News and Events

Mon 6/10 noon Bipartisan Policy Center: “Cyber Threats to Campaigns and Elections” https://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/cyber-threats-to-campaigns-and-elections/

Mon 6/10 noon Heritage: “The Divine Plan: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic End of the Cold War” https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/event/the-divine-plan-john-paul-ii-ronald-reagan-and-the-dramatic-end-the-cold-war

Mon 6/10 2:30 pm Wilson: “India’s Election Results: Impacts on the Economy and Economic Relations with Washington” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/indias-election-results-impacts-the-economy-and-economic-relations-washington

Mon 6/10 4 pm New America: Public Interest Technology – Storytelling in government https://www.newamerica.org/public-interest-technology/events/commons-live/

Tue 6/11 9 am CSIS: “Global Nutrition: An Opportunity for U.S. Foreign Policy and Business”https://www.csis.org/events/global-nutrition-opportunity-us-foreign-policy-and-business

Tue 6/11 10 am House Foreign Affairs Cmte: “Crushing Dissent: The Ongoing Crisis in Nicaragua” https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ID=AC8B2BD5-FA34-47BA-9B8D-A271DEB67B74

Tue 6/11 noon Cato: “Understanding North Korea” with organizations that maintain long-term aid programs there https://www.cato.org/events/peering-beyond-the-dmz

Tue 6/11 2 pm NED: “The Role of Open Data in Strengthening Nigerian Democracy”

https://www.ned.org/events/the-role-of-open-data-in-strengthening-nigerian-democracy/

Tue 6/11 2 pm Wilson: “This Ain’t Your Grand-Daddy’s Africa: Looking Beyond the Challenges to Lock in the Opportunities” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/aint-your-grand-daddys-africa-looking-beyond-the-challenges-to-lock-the-opportunities

Tue 6/11 4 pm Heritage: “Insecurity in Nigeria: Eyewitnesses Speak” https://www.heritage.org/africa/event/insecurity-nigeria-eyewitnesses-speak

Tue 6/11 7 pm Politics/Prose at Union Market: Award-winning Reuters correspondent Joseph Menn, who has covered hacking for almost 20 years https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/joseph-menn-cult-of-dead-cow-how-original-hacking-supergroup-might-just-save-world-in

Wed 6/12 10 am Heritage: “The Future of Taiwan-US Relations” https://www.heritage.org/asia/event/the-future-taiwan-us-relations

Wed 6/12 noon GW: “Taiwan-U.S. Cooperation in Women’s Economic Empowerment” https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyMXU3LOOvl4111To2FnZwVRE1EOE8J6RGjiAhlsGB2JTDSw/viewform

Wed 6/12 12:30 pm Brookings: “Is free trade still alive? Hong Kong’s perspective” https://www.brookings.edu/events/is-free-trade-still-alive-hong-kongs-perspective/

Wed 6/12 2 pm CSIS: “US-Taiwan Commercial Ties: Broadening the Relationship in a Turbulent Era” https://www.csis.org/events/us-taiwan-commercial-ties-broadening-relationship-turbulent-era

Wed 6/12 2 pm Brookings: “Is free trade still alive? Hong Kong’s perspective” https://www.brookings.edu/events/is-free-trade-still-alive-hong-kongs-perspective/

Wed 6/12 4 pm IWP: “A Journey to the Gulag: Experiencing History Through Virtual Reality” https://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/a-journey-to-the-gulag-experiencing-history-through-virtual-reality

Wed 6/12 7:30 pm Westminster: “Which Revolution Will Succeed in Sudan?” https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egdihb2zef527bcf&oseq=&c=&ch=

Thu 6/13 9 am half-day Embassy of Spain: “Fair Water: A Right of All (A Human Rights and Gender Perspective)” http://events.euintheus.org/events/fair-water-a-right-of-all-a-human-rights-gender-perspective/

Thu 6/13 9:30 am CSIS: “U.S. Interest and Leadership in the United Nations” https://www.csis.org/events/us-interest-and-leadership-united-nations

Thu 6/13 9:30 am House Foreign Affairs Cmte: “U.S. Interests in South Asia and the FY 2020 Budget” https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ID=E71D4C86-6259-4F70-819B-B22F1B6E2093

Thu 6/13 12:30 pm World Bank: “Estimating Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries: New Methods and Evidence from India” http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2019/06/13/estimating-intergenerational-mobility-new-evidence-from-india

Thu 6/13 2 pm IWP: “Loss of Country” – and what the intellectual classes do in anticipation of loss of country https://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/loss-of-country-panel
Thu 6/13 2 pm GTI: “Swinging the Vote: How the CCP influences the Media and Elections in Taiwan and Beyond” https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-13-swinging-the-vote-how-the-ccp-influences-the-media-and-elections-in-taiwan-and-beyond-tickets-63081211602

Thu 6/13 2:30 pm Atlantic Cncl: “Democratic Defense Against Disinformation” https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/democratic-defense-against-disinformation

Fri 6/14 10 am MEI Book event: “How Assad maintains power in Syria” https://www.mei.edu/events/assad-regime-and-syrias-ongoing-tragedy

Sat 6/15 11 am half-day American University: “New Media Art Exhibition of Women Artists from Taiwan”https://american.edu/calendar/?id=

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Sat 6/15 noon Kreeger Museum: “Jazz in the ‘Hoods:  The Elijah Jamal Balbed Quartet” https://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/JazzInTheHood2019

Sat 6/15 3:30 pm Politics/Prose: “The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China” https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/frank-langfitt-shanghai-free-taxi-journeys-hustlers-and-rebels-of-new-china-in

Mon 6/17 4 pm CGDEV: “Beyond Getting Girls in School: Addressing Unfinished Business to Achieve Women’s Equality”https://www.cgdev.org/event/beyond-getting-girls-school-addressing-unfinished-business-achieve-womens-equality

Mon 6/17 4 pm IWP: “Citizens as Instruments of National Power” https://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/citizens-as-instruments-of-national-power