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“GLOBAL PEACE AND INSECURITY”
ZOOM SEMINAR SERIES
TUESDAYS, 12 PM – 1:30 PM (Unless otherwise noted)
From September 28 – December 8, 2020
Sponsors: Program in Science, Technology, and Society and MIT Radius
Seminar Leader: Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Affiliate, STS
September 28* SPECIAL SEMINAR (Note: different day)
Hon. Shireen Mazari, Minister of Human Rights,
Pakistan
“Is third party mediation necessary for
resolution of the dispute in Kashmir?”
October 6 Vladimir Kozin, Ph. D., Member of two Russian Academies
Military, and Natural Sciences. Author of 16 monographs on arms control.
“Whither US – Russia nuclear arms control?”
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"
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"
October 27 Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and
Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona
“Biden or Trump: What’s at stake on November 3?”
November 3 To be announced
November 10 Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver. Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
“NPT at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?”
November 17** Jun Tateno, Ph.D., Executive Director, Nuclear and Energy-
Related Information Center (NERIC), Tokyo, Japan
“Ten years after Fukushima: the future of nuclear power in Japan”
November 24 Saurabh Kumar, Former Ambassador of India to Ireland,
Austria, and the United Nations in Vienna
(Topic and date to be confirmed)
December 1** Masako Ikegami, Ph. D., Professor, School of Environment
and
Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
“Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asia”
December 8 To be announced
*Note seminar is on Monday
**Seminar is at 6 PM – 7:30 PM
Free and open to the public, but prior registration is required to obtain Zoom
link. For more information, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> or visit https://radius.mit.edu/
<https://radius.mit.edu/>
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