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All Topics (December 1 through January 30)

Monday, December 2

• 11:30 AM Avoiding the Climate-Debt Spiral: The Role of the IMF and FfD4
• How to Make Crisis Finance Work for Development: Crafting a Global Financial Safety Net Fit for Purpose
• 12:30 PM CANCELLED: Walter Rodney Seminar
• 3:00 PM A Proposal for a Principled and Pragmatic Approach to Dealing with Market Debt of Low-Income Countries in Debt Distress
• Global Tax Reform to Produce Financing for Development
• 5:00 PM Media, Politics, and Public Opinion in China: Implications for International Relations

Tuesday, December 3

• 9:00 AM Croissants and Conversation with Narges Bajoghli and Vali R. Nasr
• 12:30 PM How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
• 5:00 PM European Studies Holiday Recital & Reception

Wednesday, December 4

• 2:00 PM Meet and Greet with BUCSA Visiting Scholars and Research Affiliate
• 6:30 PM Fall 2024 GEDDES JAPANESE MOVIE SERIES

Thursday, December 5

• 11:00 AM Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions from Guatemala
• 4:00 PM Research on Tap: Climate Change and Clean Energy

Friday, December 6

• 12:00 PM RESCHEDULED TO SPRING 2025: Cody Musselman, “Forging Elite Fitness, Forging the Nation: CrossFit and Christian Nationalism”

Saturday, December 7

• 12:00 PM African Studies Association Annual Teachers' Workshop

Tuesday, December 10

• 12:00 PM Commerce, Coalition, and Covid-19: The Emergence and Evolution of the Green Belt and Road Initiative in China

Thursday, December 12

• 10:00 AM Pardee Graduate Application Help & Tips

Friday, December 13

• 12:00 PM Colloquium: ” Narrative repetitions and fragile rhythms: rituals and silences of care towards an end of (Jewish?) kibbutz life”

Tuesday, December 17

• 2:30 PM Pardee Graduate Program Information Session

Wednesday, January 8

• 9:30 AM Public Webinar on Climate and Development: New Research from the Journal of Globalization and Development

Wednesday, January 22

• 4:00 PM African Literature Book Group Discussion: Reading Mamle Wolo's Flying through Water
• 6:00 PM “A Life in the American Century” Featuring Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Friday, January 24

• 12:00 PM Of Ziyarat, Nationalist and Religious Identities: Gendered Perspectives on Shia Pilgrimage in Iraq

Tuesday, January 28

• 6:00 PM “Science Across Borders” Featuring Tim Ritchie

Thursday, January 30

• 12:30 PM Venezuela, Maduro's Election Fraud and Inauguration: Lessons for the Trump Administration