| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, July 8 – July 23
Wednesday, July 8
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
New Connections, New Contributions at the Smithsonian, Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Monday, July 13
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Vanguard: Women in the Iranian Election Campaign and Protest, Speakers TBA
Thursday, July 16
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The European Edge in Education: What the United States Can Learn, Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD Directorate for Education, which manages the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); William Schmidt, Professor, Michigan State University, and Principal Researcher, The Preparation Gap: Teacher Education for Middle School Mathematics in Six Countries; Iris C. Rotberg, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, and Editor, Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform
Monday, July 20
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York at Albany; David S. Patterson Yale University
Tuesday, July 21
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Rising Sons? The Emergence and Future of the Democratic Party of Japan, Richard Katz, The Oriental Economist; Ko Maeda, University of North Texas; Daniel Sneider, Stanford University. Other speakers TBA.
Thursday, July 23
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict and Resistance to Modernity, Riaz Mohammad Khan, Pakistan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Foreign Secretary, Pakistan
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The International Watersheds Initiative: Implementing a New Paradigm for Transboundary Basins, Charles Lawson, Secretary, U.S. Section, International Joint Commission; Willem Brakel, Senior Adviser, International Joint Commission
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
The Woodrow Wilson Center Announces 2009-2010 Fellows
Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, has announced the 24 members of the 2009-2010 fellowship class.
Sonya Michel Joins Wilson Center as New Director of United States Studies
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars welcomes Sonya Michel as the new director of United States Studies. Most recently, Michel was professor of history and director of the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Former News Anchor Ted Koppel Addresses Wilson Center's Board and Council
On June 1, journalists Ted Koppel and Sam Donaldson had a lively exchange about politics and economics at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Board and Council dinner. Donaldson, a former ABC News anchor and correspondent who currently serves as Wilson Council president, interviewed Ted Koppel, former anchor and managing editor of ABC News Nightline, on the Obama administration's record so far, fiscal responsibility, and the likely future of America's political parties.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Voices Behind Obama
Fellow Margot Badran published an op-ed in Al-Ahram Weekly about women's rights in Iran and how they were addressed in President Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo. (6/24)
Iran's Mousavi Thrust Into Spotlight as Opposition Leader
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program, appeared on PBS's NewsHour to discuss Iran opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard. She also contributed to Peace X Peace's Peace Times, reflecting on lessons in motherhood from her own mother and daughter. (6/24)
The Evolution of Iran's Revolution
Public Policy Scholar Robin Wright published numerous pieces about Iran's elections and the turmoil that followed, including stories in The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and three on the Time website (read the first, second, and third). (6/21)
Does Obama Want to Change Israeli Government?
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller wrote a commentary for CNN analyzing President Obama's relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in advance of Obama's address to the Middle East. He also discussed Natanyahu's June 14 policy speech on the Council on Foreign Relations website. (6/15)
Republicans, at Crossroads, Must Find Political Compass or Go the Way of the Whigs
Public Policy Scholar Jamie Stiehm published an op-ed in U.S. News and World Report about the Republican Party's direction and historical parallels with the Whigs in the mid-19th century. (6/11)
Holocaust Museum Shooting: Overcoming Violence and Anti-Semitism
Senior Scholar Robert Reich, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted an online chat on the Washington Post website in response to the tragic shooting at the museum on June 10. (6/11)
Can Ahmadinejad Lose Iran Election's Poll?
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler appeared on "The France 24 Debate" on Iran's election day to discuss the outcome and country's future. (Watch part 2 of the broadcast here.) (6/11)
Postmortem: Getting Serious With Budget Hero
David Rejeski, director of the Foresight and Governance Project, analyzes the impact of Budget Hero, a serious game that invites players to try to balance the federal budget using data from the Congressional Budget Office. Read the story on Gamasutra. (6/9)
Sound Issues Trump Shrill 'Isms'
The Asia Program's Michael Kugelman published a piece in the June issue of the U.S.-based Asian Indian magazine Khabar about the BJP's defeat in India's May elections. (6/8)
To Tweet or Not to Tweet—Social Media and the Scientific Meeting
Andrew Maynard, chief science adviser for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, weighed the pros and cons of blogging and using Twitter from scientific meetings for 2020 Science. (6/3)
Commentaries by Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton, director of the Wilson Center, writes regular commentaries on foreign policy and Congress. Last month he published "America's Defensive Strategy," "Is Fixing Congressional Procedure a Lost Cause?," "A Choice for North Korea," and "Why Congress Needs Institutionalists."
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Theres a Better Way to Handle the Torture Controversy" and "Appropriations Bills Face New Twists and Old Realities."
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