Center for Governance

Founding Director: Susanne Lohmann, Professor of Political

Science and Public Policy

 

Seminar series

„ 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)

 

Conferences on human complex systems and cyberspace

„ Starlogo Workshop (2001)

„ First International Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems (2002) (with Bill McKelvey and Human Complex Systems faculty)

„ Second International Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems (2003) (with Bill McKelvey and Human Complex Systems faculty)

„ Who Owns the Internet (2003) (with Francis Steen)

„ Playing, Gaming, Learning (2003) (with Francis Steen)

„ Playing, Gaming, Learning II (2004) (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)