| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, May 2 – May 31
Monday, May 2
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Life as a Black Ukrainian: How Some Natives Are Treated Like Foreigners, Terrell Starr, Independent Scholar, New York
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security Reform in Latin America, Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Adriana Mejía-Hernández, Organization of American States
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Russia's Rule of Law Challenge: Implications for U.S. Policy, Jeffrey Kahn, Southern Methodist University; Anton Burkov, Management Systems International, Moscow; Tatiana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch, Moscow, Russia; Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
Tuesday, May 3
10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: Implications for U.S. Policy, John W. Hempelmann, Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Joanna Evans, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre; Natalya Taubina, Public Verdict Foundation; William Pomeranz, Kennan Institute; Alexei Trochev, University of Wisconsin; Anton Burkov, Management Systems International, Moscow; Tanya Lokshina, Human Rights Watch; Lara Iglitzin, Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Karinna Moskalenko, International Protection Center; Paul Saunders, Center for the National Interest; Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy
Wednesday, May 4
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
One Hour Eighteen, Directed by Yury Urnov; Written by Elena Gremina; Translated by Yury Urnov and Stephen Nunns
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Any Changes Coming? Implications of the May 2 Canadian Federal Election for Canada and Canada-U.S. Relations, Antonia Maioni, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, McGill University; Herb Metcalfe, Co-founder and Senior Partner, Capital Hill Group; Scotty Greenwood, Senior Adviser, Canadian American Business Council Paul Frazer, Principal, 3 Click Solutions (chair); Tim Powers, Vice President, Summa Strategies Canada
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
An American Open Door: Maximizing the Benefits of Chinese Direct Investment, Gary Locke, United States Secretary of Commerce; Zhang Yesui, Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Stapleton Roy, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center; Orville Schell, Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society; Daniel Rosen, Rhodium Group; Thilo Hanemann, Rhodium Group
Thursday, May 5
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Lord's Resistance Army: Implementing Policy to End an Enduring Problem, Karl Wycoff, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Africa, U.S. Department of State; Michael Poffenberger, President, Resolve; Alan Goulty, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former UK Ambassador to Sudan
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Lebanese View of an Arab Changing Landscape, Fouad Sinoura, Former Prime Minister of Lebanon
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Threats to the Free Press in the Baltic States: Assessing the Impact of Government Policies and the Financial Crisis, Inga Springe, Latvian Investigative Journalist and Fulbright/Humphrey Fellow, University of Maryland; Dainius Radzevicius, Chairman, Lithuanian Journalists' Union
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Canada Crude to China? Prospects and Barriers of Increasing Chinese Imports of Canadian Oil, Nathan Lemphers, Oilsands Policy Analyst, Pembina Institute; Robert Johnston, Director, Global Energy and Natural Resources, Eurasia Group; Norm Rinne, Senior Director, Business Development, Kinder Morgan Canada; Kang Wu, Senior Fellow, East-West Center
Friday, May 6
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit: Mexican-American Crossroads, Guest-curated by L. Stephen Velasquez, Associate Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Choke Point: China—Confronting Energy Demand and Water Scarcity in China, Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue; Jeff Erikson, SustainAbility
Monday, May 9
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Can Intervention Work? Lessons From Bosnia and the Balkans, Gerald Knaus, Founding Chairman, ESI, and Associate Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Syria and Iran: An Alliance Tested?, Jubin Goodarzi, Professor, International Relations Department, Webster University, Geneva
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Politics of Memory in a Divided Society: A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine, Oxana Shevel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Tuesday, May 10
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
India's Quest for a Lower Carbon Footprint, Ajay Shankar, FICCI Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Connections Between Climate and Stability: Lessons From Asia and Africa, Jeffrey Stark, Director of Research and Studies, Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability; Janani Vivekananda, Senior Climate Policy Officer, Peacebuilding Programme, International Alert
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Civilian Response Corps: Experiences From the Field, Richard Chema, U.S. Department of Justice; Scott Decker, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Cecily Brewer, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of the Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction; Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, May 11
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Waging Peace: The Inextricable Links Between Security and Development, Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Rye Barcott, Author, Carolina for Kibera; Gene Bonventre, Civil-Military Relations Liaison, USAID; Ambassador Elkanah Odembo, Republic of Kenya (Invited); Joel D. Barkan, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic International Studies (Invited)
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
The Other Americans in the "Second Front in the War on Terror": The Politics of USAID in the Southern Philippines, Patricio Abinales, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Launch: Human Population: Its Influences on Biodiversity, Richard Cincotta, Consultant, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Demographer-in-Residence, Stimson Center; Larry Glorenflo, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Penn State University; Chris Small, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Adjunct Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Emissions, Ecology, and the Economy: U.S. and European Perspectives on Waste Management, Christian Egenhofer, Centre for European Policy (Brussels); Jochen Flasbarth, President, Federal Environment Agency (Germany); Suzanne Rudzinski, Office Director, Resource Conservation and Recovery, Environmental Protection Agency; Lori Scozzafava, Deputy Executive Director, Solid Waste Association of North America; Karen Stiles, Business Development Manager, Sustainable Services, Waste Management
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The Quality of Democracy in Latin America, Daniel Levine, Woodrow Wilson Center and the University of Michigan; Diego Abente, National Endowment for Democracy
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Report Presentation: "St. Petersburg, 1993-2003: The Dynamic Decade", William Craft Brumfield, Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Tulane University, and Former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute; Arthur L. George, Senior Counsel, Baker McKenzie, Chicago; Founder and Former Managing Partner, St. Petersburg Office, Baker McKenzie, and Author, St. Petersburg: The First Three Centuries
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Northern Border Crime and Terror Networks: Fact or Fiction?, Christian Leuprecht, Associate Professor, Royal Military College of Canada; Todd Hataley, Fellow, Queen's Centre for International and Defence Policy; Kim Richard Nossal, Director, Queen's Centre for International and Defence Policy.
Thursday, May 12
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Upheaval in the Middle East: What Is the Turkish Strategy?, Semih Idiz, Columnist, CNN Turk and Milliyet; Ian O. Lesser, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Invention of Ecocide, David Zierler, Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State; Carl Bruch, Senior Attorney and Co-Director of International Programs, Environmental Law Institute;
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Seminar on Chinese Legislative Reforms, Shi-ping Hua, University of Louisville, and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Friday, May 13
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Temporary Care Work Programs in Canada and the European Union: Models for the United States?, Monica Boyd, University of Toronto; Helma Lutz, University of Frankfurt, Xochitl Castaneda, University of California at Berkeley; Leticia Robles-Silva, University of Guadalajara; Margie McHugh, Migration Policy Institute
Monday, May 16
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Muslims and the State in Late Imperial Russia and Today, James Meyer, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, and Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Event: Memoirs of a Pakistani Economist, Parvez Hasan, Former Chief Economist, World Bank and Government of West Pakistan; Shahid Javed Burki, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Moeen Qureshi, Chairman, EMP Global, and Former Prime Minister of Pakistan; Praful Patel, Former Vice President for South Asia, World Bank
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Previewing the OAS General Assembly: Citizen Security in the Americas, H.E. José Miguel Insulza, Organization of American States; Adam Blackwell, Organization of American States; Cathy Lanier, Chief of Police, District of Columbia (Invited); Leandro Daiello Coimbra, Ameripol, Brazil (Invited); Aminta Granera, Chief of National Police, Nicaragua (Invited); Lynne Anne Williams, CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), Caribbean (Invited)
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Report Release: "Expanding Opportunities in the Global Marketplace", Guy Ryder, Deputy Director General, International Labour Organization; Lisa Wong-Ramesar, Senior Declaration Officer, Programme on Promoting the Declaration on FPRW; Marcia Greenberger, Founder and Co-President, National Women's Law Center; Carol Pier, Associate Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor; Barbara Shailor, Special Representative for International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of State
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Greening China's Urbanization Boom, Bo Song, China Academy of Building Research; Sha Yu, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Don Anderson, ICF International, David Hathaway, ICF International
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Congress, the U.N. and the War Power: From Korea to Libya, Hon. William S. Cohen, Chairman, Cohen Group, and Former U.S. Secretary of Defense (invited); John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California-Berkeley Law School and Former Staff, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Deptartment of Justice; Louis Fisher, Scholar in Residence, The Constitution Project; Jonathan Broder, Senior Editor for Defense Foreign Policy, CQ Weekly; Moderator Don Wolfensberger, Director, The Congress Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, May 17
8:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
UQAM Conference: Fences, Walls, and Borders: State of Insecurity? (Montréal), Philippe Rekacewicz, Geographer and Cartographer, Le Monde Diplomatique, France; Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Mexican American Leadership Initiative: Co-Sponsored with the U.S.-Mexico Foundation
Wednesday, May 18
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Turkey Emerging: New Perceptions in Foreign and Domestic Policies (TBC), Cengiz Candar, Senior Political Columnist, Radikal (Turkey)
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The State of the Oceans, Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Yemen's Present and Future: Population, Environment, and Security Challenges, Heyam Abo al-Asrar, Project Officer, Care International; Ambassador Mohammed Al-Eryani, Yemeni Ambassador to Germany; Ahmed Ben Mubarak, Board Member, Youth Development Foundation of Yemen; Gary Cook, Senior Health Adviser, U.S. Agency for International Development; Daniel Egel, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation; Ali Saif Hassan, Executive Director, Political Development Forum; Ginny Hill, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House; Ambassador Edmund J. Hull, Former Ambassador to Yemen; Charles Schmitz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Towson University; Jeremy Sharp, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, Congressional Research Service; T.S. Sunil, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, San Antonio
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design, Greg Castillo, Associate Professor, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley; Blair A. Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
From Historian to Incidental Diplomat: The Writing of History Before and After Participating in its Making, Gerard J. Libaridian, Director, Program in Armenian Studies and Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of Michigan
Thursday, May 19
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society, Steven A. Barnes, Associate Professor of Russian History and Director, Center for Eurasian Studies, George Mason University; Karel C. Berkhoff, Associate Professor, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Democracy, Political Change, and Global Governance: A Discussion With ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan, Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Sustainable Global Biofuel Production and the Importance for Both Strategic U.S. Interests and International Development, Alison Goss Eng, Sustainable Biomass Production, U.S. Department of Energy; Christine Dragisic, Director, Agriculture Biofuels Forestry, Conservation International; Lisa Famolare, Director, U.S. Climate Policy, Conservation International; Moderator Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute
Friday, May 20
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Book Launch: "Mañana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans", Jorge Castañeda, Author, Professor, and Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
Monday, May 23
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Forging Central Europe's Energy Independence, Anita Orban, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Film Screening: "Diary From the Burned Ghetto", Evgeny Tsymbal, Film Director, Moscow, and Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, May 25
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Religious Education and the Politics of Pluralism in Pakistan, Matthew Nelson, University of London, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, May 26
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Artemy Kalinovsky, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam; Ambassador Peter Tomsen, Former United States Special Envoy
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Tri-partite Model of the ILO: An Australian Invention, Marilyn Lake, Professor of History, La Trobe University, and President, Australian Historical Association
Tuesday, May 31
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Ukraine After One Year of Yanukovych, Alexander Motyl, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
National Security Is First Topic Explored in the New Series, "The National Conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center"
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars introduced its new initiative, The National Conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center, with a discussion of the need for a national security narrative. Hosted by Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman, and moderated by award-winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman, this inaugural event was based on a white paper written by two active military officers.
Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman Discusses Security Implications in White House Energy Security Forum
Woodrow Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman joined U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, and other security and energy experts on a panel discussion on the national security implications of America's oil dependency on April 26 at the White House. The forum highlighted the ongoing collaboration between the Departments of Energy and Defense and the important role clean energy research and technologies are playing in reducing our dependence on oil and protecting U.S. armed forces.
Rebuilding the U.S. Economy: One Heirloom Tomato at a Time
At this daylong conference on farm-fresh foods and the U.S. economy, farmers were joined by researchers and economists to discuss our growing connection to healthier foods as well as trends and challenges to sustainable food production.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
White House Forum on Energy Security
Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman participated in the White House Forum on Energy Security, discussing the national security implications of America's oil dependency at a White House forum on energy security.
Obama and 'the Jewish Lobby of One'
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times about President Obama's troubles with Israeli/Palestinian peace negotiations. He also published op-eds in Politico describing the United States' conflicting policies on Syria and urging strong words against the current regime; in The Washington Post on the Palestinians' mistake in seeking UN action on statehood now; and in Foreign Policy about the confusion over the United States' objectives and metrics of success in Libya. He outlined a riskier proposal to end the Arab-Israeli deadlock in The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and compared Obama's foreign policy decision in Libya to those of George W. Bush on The Huffington Post. Other media appearances included MSNBC's "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and "Andrea Mitchell Reports", where he discussed U.S. involvement in the Middle East. (4/29)
What is America's Story for the 21st Century?
dialogue host John Milewski published an op-ed on The Huffington Post about The National Conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the need for a national security narrative. (4/21)
Will Arab Uprisings Lead to Change?
USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss why the recent 'Arab Spring' marks an important turning point in the 21st century. (4/21)
Looking at Russian Cities With an Eye to the Arts
Kennan Institute Director Blair Ruble appeared in a video interview for The Moscow Times, in which he discussed his program's unique approach to Russian studies, through the cultural sphere. (4/17)
Pakistan: A Hard Country
Pakistan Scholar Huma Yusuf published a review in Foreign Policy of Anatol Lieven's Pakistan: A Hard Country, a book that she says goes past common stereotypes to offer a more nuanced examination of the country. (4/11)
How to Save the Euro—and the EU
Fellow Henry Farrell co-published a piece with John Quiggin in Foreign Affairs (subscription required) about how to save the European Union from its ongoing economic crisis. He also published a piece in the Boston Review about novelist China Miéville, whose sprawling influences tie him at once to science fiction and to political satirists.
With Recent Military Action, France Reasserts Global Leadership Role
Public Policy Scholar Frédéric Bozo appeared on "PBS NewsHour" to discuss French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new foreign policy and its implications for Libya. (4/7)
India's China Fears
Asia Program Associate Michael Kugelman published an op-ed on Pakistan's Dawn arguing that India's concerns about Pakistan are increasingly eclipsed by its fears about China. (4/7)
The Magic Small Ball
Kissinger Institute Deputy Director Douglas Spelman appeared on China Radio International to discuss his experience as one of the interpreters during the Chinese ping-pong team's visit to the United States in 1972. (4/6)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Congress' War Dance Is Often a Salsa Sidestep."
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