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Sensitivity Analyses in Poverty Measurement

This event examines the following paper: Sensitivity Analyses in Poverty Measurement: The Case of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

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

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.

Diagnosing and addressing India's post-2011 growth slowdown

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.

What are our Rights and Responsibility Over Data?

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. 

Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia

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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Taking Stock of Climate Change: Earth, Air, Fire and Water

The climate of planet Earth depends on the energy balance between incoming radiation from the Sun and re-radiation from the planet.

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.

African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

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.

Roundtable on Taiwan and Indo-Pacific Partnerships: Regional Trends

The Indo-Pacific is the most critical region today for global prosperity and security. As the region continues in a state of flux, pivotal states are increasingly recognizing opportunities that Taiwan offers as a partner. Join us for a discussion on how relations are playing out between Taiwan and leading states India, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, with experts from the US and Asia. 

Shaping S&T Policy

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.

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

GW Lunar New Year 2021 Virtual Celebration

The George Washington University is pleased to present our first Lunar New Year Virtual Celebration in special partnership with San Diego Southern Sea Dragon and Lion Dance Association.

Soh Jaipil Lecture Series - State of Grace

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.

Virtual Spin Class with Estee Gabel, ESIA '12

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Emerging paradigm on technology capability upgrading

Traditionally technology upgrading of emerging economies has been framed within the catching up and economic growth perspective. A major new development is the changing nature of technology through the ongoing increasing application of artificial intelligence; the demise of the fossil-fuel-based growth regime; increasing concerns with equity and inclusiveness of technology.

AMA: Legal Resources for DACA & Undocumented GW Student Entrepreneurs

Many of the companies in today’s US market were all founded, completely or in part, by immigrants and DACA recipients. In major cities, many undocumented entrepreneurs have launched businesses ranging from street vending to tech startups. In fact, more than 5% of DACA recipients under the age of 25 have started a small business and 8% of Dreamers over 25 years old are entrepreneurs and employing workers.

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.

Book Talk & Panel Discussion: Rights Claiming in South Korea

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