| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, June 1 – June 26
Monday, June 1
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Russia Today: Political and Foreign Policy Implications of the Economic Crisis, Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center, and Associate Fellow, Chatham House, London
Tuesday, June 2
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975, John Prados, the George Washington University's National Security Archive, Larry Berman, University of California, Davis, Thomas Hughes U.S. State Department (ret.)
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
America's Best Teachers Take Uncle Sam to School: Education and America's 21st Century, Ed Potosnak, High School Chemistry Teacher, N.J., and Einstein Fellow, Office of Representative Michael Honda (D-CA); Steve Scannell, High School Science Teacher, Ore., and Einstein Fellow, Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, National Science Foundation; Karen Stiner, Middle School Math Teacher, Ore., and Einstein Fellow, Research and Science Education Subcommittee, Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives; Jennifer Thompson, Primary School Math and Science Teacher, Alaska, and Einstein Fellow, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Ahmadinejad's Uncertain Future: Assessing Iran's Presidential Elections, Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Robin Wright, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, June 3
8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hunger Pains: Pakistan's Food Insecurity, Zafar Altaf, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Islamabad); Gautam Hazarika, University of Texas at Brownsville; Allan Jury, World Food Program; Ken MacDonald, University of Toronto; Roshan Malik, Iowa State University; Sohail Jehangir Malik, Innovative Development Strategies (Pvt.), Ltd. (Islamabad); Abid Suleri,Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Islamabad); and Saadia Toor, Staten Island College
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Trends and Best Practices in Environmental Dispute Resolution in Latin America, Pablo Lumerman, Director, Fundacion Cambio Democrático; Mara Hernández, Director, Centro de Colaboración Cívica, A.C.–México; Carlos Salazar, Director, Socios Peru: Centro de Colaboración Cívica
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Democracy, Memory and Moral Justice in Postcommunist Europe: The Case of Romania, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland-College Park and Wilson Center Fellow
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Building Together: Planning and Partnership for Health Care, the Environment, and the Economy, Jack Layton, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
Thursday, June 4
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Obama and Greece: History and Hope in U.S. Foreign Policy, James Miller, Foreign Service Institute and Georgetown University
Friday, June 5
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Lebanese Elections: Why Do They Matter?, Fouad Makhzoumi, President, National Dialogue Party of Lebanon and Founder, Makhzoumi Foundation
8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States Amid Global Economic Crisis: What are Realistic Options for U.S. Policy?, Jack Goldstone, George Mason University; Ambassador James Dobbins, RAND Corporation; William Zartman, SAIS; Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College; Sarah Cliffe, World Bank; Charles Call, American University; Gordon Adams, American University; and more.
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Monday, June 8
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
South Korea's Free Trade Strategy, Simone Chun, Suffolk University; Jaemin Lee, Hanyang University (Seoul); Troy Stangarone, Korea Economic Institute
3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Renewing the Partnership between the United States and Mexico: Shared Responsibility and Shared Strategies, Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico; José Antonio Fernández, Chair and CEO, FEMSA; Roger Wallace, Vice President, Pioneer Natural Resources; Luis de la Calle, de la Calle, Madero, Mancera and former Deputy Commerce Secretary; Carlos Heredia, Researcher, CIDE and former Congressman; Jim Kolbe, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates and former Congressman; Jim Jones, President, Manatt Jones and former Ambassador to Mexico; Andrés Rozental, President, Rozental y Asociados former Deputy Foreign Minister; Javier Treviño, Vice President, Cemex and former Undersecretary of Foreign Relations; Philip Bennett, former Managing Editor, Washington Post; Roderic Ai Camp, McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College; Rossana Fuentes-Berain, Vice President, Grupo Expansión; Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director, Center for Hemispheric Policy, University of Miami; Diana Negroponte, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Luis Rubio, President, CIDAC; Peter Smith, Simon Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies, UCSD
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Terror From Within: Brotherhood and Betrayal in the Soviet Political Police, Cynthia Hooper, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross, and Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Generational Equity in the Welfare State: Germany in an International Comparison, Christoph Conrad, Fellow, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and Professor of Contemporary History, University of Geneva, Switzerland; commentator Mitchell Orenstein, S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Tuesday, June 9
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Symposium: Evaluating the Effects of EU Accession: Lessons for Southeast Europe, Speakers TBA
Wednesday, June 10
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
South Africa and United States Relations: A Post-Election Prognosis, Moeletsi Mbeki, Chairman, South African Institute of International Affairs; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Journalist, Foreign Correspondent, National Public Radio; Trevor Manuel, Finance Minister, South Africa (Invited); Princeton Lyman, Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (Invited); Speaker, Department of Commerce, TBD
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Hijacked Justice: Dealing With the Past in the Balkans, Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Idealists Against Ideologues: Andrei Plesu—A Case Study in the Political History of the Romanian Intelligentsia, Mihail Neamtu Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar and Romanian Short-Term Scholar
Monday, June 15
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Climate Change and Water: Challenges and Responses in Australia and California, Jon Barnett, Associate Professor, Department of Resource Management Geography, University of Melbourne; W. Michael Hanemann, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Director, Cal Climate Change Center
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Kazakhstan: The Road to Independence, Energy Policy, and the Birth of a Nation, Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, Heritage Foundation
Tuesday, June 16
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Change in Asia and the Pacific: Managing Australia's Interests With the United States and China, Richard C. Smith, Wilson Center Australian Scholar
Wednesday, June 17
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year, Alistair Horne, Former Wilson Center Fellow and Public Policy Scholar
Thursday, June 18
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
China's Watersheds Under Stress, Jon Barnett, University of Melbourne; Kristen McDonald, China Rivers Project; Zhang Jingjing, CLAPV
Friday, June 19
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Greening Business in Southern China: Innovations From Canada and the United States, Wei Dong Zhou, Director, China Office, Business for Social Responsibility; You-Zhi Tang, Partner, Canadian Cleantech Fund; Jay M. Dietrich, Program Manager, Climate Stewardship, IBM
Tuesday, June 23
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Stable Banks, Stable Finance: The Canadian Experience, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada; His Excellency Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the United States; Nick Le Pan, Former Canadian Superintendent of Financial Institutions; Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; Jodi White, former President, Public Policy Forum (moderator)
Friday, June 26
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement Trends, Xóchitl Bada, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jonathan Fox, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Óscar Chacón, Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities; Marcelo Gaete, Vice-President of Public and Governmental Affairs, Entravision; Former Senior Director of Programs, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials' Educational Fund; Esther Olavarría, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security; Marc R. Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute; Claudio Sánchez, Correspondent, National Public Radio; Christopher Bishop, Executive Director, Helping Empower Local People (CHARLOTTE); Teresa Castellanos, Interim Director, Office of Human Relations, County of Santa Clara (California) (SAN JOSE); Ricardo Gambetta, Manager of Inclusive Communities Program, National League of Cities; Former Executive Director, Mayor's Commission on Latino Affairs, City of Indianapolis; Luvia Quiñones, Associate Director, New Americans Initiative, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (CHICAGO); Michael Klein, MEChA student representative, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (LAS VEGAS); Myrna Martínez, Director, Pan Valley Institute, American Friends Service Committee (FRESNO); Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Project Director, Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California, Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES); Sergio Sosa, Organizer, One Omaha Together (OMAHA); Florencio I. Zaragoza, President, Fundación México (TUCSON); David Ayón, Senior Research Associate, Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University; Israel Fuentes, President, El Comité de Unidad Guatemalteco/Guatemalan Unity Committee (LAS VEGAS); Juan José González, New Americans Democracy Project, ICIRR (CHICAGO); Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES); Robert Donnelly, Program Associate, Mexico Institute
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil
A new book published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press explores the relationship between participatory institutions and citizenship in Brazil.
Wilson Center Mourns the Death of George Liston Seay
The Woodrow Wilson Center mourns the death of its beloved longtime colleague and friend George Liston Seay. Of his various roles during a 33-year tenure at the Wilson Center, George will be most remembered as the host of dialogue, the Wilson Center's radio and television series.
There's a Sensor in Your Pocket
Existing technologies in today's mobile phones and web services enable new approaches to citizen science, giving individuals and communities the power to shape the world around them in new ways. Read more in a paper commissioned by the Foresight Governance Project.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Biden's Unfinished Balkan Business
Southeast Europe Policy Scholar Gulnur Aybet co-authored an article with Florian Bieber on The Washington Post's PostGlobal about Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to the Balkans. They analyze issues from the region left unfinished from the early 1990s, such as integration into NATO and the EU. (5/27)
Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks
The Vassiliev Notebooks, a collection of detailed notes on Soviet intelligence activities in the United States from 1930-1950 recently published online by the Cold War International History Project, were featured on CNN's The Situation Room as well as on the popular tech site Slashdot. Access the entire Vassilev Notebooks in English and in Russian for free on the CWIHP website. (5/21)
Synthetic Biology in High Places
Public Policy Scholar Eleonore Pauwels presented expert testimony on public perceptions of synthetic biology before the European Group on Ethics (EGE), an advisory board to the European Commission. Download her entire presentation (pdf). (5/20)
Why Iran Freed Roxana Saberi
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program, wrote a column for The Daily Beast about the release of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, drawing on her own experiences as a prisoner in Iran. She also appeared on The Diane Rehm Show, along with Public Policy Scholar Robin Wright. (5/17)
'We Are All Guilty'
Senior Scholar Walter Reich reviewed The Third Reich at War, by Richard J. Evans, in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. He calls the book "not only the finest but also the most riveting account" of Nazi Germany's actions during World War II. (5/13)
No Easing of Fears
Public Policy Scholar Robin Wright contributed to a piece on the New York Times' Room for Debate blog about Roxana Saberi's release, writing that the affair's end doesn't signify a change in U.S.-Iran relations. (5/11)
In U.S., a Change in Tone on Israel
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller appeared on NPR's All Things Considered to discuss whether Washington's change in tone toward Israel will translate to a change in policy. (5/10)
New World Population Numbers Have a Big Impact on Social Security, Foreign Policy
"The World's New Numbers," a Wilson Quarterly article by Senior Scholar Martin Walker, prompted a blog post on U.S. News World Report about global demographic trends. (5/7)
Overselling 'Climate Conflict'?
Issue 13 of the Environmental Change and Security Program Report (pdf) was cited in a story on The Huffington Post urging experts and policymakers to remain calm in their rhetoric and analysis of climate change. (5/1)
Cold Shoulder for Latino Immigrants?
"Charlotte: A Welcome Denied," a report authored by Joyce Deaton and released by the Mexico Institute, prompted an article in the Charlotte Observer. The report and subsequent news story document increasing hostility in Charlotte toward Latino immigrants. Download the entire report (pdf). (4/29)
Commentaries by Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton, director of the Wilson Center, writes regular commentaries on foreign policy and Congress. Last month he published "Ties That Bind U.S., Mexico" and "Challenges From Pakistan."
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Congress Penchant for Delegation Can Be a Sin of Commission" and "House Leaders Throw Blue Dogs a PAYGO Bone."
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