| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, September 1 – September 30
Tuesday, September 1
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Turkey's Energy Politics: Neither East or West, Gulnur Aybet, Southeast Europe Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)
Wednesday, September 2
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
After Gitmo, What Next?: A European Perspective, Seán Aylward, Secretary General, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Republic of Ireland
Tuesday, September 8
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Black and White and Red Ink All Over: Newspapers in Peril, Leonard Downie, Jr., Former Executive Editor, The Washington Post; Allison Silver, Founder, The Washington Independent; Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University; Gabor Steingart, Washington Bureau Chief, Der Spiegel
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum, Susan Colin Marks, Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground (moderator); Louise Diamond, President, Global Systems Initiatives; Cynthia Irmer, Senior Conflict Prevention Officer, U.S. Department of State; Lisa Schirch, Director, 3D Security Initiative
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Talk: Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance, Author David Gardner, Chief Leader Writer and Associate Editor, Financial Times
Wednesday, September 9
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Economic Development and Conflict Resolution: What Role Can It Play in Arab-Israeli Peacemaking?, Jane Nandy, Director, Office of Middle East Affairs, Middle East Bureau, USAID; David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, College Park and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Saban Center, Brookings Institution; Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, September 10
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide , Nicholas Kristof, Author and Columnist, The New York Times; Sheryl WuDunn, Author and Investment Adviser; Aparajita Gogoi, National Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood-India; Country Director, Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA); Jérémie Zoungrana, National Adviser, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood-Burkina Faso and Rwanda; Country Director, JHPIEGO-Rwanda; and Manager, Safe Birth Africa Initiative, ACCESS
Wednesday, September 16
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, Author David Wessel, Economics Editor, The Wall Street Journal and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, September 17
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Launch: Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Author Patricia Sullivan, Associate Professor of History and African-American History, University of South Carolina and Former Fellow, Wilson Center; Julian Bond, Professor of History, University of Virginia (commentator); Kenneth Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, (commentator)
Friday, September 18
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
U.S.-Dutch Relations in the Post-1945 Era, L. Paul Bremer III, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands; Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch Ambassador to the U.S., Cornelis A. van Minnen, Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Hans Krabbendam, Assistant Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Giles Scott-Smith, Senior Researcher, Roosevelt Study Center
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Perverse Incentives: The Untold Story of Federal Subsidies to Fossil Fuels, Speakers to be announced
Monday, September 21
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Talk: Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces, Steven Ward, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Universal Health Care: Are the People Ready for It?, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) (invited); Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), (invited); Julia Lynch, Deptartment of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Ceci Connolly, Staff Writer, The Washington Post; Don Wolfensberger, Director, Congress Project (Moderator)
Tuesday, September 22
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Foundation Roundtable: Future Family Planning Strategies, Julia Bunting, Team Leader, AIDS and Reproductive Health Team, Human Development Group, Department for International Development; Musimbi Kanyoro, Director, Population and Reproductive Health Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Jose G. Rimon II, Senior Program Officer, Global Health Policy and Advocacy, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Scott Radloff, Director, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, U.S. Agency for International Development
Wednesday, September 23
11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies, Speakers to be announced
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Soviet-Taiwanese Relations During the Early Cold War, Shin Kawashima, Japan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Webs of Violence in Rwanda: A Conversation With Lee Ann Fujii, Lee Ann Fujii, Professor, Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University; Lars Waldorf, Professor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Thursday, September 24
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Negotiating With the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, 1949-1972, Yafeng Xia, Associate Professor of History, University of Long Island
Monday, September 28
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Transnational Religious Education and the Changing Face of Central Asian Islam, David Abramson, Foreign Affairs Research Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, September 29
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Launch: Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq, Christina Asquith, Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, September 30
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Grave Translations: The Unearthly Map of Vilnius, Laimonas Briedis, Visiting Research Fellow, Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute and author of Vilnius: City of Strangers; Julija Sukys, Independent Scholar, Writer and Author of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout
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Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments
A new book published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press explores women's legislative roles in six post-Communist countries.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution'
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari describes and reflects on her 2007 imprisonment in Iran in an interview in The Huffington Post. She also published an op-ed in The Washington Post about Iran's paranoia of revolution and discussed Iran's presidential election on several television programs, including Foreign Exchange With Daljit Dhaliwal CNN's The Situation Room, and CBS News. (8/26)
Turkish-Kurdish Conflict Through a Woman's Lens
Southeast Europe Project Research Assistant Fatima Abushanab published an op-ed in Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman about a woman's perspective of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. (8/25)
Avoid Hyperbole, Oversimplification When Climate and Security Meet
Environmental Change and Security Program Director Geoff Dabelko published an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists urging experts to avoid hyperbole about the nexus of climate and security. (8/24)
The Hot, Flat, Insecure World: A Governance Test
Southeast Europe Policy Scholar Ruby Gropas published a piece in openDemocracy about the interplay of global warming and security. (8/21)
Afghanistan's Tyranny of the Minority
Senior Scholar Selig Harrison wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about the alienation of Afghanistan's Pashtun tribes, the nation's largest ethnic group. (8/16)
Yes to a Nuclear Summit
Public Policy Scholar Avner Cohen authored an op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz arguing in favor of Israel's attendance at President Obama's nuclear summit planned for next year. (8/17)
Recalling Another Time When Anger Ruled the Nation
Public Policy Scholar Jamie Stiehm published an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the angry town-hall dialogue over health care and a parallel in American history during the 1830s. She also wrote a story in The Huffington Post about "the lost art of lunch" in Washington. (8/16)
Will Iran's 'Kennedys' Challenge Ahmadinejad?
Public Policy Scholar Robin Wright published an article in Time about two possible challengers to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—brothers Sadegh and Ali Larijani, who are head of the judiciary and speaker of parliament, respectively. She also wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post about imprisoned Iranian revolutionary Mohsen Mirdamadi. (8/17)
Mexico: A Not-So-Distant Neighbor
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee published an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle on US-Mexico Security Cooperation. He also discussed President Obama's recent trip to Mexico on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and NPR's Talk of the Nation. (8/9)
Federal News Tonight
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson appeared on News Channel 8's Federal News Tonight to discuss business entrepreneurs' role in pulling the economy out of recession. (8/4)
Now You Know
North Korea International Documentation Project Coordinator James Person appeared on Voice of America's Now You Know to discuss the contrasts between former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and current leader Kim Jong Il. (Click "Episode #09" to watch.) (8/3)
'Yemen's creation of its own customized version of modernity was disrupted by the agenda of political Islam'
Fellow Margot Badran was featured in an article in the Yemen Times about her experience in Yemen, where she helped establish the curricula of the Gender-Development Research and Studies Center at the University of Sana'a. (8/3)
Going His Way
Senior Scholar James Reston, Jr. published a piece in The Washington Post retracing Martin Luther's steps from Wittenberg to Worms 500 years ago. (8/2)
Commentaries by Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton, director of the Wilson Center, writes regular commentaries on foreign policy and Congress. Last month he published "The Sotomayor Hearings Were Hardly 'Oversight'," "As More U.S. Troops Arrive, Is Afghan War Worth It?," and "Cyber-Attack Just a Click Away."
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "2009 PAYGO Bill Finds Itself on Shaky Constitutional Footing."
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