Wednesday, November 1, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Kylan Jones-Huffman Lecture:
Carbon Democracy: The Origins and Limits of Petropolitics

Timothy Mithchell, Professor of Politics, New York University

Kylan Jones-Huffman was a Navy Lieutenant who was killed in action in August 2003, while on a temporary assignment to the First Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq. His wife, Heidi, started the fund to support Graduate Studies in Middle Eastern History in Kylan's memory.

No RSVP is required for this event.

Sponsored by The Elliott School Office of Public Affairs and the GW Department of History

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Civilian-Based Resistance in the Middle East: A Strategy Between Talk and Terror

Dr. Maria J. Stephan, Manager of Educational Initiatives, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

Sponsored by the Organization for International Development

Friday, November 3, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

The Elliott School of International Affairs, Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

"Ryan" Chris Landreth, 14 minutes.
"Nalini By Day, Nancy By Night" Sonali Gulati, 26 minutes, and
"Phantom Limb" Jay Rosenblatt, 28 minutes

No RSVP is required for this event. Please go to for more info on the films.

Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program, the Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Ethnographic Research

Monday, November 6, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lindner Family Commons, The Elliott School of International Affairs, 6th Floor
1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC

Collective Identity Formation in the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Isao Miyaoka, Visiting Scholar, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, GWU

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, December 4.

Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu

Sponsored by The Sigur Center

Monday, November 6, 2006
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
1957 E Street, NW

Unique Approaches to Development in East Africa

Chris Macoloo, World Neighbors

Sponsored by The Elliott School's Organization for International Development

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Room 403U (CISTP Conference Room)
1957 E Street, NW

DC and the Space Generation

Loretta Hidalgo

No RSVP is required. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by CISTP

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Faculty Lecture Series:
Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

David Gow, Edgar R. Baker Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology, Director, International Development Studies Program

RSVP to rsvpesia@gwu.edu. Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by Elliott School Office of Public Affairs

Thursday, November 9, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs, 6th Floor, 1957 E Street, NW

China & Iran: Ancient Partners in a post-imperial world

John W. Garver Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

John W. Garver is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of seven books and over 60 articles dealing with China's foreign relations. His books include Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century (2001), Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwans Democratization (1997) and the widely used textbook, The Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China (1993). His most recent book is China & Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World (2006). Dr. Garver is a member of the editorial boards of China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, as well as a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the U.S. National Academy of Science, the U.S. Department of Education, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the U.S. Institute for Pakistan Studies.

Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu by Tuesday, November 7, 2006. Please include your name, organization and GW affiliation.

Friday, November 10, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

6th floor Lindner Family Commons
1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC

Heritage Preservation in Law and Policy:Handling the Double-Edged Sword of Development

Alexander A. Bauer, Editor of International Journal of Cultural Property

No RSVP is required

Sponsored by The Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program

Friday, November 10, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Elliott School of International Affairs, NW, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW

Europe and Global Security: Free-rider, Partner or Leader?

Dr. Andrew Cottey, Senior Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration, Department of Government, University College Cork

This event is open to the public. Please RSVP to security@gwu.edu. Light refreshments will be served; bag lunches welcome.

Sponsored by The Elliott School's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Friday, November 10, 2006
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW

Post-Conflict Economic Investment: The Case of Afghanistan

Opening Remarks:
His Excellency Said T. Jawad, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Panelists:
Ehsan Bayat, President and CEO, Telephone Systems International & Afghan Wireless

Ajmal Ghani, Chairman, Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce

Rex Pingle, President, PMD International, Inc.

For more information on the event, please contact Valentina Marano at vmarano@gwu.edu or 202-994-1882. Summary reports and overview presentations of past ID Forums can be found at: http://gstudynet.com/gwcsg/what/events/dialogues.php

Sponsored by The Center for International Business and Research (GW-CIBER), the GW School of Public Policy & Public Administration, and the Center for the Study of Globalization

Monday, November 13, 2006
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
1957 E Street, NW

Bush’s Visit to Vietnam: Rethinking APEC?

Shawn McHale, Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University

Amy Searight, Director of the Master of International Policy and Practice Program and Gaston Sigur Memorial Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

Richard Cronin, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center

Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu by Friday, November 10

Monday, November 13, 2006
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW

Ideological Lessons of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and Conservative Trends in Russian Political Thinking

Philip A. Kazin, Research Director of the Baltic Research Center (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Please RSVP at ieresgwu@gwu.edu or 202.994.6240

Sponsored by The Elliott School's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Monday, November 13, 2006
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Conservation, Indigenous Peoples and Governance in the Columbian Amazon

Dr. Martin von Hildebrand
Shelton Davis

No RSVP required. This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by The GW Latin American and Hemispheris Studies Program, the Organization of Latino American Students, GWU Por Colombia, and the Student Working Group on Indigenous Peoples at Georgetown

Monday, November 13, 2006
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
1957 E Street, NW

The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

Ian Bremmer, President, The Eurasia Group

Professor Harvey Feigenbaum will serve as moderator.

Sponsored by The Science Po Alumni Association in Washington, DC

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW

10 Things That You Always Wanted To Know About Putin's Russia But Were Afraid To Ask

Evgeni Kiselev, Journalist for Ekho Moskvy Vedomosti and former host of NTV's Itogi

Please RSVP at ieresgwu@gwu.edu or 202.994.6240

Note: Event Time Change

Sponsored by The Elliott School's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Indigenous Approaches to Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution in Africa

Congressman Donald M. Payne

RSVP is required, contact Hfassil@gwu.edu

There will be refreshments served.

Sponsored by Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

One Laptop Per Child

Dr. Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop Per Child Program (OLPC), Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at MIT

Please send RSVP to: RSVPESIA@gwu.edu

Sponsored by The Secretary's Open Forum and The Elliott School of International Affairs

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations in the Post - 9/11 Era

Frederic Grare, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Frederic Grare holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and a Superior Degree in political science from the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as Counselor for Cooperation and Culture at the Embassy of France, Islamabad. Prior to this assignment, he was Director of the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi and worked for the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies in Geneva.

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, November 13.

Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW

History Reframed: Communism and Fascism in the Post-Communist Museum in Central-Eastern Europe

Dr. James Mark, Professor of History at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

Sponsored by The Elliott School's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Thursday, November 16, 2006
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Turkey's Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times

Kemal Kiriþçi, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, Director of the European Studies Center, Professor of International Relations, Boðaziçi University, Istanbul

How will Turkey respond to these challenges? What are Turkey's immediate foreign policy concerns and options? What are the new patterns of Turkish foreign policy making and behaviour? Can Turkey indeed play the role of a model for the region's transformation towards democratisation and engineer an 'intercivilisational dialogue'? Drawing from his Chaillot Paper for the EU Institute for Security Studies, Dr. Kirisci will discuss these important issues.

Please RSVP to ieresgwu.edu

For more information on the EU Insitute for Security Studies visit www.iss-eu.org.

Sponsored by The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Friday, November 17, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Bipartisanship in U.S. Foreign Policy: Post November Election Prospects

Speaker:
Dr. Alvin Felzenberg, Visiting Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University, Author of Governor Tom Kean: From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 9-11 Commission (2006), Former Principal Spokesman for the 9/11 Commission and the 9/11 Public Discourse Project

Moderator:
Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Director of MA International Affairs Program

A long-time public servant, Al Felzenberg has worked in the past decade as the Special Assistant and Adviser to the National Broadcasting Board of Governors (Voice of America), as a communications consultant to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England, and the Director of Community Outreach and Public Liaison for the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense. Also a former fellow at the Heritage Foundations, he directed the Heritage Foundations Mandate 2000 project on the presidential transition process, and was editor of Keys to a Successful Presidency. A presidential historian, he is the co-author of Evolution of the Modern Presidency: A Bibliographical Survey. He held several senior staff positions with the House of Representatives, including Staff Director of the Empowerment Subcommittee of the Small Business and Senior Majority Staff for the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Alvin Felzenberg earned a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.

Sponsored by the M.A. in International Affairs Program

Monday, November 20, 2006
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
1957 E Street, NW

The Ambassador's Forum with His Excellency Gustavo Guzman, Ambassador of Bolivia, on Bolivia's Cultural and Democratic Revolution

His Excellency, Gustavo Guzman, Ambassador of Bolivia

Please note that this event is in Spanish. There will be a limited number of headphones available on a first come, first served basis for listening to an English translation.

THIS EVENT IS FULL.

Sponsored by The GW Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program, the Center for Latin American Issues, and the Washington Office on Latin America

Monday, November 20, 2006
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons 602
1957 E Street, NW

Shia Islam: Viewpoints from the Region

Speakers:
Jassim Qabazard, Founder and CEO of Jassim Qabazard Engineering COnsultants
Shaikh Ahmad Hussein Mohammed, Shia Clergyman

Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by Ambassador Edward W. Gnehm, Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lindner Family Commons, 602
1957 E Street, NW

Political Crisis in Nepal: A Diplomatic Strategy for Resolution

Jaya Raj Acharya, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace

Jaya Raj Acharya is a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. and Executive Chairman of the Center for Democracy and Development in Kathmandu, Nepal. He served as Nepal's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1991 to 1994 and was Adviser to Prime Minister G. P. Koirala in 1991. He has been a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands, and a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He was also a Professor at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu and columnist for Kantipur, Nepal's best-selling daily. Dr. Acharya received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University in 1990 and is the author of six books.

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, November 27.

Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Thursday, November 30, 2006
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Voesar Conference Room, 412
1957 E Street, NW

Rules of Sustainable Development for the European Union and Ukraine

Yuriy Fedun, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine); Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

RSVP at ieresgwu@gwu.edu or 202.994.6340.

Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies