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* Asian Studies Director Victor Cha appeared on The Colbert Report. (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425001/april-02-2013/we-are-at-war---north-korea---victor-cha?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email)
* CSS scholar Keir Lieber (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139091/keir-a-lieber-and-daryl-g-press/the-next-korean-war?page=show&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) mulled the next Korean War in Foreign Affairs.

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** Dash Conference 2013
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Monday, Apr. 8: The theme this year is Jurisdiction for Mass Atrocities. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome. The keynote speaker is Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Also featuring John Bellinger, former legal advisor to the Department of State; Sadia Hameed, director, Human Rights First; Victoria Holt, deputy assistant Secretary of State; and professors Rosa Brooks, Elena Baylis, Christine Alai, Susana SáCouto and Jane Stromseth. Sponsored by Georgetown Law's Human Rights Institute. 9am-2pm, Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor. Click here for more information (http://dc.linktank.com/event/2013_samuel_dash_conference_on_human_rights?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email#.UV3cYRdOQ1J) .


** Egypt's Media at a Crossroads
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Monday, Apr. 8: The eruption of the January 25 Revolution precipitated an explosion of critical media content and a proliferation of independent and private media enterprises. Most of the top private television networks in Egypt today are openly critical of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. At the same time, popular political satirist Bassem Youssef faces charges of insulting President Morsi, disturbing the peace and expressing contempt for Islam. What do we make of contradictions? How can we best understand the transformations currently underway in Egypt's media? What are the repercussions for the country? Sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. 12pm, CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241). Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=89&EventID=103492&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Will the Eurodebt Crisis Ever End?
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Monday, Apr. 8: Featuring David Cameron, professor of political science and director of the European Union Studies Program at Yale University. Sponsored by the BMW Center for German and European Studies. 12pm, ICC 450. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=103400&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Issues & Personalities in Iran's June Presidential Election
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Monday, Apr. 8: Iran is again headed for presidential elections after the controversial presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the last four years.The country is going to the polls at a time of great economic hardship because of international sanctions and the still looming threat of a military attack. At this sensitive time in Iran's national life, what are the key questions that the presidential candidates must answer and who are these candidates? Will Iran's political factions be able to address the country's many problems and challenges and come up with realistic solutions, or will they persist in pursuing their narrow objectives at the expense of national interest? Sponsored by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. 12:15pm, ICC 270. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=103100&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Film Screening: The Revolutionary Optimists
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Monday, Apr. 8: Meet the 'Daredevils,' a group of children in India challenging tradition and fighting for their rights in a Kolkata slum. They build a soccer field where a garbage dump once stood, and make sure the children in their community are vaccinated against polio. Filmed over the course of several years, The Revolutionary Optimists follows Amlan and three of the children he works with on an intimate journey through adolescence as they fight for the better future he encourages them to imagine and insists that they deserve. Followed by a Q&A with the film makers and Amlan, Shikha and Salim from the film. Sponsored by Thinking Beyond the Beltway and the International Development Certificate Program. 6:30pm, ICC Auditorium.


** Civil Mediations of Piety and Community
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Tuesday, Apr. 9: Featuring The Jamal Daniel Post-Doctoral Fellow for the Study of the Levant Jeremy F. Walton. In recent years, Turkey has witnessed the emergence of a diverse swath of Muslim communities, institutions and practices. While this striking development resembles and participates in the logics of Islamic reform in other parts of the globalizing world, it equally bears a distinctive relationship to the particular genealogies and politics of secularism and Islam in Turkey. Watson's essay introduces the major conceptual themes and arguments that pivot on the efflorescence of Islamic civil society in Turkey. Sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. 12:30pm, CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241). Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=89&EventID=102377&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Whittington Lecture 2013
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Tuesday, Apr. 9: Featuring the Hon. Richard Lugar. The former Republican senator from Indiana will deliver this year's Whittington Lecture on 'Securing our Nation's Future in a Partisan Era.' The Whittington Lecture honors the memory of Leslie Whittington, a Georgetown Public Policy Institute professor and associate dean, who along with her husband and two young daughters died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Sponsored by the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. 2pm, Lohrfink Auditorium. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=12&EventID=103383&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** MSFS Talk – Technology as a Global Driver of Change: Illusion or Reality?
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Tuesday, Apr. 9: Please join us for a thought-provoking 60 minutes of compelling ideas from MSFS concentration chairs Ambassador Mark Lagon, Professor Ross Harrison, Professor Michael Morfit and guest expert Dr. Vaughn Turekian around the theme of technology and international affairs. Our speakers will give five-minute speeches to inspire, engage and challenge the audience. MSFS Director Tony Arend and student representatives will lead a short discussion afterward. The MSFSTALK will be followed by a reception in the Mortara Lobby. Organized by MSFS Student Representatives and co-sponsored by the Mortara Center for International Studies. 5pm, Mortara Building. Click here to RSVP (http://www.msfstalk.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Approaching the Holocaust Through Audience
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: Lecture by Jessica Lang, associate professor of English at Baruch CUNY. Prof. Lang specializes in early American fiction, Jewish American literature, women's fiction and composition. A graduate of Cornell University and Brandeis university, she taught at Brandeis and Johns Hopkins before joining the Baruch English department in 2004. Sponsored by the Program for Jewish Civilization and the Department of English. 12pm, CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241). Click here to RSVP. (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=349&EventID=101268&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email)


** Cultural Training and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: Join Rochelle Davis for a talk on her recent research. Moderated by Dan Byman. Midway through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, cultural knowledge was positioned as a new key to mission effectiveness and battlespace awareness and the way to help win the hearts and minds of civilians. The resulting strategizing resulted in an internal change to integrate culture into U.S. military strategy, tactics and training. This research examines the culture arguments in these wars, charts the challenges and conflicts around counterinsurgency and culture and offers lessons for military engagement with culture and conflict. Sponsored by the Mortara Center for International Studies. 12pm, Mortara Building. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=103263&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** To Snip or Not to Snip: Rolling Out Safe Male Circumcision
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: Krista Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Howard University will be lecturing on this topic.There will be a Q&A session after the lecture. Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) is being heralded in the scientific and policy communities as a highly effective intervention that could significantly reduce the number of people being infected with HIV in a number of high prevalence countries in southern Africa. However, the scale-up of SMC in most southern African countries has been slow. This paper uses the case of SMC in Botswana to examine the political factors that have contributed to the slow uptake. Sponsored by the African Studies Program. 12pm, ICC 462. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=141&EventID=103227&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** What Do I Owe You?
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: A year-long multi-media project seeking to understand how an individuals who are enmeshed in a global economy and have daily interactions across diverse cultures and religions mold their views about what they owe each other. Through compelling video interviews filmed around the globe, the project explores new configurations of human responsibilities and connections. Project creator and producer Lucas Stratmann (F'12) will reflect on the lessons learned from his interviews thus far and on the possibilities and limitations of new media tools for documenting individual commitments to a global social contract. The Berkley Center's Michael Kessler and Film and Media Studies Director Bernard Cook will discuss the project with Lucas after viewing a sample of the project. Sponsored by the Berkley Center and Film and Media Studies. 12pm, Berkley Center. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=347&EventID=103419&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Somalia: Building Democracy, Peace and Security
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: Much has happened in Somalia since the official U.S. recognition of the Government of Somalia on January 17, 2013 for the first time in 22 years. On March 3, the Security Council agreed to suspend the arms embargo on the government of Somalia, while providing safeguards to ensure responsible development of the security sector. What are the next steps to support the Government of Somalia as they turn the page on two decades of civil war? Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. 12:15pm, ICC 270. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=103414&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** eBay Inc. and the Power of Purpose
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: How the e-commerce leader is working to make the world a better, more sustainable and enabling place for all people – and why it makes good business sense. An interactive, open dialogue with Tyler Spalding and Annie Lescroart, Global Social Innovation, eBay Inc. Sponsored by the Global Human Development Program and the McDonough School of Business. 1pm, ICC 302-P. Click here to RSVP (http://ebayevent.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Faith, Public Life and the Common Good with Jim Wallis
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: At a time of deep polarization in American politics and society, questions around the relationship between individual faith and public life, and how to work across political and religious lines to serve the public good are more important than ever. Such challenges are at the heart of a new book by the Rev. Jim Wallis, On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned about Serving the Common Good (Brazos, 2012). Rev. Wallis will be joined by the Washington Post's Michael Gerson for a discussion of these critical issues. Tom Banchoff, director of Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs will moderate. A reception will follow. Sponsored by the Berkley Center. 5pm, Riggs Library. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=347&EventID=103170&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** IMF's Opportunities and Challenges in 21st Century Latin America
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: Featuring Alejandro Werner assumed his current position as director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January 2013. A Mexican citizen, Werner has had distinguished careers in the public and private sectors as well as in academia. Most recently, he was head of corporate and investment banking at BBVA-Bancomer. He has published widely. Werner was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007. Mr. Werner received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1994. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Latin American Student Association and the Georgetown University Mexican Student Association. 5:15pm, Mortara Building. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=43&EventID=103353&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** 2013 School of Nursing and Health Studies Undergraduate Research Conference
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Wednesday, Apr. 10: All student participants will present their research posters. Three will also be chosen by the Student Planning Committee to deliver oral presentations about their research. Sponsored by the Department of Human Science at the School of Nursing and Health Studies. 10am-7pm, Copley Formal Lounge. Click here for more information (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=158&EventID=100978&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Faith in Action: A Roundtable on Interfaith Service
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Thursday, Apr. 11: Since fall 2011, Georgetown University has been an active participant in the President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, a White House initiative engaging nearly 400 campuses around the country. This year-end roundtable is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff and community partners to come together to reflect on their experiences in advancing interfaith engagement around community challenges of poverty and educational opportunity. Jack Gordon, founder of Faith in Action DC, will lead the discussion. Sponsored by the Berkley Center, Campus Ministry and the Center for Social Justice. 12pm, Berkley Center. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=347&EventID=103210&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Iraq: Policy and National Security Challenges for the Future
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Thursday, Apr. 11: Featuring Kenneth Pollack, Brookings Institution; David Pollock, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Ahmed Ali, Institute for the Study of War. Ten years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq remains a geopolitically vital state in the midst of questionable challenges of political, security and natural resource instability. These experts will assess the challenges to Iraq's future development and explore how Iraq fits into a broader regional picture with numerous other security challenges, from Iran to Syria. Sponsored by the U.S.-Middle East Youth Network and the Georgetown University Roosevelt Institute. 6:30pm, Mortara Building.


** New Perspectives on Borges
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Friday, Apr. 12: Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and Catedra Argentina. 10am-1:30pm, Location. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=43&EventID=103449&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** Celebrating Pacem in Terris and its Legacy
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Friday, Apr. 12: Pope John XXIII's famous encyclical letter, Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), was issued during the height of the Cold War as a call to action, not just to Catholics but to "all men of good will." Fifty years later, the role of human rights and human dignity is as important as ever. A conference will examine the historical origins of the document, and the impact it has had on Catholic social teaching, politics and world affairs. Sponsored by the Berkley Center and the Office of the President. 10am-3:30pm, Riggs Library. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=347&EventID=103171&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


** New States in the EU?
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Friday, Apr. 12: The BMW Center invites you to a panel discussion with Carles Boix of Princeton University, Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution, Alan Patten of Princeton University and Nicholas Siegel of the Transatlantic Academy. Sponsored by the BMW Center for German and European Studies. 3pm, Healy Hall Room 104. Click here to RSVP (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=103489&utm_source=Edmund+A.+Walsh+School+of+Foreign+Service&utm_campaign=14adc2a73c-Week_in_Preview_4_5_20134_4_2013&utm_medium=email) .


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