Founding Director: Susanne Lohmann, Professor of Political
Science and Public Policy
„ Great Ideas in the Social Sciences
„ cyberspace@ucla
Conferences on university governance
„ Herding Cats, Moving Cemeteries, and Hauling Academic Trunks: Managing Change in Higher Education (2001)
„ How Universities Think (2002)
„ CanÕt the University Be More Like the Computer Games Industry (2003) (with Francis Steen)
„ Factional Conflict and Scientific Progress (2003)
„ Starlogo Workshop (2001)
„ Who Owns the Internet (2003) (with Francis Steen)
„ Playing, Gaming, Learning (2003) (with Francis Steen)
Conferences on biopolitics and the neurobiology of morality
„ Cognition, Emotion, and Rational Choice (2000)
„ The New Biopolitics (Rational Choice is Nearly Dead) (2000) (with Mark Kleiman of UCLA)
„ The Rules of the Game of Politics in the Middle Ages (2001)
„ Biopolitics II (2001) (with Abel Alves and Michael Thompson)
„ Social Cognitive Neuroscience (2001) (with Alan Fiske, Marco Iacoboni, and Matthew Lieberman)
„ Why We Get Sick: Darwinian Medicine and the Social Sciences (2001)
„ Happiness, Pleasure, and Judgment (2001)
„ Awe-inspiring Experiences and the Saintly Life (2002) (with Mark Kleiman)
„ The Self and the Sacred (2002) (with Mark Kleiman)
„ The Experience of Awe (2003) (with Mark Kleiman)
„ Maps of Belief (2003) (with Mark Kleiman)
„ Neurobiology of ŌThe Good LifeÕ (2004) (with Mark Kleiman)
„ On Being One and Doing Good: The Neurobiology of Spirituality and Morality (2005) (with Mark Kleiman)
Conferences on public administration and political institutions
„ ItÕs Better to Rely on Well-designed Institutions than on Well-behaved People (2001) (with JR DeShazo)
„ Why International Institutions Matter (2001) (with Barbara Koremenos)
Conferences on issues of the day
Los Angeles The Inevitable: Why Cities Have Become Ungovernable and What To Do About It (2001)
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (2001)