Sunday, October 20, 2013

Monday in Washington, October 21, 2013

AMERICA'S ARMY: GLOBALLY RESPONSIVE, REGIONALLY ENGAGED. 10/21, 7:00am-8:15pm, 10/22, 7:30am-5:00pm, 10/23, 7:00am-9:30pm. Sponsor: Association of the US Army (AUSA). Speakers: Gordon Sullivan, retired General, US Army; Michael Brainerd, Chaplain and Colonel, US Army; John McHugh, Secretary of the Army; John Campbell, Vice Chief of Staff, US Army; Joseph Westphal, US Under Secretary of the Army; Raymond Odierno, Chief of Staff, US Army; Michael Ferriter, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation, US Army; James Huggins Jr., Deputy Chief of Staff, US Army; Kathleen Hicks, Director, International Security Program, CSIS.

PREVENTING AND RESPONDING TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT: NEXT STEPS IN A GLOBAL STRUGGLE. 10/21, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsors: LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Brookings; IMA World Health. Speakers: Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID; Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; Kathleen Kuehnast, Director, Center of Innovation for Gender and Peacebuilding, US Institute of Peace; Denis Mukwege, Physician and Human Rights Activist, Democratic Republic of Congo.

THE FUTURE MARINE CORPS. 10/21, 11:00am-Noon. Sponsor: CSIS. Speaker: Frank McKenzie, US Marine Corps Representative to the Quadrennial Defense Review.

CLIMATE AND SECURITY: VIEWS FROM THE GLOBAL NORTH AND SOUTH. 10/21, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Dino Djatal, Ambassador of Indonesia; Sheila Riordon, Minister of Political Affairs, Embassy of Canada.

THE PRICE OF RIGHTS: REGULATING INTERNATIONAL LABOR MIGRATION. 10/21, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Speakers: Author Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor, Oxford University; Lindsay Lowell, Director of Policy Studies, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University; Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy research, EPI.

WILL INDIA'S ECONOMICS BE A VICTIM OF ITS POLITICS? 10/21, 2:00-3:30pm. Sponsor: South Asia Program, Carnegie. Speakers: Jahangir Aziz, Senior Asia Economist and India Chief Economist, JP Morgan; Ila Patnaik, Nonresident Senior Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie.

MONGOLIA AND THE US: A DIPLOMATIC HISTORY. 10/21, 2:00-3:30pm. Sponsor: American Foreign Service Association (AFSA). Speaker: Author Jonathan Addleton, former US Ambassador to Mongolia.

EMERGING POWERS OR NEW POWERS?. 10/21, 3:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, Johns Hopkins. Speaker: Barbara Woodward, Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.

INDONESIA AND THE WORLD, 1965-66, FOCUSING ON THE IMPACT OF THE PRO-COMMUNIST COUP, MILITARY COUNTER-COUP, AND SUBSEQUENT MASS KILLINGS. 10/21, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Bernd Schaefer, Senior Research Scholar, Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center; Baskara Wardaya, Professor of History, Sanata Dharma University.

THE GLOBAL VATICAN: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS. 10/21, 5:30-7:00pm. Sponsor: Public Policy Research, American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Speaker: Author Francis Rooney, former US Ambassador to the Holy See.

CONSERVATIVE INTERNATIONALISM: ARMED DIPLOMACY UNDER JEFFERSON, POLK, TRUMAN, AND REAGAN. 10/21, 6:00-7:00pm. Sponsor: Elliot School, GWU. Speaker: Author Henry Nau, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU.

THE OUTLOOK FOR ENERGY: A VIEW TO 2040. 10/21, 6:00-7:30pm. Sponsors: Georgetown University Science in the Public Interest; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Chemical Society(ACS). Speakers: Rob Gardner, ExxonMobil; Howard Gruenspecht, Energy Information Administration; Vivien Foster, World Bank.

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS. 10/21, 6:00-8:00pm. Sponsor: International Development Program, SAIS, Johns Hopkins. Speakers: Leigh Hendrix, Associate, Goldwyn Global Strategies LLC; Marc Humphries, Specialist in Energy and Mineral Policy, Congressional Research Service; Michael Mazza, Research Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute.

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS: IMPLICATIONS ON US-ASIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND SECURITY ISSUES. 10/21, 6:00-8:00pm. Sponsor: Pacific Forum, CSIS. Speakers: Leigh Hendrix, Associate at Goldwyn Global Strategies LLC; Marc Humphries, Energy and Mineral Policy Analyst, Congressional Research Service; Michael Mazza, Research Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, AEI.

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