Can Russia Ever Become Modern?
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Speaker: Cliff Gaddy, Brookings Institution
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Britain Lost Its Empire Years Ago and Is Still Looking for a Role
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Lecture “Britain Lost Its Empire Years Ago and Is Still Looking for a Role” by Toby Fenwick ’95.
With apologies to Dean Acheson, 54 years after he uttered his memorable line, British international policy is more adrift than ever. Having appeared to make its peace as a leading - if obstinate and challenging - European player in 1973, 2016’s Brexit vote forces Britain and NATO Europe - as well as the EU - to look again at Britain’s role in Euro-Atlantic security and economic policy.
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Bridging Differences: Creating Lasting Social Change through Youth-led Street Sports
Simon Prahm is the co-founder and current managing director for GAME. Founded in 2003, GAME is a Danish-based Top 500 NGO headquartered in Copenhagen with 12 dedicated full time employees, 70 coaches and more than 100 volunteers. Using the ’sport-for-all’ approach its objective is to reach out to underprivileged youth, who have limited or no access to sport in order to strengthen the participants self-esteem, create social empowerment, and counteract marginalization. GAME has been running activities in Denmark since 2002 and started projects in the Middle East in 2007. Mr.
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Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Can we find the right balance?
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Lecture by Ambassador Robert Ford, who is currently a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. In 2014 he retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after serving as U.S. Ambassador to Syria (2011-2014). For his leadership of the American Embassy in Damascus he received a Presidential Honor award in 2012, and for his work on Syria he received in 2014 the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award, the State Department’s highest award. Previously, he served as Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2008-2010), U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (2006-2008), Political Counselor to the U.S.
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"All the King's Horses, All the President's Men: The Transnational Politics of Yemeni Disintegration"
Dr. Philbrick-Yadav (Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges) has been writing about Yemen’s opposition politics for more than a decade. Dr. Philbrick-Yadav’s book, “Islamists and the State: Legitimacy and Institutions in Yemen and Lebanon” (2013), explores the dynamics of Islamist activism and alliance building. Dr. Philbrick-Yadav’s lecture will address the ongoing conflicts in Yemen and critique the international response to them.
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Advocating for Animal Rights in China
“Advocating for Animal Rights in China,” by Zhang Dan. Ms. Zhang has served as China’s Ambassador for World Animal Day and is the vice chairman of the China Small Animal Protection Association and co-founder of the China Animal Protection Media Salon. She was awarded the first Andrew Award for Outstanding Media Contribution at the 7th Asia for Animals Conference in 2011. She is the editor of the 2012 “Dongwuji” (Animal Essays), which collects Chinese writing on non-human animals and has a preface by Hsing Yun, the founder of the Fo Guang Shan International Buddhist Order. Ms.
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A Queer Feminist in the Tech World: Leveraging Capital for Inclusive Sex Education in a White Man’s World
Andrea Barrica is a Filipina-American queer serial entrepreneur and activist. She co-founded inDinero, generating the company’s first $1M, a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups. She is a powerful force in the tech start up world and is the founder of O.School, a shame-free platform for female and gender diverse pleasure education.
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A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations
Panel “A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations” by Adam Schaffer ’12, program officer for drug policy at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and Dan Egol ’13, chief of staff at Ross Cook, Inc.
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A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations
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A Century of General Relativity: A Global Perspective
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After an effort that started in 1907, Albert Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, on November 25, 1915, the final formulation of his new theory of gravitation. He called it the General Theory of Relativity, or General Relativity (GR), for short. Gravitation is the most intriguing among the fundamental interactions in the Universe.
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