The Institute for Global and International Studies

People

Events

Seminar Series

Lecture Series

Diaspora Program

Conferences

Affiliated Programs
	>	Culture in Global Affairs
	>	International Trade and Development
	>	International NGO Team

Culture in Global Affairs

Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA), a research and policy program affiliated with IGIS, is directed by GW Anthropology professor Barbara Miller. CIGA seeks to promote the recognition of culture and its policy relevance to global affairs. CIGA brings together scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad to enhance global knowledge exchange and communication with the policy community.
> Culture in Global Affairs Website

Upcoming Spring 2008 events:

8 February: Culture in Global Affairs Series on Population, Displacement and Resettlement
War and Displacement in Africa
Stephen Lubkemann, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University

15 February: Culture in Global Affairs Series on Population, Displacement and Resettlement
Paradise Stolen: The Expulsion of the Chagossians and the Creation of the U.S. Military BAse on Diego Garcia
David Vine, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American University

The following CIGA lectures and workshops took place during the Fall 2005 semester:

16 September: Culture in Global Affairs
Cultural Impediments to U.S.-Iranian Understanding
William O. Beeman, Professor of Anthropology, Theatre, Speech, and Dance, Brown University

7 October: Culture in Global Affairs
Governing China's Population: Globalization and Neoliberalization
Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine

14 October: Culture in Global Affairs
Human Subjects Protection: Interpretation of the Common Rule for Protection of Human Subjects
Stuart Plattner, NSF Human Subjects Research Officer (retired)

28 November: Culture in Global Affairs
Anthropology Database Workshop and Open Forum
This event launched a long-term project to collect and maintain an electronic database of examples in which anthropology research and methods, in all four fields of the discipline, have had a positive impact on policies, programs, human welfare, and more.