Subject: The Commons in Morocco, Afghanistan Post-2014, Inaugural U.S.-China Forum - Week in Preview - 3/28/2013
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:11:24 +0000

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* SFS professors and alumni, including David (F'72) and Nancy (F'73) Donovan and Michael Emile Karam (F'72), were honored at the Spring Faculty Convocation (http://www.georgetown.edu/news/spring-faculty-convocation.html?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email) .
* World Bank President Jim Yong Kim's speech at Georgetown next Tuesday can be viewed live online (http://www.georgetown.edu/news/president-of-the-world-bank.html?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email) .

Happy Easter from the School of Foreign Service!

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** The Predicament of Pluralism Featuring Steven Knapp
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Tuesday, April 2: There is a growing dissatisfaction with the rigid dichotomies that dominate contemporary debates around religion, philosophy and science. Increasingly pluralistic societies and secular universities are recognizing that matters of faith are complex, that doubt is endemic to belief, and that dialogue is indispensable. Dr. Steven Knapp, president and professor of English at George Washington University, will lead a discussion on issues surrounding pluralistic and secular approaches to religion and science, in relation to his recent book, The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faith. Sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. 12pm, Berkley Center. Click here to RSVP. (http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/the-predicament-of-pluralism-a-discussion-with-gwu-president-steven-knapp?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Europe: What Is Left, What Is Right Today
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Tuesday, April 2: Featuring Gérard Grunberg, the former director of the political science post-graduate seminar at Sciences Po in Paris (1996-2004). He has taught as a visiting professor at many universities abroad, including NYU and Oxford. Grunberg is an internationally recognized authority on political behavior and value systems, the French and European socialist parties and public opinion. Sponsored by the BMW Center for German and European Studies. 12pm, CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241). Click here to RSVP. (http://grunberg.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Latin America Viewed by North Americans
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Tuesday, April 2: Featuring Beatriz Dominguez, a full professor at the History Federal University of Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil. She is an international researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Her research is on the work and life of the North American historian Richard Morse (1922-2001). Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. 5:30pm, ICC 462. Click here to RSVP. (http://latinamericaviewedbynorthamericans.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Refiguring the Commons in Morocco's New Enclosures
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Tuesday, April 2: Featuring Karen Rignall, who will explore the implications of a large-scale solar energy project for understanding the role of the commons in contemporary struggles over sovereignty in southern Morocco. Public resistance to the state's acquisition of land for the high-profile project illustrates the competing visions of sovereignty held by the state and local residents. Dr. Rignall traces the history of governance in Morocco's collectively owned lands to contextualize current movements to privatize those lands. The sometimes surprising political alignments that emerge challenge easy associations of the commons as inherently egalitarian and the private as a site of neoliberal exclusion. Sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. 6pm, ICC 241. Click here to RSVP. (http://karenrignall.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Book Talk: Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa, Scott Taylor
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Wednesday, April 3: Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a major role in global business? By focusing on recent changes, Scott D. Taylor demonstrates how Africa’s business culture is marked by an unprecedented receptivity to private enterprise. Challenging persistent stereotypes about crony capitalism and the lack of development, Taylor reveals a long and dynamic history of business in Africa. He shows how a hospitable climate for business has been spurred by institutional change, globalization and political and economic reform. Sponsored by the African Studies program. 12pm, ICC 450. Click here to RSVP. (http://taylorbooktalk.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Celebrity Evangelists in American Christianity and Islam
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Wednesday, April 3: Featuring: James Wellman, professor and chair of the Comparative Religion Program, University of Washington and Jonathan Brown, associate director and associate professor, ACMCU, Georgetown University. The question of charisma in religious figures has become critical in our age because of the rise of modern media that produces overnight celebrities. Many are moved by them and convinced of their sincerity. Others dismiss them as profiteers. Do they matter, and if so, how do they matter? Sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. 12:15pm, ICC 270. Click here to RSVP. (http://celebrityevangelists.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** The Deepening of Corruption in China
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Wednesday, April 3: Featuring Andrew Wedeman, professor of political science at Georgia State University. Are wealth and politics becoming more intricately intertwined in China? The paper examines the extent to which people identified as China's wealth elite have also been members of the party congress, the National Peoples Congress or the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference. It also looks at the extent to which members of the latter two institutions have 'day jobs' in the business sector. Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Department of Government. 12:15pm, ICC 302P.  Click here to RSVP. (http://wedeman.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Colonial Autonomy: A Liberal Alternative in Cuban Post-Slavery Society
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Wednesday, April 3: Featuring Delphine Sappez, currently a visiting researcher at the BMW Center for German and European Studies. She holds an M.A. in Iberian and Ibero-American Studies from the University of Franche-Comté (France) and is completing her Ph.D. in history and contemporary studies at the University Jaume I of Castellón (Spain). Her thesis analyzes the process of articulation of a project to build up Cuban identity and citizenship through the 'colonial autonomy' conceived by the politician, lawyer and freemason Antonio Govín y Torres. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. 12:30pm, ICC 450. Click here to RSVP. (http://cubanpostslaverysociety.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Baishui: Chinese Neo-Folk Music Performance
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Wednesday, April 3: Refreshments will served while you relax in good company and enjoy the musical talent of Baishui. Born in a small Sichuanese city, Baishui is a composer and self-taught musician who plays guitar, piano and many traditional Chinese instruments. His earliest original compositions and performances were influenced by European neo-folk and dark ambient strains, but has expanded widely his musical canvas since. Sample his music. (http://baishui.bandcamp.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email) Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program. 5pm, McGhee Library (ICC 301). Click here to RSVP. (http://baishui.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** Afghanistan 2014 and Beyond
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Thursday, April 4: The importance of rule of law and counternarcotic efforts in helping build a secure and stable nation. Featuring Karen Hall (SSP'09), team leader for Rule of Law Issues in Afghanistan and Amy Schmisseur, Afghanistan Counternarcotics team lead, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Lunch will be available. Sponsored by the Center for Security Studies. 12pm, Mortara Building. Click here to RSVP. (http://afghanistan2014andbeyond.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** The Balance of the Latin American Left
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Thursday, April 4:  Olivier Dabène, professeur des universités à Sciences Po, addresses four questions: How did the left transform politics?, How successful were the policies implemented?, How far did the revolutionary regimes actually go? and Is there a leftist diplomacy? He will present the main findings of the book and concentrate on his own contribution on regional integration in South America. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. 12pm, ICC 450. Click here to RSVP. (http://latinamericanleft.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** The Asylum Seeker in German Post-War History
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Thursday, April 4: Featuring Ulrich Herbert, professor of modern and contemporary history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Director of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of History. Sponsored by the BMW Center for German and European Studies. 12:30pm, ICC 462. Click here to RSVP. (http://smokeofthefirebombs.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

** China-U.S. Forum: New Trends in Policy and Economics
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Friday, April 5: The goal of this inaugural forum is to provide a platform for policymakers, practitioners, scholars and students to discuss current issues regarding China-U.S. relations in the areas of economic, political and cultural cooperation. Speakers will include Michael Green of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and SFS; Albert Keidel of the Atlantic Council and GPPI; Xiang Lu, visiting fellow, Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Oriana Skylar Mastro, fellow, Center for a New American Security; Derek Scissors, senior research fellow, Asian Studies Center, Hertiage Foundation; Lanlan Zhang, chief executive officer, CICC US Securities, Inc.; and Jianhai Lin, secretary of the fund and director, International Monetary Fund. Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Georgetown Chinese Students and Scholars Association (GUCSSA). 1pm-4pm, ICC Auditorium. Click here to RSVP.
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** Research Module: Historical Research
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Friday, April 5: Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. 5:30pm, ICC 450. Click here for more information. (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=43&EventID=102454&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=8a5df32844-Week_in_Preview_3_21_20133_21_2013&utm_medium=email)

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** A Look Ahead...
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