the costs of adapting to its differential impacts around the world – how can we better understand...
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COVID-19 and the Landscape of Immunity
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Professor C. Jessica Metcalf - Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs and Professor Anup Malani - Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine in conversation with Dr. Jessica Seddon
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Cyclones & Climate Change in the Indian Ocean
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Professor Gabe Vecchi - Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System
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Music, Movements, and Identity
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TM Krishna - Carnatic vocalist, activist, and author
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Sensing and Sensemaking: Natural Language Processing, AI, and Global India
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Dr. Jessica Seddon discusses with Professor Karthik Narasimhan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University, and Dr. Manish Gupta, Director of Google Research India, how natural Language Processing (NLP), combined with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), has opened up new possibilities for human-computer interaction through speech.
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COVID & India’s Evolving Political Economy
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Dr. Jessica Seddon in conversation with Prof. Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University, and Shankar Aiyar, Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute discusses how COVID-19 has deeply affected India’s economy and society. While the per capita infection and mortality rates are low by global standards, the sheer numbers of those affected are significant and have caused huge disruptions to the Indian economy.
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India and China: The Longer View
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Dr. Jessica Seddon in conversation with:
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Rudresh Mahanthappa - Anthony H.P. Lee ‘79 Director of Jazz in conversation with Dr. Jesica Seddon.
Krishna and Rudresh speak about the importance of music for building and exploring individual identities as well as broader social movements or collective change. They reflect on their personal experiences and choices as artists in engaging with different aspects of Indian culture and discuss some of the works that they are most proud of contributing to the world. The episode concludes with a discussion on improvisation as a way of navigating the quest to both find commonality and preserve valuable differences - and mention of some newer artists to watch.