Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Nathan Matias about often-overlooked public interest questions and concerns regarding the deployment of tech platform algorithms and AI models. Specifically, Ma

A Social Science of Caregiving

Feb 26th, 2024 1h 4m

Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundati

The Shadow of Cybersecurity Expertise

Jan 17th, 2024 39m 30s

Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Rebecca Slayton on how the field of computing expertise evolved, eventually giving rise to the niche of professionals who protect systems

Challenging History Erasures to Expand Possible Futures

Dec 13th, 2023 1h 5m

Two-time CASBS fellow Fred Turner engages CASBS board of directors chair Abby Smith Rumsey before a live audience to discuss her new book "Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History." When the erasure or distortion of collective memory throu

Toward a Society of Shared Recognition

Nov 28th, 2023 46m 53s

Renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont (CASBS fellow, 2002-03) discusses her new book, Seeing Others, with former CASBS director Woody Powell. The book assembles decades of Lamont’s scholarship, engaging some of contemporary society’s most element

Toward Cross-disciplinary Consensus About Our (Mis)Information Environment

Nov 2nd, 2023 49m 7s

Fully understanding and regulating our complex information ecosystems will require creating new cultures and modes of collaborating, new organizational frameworks and, yes, working with generative AI models in service of aggregating actionable

The Memory Science Disruptor

Sep 11th, 2023 51m 5s

Dan Simon, a 2022-23 CASBS fellow and USC law professor, joins in conversation with Elizabeth Loftus, a 1978-79 CASBS fellow and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine. Loftus is known in the public sphere through her decades-long study of memory

Jonathan Jansen's Power of Craft

Aug 28th, 2023 53m 8s

While you're listening to this episode, 2016-17 CASBS fellow Jonathan Jansen likely will write another few thousand words. As a scholar of education & leader of education institutions, Jansen is South Africa's most towering figure. To call him

Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest

Aug 1st, 2023 1h 37m

What are the most effective collective actions that social protest movements can or should undertake in the context of deep societal conflict and polarization? CASBS fellows Eran Halperin (2022-23) & Robb Willer (2012-13, 2020-21) compare their

Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History

Jul 10th, 2023 45m 52s

Drawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23

Developing AI Like Raising Kids - Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang

Jun 1st, 2023 55m 56s

This episode is produced in association with the CASBS project "The Social Science of Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies." Learn more about both:https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/p

New Visions for Effective Worker Influence

May 22nd, 2023 1h 26m

This is a podcast version of a live CASBS webcast event. View video of the event here.The event was produced in association with CASBS's program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy. Learn about the program here.CASBS's moral political eco

A Different Glenn Loury

Apr 27th, 2023 1h 11m

Glenn Loury on Google ScholarCoate & Loury (1993), "Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?"Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The Du Bois Lectures)The Tanner Lectures at Stanford (2007) Lecture 1 | Lecture 2Loury

Interdependence & Climate Change - Robert Keohane

Mar 27th, 2023 1h 7m

Robert Keohane bios: CASBS | Princeton | WikipediaComparative Politics of Climate Change Policy workshops at CASBSComplex interdependenceAfter Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy2016 Balzan Prize | prize speechDesig

Bob Scott is Trending

Dec 6th, 2022 53m 18s

Emerging Trends in The Social and Behavioral SciencesBob’s Introduction to the projectAbout the Robert A. Scott Lectureship FundThe classic mud volleyball photo (click then scroll to the bottom of the article)Human Centered episode featuring Ri

Toward Better Evidence-Based Policymaking

Dec 2nd, 2022 1h 23m

Causal Inference for Social Impact LabEGAPJake BowersCarrie S. CihakDan HopkinsRuth LevinePiyush TantiaCASBS Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityExplore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|pod

Creating A New Political Economy Framework

Sep 1st, 2022 1h 27m

Moderator Debra SatzPanelistsElizabeth Anderson University of MichiganSamuel Bowles Santa Fe InstituteNobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton PrincetonAmy Kapczynski Yale Law CASBS@CasbsStanfordCreating a New Moral Political Economy program at CASBSSoc

Movements & Contentious Politics - Sid Tarrow

Jul 26th, 2022 49m 13s

Sid Tarrow"Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" - Cambridge University PressEd WalkerCASBS@CasbsStanfordCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityExplore CASBS:

Better AI Through Social Science

Jul 5th, 2022 1h 8m

Don Norman: By Design

Jun 6th, 2022 38m 30s

Understanding Gen Z

Apr 7th, 2022 1h 23m

"Gen Z Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age"Roberta KatzSarah OgilvieJane ShawLinda WoodheadKat TenbargeCASBSCASBS project: Understanding the iGenerationSocial Science for a World in Crisis@CASBSStanfordCenter for Advanced Study in th

Psychology of Political Beliefs - David O. Sears

Feb 28th, 2022 56m 30s

Dreaming a New Academy - Gloria Ladson-Billings

Dec 15th, 2021 56m 6s

High-tech Modernism

Dec 1st, 2021 1h 30m

dana boydHenry FarrellMarion FourcadeWilliam JanewayCharlton McIlwainZeynep TufekciSuggested Reading"The Moral Economy of High Tech Modernism""Making Space for Black Software""Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age""Isomorphism th