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Future PDC / PDAA / USC forums:

Monday, Jan. 7: The Weaponization of Social Media, with Emerson Brooking and Peter Singer, authors of https://www.likewarbook.com/

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

Mon 12/10 11:45 am Hudson: “Needed Now More Than Ever: The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998” https://www.eventbrite.com/e/needed-now-more-than-ever-the-international-religious-freedom-act-of-1998-registration-53189243459

Mon 12/10 1 pm CSIS: “Future Directions of the Peace Corps” https://www.csis.org/events/future-directions-peace-corps

Mon 12/10 4 pm Wilson: “Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-csce-and-the-end-the-cold-war-diplomacy-societies-and-human-rights-1972-1990

Mon 12/10 6 pm GW/USHMM screening and discussion: “Dear Ambassador” GW Elliott School room B12 https://events.ushmm.org/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x447080001

Mon 12/10 6:30 pm Embassies of Sweden, Finland: “Nordic Stage Festival” DC debut in stage reading and discussion https://www.eventbrite.com/e/performing-artsliterature-nordic-stage-a-festival-of-new-scandinavian-theater-tickets-53059534496

Tue 12/11 9:30 am Wilson: innovative solutions to reduce HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa among adolescent girls and young women https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/emerging-lessons-the-dreams-innovation-challenge

Tue 12/11 2:30 pm Wilson: how “prison culture” influences the everyday lives of Russians https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/stories-russia-behind-bars-conversation-olga-romanova

Tue 12/11 3:30 pm CSIS: “The Role of Local Governance in Urban Food Security” https://www.csis.org/events/when-city-does-feeding-role-local-governance-urban-food-security

Tue 12/11 4:45 pm SAIS: India Connected: how smartphones are transforming the world’s largest democracy http://www.sais-jhu.edu/events-calendar/events/india-connected-book-talk-ravi-agrawal

Tue 12/11 7 pm Embassy of France screening: “Montparnasse Bienvenüe” http://events.euintheus.org/events/screening-montparnasse-bienvenue-by-leonor-serraille/

Wed 12/12 10am USIP: “Resilience in Conflict Lessons from a Youth Exchange with the Dalai Lama” https://www.usip.org/events/resilience-conflict

Wed 12/12 10 am House Foreign Affairs Cmte: “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense: Promoting U.S. Interests in Africa” https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/hearing-development-diplomacy-and-defense-promoting-u-s-interests-in-africa/

Wed 12/12 10 am STIMSON: “Can International Organizations Promote Democracy?” https://www.stimson.org/content/can-international-organizations-promote-democracy

Wed 12/12 11 am Wilson: “Why Do Russia and the US Need Each Other?: Foreign Policy and National Identity” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/why-do-russia-and-the-us-need-each-other-foreign-policy-and-national-identity

Wed 12/12 11:30 am GW: “Taiwan-US Relations: Enhancing the Terms of Engagement in Media, Business and Trade” https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-wYwrCc90JzkwFPb3WIV904DVaH8zz5OTl01AthCuPWD1wA/viewform

Wed 12/12 7:30 pm Westminster: “The Making (and Unmaking) of a Jihadist Mind” https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07efurv1qad0533e01&oseq=&c=&ch=

Thu 12/13 9:30 am Carnegie: how to make U.S. foreign policy work better for America’s middle class http://carnegieendowment.org/2018/12/13/how-can-u.s.-foreign-policymakers-do-better-for-middle-class-event-7018

Thu 12/13 9:30 am Heritage: “The Trump Administration’s New Africa Strategy” http://www9.heritage.org/2018-amb-bolton.html

Thu 12/13 1 pm CSIS: “Extending Federal Cybersecurity to the Endpoint”

https://www.csis.org/events/extending-federal-cybersecurity-endpoint

Thu 12/13 2:30 pm CSIS: “The Humanitarian and National Security Crisis in Yemen: An Update and Path Forward” https://www.csis.org/events/humanitarian-and-national-security-crisis-yemen-update-and-path-forward

Thu 12/13 5:30 pm USIP/VOA screening: “Displaced,” a documentary about Rohingya Muslims currently living in refugee camps in Bangladesh https://www.usip.org/events/displaced-voa-documentary-screening

Fri 12/14 1 pm Embassy of Spain: “40 Years of the Spanish Constitution” https://www.spainculture.us/city/washington-dc/40-years-of-the-spanish-constitution/

Mon 12/17 4 pm Wilson: “Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/sewing-the-fabric-statehood-garment-unions-american-labor-and-the-establishment-the-state

Mon 12/17 5 pm GW: Concert and Lecture: “Building Trust through Music Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula” https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MU9sBI3eTzCfZzhlRuQZuo7D-UUgTyGfgXbfeIASXK4/viewform?edit_requested=true

Mon 12/17 6:30 pm SAIS: “European Foreign Policy in an Age of Populism” http://www.sais-jhu.edu/events-calendar/events/european-foreign-policy-age-populism