Social Sciences
Monday is a National Holiday in the United States and Congress is in recess all week.
The work week starts Tuesday.
EUROPE AND THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL. 5/26, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United States; Peter Westmacott, Ambassador of Britain to the United States; Peter Wittig, Ambassador of Germany to the United States; Barbara Slavin, Senior Fellow at the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council.
RETHINKING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 5/26, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS. Speakers: Wes Bush, Chairman, CEO, and President, Northrop Grumman; Dr. John Hamre, President, CEO, and Pritzker Chair, CSIS and Director, Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy; Andrew Hunter, Director, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group and Senior Fellow, International Security Program.
LGBTI RIGHTS: GLOBAL ACTIVISM, US DIPLOMACY. 5/26, 10:00am-Noon. Sponsors: United States Institute of Peace (USIP); International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. Speakers: Nancy Lindborg, President, USIP; Randy Berry, Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LBGT Persons, US Department of State; Sumit Bisarya, Constitution Building Programme, International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance; Michael Dafel, Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge; Eric Gitari, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Kenya; Monie Griffith, Director, Marriage Equality, Ireland; Richie Maitland, Co-founding Director, Groundation Grenada; Michelle Reddy, Programme Director, Fiji Women's Rights Movement; Jason Gluck, Senior Program Officer, Rule of Law, USIP.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE EMERGING AMERICAN-IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL. 5/26, Noon-1:00pm, lunch. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Efraim Inbar, Director, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University; Lee Smith, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute.
THE GLOBAL VILLAGE MYTH: DISTANCE, WAR, AND THE LIMITS OF POWER. 5/26, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Cato Institute. Speakers: Patrick Porter, Academic Director of the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter; Zack Beauchamp, World Correspondent for Vox.com; Austin Long, Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; Justin Logan, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.
PURCHASE BOOK: http://amzn.to/1DQyIfL
THE EBOLA RESPONSE: THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE'S MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ROLE IN A GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY CRISIS. 5/26, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage Foundation. Speakers: Carmen Spencer, Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical and Biological Defense; COL. Russell E. Coleman, Joint Project Manager for Medical Countermeasure Systems; COL. Stephen J. Thomas, Deputy Commander of Operations, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; COL. Neal E. Woollen, Director of Biosecurity, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
- Monday In Washington, November 23, 2015
This is Thanksgiving week and Washington pretty much shuts down. THE ?PITILESS? WAR: A STRATEGY AFTER THE PARIS ATTACKS. 11/23, 10:00-11:15am. Sponsor: The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Speakers: James Jeffrey, Distinguished Fellow,...
- Monday In Washington, August 3, 2015
House of Representatives on recess until September 8 Senate still in session, in recess at the end of the week ARE THERE STRUCTURAL ISSUES IN US BOND MARKETS? 8/3, 9:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Brookings Institution. Speakers: Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Governor;...
- Monday In Washington, March 23, 2015
AGILITY, ACQUISITION, AND AMERICAN SECURITY: A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM. 3/23, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Mac Thornberry, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; Dr. John Hamre, President, CEO, and Pritzker Chair of CSIS; Andrew Hunter,...
- Monday In Washington, February 9, 2015
AN ECONOMIC AGENDA FOR AMERICA. 2/9, 10:30-11:30am. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT); EJ Dionne Jr., Brookings senior fellow in governance studies and Washington Post columnist. US MARINE CORPS CRISIS RESPONSE: EBOLA. 2/9,...
- Monday In Washington, January 27, 2014
REVOLUTIONIZING THE FUTURE OF BATTLEFIELD ENERGY. 1/27-29. Sponsor: Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA). Speakers: Thomas Trabold, Director, Center for Sustainable Mobility, ROchester Institute of TEchnology; George Miley, Professor,...
Social Sciences
Tuesday in Washington, May 26, 2015
The work week starts Tuesday.
EUROPE AND THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL. 5/26, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United States; Peter Westmacott, Ambassador of Britain to the United States; Peter Wittig, Ambassador of Germany to the United States; Barbara Slavin, Senior Fellow at the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council.
RETHINKING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 5/26, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS. Speakers: Wes Bush, Chairman, CEO, and President, Northrop Grumman; Dr. John Hamre, President, CEO, and Pritzker Chair, CSIS and Director, Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy; Andrew Hunter, Director, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group and Senior Fellow, International Security Program.
LGBTI RIGHTS: GLOBAL ACTIVISM, US DIPLOMACY. 5/26, 10:00am-Noon. Sponsors: United States Institute of Peace (USIP); International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. Speakers: Nancy Lindborg, President, USIP; Randy Berry, Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LBGT Persons, US Department of State; Sumit Bisarya, Constitution Building Programme, International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance; Michael Dafel, Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge; Eric Gitari, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Kenya; Monie Griffith, Director, Marriage Equality, Ireland; Richie Maitland, Co-founding Director, Groundation Grenada; Michelle Reddy, Programme Director, Fiji Women's Rights Movement; Jason Gluck, Senior Program Officer, Rule of Law, USIP.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE EMERGING AMERICAN-IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL. 5/26, Noon-1:00pm, lunch. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Efraim Inbar, Director, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University; Lee Smith, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute.
THE GLOBAL VILLAGE MYTH: DISTANCE, WAR, AND THE LIMITS OF POWER. 5/26, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Cato Institute. Speakers: Patrick Porter, Academic Director of the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter; Zack Beauchamp, World Correspondent for Vox.com; Austin Long, Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; Justin Logan, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.
PURCHASE BOOK: http://amzn.to/1DQyIfL
THE EBOLA RESPONSE: THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE'S MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ROLE IN A GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY CRISIS. 5/26, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage Foundation. Speakers: Carmen Spencer, Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical and Biological Defense; COL. Russell E. Coleman, Joint Project Manager for Medical Countermeasure Systems; COL. Stephen J. Thomas, Deputy Commander of Operations, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; COL. Neal E. Woollen, Director of Biosecurity, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
- Monday In Washington, November 23, 2015
This is Thanksgiving week and Washington pretty much shuts down. THE ?PITILESS? WAR: A STRATEGY AFTER THE PARIS ATTACKS. 11/23, 10:00-11:15am. Sponsor: The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Speakers: James Jeffrey, Distinguished Fellow,...
- Monday In Washington, August 3, 2015
House of Representatives on recess until September 8 Senate still in session, in recess at the end of the week ARE THERE STRUCTURAL ISSUES IN US BOND MARKETS? 8/3, 9:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Brookings Institution. Speakers: Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Governor;...
- Monday In Washington, March 23, 2015
AGILITY, ACQUISITION, AND AMERICAN SECURITY: A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM. 3/23, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Mac Thornberry, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; Dr. John Hamre, President, CEO, and Pritzker Chair of CSIS; Andrew Hunter,...
- Monday In Washington, February 9, 2015
AN ECONOMIC AGENDA FOR AMERICA. 2/9, 10:30-11:30am. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT); EJ Dionne Jr., Brookings senior fellow in governance studies and Washington Post columnist. US MARINE CORPS CRISIS RESPONSE: EBOLA. 2/9,...
- Monday In Washington, January 27, 2014
REVOLUTIONIZING THE FUTURE OF BATTLEFIELD ENERGY. 1/27-29. Sponsor: Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA). Speakers: Thomas Trabold, Director, Center for Sustainable Mobility, ROchester Institute of TEchnology; George Miley, Professor,...