| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, June 1 – June 30
Wednesday, June 1
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Immigration and Social Power: The Russian Case, Vladimir Malakhov, Leading Research Fellow, Department of Social and Political Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Fulbright-Kennan Scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement, Farzaneh Milani, Professor of Persian Literature and Women's Studies, University of Virginia
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
 Book Launch: The Eagle and the Elephant: Strategic Aspects of U.S.-India Economic Engagement, Raymond E. Vickery, Senior Director, Albright Stonebridge Group, and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, June 2
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The Future of Women in the MENA Region, a Tunisian and Egyptian Perspective, Lilia Labidi, Minister of Women's Affairs, Republic of Tunisia and former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Moushira Khattab, former Minister of Family Population of Egypt and former Ambassador of Egypt to the Republic of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Economic Crisis and the U.S. Policy Response: Just Right, Too Little or Too Much?, Ron Blackwell, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO; Uri Dadush, Director, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Michael Lind, Director Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation; Thomas Palley, New Rules and New America Foundation
Friday, June 3
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Securing North America: A Discussion of Canada's First Defense Strategy, Lt. Gen. Walter (Walt) Semianiw, Commander, Canada Command; (This event is off the record and closed to the media.)
Monday, June 6
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Russia's WTO Accession and PNTR: The Business Community Perspective, Randi Levinas, Executive Vice President, U.S.-Russia Business Council
Tuesday, June 7
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Film Screening: "Three Stories of Galicia", Olha Onyshko, Filmmaker, Bethesda, Md.; Sarah Farhat, Filmmaker, Washington, D.C.
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
2011 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing at the Thurgood Marshall Center
Wednesday, June 8
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Enhancing Public Engagement in Climate Change: The 2011 Climate Change Communicators of the Year, Naomi Oreskes, Author, Merchants of Doubt, and Professor of History and Science Studies, University of California at San Diego; Pic Walker, Executive Director, Alliance for Climate Change Education; Edward Maibach, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University; Eric Roston, Author, The Carbon Age, and Sustainability Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
Thursday, June 9
12:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mexico's Future
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Environmental Legal Advocates Pushing the Public Interest, CAI Ming, Head Judge, Environmental Court in Qingzhen, Guizhou; DAI Renhui, Beijing Huanzhu Law Firm; QIN Xudong, Caixin Media; MA Yong, All-China Environment Federation
Monday, June 13
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Russia and Eurasia in a New Geopolitical Era, Bruce Parrott, Professor and Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, School of Advanced and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Scramble with a New Africa: Comparing Strategies and Policies for the Future of Africa, Ludger Kühnhardt, Professor of Political Science, University of Bonn, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, June 14
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Launch: So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan, Author Samia Waheed Altaf, Physician and Public Health Specialist, and former Pakistan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Immigrants in the United States: How Well Are They Integrating into Society?, Randy Capps, Senior Policy Analyst and Demographer, Migration Policy Institute; Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA; Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, and Author, "Immigrants in the United States: How Well Are They Integrating into Society?"
Wednesday, June 15
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Brazil, Argentina, and the Road to the NPT, Matias Spektor, Assistant Professor and Director, Center for International Relations, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil); Luis Bitencourt, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Professor, National Security Affairs, National Defense University; Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association
9:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Second World War: History and Lessons for Today, H.E. Sergey Kislyak, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States; William Pomeranz, Deputy Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Sergey Mironenko, Director, Russian State Archive; Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, and Author, Yalta: The Price of Peace; Elena Tyurina, Director, Russian State Archives of Economics; John Haynes, Historian, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
European Energy Policy/ies in Transition: Internal and External Dimensions, Marcel Vietor, Program Officer for Energy and Climate, Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Thursday, June 16
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Conventional Arms Control in Europe During the Cold War: New Insights From the Archives, Christoph Bluth, Professor of International Studies, University of Leeds
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Turkey's Elections: Great Expectations for Democratization or Business as Usual?, Fuat Keyman, Director, Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University (Turkey)
Friday, June 17
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The Civilizing Mission: How France Sees Its Role in the World, Elaine Sciolino, Correspondent, Paris Bureau, The New York Times and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, June 21
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Chinese Foreign Direct Investment: Is It a Threat to the United States, Domestically or Globally?, Daniel H. Rosen, The Rhodium Group; Derek Scissors, The Heritage Foundation; J. Stapleton Roy, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, June 23
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Averting Toxic Disasters in China, David Lennett, Natural Resources Defense Council; Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute/University of California; Third speaker TBD
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Whose Logo? Sustainable Consumption and Production in North America, Stefanie Bowles, 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar and Senior Policy Researcher with Policy Horizons Canada
Tuesday, June 28
1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
BRICS: Shaping the New Global Architecture, Marcos Galvão, Ambassador of Brazil to Japan, and former Secretary for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Brazil; Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor, Global Affairs, Moscow; Inderjit Singh, Professor of Economics and Strategic Studies, National War College; Wei Da, Director and Research Professor, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Francis A. Kornegay, Research Associate, Institute for Global Dialogue, Pretoria; Amy M. Wilkinson, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, June 29
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Four Types of Diaspora Mobilization: Albanian Diaspora Activism for Kosovo Independence in the U.S. and the UK, Maria Koinova, Visiting Research Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Thursday, June 30
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
A Conversation With Dr. Mukwege, Steve McDonald, Director, Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson Center; Denis Mukwege, Director, Panzi Hospital, Bukava, Democratic Republic of Congo
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Admiral Mullen Speaks at Inaugural Event of the Wilson Center's Lee Hamilton Lecture Series
Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at the Woodrow Wilson Center on May 25 to inaugurate the Lee Hamilton Lecture Series on Civil Discourse and Democracy. The full transcript is available.
The Wilson Center Launches The National Conversation Series
The Woodrow Wilson Center launched the National Conversation series with five-person panel, moderated by columnist/author Tom Friedman, on the search for a new national security narrative.
Kennan Institute Director Blair Ruble Awarded Public Scholar in the Humanities Award by the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
Kennan Institute Director Blair Ruble was awarded the Public Scholar in the Humanities Award by the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. for his book Washington's U Street: A Biography.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Analyzing Obama's AIPAC Speech
President, Director, and CEO Jane Harman appeared on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley" to analyze President Obama's Middle East speech. She also appeared on PBS's "NewsHour" to discuss the Israeli peace process and Obama's call for Israel to return to pre-1967 borders and on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the legacy of her husband, Sidney Harman, heading the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. She also discussed the future of U.S. military intelligence on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" and Fox News. (5/22)
Ivory Coast: Another Asterisk for Africa's Democratization
Senior Policy Scholar Bill Milam and research assistant Jennifer Jones published a piece in Current History about conflict over resources in the Ivory Coast and the challenge it poses to democratization. Milam also appeared on "The Platform," produced by Voice of America and Pakistan's Express 24/7, to discuss U.S.-Pakistan relations in the wake of the Osama Bin Laden raid.
The Virtues of Folding
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an op-ed in Foreign Policy about the grim chances of a conflict-ending agreement between Israel and Palestine, and appeared on WTOP to discuss the upcoming UN vote on a Palestinian state. He also participated in a Politico "Arena" piece disagreeing with the view that Obama is putting undue pressure on Israel, discussed Obama's call for Israel to return to the 1967 borders on NPR's "All Things Considered," and discussed Obama's Middle East speech and U.S.-Israel relations on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal", "ABC Nightly News," ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour,", MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," and Fox News. He published an op-ed in Foreign Policy explaining why the upcoming Obama-Netanyahu talks are unlikely to provide a way forward and an op-ed in The International Herald Tribune about his low expectations for the upcoming meeting between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (5/30)
Hope, Change, Nietzsche
Fellow David Greenberg published a review in The New Republic of "Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition," by James T. Kloppenberg. (5/26)
What Can U.S. Sanctions on Iran Do?
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published an op-ed in Politico analyzing the problems with sanctions on Iran. (5/26)
Open Up the IMF Talent Hunt
Public Policy Scholar Jorge Heine published an op-ed in the Toronto Star urging the IMF to look outside the North Atlantic for its next leader. (5/23)
Confronting U.S. Misconceptions About Pakistan
Asia Program Associate Michael Kugelman published an op-ed in World Politics Review debunking U.S. misconceptions about Pakistan. He also published op-eds in The Express Tribune about Americans' (as opposed to Washington's) views of Pakistan; in The Huffington Post about conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden; and in Dawn about natural resource constraints in Pakistan, and how aquaculture is an oft-overlooked solution. (5/19)
New Books in History
Kennan Institute Director Blair Ruble was featured on the podcast "New Books in History" to discuss Washington's U Street: A Biography. (5/18)
Amnesty International: Focus on Russia
Kennan Institute Deputy Director Will Pomeranz appeared on The Voice of Russia to discuss Amnesty International's recent report on treatment of journalists and protestors in Russia. (5/17)
Mexico Cartels Spreading Southward
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee appeared on BBC Newshour to discuss the expansion of Mexican organized crime groups into Central America. (5/16)
Iran: Growing Divisions Within the Political Elite
USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright appeared on Australia's ABC Radio National to discuss a growing division in Iran between President Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei. (5/14)
Oprah: The Person and the Brand
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published a piece on the Washington Post's "On Leadership" blog about Oprah and what happens when leaders move on to "second acts." (5/13)
Sometimes at Odds, Sometimes Not
Senior Policy Scholar Dennis Kux published a piece about the fraught U.S.-Pakistan relationship on Peacefare.net. He also appeared on Al Jazeera English to discuss the future of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. (5/11)
Finding Hope in the Moon
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari discussed her experience while in Iran's Evin Prison in 2007 as a part of a BBC Outlook program about the moon and moonlight and the different ways it touches lives around the world. She also spoke at the World Affairs Council of Hilton Head (SC), a talk that was featured in local paper The Island Packet. She also contributed to a discussion in Moment about Israel's next move in a changing Middle East and appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" to discuss Iran's reaction to protests spreading into Syria. (5/6)
The bin Laden Aftermath: Salvaging the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship
Pakistan Scholar Huma Yusuf published an op-ed in Foreign Policy about what Osama bin Laden's death means for the future of U.S.-Pakistan relations. She also looked at the next steps for the two nations in a piece in Common Ground News. (5/3)
Border Security and Drugs
Mexico Institute Senior Associate Eric Olson appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to discuss the drug war and violence on the Mexico-U.S. border. (5/1)
Birthers, Racism, Barack Obama and Hank Aaron
Dialogue host John Milewski published an op-ed on The Huffington Post about racism in the "birther" movement and the historic example of baseball legend Hank Aaron. (4/29)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Marriage Act Defense Sparks Four Divorces."
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