Month: January 2020

GSPM MasterClass Series event featuring The Honorable Damian Collins, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Our GSPM MasterClass Series is a (high-definition/professional) video-taped, one-on-one conversation slated to bring together former and current elected officials, political, and communications professionals, benefiting the ongoing education of our students.

Details of Event:

What: GSPM MasterClass: A Conversation with The Honorable Damian Collins

When: Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM.

Where: Richard Eaton Broadcast Suite, 5th Floor of GW Media and Public Affairs Building (805 21st St. NW, Washington, DC 20052).

How:  A video recording of this event will be taken and you may appear on camera.  Business attire suggested and you must arrive promptly at or before 11:30am in order to be seated for the event.

About the Guest: Damian Collins has served as the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe since 2010.

In October 2016 he was elected by the House of Commons as Chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, having previously served as a member of the committee. In this role he led the committee’s inquiries into doping in sports, fake news, football governance, homophobia in sports, and the impact of Brexit on the creative industries and tourism. His role brought him to GW in February 2018, where he chaired a committee fact-gathering hearing on fake news, the first time a UK Parliament hearing of this sort took place in the United States.

During the Coalition government Collins served between 2014-15 as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the then Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. From 2012 to 2014 he was PPS to the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers.

Collins’s career before politics was in the advertising and communications industries, mostly at the M&C Saatchi advertising agency in London where he worked from 1999 to 2008. He was born in Northampton in 1974. He is married with two children, and they live in Elham in Kent, and in London. He is a keen sports fan and a lifelong supporter of Manchester United.

Please RSVP HERE.

Cancellation Policy: If for any reason you have RSVP'd and you cannot attend, please let Laura Vasisko know immediately and your space will be given to the next individual on the waitlist.

Academic Advising Drop-In Hours are cancelled.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

The Tobin Project seeks applications for a Graduate Student Workshop on Inequality and Decision Making, to be held from April 29 to May 1 in Cambridge, MA. The workshop will focus on understanding how high and/or rising levels of economic inequality influence individuals’ decision-making, and how such effects might impact the broader society.

In addition to participating in this unique collaborative program, workshop participants are eligible to receive research grants of up to $1000. Details about the program and the submission process can be found here, and the deadline to apply is February 29th. If you have any questions, please see the FAQ page on our website.

Over the past decade, Tobin’s graduate student programming has sought to encourage the next generation of scholars to pursue ambitious research on the most pressing challenges facing the nation by providing graduate students with support and feedback as they conduct problem-focused scholarship. In our 2018 annual newsletter, we celebrated the tenth year of Tobin’s graduate student programming with an article featuring interviews with a number of former fellows. Though they took varied paths since attending our workshop, they all credit Tobin with helping to focus their work and direct them toward projects that seek to address vital problems in the world.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year and Summer Fellowships

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Turkish

The FLAS Academic Year Fellowships
For incoming and current graduate students. More information about eligibility, awards and access to an application can be found here.

As in previous years, Brookhaven National Laboratory will host a two week course this summer (June 15-26, 2020) for graduate students entitled “Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Security in the 21st Century”. The course will present students with critical assessments of current nonproliferation issues and provide in-depth analysis of the technical and legal framework needed to assess policy options. Exercises and demonstrations will introduce students to the techniques and technologies of international safeguards and the challenges faced by international inspectors in the field. Above all, the course aims to give participants the knowledge, analytic tools, and the motivation to contribute to the improvement of the nonproliferation regime. More information can be found at http://www.bnl.gov/nnsscourse.

Please contact nnss@bnl.gov with questions.

Sigur Center Summer Grant for Asian Field Research

The Sigur Center offers summer field research grants in Asia for George Washington University graduate students (M.A. or Ph.D.) interested in Asian affairs. These awards provide funding for travel, living, and research expenses while doing fieldwork in an Asian country.
This grant is open to all GW MA and Ph.D. students regardless of nationality. Preference is given to Ph.D. applicants who are in their third or fourth year of study, or who can otherwise demonstrate the necessity of the grant towards conducting research related to their thesis.

Career Development Drop-In Hour is cancelled.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.