| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, November 1 – November 30
Monday, November 1
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Great Power Rivalry in Central Asia, Stephen Blank, Research Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
 Implications of the Oct. 31 Brazilian Presidential Elections, Riordan Roett, Professor, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; Christopher Garman, Director, Eurasia Group; Clifford Young, Executive Director, IPSOS Public Affairs Brazil; João Augusto de Castro Neves, Founding Partner and Political Analyst, CAC Consultoria; Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, November 2
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Book Launch: Washington's U Street: A Biography, Author Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Maurice Jackson, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University; Moderator Philippa Strum, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, November 3
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Brazilian Cultural Identity: Shaped or Limited by Language?, Cristovão Tezza, Federal University of Paraná; Marçal Aquino, Journalist; Luiz Ruffato, Author; Vivaldo Santos, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University; Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacekeeping in the Balkans, Ina Merdjanova, Marie Curie Fellow at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College (Dublin); Patrice Brodeur, Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization, University of Montreal (Canada); Qamar-ul Huda, Senior Program Officer, Religion and Peacemaking Center of Innovation, United States Institute of Peace
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Revisiting History: North Korea and Nuclear Weapons, Jonathan D. Pollack, Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies, Naval War College
Thursday, November 4
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Voluntary Initiatives, Regulation, and Nanotechnology Oversight: Charting a Path, Daniel Fiorino, Director, Center for Environmental Policy, American University; J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, Senior Adviser, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, and Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; David Rejeski, Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Modernization of the Russian Criminal Code in the Economic Sphere, Leonid Grigoriev, Leading Expert, Center for Legal and Economic Studies, President, Institute for Energy and Finance, and Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Russian Federation; Konstantin Kolpakov, Director, Legal Department, Sberbank, and former Minister of Justice, Republic of Kazakhstan; Elena Novikova, Scientific Leader, Center for Legal and Economic Studies; Vladimir Radchenko, Chief Scientist and Leading Expert, Center for Legal and Economic Studies, and former First Deputy Chairman, Supreme Court of the Russian Federation; Viktor Zhuykov, Leading Expert, Center for Legal and Economic Studies and Former Deputy Chairman, Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
A Conversation With Saeb Erakat, Saeb Erakat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator and Director, Negotiations Affairs Department; Moderator Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Launch: How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace, Author Charles Kupchan, Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University; Martha Finnemore, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Friday, November 5
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
U.S.-China Climate Relations in the Run-Up to Cancun, Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council; Teng Fei, Associate Professor-Institute Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University; Michael Davidson, China Climate Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council
Monday, November 8
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Silence or Death in Mexico's Press, Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists; Carlos Lauría, Senior Director of the Americas, Committee to Protect Journalists; Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States; Dolia Estevez, Independent Mexican Journalist; Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, Dallas Morning News; Eric L. Olson, Senior Associate, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914, John W. Steinberg, Professor, Department of History, Georgia Southern University, and Former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Settling Cyprus: Time for a Creative Approach?, Hugh Pope, Turkey/Cyprus Project Director, International Crisis Group
Tuesday, November 9
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum, Dost Bardouille-Crema, Director, Corporate Engagement Project, CDA Collaborative Learning Project; Melissa Powell, Head of Strategy and Partnerships, Global Compact Office, United Nations; Tam Nguyen, Senior Adviser on Corporate Responsibility, Chevron; Moderator Virginia Haufler, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
The Terrific Rise and Terrible Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger: European Debt and the Future of U.S.-style Globalization, David Lynch, Senior Writer, Bloomberg News; Moderator Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, November 10
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Annual Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture: The New Slovak Government and U.S.-Slovak Relations, Her Excellency Iveta Radicova, Prime Minister of Slovakia
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Roads Not Taken: AKP Trajectories Since 2007, Nora Fisher Onar, Department of Politics and International Relations, Bahcesehir University (Turkey), and Center for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (UK)
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Discussion: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University
Thursday, November 11
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Off-site Event: Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to Terms With Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Director, Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland; Daniel Chirot, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies, University of Washington; Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University
Friday, November 12
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to Terms With Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Director, Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland; Daniel Chirot, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies, University of Washington; Timothy Snyder, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Assessing China's Impact on Canada-U.S. Relations, Bruce Gilley, Portland State University; Elinor Sloan, Carleton University; Stapleton Roy, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center; Wenran Jiang, University of Alberta; Michael Hart, Carleton University; Christopher Sands, Hudson Institute; Jeffrey Schott, Peterson Institute
Monday, November 15
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography, Dolores Augustine, Professor, St. Johns University; Hartmut Berghoff, Director, German Historical Institute; Stephen Brockmann, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Helmut Morsbach, Chair, DEFA Foundation; Christian Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Paul Werner Wagner, Independent Cultural Historian
11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Mexico's Democratic Challenges: Politics, Government and Society, Jacqueline Peschard, Commissioner, Mexico's Federal Institute for Access to Information (IFAI); Andrew Selee, Director, Woodrow Wilson Center Mexico Institute; Jose Woldenberg, Professor, Political Science at UNAM; Alejandro Moreno, Professor, ITAM
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The Role of Minority Parties in Congress, Rep. Vic Fazio, (D-Calif.), Former House Member and Senior Adviser, Akin Gump; Rep. Robert Walker (R-Pa.), Former House Member and Executive Chairman, Wexler Walker Public Policy Associates; Matthew Green, Assistant Professor of Politics, The Catholic University of America; Jackie Calmes, Staff Writer, The New York Times
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis, Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
Tuesday, November 16
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Off-site Event: The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography, Mary Beth Stein, Professor of German Studies, The George Washington University, Paul Werner Wagner, Independent Cultural Historian
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
China's South China Sea Policy, Anne Hsiao, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Privacy and Information Sharing: The Search for an Intelligent Border [Toronto], Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Wesley Wark, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Moderator Brian Stewart, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Wednesday, November 17
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War, Christopher Bright, Author, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era
5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography, Benjamin Fischer, Former CIA History Staff; Bernd Schaefer, Senior Scholar, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center; Paul Werner Wagner, Independent Cultural Historian
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
U.S.-Mexico Migration, Repatriation, and Protection: A Binational Dialogue on Policies and Options
Thursday, November 18
8:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Assessing the Impact of 287(g) and Secure Communities
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
New Book Discussion: The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power, Jeffrey Alexander, Sociology, Yale University; David Greenberg, Wilson Center Fellow and Associate Professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Off-site Event: The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography, Uta A. Balbier, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute (invited); Jonathan Skolnik, Professor, University of Massachusetts; Paul Werner Wagner, Independent Cultural Historian
Friday, November 19
5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography, Peter Rollberg, Professor of Film Studies, The George Washington University, Paul Werner Wagner, Independent Cultural Historian
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Green Recovery and Reconstruction: Training Toolkit for Humanitarian Aid Rebuilding Stronger, Safer, Environmentally Sustainable Communities After Disasters, Roger Lowe, Senior Vice President of Communications, American Red Cross; Marcia Marsh, Chief Operating Officer, World Wildlife Fund; Bob Laprade, Senior Director for Emergencies and Humanitarian Assistance, CARE; Peter Walker, Director of the Feinstein International Center, Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security, Tufts University
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Privacy and Information Sharing: The Search for an Intelligent Border, Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Wesley Wark, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, The Cato Institute
Saturday, November 20
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Off-site Event: The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography, Jörg Foth, DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Paul Werner Wagner, Independent Cultural Historian
Monday, November 22
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War, Steven Simon, Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Dana Allin, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Master and Margarita: Staging for a Post-Cold War Generation, Paata Tsikurishvili, Founder and Artistic Director, Synetic Theater
Monday, November 29
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin, Stephen F. Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History, New York University
Tuesday, November 30
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
India's Economy: Managing the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis and Regaining Momentum, Ajay Shankar, FICCI Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Wilson Center to Host Book Launch for Washington's U Street
A new book by Blair Ruble, Washington's U Street: A Biography, probes the history of Washington's U Street neighborhood, a hub of African American culture for more than a century. Come celebrate the first comprehensive book on this robustly diverse neighborhood at a book launch on November 2 at the Wilson Center, featuring a lively discussion and live jazz.
The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy
The Woodrow Wilson Center and the United States Institute of Peace announce the release of The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy, an unprecedented project by 50 of the world's top scholars on Iran, edited by USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright.
Former Wilson Center Fellow Mario Vargas Llosa Wins 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy said it honored Vargas Llosa for mapping the "structures of power and [for] his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Best American Essays 2010
S. Frederick Starr's essay "Rediscovering Central Asia," which appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of The Wilson Quarterly, was selected and republished in the 2010 edition of the Best American Essays book series, edited by Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Clausen's WQ essay "John Stuart Mill's 'Very Simple Principle'" was also listed among the notable essays.
The Murderers of Mexico
Mafia Co.: The Criminal Networks in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, a new publication by Juan Carlos Garzón and published by the Latin American Program, was reviewed in The New York Review of Books. (10/28)
Algeria Lags in Prosperity Rankings
Visiting Arab Journalist Rachid Ould Boussiafa published an op-ed on Echorouk Online about Algeria's performance in the Legatum Institute's 2010 Prosperity Index. (10/27)
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari's book My Prison, My Home was featured in The Washington Post Books section as a new paperback. Her discussion of the book at the Shenandoah County Library was featured in The Northern Virginia Daily, and she also discussed the book on 1350 KSRO Newstalk. (10/25)
Hating Woodrow Wilson
Fellow David Greenberg published a piece in Slate about the resurgent right's unlikely target of hatred: Woodrow Wilson. (10/22)
Beyond the Global Brain Drain: The Global Care Drain
United States Studies Director Sonya Michel published an op-ed in The Globalist about the "care drain," the trend of women leaving their families behind to work in the care industry in rich countries. (10/20)
Enhancing NATO's Financial Performance
Southeast Europe Policy Scholar Marios-Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos published an op-ed in Europe's World about ways to enhance the financial performance of NATO. (10/20)
What's at Stake in the South China Sea
Public Policy Scholar Marvin Ott appeared on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" to discuss China's ambitions in the South China Sea. (10/18)
Iran Primer on the Tehran Bureau
The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy, an unprecedented project by 50 of the world's top scholars on Iran and edited by USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright, was featured on Frontline's Tehran Bureau. (10/19)
The Legacy of Lee Hamilton
President and Director Lee Hamilton appeared on "The Diane Rehm Show" on WAMU to discuss his more than 45 years of experience in Washington and the current state of affairs in politics. His farewell gala at the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington was featured in The Indianapolis Star, and he was the subject of a story in Foreign Policy. (10/18)
Buying the Government
Senior Scholar Martin Tolchin appeared on MSNBC's "The Dylan Ratigan Show" to discuss his new book, Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism From the Clubhouse to the White House and Beyond. (10/11)
U.S. Hikers and Iran's Maze
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari published an op-ed piece in The Los Angeles Times about the recent release of one of the U.S. hikers from an Iranian prison and what it reveals about the current state of Iran's government. (10/7)
Five Myths About Middle East Peace
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an article in the "Five Myths" column in The Washington Post about Arab-Israeli peacemaking. (10/3)
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