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SUMMARY: The Phil Lind Initiative: Steven Pinker on The Unravelling of the 
 Liberal Order
DESCRIPTION: The Phil Lind Initiative presents our January-March 2018 (Term
  2) speaker series on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order. The series will
  run from January to March\, 2018 at UBC Vancouver. Join us for a talk by S
 teven Pinker and register for all of our events on our Current Series page.
  Steven Pinker Thursday\, February 1st\, 2018 6:00 PM – […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><em><strong>The Phil Lind Initiative</stro
 ng></em> presents our January-March 2018 (Term 2) speaker series on <strong
 >The Unravelling of the Liberal Order</strong>. The series will run from Ja
 nuary to March\, 2018 at UBC Vancouver. Join us for a talk by Steven Pinker
  and register for all of our events on our <strong><a href="http://lindinit
 iative.ubc.ca/series/spring-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Current S
 eries</a></strong> page.</p><p><strong>Steven Pinker</strong><br /><strong>
 Thursday\, February 1st\, 2018<br /></strong><strong>6:00 PM – 7:30 PM<br /
 ></strong><strong>Old Auditorium - UBC\,</strong><strong> 6344 Memorial Roa
 d\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2</strong></p><h3>Sold Out. To be added to the Wai
 t List\, please email your full name and your guest name(s) to Bonita Perko
  at bonita.perko@ubc.ca.</h3><table><tbody><tr><td><p>[caption id="attachme
 nt_3831" align="aligncenter" width="251"]<img class="size-medium wp-image-3
 831" src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/11/
 Steven-Pinker-by-Rose-Lincoln-Harvard-University-251x300.jpg" alt="" width=
 "251" height="300" /> Photo by Rose Lincoln\, Harvard Staff Photographer[/c
 aption]</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><b><strong><em>Our speaker</em>
 :</strong></b><b><strong> </strong></b>Steven Pinker is one of the world’s 
 most influential intellectuals\, with multiple bestselling and award-winnin
 g books on language\, mind\, and human nature. He has held positions at MIT
  and Harvard\, where he currently resides. His forthcoming book\, <em>Enlig
 htenment Now: The Case for Reason\, Science\, Humanism\, and Progress</em>\
 , challenges prophecies of doom to provide a sobering and more optimistic a
 ccount of the future.</p><p><b><strong><em>About the theme</em>:</strong></
 b><b><strong> </strong></b>The world is undergoing a wrenching process of g
 eopolitical transformation. The liberal order that dominated for the past h
 alf century is unravelling. Presumptions of US hegemony no longer apply and
  new power centers are emerging in Asia and Europe. Nation states are re-as
 serting their sovereignty as nationalist movements gain strength. The world
 ´s major cities are also rewiring global supply chains. Yet\, multilateral 
 institutions developed in the mid-twentieth century are coming under assaul
 t by some of the very countries that were central to their formation. Digit
 al connectivity and new technologies are accelerating political\, economic 
 and social transformation and literally changing the rules of the game\, pu
 lling at the seams of global stability. Will the liberal order hold\, or is
  its disassembling inevitable? What kinds of global order(s) does the futur
 e hold? The Lind Initiative’s Spring 2018 series will explore these and oth
 er questions\, with visits from the world’s leading intellectuals on the su
 bject.</p><p><b><strong><em>About the organizer: <a href="https://lindiniti
 ative.ubc.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Phil Lind Initiative</a><
 /em></strong></b> is an annual dialogue series hosted by the <a href="http:
 //liu.arts.ubc.ca/">Liu Institute for Global Issues</a>\, part of the UBC S
 chool of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, and is made possible by a gener
 ous gift from Philip Lind (BA’66\, LLD’02). Created to address the most urg
 ent issues of our time\, the initiative invites prominent American scholars
 \, writers and intellectuals to UBC to conduct research and share ideas wit
 h students\, faculty and the wider community on a particular theme.</p>
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