| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, March 1 – March 31
Monday, March 1
8:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Rethinking Human Trafficking, Denise Brennan, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center and Associate Professor, Anthropology, Georgetown University; Elizabeth Bernstein, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and Sociology, Barnard College; Florrie Burke, Consultant, Freedom Network USA; Peter Kwong, Professor, Asian American Studies and Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; Professor, Sociology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Moderator: Sonya Michel, Director, United States Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center; Pardis Mahdavi, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center and Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Pomona College; Laura Agustín, Independent Scholar, London, United Kingdom; Rhacel Parreñas, Professor, American Civilization and Sociology, Brown University; Dina Haynes, Associate Professor of Law, New England School of Law; Moderator: Denise Brennan, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center and Associate Professor, Anthropology, Georgetown University; Carole S. Vance, Associate Clinical Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology, Columbia University; Sealing Cheng, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, Wellesley College; Nicole Constable, Professor, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh; Noy Thrupkaew, Fellow, Open Society Institute; Moderator: Pardis Mahdavi, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center and Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Pomona College
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Struggle Over Sharia Courts in Central Asia: Recent Trends and the Historical Context, Elyor E. Karimov, Professor of History, Institute of History, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, March 2
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
National Standards: Raising the Bar for Global Opportunity, Arundhati Jayarao, Middle and High School Chemistry and Physics, Virginia; Sarah Yue, High School Chemistry, California; Kirk Janowiak, High School Biology and Environmental Science, Indiana; Ben Van Dusen, High School Physics, Oregon; Mark Greenman, High School Physics, Massachusetts; John Moore, High School Environmental Science, New Jersey; Moderator Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
 Promoting Regional Integration and Food Security in Africa
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Brazil and 'Latin America' in Historical Perspective, Leslie Bethell, Senior Scholar, Brazil Institute; Eric Hershberg, Director of Latin American Studies, American University; Julia Sweig, Director for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Wednesday, March 3
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe, Charles King, Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
State Perspectives on Combating Violence and Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, John Suthers, Colorado Attorney General and Chair, Conference of Western Attorneys General; Rommel Moreno Manjarrez, Baja California Attorney General; Gary King, New Mexico Attorney General; Larry Harrington, Chief Policy Deputy Attorney General, State of Tennessee and Advisory Board Member, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, March 4
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
A New Economic Relationship Between the United States and the Caribbean, Irving Williamson, US International Trade Commission (USITC); Dav-Ernan Kowlessar, Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC); Cecilia Babb, Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC); Stephen Lande, Manchester Trade
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Friday, March 5
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Inter-agency Consultation on Democratic Republic of Congo (Invitation Only), Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity and Africa Program; Herbert Weiss, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, and Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Monday, March 8
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Religion and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Yuli Tamir, Member of Knesset and Former Israeli Minister of Education, Tel Aviv; Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair, University of Maryland; Edward Luttwak, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems, Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard University School of Public Health; Helen de Pinho, Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Columbia University; Agnes Soucat, Lead Economist and Adviser, Health Nutrition Population for Africa, World Bank
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Warning of Global Warming? Politics, Economics and Ecological Change in Siberia's Far East, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor, Georgetown University, and Editor, Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia
Tuesday, March 9
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Elephant at Sea: India's Maritime Strategy, Arun Prakash, Chairman, National Maritime Foundation (New Delhi); Siddharth Srivastava, Independent Journalist (New Delhi); Andrew C. Winner, Professor, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Middle East Conflict and Challenges to European Security, His Excellency Martti Ahtisaari, Former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Europe and Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Challenges and Prospects, Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador, Federal Republic of Germany, Shahram Chubin, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Bernard Hourcade, Senior Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Legislative Trials and Triumphs in Combating Demand for Commercial Sex, Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director, Equality Now; Eleanor Gaetan, Legislative Adviser, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women; Samir Goswami, Policy Director, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation; Ambassador Swanee Hunt, President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
Wednesday, March 10
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home, Gordon Adams, Professor, School of International Service, American University, and Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center; Cindy Williams, Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ambassador Marc Grossman, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Dov Zakheim, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lebanon: Is Real Reform Possible?, Mohammad A. Safadi, Minister of Economy and Trade and Member of Parliament, Republic of Lebanon
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Gifts: Archaeophilia, Ochlocracy and Monochromatism in Contemporary Macedonia, Keith Brown, Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Irena Stefoska, Professor, Institute of National History, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia and Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute, Brown University
Thursday, March 11
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
U.S.-China Partnership for Climate Action, George Hamilton, Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC); Mel Rice, ISC; Dr. Zou Ji, World Resources Institute (WRI)
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
BioSecurity, Jason Bobe, Director of Community, Personal Genome Project, Harvard Medical School; Edward You, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Countermeasures Unit, Bioterrorism Team; David Rejeski, Director, Synthetic Biology Project
Friday, March 12
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Trilateral Security Cooperation in North America
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Brazil as a Regional Power: Views From the Hemisphere, Leslie Bethell, Senior Scholar, Brazil Institute; Achilles Zaluar, Minister, Embassy of Brazil; Andrew Hurrell, Professor, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor, New York University; Matias Spektor, Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, and Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Thomaz Guedes da Costa, Professor, National Defense University; Jose Octavio Bordon, Former Argentine Ambassador to Washington and Former Governor of Mendoza; George Gray Molina, Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Arlene Tickner, Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; Michael Penfold, Associate Director, Corporación Andina de Fomento, Caracas; Olga Pellicer, Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Arturo Cruz, INCAE Business School, Managua; Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic International Studies; Riorden Roett, Professor, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; Peter Hakim, President, Inter-American Dialogue
Monday, March 15
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Book Discussion: Superpower Illusions: How Myths about the Cold War's End Have Poisoned U.S.-Russian Relations, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Columbia University, and Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR
Tuesday, March 16
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"Keep on Saving": How Other Nations Forged Cultures of Thrift When America Didn't, Sheldon Garon, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Dodge Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Maintaining the Momentum: Highlights From the Uganda International Conference on Family Planning, Khama Rogo, Senior Adviser, Health in Africa, World Bank Group; Amy Tsui, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Director, The Bill Melinda Gates Institute of Population Reproductive Health; Rhonda Smith, Associate Vice President, International Programs, Population Reference Bureau
Thursday, March 18
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Discussion: Yalta: The Price of Peace, Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, and Advisory Council Member, Kennan Institute
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Building a Smarter Grid: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States and Canada
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Environmental Film Festival Screening: The Burning Season, Cathy Henkel, Filmmaker, The Burning Season
Monday, March 22
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Democracy in Ukraine: Are We There Yet?, Nadia Diuk, Senior Director, Europe Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy
Wednesday, March 24
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life, Marwan Kraidy, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Finding Dollars and Sense: Burma's Economic Dilemmas, Bradley Babson, Independent Consultant; Ken MacLean, Clark University; Morten B. Pedersen, Australia National University; Sean Turnell, Macquarie University (Australia)
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Greece's Financial Crisis: The Politics of Resolution and Reform, Achilles Skordas, Lecturer in Law, Bristol University (UK)
Thursday, March 25
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Lecture: "Respect", Lecturer Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Commentator James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
Monday, March 29
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Russia's Underground Fire: Politics, Security and Human Rights in the North Caucasus, Tom Parfitt, Correspondent, The Guardian, Moscow, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, March 31
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Serbia and the EU: Assessing the Economic Prospects, John Lampe, Professor of History, University of Maryland-College Park
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Green Planet Blues Covers Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics
The new edition of the book co-edited by University of Maryland Professor Ken Conca and ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko covers key debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, biodiversity, and other environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. It is available now from Westview Press.
The Much Too Promised Land: Israel and the Palestinian Authority
The Woodrow Wilson Center is hosting an exclusive educational travel event to the Middle East entitled "The Much Too Promised Land: Israel and the Palestinian Authority," from May 1 to 13.
Wilson Center Mourns the Death of Late Former Board Member Robert Mosbacher
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars mourns the death of Robert Mosbacher, former U.S. secretary of commerce and former member of the Wilson Center's Board of Trustees. Mosbacher passed away on January 24.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Iranian Threat to Destroy Israel Doesn't Hold Up
Public Policy Scholar Avner Cohen published an op-ed in Haaretz arguing that a nuclear Iran should be viewed by Israel more as a global political problem than an existential threat. (2/25)
Health Reform Advice Obama Might Get From Clinton
Public Policy Scholar Jamie Stiehm published an op-ed on USNews.com offering President Obama advice on health care reform in the voice of Bill Clinton. She also published a piece on Politics Daily contrasting the departures of Senators Christopher Dodd and Evan Bayh and a story about a Valentine's Day party she held to honor Abraham Lincoln's legacy. (2/25)
Through the Looking Glass
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari's book, My Prison, My Home, was reviewed in the Kipp Report in an essay by Iason Athanasiadis, a journalist who was also detained in Iran. The book was also reviewed in the Financial Times and the National Post. Esfandiari also discussed the book on MIPtalk and appeared on WAMU's "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" to discuss the current situation in Iran.
Bin Laden Tapes
Fellow Flagg Miller appeared on PRI's "The World" to discuss his work studying the hundreds of audio tapes found in Osama Bin Laden's home early in the war in Afghanistan. He also was interviewed about the project on NPR's "On the Media." (2/17)
We Don't Need a Great President; We Need a Good One
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an op-ed in The Huffington Post about how President Obama has found himself less transformative a leader than intended, partly a product of his own overreaching goals. He also wrote a story for Politico on the challenges facing Obama and the possibility of his success and one for Foreign Policy on the state of U.S. diplomacy. (2/11)
Punishing the Mullahs
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published an op-ed in The Daily Beast about the possibilities for China's actions on the UN Security Council as it pursues sanctions against Iran. He also wrote a story about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plans to increase Iran's uranium enrichment to near weapons grade. (2/10)
Democratic Leaders Are Obama's Biggest Obstacle to Bipartisanship
Senior Scholar Linda Killian posted a piece on USNews.com about the obstacle to bipartisanship posed by Democrat leaders, after President Obama's meeting with House Republicans last week. (2/4)
Obama's Big Plan for Small Business
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published an op-ed on CNN.com examining President Obama's proposed small business lending program. (2/3)
Between the Surge and the Talks
Public Policy Scholar Maleeha Lodhi published an op-ed in The News (Pakistan) about the London conference on Afghanistan, co-sponsored by the UK, Afghanistan and the UN. (2/2)
Global Water Security
Environmental Change and Security Program Director Geoff Dabelko appeared on "The Diane Rehm Show" to discuss water scarcity's effect on public health, national security, and the global economy. (2/2)
'Backroom Deals' a Bipartisan Necessity
Senior Scholar Martin Tolchin co-authored an op-ed in The Huffington Post about the realistic necessity of so-called "back-room deals" in politics. (1/29)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Fiscally Unaccountable Debt-Limit Maneuver Puts House on Autopilot" and Tough Times Produce Familiar Refrain, but Is Reform the Answer?"
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