Geneva Graduate Institute Library Blog
Resources and advice for students and researchers
“Sous le voile des apparences”
Dans les allées sombres de Téhéran, errent des âmes en peine. Corruption, trafic ou prostitution cadencent leur combat quotidien pour exister. Continue reading “Film de la semaine : « Téhéran tabou » (Tehran taboo) de Ali Soozandeh”
A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.
“We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives — where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance — are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated.
But as Cathy O’Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: if a poor student can’t get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code), he’s then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden, creating a “toxic cocktail for democracy.” Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.”
Publisher: London: Penguin Books, 2017
Call Number: 384 HEIA 120998
“Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material.”
“I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.”
Publisher: Black Out, 2017
Call Number: 973 IAM
Academy Award winner Oliver Stone interviews Vladimir Putin.
“Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span, never before has the Russian leader spoken in such depth or at such length with a Western interviewer.
No topics are off limits in the interviews, which first occurred during Stone’s trips to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Moscow and most recently after the election of President Donald Trump. Prodded by Stone, Putin discusses relations between the United States and Russia, allegations of interference in the US election, and Russia’s involvement with conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere across the globe. Putin speaks about his rise to power and details his relationships with Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump. The exchanges are personal, provocative, and at times surreal.”
Publisher: London: New York: Hot Books, 2017
Call Number: 947.086 HEIA 120532
Photo Credit: “Vladimir Putin & Oliver Stone”, Kremlin.ru, CC By 2.0 (via WikiCommons)
“An invaluable, important and timely resource. More than ever, political violence studies necessitate a solid grounding in data, which this tool provides richly, offering a vast amount of variegated materials, archives and essays.”
Prof. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Continue reading “Praeger Security International: Terrorism, Homeland Security, Strategy”
Geneva Graduate Institute Library Blog 
_01.jpg){kind=link}