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October 2006
Monday, October 2, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503 |
Brown Bag Lecture: Nonviolent Resistance in BurmaTun Tun Than, Burmese political activist Tun Tun Than will be speaking of the opposition movement in Burma. Please RSVP to apiatek@gwu.edu Please send RSVP to: apiatek@gwu.edu Sponsored by Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Conflict Resolution Forum |
Monday, October 2, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213 |
Security, Stability and Reconstrution: the Iraqi Police Mentoring and Training ProgramBilly Kearney, former program manager for the Iraqi Police Mentoring and Training Program in Basra. Please RSVP to igis@gwu.edu by Friday, September 29. Please send RSVP to: igis@gwu.edu Sponsored by Institute for Global and International Studies and the Security Policy Studies Program |
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Suite 602 |
Tragedy and Road to Recovery in Panabaj, Guatemala: The Story of the HospitalitoDr. Irene Quieju No RSVP required. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Latin America and Hemispheric Studies Program and Pueblo a Pueblo |
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Suite 602 |
What Would Gandhi Say: Gandhian Thought and Practice in DevelopmentM.P. Mathai, Professor and Director, School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University No RSVP is necessary. Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program |
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503 |
How Japan's Social Crisis Will Affect the US-Japan AllianceMichael Zielenziger, author of Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation Reserve with your name, organization/GW affiliation (if applicable) to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, October 2, 2006. Cookies and soda will be provided. Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu Sponsored by Asia Policy Point In Cooperation with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Suite 602 |
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Fifty Years OnCharles Gati, Professor, European Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; RSVP at: ieresgwu@gwu.edu or (202) 994-6340, by October 3, 2006 Please send RSVP to: ieresgwu@gwu.edu Sponsored by The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the GW Cold War Group, and the Hungarian Cultural Center |
Friday, October 6, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213 |
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival. Awake ZionMonica Haim Please follow the link here for more information on the films. No RSVP is required for this event Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program of the Elliott School, the Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Ethnographic Research |
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The George Washingtoon University, Jack Morton Auditorium |
The Global Fight to End Polio: Diplomacy's Critical RoleDr. Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, United States Department of State; RSVP to rsvpesia@gwu.edu. This event is free and open to the public. Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu Sponsored by Elliott School of International Affairs and the United Nations Foundation |
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503 |
Brown Bag Lecture: Reflections on Secularism in Contemporary IndiaArvind Rajagopal, Associate Professor, NYU, Author, Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, 2001) Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, October 9. Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu Sponsored by Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The George Washington University Law School, Lerner Hall Lower Level, LL102 |
Anatomy of a Failure: What Went Wrong in Iraq?Featuring Washington Post Reporters Tom Ricks and Rajiv Chandresakaran Washington Post reporters Tom Ricks and Rajiv Chandresakaran discuss the war in Iraq. Thomas Ricks has covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post since 2000. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years. Ricks has earned two Pulitzer Prizes and is the author of "Fiasco," a bestseller about the war in Iraq. Chandresakaran, the Post's Baghdad bureau chief between 2003 and 2004, is the author of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," due for publication this fall. Chandresakaran's book takes a critical look at Jerry Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), who ran Iraq from the spring of '03 until June of '04. No RSVP is required. Sponsored by The Public Policy Institute at the Elliott School of International Affairs and the School of Media and Public Affairs |
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Suite 602 |
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesAdam Hochschild, 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism University of California, Berkeley Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves examines the dark and disturbing world of slavery in the late-1700s and 1800s, when hunting capturing and transporting humans to sugar plantations was an accepted part of ordinary life. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale. RSVP by email to rsvpesia@gwu.edu Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu Sponsored by he Lionel Gelber Prize is presented annually by The Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and FOREIGN POLICY. |
Monday, October 16, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 602 |
The Politics of ImmigrationSpeakers: This lecture will be in Spanish. No RSVP required. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Sponsored by the Latin America and Hemispheric Studies Program and The Mexico Solidarity Network |
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 602 |
A Nuclear North Korea: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About ItAmbassador Charles L. (Jack) Pritchard, President of the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Please e-mail gsigur@gwu.edu with the following by Monday, October 16: name, organization (if GW, please state title, school, and/or program) and e-mail address. Sponsored by The Elliott School of International Affairs Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, 503 |
Brown Bag Lecture |
Friday, October 20, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213 |
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan and Children of the Decree"Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan" a film by Peter Lom, 51 minutes and "Children of the Decree" a film by Florin Lepan, 52 minutes No RSVP is required for this event. Please go to Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program, the Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Ethnographic Research |
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213 |
Film Screening and Discussion: Tumaini Letu (Our Hope), Documentary of three women caring for AIDS Orphans in KenyaNatalie Halpern, Filmmaker, Media Relations Manager, Academy for Educational Development AND Frank Beadle de Palomo, Director of Global AIDS Programs, Academy for International Development Sponsored by Organization for International Development |
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213 |
Film Screening and Discussion: Tumaini Letu (Our Hope), Documentary of three women caring for AIDS Orphans in KenyaNatalie Halpern, Filmmaker, Media Relations Manager, Academy for Educational Development AND Frank Beadle de Palomo, Director of Global AIDS Programs, Academy for International Development Sponsored by The Organization for International Development |
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Suite 503 |
Brown Bag Lecture: Economic Policy-making in Vietnam and Indonesia: Subnational Leadership, Identity and DevelopmentAlasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, October 23. Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu Sponsored by The Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 602 |
Business and Development PanelJennifer Brinkerhoff, Associate Professor of Public Administration, International Business, adn International Affairs, GWU Sponsored by Sponsored by the Elliott School's Organization for International Development |
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor |
Dealing with Nuclear North Korea: Views from Beijing, Seoul and TokyoProfessor Kirk Larsen, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Director, Undergraduate Program in International Affairs Professor Mike Mochizuki, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Co-Author of Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Director, China Policy Program, Author of Modernizing China's Military Moderated by Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Director, MA International Affairs Program, Former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs (1997-2001) Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu Sponsored by The MA International Affairs Program and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Friday, October 27, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor |
Can Foreign Aid End World Poverty?William Easterly, Professor of Economics (Joint with Africa House), New York University No RSVP required. For more information on William Easterly's new book, "The White Man's Burden" please visit http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/. Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) |
Saturday, October 28, 2006
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Suite 602 |
13th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities: Korean FoodKwang-ok Kim, professor of anthropology at Seoul National University; RSVP to Dr. Kirk Larsen (kwlarsen@gwu.edu) Sponsored by The George Washington University's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Monday, October 30, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor |
Policy Challenges and American CompetitivenessDouglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies; Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations This event is free and open to the public. RSVP by email to itip@gwu.edu. Sponsored by The Elliott School of International Affairs's International Trade and Investment Program and GW's Center for International Business and Economic Research (CIBER) |
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Lindner Family Commons, 602 |
Modernizing Education and Science in GeorgiaAlexander Lomaia, Minister of Education and Science in the Republic of Georgia Since the Rose Revolution in 2003, the Georgian education system has undergone sweeping education reforms in order to combat corruption and to modernize education in Georgia. Minister Alexander Lomaia is the driving force behind many of these efforts and will share his experiences in leading the Georgia's education reforms. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Organization of International Development, the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the United States Peace Corps |