| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, March 1 – March 30
Tuesday, March 1
1:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
 Building a 21st Century Border: Regional Master Plans and Transportation Infrastructure, Alan Bersin, Commissioner, Customs and Border Protection, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and Special Representative for Border Affairs; Andrew Selee, Director, Woodrow Wilson Center Mexico Institute; Gerónimo Gutiérrez, Managing Director, North American Development Bank; Stewart Tuttle, U.S.-Mexico Border Affairs Coordinator, Department of State; Ralph Scalise, Southern Border Program Office, GSA; Enrique Escorza Zamudio, Head of Section, Political and Border Affairs, Embassy of Mexico; Jackie Mitchell Edwards COO, The Paso del Norte Group; Rep. Russ Jones, Arizona House of Representatives and Member, Border Legislative Conference; Victor Mendez, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. DOT
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Turkey's Regional Perspectives on Eurasia and East Asia, Ambassador Fatih Ceylan, Deputy Undersecretary for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central and East Asia, and the Pacifica, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey)
Wednesday, March 2
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
THE NEW COOL: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts, Neal Bascomb, Author, THE NEW COOL: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts; Mark Hannum, Educator, Thomas Jefferson School For Science and Technology; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Partnering With Business: The Changing Role of Business in Education, Brenda Gardunia, High School Math, Idaho; Arundhati Jayarao, Middle and High School Chemistry and Physics, Virginia; John Moore, High School Environmental Science, New Jersey; Staci Richard, Middle and High School Biology, Physical Science, Ocean Science and Marine Biology, California; Geraldine Robbins, Middle and High School Math, Florida; Sue Whitsett, High School Biology, Wisconsin; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
Thursday, March 3
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
A Public Forum With His Excellency Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, His Excellency Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, President of Mexico
Friday, March 4
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Conference: Rebuilding the American Economy—One Heirloom Tomato at a Time, Allen Hance, Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Trust; Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center, Iowa State University; Kate Clancy, Visiting Scholar, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University; Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute; Ed Bruske, Independent Author and Journalist, Washington, D.C.; Devora Kimelman-Block, Founder, KOL Foods, Silver Spring, Md.; Amy Trubek, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont; Anthony Flaccavento, Certified Organic Farmer and Food System Consultant; Dean Gold, Owner/Chef, Dino's Restaurant, Washington, DC; Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator, USDA National Organic Program; Rosalie Koenig, Lecturer in Agronomy, University of Florida; Angela Miller, Founder, Consider Bardwell Farm, West Pawlet, Vt.; Angela Sanfilippo, president, Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association, Cape Ann Fresh Catch program; Erin Barnett, Director, LocalHarvest, Minneapolis, Minn.; Pierre Desrochers, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto; Andrea Northup, Coordinator, DC Farm to School Network, Capitol Area Food Bank; Rafi Taherian, Executive Director, Yale University Dining Services; Andrew Caplin, Professor of Economics, New York University; Gary Matteson, Vice President, Young, Beginning and Small Farmer Programs and Outreach, Farm Credit Council; David Swenson, Regional Economist, Department of Economics, Iowa State University; Stephen Vogel, Agricultural Economist, Resource and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Human Rights and the Arts in Iran Today, Jasmin Darznik, Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University; Farhad Khosrokhavar, Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; Ahmad Kiarostami, Entrepreneur and Videographer, Fotomoto; Pardis Mahdavi, Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Associate Professor, Pomona College; Sohrab Mohebbi, Curatorial Fellow, Queens Museum of Art, NY; Contributing Editor, Bidoun Magazine; and Musician; Roberto Toscano, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Italian Ambassador to India and to Iran; Chairs: Farzaneh Milani, Professor of Persian Literature and Women's Studies, University of Virginia; Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
Monday, March 7
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Holocaust Revisionism, Ultranationalism, and the Nazi/Soviet "Double Genocide" Debate in Eastern Europe, Dovid Katz, Editor, www.DefendingHistory.com and Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute, Vilnius
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Iran: From Civil Society Protest to Political Alternative?, Roberto Toscano, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Italian Ambassador to India and to Iran
Tuesday, March 8
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
The Conflict Prevention Resolution Forum Presents: Civil Society-Military Relations and Human Security, Rosa Brooks, Deputy Secretary of Defense, United States Department of Defense; Lisa Schirch, Director, 3D Security, Eastern Mennonite University; Col. Mark Mykleby, Special Strategic Assistant to Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Fulco van Deventer, Policy and Political Advisor, Cordaid
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Chinese National Identity and National Identity Gaps in East Asia, Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, March 9
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Green Governance Victories and Ongoing Challenges in China, Wang Canfa, University of Politics and Law/Center for Legal Assistance for Pollution Victims; Li Zhiping, Sun Yat-sen University Law School, and Li Yanfang, Energy Law Center and Renmin University; Yu Wenxuan, China University of Political Science and Law
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Book Presentation: Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, Gerard Toal, Professor, Department of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech University; Carl T. Dahlman, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Miami University
Thursday, March 10
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall, Jonathan Haslam, Professor, History of International Relations, University of Cambridge; Melissa K. Stockdale, Fellow, Wilson Center
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Brazil in Regional and Global History, Leslie Bethell, Senior Scholar, Brazil Institute; Ambassador Luigi Einaudi, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, National Defense University
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Dialogues With Mexico: Sergio Aguayo Quezada Book Launch: Vuelta en U and La Transición Mexicana: Una Historia Documental, 1910-2010, Sergio Aguayo Quezada, Research Professor, Center for International Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
Friday, March 11
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Solidarity With Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982, Idesbald Goddeeris, Assistant Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Gregory Domber, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of North Florida; Piotr H. Kosicki, Centennial Fellow and ABD, Department of History, Princeton University
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The Current State of Civil Society as a Reflection of the Paradoxes of Modern-Day Russia, Ella Pamfilova, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Civil Society, State University-Higher School of Economics, and Former Chair, Russian Presidential Council for the Promotion of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights
Monday, March 14
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Multiethnic Soviet Empire, Erik R. Scott, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Book Launch: The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security, Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College; Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Forces, Department of Defense
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Is Senate Reform an Oxymoron?, Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Senior Counsel, Breaux Lott Leadership Group; Richard Baker, Senate Historian Emeritus; John Fortier, Research Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute; Janet Hook, Congressional Reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Don Wolfensberger, Director, Congress Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, March 15
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Event: Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, Sarmila Bose, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University; Arnold Zeitlin, Managing Director, Editorial Research Reporting Associates
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Iran Primer IV: Iran and Its Neighbors, Michael Eisenstadt, Director, Military Security Studies Program, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University; Afshin Molavi, Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Wednesday, March 16
2:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m.
Film Screening: When China Met Africa
Monday, March 21
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Reassessing Russia's Decision Making Community: Intra-elite Conflicts, Political and Business Networks, and Ideological Constructions, Marlene Laruelle, Senior Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, March 23
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Why There Is (Almost) No Post-Communist Christian Democracy, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Environmental Film Festival Screening: The Fence
Thursday, March 24
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Ruth Fischer: A Life For and Against Communism, 1895-1961, Mario Kessler, Member of the Center for Contemporary History (ZZF) and Associate Professor of History, University of Potsdam, Germany; Jeffrey Herf, Professor of Modern European History, University of Maryland, College Park
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon, Moshe Yaalon, Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member; Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Discussion: No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default, Martin Gilman, Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and Former Senior Resident Representative, Moscow Office, International Monetary Fund (1996-2002)
Friday, March 25
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Report Release: "Struggling for Change in Twenty-First Century Gateways: Strategies and Resources of Organizations Working With Latina Immigrants", Jane Henrici, Study Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research; Cynthia Hess, Study Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research; other speakers TBA
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Christine Grady, President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues; Anita Allen, President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues; Dr. Lino Paula, Policy Analyst, Ethics and Gender Unit, Directorate for Innovation and European Research Area, European Commission; David Rejeski, Director, Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
Monday, March 28
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Climate Adaptation, Development, and Peacebuilding in Fragile States: Finding the Triple-Bottom Line, Alexander Carius, Executive Director, Adelphi Research; Dan Smith, Secretary General, International Alert
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society after 1825, Scott Kenworthy, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Religion, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and Former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, March 29
8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Women and Entrepreneurship, Tami Longaberger, Chair and CEO, The Longaberger Company; Lilla Hunter-Taylor, CEO, The Staff Hunter Career Placement Services; Mark Doms, Chief Economist, Economics and Statistics Administration, Department of Commerce; Elizabeth Vazquez, CEO, WEConnect International; other speakers TBA
Wednesday, March 30
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Serbia's Transition: Towards a Better Future, Milica Uvalic, Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Perugia, Italy and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Repositioning Family Planning on the Ground: Voices From the Field, Oladosu Ojengbede, Director, Center for Population and Reproductive Health, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Frank Taulo, Director, Center for Reproductive Health, and Senior Lecturer of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Malawi; Ali Zarzour, Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Representative Jane Harman (D-Calif.) to Lead the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Woodrow Wilson Center has appointed The Honorable Jane Harman (D-Calif.) as its new president, CEO, and director. She will begin her tenure at the Center on February 28. "I am passionate about public policy," said Harman at a February 8 press conference at the Center. Leading this institution "is a challenge I could not resist."
Wilson Center Seeks Nominations for the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award for 2011
The Ion Ratiu Democracy Award was established in 2005 to honor one of the most outspoken and consistent voices of opposition to Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in Romania and to recognize work carried out by democracy activists around the world. The Wilson Center is seeking applicants until the deadline of April 30.
Woodrow Wilson Center Mourns the Passing of Former Board Chairman Joseph Flom
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars mourns the death of Joseph H. Flom, 87, who served as the Center's Board of Trustees chairman from 1994 to 2000.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Revolution in the Arab World
USIP-Woodrow Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright published a piece on The Iran Primer about new U.S. sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses, which reflect the escalating U.S. focus and action on a non-nuclear issue on Iran. She also published a post about the Obama administration's tougher talk toward Iran since the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings and an op-ed in Politico analyzing the factors contributing to Egypt's revolution. Wright discussed revolution across the Arab world in a number of outlets, including WAMU's "The Diane Rehm Show," MSNBC's "Hardball," PBS's "NewsHour," and NBC's "Meet the Press." Wright's book The Iran Primer was reviewed in Foreign Affairs. (2/24)
Examining Unrest in the Middle East
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an op-ed on CNN.com analyzing the Obama administration's position on Moammar Gadhafi. He also published op-eds in Politico about why U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East now has the Obama administration in a tough spot; in Foreign Policy evaluating the Obama administration's handling of the situation in Egypt; in The Washington Post about what new leadership in Egypt could mean for Israel; and on Bloomberg about the dilemma that Egypt's unrest has revealed for the United States. Miller also discussed unrest in the Arab world on "Charlie Rose," MSNBC's "Dylan Ratigan Show," and on Fox News to discuss unrest in Libya and what's next for Gadhafi as well as other countries in the Arab world. (2/23)
The Magnitsky Case and the Limits of Russian Legal Reform
Kennan Institute Deputy Director William Pomeranz published an article in the Russian Analytical Digest titled "The Magnitsky Case and the Limits of Russian Legal Reform." (2/22)
U.S.-Mexico Relations After ICE Agent Murder
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee appeared on Southern California Public Radio to discuss what the recent murder of an ICE agent in Mexico means for the drug war and U.S.-Mexico relations. (2/16)
Middle East After Hosni Mubarak
Public Policy Scholar Roger Hardy published an op-ed on BBC News about the repercussions of the Egyptian revolution and what the West must learn from them. Earlier, he also published a story about the uncertainty Egypt faces and discussed the uprising on Radio New Zealand National's "Nine to Noon". (2/11)
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World
Fellow Henry Farrell published a review of Evgeny Morozov's book The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World, about the self-congratulatory narrative of democracy spreading on the web, in The Times of Higher Education. (2/10)
Michele Bachmann Rallies the CPAC Faithful
Public Policy Scholar Anne Daguerre published a piece in the Guardian describing the scene at a Michele Bachmann speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. (2/10)
Donald Rumsfeld's 'Known and Unknown'
Public Policy Scholar Peter Baker published an essay in Foreign Policy about Donald Rumsfeld's memoir Known and Unknown. (2/4)
How U.S. Can Build Its Entrepreneurial Edge
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published an op-ed on CNN.com about the White House Startup America initiative laid out in President Obama's State of the Union address. She also discussed the initiative on the Economist blog "The Ideas Economy." (2/5)
Mohamed ElBaradei: Tempered by Iraq Crisis
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published an op-ed in Politico about what role Mohamed ElBaradei could play in the Egyptian opposition to President Hosni Mubarak. (2/2)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "It's Time to Ramp Down the Pomp at SOTU Address" and "Senate Rules Changes Portend Greater Comity."
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