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Leadership and Innovation in Today’s Complex and Fragile World

About the Event:  AUA 2019 Distinguished Alumnus, Dr. David Akopyan will share his 26-year experience with the UN, reflecting on his complex assignments, tests for resilience, and system thinking, leadership and innovation. His experience displayed that trivial ways did not work, and it was a constant struggle to break the pattern, find new narrative, and […]

PERITIA Public Lecture: Trustworthy Science Advice

About the Event:  Truth and trust are becoming contentious topics for science and democracy. Conspiracy theories disrupt political elections, disinformation campaigns target scientific consensus around climate change and vaccines, and anti-elite populism overshadows public debates. In the midst of a pandemic, citizens find themselves asking quintessential philosophical questions: what truth is, whom we can trust, […]

Environmental Futures: Public Talk by Aroussiak Gabrielian

About the Event:  Working across scales — from environmental design to biological materials — Dr. Aroussiak Gabrielian will share the climate-focused project that she along with her team of design-research students have been advancing in the Landscape Futures Lab at the University of Southern California (USC). With the current state of crisis of the biophysical […]