17. February 2023, 16:00

The period of spectacular growth in China appears to be ending. What implications, political and economic, will the normalization of Chinese GDP growth have for the PRC, the Pacific region, and the world economy, which has come to rely on China as the workshop of the world? Will a combination of high technology and low wages continue to serve the CCP well, or will popular discontent and economic stagnation destabilize the PRC leadership, and by extension contribute to already high geopolitical tensions with the US and its Western allies? How should the Belt and Road initiative be understood given this conjuncture?

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24. February 2023, 15:00

Since the turn of the century, the US has been at war globally. To what end? Should this period be characterized as more than the result of the short-term priorities of US security and commercial imperatives? That is, is there a more deliberate, long-term strategy informing US foreign policy? What ideology, if any, defines US strategic thinking, and if it is a realism, what interests have been served, and what might the near and medium-term future bring: another extended period of war, or finally peace?

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15. March 2023, 11:00

The historic changes in computing and communication technology of the last quarter century have had profound consequences for social relations, affecting the finance sector, the arts and the fundamental organization of civil society. Some have argued that advances in such technology now undermine the basis of capitalist production, that the global economy is on the cusp of a new regime of low-growth production based in rent-seeking – and dependent on coercion, ubiquitous surveillance, instantaneous communication, all made possible by artificial intelligence. Our panelists will examine some of the recent political-economic debates on so-called technological feudalism. They will also consider the undeniable qualitative changes in the lifeworld now taking place, irrespective of how they are classified.

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28. March 2023, 16:00

Much has been written about the dawn of a "new cold war" as the defining fact of geopolitics today. The 2018 US National Defense Strategy, which designated so-called "revisionist powers" of Russia and China as its main geopolitical rivals, is one indication of this development. Yet simultaneously, internal political divisions have grown worldwide. Globally oriented educated populations and the professional politicians representing them face the pauperized working class of the hinterlands across Europe, the US and Asia. What is the economic basis of this division, how does it interact with the recent diplomatic and military developments if at all, and what are the prospects for the emergence of a humane, rational politics which commands credibility with the new regional underclasses of the capitalist world?

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