Subject: Secularism on the Edge, Foreign News Coverage, US-Cuba Legal Roundtable - Week in Preview 2/14/2013
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:34:45 +0000

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** From the Walsh Wire...
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* Foreign Affairs listed Victor Cha's The Impossible State as one of the most important books on Asia of 2012 (http://www.georgetown.edu/news/victor-cha-book-named-best-of-2012.html?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

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** Australian New Zealand Studies Association of North America Conference
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Friday, Feb. 15:  Australian New Zealand Studies Association of North America Conference 2013 featuring keynote speakers Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian David Hackett Fischer and Professor Michael J. Green of Georgetown University and CSIS. Sponsored by the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies. 8:30am, McShain Lounge.  Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=86&EventID=102210&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Faith, Diversity and Sexual Orientation on Campus
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Friday, Feb. 15: The last several years have seen renewed interest in the issue of diversity on college campuses, with issues of interreligious understanding and LGBTQ inclusion at the forefront. What divisions persist along lines of religious or sexual orientation, and how can we move beyond tolerance to understanding? Chris Stedman, author of Faitheist and Harvard LGBTQ activist, will examine issues around respectfully engaging religious and sexual diversity. Joining Stedman for the discussion will be Shiva Subbaraman, director of Georgetown's LGBTQ Center, and student participants. Chris Geidner, senior political reporter at BuzzFeed, will moderate. Sponsored by the Berkley Center, Campus Ministry and LGBTQ Center. 12pm, Berkley Center.  Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=347&EventID=102208&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Assaults on the Fourth Estate: Explaining Media Harassment
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Tuesday, Feb. 19: Featuring Peter VonDoepp, associate professor, University of Vermont. How do we understand patterns of government interference with media outlets in Africa’s transitional polities? Drawing on a novel dataset that tracks the extent and character of government actions against the media in 23 different African countries, this presentation will offer insight into this question. VonDoepp argues governments seek to control the circulation of information more during some periods than others. In particular, when governments face the prospect of being displaced or destabilized, and when they are seeking to enhance or extend their power via constitutional changes, their interests in corralling the free media should be heightened. Sponsored by the African Studies Program. 12pm, ICC 450.  Click here for more information. (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=141&EventID=102309&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Careers Panel
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Tuesday, Feb. 19:  Sponsored by the Global Human Development Program. 12:30pm, ICC 302P.  Click here for more information (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=829&EventID=100584&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Foreign News Coverage and Diplomacy
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Wednesday, Feb. 20: If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it does it still make a sound? If an event occurs and no journalists are around to report it is it still news? Are foreign correspondents a dying breed? Do you trust what you're missing? Do you know what you're missing? Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Global Human Development Program. 12pm, Mortara Building.  Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=359&EventID=102307&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Secularism on the Edge: United States, France & Israel
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Wednesday-Friday, Feb. 20-22:  In the United States, France, and Israel, existing church-state relations are in flux, with wide-ranging ramifications for women, religious minorities, religious moderates and the religiously unaffiliated. Featuring three days of public interviews, panels, and presentations. Sponsored by the Program for Jewish Civilization, the BMW Center for German and European Studies, the Department of French and the Department of Government.  ICC Auditorium and Maguire Hall.  Click here for more information and to RSVP for Day 1 (https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/secularism-on-the-edge/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) , Day 2 (http://secularismday2.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) and Day 3 (http://secularismday3.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** U.S.-Cuba Legal Roundtable
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Wednesday, Feb. 20:  Join us as three experts on Cuban issues speak about terrorism and criminal matters, travel regulations and law enforcement issues. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. 2:30pm, Mortara Building.  Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=43&EventID=102521&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Launch of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
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Wednesday, Feb. 20:  With remarks by Melanne Verveer, GIWPS executive director and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, 2009-2013 as well as Dean Lancaster and Georgetown President John J. DeGioia. Featuring a panel discussion with Tina Brown of Newsweek/The Daily Beast; Burmese activist Zin Mar Aung; USAID deputy director Donald Steinberg; and Claudia Paz y Paz, attorney general of Guatemala. Sponsored by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. 4pm, Hariri Building Lohrfink Auditorium.  Click here to RSVP (http://instituteforwomenpeacesecurity.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Presentation on the 2013 World Development Report
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Thursday, Feb. 21:  Sponsored by the Global Human Development Program. 12:30pm, ICC 701.  Click here for more information (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=829&EventID=101688&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

** Film Screening: Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football
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Thursday, Feb. 21:  Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football follows a mostly Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during the last ten days of Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith while they struggle for acceptance in post-9/11 America. Sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. 4pm, ICC 270.  Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=102488&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email) .

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** A Look Ahead...
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* Mon., Feb. 25: Prague Winter with Madeleine Albright (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=101835&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email)
* Wed., Feb. 27: The U.S. Rebalance to Asia - A One Year Assessment (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=384&EventID=102507&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=5c9e16bc9d-Week_in_Preview_2_14_20132_14_2013&utm_medium=email)

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