THE LAST CELESTIAL EMPIRE: MAO ZEDONG, KIM IL-SUNG AND SINO-NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS. 11/2, 10:00am-Noon. Speakers: Zhihua
Shen, director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East
China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Robert Daly,
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars; James Person, Coordinator, Hyundai
Motor–Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Deputy
Director, History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars; Jonathan Pollack, Senior Fellow in the John L.
Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the
Brookings Institution; Moderated by: Christian F. Ostermann,
Director, History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars.
NUCLEAR POLICY TALK: ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB AND NATIONAL & GLOBAL SECURITY. 11/2, 12:30-2:00pm. Sponsor: Elliott School, GWU. Speaker: Keith S. Bradley, Director of National & Global Security Programs, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
DIALOGUE ON TRADE POLICY 2015. 11/2, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: Association of Government Relations Professionals (AGRA). Speaker: Angela Ellard, Ways & Means Committee Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director; Jason Kearns, Chief International Trade Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee; Jayme White, Chief Adviser for International Competitiveness and Innovation, Senate Finance Committee; Everett Eissenstat, Chief International Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee.
THE NEW GLOBAL TRADE AGENDA. 11/2, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). Speakers: Pascal Lamy, Former Director-General, World Trade Organization; Robert B. Zoellick, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International Advisors; Anabel González, Senior Director, World Bank Group Global Practice Trade and Competitiveness.
SYMPOSIUM ON IMPROVING WOMEN AND MEN'S WORK ENVIRONMENT IN JAPANESE SOCIETY. 11/2, 5:30pm. In Japanese. Sponsors: Japan-America Society of Washington DC (JASW); Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC). Speakers: Abigail Friedman, CEO, Founder, The Wisteria Group, Senior Advisor, Asia Foundation; Author, The Haiku Apprentice, Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan, I Wait for the Moon: 100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda; Ken Kuribayashi, Vice President & General Manager, Washington Office, Sojitz Corporation of America; Kataoka Ai, Scientist, Grocery Manufacturers Association; Ayako Smethurst, Co-Founder, Board Member, President, Kizuna Across Cultures; Moderator: Shigeko Bork, Founder, President, The Shigeko Bork Mu Project.
NCIS: CURRENT AND FUTURE OPERATIONS IN INVESTIGATING AND DEFEATING TERRORISTS, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, ADN CRIMINAL THREATS. 11/2, 5:30-6:30pm. Sponsor: The Institute of World Politics. Speaker: Andrew L. Traver, Director, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).
