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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Principled Leadership in Times of Crisis
Former Elliott School Dean Reuben Brigety will discuss the life and experience of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and its meaning for students of international affairs. International events -- including anti-colonial movements in Africa and Gandhi's peaceful protests against British rule -- shaped Dr. King, who in turn has inspired human freedom movements for the past half-century. Dean Brigety will explore Dr. King's example of moral
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- Diversity
- Guest Speakers
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Thursday, January 21, 2021
The Capitol Riots, QAnon, and the Internet
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
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism with Aaron Jakes and Wael Gamal
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.
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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.
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- Elliott School of International Affairs
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series - How to Claim a Migrant
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
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- Elliott School of International Affairs
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea
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.
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- Elliott School of International Affairs
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