Happy 2023 to all from IPDGC!
By Yvonne Oh, IPDGC Program Coordinator
We look forward to welcoming our GW students back to campus in less than a couple of weeks. IPDGC will be forging into 2023 with a slate of events and activities for our students, faculty colleagues as well as the interested public.
Meanwhile, we hope that you will join us in recapping the events of Fall 2022.
In August, IPDGC welcomed Christopher Teal, our Public Diplomacy Fellow 2022-2024 as well as two Visiting Scholars – Udane Goikoetxea-Bilbao and Tran Nguyen Khang .
Chris Teal shared his documentary about Amb. Ebenezer Basset, the first US black diplomat. Teal and his fellow Foreign Service colleague, Sean O’Neill also participated in a Career Talk about opportunities for students at the US State Department.
In November, Udane Goikoetxea-Bilbao presented her research on Slow Journalism as she concluded her scholarship with GW.
With the FIFA 2022 World Cup approaching, IPDGC got into the sporting spirit by co-hosting a virtual discussion on sports journalism and human rights.
The Institute also collaborated with the GW Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia Forum for a presentation on Raising Standards: Data and AI in Southeast Asia.
Our Annual Lecture for the Walter Roberts Endowment featured Jodie Ginsberg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Her presentation on “Defending Press Freedom: Protecting Journalists Around the World” was a grim reminder that threats to the media community remained, in a world struggling through a pandemic, global recession, and autocratic regimes
The final event for the semester focused on Africa’s Future: University Partnerships, Business, Tech & Open Diplomacy that followed the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC. This was an opportunity for a multi-university collaboration with the African Centre for the Study of the U.S., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Policy, University of Southern California; Center for African Studies, Howard University; the Public Diplomacy Council of America and also the Institute for African Studies, at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
See you at IPDGC events this semester!
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