Subject: SFS Week in Preview
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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:38:39 +0000
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Professor Mark Lagon and MSFS student Will Moreland publish article in Foreign Policy about Ukraine (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=3f7ab030bc&e=f365c40524)

** Friday,
Nov. 7,
12:00 PM
ICC 241

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** Too Near, Too Far: Watching the GDR Disappear!
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** Speakers: Dr. Marc Silberman, Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

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** BMWC Center for German and European Studies
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** Monday,
Nov. 10,
9:00 AM
Copley Formal Lounge
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** CERES Conference Ukraine, Russia and the West—The Way Forward
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Introduction: Dr. James Reardon-Anderson, Interim Dean SFS

Opening Keynote: Professor Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University

Panel 1

Moderator: Dr. Keith Darden, American University,

Speakers: Dr. Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv, Dr. Anders Aslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Dr. Olexyi Horan, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Lunchtime Keynote: Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe

Panel Two

Moderator: Dr. Theresa Sabonis-Helf, National Defense University

Speakers: Dr. Thane Gustafson, Georgetown University, Amb. Carlos Pascual, Columbia University, Dr. Edward Chow, CSIS

Panel Three

Moderator: Dr. Angela Stent, Georgetown University

Speakers:  Dr. James Sherr, Chatham House, Robert Nurick, Atlantic Council, Maxim Trudolyubov, Woodrow Wilson Center
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** Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
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** Monday,
Nov. 10,
12:00 PM
McShain Lounge
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** Israel and its Arab Citizens: Ethnocentrism and Polarization
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** Speaker: Dr. Avraham Sela, Georgetown University Department of Government Cecile and Aaron Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor
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Program for Jewish Civilization
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** Monday,
Nov. 10,
6:00 PM
ICC 241
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** Film Screening: Return to Homs
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** Discussion after the film led by Dr. Daniel Neep, Assistant Professor of Arab politics in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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** Tuesday,
Nov. 11,
12:00 PM
McGhee Library
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** The Russian Cyber Threat Environment: An Introduction
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** Speaker: Kimberly Zenz, senior threat analyst at Verisign iDefense and CERES alumna
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Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
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** Tuesday,
Nov. 11,
12:30 PM
Mortara Building
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** The Political Economy of International Justice in Africa
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** Speaker: Dr. Chris Mahony, Georgetown University Law Center
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African Studies Program
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** Tuesday,
Nov. 11,
3:00 PM
ICC 302-P
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** Japan under Abe: Is that as good as it gets for Abenomics?
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** Speakers: Dr. Tobias Harris, Associate at Teneo Intelligence
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** Asian Studies Program
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** Wednesday,
Nov. 12,
11:00 AM
ICC 302-P
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** Chinese Foreign Policy: The Challenge for Beijing
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** Speaker: Dr. James Reardon-Anderson, Sun Yat-sen Professor of Chinese Studies and Interim Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
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** Asian Studies Program
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** Wednesday,
Nov. 12,
12:30 PM
ICC 241
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** "Electronic Iran" Book Talk
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** Speaker: Dr. Niki Akhavan, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Catholic University of America
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** Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
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** Wednesday,
Nov. 12,
1:00 PM
Executive Conference Room, ICC 7th Floor
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** “A luta continua”: The Struggle for LGBT Human Rights in Africa

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** Speakers: Dr. Chloe Schwenke, Vice President of Global Programs for Freedom House

Jeremy Kadden, Senior International Policy Advocate for Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

Yohanan Assefa, Assistant Program Officer for East and Horn of Africa for National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

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** Public Policy Out, The Africa Forum
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** Wednesday,
Nov. 12,
3:00 PM
Lohrfink Auditorium
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** Canaries in a Coal Mine: How Islamophobia Threatens Us All

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** Panelists: Saeed Khan, ISPU Fellow and Research Fellow at Wayne State University's Center for the Study of Citizenship, Ajenai Clemmons, Policy Director at the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Dr. Joe McCartin, Executive Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Madihha Ahussein, Staff Attorney at Muslim Advocates,

Panel Moderator:
Dalia Mogahed, ISPU Director of Research

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** Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
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** Wednesday,
Nov. 12,
3:00 PM
7th floor ECR
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** Africa's Peacemakers
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** Speaker: Dr. Adekeye Adebajo, Executive Director, The Center for Conflict Resolution (Capetown, South  Africa)
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African Studies Program

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** Wednesday,
Nov. 12,
6:00 PM
ICC 241
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** Film Screening: Sleepless Nights and Q+A session with the director, Eliane Raheb
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** Speaker: Eliane Raheb, Director of Sleepless Nights
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** Thursday,
Nov. 13,
12:00 PM
Mortara Conference Room
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** US-Iran Relations Revisited: New Perspectives on a Troubled History
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** Speaker: Historian Andrew Scott Cooper, author of The Oil Kings
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Center for Security Studies, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies
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** Thursday,
Nov. 13,
5:30 PM
ICC 7th Floor Executive Conference Room
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** Opportunities in Africa Career Panel
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** Speakers: Ambassador Donald Teitelbaum, Deputy Assistant Security for African Affairs at U.S. Department of State, Stephen Giddings, Co-chair of Washington D.C.’s Society for International Development Africa Workgroup, Francis Ngugi Wangendo, Georgetown Professor, African Studies Program

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** The Africa Forum
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** Thursday,
Nov. 13,
6:00 PM
Mortara Conference Room
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** The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death - Book Launch Event and Reception
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** Speakers: Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Director of the Center for Security Studies and Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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** Center for Security Studies
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** Friday,
Nov.14,
12:30 PM
ICC 302-P

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** Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Protests: Implications for Beijing and Taipei
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** Speakers: Robert Daly, Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, Bonnie Glaser, Senior Advisor for Asia in the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Moderator: Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown University

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** Asian Studies Program
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A look ahead...

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Current Changes in the Middle East and their Impact (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=30beae2f3d&e=f365c40524)

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