Human Centered

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Conversations about projects and research undertaken by scholars & affiliates of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University; interviews with renowned fellows from CASBS history; and audio versions of some CASBS live events. CASBS is a scholarly community like no other for collaborative, cross-disciplinary, generative research. It brings together deep thinkers to address wicked problems and significant societal challenges. It empowers them to challenge boundaries and assumptions in order to advance our understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. As a leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS is a place that is, well...human centered. Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel Learn more about CASBS> website: casbs.stanford.edu | X: @CASBSStanford | LinkedIn: CASBS at Stanford |

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Interdependence & Climate Change - Robert Keohane

Human Centered

03/27/23 • 67 min

Robert Keohane bios: CASBS | Princeton | Wikipedia
Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy workshops at CASBS

Complex interdependence

After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

2016 Balzan Prize | prize speech

Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

Johan Skytte Prize

Keohane & Ostrom, Local Commons and Global Interdependence

Follow the CASBS webcast series, Social Science for a World in Crisis

The Memory Science Disruptor

Human Centered

09/11/23 • 51 min

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 – specifically, its malleability and fallibility – as well as her application of findings as an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of legal cases. Loftus's book "Eyewitness Testimony," completed at the Center, charted the course of her career that followed and serves as this episode's launching point.
ELIZABETH LOFTUS
UC Irvine faculty page
Wikipedia page
TED Talk (2013), "How reliable is your memory?"
Nobel Prize Summit (2023), "The misinformation effect"
The New Yorker (2021), "How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory"

DAN SIMON
USC Gould School of Law faculty page
CASBS bio
"In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process" (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences(CASBS)at Stanford University
CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach
Follow the CASBS webcast series, Social Science for a World in Crisis

The Gold Standard of Economic Historians

Human Centered

05/31/24 • 72 min

Stefan Link, a 2023-24 CASBS fellow, chats with Barry Eichengreen, a 1996-97 CASBS fellow and world renowned for his expertise at the nexus of international economics and economic history. They discuss some of Eichengreen's most prominent works — including "The European Economy Since 1945," which emerged from his CASBS experience, and "Golden Fetters," his most cited book — interrogating their durability and applicability to contemporary industrial, financial, and monetary policy challenges and governance.
BARRY EICHENGREEN: UC Berkeley faculty page | Homepage & CV | on Wikipedia |

STEFAN LINK: CASBS bio | Dartmouth faculty page |

Mentioned in the episode:
Eichengreen's talk on "Steering Structural Change" (session 2) at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (16 April 2024)
Eichengreen & Temin NBER paper on "The Gold Standard and the Great Depression" (June 1997)
Select Eichengreen books
Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance 1919-1939 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990)
Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression 1919-1939 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992)
International Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 1994)
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Princeton Univ. Press, 1994)
European Monetary Unification: Theory, Practice, and Analysis (MIT Press, 1997)
Toward a New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 1999)
Financial Crises and What to Do About Them (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
Capital Flows and Crises (MIT Press, 2004)
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT Press, 2006)
The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006)
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses — and Misuses — of History (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)

Stefan Link book
Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton Univ. Press, 2020)
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association

High-tech Modernism

Human Centered

12/01/21 • 90 min

Challenging History Erasures to Expand Possible Futures

Human Centered

12/13/23 • 65 min

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 through storytelling hijacks fact, truth, and history itself, what kind of information infrastructures can effectively confront those false narratives? Turner and Rumsey explore the tensions between history and storytelling and resulting implications for political beliefs, actions, and our collective sense of reality.
ABBY SMITH RUMSEY
CASBS website bio | Personal website | Talk at Long Now Foundation in partnership with CASBS

MIT Press web page for Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History

CASBS Q&A with Rumsey (2022)

FRED TURNER

Stanford University profile | Fred Turner's books | on Google Scholar |

"Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism," Harper's Magazine (2019)

A Social Science of Caregiving

Human Centered

02/26/24 • 64 min

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 foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]
Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving
Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio |
Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)
Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy |
Anne-Marie Slaughter: New America bio |
Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)
Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)

Organized Civic Benevolence and Nationhood

Human Centered

08/02/24 • 51 min

Santi Furnari (CASBS fellow, 2023-24) engages renowned political sociologist & 2015-16 fellow Elisabeth Clemens on the role of private civic volunteer organizations in co-constructing national identity and state capacity as well as serving as tools of governance, solidarity, and inclusion for much of American history. In what form does civic benevolence and philanthropy operate in the contemporary landscape? This absorbing conversation draws inspiration from the multi-award-winning book "Civic Gifts," much of which Clemens wrote during her CASBS year.
ELISABETH CLEMENS: Univ. of Chicago faculty page | Clemens wins 2023 Gordon J. Laing Award | on Wikipedia |
The book is Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Univ. of Chicago Press), winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology section, American Sociological Association; the University of Chicago Press Gordon J. Laing Award; the Outstanding Published Book Award, ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity; and the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
SANTI FURNARI: CASBS page | City University of London, Bayes School of Business faculty page | on Google Scholar |

Violence & Self-domestication - Richard Wrangham

Human Centered

09/28/21 • 37 min

James Holland Jones

Richard Wrangham

Kimbale Chimpanzee Park

CASBS

Twitter

The Voices of Americans in Crisis

Human Centered

09/14/21 • 69 min

American Voices Project crisis reports

The Shadow of Cybersecurity Expertise

Human Centered

01/17/24 • 39 min

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 from cyber-attacks. Slayton's forthcoming book explores the governance & risk implications emerging from the fact that cybersecurity experts must establish their authority by paradoxically revealing vulnerabilities and insecurities of that which they seek to protect.
REBECCA SLAYTON
Cornell University faculty page | | CASBS page |

Slayton's book Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012 (MIT Press)

Slayton's article "What is the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance?," International Security

Video: Talk on "Shadowing Cybersecurity: Expertise, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Uncertainty" at Stanford Univ.

JOHN MARKOFF

New York Times page

Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Steward Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)

View the Fall 2023 CASBS Newsletter

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