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TEC Talks: Corporate Responsibility and Power
Companies—especially those with digital “platform power”—wield an enormous influence over economic, political, and social life in the United States and globally. The...
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TEC Talks: Bias and Power
While algorithms and artificial intelligence are often touted as neutral and unbiased decision-making tools, research such as Dr. Joy Buolamwini and Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Gender...
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TEC Talks: Artificial Intelligence and Power
This week’s discussion will focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and power. What are the social, political, and ethical implications on AI? How do they impact...
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TEC Talks: Identity and Power
How do you prove that you are who you say you are? As our world becomes increasingly digitized, automated, and algorithmically operated, digital identity schemes are becoming an...
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TEC Talks: Workers and Power
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on essential workers: grocery workers who keep shelves stocked with food and cleaning supplies, truckers who transport goods across the...
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The Global Church and Islam – The Bible, the Qur’an and the religious life of Muslims
To Muslims, the Qur’an is the record of God’s revelations to Muhammad between 610 and 632 AD. It includes many Biblical characters, from Adam to Jesus to Mary. How does the...
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The Global Church and Islam – The Church and Islam through the Centuries
What are the high points and low points of the relationship between Islam and Christianity through the centuries? What do the Qur’an and the hadith (Muhammad’s sayings and...
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The Global Church and Islam – The One God in Islam and Christianity
Christians and Muslims believe in a God who created the universe, who loves them, and guides them. Yet there are significant differences in their vision of God. Is it coherent,...
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The Thaw: The Many Meanings of “Truce”
The Truce, written in 1962, takes up where If This is a Man left off, recounting Primo Levi’s epic journey on trains, on foot, and on horse-and-cart, as he makes his way across...
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Rome Book Club: The Journey
The Truce operates on several different levels. It is a richly detailed account of an actual journey of nine months, on trains, on foot, on horsedrawn cart, across mountains,...
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Primo Levi’s “The Truce”: The Reawakening
One of the meanings contained in the title of the novel is the idea of suspension of moral judgement. This is not to say that The Truce is a novel of forgiveness: rather these...
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The Church in Asia: Origins and Development of the Christian Church in China, Christian missions
This discussion traces the beginning of Christianity in China, when missionaries from the Church of East entered the country in the sixth century, and introduced their religion as...
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