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All Topics (July 10 through September 30)

Thursday, July 24

• 10:00 AM Online Graduate School Fair

Wednesday, September 3

• 5:00 PM Welcome Back, Pardee

Tuesday, September 9

• 4:00 PM BUCSA Fall Reception

Wednesday, September 10

• 7:00 AM Bottleneck to Blueprint: Fast-Tracking Renewable Energy Project Preparation
• 4:30 PM Cookies & Conversation with Prof. Noora Lori

Thursday, September 11

• 3:00 PM 2025 Fall Welcome Reception

Monday, September 15

• 12:00 PM Research Seminar: Making Crisis, Sovereignty, and the Environment in Iraq and Kuwait

Tuesday, September 16

• 4:00 PM Research on Tap: Global Security in an Interconnected World

Wednesday, September 17

• 4:00 PM Global Development Policy Center – Fall 2025 Open House
• 6:00 PM CIA Info Session and Networking

Thursday, September 18

• 12:30 PM Helsinki Final Act at 50: Relevant, or Relic?
• 4:00 PM Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju with Youjeong Oh
• Governing the Global Clinic: The Peril and Promise of the Legal Transformation of Medicine
• 4:45 PM “American Illusions of Regional Order and the Emergence of Turbulence in the MENA Regional System”

Friday, September 19

• 12:00 PM Moral Crusades and Losing Battles: The Anti-LGBTQ+ Backlash in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Monday, September 22

• 5:00 PM Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0 with S. Philip Hsu

Wednesday, September 24

• 2:00 PM Cinema, AI and Copyright Concerns in the US and Italy

Thursday, September 25

• 4:00 PM Green Developmental Statecraft: Pursuing Sustainable Prosperity Under Systemic Constraints
• 6:00 PM Pardee Works: Careers in Intelligence, Defense and Global Security

Friday, September 26

• 12:00 PM Beyond Buddhist Nationalism: The Politics of Decentralized Resistance in Highland Southeast Asia

Monday, September 29

• 10:00 AM Small Island States in an Uncertain Global Economy
• Small Island States in an Uncertain Global Economy with His Excellency José Ulisses Correia e Silva
• 1:00 PM An Infirm Ascendency? India’s National Security Challenges with Ashley Tellis
• 2:30 PM Global Security Initiative: Cookies & Conversation with Ashley Tellis