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REACH GW Workshop Series

Designed for GW faculty and staff, the REACH program gives faculty and staff members an opportunity to engage in workshops that will provide information about student well-being trends, availability of services, and how to make appropriate referrals to those services.

Spring 2023 sessions include:

7th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Conference

The 7th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference will bring together academics and development practitioners to present and discuss questions relating to Climate Change and Sustainable Cities. 

The Dismantling of Rule of Law in Poland

The lecture will address the dismantling of democratic institutions in Poland since 2015, with particular emphasis on the attack on the independence of the judiciary. Poland was an example for Europe of a model transformation (after 1989) from communism to a system of liberal democracy and a market economy.

Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index

The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and other counting measures identify and evaluate poverty based on the multiple deprivations experienced by people. Traditional unidimensional measures gauge poverty in a distribution of income (or another variable) using shortfalls from a poverty line.

WiE SEAS Faculty Series Presents: Dr. Royce Francis

SEAS Center for Women in Engineering's Meet Our Faculty Series is kicking off the spring semester with Professor Royce Francis, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering faculty.

Putin's War or Russia's War?

Why are Russians not protesting? Do they understand anything about the atrocities being committed in their name? Why do they support Putin? Are sanctions working at all? There are so many questions being asked these days by everyone who tries to understand Russian society and what is happening to it because of the war.

NIST and Efforts to Reduce Risk and Build Public Trust in AI

The USG has issued two documents designed to advance trustworthy approaches to AI and address AI risk. First, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will release its AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 (AI RMF) on January 26th.

Living and Thinking Under Catastrophe: Combative Decoloniality as Counter-Catastrophic Thinking, Creation, and Action

Featuring: Dr. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

Moderated by: Dr. Arshad I. Ali, GW Associate Professor of Educational Research and Dr. Ebtissam Oraby, GW Teaching Assistant Professor of Arabic and GSEHD Alumna (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction)

Optimised Multidimensional Poverty Reduction

The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and other counting measures identify and evaluate poverty based on the multiple deprivations experienced by people. Traditional unidimensional measures gauge poverty in a distribution of income (or another variable) using shortfalls from a poverty line.

Multidimensional Quality of Employment in Latin America

The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and other counting measures identify and evaluate poverty based on the multiple deprivations experienced by people. Traditional unidimensional measures gauge poverty in a distribution of income (or another variable) using shortfalls from a poverty line.

Nina Hall Book Talk

On Thursday, February 16 at 11am ET SMPA Professor David Karpf will be in conversation with Nina Hall about her recent book Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era.

What Is Christian Nationalism?

Since the 2016 presidential election, academic, journalists, and the public have devoted increasing attention to Christian nationalism. Often associated with threats to the Constitutional order, the term has always been invoked to describe hopes of moral and political renewal. What does it mean to believe that America is, was, or should be a Christian nation? Is Christian Nationalism a new challenge or an old tradition?

Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in the European Union

The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and other counting measures identify and evaluate poverty based on the multiple deprivations experienced by people. Traditional unidimensional measures gauge poverty in a distribution of income (or another variable) using shortfalls from a poverty line.

Methodological Approaches on How to Measure Risk of Poverty with Income and Wealth

The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and other counting measures identify and evaluate poverty based on the multiple deprivations experienced by people. Traditional unidimensional measures gauge poverty in a distribution of income (or another variable) using shortfalls from a poverty line.

States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan with Jose Ciro Martinez and Ilana Feldman

On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz ‘arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and society, rarely do we consider how bread is prepared, consumed, discussed, and circulated—and what this all represents

Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19

The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and other counting measures identify and evaluate poverty based on the multiple deprivations experienced by people. Traditional unidimensional measures gauge poverty in a distribution of income (or another variable) using shortfalls from a poverty line.