Social Sciences
WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK 2014. 11/24, 9:30-11:00am. Sponsor: Energy and National Security, CSIS. Speaker: Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency; Moderator: Sarah Ladislaw, Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS.
CAPPING CHINA'S COAL. 11/24, 10:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: Jake Schmidt, Director, International Program, Natural Resources Defense Council; Fuqiang Yang, Senior Adviser on Climate, Energy and Environment, Natural Resources Defense Council; Hu Tao, China Program Director, World Wildlife Fund-US; Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Policy Advisor, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
ENTERING THE HOMESTRETCH: U.S. CLIMATE DIPLOMACY ON THE ROAD TO PARIS. 11/24, 2014, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Center for American Progress. Speakers: Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State; Moderated by: Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow and Director of International Energy and Climate Policy, Center for American Progress.
JIHADIST MOVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA AND IRAQ: INEVITABLE RISE OF POLICY FAILURE? 11/24, 3:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Carnegie Endowment. Speakers: Adam Baczko, corder, conflict, and violence fellow at Yale University; Gilles Dorronsoro, professor of political science at the University of Paris and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Frederic Grare is senior associate and director of Carnegie?s South Asia Program; Arthur Quesnay, fellow at the French Institute for Near East (IFPO) and analyst at Noria Research; Frederic Wehrey, senior associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
IRAN-P5+1 NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS: THE ROAD AHEAD. 11/25, 10:30am-Noon. Sponsor: Brookings Institution. Speakers: Gary Samore, Executive Director of Research, The Belfer Center, Harvard University; David Albright, Founder and President, Institute for Science and International Security; Edward Levine, National Advisory Board Member, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; Moderator: Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative.
SECOND LIFE OF POLITICAL LEADERS: A CASE STUDY OF ADOLF HITLER?S IMAGE IN AMERICAN POP CULTURE. 11/25, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Society, Culture & Politics Program, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). Speaker: Arleta Dulkowska, Research Fellow, DAAD/AICGS; Moderator: Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman, Director, Society, Culture & Politics Program, AICGS.
THE SORROW AND HOPE OF COMFORT WOMEN: SEMINAR AND EXHIBITION. 11/25, 2:00-4:00pm, reception follows, Exhibition continues to January 12, 2015, Sponsors: National Catholic School of Social Service?s Center for International Social Development (CISD); Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc. (WCCW). Speakers: Prof. Frederick Ahearn, Professor and Director of CISD; Dr. Bonnie Oh, retired Professor, Georgetown University; Ms. Mindy Kotler, founder and director of Asia Policy Point; Dr. Julie Jungsil Lee, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University.
CORRUPTION, CONSTITUTIONALISM & CONTROL: IMPLICATIONS OF THE 4TH PLENUM FOR CHINA AND U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS. 11/25, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Kissinger Center on China and the United States, Wilson Center (WWC). Speakers: Donald C. Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Andrew Wedeman, Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University.
- The Week Ahead In Washington - Mid August
It is summer. Congress is in recess and the President is on vacation. No one should be in DC, let alone hold a policy program. Something is wrong with the people below. NAVAL AVIATION. 8/12, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: International Security Program, CSIS....
- Monday In Washington July 8th
THE FUTURE OF CIVIL SPACE EXPLORATION. 7/8, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Ranking Member, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Subcommittee on Space; James Lewis, Senior Fellow, Director, Technology and...
- Asia In This Week's Washington
MANAGING TENSIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. 6/5-6, 8:00am-12:30pm. Sponsor: CSIS, Southeast Asia Program. Speakers: Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Senior Advisor and Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for New American Security; Alexander Metelitsa,...
- Japan Week In Washington
ABE?S FOREIGN POLICY: PRAGMATIC REALISM OR EMOTIONAL NATIONALISM? 2/25, 12:30-1:45pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Sigur Center, George Washington University. Speaker: Kazuhiko Togo, Professor and Director of the Institute for World Affairs, Kyoto Sangyo...
- Next Week In Washington
MEMORIALIZING THE PAST: THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS IN GERMAN-POLISH AND JAPANESE-SOUTH KOREAN RECONCILIATION. 9/24, Noon-1:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). Speakers: Dr. Seunghoon Heo,...
Social Sciences
Events for Thanksgiving Week
This is Thanksgiving Week in the United States. Congress is in recess and most people in Washington go "home."
Yet there are still a few programs in Washington of interest to the Asia policy expert. And the rest of the world does not go on holiday.
11/23 - Labor Thanksgiving, National Holiday, Japan.
11/24 - Deadline for Iran to submit a plan to curb its nuclear program.
11/25 - OECD releases its Economic Outlook, Volume 2014 Issue 2.
11/25-28- Polish President Bronis?aw Komorowski makes a working visit to Japan.
Yet there are still a few programs in Washington of interest to the Asia policy expert. And the rest of the world does not go on holiday.
11/23 - Labor Thanksgiving, National Holiday, Japan.
11/24 - Deadline for Iran to submit a plan to curb its nuclear program.
11/25 - OECD releases its Economic Outlook, Volume 2014 Issue 2.
11/25-28- Polish President Bronis?aw Komorowski makes a working visit to Japan.
11/27 - Senior officials from Japan and South Korea hold talks in Seoul over a range of diplomatic issues.
11/27 - OECD releases its Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014.
11/27 - OECD releases its Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014.
WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK 2014. 11/24, 9:30-11:00am. Sponsor: Energy and National Security, CSIS. Speaker: Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency; Moderator: Sarah Ladislaw, Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS.CAPPING CHINA'S COAL. 11/24, 10:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: Jake Schmidt, Director, International Program, Natural Resources Defense Council; Fuqiang Yang, Senior Adviser on Climate, Energy and Environment, Natural Resources Defense Council; Hu Tao, China Program Director, World Wildlife Fund-US; Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Policy Advisor, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
ENTERING THE HOMESTRETCH: U.S. CLIMATE DIPLOMACY ON THE ROAD TO PARIS. 11/24, 2014, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Center for American Progress. Speakers: Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State; Moderated by: Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow and Director of International Energy and Climate Policy, Center for American Progress.
JIHADIST MOVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA AND IRAQ: INEVITABLE RISE OF POLICY FAILURE? 11/24, 3:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Carnegie Endowment. Speakers: Adam Baczko, corder, conflict, and violence fellow at Yale University; Gilles Dorronsoro, professor of political science at the University of Paris and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Frederic Grare is senior associate and director of Carnegie?s South Asia Program; Arthur Quesnay, fellow at the French Institute for Near East (IFPO) and analyst at Noria Research; Frederic Wehrey, senior associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
IRAN-P5+1 NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS: THE ROAD AHEAD. 11/25, 10:30am-Noon. Sponsor: Brookings Institution. Speakers: Gary Samore, Executive Director of Research, The Belfer Center, Harvard University; David Albright, Founder and President, Institute for Science and International Security; Edward Levine, National Advisory Board Member, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; Moderator: Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative.
SECOND LIFE OF POLITICAL LEADERS: A CASE STUDY OF ADOLF HITLER?S IMAGE IN AMERICAN POP CULTURE. 11/25, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Society, Culture & Politics Program, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). Speaker: Arleta Dulkowska, Research Fellow, DAAD/AICGS; Moderator: Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman, Director, Society, Culture & Politics Program, AICGS.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCING VEHICLES IN CHINA AND THEIR DEBT: THE LEGAL PICTURE. 11/25, 12:30?1:45PM. Sponsor: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. SPEAKERS: Donald Clarke, research professor of law, George Washington University Law School.
THE SORROW AND HOPE OF COMFORT WOMEN: SEMINAR AND EXHIBITION. 11/25, 2:00-4:00pm, reception follows, Exhibition continues to January 12, 2015, Sponsors: National Catholic School of Social Service?s Center for International Social Development (CISD); Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc. (WCCW). Speakers: Prof. Frederick Ahearn, Professor and Director of CISD; Dr. Bonnie Oh, retired Professor, Georgetown University; Ms. Mindy Kotler, founder and director of Asia Policy Point; Dr. Julie Jungsil Lee, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University.
CORRUPTION, CONSTITUTIONALISM & CONTROL: IMPLICATIONS OF THE 4TH PLENUM FOR CHINA AND U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS. 11/25, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Kissinger Center on China and the United States, Wilson Center (WWC). Speakers: Donald C. Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Andrew Wedeman, Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University.
- The Week Ahead In Washington - Mid August
It is summer. Congress is in recess and the President is on vacation. No one should be in DC, let alone hold a policy program. Something is wrong with the people below. NAVAL AVIATION. 8/12, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: International Security Program, CSIS....
- Monday In Washington July 8th
THE FUTURE OF CIVIL SPACE EXPLORATION. 7/8, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Ranking Member, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Subcommittee on Space; James Lewis, Senior Fellow, Director, Technology and...
- Asia In This Week's Washington
MANAGING TENSIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. 6/5-6, 8:00am-12:30pm. Sponsor: CSIS, Southeast Asia Program. Speakers: Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Senior Advisor and Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for New American Security; Alexander Metelitsa,...
- Japan Week In Washington
ABE?S FOREIGN POLICY: PRAGMATIC REALISM OR EMOTIONAL NATIONALISM? 2/25, 12:30-1:45pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Sigur Center, George Washington University. Speaker: Kazuhiko Togo, Professor and Director of the Institute for World Affairs, Kyoto Sangyo...
- Next Week In Washington
MEMORIALIZING THE PAST: THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS IN GERMAN-POLISH AND JAPANESE-SOUTH KOREAN RECONCILIATION. 9/24, Noon-1:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). Speakers: Dr. Seunghoon Heo,...