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GWupstart Social Innovation Design Workshops

The GWupstart program at the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement & Public Service presents the fall social innovation design workshops. These virtual workshops will focus on designing creative solutions to address the specific social issue for that session. Every session will cover the following: 

What is at Stake with Conservatism in Russia?

Join us to discuss the most recent research done to capture the rise of conservatism in Russia up to a status of quasi-official ideology. Our speakers have recently published milestone books on Russian conservatism.

Immunocapital: Disease, Power, and Inequality in the Antebellum Cotton Kingdom

Based on Olivarius’s current book project, this talk discusses the impact of yellow fever in New Orleans in the antebellum period and how disease and immunity became agents of inequality. Yellow fever killed upwards of eight percent of antebellum New Orleans' population each summer.

GWIKS Interview Series with Wendy Cutler (ESIA BA ’79)

Please join the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) for a live interview with Wendy Cutler,Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). This event is part of our interview series with prominent GW alumni working in the policy fields. As a former top U.S. trade negotiator, Wendy Cutler will provide her views on the new challenges for trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region.

Korean Policy Forum: U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Post-Abe Era

Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga inherited ongoing challenges for the U.S.-South Korean-Japanese trilateral relations from his predecessor Shinzo Abe.

Civic Leadership Dialogue

What is civic identity? How do you build it? This workshop will examine space/placed based identity and group identity in civic engagement.

13th Annual Conference on China's Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations Keynote Address with Carmen Reinhart

Our distinguished speaker, Carmen Reinhart, will begin our 13th Annual Conference on China's Economic Development and US China Economic Relations in her Keynote Address.

Carmen M. Reinhart, World Bank Chief Economist

Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era’s most glamorous and popular women’s pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956).

Technology Capabilities and their Impact on Growth and Catching Up

This series of workshops explores the major issues related to the technology upgrading of emerging and catching up economies. Ultimately, technology upgrading is the precondition to improved standards of living of emerging economies as well as to sustainable development and the greening of the world economy. In a series of five workshops, we discuss the state-of-the-art understanding of the issues around technology upgrading and

Civic Leadership Dialogue

This workshop will discuss the Social Change Model of Leadership and demonstrate how to apply the "7 C's" of leadership development for social change.

For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State

For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains of both religion and politics. Yet, while there has been much discussion of the idea and ideals of the Islamic state, its possibilities and impossibilities, surprisingly little has been written about how this political formation is lived.

The Survival of the Chosŏn Dynasty in the Imjin War (1592-98) and the Issue of Governance

Within three weeks of the invasion, the Japanese took Hansŏng, the capital of Chosŏn, and King Sŏnjo fled to the north. Japan’s sudden invasion dealt a blow of life or death to the dynasty King Sŏnjo had inherited. Seven years later, Japan’s invader regime gave up the war without achieving anything and, two years later, it collapsed. Ming China which sent a rescue force to Korea suffered heavy casualties and financial losses.

The Survival of the Chosŏn Dynasty in the Imjin War (1592-98) and the Issue of Governance

Within three weeks of the invasion, the Japanese took Hansŏng, the capital of Chosŏn, and King Sŏnjo fled to the north. Japan’s sudden invasion dealt a blow of life or death to the dynasty King Sŏnjo had inherited. Seven years later, Japan’s invader regime gave up the war without achieving anything and, two years later, it collapsed. Ming China which sent a rescue force to Korea suffered heavy casualties and financial losses.

Civic Leadership Dialogue

Advocates and leaders know that leadership and social change require effective advocacy. Does that advocacy come with ethical considerations? Does how you make the case matter as much as the case you're making? Join Peter Loge for a discussion about what, if any, ethical responsibility you have as a communicator.