| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, April 5 – April 30
Monday, April 5
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Assessing the Reset: The First Year of the Obama Administration's Russia Policy, Samuel Charap, Associate Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for American Progress
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Building Democracy and State Institutions in Post-War Kosovo, Elton Skendaj, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Cornell University
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
A Conversation With Afghan Women Diplomats
Wednesday, April 7
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
 Empowering Faculty and Transforming Education in Pakistan, Sabiha Mansoor, Pakistan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Professor and Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan; Parag Khanna, Director, Global Governance Initiative, and Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation; Hamid Kizilbash, Principal Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Beyond Lula: The Outlook for the 2010 Brazilian Elections, Alberto Almeida, Director, Instituto Análise; Clifford Young, Executive Director, IPSOS Public Affairs Brazil; Cláudio Gonçalves Couto, Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas; Chris Garman, Director, Eurasia Group; David Fleischer, Professor Emeritus, Universidade de Brasília and President, TCC-Brazil (Transparency, Consciousness and Citizenship); João Augusto de Castro Neves, Founding Partner and Political Analyst, CAC Consultoria
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
New Book Discussion: The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931, Editor Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History, SUNY, Binghamton; Editor Beverly Wilson Palmer, Research Associate, Pomona College; Sally Greenberg, Executive Director, National Consumer's League; Dorothy Ross, Professor Emerita of History, Johns Hopkins University, Kirsten Downey, author and journalist, commentators. Introduction by Sara Manzano-Diaz, Director of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
Thursday, April 8
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
New Research on Population and Climate: The Impact of Demographic Change on Carbon Emissions, Brian O'Neill, Scientist, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Friday, April 9
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Courting Justice", Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues; Ruth B. Cowan, Filmmaker; Moderator Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, Africa Program
Monday, April 12
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Challenges in Building Russian Democracy, Robert Orttung, President, Resource Security Institute, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Ambassador's Roundtable: The Obama Administration and Arab-Israeli Peace, Edward Gnehm, Former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan; Theodore Kattouf, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria; Daniel C. Kurtzer, Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel; Jacob Wallace, Former Consul General in Jerusalem; Frank Wisner, Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt; Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Middle East Adviser, U.S. Department of State
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Getting Kosovo out of Limbo?, James Gow, Professor of International Peace and Security, Director of the International Peace and Security Programme, King's College-London
Tuesday, April 13
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Moving Closer or Drifting Apart?: Assessing the State of the U.S.-Canada Relationship
Thursday, April 15
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Establishing Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan, Thomas J. Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; J. Alexander Thier, Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan, United States Institute of Peace; William Wood, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Monday, April 19
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Launch: Mendez V. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights, Author Philippa Strum, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Other Commentators TBA
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Democratization, War, and Strategic Partnership: U.S.-Georgian Relations Since August 2008, Cory Welt, Associate Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Tuesday, April 20
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification, Frederic Bozo, Professor of Contemporary History and International Relations, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Stephen Szabo, Executive Director, Transatlantic Academy
Wednesday, April 21
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Serbia and the EU: Assessing the Economic Prospects, John Lampe, Professor of History, University of Maryland-College Park
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Dialogue, Defense and Media Messaging: U.S.-Russian Citizen Diplomacy Past and Present, Phil Donahue, Journalist and Television Host, New York; Vladimir Pozner, Journalist and Television Host, Moscow; David Hoffman, Contributing Editor, The Washington Post; Heather Hurlburt, Executive Director, National Security Network
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties, Author Martin Klimke, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute; Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University; Jeremy Varon, Associate Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
Thursday, April 22
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
FM Galicia, Taras Prokhasko, Writer, Ivano-Frankivsk
Friday, April 23
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
New Books Discussion: American Race Relations in Transnational Perspective, James Miller, Professor of English and American Studies, George Washington University, and Author, Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial; Susan Pennybacker, Professor of European History, Trinity College, and Author, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain; Andrew Zimmerman, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University, and Author, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Monday, April 26
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Contemporary Attitudes and Beliefs in Abkhazia, Moldova and Transdnestria: A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data, John O'Loughlin, College Professor of Distinction, Department of Geography, University of Colorado; Vladimir Kolossov, Head, Center of Geopolitical Studies, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences; Gerard Toal, Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
Wednesday, April 28
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mayday 1960: Reassessing the U-2 Shoot Down, Chris Pocock, Author, 50 Years of the U-2; Dino Brugioni, All-Source Analyst, (ret.) National Photographic Interpretation Center; Martin Sherwin, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Giles Whittell, Washigton Correspondent, The Times of London; Matthew Aid, Visiting Fellow, National Security Archive; Svetlana Savranskaya Director of Russian Programs, National Security Archive
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Reinventing Technology Assessment, Richard Sclove, Founder Senior Fellow, The Loka Institute; Paul Stern, National Academy of Sciences, David Rejeski, Director, Science and Technology Innovation Program
Thursday, April 29
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Demography, Migration, and Tolerance: Eurasian Experience in Context, Mridula Ghosh, Board Chair, East European Development Institute, Kyiv; Marya Rozanova, Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy and Head of the Center for Civil, Social, Scientific, and Cultural Initiatives, St. Petersburg, and Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution; Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Talk: Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978, Kai Bird,Contributing Editor, The Nation
Friday, April 30
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
They Also Serve: Military Families and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) and Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, and Author, The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers; Gordon H. Mansfield, Director, Disabled Veterans LIFE Memorial Foundation; Jennifer Mittelstadt, Associate Professor of History, Penn State University; Douglas Wilson, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs; John Allen Williams, President, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society; René Bardorf, Executive Director, ReMIND; Lynda Davis, Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense of Military Community and Family Policy; Lory Manning, Director, Women in the Military Project, Women's Research and Education Institute; Bill White, President, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund; Kathy Roth-Douquet, Chair, Blue Star Families; Shelly MacDermid Wadsworth, Director, Military Families Research Center, Purdue University; Mary Keller, Executive Director, Military Child Education Coalition; Joyce Wessel Raezer, Chief Operating Officer, National Military Family Association
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Green Planet Blues Covers Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics
The new edition of the book co-edited by University of Maryland Professor Ken Conca and ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko covers key debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, biodiversity, and other environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. It is available now from Westview Press.
Two Democracies: Defining the Essence of India-U.S. Partnership
The India-U.S. relationship is one with "boundless possibilities for mutual benefit," according to Her Excellency Nirupama Rao. The Wilson Center recently hosted Rao, India's foreign secretary, at a Director's Forum co-sponsored by the Asia Program and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Five Myths About Mexico's Drug War
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee, Fellow David Shirk, and Senior Adviser Eric Olson co-authored an op-ed that appeared in The Washington Post, providing context and dispelling myths about the drug war in Mexico. (3/28)
Iranian Poet Simin Behbahani
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari appeared on NPR's "On Point" to discuss the current problems facing Iranian academics, writers and artists. She also appeared on "Purple State of Mind" and on CBC Radio to discuss her incarceration in Iran and her memoir My Prison, My Home. The book was reviewed in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. (3/25)
Mexico Expert Addresses Drug War's Effects on Texas, U.S.
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee was interviewed in The Dallas Morning News about Mexico's drug war and its consequences for the United States. He also appeared on "NBC Nightly News," an interview that was replayed on the "Today Show" in light of the killings of three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Juarez, and discussed the issue on KCRW's "To the Point" and KQED's "Forum." (3/22)
Tough Talk Between U.S. and Israel
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller appeared on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "The Diane Rehm Show" to discuss the fracture in U.S.-Israeli relations over a planned Israeli building project in east Jerusalem. He also published an op-ed on CNN.com about rifts between Israel and the United States that preceded the current one. Earlier, he published op-eds in Politico and The Washington Post and contributed to a New York Times blog discussion on the issue. (3/18)
Who's Running Egypt?
Fellow Nathan Brown published a piece on a href="http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/16/whos_running_egypt">Foreign Policy's "Middle East Channel" blog about the constitutional questions raised by the hospitalization of Egyptian President Husni Mubarak. He also contributed a piece to a discussion on the New York Times' "Room for Debate" blog about Vice President Biden's flare-up with Israel over new housing development in disputed east Jerusalem. (3/16)
Meet the Coffee Party, a Kinder, Gentler, More Liberal Tea Party
Senior Scholar Linda Killian posted three op-eds on USNews.com: about the Coffee Party, a grassroots party forming to express their frustration with the U.S. political system through discourse, about the obstacle the House poses to health care reform, and about the health care reform summit. She also discussed the Coffee Party on a program on C-SPAN.
(3/15)
Pakistan's Image Problem
Asia Program Associate Michael Kugelman published an op-ed in Pakistan's Dawn about why Pakistan's image abroad is so poor and what it can do to improve it. (3/15)
Haiti Loses Its U.S. Lifeboat
Public Policy Scholar Sheri Fink published an article on ProPublica and a radio piece on PRI's "The World" about the medical state of Haiti as the U.S. Navy's hospital ship leaves the Port-au-Prince. She also published an article on ProPublica about the death of a 79-year-old patient in a New Orleans hospital that was cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. (3/14)
Health Care's Fate Is Moment of Truth for 'No Drama Obama'
Public Policy Scholar Jamie Stiehm published an op-ed in Politics Daily about the urgency of the health care reform debate for President Obama. She also published pieces about Dolley Madison's seeming contradiction on the subject of slavery and about Oscar-nominated directors and exes James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. (3/14)
The Thaw That Wasn't
Public Policy Scholar Maleeha Lodhi published an op-ed in Pakistan's The News about the disappointments of last month's meeting between the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India. She also wrote a blog post on the Baltimore Sun website analyzing the effectiveness of military operations thus far in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (3/9)
Privacy Is Old-Fashioned
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post's "On Leadership" blog, part of a series on how leaders deal with their personal vices. (3/3)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Intelligence Process Shows Signs of Life After Years of Gridlock" and "Slaughter Solution for Health Care Suffers Whiplash."
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