Big Arts Talking Points: Myth and the Natural World
February 3, 2022
In this unusual talk, Sarah ventures onto new ground. Rejecting the current tendency to pit myth and science against each other, as opposites, she explores the fertile crossroads where the two ways of knowing intersect."
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Excerpt: The Midas Disease is about converting everything of value -- material value or immaterial value -- our most precious relationships, into ones and zeros...
February 14, 2022
St. Petersburg Council on World Affairs
Watch Sarah's keynote address at The St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs, a cooperative venture of a group of civic-minded residents and community supporters.
August 9, 2020
With Nancy MacLean (author of Democracy in Chains)
Bringing to bear all of her knowledge, grasp, sense of history and observation, Sarah Chayes shows how the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world.
May 21, 2018
Cape Ann Forum: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Sarah Chayes speaks on corruption and how it threatens global security.
August 8, 2017
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Chayes moderated a lively discussion, including a Nigerian activist and Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, Dean Steve Coll.
October 7, 2021
World Denver: The Peril of Neglecting Democracy and the Rule of Law
Sarah Chayes has uncovered the unrecognized reality that severe and structured corruption often prompts international crises -- including violent religious insurgency.
August 9, 2020
Bristol Festival of Ideas
In (virtual) conversation with Andrew Kelly
Sarah Chayes has uncovered the unrecognized reality that severe and structured corruption often prompts international crises -- including violent religious insurgency.
August 28, 2018
Encuentro Nacional Anticorrupcion
Keynote speech (in English) on systemic corruption in Central America -- and beyond -- begins at about 20 minutes into the video
November 12, 2015
TEDx: Government Corruption Fuels Extremism
Chayes makes the case that behind many of the security crises gripping the globe lies a crisis of corruption.
August 25, 2020
Sarah Chayes: On Corruption in America
Chayes shows how corrupt systems are organized, how they enforce the rules so their crimes are rarely punished, how they are overlooked and downplayed—shrugged off with a roll of the eyes—by the richer and better educated, and how they shape our government, affecting all levels of society.
March 9, 2018
Yale University Coca Cola World Fund Lecture:
Sarah presents on the topic of how corruption breeds extremism in this talk: "Government in the Public Interest -- Under Assault?"
January 2, 2017
Integrity 20 Symposium
Brisbane
Keynote speech explaining the causal relationship between systemic corruption and violent extremism and other crises.