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
Principled Leadership in Times of Crisis
1:00pm - 2:00pm
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
- Academic Events
- Diversity
- Guest Speakers
- Elliott School of International Affairs
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
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
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
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Roundtable on Taiwan and Indo-Pacific Partnerships: Regional Trends
8:00pm - 9:30pm
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.
- Academic Events
- 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 11, 2021
GW Lunar New Year 2021 Virtual Celebration
12:00pm - 1:00pm
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.
- Academic Events
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- Diversity
- Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
- 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, February 24, 2021
Virtual Spin Class with Estee Gabel, ESIA '12
5:00pm - 5:45pm
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- Alumni
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Emerging paradigm on technology capability upgrading
7:00am - 11:15am
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.
- Academic Events
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Thursday, March 4, 2021
AMA: Legal Resources for DACA & Undocumented GW Student Entrepreneurs
12:00pm - 1:30pm
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.
- Academic Events
- Foggy Bottom Campus
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- Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
- Elliott School of International Affairs
- School of Business
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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