Nerd Nite Liberia: August 14, 2012
Nerd Nite Liberia: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The fifth edition of Nerd Nite Liberia will be held on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at Jamal’s Boulevard Cafe in Sinkor, Monrovia (14th St and Tubman Blvd.). Presentations to begin at 8pm.
Presentations:
The Doom Loop and How to Get Out of It – by Paul Binkley
Bollywood 101: Myths, Legends & Fairytales – by Nagraj Rao
TBA
Full info on the presentations and presenters:
The Doom Loop and How to Get Out of It – by Paul Binkley
Paul Binkley is originally from the “land that time forgot and the decades can’t improve”…Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. Fortunately, he escaped the frozen tundra and spent the last 15 years living in Washington, DC. Until May 2012, he was the director of career services at The George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Before that he worked at GWU’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He recently wrote a book on getting jobs with the U.S. federal government and completed his Doctorate in Higher Education Administration earlier this summer. Paul also has a master’s degree in foreign policy from the University of Kentucky. He is a certified Myers Briggs trainer, a certified Global Career Director Facilitator, and a former basketball referee (a topic for a future Nerd Nite). When he’s not scouring Monrovia looking for gainful employment, he bides his time waiting for the college basketball season to start so he can watch the Kentucky Wildcats dominate yet again.
Bollywood 101: Myths, Legends & Fairytales – by Nagraj Rao
What are the most common myths about Bollywood outside of the South Asian diaspora? Which five individuals in Bollywood are considered to be legends and have attained almost god-like status? Is there an underlying common theme in all Bollywood movies? How has Bollywood evolved over time and what factors have influenced this evolution? Why do a lot of Bollywood films come across as fantasies – with musicals that are opulent in nature and films that are shot in foreign locales? Is it a good investment decision to invest in Bollywood films? Come and learn all about the myths, legends and fantasies in Bollywood and perfect the classic “screw the light bulb and pat the dog” dance step.
A self-confessed Bollywood junkie, Nagraj Rao was born in the IT city of India, Bangalore but shifted to New Delhi at a tender age of 3. Nagraj moved to the United States at 17 to pursue his undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Economics and decided to pick up a Master’s degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA when the world economy went kaput. After a short stint at the World Bank, DC office, he realized that he hated DC and moved to Tanzania to work on a Living Standards Measurement Survey where his job was to count the number of poor people in each region of the country. Of late, he has also expanded his skills to counting the number of pigs, chicken, cows and any living creature that basically moves. And while his job description has not changed much since his move to Liberia, his title certainly has with the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services crowning him as their Resident Advisor. When not watching a Bollywood film, Nagraj spends his time blaming his parents for his poor IT skills attributable to the shift from Bangalore to Delhi.
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