February 5, 2024 | 9:00—10:00 AM ET / 2:00-3:00 PM GMT | Hybrid Due to popular demand, in-person registrations have reached capacity. Future RSVPs will be for a virtual audience only. In the face of unprecedented global attention and interest in the World Bank, President...
February 6, 2024 | 10:00 AM| Virtual Ricardo Hausmann from Harvard University sparked a heated debate in 2017 on the role of Wall Street in financing wannabe autocrats by calling Venezuela’s government debt “The Hunger Bonds.” Drawing from an analogy between investing in environmentally harmful...
February 6, 2024 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Virtual Since mid-October 2023, Yemen's Houthi militia has carried out repeated attacks on Red Sea maritime commerce, disrupting global trade and prompting the United States and United Kingdom to launch retaliatory airstrikes as well as...
February 6, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm| Hybrid This panel will explore Chile's constitutional reform process. Discussants will take a step back and evaluate what happened over the last four years and what it means going forward. Speakers: Claudia Heiss, Professor in the Faculty of...
February 6, 2024 | 15:00-16:15 GMT | Online In El Salvador’s 2024 elections, on 4 February, the country votes for its President, Vice President and members of its National Assembly. Join Canning House and our panel for this webinar discussing the election's results and...
February 6, 2024 | 1500-1615 | Virtual El Salvador went to the polls on 4 February, with its citizens voting for its President, Vice President and members of its National Assembly. Late on Sunday, Nayib Bukele claimed he and his party had garnered over 85% of the vote,...
February 07, 2024 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST | Virtual 2024 will be a historic year for elections. Democracies comprising 41% of the world’s population and 42% of its GDP will cast their votes around the globe. Yet recent shifts in the information...
February 12, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET | Virtual Rather than fixating on the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) many well discussed negative attributes, Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, authors of the soon-to-be-released book The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China’s Search...
Monday, February 12, 2024 | 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EST | Hybrid The relations of the European Union and the United States with Latin America are currently dominated by four preconceptions: 1) Latin America is a political failure; 2) Latin America is an economic...
February 13, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Hybrid This panel will discuss Javier Milei's presidency focusing on his reform initiative, Argentina's institutions, and more. Speakers: Carla Yumatle, Professor of Political Theory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Federico Sturzenegger, Full Professor of Economics and Business, Universidad de San...