'So is this my new identity? Am I a 'Brazilian'? Or 'a Latin American living in Europe'? or 'the daughter of a Holocaust survivor'?' - Andrea Seligmann Silva, Director.

Professor Jonathan Eaton is a leading scholar in international economics, a former Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-winner (with Samuel Kortum) of the Frisch Medal. Professor Eaton's recent research has focused on the implications of firm heterogeneity for international trade theory and policy, international technology diffusion, and innovation, competition, and productivity change in a global economy.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's March 1, 1961 signing of the Peace Corps Executive Order, a panel of returned Peace Corps volunteers will share their experiences. They will explain why they decided to serve and their experiences during and following their years of service. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. Panel participants will include those who served in Zambia, Honduras, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Kiribati, Moldova, Panama, Samoa, Paraguay, and Malaysia.

Part of the Global Issues Lecture Series, 'Perspectives of Conflict: Congo, Sudan, Cambodia,' Rape capital of the world. This is a common description of eastern DR Congo.Why? This presentation will explore the complexities contributing to rampant sexual violence and give voice to survivors. Based on research at Panzi Hospital, Dr. Lee Ann DeReus will share inspiring messages of hope, courage, and resilience from these remarkable women, children and men.

This lecture is the first in the series.

'Teacher Mediation of EFL Students' Oral Performance and Teacher Professional Development: Researching the Connection' - JOSE-DAVID HERAZO, Doctoral Student, Instruction and Learning

Join us late Friday afternoon for an informal gathering for GSC students and their friends. Come meet our new director, Dr. Nancy Condee, and other students in our program that share interest in critical world issues. Also, staff from the Study Abroad Office and Career Development Office will provide information on how and where to find summer internships, and GSC seniors with diverse internship experiences will share their insights. Bring a friend! Refreshments served.

A reading group led by Sharon Kinoshita

This event will explore the experiences of African-Americans who have studied, taught and conducted research in Russia or focusing on Slavic languages, literatures and cultures, an academic field in which they are seriously underrepresented. It will include interactive discussion among the speakers and audience on the unique challenges of studying and traveling, as part of an underrepresented minority, in a region of the world which has historically and recently had an uneasy relationship with racial diversity, despite official Soviet-era pronouncements on the “friendship of peoples.”

Gershom Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of Settlements, 1967-1977. Based on the previously unpublished documents, the Accidental Empire sheds new light on Israel's post 1967 history and Israel_US relations. A senior correspondent for The American Prospect, Gorenberg has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, The Jerusalem Report, The New Republic, and in Hebrew for Ha'aretz

The laws of war are silent on what should happen after the bombs have dropped. Civilians lawfully harmed in war are often left with nothing. Do we owe war's survivors something more? CIVIC is arguing for a new standard of conduct one that expects warring parties to 'make amends' to the civilians they harm. This principle already is at work in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.