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Monthly Brown Bag Seminar Series

Join the WGSS community via Zoom to hear from Dr. jameta Barlow, Dr. Rao, and Dr. Vaquera on the untold truths of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Black and Brown communities. 

Language Lunch

The Elliott School Office of Graduate Student Services invites all GW students, faculty, and staff to attend Language Lunch. Language Lunch, offered Fridays from 12:00-1:00 p.m., allows language speakers to have a safe space in which they can practice their foreign language communication skills.

This week's languages are:

Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, French, German, and Russian

Contemporary Voices: Aram Han Sifuentes

Employing art as social practice, Aram Han Sifuentes confronts social and racial injustices created by and through institutions and governments. In this virtual presentation, Han Sifuentes will guide us through her practice, and how she employs fiber and performance to reimagine inclusive systems of civic engagement and belonging. 

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BORDER SOUTH Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Jason De León

Join Jason De León for a screening of Border South. To stem the immigration tide, Mexico and the U.S. collaborate to crack down on migrants, forcing them into ever more dangerous territory. This event will be a virtual screening and followed by conversations with Jason de León.

This event is free and open to the public.

GW Votes Movie Night!

Join GW Votes on Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm EST for a movie night featuring a new political satire movie! Once registered you will receive more information about the movie and how to watch.

Movie & Game Night

Join Student Life and GW Program Board for a movie and game night! We're watching a classic Halloween movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and giving away some awesome prizes. So grab your popcorn and candy, and claim your ticket - space is limited, RSVP today!

Halloweek: Sip and Paint - Dia de los Muertos

Join Program Board and the Mexican Students Association for an evening of Champurrado, Coloring, and Conversation to celebrate Dia de los Muertos!

You can make the drink along with us or just come hang out! RSVP on Engage and join the event at 7:30 pm EST on Thursday!

Language Lunch

The Elliott School Office of Graduate Student Services invites all GW students, faculty, and staff to attend Language Lunch. Language Lunch, offered Fridays from 12:00-1:00 p.m., allows language speakers to have a safe space in which they can practice their foreign language communication skills.

This week's languages are:

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish

MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

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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).

CCAS Scholar Roundtable: Exploring and Addressing Racism Through Scholarship

Moderator: Nygel Anderson, CCAS Advising

Panelists: Professors Lisa Bowleg, Psychology, Tom Guglielmo, American Studies, LaKeisha McClary, Chemistry, Eiko Strader, WGSS and Public Policy, and Greg Squires, Sociology

Special Guest: Jordan West, Director of University Diversity & Inclusion Programs

Fridays @ 5

Fridays @ Five series this week!

Please join us as we start to build community in our online world. Check out what your peers have been up to and what’s in store for Music this Fall semester.

Zhang Yimou’s "Hero" and China’s Warring States Period Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Set during China’s Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), Zhang Yimou’s sumptuous swordplay epic, Hero (2002), was inspired by an actual assassination attempt on the Qin Emperor.

Boo Bash | Costume Contest

Have a noteworthy Halloween costume planned? Be sure to enter the Boo Bash Costume Contest presented by GW Late Night!

Sign up by Friday, October 23 at 12:00PM EST to enter: COSTUME CONTEST ENTRY FORM

Sargent and Spain: The Development of an Exhibition

Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee (VASC) Lecture

Virtual event. Email Professor Lisa Lipinski to RSVP: [email protected]

This event is open to the GW community (students, staff and faculty members).

Language Lunch

The Elliott School Office of Graduate Student Services invites all GW students, faculty, and staff to attend Language Lunch. Language Lunch, offered Fridays from 12:00-1:00 p.m., allows language speakers to have a safe space in which they can practice their foreign language communication skills.

This week's languages are:

Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, French, German, and Russian

From Enmity to Empathy: African American and Korean American Communities since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Reflecting the current social injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S., this year’s HMS colloquium will examine the myriad ways that race impacts Korean/Korean-American and African-American and the African diasporic communities related to the important conversation on racism and social injustice. In doing so, we begin examining from the 1992 LA riots and how the two communities have evolved since then.

Visiting Artist Talk: Cynthia Daignault and Curran Hatleberg

Join Corcoran’s studio arts program for a talk featuring two stellar contemporary artists.

This event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP here and we will email you the virtual link and details closer to the time of the event.

CHC Student Well-being Webinars

13th Annual Interior Architecture Lecture

The Interior Architecture Program at the Corcoran School of the Arts is excited to host the 13th Annual Interior Architecture Lecture featuring renown architects/interior designers Lyndon Neri and Marissa Hu of Neri&Hu.

Language Lunch

The Elliott School Office of Graduate Student Services invites all GW students, faculty, and staff to attend Language Lunch. Language Lunch, offered Fridays from 12:00-1:00 p.m., allows language speakers to have a safe space in which they can practice their foreign language communication skills.

This week's languages are:

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish

Fridays @ 5

Fridays @ Five series this week!

Please join us as we start to build community in our online world. Check out what your peers have been up to and what’s in store for Music this Fall semester.

Gone Soft

MA–EX Fall Lecture Event

With Mimi Zeiger

Language Lunch

The Elliott School Office of Graduate Student Services invites all GW students, faculty, and staff to attend Language Lunch. Language Lunch, offered Fridays from 12:00-1:00 p.m., allows language speakers to have a safe space in which they can practice their foreign language communication skills.

This week's languages are: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, French, German, and Russian

Making the Unconscious Conscious: Exploring and Addressing Our Biases as Faculty Members in Order to Work Towards Building the Most Inclusive Department

The Department of Chemistry Presents, via Webinar:  Making the Unconscious Conscious: Exploring and addressing Our Biases as Faculty Members in Order to Work Towards Building the Most Inclusive Department

Featuring: Jordan West, Director of University Diversity and Inclusion Programs, GW