Please join us as the 2023-24 ISD Graduate and Undergraduate Fellows present their research on cutting-edge issues in diplomacy.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:30-5:00 pm
CCAS Boardroom
A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Many ISD senior staff, senior fellows, and student fellows will be present for the entire colloquium. Georgetown students, faculty, staff, and other friends of ISD are invited to attend as many of the presentations as they wish.
The colloquium will proceed as follows:
12:30 Lunch
1:20 Welcome and introduction
1:30 Ms. Sophia Copeland, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS), Humes Fellow
Grappling with the Truth: Examining International Intervention in Bosnian Popular Memory
Adviser: Dr. Kelly M. McFarland, Director of Programs and Research, ISD
2:00 Mr. Steven Orientale, Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS), Huffington Fellow
Geopolitics, the United Nations, and Human Rights
Adviser: Christopher Klein, Senior State Department Fellow, ISD; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs (2021-2022)
2:30 Mr. Arjan van Tongerlo, Security Studies Program (SSP), Bunker Fellow
Engaging the Non-Aligned: Changing the European Union’s Soft Power Approach Toward Africa
Adviser: Rebecca Farmer, Rusk Fellow, ISD; Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
3:00 Break
3:15 Ms. Chendi Liu, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS), Huffington Fellow
Negotiating the Compacts of Free Association: A Case Study in U.S.- Pacific Relations
Adviser: Ambassador (ret.) Alexander Arvizu, Director of the Donald F. McHenry Fellows Program, ISD; U.S. Ambassador to Albania (2010-2015) and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok (2004-2007)
3:45 Mr. Jon Levine, Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS), Huffington Fellow
The New Great Game: Economic and Commercial Diplomacy in the Quest for Critical Minerals
Adviser: Dr. Joseph Yackley, Rusk Fellow, ISD; Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
4:15 Mr. Mikael Pir-Budagyan, Master of Arts in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies
(MAERES), Bunker Fellow
Diplomats in Crisis: Rulebook Adherence or Ad-Hoc Decision-Making? A Case Study of U.S. Diplomats in Russia
Adviser: Ambassador (ret.) John A. Heffern, Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow, ISD; Acting Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs (2017)