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If you missed last week’s lunch forum with Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking, video of CSpan’s live coverage is available on demand at https://www.c-span.org/video/?456691-1/social-media-politics-war. Or read Alan Heil’s report: https://www.publicdiplomacycouncil.org/2019/01/17/how-classic-propaganda-tactics-weaponize-social-media/. More about Brooking, Singer and their book at https://www.likewarbook.com/

Future PDC / PDAA / USC forums:

Mon. Feb. 11 (note new date): Hon. Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, bio: https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/280673.htm

First Monday Forum at GW’s Elliott School Lindner Family Common, 1957 E Street St. NW, 6th Floor

To attend a First Monday Forum, please RSVP at firstmondayforum.rsvp@gmail.com

If you haven’t seen it yet, you may want to check out our brand new Public Diplomacy Web site, https://www.publicdiplomacy.org/ Thanks to a terrific development team that included both the PDC and the PDAA, an association of public diplomacy professionals!

Public Diplomacy News

Tue 1/22 9 am Wilson: “Gross Human Rights Violations and Impunity in Nicaragua” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/gross-human-rights-violations-and-impunity-nicaragua-report-independent-experts

Wed 1/23 10:30 am STIMSON: How the US used its military, short of war, to advance policy objectives in Iran and Iraq https://www.stimson.org/content/us-coercive-diplomacy-iran-and-iraq-conversation-ken-pollack

Wed 1/23 1 pm Wilson: “Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/book-launch-branding-humanity

Wed 1/23 4pm GW: “North Korea in 2019: More of the same, or a historic opportunity?” https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScolqCuFNROuTO_2y8puvl03jxSkVTjdnD-IONusM-ADhdqxA/viewform

Wed 1/23 4:30 pm CSIS: “The U.S. Withdraws: Syria and Afghanistan” https://www.csis.org/events/schieffer-series-us-withdraws-syria-and-afghanistan

Wed 1/23 5:30 pm Wilson / Kennan / GW / Kyrgyz Embassy: “Central Asian Cinema Series: East Coast Film Premiere of Centaur” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/central-asian-cinema-series-east-coast-film-premiere-centaurThu 1/24 3 pm NED: “The Struggle to Achieve Public Media Reform in Ukraine” https://www.ned.org/events/the-struggle-to-achieve-public-media-reform-in-ukraine/

Fri 1/25 10 am GW: “Jihadism After the Caliphate” https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg0saojv2a6b4d25&oseq=&c=&ch=

Fri 1/25 10 am MEPC: “The Trump Administration’s Middle East Policies: A Mid-term Assessment” https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-trump-administrations-middle-east-policies-a-mid-term-assessment-tickets-54937709167?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Fri 1/25 7:30 pm Embassy of the Bahamas: “Caribbean Evening at the Bahamian Embassy Consulate” https://thingstododc.com/event/1581/caribbean-evening-at-the-bahamian-embassy-consulate-(cultural-and-professional-networking)/

Sun 1/27 2 pm CFP: “14th annual Holocaust and Genocides: Syria, Rohingya, Uyghur, Crimea” https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holocaust-and-genocides-event-tickets-54157371155?aff=ebdssbdestsearch