February: Short on days, but long on special events
From the number of notices that pop into my inbox every day, you’d never guess that February is the shortest month of the year. I can barely keep up, and I know that students do some serious prioritizing when it comes to deciding which events they’ll attend. For the past few weeks, I’ve been storing the notices in a folder, and I thought I’d just list the various events. Of course, you can find this information on the Fletcher calendar, but it still seemed blog-worthy to create a master list, including a few that aren’t listed in the calendar. Despite the length of the list, I know I’ve missed some, but I think you’ll get the idea — there’s a lot happening here every weekday, and some weekends, too!
February 3: Egypt’s Turn? A Day in the Life of a Democracy Activist turned Entrepreneur. An off-the-record discussion with Wael Ghonim, Internet Activist & Author of “Revolution 2.0.”
February 4: Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Laureates of African Descent. Book Discussion with Dr. Adekeye Adebajo, Professor Pearl Robinson and Lee Daniels
February 6: Initiative on Mass Atrocities and Genocide (IMAGe) at Tufts will feature a panel on Mass Atrocities and the Response to their Public Health Consequences. This panel will be comprised of four Tufts faculty members from across schools and disciplines.
February 9: International Security Studies presents The Middle East in Transition: 2011-2015, Brigadier General Itai Brun. Brigadier General Brun will present an off-the-record lecture to a Fletcher audience of faculty, staff, and students.
February 10-11: A Taste of Ginn Library. Come enjoy some refreshments and morsels of information on JumboSearch, citation tools, WebEx, and more. Drop-in or stay — we’ll rotate through topics every 10 minutes.
February 11: Charles Francis Adams Lecture, featuring Sarah Chayes: Corruption: The Unrecognized Global Security Threat.
February 12: Human Security Speaker Series, A Brown Bag Lunch with Professor Karen Jacobsen: How Many IDPs? Where are They? Information Challenges in Urban Displacement Settings.
February 12: “Fletcher Reads” Community Book Discussion, featuring Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan.
February 12: International Security Studies presents Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster: Future Challenges.
February 12: Charles Francis Adams Lecture: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, 2009-14; Prime Minister of Denmark, 2001-09: NATO: The Indispensable Transatlantic Alliance.
February 17: Initiative on Mass Atrocities and Genocide (IMAGe) talk and book signing by Thomas de Waal — Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, expert on the South Caucasus region, and brother of Fletcher Professor Alex de Waal — on his new book: Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide.
February 17: The 31st Diplomatic Studies Roundtable: The Energetic Ambassador: U.S. Diplomacy in the 21st Century. Remarks by and conversation with Alan Solomont, United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, (2009-2013), currently the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.
February 17: Mexico’s Energy Reform: Regulatory Policy, its Execution and International Perspective. The Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) and FLEEC are inviting you to a luncheon and conversation with a distinguished panel.
February 18: CPT (Curricular Practical Training) and OPT (Optional Practical Training) workshop for international students.
February 18: Optimizing Emerging Market Strategies: How to Manage Financial Risks & Rewards, with Dan Brennan, EVP & CFO, Boston Scientific.
February 19: The Inaugural lecture of the Shelby Cullom Davis Professorship in International Business: Visible Hands: Government Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Global Business, by Jette Steen Knudsen, Associate Professor of International Business and The Shelby Cullom Davis Chair in International Business.
February 19: H.E. Mr. Nikolay Mladenov, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Iraq Head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq and newly appointed Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, Iraq: The Way Forward.
February 19: The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies presents: Sectarian Dynamics and National Reconciliation in the Middle East, a seminar discussion with Mr. Miroslav Zafirov, Bulgarian Diplomat; Political Advisor to the United Nations Assistance MIssion in Iraq (UNAMI), Associate Professor and Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Middle Eastern and Gulf Studies, New Bulgarian University and Director, Middle Eastern Program, Sofia Security Forum
February 19: Ebola fundraiser & positive vibrations party at Johnny D’s. Headlining will be SIERRA LEONE’S REFUGEE ALL STARS, a world renowned roots reggae-inspired band out of West Africa. Opening things up will be Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate (Kouyate is a kora virtuoso) and DJ Afro-Marc spinning on the one’s and two’s before, after, and in between sets. 100% of ticket sales proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to aid their Ebola relief effort in West Africa. Additional donations will be accepted at the door.
February 20: Coffee and chat with MALD student Chris Maroshegyi.
February 20: In the Library Office — drop-in anytime between 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. to hear about quick-start tools for researching your Capstone topic.
February 21: The 10th Annual Tufts Energy Conference, to be held at the Fletcher School. The theme this year is “Breaking Barriers to a Clean Energy Future,” a solutions-oriented look at how to tackle the world’s most pressing energy challenges as we move toward a greener future.
February 23: The North Korea Strategy Center & North Korea Working Group at Fletcher presents: NK Information Highway: Driving Change in North Korea.
February 23: The Institute for Business in the Global Context Speaker Series presents: Evolving Role of The World Bank: The Next Decade, with Michael Goldberg Senior Financial Specialist, World Bank.
February 24: Book Talk: Green on Blue, Elliot Ackerman F’03, Fletcher Writer-in-Residence
February 24: BRICS as a Global Legal Actor: From Regulatory Innovation to BRICS Law? with Prof. Mihaela Papa
February 25: Human Security Speaker Series, a brown bag lunch with Oliver Bakewell, Co-Director of the International Migration Institute, Associate Professor, Department of International Development, University of Oxford: Looking Beyond Conflict as a Determinant of Mobility in the African Great Lakes.
February 25: Award winning author, Harvard Professor of History, and Tufts alumna Jill Lepore, will deliver a guest lecture on her New York Times bestselling book The Secret History of Wonder Woman. This exciting lecture is open to the entire Tufts community and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
February 25: Lost in Translation: Effective communication workshop for international students, sponsored by the Tufts Counseling Center and International Center.
February 25: Tufts University Forum on Race, Inequality, and Action, sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
February 25-March 1: Russia in the 21st Century, sponsored by Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership
February 26-27: Office of Career Services trip to Washington, DC.