Who Leads Development? Community-led Pathways to Change
Tuesday, September 16 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
Join SIS' Department of Environment, Development & Health (EDH) and the EDH Collective for a unique and engaging conversation on community-led approaches to development, featuring contributors to the new book Community-led Development in Practice: We Power Our Own Change.
Gunjan Veda, co-editor of the book and Global Secretary of the Movement for Community-led Development, will share insights from her recent work. She will be joined by chapter authors Chad Bissonette (Roots of Development) and John Coonrod (founder, Movement for Community-led Development) for a dialogue on the opportunities and challenges of advancing community-led approaches in today’s rapidly evolving development and aid landscape. The conversation will be moderated by SIS professor Scott Freeman.
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Leverage or Liability? Kurdistan’s Gas on the Iraqi & Regional Chessboard
Wednesday, September 17 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
This timely panel will explore the geoeconomics of natural gas in the Middle East, focusing on the strategic trajectories of the gas sectors in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. As natural gas becomes a growing source of both leverage and rivalry, the discussion will examine how it is reshaping power dynamics across the region — from Erbil–Baghdad disputes to the interests of Iran, Russia, and the United States. A panel of distinguished speakers will be moderated by SIS Professor Yerevan Saeed, Barzani Scholar In-Residence and Director of the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace. The event will include an audience Q&A session. Middle Eastern cuisine will be served.
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Documentary Screening: Made in Ethiopia
Thursday, September 25 | 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
An award-winning film, Made in Ethiopia, lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. The film throws audiences into two colliding worlds: an industrial juggernaut fueled by profit and progress, and a vanishing countryside where life is still measured by the cycle of the seasons. It challenges viewers to rethink the relationship between tradition and modernity, growth and welfare, the development of a country and the well-being of its people.
Join the Department of Environment, Development & Health (EDH) for a special screening and discussion of this powerful film, which offers a compelling lens into the complexities of global development, cultural change, and human resilience.
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American Border Religion
Friday, September 26 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | SIS 300
US borders reveal deep tensions and contradictions—at times fiercely enforced, at others overlooked or stretched far beyond the lines on a map. In her new book Heaven Has a Wall, Elizabeth Hurd, professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, examines how American borders function not just as political boundaries, but as complex religious and social spaces that shape identity, power, and belonging. This lecture will be moderated by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, SIS professor and chair of the Department of Global Inquiry (DGI), and will conclude with an audience Q&A.
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Book Launch: The Once and Future World Order
Wednesday, October 8 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
Join us for a book talk with SIS Department of Global Inquiry distinguished professor Amitav Acharya on his new book, The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West, which explores why the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world. He will be joined in conversation by Ravi Agrawal, Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy, and Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and distinguished professor Akbar Ahmed.
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Virtual Book Launch: Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core
Friday, October 17 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Zoom
Join us for a virtual conversation with the authors of Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core, a new book co-authored by SIS professor Nanette Levinson exploring how technical infrastructure is now a proxy for political and economic power. Moderated by SIS professor Derrick Cogburn, the conversation will also feature SIS distinguished Policy Strategist-in-Residence Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis (Georgetown University), and Francesca Musiani (Center for Internet and Society).
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Ambassadors Up-Close: Moldova's Future in a Changing Global Landscape
Wednesday, October 22 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
Join us for a discussion with Moldova's new Ambassador to the United States, Vladislav Kulminski, and Ambassador Kelly Keiderling, former Head of Delegation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)'s Mission to Moldova. They will examine Moldova's European integration, prospects for a peaceful settlement in Transnistria, and the future of US-Moldovan relations in the wake of recent Parliamentary elections.
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America at the Crossroads: Race, Islam, and Leadership (SIS professor Akbar Ahmed)
Monday, November 3 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right (SIS professor Laura Field)
Tuesday, November 18 | 5:50 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Abramson Family Founders Room
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