Tuesday, February 5, 2008
12:00 PM
- 1:30 PM
Monroe Hall, Room 321, Department of Economics
2115 G St., NW |
Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico
Santiago Levy, Chief Economist and General Manager, Research Division, Inter-American Development Bank
This event is part of the Trade and Development Workshop series of the GW Economics Department.
Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Economics Department
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503
1957 E Street NW |
Fresh Impressions and Prospects for Afghanistan
Ahmad Nader Nadery, Commissioner, Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
Please RSVP with you name, affiliation and email by Monday, February 4
Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Sigur Center for Asian Studies
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
Monroe Hall, Room 321, Department of Economics
2115 G Street, NW |
Macro and International Finance Seminar
Enrica Detragiache, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Economics Department
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
4:45 PM
- 6:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy series: Uneven Growth in China and India
Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group, World Bank
Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Institute for International Economic Policy
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
7:30 PM
- 9:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Suite 602
1957 E Street NW |
The Dinosaur Among Us - Is The World Bank On A Path To Extinction?
Jeffrey Hooke, Author of The Dinosaur Among Us: Is the World Bank on a Path to Extinction
Please RSVP to oid@gwu.edu. A presentation and Q & A session with former World Bank employee Jeffrey Hooke about the decline of the World Bank. Reception to follow.
Sponsored by Organization for International Development
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Friday, February 8, 2008
12:00 PM
- 1:15 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Invisible Displacements and the Social Meaning of Movement: Involuntary Immobility and Post-Conflict Displacement
Dr. Stephen Lubkemann, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
RSVP not necessary. Please contact ciga@gwu.edu with questions
Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA), and the Office of the Associate Vice President for Special Academic Initiatives
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Monday, February 11, 2008
12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Marvin Center, Room 307
800 21st Street, NW |
On the Maintenance of Academic Studies Under Continuous Substantila Threats: The Case of Sapir College: Introduced through Numbers and Emotion
Dr. Uri Bibi, Chair of Human Resources Management, Sapir College
Dr. Ruth Eian, Professor of Modern History and Head of Overseas Programs, Sapir College
Moderator: Dr. Jerrold Post, Director of the Political Psychology Program, George Washington University
Please send RSVP to: jwronski@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The GW Political Seminar
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Monday, February 11, 2008
4:45 PM
- 6:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy series: Agriculture and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Luc Christiaensen, Senior Economist in the Operations and Policy Unit, Sustainable Development Department, World Bank
Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Institute for International Economic Policy
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
12:15 PM
- 1:55 PM
Monroe Hall, Room 428
2115 G Street, NW |
Political Violence and the Authoritarian State In Peru: Silencing Civil Society
Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University
Anel Townsendz, Consultant for the Unit of Gender and Diversity at the Inter-American Development Bank, a member of the Advisory Council of Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO), and a member of the Advisory Council of Vital Voices Global Partnership.
Coletta A. Youngers, Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and an analyst of human rights and political developments in the Andes and of U.S. foreign policy toward the Andes.
This event is free and open to the public. Guests are welcome to bring their own lunch. Please RSVP by Monday, February 11 to lahsp@gwu.edu. Any inquiries may also be directed to lahsp@gwu.edu.
Sponsored by the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1:30 PM
- 3:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from International Trade Agreements
Nuno Limao, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
This event is part of the University Seminar Series on Regionalism and the Trade and Development Workshop of the GW Economics Department.
Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Institute for International Economic Policy, the GW Economics Department and University Seminar on Regionalism
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
10:00 AM
- 4:45 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Future of Democracy Initiative:
The Challenges of Integrating Islam: Comparative Experiences of Europe and the Middle East
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion:
Contrasting Approaches to Religious Practice: The Issue of Head Scarves
Chair:
Hope M. Harrison, Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, GWU
Discussants:
"Sign of Religious Freedom or Female Repression? An examination of the headscarf issue in Turkey"
Merve Kavakci, Lecturer in International Affairs, GWU
"Secular Europe and its Veiled Muslims"
Zeyno Baran, Director, Center for Eurasian Policy and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
"Islam, the Egyptian Constitution, and Veiling"
Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Keynote Address:
Can Islam be French?
Chair:
Nathan Brown, Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU
Speaker:
John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Panel Discussion:
Emerging Transnational Communities
Chair: Hope M. Harrison, Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
"Mobilizing the U.S.- Lebanese Diaspora: Mapping the Players in the Game"
Liesl Riddle, Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affaris, GWU
Joint work with Aram Nerguizian, GWU
"Mediatized Islam, Cyberspace and the Public Sphere"
Jon Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University
"The Social and the Political: Islamist Views on Reform"
Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU
Please send RSVP to: imes@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Institute for Middle East Studies, The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and The Future of Democracy Initiative
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Suite 503
1957 E Street, NW |
HIV/AIDS & the Challenges for India
Geeta Rau Gupta, President, International Center for Research on Women
Please RSVP with your name, affiliation and email to gsigur@gwu.edu by Tuesday, February 12, 2008.
Sponsored by The Sigur Center for Asian Studies
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Friday, February 15, 2008
12:00 PM
- 1:15 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Paradise Stolen: The Expulsion of the Chagossians and the Creation of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
David Vine, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American University
Please send RSVP to: not required, please contact ciga@gwu.edu with questions
Sponsored by Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA), and the Office of the Associate Vice President for Special Academic Initiatives
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Monday, February 18, 2008
4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Room 505
1957 E Street, NW |
Inequality and Poverty in the Global Economy: Bailing Out The World's Poorest
Martin Ravallion, World Bank
Sponsored by the Inequality and Poverty in the Global Economy series
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
12:00 PM
- 1:30 PM
Kendrick Conference Room, Monroe Hall, Room 321
2155 G Street, NW |
When Is Quality of Financial System A Source of Comparative Advantage?
Jiandong Ju, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma; Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
This event is part of the Trade and Development Workshop series of the GW Economics Department.
Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Economics Department
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Elite Politics and Inflation in China: Past and Present
Victor Shih, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu with your name, organization/ GW affiliation, and email by February 15
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
12:15 PM
- 1:45 PM
Monroe Hall, Room 428
2115 G St., NW |
The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang
Binka LeBreton, author of The Greatest Gift
Please send RSVP to: lahsp@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Kendrick Conference Room, Monroe Hall, Room 321
2115 G Street, NW |
Macro and International Finance Seminar
Anton Korinek, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Economics Department
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
4:00 PM
- 6:00 PM
City View Room, 7th Floor
1957 E Street, NW |
Security Policy Forum:
Assessing Progress in the War on Terror
Bruce Hoffman, Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
Daniel Byman, Director, Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
Moderator:
Christopher Kojm, former Deputy Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission; former Senior Advisor to the Iraq Study Group; Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, George Washington University
Please send RSVP to: spf@gwu.edu
Sponsored by The Elliott School of International Affairs, the Security Policy Studies Program, and the Institute for Global and International Studies
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
4:45 PM
- 6:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy Series: What is Global Inequality and Why it Matters
Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, Research Department, World Bank; Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Adjunct Professor, School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland
Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affair and the Institute for International Economic Policy
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
9:00 AM
- 12:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Public Hearing of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
The discussion will focus on training and recruitment needs of the State Department and other U.S. Government agencies as they meet the challenges associated with public diplomacy in the 21st Century.
The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy is a bipartisan panel created by Congress and appointed by the President to provide oversight of U.S. Government activities intended to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics.
A detailed program will be posted once confirmed.
Sponsored by The Public Diplomacy Institute, the School of Media and Public Affairs, and the Elliott School of International Affairs
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
9:30 AM
- 5:30 PM
Multiple Rooms
1957 E Street, NW |
Innovations in Student Leadership Conference
The Conference networks international development and conflict resolution students, academics, and practitioners from the Washington, DC metropolitan area
The conference is free to all participants, including breakfast and lunch. Please register online at: islc.onestudentry.org by February 20
Please send RSVP to: islc.onestudentry.org
Sponsored by Conflict Resolution Forum, GW Student Association, GW Program Board, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW Por Colombia, Society for Peace adn Conflict Resolution, Pax Christi Catholic University Chapter, Georgetown Conflict Resol and OneStudentry.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
Conference Room, Suite 501
1957 E Street, NW |
IMES Faculty Brownbag Series:
Rethinking the Arab Liberal Age: Constitutional Movements 1875-1920
Dr. Elizabeth Thompson, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace and Associate Professor of History, UVA
*Open to GW faculty and graduate students
Please send RSVP to: imes@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Studies
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
12:30 PM
- 2:00 PM
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
1957 E Street, NW |
The Politics of the Nobel Peace Prize
Helge Pharo, Professor of International History and co-director of the Forum for Contemporary History, University of Oslo; consultant to the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Please send RSVP to: ieresgwu@gwu.edu or 202-994-6340
Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Stuart Program on Northern Europe
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
7:30 PM
- 9:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW |
Middle East Policy Forum:
Israel, Iran and the U.S.: Is Conflict Inevitable?
Trita Parsi, Co-Founder and President of the National Iranian American Council
The Middle East Policy Forum is presented with the generous support of Exxon Mobil.
Please send RSVP to: rsvpesia@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Delta Phi Epsilon Foreign Service Fraternity
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503
1957 E Street, NW |
Future of Democracy Initiative:
Economic Reforms and Democracy in Nepal
Prem Khanal, Chief, Business Bureau, Kathmandu Post
Please RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu with your name, affiliation, and email by February 25
Please send RSVP to: gsigur@gwu.edu
Sponsored by Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Elliott School of International Affairs
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Monroe Hall, Room 321
2115 G Street, NW |
Macro and International Finance Seminar
Martin Bodenstein, Economist, Trade and Financial Studies, Federal Reserve Board
Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Economics Department
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Friday, February 29, 2008
12:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
Room 214
1957 E Street, NW |
The Future of Jerusalem: Israeli and Palestinian Perspectives
Please join the Institute for Middle East Studies for a special lunchtime discussion with two leading experts on Jerusalem.
Gregory Khalil is a lawyer and was a legal advisor with the Negotiations Support Unit (NSU) from 2004 through January, 2008. The NSU is an international organization based in Ramallah that provides legal, policy and communications advice to the Palestinian leadership on peace negotiations with Israel.
*Space is limited for this event
Please send RSVP to: imes@gwu.edu
Sponsored by Institute for Middle East Studies
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