#AcademicRunPlaylist - 5/29/24

I was able to go on a longer run today, which meant lots of time for talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a fascinating talk by Margot Finn on the material cultures of the East India Company at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kauXsY38D58

Next were interesting talks by William Shortall on Dublin's arts and crafts movement from the 1920s-40s and Ciaran O'Neill on Dublin's Hammond Lane Foundry and the history of the Design Tower at Trinity College Dublin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcQwq_q55Sc&t=4s

Next was an excellent discussion with Eleanor Fox on how African regulatory bodies should approach digital markets at Vellah Kigwiru's African Competition and Consumer Protection Centre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ZzK7x_1ZQ

Next was a great talk by Mari Elka Pangestu on promoting economic growth in Indonesia at the Crawford School of Public Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGx_VpHjW8

Next was a nice talk by Jean-Marc Robin on modeling wage dispersion with worker and employer heterogeneity at the Toulouse School of Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZLFsmnQ4YY

Next was an informative talk by Mark Lemley on trial length and outcomes in patent cases in the US at the New York University School of Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vQRkcX2PU

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve on the asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99irwnqwFeA

Next was a rapid-fire talk by John Aldrich on the history of British mathematicians and statisticians across the two world wars at the Royal Statistical Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPyoL6TVi34

Next was a short talk by Iris Bohnet on tools for understanding and reducing gender-based inequality at the RSA (the royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIR635yqbbw

Next was a compelling talk by Branko Milanović on the long-term dynamics of global inequality at the Paris School of Economics
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ4qpvKTHi4
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PcdQld7Rww

Next was an engaging conversation with Dani Rodrik on the intellectual blind spots of economics and how to improve the field at the Harvard Center for International Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIBR2s6y6ko

Last was an important talk by Scott Lilienfeld on the importance of medical professionals keeping up to date on the latest scientific literature, seen through the tragic case of facilitated communication for autism at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j0TAaDWrxU