Reuters Memorial Lecture - 'How to report under a dictatorship: lessons from Nicaragua and beyond'

On Monday 6 March 2023 Nicaraguan editor Carlos F. Chamorro will deliver this year's Reuters Memorial Lecture, 'How to report under a dictatorship: lessons from Nicaragua and beyond'. Chamorro’s lecture will be followed by a conversation with our Chair Alan Rusbridger and a panel discussion on the challenges facing journalists worldwide.

Virtual borders: human rights and the fluid subject of algorithmic governance

Final seminar in a series on 'Forced Migration and Digital Technologies: (Dis)continuities in Actors and Power Relations'. Seminar abstract: Who is the subject of human rights? This concern, which has been at the heart of postcolonial and feminist critiques on liberal human rights, has a renewed importance in the literature of algorithmic governance, where anxieties about the loss of human agency and autonomy are prevalent.

Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System

The U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system operates as a federal-state partner- ship, where states have considerable autonomy to decide on specific rules. While it could allow states to efficiently tailor their UI generosity level to local economic condi- tions, it could also generate racial inequality as states with a larger Black population appear to set stricter rules. Do the differences in state UI rules create racial inequal- ity, and are they are efficient?
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