When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are bad: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a signal that the problem is so vast, so complex, that it’s out of our control. That narrative is compelling for some, but leaves others feeling helpless and disillusioned. Even the most ardent champions of climate action sometimes focus more on sounding the alarm than on imagining and mapping out what success might look like.
India, the world’s largest democracy, is holding general elections, which will wrap up in June. How will the election shape U.S.-India relations at a time when growing global tensions have put a spotlight on how India will navigate its international relationships and concerns about authoritarian trends in India have simultaneously grown. In her book A Matter of Trust: India-U.S.
The Guardian describes the extraordinary footage in this documentary of capacity crowds and euphoric atmosphere in the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico as an "alt-reality hallucination" of what might have been had the ruling bodies of the world's default sport not been so hostile to the women's game for most of the 20th Century.
During the Cold War, the United States ratcheted up efforts to send prominent cultural figures, including successful Black athletes, on overseas tours to showcase and promote the “American Dream” and counter a powerful Soviet claim: That Black Americans were oppressed in a system of racial apartheid. Meanwhile, Black athletes themselves were transformed through their experiences on these trips, returning home further inspired to hold their nation accountable to its founding principles.
In his new book, The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat provides a history of the major international agreements that have defined today’s world. Eizenstat examines cases from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols and the Iranian Nuclear Accord.
When 12 mysterious spacecraft arrive to Earth in the 2016 film Arrival, they bring with them an eerie question: Why are they here? To answer that question, the U.S. military enlists the help of a top linguist, played by Amy Adams, who is tasked with deciphering the extraterrestrial’s language.
How do leading experts view the intersection of religious and political ideologies in relation to human expansion into space?
The Space Intersections symposium, led by Jack Traphagan, ASU Interplanetary Initiative's 2023-2024 fellow, will explore how political and religious ideologies are employed in relation to space expansionism.
May 13-14, 2024 // 8-4 p.m. EST
ASU Barrett and O’Connor Washington Center
1800 I St NW
Washington, DC 20006
In recent years, place-based innovation has attracted renewed attention from policymakers and major new funding, including over $80 billion in current federal support for historically overlooked regions. Awarded an NSF Regional Innovation Engine grant in early 2024, the North Carolina Textile Innovation and Sustainability Engine (NCTISE), along with its key partners, is developing technologies for manufacturing advanced fibers and recycling waste textiles into new fibers. These innovations hold promise for various sectors, including construction, advanced materials and healthcare.
The prospect of space exploration has forever captivated the human imagination, but opportunities to do so are still limited to a select few countries despite decades of advancement in spaceflight technology and infrastructure.
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred substantial debate over how to rapidly develop new vaccines, produce billions of doses, and distribute them globally. Central to these debates are the roles of intellectual property, technology transfer, and public funding.