Felipe Valencia Caicedo on the Enduring Effects of War

Felipe Valencia Caicedo is an Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Prior to that, he worked at the Department of Economics at Bonn University. Felipe obtained his Ph.D. in Economics cum laude from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2015, through the European Doctoral Programme. He worked as a Consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC, from 2008 to 2010 and an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in 2005. His primary research interests are in Development Economics, Economic History and Economic Growth, with an emphasis on Latin America.

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Ruins of French hospital in Muang Khoun Laos, former capital of Xieng Khuang province, destroyed by US bombing in the late 1960s. June 2009.

Gianluca Russo the Rise of Italian Fascism

Gianluca Russo is a postdoctoral fellow at Pompeu Fabra University. He holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University. His research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, development economics and economic history.

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Samir Gandesha on Riots, Liberal Democracy and Guy Debord

Samir Gandesha is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in modern European thought and culture, with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is co-editor with Lars Rensmann of Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (Stanford, 2012). He is co-editor (with Johan Hartle) of Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle (University of Amsterdam Press, 2017) and Aesthetic Marx (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) also with Johan Hartle. In the Spring of 2017, he was the Liu Boming Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at the University of Nanjing and Visiting Lecturer at Suzhou University of Science and Technology in China.

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Rajesh Ramachandran on the Use of the Vernacular and the Protestant Reformation

Rajesh Ramachandran is a postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of economics at Heidelberg University. He completed his doctoral studies in economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. He has have previously held positions at Goethe University, as well as having been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the field of political linguistics, economics of education and social identity.

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David Vine on The United States of War

David Vine is Professor of political anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. David's newest book, The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State​, was just published by the University of California Press. The United States of War is the third in a trilogy of books about war and peace. The other books in the trilogy are Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (Metropolitan/Henry Holt, 2015) and Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). As part of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, David has helped compile and write Militarization: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society, (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009). David's other writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.

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Our next book club meeting will take place on February 9th. It will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on February 9th (@ 7 pm EST) and will be reading Shapeshifters by Aimee Meredith Cox.

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Aurelien Mondon on Macron and the Far Right in France

Dr Aurelien Mondon is a Senior Lecturer in politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses predominantly on the impact of racism and populism on liberal democracies and the mainstreaming of far right politics through elite discourse. His first book, The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony?, was published in 2013 and he recently co-edited After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, racism and free speech published with Zed. His latest book, Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream, co-written with Aaron Winter, was published by Verso in 2020.

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Our next book club meeting will take place on February 9th. It will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on February 9th (@ 7 pm EST) and will be reading Shapeshifters by Aimee Meredith Cox.

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Dr. Karaitiana Taiuru on Māori Data, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Karaitiana Taiuru is an interdisciplinary Māori academic activist who works on Artificial Intelligence ethics and colonisation, data sovereignty; genomic ethics; property rights & Tikanga Māori. He coined the term “Digital Colonialism” and has played a leading role in focusing Maori in modern technology. He is the author of the world’s first Indigenous ethics guidelines for AI, Algorithms, Data and the Internet of Things and the author of a major ICT/Social media Dictionary of the Māori Language with over 375,000 translations. He also created the first electronic Māori Dictionary Te Reo Tupu, a compilation of all major dictionaries and helped to ensure that Māori could be written on computers and the web and has developed Māori language tools and a myriad of publications.

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The Best Books We Read in 2020

Sara Salem on Hegemony, Gramsci and Nasser

Sara Salem joined the LSE as an Assistant Professor in 2018. Her main research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and global histories of empire and imperialism. She is an editor at the journals Sociological Review and Historical Materialism, and can be found on Twitter at @saramsalem.

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Our next book club meeting will take place on February 9th. It will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on February 9th (@ 7 pm EST) and will be reading Shapeshifters by Aimee Meredith Cox.

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A Correction Book Club: Shapeshifters. February 9th @ 7 pm EST.

We are very excited to announce that the third meeting of our book club will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. Fiori Sara Berhane is a PhD candidate at Brown University in the department of Anthropology. She is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a focus in migration studies, post-colonial Italy and the political anthropology of Europe. Her current project investigates generational conflict within the diasporan Eritrean community in Italy vis-à-vis the migration crisis. She is 2019-2020 Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been funded by the Wenner Gren foundation, the Fulbright IIE and has been featured in Lavoro Culturale, Africa is a Country, and Anthropology Now. She is also engaged in public anthropology and critical pedagogies; her work can be accessed on A Correction podcast.

We will (Zoom) meet on February 9th and will be reading Shapeshifters by Aimee Meredith Cox. Please fill out this form to reserve a spot. Space is limited to the first 15 people (we will have a waiting list after that). We are asking people to donate $10 to participate. We will use this money to pay the host for her work. We look forward to seeing you in February! (Note: if you could not make the first two meetings don’t worry! You can join now.)

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