| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, May 4 – May 29
Monday, May 4
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire, Marlene Laruelle, Senior Research Fellow, The Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Water: A Conversation With Dean Kamen, Dean Kamen, Founder, DEKA Research Development Corporation
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Reformist Women Thinkers in the Islamic World, Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Margot Badran, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Senior Fellow, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, Georgetown University; Amina Wadud, International Center for Islam and Pluralism, Jakarta; Robin Wright, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Kecia Ali, Assistant Professor, Religion, Boston University; Lilia Labidi, Professor, Anthropology and Psychology, University of Tunis; Mahnaz Afkhami, President, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace; Gadis Ariva, Professor, Philosophy and Gender Studies, University of Indonesia; Ousseina Alidou, Director, African Languages and Literature, Rutgers University; Ann Mayer, Associate Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, May 5
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Economic and Social Turbulence in Greece: The Need for Structural Reforms, Theodore Pelagidis, Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Piraeus (Greece)
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Land Grab: The Race for the World's Farmland, Carl Atkin, Partner and Head of Research, Bidwells Agribusiness; Gary R. Blumenthal, President and CEO, World Perspectives, Inc.; David Hallam, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Chido Makunike, Agricultural Exporter and Consultant (Senegal); Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Raul Q. Montemayor, National Manager, Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Inc. (Philippines); and Alexandra Spieldoch, Director, Trade and Global Governance Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Wednesday, May 6
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Truman's Campaign of Truth and Canada's Cultural Cold War, Paul Hjartarson, Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, and 2009 Fulbright Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations; Frank Ninkovich, Professor of History, St. John's University
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Federal Conference: Innovative Strategies for European Integration of the Western Balkans, Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University; Gulnur Aybet, University of Kent; Ioannis Tsorbatzoglou, SECIPRO; Othon Anastasakis, Oxford University; Ivan Grdesic, University of Zagreb; Milica Uvalic, University of Perugia; Gordon Bardos, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Islam Yusufi, Analytica, Skopje, Macedonia; Michael Doyle, Office of the High Representative of BiH (invited); Elena Jileva, Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid; Sharon Fisher, IHS Global Insight; Bruce Hitchner, Tufts University
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The Shelter, Land, and Urban Management (SLUM) Assistance Act, 2009, Rep. Brad Miller, N.C., 13th District; Rep. David Price, N.C., 4th District; Peter Kimm, Chairman of the Board, International Housing Coalition; Christopher W. Williams, Rep., UN-HABITAT, Washington, D.C.
Thursday, May 7
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Russian-Jewish Immigrants in the United States: Identity and Integration Challenges, Sam Kliger, Director of Russian Affairs, American Jewish Committee
Monday, May 11
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Global Financial Crisis: Will Russian Law Gain Increased Relevance in Contemporary Politics?, Ethan Burger, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Breakthrough or Breakdown: The Obama Administration and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University; Ghaith al-Omari, Advocacy Director, American Task Force on Palestine and Former Adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas; Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, May 12
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Combating Sex Trafficking by Eliminating the Demand, Victor Malarek, Investigative Reporter and Author, The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It; Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, Executive Director, Polaris Project; Rep. Linda Smith, President and Founder, Shared Hope International; Moderated by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Seeing Through the Smog: Promoting Sino-U.S. Cooperation on Air Quality, Environmental Health, and Climate Change, Robert O'Keefe, Health Effects Institute; Denise Mauzerall, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Wednesday, May 13
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
What Role for Diplomacy in Reconstruction and Stabilization?, Michael Van Dusen, Deputy Director, Woodrow Wilson Center; Robert Hunter, Former Ambassador to NATO, and Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation; Thomas Boyatt, Former Ambassador to Colombia and Burkina Faso, and Chair, Foreign Affairs Budget Project, American Academy of Diplomacy; Robert S. Litwak, Director, International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Director for Nonproliferation, National Security Council
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Serbia's Transition to a Market Economy: Achievements and Failures, Milica Uvalic, Professor of Economics, University of Perugia and current WWICS Public Policy Scholar
Thursday, May 14
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Communist Romania's Cultural Cold War, 1947-1960, Cristian Vasile, Wilson Center public policy scholar and Romanian short-term scholar
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
President Obama's Push for Change: Can He Succeed?, Sam Donaldson, ABC News Veteran Chief White House Correspondent
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Oil Security and Friendly Suppliers: Where Are We Now?, Jose Orlando Melo de Azevedo, President, Petrobras America, Inc.; Joseph Dukert, Independent Energy Consultant; Duncan Wood, Director, Canadian Studies Program and Undergraduate International Relations Program, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Friday, May 15
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The Status of Human Rights in Kazakhstan in Light of its OSCE Chairmanship in 2010, Evgeny Zhovtis, Executive Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau of Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Monday, May 18
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Central Eurasian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex: Evolution and Prospects, Robert Cutler, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Role of Congress in Foreign Policymaking, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.); Christopher Deering, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University; Karen De Young, Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Wednesday, May 20
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Social and Political Responses to Economic Crises: Reflections on the State of Democracy in EU Member States Bordering the CIS, Ginta T. Palubinskas, Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950, Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; Alexander Vassiliev, journalist and Former KGB officer; John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress; Harvey Klehr, Emory University; Mark Kramer, Harvard University; Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph's University; James G. Hershberg, The George Washington University
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Animal Investigators: Solving Illegal Wildlife Crimes and Saving Endangered Species in Brazil and China, Laurel Neme, author of Animal Investigators; Crawford Allen, WWF; Jorge Pontes, Interpol/Brazil
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967, Sergey Radchenko, London School of Economics
Thursday, May 21
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950, Eduard Mark, Department of the Air Force; Max Holland, Former Wilson Center Fellow, and editor, Washington Decoded; John Fox, Federal Bureau of Investigation; G. Edward White, University of Virginia Law School; R. Bruce Craig, University of Prince Edward Island; Steve Usdin, BioCentury Publications; Gregg Herken, University of California, Merced; Robert S. Norris, National Resources Defense Council; Ronald Radosh, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York; Barton Bernstein, Stanford University; Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Tuesday, May 26
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Still the Dark Double? America's Political and Media Presentations of Russia after 9/11, Andrei Tsygankov, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, San Francisco State University
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Data in Motion: Population, Poverty, and Development , Hans Rosling, Professor, Public Health Science, Karolinska Institute; Co-Founder, Gapminder
Wednesday, May 27
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Moving Forward in High Seas: The Balkans in 2009, Ivan Vejvoda, Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times, Author Scott M. Matheson, Professor of Law, University of Utah, and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Retrieving Times: Book Discussion With Author Granville Austin, Granville Austin, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Friday, May 29
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Global Energy and Russia: Key Issues, Yuri Shafranik, President, Soyuzneftegaz (Russian Union of Oil and Gas Producers)
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe: Gender, Microbusiness, and Globalization
A new book published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press examines women's experiences in microbusiness in Zimbabwe during the 1990s.
Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941
A new book published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press traces professional policing under Stalin's regime.
Fellow Samer Shehata Named 2009 Carnegie Scholar
Samer S. Shehata, a Woodrow Wilson Center fellow and a professor of Arab politics at Georgetown University, has been named one of the 24 scholars in the Carnegie Corporation's 2009 class.
Samuel H. Beer, Wilson Center Senior Scholar, Dies at 97
The staff and scholars of the Woodrow Wilson Center mourn the loss of Samuel H. Beer, 97, political scientist and Wilson Center senior scholar, who died April 7.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
The King and Us
Senior Scholar David Ottaway published an article in the May/June 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs about the United States' and Saudi Arabia's common interests in Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.
Don't Do Anything Damn Foolish
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an article in the May – June 2009 issue of The American Interest about President Obama's efforts in the Middle East and the "siren call" for presidents to take action early in the transition.
Earth Day III: Money Does Grow on Trees
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published an op-ed in The Oregonian about the environmental job sector and the wave of investment in the industry. (4/22)
One Way to Boost U.S.-China Military Cooperation
Geoff Dabelko, director of the Environmental Change and Security Program, co-authored an op-ed with Kent Hughes Butts in The Christian Science Monitor, prescribing environmental issues as way to begin military dialogue between China and the United States. (4/21)
Next Steps for Jailed Journalist in Iran Unclear
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari appeared on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer to discuss the arrest and imprisonment of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on spying charges. (4/20)
U.S.-Iran Tensions Over Jailed Reporter
Public Policy Scholar Robin Wright appeared on several radio and television shows to discuss Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been sentenced for spying charges and is currently imprisoned in Iran. Wright's appearances included The Takeaway (a Public Radio International and WNYC Radio show) and NBC's Meet the Press, as well as a discussion on U.S.-Iran relations on Charlie Rose. (4/20)
Moldova's Revolution Against Cynical and Cronyist Authoritarianism
Wilson Center Fellow Vladimir Tismaneanu authored an op-ed on the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website about Moldovan protests against the ruling Communist Party of Moldova. (4/13)
World's Nuclear Watchdog Needs a Strong and Wily Chief
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published an op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor about changes at the top level of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog. He also appeared on France 24 to discuss the possibility of direct talks between the United States and Iran.(4/9)
Britain's Muslim Women Power List
Southeast Europe Project Policy Scholar Gülnur Aybet was named one of Britain's 13 most powerful Muslim women, a recognition published by the British government's Equality and Human Rights Commission. Aybet also appeared as a guest on The Takeaway and on BBC to comment on President Obama's visit to Turkey. (4/6)
What Lula Can Teach 'White People'
Brazil Institute Director Paulo Sotero wrote on op-ed for the Foreign Policy website about the meaning behind a gaffe by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the G-20 summit. He also discussed the summit on HITN TV's Destination Casa Blanca. (3/31)
Commentaries by Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton, director of the Wilson Center, writes regular commentaries on foreign policy and Congress. Last month he published "Even in an Economic Crisis, Follow the Money," "Leaving the Cold War Behind," "Can Congress Cope With the Communications Age?," and "Toward a Nuclear-Free World."
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Omnibus Public Lands Bill Completes Long, Winding Journey."
William Milam in the Daily Times
Senior Scholar William Milam writes a twice monthly column in the Daily Times. In April he published "The Missing Piece" and "Postcards From the Kids."
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