Monday, October 1, 2007
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW

German Foreign and Security Policy

Hans-Ulrich Klose, Co-Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the German Bundestag and Chairman of the German-American Parliamentary Group

Please send RSVP to: ieresgwu@gwu or 202-994-6340 by September 28.

Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Implications of the Chilean Decision about the Extradition of Fujimori

Anel Townsend
Javier Diez Canseco

Please send RSVP to: lasp@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program and the Washington Office on Latin America

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Free Trade vs. Fair Trade: The Future of U.S. Trade Policy

Dan Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, CATO Institute
Sara Rogge, Senior Trade Analyst, Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA)

Moderated by: Michael O. Moore, Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington University

Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Implications for China in Hosting the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Xiaoping Li, Senior Producer, CCTV International, China Central Television

Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and email by October 1.

Sponsored by The Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Thursday, October 4, 2007
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM

Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW

Middle East Policy Forum: Turkey's View of Its Southern Neighbors

Bulent Aliriza, Senior Associate and Director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu

Sponsored by Elliott School of International Affairs and the Middle East Policy Forum

Friday, October 5, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Department of Anthropology, Hortense Amsterdam House, Room 202
2110 G Street, NW

Positionings: Transnational Advocacy, Civil Society and the State in Africa

Dorothy Hodgson, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University

CIGA Seminars are free and open to the public. The focus of this year's seminars is on culture and policy in relation to population displacement and resettlement.

Please send RSVP to: ciga@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Inagural Event of the Institute for Middle East Studies:
The Middle East and the United States: Perception and Misperception

Edward W. Gnehm, Jr., Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs, George Washington University

Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

Hafez Mirazi, Former Host of From Washington, Al Jazeera

Robin Wright, Correspondent, The Washington Post

Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Studies

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

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

Breaking More Naan with Delhi: The Next Stage in U.S.-India Relations

Amb. Karl Inderfurth, John O. Rankin Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The George Washington University

RSVP to: spf@gwu.edu

Sponsored by Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Thursday, October 18, 2007
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW

Film: Puedo Hablar

Puedo Hablar is a documentary film on Hugo Chavez by Sol Productions.

The film will be followed by a discussion with:

Christopher Moore, producer and co-director, Puedo Hablar

Cynthia McClintok, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program, George Washington University

Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program

Friday, October 19, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Understanding Rural Livelihoods and Implications for Poverty Reduction Programs: Mongolia and Vietnam Compared

Robin Mearns, Senior Natural Resource Management Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank

CIGA Seminars are free and open to the public. The focus of this year's seminars is on culture and policy in relation to population displacement and resettlement.

Please send RSVP to: ciga@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program

Monday, October 22, 2007
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW

Ukraine's Nixon Tapes: Conversations in President Kuchma's Office, 1999-2000

Jaroslav V. Koshiw, Visiting Scholor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University; Former Scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

Please RSVP to ieresgwu@gwu.edu or 202-994-6340.

Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Petrach Program on Ukraine

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Monroe Hall of Government, Department of Economics, Kendrick Seminar Room, Suite 321
2115 G Street, NW

Firm Productivity and Multinational Entry Decision

Maggie Chen, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affaris, George Washington University

Michael Moore, Professor of Economics and International Affairs and Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington University

This presentation is part of the Department of Economics Trade and Development Workshop.

Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW

Security Policy Forum:
Negotiating With North Korea: Lessons and Challenges

Victor Cha, U.S. Deputy Head of Delegation to the Six Party Talks; Director for Asian Affairs, U.S. National Security Council (2004-2007); Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

James A. Kelly, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2001-2005); President, EAP Associates

Joel Wit, Coordinator for the 1994 Agreed Framework, U.S. State Department (1995-2001); Visiting Fellow, U.S.-Korea Institute, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

Moderator:
Kirk W. Larsen, Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University

Please send RSVP to: spf@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs, the Security Policy Forum, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the Security Policy Studies Program

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Room 113
1957 E Street, NW

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes Was Possible

Douglas Farah, Former West African Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

Stephen Braun, National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times

Copies of Merchant of Death will be available for purchase.

Light reception will follow.

Please send RSVP to: security@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Security Policy Studies Program and the Institute for Global and International Studies

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Film: Arabs and Terrorism

The film will be followed by a discussion with:
Dr. Bassam Haddad, Director, Arabs and Terrorism; Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University

This documentary examines the dominant discourse in the West, particularly in the United States, about the supposed relationship between Arabs and Terrorism.

Sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Studies and the Middle East Peace Group

Thursday, October 25, 2007
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Chung-wen Shin Conference Room, Suite 503
1957 E Street, NW

Unearthing the Secrets of a Mass Migration to North Korea: The Forgotten Victims of East Asia's Cold War

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor of Japanese History, Australian National University

This event is part of the Sigur Center's Lecture Series on Transnational Asia.

Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu with your name, organization/ GW affiliation, and email by October 23

Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Asia Policy Point

Thursday, October 25, 2007
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW

Inaugural Event of the Institute for International Economic Policy:
Reducing Poverty in Developing Countries: MCC's Role in Globalization and Stimulating Growth

Ambassador John J. Danilovich, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation

The Institute for International Economic Policy supports high-quality academic and policy research that addresses critical issues surrounding the emerging global economy. Faculty members and research scholars focus on economic, political, legal and historical analysis on international trade, international finance, and development.

The Millennium Challenge Corporation is based on the principle that foreign aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance, economic freedom and investments in people, and under his leadership has become a key U.S. Government agency reducing poverty through economic growth.

Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Institute for International Economic Policy

Friday, October 26, 2007
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Jack Morton Auditorium
805 21st Street, NW

DACOR Bacon House Foundation Annual Conference:
Middle East

Iraq Panel:
Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, James Placke, Christopher Kojm

Keynote Address:
The Honorable R. Nicholas Burns

Israel and Palestine Panel:
The Honorable Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., Daniel Levy, Ghaith Al-Omari, Mark Perry

Closing Remarks:
Ambassador Edward Gnehm

$30 for non-GW students; $15 for GW students

For more information and to register, please contact Kasia Helbin-Travis at 202-682-0500x17 or prog.coord@dacorbacon.org.

Sponsored by the DACOR Bacon House Foundation, the Elliott School of International Affairs, and the Elliott School Middle East Studies Program

Friday, October 26, 2007
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

The Security and Development Nexus: Current Thinking and Future Challenges

Mark White, Security Sector Reform Advisor, Department for International Development, United Kingdom

Lunch will be provided.

Please send RSVP to: security@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Security Policy Studies Program

Friday, October 26, 2007
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Room 214
1957 E Street, NW

Iraq and Iran: What Role for the United Nations?

Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, US Department of State; Former US Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; and, Former Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations

Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu

Sponsored by The Elliott School of International Affairs

Monday, October 29, 2007
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Conference Room, Suite 501
1957 E Street, NW

Institute for Middle East Studies Faculty Brownbag Series: Constitution and Judicial Review in Israel

Abraham Diskin, Associate Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Visiting Professor of Political Science, George Washington University

This event is only open to faculty and graduate students.

A light lunch will be served.

Please send RSVP to: mesp@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Studies

Monday, October 29, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Monroe Hall, Room 428
2115 G Street, NW

Explaining Differences in the Level of Democracy in Contemporary Latin America

Scott Mainwaring, Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science and Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame

Intoduction by:
Cynthia McClintock, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University

Please send RSVP to: lahsp@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program and the Department of Political Science

Monday, October 29, 2007
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Middle East Policy Forum:
Iraq: Today's Reality - Tomorrow's Horizons

Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs, National Security Council; former U.S. Government official at the Pentagon and CIA

Christopher Kojm, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the U.S. Foreign Policy Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; former Senior Advisor to the Iraq Study Group; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; former senior staff if the Committee of Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives

Dr. Judith Yaphe, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University; Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Moderated by: Ambassador Edward Gnehm (Ret.), Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsular Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; former Ambassador to Kuwait, Australia, Jordan and Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; former Director General of the Foreign Service

The Middle East Policy Forum is presented with the generous support of Exxon Mobil.

Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW

Nationalism & Internationalism in Korea and Northeast Asia

Kim Yongdeok, President, Northeast Asian History Foundation, Korea

Discussants:
Kim Ho-ki, Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Social Science, Yonsei University

Park Tae-Gyun, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University

Kirk Larsen, Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University

12:00 - 12:30: Light Lunch
12:30 - 2:00: Lecture and Discussion

As space is limited, an RSVP is required for this event.

Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu with your name, organization/ GW affiliation, and email by October 26

Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and The Korea Foundation

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
1957 E Street, NW

Future of Democracy Initiative:
Democracy, Development and Nation Building

Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Reception will follow.

Please send RSVP to: oid@gwu.edu

Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs, the Organization for International Development, and the International Development Studies Program