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Maren Fagan/The Hoya | Newly selected distinguished professor Victor Cha lectured about the role of economic coercion and independence in global affairs during a Feb. 12 event titled “Collective Resilience: Countering the Weaponization of Economic Interdependence” in Lohrfink Auditorium.

Distinguished Professor Shares Insight On China’s Economic Weaponization, Solutions

By Maren Fagan, Academics Desk Editor February 15, 2024

A newly selected distinguished professor delivered a university-wide lecture concerning the role of economics in global power’s work to keep power in Lohrfink Auditorium Feb. 12. Victor Cha, a professor...

Mellon Sawyer Seminar at The GU Art Gallery: A Look into Untold Elements of the World’s Past, Present and Future

Mellon Sawyer Seminar at The GU Art Gallery: A Look into Untold Elements of the World’s Past, Present and Future

By Almitra Guart November 16, 2023

★★★★★ If you have ever taken a history class, you have learned about social death. However, you have likely never been exposed to a space where social death goes to die. In her lecture on...

AMANDA VAN ORDEN/THE HOYA Former president of Spelman College Johnnetta Betsch Cole criticized higher education for lacking diversity at an Oct. 17 event in Riggs Library.

Former Spelman President: Universities Must Combat Racism

By Julia Friedmann October 19, 2018

Academic institutions can combat racism by cultivating conversations and supporting research about national racial dynamics, former President of Spelman College Johnnetta Betsch Cole said at an event Wednesday...

BOBROSKE: Apartheid Lingers in Language Division

BOBROSKE: Apartheid Lingers in Language Division

By Alexander Bobroske October 2, 2015

Language is the foundation for community and culture. It allows us to communicate, learn and collaborate with one another, but it can also be exploited as a means to enforce segregation. The case of Stellenbosch...

Professor Discusses Leadership

By Giovanna Azevedo February 5, 2015

Russian Presidential Academy Department Chair of Global Leadership Studies and Georgetown University and New York University visiting professor Sam Potolicchio shared his tips on leadership Tuesday at...

Dont Kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia

Don’t Kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia

By Emily Min and Emily Min September 22, 2014

For all of you 4E readers who can't get enough of foreign affairs, government and interesting people (so... everyone), Lecture Fund is having their first event tomorrow night featuring Malaysia's Prime...

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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith delivered the Michael Jurist (SFS ’07) Memorial Lecture in characteristic style in Lohrfink on Monday.

Smith Sells Self-Branding

By Chris Balthazard April 15, 2014

Sports journalist Stephen A. Smith, radio show host and host of ESPN’s “First Take,” spoke about issues ranging from race and leadership to current basketball debates and the weakness of Tim...

Diversity for Georgetown Talks

By Kshithij Shrinath March 21, 2014

Under the vision of A.J. Serlemitsos (COL ’17), the new organization Georgetown Talks aims to encourage students to talk about their personal experience at Georgetown and foster conversations on campus...

Examining Autocratic Cooperation in Post-Soviet Countries

By Jamie Slater March 7, 2014

Alexander Libman, an assistant professor of international political economy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, visited Georgetown to discuss his upcoming paper on autocratic cooperation...

No Time for Tardiness

By The Editorial Board January 29, 2013

Many of us are familiar with the cliched movie scene of a tardy high school student stumbling into class a few minutes late. He sits down sheepishly as the teacher cracks a one-liner at his expense, but...

Financial Gain by Going Against the Grain

By Charlie Long March 23, 2012

In the dead of night of May 2, 2011, two Blackhawk helicopters touched down outside a dilapidated house in the small city of Abbottabad, Pakistan. Upon landing, the team of Navy SEALs aboard moved quickly...

Durbin Returns to Talk Hilltop Roots

By Marissa Brogger October 20, 2011

Just a week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin (SFS ‘66, LAW ‘69) came to the District for the first time in early September 1962 to study at Georgetown. This...

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