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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:47:54 +0000
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** Thursday,
Jan. 22,
8:00 PM
Davis Performing Arts Center
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** Amrika Chalo (Destination: U.S.A.) Dress Rehearsal-- Myriad Voices Festival
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** Written and directed by Pakistan’s leading theater artist Shahid Nadeem from Lahore’s Ajoka Theatre, this hilarious send-up of U.S.-Pakistani relations set in the Visa Office at the US Embassy in Islamabad explodes stereotypes through satire. This workshop production will feature Pakistani artists from Ajoka Theatre as well as guest U.S. professionals and advanced students.
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Laboratory For Global Performance And Politics, Theater & Performance Studies Program And School Of Foreign Service
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** Friday, Jan. 23
4:00 PM
Davis Performing Arts Center
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** Politics, Culture, and the  Danger of Satire
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** Panelists: Nikahang Kowsar, an Iranian-Canadian cartoonist who fled Iran after he was imprisoned in 2000 in Tehran's infamous Evin prison for a cartoon maocking a top religious authority;
Zarqa Nawaz, author of the bestselling comedic memoir Laughing All the Way to the Mosque and created the world's first sitcom about a  Muslim community living in the west, Little Mosque on the Prairie;
Shahid Nadeem, award-winning Pakistani journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theater and television direction, and a human rights activist;
Imam Yahya Hendi, Georgetown University Muslim Chaplain;
Moderator: Professor Derek Goldman, Co-Director of the Lab
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** Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, School of Foreign Service
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** Tuesday,
Jan. 27,
12:00 PM
Mortara Conference Room
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** CLAS Ambassador's Series Presents: Luis Carlos Villegas, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States
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** Speaker: Luis Carlos Villegas, Ambassador of Columbia to the U.S.

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** Center for Latin American Studies
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** Wednesday,
Jan. 28,
12:00 PM
ICC 241 CCAS Boardroom
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** Global Financial Crisis: Looking Back and Moving Ahead
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** Speaker: José Viñals, Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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** BMW Center for German and European Studies
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** Wednesday,
Jan. 28,
2:00 PM
ICC 700, ECR
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** GAPS Conversations with Practitioners: The New Frontier of Global Engagement-Private, Public, and Social Sectors in International Development
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** Speaker: Deirdre White, CEO of PYXERA Global
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** Master of Science in Foreign Service Program, Georgetown Anti-Poverty Society
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** Thursday,
Jan. 29,
5:30 PM
ICC 241 CCAS Boardroom
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** Spring Arabic Film Series
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** Film: Silences of the Palace

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** Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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** Thursday,
Jan. 29,
5:30 PM
Lohrfink
Auditorium
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** Ending Extreme Poverty: Alex Thier, Assistant to USAID Administrator
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** Speaker: Alex Thier, Assistant to the Administrator for Policy, Planning and Learning at the U.S. Agency for International Development
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** Master of Science in Foreign Service Program, Mortara Center for International Studies
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** Thursday,
Jan. 29,
7:00 PM
ICC Auditorium
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** Matthew Santos: Business as Usual: The Modern Disconnect to the Natural World
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** Matthew Santos is a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter from Chicago, IL.
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** The Lecture Fund, Science, Technology and International Affairs
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2015 Sheikh Abdullah Saleh Kamel Symposium (http://georgetown.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f4655709a061a5f3ffe3924a&id=dce112ff03&e=f365c40524)

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