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SFS MOURNS LOSS OF PROFESSOR HARM DE BLIJ (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=482bccbc19&e=f365c40524)

** Friday,
April 4
4:00 PM
Mortara Conference Room
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** Talking to the Enemy: Using Social Media Against al-Qa’ida
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In recent years, extremists migrated to social media in their ceaseless search for an audience.

What is the role of public diplomacy and the exercise of "soft power" in countering violent extremism?

Join us to hear Ambassador Alberto Fernandez, Coordinator for the State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC), discuss how CSCC is utilizing social media tools  to counter the narratives and propaganda of al-Qa’ida and its affiliates.
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Center for Security Studies
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** Friday-Saturday,
April 4-5
5:30 PM
Reiss 112
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** Georgetown Latin American Film Festival
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** Featuring four Latin American films and discussion with Dr. Robert Brodsky, scriptwriter, director and visiting professor in CLAS, and Dr. Jo-Marie Burt, Director of Latin American Studies at George Mason and Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Clandestine Childhood - Benjamin Avila (2012) 112 min
*Discussion to follow with Dr. Brodsky*

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Secret in their Eyes - Juan José Campanella (2010) 129 min

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Our Lady of the Assassins - Barbet Schroeder (2000) 101 min

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Milk of Sorrow - Claudia Llosa (2010) 98 min
*Discussion and reception to follow with Dr. Burt*
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** Center for Latin American Studies, Catedra Argentina, Georgetown Lauinger Library, Latin American Graduate Organization
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** Monday,
April 7
12:00 PM
Old North 205
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** 2014 ANZAC Lecture - A Small State at the Big Table; New Zealand, Multilateralism and the UN Security Council
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A talk by the Honorable Jim McLay, CNZM, QSO, New Zealand’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

What happens when a small, determinedly independent state seeks a two-year, non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council? Jim McLay, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations, traces his country's independent stance on many global issues, from the disastrous 1915 military campaign in the Dardanelles, through the League of Nations, the 1945 San Francisco conference, and policy differences with the US and other major powers, to its present day role as a trusted and innovative bridge-builder between various UN factions.
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** Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies
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** Monday,
April 7
4:00 PM
McGhee Library
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** "Tea with Talent" with Alaa Murabit
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Alaa is Founder and Chair of “Voice for Libyan Women.”
She is only 24 but has already created an organization to  advocate for women’s rights in post-revolutionary Libya. We’ll enjoy afternoon tea and the opportunity to talk to Alaa about her experiences, her organization and Libya’s future.
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** Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown Women in International Affairs
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** Tuesday,
April 1
5:00 PM
CCAS Boardroom   ICC 241
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** CCAS Egyptian Contemporary Film Series: Film Thakafi
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** The "Egyptian Contemporary Film Series" is a weekly film series taking place during the Spring 2014 semester at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). The series will showcase some of the landmark and controversial productions from Egypt since 2000.

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** Wednesday,
April 9
8:30 AM
ICC Auditorium
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** New Avian Influenzas in East Asia: Global Health Security and Policy
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The SFS Asian Studies Program, as part of its Public Health in Asia Initiative, is teaming up with the Georgetown Medical Center's Department of Microbiology and Immunology to host a panel discussion with regional, policy, and health experts on the new avian influenzas in East Asia and their global health policy implications.
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Asian Studies Program, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

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** Wednesday,
April 9
12:00 PM
CCAS Boardroom ICC 241
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** Austerity and the Erosion of Democratic Legitimacy in the EU
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The BMW Center invites you to "Austerity and the Erosion of Democratic Legitimacy in the EU" with David Cameron, Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Union Studies Program at Yale University.
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BMW Center for German and European Studies

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** Wednesday,
April 9
12:30 PM
ICC 270
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** "Understanding American Muslims Using Survey Data" with Besheer Mohamed
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In recent years there have been a number of efforts to survey the American Muslim population. This presentation highlights some of the questions that this sort of data can answer and some new questions the existing research raises.

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** Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
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** Wednesday,
April 9
6:00 PM
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
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** Clifford Geertz and Ernest Gellner on North Africa and Islam: A Comparative Approach

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** Clifford Geertz and Ernest Gellner are considered two of the most influential anthropologists of North Africa and Maghribi Islam. Their fieldwork, conducted in the 1950s and 60s, provides insight into the dynamics of religious change in Maghribi societies, and assesses the relationship between Islam and nationalism in the postcolonial North African states. However, Geertz and Gellner approached their work with different methodologies: Geertz was influenced by Weber’s phenomenology, while Gellner favored Durkheim’s positivism. Dr. Addi's lecture will present, among other issues, the ramifications of this methodological divergence for academic research concerning North African societies.
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** Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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** Thursday,
April 10,
9:00 AM
Mortara Conference Center

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** ISD Junior Fellows' Research Colloquium
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The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy cordially invites you to attend the ISD Junior Fellows Research Colloquium.  We would welcome your participation in any part of this dynamic discussion.  ISD’s Junior Fellows – chosen annually through a highly competitive selection process – will present their research findings on some of the most challenging dilemmas in contemporary diplomacy and international affairs.  Practitioners and scholars will respond with their own views on the big issues raised by the presentations.  We encourage you to bring your questions and comments, and appreciate your support of this vital, student-led SFS research effort.
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Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
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** Thursday,
April 10,
9:00 AM
Gaston Hall

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** Faith, Culture, and the Common Good
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The American experience of democracy is inextricably bound with the country's history of religious and cultural pluralism. Yet in recent years, deep divides rooted in politics and ideology have challenged the American ideal. How can people of different faith traditions, as well as those who claim no religious affiliation, work together to enrich civic life in America?

Georgetown will convene two panels of leading scholars, journalists, and authors to examine this question. During the first panel, scholars and journalists will discuss how our diverse traditions—religious and secular—can help in realizing the common good. A second panel with writers of diverse backgrounds will explore how questions with a religious dimension are taken up in literature and specifically in their own work. Following each session, panelists, students, and the wider community are invited to break into smaller groups and continue the conversation in Tents of Dialogue on the university's front lawn.
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Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
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** Thursday,
April 10,
11:00 AM
Lauinger Library Murray Room

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** One Mic: Revolution, Diplomacy, and the Global Sound of Hip-hop
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Like jazz in ‘50s, or rock 'n' roll in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, hip-hop has spread like wildfire around world. Inspired by the political hip-hop of the ‘80s and ‘90s in New York, rappers in the Middle East and Africa have turned to hip-hop to express their frustrations with the system, their sense of alienation, and their desire for change. The soundtrack to the Arab Revolutions, hip-hop gives voice to the people’s desire for better world, from Bamako to Beijing.
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Artists participating in the Kennedy Center’s One Mic Hip-hop Festival will discuss the significance of the music locally and globally.

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Mortara Center for International Studies and the Tahrir Institute of Middle East Peace
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** Thursday,
April 10
12:00 PM
McGhee Library
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** Book Talk - Inside Out: Building a Glass House in Russia
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** Glenn Williamson
Adjunct Professor of Real Estate at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies

In Russia, it is said, “Nothing and everything is possible.” In Inside Out, author Glenn Williamson explains the award-winning development of St. Petersburg’s first modern Class A office/retail center by a multinational team of Americans, Russians, Brits, Turks, and Finns.

Inside Out provides a fascinating memoir of his experiences working as a developer in Russia in the 1990s while balancing a home life with a new baby son. With unique and astute anecdotes, it offers insights into Russia, its people, and its culture.

Inside Out, funny and serious, sincere and sarcastic, narrates the anatomy of a real estate deal. Now, at a time when America and Russia consider ways to reset their relations, Williamson’s story shows how actual players on all sides of a complex business and personal adventure looked for, and ultimately found, a common language.
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** School of Continuing Studies, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
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** Thursday,
April 10
12:45 PM
CCAS Boardroom
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** TURKEY DURING WORLD WAR II
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** Shortly after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939, as the possibility of a Soviet advance towards the Straits emerged in the offing, Turkey began fast reverting to its old imperial attitude, when Istanbul’s foreign policy had been dictated largely by the Sultan’s fear of Russia.  The state of wartime affairs between Ankara and Moscow gradually fell in sharp contrast with the cordial atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, when the first principle of Turkish foreign policy had been the alliance with the Soviet Union.  A close examination of the Turkish Prime Ministerial Archives (BCA) and the parliamentary minutes of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) reveals that Turkey’s fundamental policy consideration throughout the war had been a German victory over Russia provided that this was followed by a British victory over Germany.

Overall, my paper points to a common fallacy in historical scholarship that construes Turkey’s peculiar neutrality as an attempt to cash in on both warring blocs.  On the contrary, I argue that Turkey’s neutrality was precarious, rather than active or cunning, and that, in the face of growing pressure from Moscow between 1939 and 1945, Ankara admitted the need for stronger allies in Western Europe. As the war came to an end, Turkish leadership ultimately stumbled back into the Middle East while seeking to deter Russian encroachment in the region.

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** Institute of Turkish Studies
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** Thursday,
April 10
5:15 PM
White-Gravenor Hall 201
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** 1914 Revisited: How Europe went to War
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In his talk, Professor Clark's (Cambridge) talk will draw on The Sleepwalkers to retell the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes:

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?
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** Drawing on many fresh new sources, Clark reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture, putting Serbia and the Balkans at the centre of the story. Starting with the brutal assassination of Alexander I of Serbia in 1903, Clark shows how, far from being the place of enviable stability it appears to us, Europe was racked by chronic problems: a multipolar, fractured, multicultural world of clashing ideals, terrorism, militancy and instability, which was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. He shows how the rulers of Europe, who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism, behaved like sleepwalkers, stumbling through crisis after crisis and finally convincing themselves that war was the only answer.
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BMW Center for German and European Studies
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** Friday,
April 11
9:30 AM
U.S. Institute of Peace
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** Preventing and Mitigating Conflict: Role of the International Courts
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International courts are intended to prevent conflict and settle international disputes, both by holding to account those alleged to have committed international crimes and by developing applicable international law. Their role is an essential but under-examined aspect of international conflict management. This event, convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and The Hague Institute for Global Justice, will offer an opportunity for dialogue with four senior international jurists, including three judges of the International Court of Justice (Joan Donoghue, Julia Sebutinde and Xue Hanqin) and Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court.

This event, held with the support of the Foreign Ministry of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the American Bar Association - ICC Project, will center on the role of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the international political and legal system. The focus of the discussion will be on the role of the courts based in The Hague (The Netherlands) in preventing and resolving conflicts, in accomplishing accountability for war crimes, and on the contribution of women to peaceful settlement of disputes and strengthening the international rule of law.
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
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** Friday,
April 11
10:30 AM
302-P ICC

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** Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: The European Crisis and Chinese Direct Investment in the European Union
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** Sophie Meunier, Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Co-Director of the EU Program at Princeton University.

Virtually non-existent five years ago, Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) into Europe has surged spectacularly in recent years in an international context of declining FDI globally. While the stock of Chinese FDI in Europe is still minuscule, the flows show the rapidly growing interest of Chinese companies in being present in Europe, both through greenfield investment and through mergers and acquisitions. This surge of Chinese FDI occurred concomitantly to the explosion of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the general economic downturn in many countries of the European Union (EU). This paper asks whether the European crisis contributed to the surge of Chinese FDI in Europe. In particular, did this surge occur as a result of an explicit strategy formulated by governments in EU Member States in order to dig their countries out of the crisis? The main argument is that the crisis has provided Chinese investors with two types of bargains: economic bargains due to
depressed prices and a greater number of assets for sale, and political bargains due to the lessened political resistance to deals that may have been objectionable in flusher times.

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** BMW Center for German and European Studies, Asian Studies Program
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A look ahead...

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Astrobiology and the Anthropocene (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=d1b0285365&e=f365c40524)

Challenges in Australian National Security - A Brown Bag Lunch with Andrew Smith, Ph.D. (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=e8ac4724bd&e=f365c40524)

Palestinian Perceptions of Ottomans during World War I (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=a61e569fae&e=f365c40524)

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