Movement Engaged Events
PhD Candidate Dhruv Deepak, "Community-Owned Digital Resources: Experiments to Democratize ‘Data Relations’ for Community Wealth"
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Time:12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Place: Horizon Hall 6325 and zoom
Dhruv Deepak (PhD Candidate, Sociology and Anthropology) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at George Mason University, exploring the intersection of technology, community, and political economy through a critical lens; he views technology as a deeply social phenomenon embedded in complex historical, cultural, and institutional contexts. Through his research, he advances a reimagined vision of technology that puts democracy and community empowerment at the center. His dissertation is an investigation of how “democratic experiments” with technology — such as digital cooperatives and peer production networks — can reconfigure extractive data relations into spaces of collective wealth and social innovation. As Project Manager of the Digital Commonwealth Project, a community-engaged research and development initiative in Northern Virginia, he demonstrates a commitment to technology that builds more resilient communities.
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Guest Lecture: Why Tibet matters: A talk with the political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration - Sikyong Penpa Tsering
Date: Thursday, October 19th, 2023
Evening: 4:15 - 7:00
Location: Merten Hall Room 1203
44441 George Mason Blvd
Fairfax, VA 22030
The Role of Law: Interrogating the Contributions of Lawyers and Complexities of Legal Reform in Burma's Democracy's Movement
Date: April 6, 2022 | Time: 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Panel discussion with Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University), John Dale (George Mason University), Khin Maung Win (Justice for All), and Su Yin Htun (Mandalay University)
This panel interrogates the role of lawyers, the legal profession, and legal reforms in Burma’s pro-democracy movement. Throughout the decades of rule, Burma's various military regimes used the law and legal system as instruments of authoritarian control. They suppressed any resistance from the legal profession. Famously, however, many law students and attorneys did participate in the Burmese democracy, often receiving lengthy prison sentences or even losing their lives as a result. Throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s, there were also a number of transnational campaigns that sought to instigate change inside of Burma by advocating for legal reform and corporate accountability in societies like the United States. The panel would seek to present a range of perspectives to identify the issues facing Burma's lawyers, judges, law schools, and legal system. It also seeks to offer prognostications for the future and recommendations for international action
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Ideas and Action: Integrating Theory and Practice for Peace and Conflict Resolution | Carter School Spring 2022 Peace Week
Date: April 8, 2022 | Time: 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Speakers: Sarah Federman (Prof. of Negotiation and Conflict Management, University of Baltimore), John Dale (Prof. of Sociology/Anthropology, George Mason University), Susan Hirsch (Prof. of Conflict Resolution, Carter School, George Mason University), Douglas Irvin-Erikson (Assistant. Prof. of Conflict Resolution, Carter School, George Mason University)
Moderator: Richard E. Rubenstein (Professor, Carter School, George Mason University)
On the 5th day (Friday, April 8th) of the Carter School Spring 2022 Peace week events, we have a discussion on Sarah Federman's new book, "Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability" (2021) with the author and a panel of experts.
Visit Event Site for further information: https://carterschool.gmu.edu/news-events/carter-school-peace-week/spring-2022-peace-week
We congratulate Sarah Federman on the launch of her book. She had also recently published an article on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Harvard Business Review (For accessing the article: Click Here)