Event Type: Public Talk

Showing 48 “Public Talk” posts

  • Reflections on Five Decades of Changing Politics in the Middle East

    January 25, 2024

    Lisa Anderson is Dean Emerita of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, and the James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations.

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  • Reflections on 30 Years as a UK Diplomat in the Arab World

    November 15, 2023

    The series is a new initiative organized to bring prominent ambassadors to campus to speak on topical issues of interest to students and to the wider community.

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  • Arabic Script Technologies: From Calligraphy to Unicode

    November 9, 2023

    J.R.Osborn is an award-winning author, scholar, and experimentalist of communication with Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology Program and co director of the CCT Technology Design Studio.

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  • Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Dean Masri

    November 7, 2023

    Auditorium, Georgetown University in Qatar Speaker Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers – The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and…

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  • Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamist Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East

    November 7, 2023

    With Professor Marcus D. King.

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  • Book talk by Ibrahim M. Jaidah: Discovering Arabian Deco: Early Modern Architecture in Qatar

    November 1, 2023

    The architectural journey through the three most significant decades (1950-1970s) of urban development since the discovery of oil.

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  • The Environmental Drivers of Out-Migration in Bangladesh

    October 29, 2023

    With Katharine M. Donato.

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  • Practitioner’s Proposals for the Improvement of Diplomatic Practice

    September 18, 2023

    Ambassador Androulla Kaminara, GU-Q Distinguished-Diplomat-in-Residence for 2023-2024, is a former EU Ambassador to Pakistan.

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