| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, January 5 – January 29
Tuesday, January 5
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
 A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park
Wednesday, January 6
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Human Resources for Maternal Health: Midwives, TBAs, and Task-Shifting, Seble Frehywot, Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Global Health, George Washington University; Jeffrey Smith, Regional Technical Director for Asia, Jhpiego; Pape Gaye, President CEO, IntraHealth
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The Road to Rio: Cultural Diversity Identity in Cities; Governance Participation, Moderator Richard Stren, Emeritus Professor and Former Director, Department of Political Science and Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto; Lana Abu Hijleh, CHF International Country Director, Palestine; Afeefa Syeed; Senior Culture and Development Adviser, Asia and Middle East Bureaus, U.S. Agency for International Development; Gabriel Nii Teiko Tagoe, Project Director, Ga Mashie Development Agency; Brian Wampler, Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Practical Concerns for Water Development Projects, Ken Hackett, President, Catholic Relief Services; Jason Gehrig, Consultant and Engineer, Catholic Relief Services; Tjip Walker, Team Leader, Warning and Analysis unit, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, U.S. Agency for International Development; William E. Hall, Professor, Conflict Resolution Program, Georgetown University; Geoff Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Change on the Horizon? Public Opinion in Ukraine before the 2010 Presidential Election: Presentation of Findings from IFES Annual Survey, Rakesh Sharma, Director, F. Clifton White Applied Research Center, IFES Gavin Weise, Deputy Director for Europe and Asia, IFES
Thursday, January 7
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Are Caspian and Middle-East Pipelines the Future of the European Gas Market?, Jennifer Coolidge, Executive Director, CMX Caspian and Gulf Consultants Limited, and Former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Friday, January 8
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Iran's Nuclear Ambitions in Perspective, Shahram Chubin, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Non-resident Senior Associate, Carnegie Nonproliferation Program
Monday, January 11
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, Constantine Pleshakov, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Critical Social Thought, Mount Holyoke College
Tuesday, January 12
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Political Islam in Turkey: Running West, Heading East?, Gareth Jenkins, Journalist and Senior Associate Fellow, Silk Roads Studies Program
Wednesday, January 13
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Pathways to Peace: Stories of Environment, Health, and Conflict, Gidon Bromberg, Co-Director, Friends of the Earth Middle East; Joan Regina L. Castro, Executive Vice President, PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc.; Shewaye Deribe, Project Coordinator, Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association; Juan Dumas, Special Adviser, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano; Aaron Wolf, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University
Thursday, January 14
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Banning Headscarves in Bulgaria: Reflections on the Debate over Religious Symbols in Public Schools, Kristen Ghodsee, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
Tuesday, January 19
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: Shadow Elite: How Studying Post-Communist Societies Illuminates the Structure of Power in America and Beyond, Janine Wedel, Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Squaring the Iron Triangle: The Fate of Economic and Political Reform in Japan, Patricia Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin; Ulrike Schaede, University of California at San Diego; Matthew Carlson, University of Vermont
Wednesday, January 20
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Hidden Waters, Dragons in the Deep, Christina Larson, Foreign Policy Magazine; Chris Groves, Western Kentucky University; Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Lecture: "Our Courts", The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court (Retired); Molly Kervin, Teacher, Palo Verde Middle School, Phoenix, and her students
This event will take place at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The History of the Gas Centrifuge and Its Role in Nuclear Proliferation, Houston G. Wood, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia; David Albright, President, Institute for Science and International Security; Jeffrey Lewis, Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation
Monday, January 25
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Ukraine After the First Round of Elections, David Kramer, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Wednesday, January 27
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Challenges for Romania's Democratic Consolidation: Assessing the 2009 Presidential Elections, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Emerging U.S.-India Strategic Relationship, C. Raja Mohan, Kissinger Scholar, Library of Congress; Dinshaw Mistry, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bethany Danyluk, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Thursday, January 28
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Book Launch: Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil, Leonardo Avritzer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais
Friday, January 29
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula , Charles K. Armstrong, Columbia University; Choi Kang, Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security; Ha Young-sun, Seoul National University; Kim Byung-Kook, Korea University; Kim Tae Hyun, Chungang University; Samuel Kim, Columbia University; Christian F. Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; James F. Person, Woodrow Wilson Center; Ryoo Kihl-jae, University of North Korean Studies; William Stueck, University of Georgia; Amb. Sun Jounyung, University of North Korean Studies; Robert Sutter, Georgetown University; Zhu Feng, Beijing University
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Woodrow Wilson Center-Washington Post Fellows Featured in Newspaper
The Washington Post is featuring articles about Latin America by the 2009 class of Woodrow Wilson Center-Washington Post Fellows. The program brings professional journalists from Latin America to Washington for a three-week exchange of dialogue and professional development.
Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962
Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published a new book, Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962. It is copublished with Stanford University Press.
Fixing a Broken Immigration System
Immigration is a major issue on agendas around the world, in "sending" as well as "receiving" countries. Recent Wilson Center events highlighted debates in the United States, Mexico, and Russia.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Major Change in Iran
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss renewed protesting in Iran and the regime's violent response. She also appeared on NPR's "Weekend Edition" to discuss jailed Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, and was featured in a piece in the Monterey County Herald about a U.S. foreign policy talk she gave at the World Affairs Council. (12/29)
Coming of Age
Fellow Nathan Brown published an article in The National (United Arab Emirates) about Hamas's history and its governance of Gaza as the Islamist group begins its 22nd year as an organization. (12/24)
Job Creation? Look to Entrepreneurs
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published a piece on CNN.com about how entrepreneurs and small businesses are the heart of job creation, more so than large companies. She also published an op-ed in Businessweek about the holiday season being a good time for innovative entrepreneurs, and wrote a poem for The Huffington Post about the Obama administration's performance this year—to the meter of "The Night Before Christmas." (12/24)
Copenhagen Wrap-Up
Brazil Institute Director Paulo Sotero appeared on "The Diane Rehm Show" to discuss climate change and the conclusion of the Copenhagen summit. (12/21)
It's Official! Tiger's Affairs Are More Important Than 9-11
dialogue host John Milewski posted an op-ed on The Huffington Post about news editorial judgment and the amount of coverage media have been giving Tiger Woods. He also wrote about partisan budget paralysis in Congress and a panel discussion that offered hope of bipartisanship to come.
(12/18)
Countries in Crisis Week: Mexico
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee appeared on "The Agenda With Steve Paikin" to talk about Mexico's security situation and its ongoing drug war. (12/17)
President 'Yes We Can' Meets a 'No You Won't' World
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller wrote an op-ed about why President Obama's foreign policy rhetoric has outpaced the action that's been taken. The piece was written for McClatchy newspapers and was printed in the Miami Herald, among other publications. He also wrote a piece for CNN.com called "Gulliver's Troubles: Obama, the Nobel, and the Real World." (12/17)
Editor Publisher's Demise Another Nail in Print Journalism's Coffin
Public Policy Scholar Jamie Stiehm posted a story on USNews.com remembering her days at The Baltimore Sun, prompted by the closure of Editor Publisher. She also posted stories about the absence of citizen leaders on health care reform and President Obama's Nobel acceptance speech. (12/16)
Books on History, the West Top the List
Fellow Katherine Benton-Cohen's book Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands was chosen as one of the books of the year in the Tuscon Explorer. (12/16)
Dennis Moore's Retirement Marks the Loss of Another Moderate Politician
Senior Scholar Linda Killian posted an op-ed on USNews.com about Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.), who was the first of three House Democrats to recently announce their retirement from Congress. She also covered the
Federal Trade Commission's conference on the future of news, which included appearances by Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington. (12/14)
Obama Needs a 'Plan B'
Public Policy Scholar Maleeha Lodhi co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times about a possible "Plan B" for the United States in Afghanistan should the military surge fail. She also published op-eds in The News (Pakistan) about Obama's Afghanistan strategy, his speech introducing it, the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and counter-militancy efforts in South Waziristan, as well as an op-ed in the Hindustan Times about reasons to resume the India-Pakistan peace process. (12/9)
Can China Deliver in Pakistan?
Asia Program Associate Michael Kugelman published an op-ed in World Politics Review arguing that Washington needs to work with China to help achieve its goals in Pakistan, goals that are also essential for the success of President Obama's new Afghanistan strategy. (Subscription required) (12/2)
The Energy Report
China Environment Forum Director Jennifer Turner appeared on "Clean Skies News" to discuss China's recent announcement that they are willing to set carbon emissions plans at the upcoming Copenhagen summit. (11/30)
Iran Gets Desperate
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published an article in The Daily Beast reading into Iran's announcement that it will build 10 more uranium-enrichment plants and what that says about diplomats' handling of the country. (11/29)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Travel Bill Takes Strange Journey Through Congress" and "Congressional Horse Collapses Before It Reaches the Barn."
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