| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, May 3 – May 26
Monday, May 3
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Song Without Words: The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy, Leah Bendavid-Val, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Conference: Muslim Political Integration in the United States and Germany, Co-sponsored with the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Tuesday, May 4
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Buy American / Buy Canadian: The New Protectionism?, Robert Baugh, Executive Director, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council; William Robson, President and CEO, C.D. Howe Institute; William Krist, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Industrial Trade Policy
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Women and Franchising: A Tool to Enable Entrepreneurship Beyond Microfinance, Nadereh Chamlou, Senior Adviser, Middle East and North Africa Region, The Work Bank; Donna Sibley, Founder and President, Sibley International
Wednesday, May 5
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
China's Growing Quest for Energy and Raw Materials, Deborah Brautigam, Professor, American University; Francisco E. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Patrick Fazzone, Founder and Chairman, Trade and Government Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Australia; Jack Garrity Executive Director, Asia Society Washington
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Book Discussion: Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia, Gül Berna Özcan, Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London; Associate Fellow, London School of Economics, and Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Henry Hale, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Director, European and Eurasian Studies Program, George Washington University; Barbara Junisbai, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute; Erica Marat, Research Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, May 6
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
 Coffee and Contraception: Combining Agribusiness and Community Health Projects in Rwanda, Irene Kitzantides, Population, Health, and Environment Adviser; Global Health Fellow, U.S. Agency for International Development
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Informality and the Euro: The Role of Rules in Unlocking Prosperity in Southeast Europe, Elena Panaritis, Member of the Greek Parliament, Institutional Economist, and Author, Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets With Trust
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
A European Perspective on the Current Situation in the DPRK, Bernhard Seliger, Resident Representative, Seoul Office, Hanns Seidel Foundation; James F. Person, Project Coordinator, North Korea International Documentation Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
Monday, May 10
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Russian Policy in the Greater Middle East: Trying to Keep out of Trouble, Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University, and Former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Tuesday, May 11
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Future of Greece: Challenges and Opportunities, Theodore Couloumbis, Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece, and Former Southeast Europe Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Buy American / Buy Canadian: The New Protectionism?, Robert Baugh,Executive Director, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council; William Robson, President and CEO, C.D. Howe Institute; Glen Hodgson, Chief Economist, Conference Board of Canada
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
A Discussion of the Future of the OAS With Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, Note: This is a date change from May 5
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, Organization of American States
Wednesday, May 12
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization and the Neoliberal Order, Jud Nirenberg, Associate Director, U.S. Association, UNHCR; Nando Sigona, Senior Researcher, Refugee Studies Centre COMPAS, University of Oxford; Nidhi Trehan, Independent Scholar
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Islamic Charities and Human Security in Pakistan, Christopher Candland, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow; Commentator Madiha Waris Qureshi, Editor, Columbia Books
Thursday, May 13
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Grand Strategy in Contemporary Statecraft: From Byzantium to Washington, Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Author, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Friday, May 14
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
You Are the Media: How Iranians "Democratized" the Media, Davar Iran Ardalan, Civic Journalist, Formerly of NPR News
Monday, May 17
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Putting "Culture" Onto the Middle East Agenda, Andrea Rugh, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, and Author, Simple Gestures: A Cultural Journey Into the Middle East and The Political Culture of Leadership in the United Arab Emirates
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Russian-American Intelligence Cooperation: Promise vs. Reality, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Congress, the Executive Branch and the Cyber Threat, Howard Schmidt, Coordinator for Cybersecurity, The White House (invited); Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger III (D-Md.) (invited); Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.) (invited); Lt. Co. Forrest B. Hare, Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Department of Defense
Tuesday, May 18
1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Separation of Powers in Russia and Ukraine: A Comparative Perspective, Sonya Michel, Director, U.S. Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center; Louis Fisher, Constitutional Law Specialist, Law Library, Library of Congress; Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, University of São Paulo; Jeff Anderson, Graf Goltz Professor and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University; William Pomeranz, Deputy Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Oleg Rumyantsev, President, Foundation for Constitutional Reforms; Oleksandr Zadorozhnii, Professor of Public International Law, Institute of International Relations, Tara Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Maria Popova, Assistant Professor of Political Science, McGill University
Wednesday, May 19
8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Common Crime and Organized Crime in Latin American Cities: Commonalities and Differences, Carlos Basombrío, Woodrow Wilson Center; Ana María Sanjuán, Universidad Central de Venezuela; Marcelo Saín, Former Chief of Airport Security Police (Argentina); Michel Misse, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Guaracy Mingardi, United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders; Eric Olson, Woodrow Wilson Center; Edgar Gutiérrez, Guatemala; Gustavo Villegas, EAFIT University; Marcelo Bergman, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas; John Bailey, Georgetown University; Juan Carlos Garzón, Organization of American States
Thursday, May 20
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: The European Way for America?, Steven Hill, Director of Political Reform Program, New America Foundation; Kimberly Morgan, Political Science, George Washington University; Mitchell Orenstein, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Africa: New Insights Into Population Growth and Development, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, Director, African Institute for Development Policy; Jotham Musinguzi, Director, Partners in Population and Development, Uganda
Friday, May 21
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Confronting East European Security Concerns: Reforming NATO 20 Years After the End of the Cold War
Monday, May 24
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The United States and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship, William Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council; Steve Richer, National Tour Association; Tim Ashby, Sonnenschein Nath Rosenthal LLP; Chris Sabatini, Council of the Americas; José Azel, University of Miami Cuba Center; Chris Garza, American Farm Bureau; Carl Meacham, Sen. Richard Lugar's office; Joel Brito, Grupo Internacional para la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Cuba
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Corrosive Reforms: Failing Health Systems in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Ellen Rosskam, Senior Adviser and Consultant to The Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, May 25
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Legitimizing the Illegitimate? Burma's Political Dilemmas, Mary Callahan, University of Washington; Jurgen Haacke, London School of Economics; David Steinberg, Georgetown University; Min Zin, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, May 26
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
China, Latin America, and the United States: The New Triangle, Enrique García, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF); Ambassador Sergio Ley, Former Mexican Ambassador to China; Cynthia Sanborn, Universidad del Pacifico, Lima; Chai Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; Cynthia Arnson, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Hongbo Sun, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow, Institute of the Americas; Antoni Estevadeordal, Inter-American Development Bank; Philip Yang, Petra Energia, Brazil
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Wilson Center Congratulates Its Pulitzer Prize-Winning Scholars
The Woodrow Wilson Center congratulates Public Policy Scholar Sheri Fink and recent Public Policy Scholar Anthony Shadid, recipients of 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting. Senior Scholar John Milton Cooper, Jr. was also a finalist for biography, and former Guest Scholar Gordon S. Wood was a finalist in the history category.
An Update From U.S. Central Command
"It takes a network to confront a network," Gen. David Petraeus said of his strategy as commander of U.S. Central Command. In a conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 13, Petraeus discussed the complexity of issues in the Central Command area and the need to take a holistic approach toward solutions to them.
Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk
Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published a new book, Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985, by Sergei I. Zhuk. It is copublished with Johns Hopkins University Press.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence and Ideas in Canada-U.S. Relations
Brian Bow, Fulbright-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations, was awarded the Donner Prize, Canada's most prestigious public policy book award, for The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence and Ideas in Canada-U.S. Relations. (4/28)
Mexican President Condemns Migration Law
Fellow Katherine Benton-Cohen appeared on BBC's GlobalNews podcast to discuss Arizona's strict new immigration law. (Click on "Mexican president condemns migration law.") Her book Borderline Americans was named a finalist for the Spur Awards in the category for Western Nonfiction-Contemporary. (4/27)
America Ignored?
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson appeared on Fox News to discuss a White House summit on using entrepreneurship as a foreign policy tool in the Middle East. She also participated as a speaker in the Economist Magazine Summit on Innovation, where she discussed the economics of innovation. (4/27)
Seize the Bay
Wilson Center photographer David Hawxhurst filmed the one-hour special "Seize the Bay," about lifestyle and history of the Chesapeake Bay, on MPT/PBS. Watch a preview clip of the show. (4/24)
Rocky Relations Between Poland and Russia
East European Studies Senior Associate Nida Gelazis appeared on Fox News to discuss the possibility of reconciliation between Poland and Russia. (4/18)
American Jihad
Public Policy Scholar Bruce Hoffman published an article in The National Interest about the United States' ineffective counterterrorism techniques and foresight of terrorist attacks. (4/20)
Scholar's Experience in Iranian Prison Sheds Light on Politics in Iran
Middle East Program Director Haleh Esfandiari was interviewed on Chicago Public Radio's Worldview about her book My Prison, My Home and her detainment in Iran in 2007. She also was interviewed on KUER in Salt Lake City, and the book was reviewed in Biography Books. (4/20)
The False Religion of Mideast Peace
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller wrote the cover story of the May/June issue of Foreign Policy about his lack of faith in the Middle East peace process. He appeared on NPR's "Morning Edition" to discuss the story. Miller also published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about the possibility of the United States trying to replace Israel's leadership with a more cooperative prime minister and a piece in Politico predicting further confrontation between the United States and Israel. (4/19)
Brazil's Election: Politics and Personalities
Senior Scholar Leslie Bethell published an op-ed on openDemocracy surveying the field of Brazil's upcoming elections. (4/16)
The Unsung Precursor to Brown v. Board
Senior Scholar Philippa Strum published a "Book Talk" piece on the blog of the American Constitution Society about her book Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights. (4/15)
General David Petraeus for President?
Senior Scholar Linda Killian published two blog posts on USNews.com related to General Petraeus' discussion at the Wilson Center and the Nuclear Security Summit and one about the question of whether Petraeus will run for president. (4/14)
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists
Public Policy Scholar Sheri Fink won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her story, a collaboration between ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, about life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. She also won a National Magazine Award for the story and was featured in a profile in The Washington Post.
Senior Scholar John Milton Cooper was a Pulitzer finalist for a Biography or Autobiography for his book Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. (4/12)
Nukes: A Fresh START
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler appeared on "The France 24 Debate" to discuss the signing of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and the danger of rogue states or militant groups getting a bomb. He also published an op-ed at the Bipartisan Policy Center about Congress's Iran sanctions act being an example of bipartisanship at work. (4/9)
NATO's New Strategic Concept: Not an Either-or Proposition
Senior Scholar Andrew Michta published a piece in the Central Europe Digest on NATO's New Strategic Concept, as the recommendations have finished and are now being considered by the Alliance. (4/1)
Egypt After Mubarak
Senior Scholar David Ottaway published an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times about the "political effervescence" signaled by the upcoming election and possible challenger to President Hosni Mubarak. (3/30)
How Strategic Was the Washington Dialogue?
Public Policy Scholar Maleeha Lodhi published an op-ed in The News (Pakistan) assessing the recent U.S.-Pakistan talks in Washington. (3/30)
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "A Pinch of Pepper Nearly Grounds Health Care Bill."
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