Please see below for two great events taking place this afternoon and tomorrow evening:
Today at 4 pm in the Faculty Conference Center we are hosting Professor Harris Mylonas from GWU’s Department of Politics to discuss his new book The Politics of Nation-Building (Cambridge University Press 2012). Professor Mylonas completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 2008 and then joined the Political Science department at George Washington University as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2009. He is also an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies where he conducted research in 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 academic years.
Tomorrow at 6 pm in the Great Room we will celebrate our colleague Professor Robert Cottrol and his new book, The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphere (2013). We will have a panel discussion featuring Commissioner Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Rapporteur on the Rights of Afro-descendants and Against Racial Discrimination, OAS; Professor Eric Arensen, GW History Department; and Judith Morrison, Inter-American Development Bank.