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October, 2008
Book Discussion--The Forever War
Wednesday, October 01 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speaker and author: Dexter Filkins, staff writer and correspondent in Iraq, The New York Times
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Fishing Murky Waters: China's Aquaculture Challenges Upstream and Downstream
Wednesday, October 01 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
David Barboza, The New York Times; Teresa Ish, Environmental Defense Fund; WANG Hanling, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo
Thursday, October 02 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Peter Andreas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University
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Carbon Standards: What Is the Right Choice for the United States and Canada?
Thursday, October 02 2008, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
John T. Disharoon, Sustainable Development Manager, Caterpillar Inc.;
Stephen Holland, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Tom Mullikin, Senior Environmental Attorney, Moore & Van Allen; Catherine Reheis-Boyd, Chief Operating Officer, Western States Petroleum Association; Greg Stringham, Vice President, Markets and Fiscal Policy, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers; Patrice Merrin-Best, Independent Consultant (moderator); Honorable Warren Chisum, Member, Energy Resources Committee, Texas House of Representatives; Jonathan M. Baron, Consultant, Securing America’s Future Energy; Founder, Baron Communications LLC. This event will take place in Chicago, Illinois.
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Archeology as Diplomacy
Monday, October 06 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Mark Lehner, Director, Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA)
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North Ossetia’s Geopolitical Entanglements
Monday, October 06 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Gerard Toal, Professor and Director, Government and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
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Reflections on a Presidency: 10 Years at Botswana’s Helm
Monday, October 06 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
with His Excellency Festus Mogae, Former President of the Republic of Botswana.
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Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding: Sharing Lessons and Building Networks (Location: Barcelona)
Tuesday, October 07 2008, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Geoff Dabelko, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Anne Hammill, International Institute for Sustainable Development; David Jensen, UN Environment Programme; Richard Matthew, University of California, Irvine
(Location: World Conservation Congress, Barcelona; Room CCIB 128)
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Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Zsuzsa Csergo, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Queen's University
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Population, Health, and Environment: Value Added From an Integrated Development Strategy (Location: Barcelona)
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Gib Clarke, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Jason Bremner, Population Reference Bureau; Joan Castro, PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc.; Sabita Thapa, World Wildlife Fund, Nepal; Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Conservation Through Public Health; John Pielemeier, Independent Consultant
(Location: World Conservation Congress, Barcelona; Room CCIB 122)
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Energy Strategy in Southeast Europe: Connecting Regional and Global Grids
Thursday, October 09 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Achilles Adamantiades, Director, ICG Aeolian Energy, LLC
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The Czechoslovak Intelligence Services in the Cold War: New Documents from the Czech Archives
Thursday, October 09 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Pavel Zacek, Director, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes; Benjamin Fischer former chief historian, CIA
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Can the Middle East Reform?
Friday, October 10 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Hind Aboud Kabawat, Attorney and International Adviser, Joseph Young and Associates, Toronto, Canada and Foreign Affairs Director, The Syrian Public Relation Association, Damascus, Syria
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Azerbaijan and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia: Foreign Policy Strategies, Caspian Energy Security, and Great Power Politics
Tuesday, October 14 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Elkhan Nuriyev, Director, Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and former Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute
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Book Launch: International Relations of Asia
Tuesday, October 14 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Speakers: David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University; Michael Yahuda, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics, and Visiting Scholar, The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University
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Taube Discussion Series on American Values: American Democracy and Citizen Participation
Tuesday, October 14 2008, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Donna Shalala, President, University of Miami, and former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, keynote speaker; commentators Moses Boyd, Senior Counselor, The Washington Group, and former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; and Peter Levine, Director of The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement and Research Director, Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University.
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Truth and Reconciliation in Colombia: The Work of the National Reconciliation Commission
Wednesday, October 15 2008, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Gonzalo Sánchez, Director, Memoria Histórica, Álvaro Camacho, Research Coordinator, Trujillo Report
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Book Discussion--The CIA and the Culture of Failure
Thursday, October 16 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
with author John Diamond, former national security reporter, USA TODAY, and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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The Red Prince: The Ukrainian Mission of a Habsburg Archduke
Thursday, October 16 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University
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A Litmus Test of the Century and its Social and Moral Order: Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
Friday, October 17 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Leonidas Donskis, Professor of Political Science and Director of the School of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University
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Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia
Monday, October 20 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
John Garrard, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Arizona, and former fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Carol Garrard, independent scholar and author, Tucson, Arizona
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The Health of Ethiopia: An Update by Ethiopia's Health Minister
Monday, October 20 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom will remark upon U.S.-Ethiopian Health Partnerships; Recent Health Innovations; and the Health-Related Impacts of the Food, Fuel, and Finance Crises.
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McCain, Obama, and the Middle East:
The influence of Domestic Politics on U.S. Policy
Monday, October 20 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Graeme Bannerman, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute and Former Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Hussein Ibish, Executive Director, The Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership and Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine; Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and former U.S. Middle East Negotiator; and Richard Straus, Editor, Middle East Policy Survey and Former Staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Stalin vs. Science: The Life and Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
Tuesday, October 21 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Peter Pringle, journalist and author, New York; Yuri Vavilov, Senior Scientific Associate, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow
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Power Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia
Tuesday, October 21 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Evelyn Goh, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, University of Oxford
Commentator: Liselotte Odgaard, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Royal Danish Defence College
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Fertile Fringes: Population Growth at Protected-Area Edges
Wednesday, October 22 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Justin Brashares, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley; George Wittemyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University; Jason Bremner, Program Director, Population, Health, and Environment Program, Population Reference Bureau
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Giving the Courts Green Teeth
Wednesday, October 22 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Tseming Yang Vermont Law School; Jingjing Liu Vermont Law School; Zhiping Li Environmental Resource and Energy Law Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University Law School
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King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life
Thursday, October 23 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life, featuring Nigel Ashton, senior lecturer in international history at the London School of Economics and Alexander Wieland from the State Department's Office of the Historian.
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The Current State of Mexico's Politics
Thursday, October 23 2008, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Presentation by Sergio Aguayo Quezada
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Field Trips: Population-Health-Environment Projects in Kenya, DRC, and Madagascar
Thursday, October 23 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sam Weru, National Coordinator, Eastern African Marine Ecoregion Programme, World Wildlife Fund; Dario Merlo, Project Coordinator, Community Centered Conservation, Jane Goodall Institute, DRC; Janet Edmond, Director of Population-Environment Programs, Conservation International
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"Inter-Art" International Art Exhibition
Thursday, October 23 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
An international exhibition of 43 artists from 20 countries and every continent, in conjunction with INTER-ART Foundation Aiud-Romania. The exhibition will be open for public viewing until November 28, 2008.
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New Challenges of Constitutional Adjudication in Brazil
Friday, October 24 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Featuring Minister Gilmar Mendes, President of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil; Introduction and Comments by Judge Peter J. Messitte, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland; Welcome Remarks by Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute
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New Voices in a Shifting Age: Recent Russian Drama and Theater
Monday, October 27 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
John Freedman, author and theater critic, The Moscow Times
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China's Tibet Policy: Tensions Abound, But Are There Any Signs of Hope?
Monday, October 27 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speakers: Elliot Sperling, Indiana University; Lopsang Sangay, Harvard University; Allen R. Carlson, Cornell University
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Canada and the United States: What Does It Mean to Be Good Neighbours?
Monday, October 27 2008, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Canada Institute, along with several partners, is once again co-sponsoring the annual conference of the Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute. This year, the conference will focus on examining outstanding unsettled issues between Canada and the United States from both sides of the border and suggesting ways to resolve those issues.
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Secularism in the Muslim Diaspora
Monday, October 27 2008, 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Speakers: Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bassam Tibi, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Affairs, Göttingen University; Jean-Pierre Filiu, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Associate Professor, Political Science and Chair, Middle East Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, France; Philippa Strum, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Maajid Nawaz, Director, The Quilliam Foundation, London, England; Afshin Ellian, Professor of International Criminal Law, University of Leiden, Netherlands; and Cheryl Benard, Director, Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth, Center for Middle East Public Policy, RAND Corporation; Jonathan Laurence, Coeditor, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College; and Peter Mandaville, Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University.
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Central America’s economic dilemma: food, energy, and the impact of the U.S. crisis
Tuesday, October 28 2008, 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 a.m.
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The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All
Tuesday, October 28 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity and the United Nations Association of the National Capitol Area are proud to present The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All. This panel discussion will feature Gareth Evans, President of International Crisis Group and author of the new book, The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), with welcoming remarks from A. Ed Elmendorf, President of the United Nations Association of the National Capitol Area.
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High Crimes, High Drama: A Preview of the Karadzic Trial
Wednesday, October 29 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Michael P. Scharf, Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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The Business of Urban Transformation
Wednesday, October 29 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
David Fulton, Director of Business Liason, Office of the U.S. Executive Director, The World Bank; Judith Hermanson, Senior Vice President, CHF International; David Painter, Vice President, TCG International, LLC; J.P. Solomon, CEO, MAYA Organic Private Ltd.
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The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President
Wednesday, October 29 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
with author Jeffrey Engel, assistant professor of history and public policy at Texas A&M;
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Don't Take It Literally!
Thursday, October 30 2008, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Marjana Savka, poet and publisher, Lviv, Ukraine
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Iraqi Women as Agents of Peace
Friday, October 31 2008, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
An off the record round table discussion with a group of Iraqi women that are active on the ground.
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