In this special live episode of the Iron Butterfly Podcast, hosted in partnership with the National Security Institute (NSI) at George Mason University, we delve into the pivotal role of women in the tech and intelligence sectors. This dynamic discussion, titled “The Future is Female,” features two esteemed guests: Rachel H. Grunspan, Deputy Chief for Strategy & Policy for the CIA, and Chandra Osann, Deputy Executive at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Together, they explore the challenges and opportunities within the intelligence community and offer a powerful glimpse into how women are shaping the future of national security.

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CARP 2023 Conference 21 June, 2023 Special Roundtable with Pavel Palazhchenko Illiberal Politics and Uncivil Language as a Global Trend: Problems of Understanding and Translation Guest: Pavel Palazhchenko (Gorbachev Foundation) Chair: Eric Shiraev, George Mason University (CARP President)

4th CARP International Conference, Amsterdam Friday 23, June Participants: - André Haller (University of Applied Sciences Kufstein/Tyrol) - Hendrik Michael (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg) - Marijana Grbeša (University of Zagreb) Chair: Martijn Ick (University of Amsterdam) Scandals are actions that constitute moral or legal transgressions. Corruption affairs, doping cases, and environmental pollution trigger public outrage and involve intensifying phases of media coverage. As such, scandals are not only an essential part of social discourse in modern societies but also of relevance for the field of communication and media studies. To learn abouts Scandalogy: Interdisciplinary Research in Scandals, Media & Society, see https://www.uni-bamberg.de/kowi/forschung/forschungsprojekte/scandalogy/ To learn about 4th CARP International Conference, see https://carpresearchlab.org/carp-2023-conference/

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4th CARP Conference: Character Assassination, Illiberalism, and the Erosion of Civic Rights, Amsterdam, 21-23 June 2023. Thursday 22 June, 2023 Opening Keynote: Liberal and Illiberal Entanglement in Today’s World, Keynote Speaker: Marlène Laruelle (George Washington University). Illiberalism Studies Program: https://www.illiberalism.org/about-illiberalism-studies-program/ Chair: Marijn Kruk, Journalist. X: https://twitter.com/marijn_kruk?lang=en Description: Illiberalism is an emerging concept in social sciences that remains to be tested by different disciplines and approaches. In her presentation, Dr. Laruelle advances a fine-grained frame that helps to “stabilize” the concept by stating that we should 1/ look at illiberalism as an ideology and dissociate it from the literature on regime types, 2/ consider illiberalism to be in permanent situational relation to liberalism. To make that demonstration, she advances a pilot definition of illiberalism as a new ideological universe that, even if doctrinally fluid and context-based, is to some degree coherent.