This semester the majority of events will be held virtually. Check the event description for details about how to participate, and contact the event organizer if you have any questions.
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Sensitivity Analyses in Poverty Measurement
10:00am - 11:30am
This event examines the following paper: Sensitivity Analyses in Poverty Measurement: The Case of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Academic Events
- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Lerner Learning Series: A Guide to Muscle Gain at Home
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Lerner Learning Series is a set of five workshops focused on teaching students, faculty, and staff about fitness and wellness fundamentals in a safe and inclusive learning environment. These workshops are led by professionals in the fitness space and are meant to promote health-seeking behaviors and balanced wellness.
- Faculty & Staff
- Wellness & Health
Thursday, January 21, 2021
The Capitol Riots, QAnon, and the Internet
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Recent events such as the shocking attack on the US Capitol and armed protests planned around the US indicate that threats to US democracy continue to grow in the wake of the US election. This panel discussion will present views from Professor Chris Kojm, Dr.
- Guest Speakers
- International
- Elliott School of International Affairs
- School of Media & Public Affairs
Lerner Learning Series: Let's Talk Self Care
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Lerner Learning Series is a set of five workshops focused on teaching students, faculty, and staff about fitness and wellness fundamentals in a safe and inclusive learning environment. These workshops are led by professionals in the fitness space and are meant to promote health-seeking behaviors and balanced wellness.
- Faculty & Staff
- Wellness & Health
Friday, January 22, 2021
Diagnosing and addressing India's post-2011 growth slowdown
8:30am - 10:00am
India's GDP has crashed in 2020 due to the pandemic - but it was showing a decline even before that. Private investment surged in India from 2003 to 2012, and has declined thereafter. In 2020 rupees, the stock of under implementation private projects has dropped from Rs.83 trillion in 2012 to Rs.35 trillion today.
- Academic Events
- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
What are our Rights and Responsibility Over Data?
11:00am - 12:00pm
Big data analytics is the secret sauce of the American polity and economy—widely utilized but poorly understood. Big data analytics often requires a huge supply of personal data (both individual and collective data), which is collected, anonymized, and then grouped. Organizations use various types of big data analytics to make decisions, correlations, and predictions about their constituents and stakeholders.
- Faculty & Staff
- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
- Graduate School of Political Management
- Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
10:00am - 11:00am
The Central Asia Program, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the Elliott School Book Launch Series invite you to the book launch event.
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- International
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Taking Stock of Climate Change: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The climate of planet Earth depends on the energy balance between incoming radiation from the Sun and re-radiation from the planet.
- Academic Events
- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism with Aaron Jakes and Wael Gamal
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation.
- Academic Events
- Guest Speakers
- International
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Lerner Learning Series: Tips & Tactics for Health Behavior Change
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Lerner Learning Series is a set of five workshops focused on teaching students, faculty, and staff about fitness and wellness fundamentals in a safe and inclusive learning environment. These workshops are led by professionals in the fitness space and are meant to promote health-seeking behaviors and balanced wellness.
- Faculty & Staff
- Wellness & Health
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
7:30pm - 8:45pm
Join the NRC as we host Thomas Lockley for the paperback launch of his book African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan.
- Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Guest Speakers
- International
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Shaping S&T Policy
11:00am - 12:30pm
The Elliott School of International Affairs welcomes back Professor Scott Pace and Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund after their extended leaves of absence for government service. As Executive Secretary of the National Space Council at the White House, Dr. Pace was involved in defining and shaping national space policy, programs and budgets. Dr.
- Academic Events
- Faculty & Staff
- International
- Elliott School of International Affairs
- Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series - How to Claim a Migrant
3:00pm - 4:30pm
In the late nineteenth century, Koreans suddenly began to cross the border to Russia and China by the thousands. Their continuous mobility and settlement in the tripartite borderland made them an enduring topic of dispute between multiple countries (Korea, Russia, China, and Japan), and prompted a host of questions that concerned fundamental questions about states’ governance over people: Which country had the right to exercise
- Guest Speakers
- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series - State of Grace
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Relatively little known, and yet readily visible in the form of its conspicuous façade situated along Siem Reap’s present-day tourist trail, the Angkor Panorama Museum stands as a curious component of Angkor Archeological Park. Designed and built by Mansudae Overseas Project, a branch of North Korea’s central art studio, the space opened in December 2015 only to shutter its doors less than four years later in November 2019.
- Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Diversity
- International
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
"Albert Memmi at 100": Jonathan Judaken in conversation with Abdourahman Waberi
3:45pm - 5:00pm
Jonathan Judaken (Rhodes College) will speak with Abdourahman Waberi (GW RGSLL) about the Jewish-Tunisian-French author and intellectual Albert Memmi. This event, co-hosted by GW's Department of Romance, German & Slavic Languages & Literatures, also markes the publication of the new anthology, The Albert Memmi Reader, edited by Jonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman.
- Academic Events
- Faculty & Staff
- Guest Speakers
- Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
4:00pm - 5:30pm
In this presentation, Si Nae Park introduces her book The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia University, 2020), the first book in the English language on the late Chosŏn literary genre of yadam. The presentation has two components.
- Guest Speakers
- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Book Talk & Panel Discussion: Rights Claiming in South Korea
10:00am - 12:00pm
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- International
- Research
- Elliott School of International Affairs
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