Upcoming Events
This is a general listing of MDG/development related events. For events pertaining specifically to the current Monthly Millennium Development Goal, please use the links on the left.10/26: Darwin's Nightmare
11/2: A Conversation with Dean Andretta
11/3: IDev Lunch: Development & Women's Health in Africa
11/16: International Development Dinner
October 26
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Location:Reiss 283 Organization:Georgetown Social Democrats |
Date: October 26, 2006 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm Contact: Javier Sethness |
| Come watch Hubert Sauper's 2004 documentary, "Darwin's Nightmare." Set on the shores of Lake Victoria—the region said to have been the cradle of humanity—the film presents a harrowing portrait of life in Mwanza, a northern Tanzanian village that processes locally caught fish for export to European markets (carried northward by hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes and their attendant crews). In the film, questions of ecology and economics—regarding the introduction of a voracious non-native species of fish into the lake and the viability of sustainably harvesting it—are juxtaposed with several socio-political ones: the prevalence of prostitution among local women catering to foreign clients brought to the area by globalizing processes; the plight of local street children, abandoned and vulnerable; the spectre of hunger and famine in Mwanza and elsewhere in the country; and, arguably, the failures on the part of the Tanzanian government in adequately addressing these and other problems. Throughout the film, the role of the North (represented by the Russian export planes) vis-à-vis these issues lurks in the background: Is the emphasis on extraction of these fish for export helping local communities, hurting them, both, or neither? Might the social, economic, and political problems featured in the film stem from something altogether different? After the film, we'll have a discussion, moderated by Prof. Callisto Madavo (African Development), to try to sort through these and other questions. "Darwin's Nightmare" is the winner of the Vienna Film Award (2004), won Best Documentary at the European Film Awards (2004), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (2006). | |
November 2
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Location:McGhee Library Organization:SFS Academic Council |
Date:November 2, 2006 from 6:30pm-7:30pm Contact: Ann Koppuzha |
| Engage in conversation with Dean Betty Andretta about her experiences this past summer in the Sudan and Saudi Arabia. Light refreshments will be served. | |
November 3
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Location:McGhee Library Organization:The Certificate in International Development, African Studies Program and Senegal Study Abroad Participants |
Date:November 3, 2006 from 12pm-2pm Contact:RSVP>> |
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The Certificate in International Development , in cooperation with the African
Studies Program and Senegal Study Abroad Participants invites to the second
IDEVPIZZALUNCH in the MCGHEE LIBRARY with Dr. Viola M. Vaughn, founder and
Executive Director of the Women's Health Education and Prevention Strategies
Alliance (WHEPSA) and 10,000 Girls in Kaolack, Senegal, West Africa. She also
created WHEPSA in 2001, to develop new strategies for offering health and
educational services to girls in rural Senegal.
For additional information, please check: http://www.10000girls.org/biography?PHPSESSID=2a95d7745516d5f2fa8d2405fee7db77. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2006. McGHEE LIBRARY 12-2pm RSVP to idevcert@georgetown.edu by November 2. | |
November 16
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Location:ICC Galleria Organization:GU UNICEF |
Date: November 16, 2006 from 7:30pm-9:30pm Contact: Ann Koppuzha |
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Are you interested in International Development? Do you want to meet with NGO leaders and professionals working in InternationalDevelopment? Do you like free, yummy, food? If you said yes to the above questions then you should come to the 4th Annual International Development Dinner on Thursday, November 16th from 7:30-9:30pm in the ICC Galleria that is sponsored by UNICEF. At last year's event, guests from over twenty organizations such as the World Health Organization, UNA-USA, USAID, and InterAction participated in an intimate roundtable dinner and discussion with our students about issues ranging from maternal health to environment sustainability to internships and created a plan of action to address the issue. The intimate environment of this dinner is often a good starting place to form relationships between students and NGO leaders and can often help students figure out their role in international development and the advancement of humanity. This is a fantastic leadership and learning opportunity! If you would like to RSVP, simply choose a table and email the leader asking if you can sit at his/her table. RSVP quickly because usually this is a completely full event! Please contact Ann Koppuzha (ack23@georgetown.edu) if you have any questions. | |