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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.

Webinar Roundtable: Taiwan's New Economic Prospects with the US & Beyond

2020 has given Taiwan unexpected opportunities for economic expansion and trade relations. A US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is gaining more momentum than ever. At the same time, the pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of global supply chains concentrated in China, which is expediting manufacturing migration, reshoring, and "decoupling" to various degrees. How is the bilateral FTA expected to progress?

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.

Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity: Climate Change and International Security

In a world of rising sea levels, intensifying natural disasters and worsening ecological crises,  often overlooked is climate change’s attendant impact on international security’s encompassing matters of energy politics, as well as transnational migration and conflict. 

Facing Violence in Caracas: What Can We Do?

"I think that there are no human rights in Venezuela, maybe for the politicians and people with money, but those do not exist for humble people like us." These are Nancy's words, the mother of a young man killed by the police in Caracas. 

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

Toward the Rule of Law in Eurasia?

Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.

David Szakonyi, George Washington University

Emilbek Dzhuraev, OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Ivan Gomza, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

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).

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

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.

Covering the Surface: The Inclusion of Ocean and Environmental Issues in International Affairs Dialogues

Oceans cover roughly 71% percent of the earth's surface. Whether we see it or not, the ocean and environment impact each of our lives every single day and are inherently linked to the survival of our communities.  The ocean is also greatly impacted by the increasingly destructive consequences of climate change and large-scale pollution.

Leadership Challenges in Addressing Climate Change Across the Public, Private, and Academic Sectors

Addressing climate change requires urgent action from every sector of society, including government, industry, and civil society. Leadership will be critical to marshal each sector to bring its unique capabilities and perspectives to bear.

In Conversation: Female Entrepreneurship During a Pandemic

How often do you find yourself wanting to start a business whether out of boredom or entrepreneurial interest? Are you someone who has an idea or a passion for starting a business but don’t know where to begin? Has the current global pandemic affected your plans for starting or continuing your business?

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

Hackathon: Design the Next NEW Workplace Innovation

In partnership with Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the GW Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship is looking for solutions that make work better for everyone.

Dates and Time (Must attend both sessions!)

Webinar: Special Duty with author Richard Samuels

Intelligence communities are everywhere and always in motion. Japan's has been no exception, often shifting in response to dramatic analytical and organizational failures, changes in the regional and global balance, and sudden technological developments. In the first half of the 20th century, Japan had a full spectrum intelligence apparatus. This came apart with defeat in WWII and subordination to the United States.

Special Duty with author Richard Samuels

Intelligence communities are everywhere and always in motion. Japan's has been no exception, often shifting in response to dramatic analytical and organizational failures, changes in the regional and global balance, and sudden technological developments. In the first half of the 20th century, Japan had a full spectrum intelligence apparatus. This came apart with defeat in WWII and subordination to the United States.

Eurasia’s Newest Leaders: How Are They Doing?

Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.

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

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.