Program
Event Program
Meet Revolutionaries who are creating a greater world. The GW InnovationFest program will feature research posters, demonstrations, books, inventions, performances and art—all under one roof! Explore the digital program below.
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| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York Meet Professor Tyler Anbinder, author of "Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York." He will sign books and describe the key role that more than two dozen GW undergraduates played in the research that made this book possible.
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| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy These days it seems that nobody is satisfied with American politics. In Realigners, Timothy Shenk offers a new explanation of how we got here— a biography of American democracy told through the country’s dominant electoral coalitions over more than two centuries. We’ve had majorities that transformed the country before. And if there’s an escape from the doom loop that American politics has become, it’s because we might have one again.
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| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Shakespeare, Race and the World Alexa Alice Joubin’s book “Race” provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term, race, from the classical period onwards. The book is distinguished by its breadth and global coverage. In “Shakespeare and East Asia” (Oxford University Press), Joubin examines Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle, Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation, South Korean presentations of gender, and multilingual performances in Asian America, Singapore, and the UK.
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| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement "This Is Rhythm" is a biography of Ella Jenkins, the most significant and prolific U.S. children's musician of the 20th century. The multiple award-winning Jenkins recorded 40 albums and left an enduring imprint on the musical childhoods of untold Americans. "This Is Rhythm" focuses on the radicalism of Jenkins' work, which put Black musical aesthetics and Black history at the center of American children's music.
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| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone Leading is inevitably frustrating and emotionally demanding, yet leaders get little training in how to deal with painful emotions. Since the global pandemic, stresses on leaders have only grown. To lead effectively in an age of anxiety, leaders must build the capacity to act in spite of unpleasant emotions, and bring a learning mindset to challenges that can otherwise feel overwhelming. Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone draws on a wide body of research to show how well-being and resilience emerg
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| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Ugly Freedoms In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom in America, showing how individual liberty has upheld economic injustice, misogyny, white supremacy, and climate destruction. These “ugly freedoms” harm and oppress others. At the same time, Anker shows an unexpected, second type of ugly freedom in actions often dismissed as small, weird, and ineffectual, but that provide exciting sources of emancipatory potential for living free in an unjust world.
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| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Learners Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easy-to-follow sketches, drawings and succinct explanations. Twenty-five concepts - each of which are key to architectural design thinking - are accessibly explained by examining twenty-five different masterworks of modern architecture.
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| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Cyber Intelligence: Actors, Policies, Practices This book offers a comprehensive examination of cyber intelligence, highlighting its strategic importance, the key actors involved, and the techniques and practices that define the field.
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| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Writing Blackgirls’ and Women’s Health Science This field of Black girls’ and women’s health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate pathways and inform methodologies for doing research and praxis to address BGWH.
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| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
The Consumer Citizen In The Consumer Citizen, Ethan Porter investigates how the techniques of everyday consumer experiences can shape political behavior. Drawing on more than a dozen original studies, he shows that the casual conflation of consumer and political decisions has profound implications for how Americans think about politics. Porter explains that consumer habits can affect citizens' attitudes about their government, their taxes, their politicians, and even whether they purchase government insurance.
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| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles FDR to Biden This book systematically examines the first terms of every president from FDR to Joe Biden and assesses the leadership style and policy agenda of each. Success in bringing about policy change is shown to hinge on the leadership style and skill in managing a variety of institutional and public relationships. Presidents are evaluated based on the level of opportunity they faced.
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| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
The Young Black Leader's Guide to a Successful Career in International Affairs The Young Black Leader’s Guide draws on the experiences of Black American giants in the field to provide systematic, practical advice. From getting started to learning to lead, from overcoming imposter syndrome to acing performance reviews, from dealing with racism to knowing when to say no, this book provides an essential guide for young people of color seeking to play a much-needed role in the global arena.
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| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
We Hold These "Truths": How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back In this clear-eyed guide, America’s political experts cut through the spin and expose the myths holding our democracy back. Our political system is bogged down by convenient falsehoods, fueled by those who benefit from the chaos. These myths distort our view of government and prevent us from solving real problems, leaving many Americans feeling frustrated and hopeless.
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| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.
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| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America Professor Gordon Mantler's most recent book, The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington’s Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan’s America, examines the multiracial movement that elected Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago and offers a window in the complex relationship between social movements and electoral politics in the 1980s. It has won awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Illinois State Historical Society, and the Union League Club of Chicago.
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