#AcademicRunPlaylist - 5/25/24

Lots of shuttling around today, but at least I was accompanied by talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an important talk by Kris Manjapra on labor and the global plantation complex in the 19th century at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tW040IzLRY

Next was an eye-opening symposium on the ethical involvement of patients in the FDA regulatory evaluation of new products at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics with talk by Aaron S. Kesselheim (FDA approval process and recent cases), Walid Gellad (flibanserin and patients), and Diana Zuckerman (the role of the public in FDA approval decisions). The examination of challenges of engaging with stakeholders in a public setting and accounting for qualitative evidence while attempting to explain statistical reasoning to a lay audience was insightful, and applicable in fields well beyond medicine. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-1eNn0gJu8

Next was an interesting talk by Geoffrey Bell on the Irish Revolution and the British labor movement at the University of London School of Advanced Study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGPn4worJM

Next was a great talk by Philipp Kircher on the economics of matching at the Royal Economic Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYWg4fbE69M

Next was an excellent talk by Paul Collier on the importance of integrating culture into social science research at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0t4uq-gpUA

Next was a short talk by Dan Wang on VC networks and startup outcomes at Columbia Business School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY9mmXfboYY

Next was a wide-ranging talk by David Rand on the economic and psychological bases of human cooperation at the LSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0clVyK2WFCU

Next was a nice talk by Eric Quintane on how social network brokers engage in brokerage at the SONIC Research Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDllroChis0

Last was an intriguing talk by Marc Steinberg on the expanding liability of corporate counsel in the US at the Cambridge Faculty of Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJC_0XMUVe0