Asia Monday Events, October 12, 2020

THE 2ND NORTH KOREA ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL CONFERENCE (PART II). 9:00-11:00am (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsors: George Washington University; KDI School of Public Policy and Management. Speakers: Sandra Fahy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sophia University; Stephen Haggard, Krause Distinguished Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy; Liuya Zhang, PhD Candidate, Ohio State University; Jenny Town, Fellow, Stimson Center and Deputy Director of 38 North; Barbra Demick, Janice B. and Milford D. Gerton Fellow, New York Public Library’s Cullman Center; Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute; Melissa Hanham, Deputy Director of Open Nuclear Network, One Earth Future Foundation. Moderator: William Newcomb, Fellow, Center for Advanced Defense Studies. 

AMERICA'S TAIWAN POLICY: DEBATING STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY AND THE FUTURE OF ASIAN SECURITY. 9:00-10:30am (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Georgetown University. Speakers: Richard Haass, President of Council on Foreign Relations, Diplomat on American foreign policy; Yan Xuetong, distinguished professor, Dean of Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vice chairman of China Association of International Relations Studies; Chiou I-jen, Democratic Progressive Party's New Frontier Foundation; Bonnie Glaser, Senior adviser for Asia, Director of China Power Project, CSIS. Moderator: Evan Medeiros, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies at School of Foreign Service, a senior fellow with Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. 

SECURING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 10:00-11:00am (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: German Marshall Fund USA. Speakers: Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, North Carolina Board of Elections; Alice P. Miller, Executive Director, DC Board of Elections; Christopher E. Piper, Commissioner, Virginia Board of Elections. Moderator: Derek Chollet, Executive Vice President, German Marshall Fund of United States.

CHINA, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE 'COMMUNITY OF SHARED DESTINY. Noon-12:45pm (BST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Chatham House Asia-Pacific. Speakers: Bill Hayton, Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House, Author of The Invention of China; Harriet Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House; Kerry Brown, Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House. 

PREDICTIONS & OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2020 US ELECTIONS. 2:00-3:00pm (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: McCain Institute for International Leadership. Speakers: David Axelrod, Former senior advisor to President Obama, Director, University of Chicago's Institute of Politics; Rick Davis, Partner, Stone Court Capital; Trevor Potter, Founder and President of Campaign Legal Center; Bill McInturff, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Public Opinion Strategies. Moderator: Hannah Vaughan-Jones, Journalist and Presenter, CNN. 

JACKSON VISITING FELLOW DISCUSSION FORUM | SUSAN RICE. 4:00-5:00pm (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University. Speaker: Susan Rice, Former National Security Advisor to President Obama and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, author of Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. Moderator: Rick Levin, president of Yale, Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, Emeritus.  

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SECURITY AND DEFENSE COOPERATION IN THE INDO-PACIFIC | 2020 CONFERENCE ON TAIWAN IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION. 4:00-5:30pm (PDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Hoover Institution. Speakers: James Ellis, Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution; Dr. Joseph Felter, Research fellow, Hoover Institution; Tetsuo Kotani, Senior fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA); Dr. Che-chuan Lee, Chief, National Security and Decision-making Division, Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taiwan; Dr. Chyungly Lee, Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University. 

Monday in Washington November 4, 2019

CATO'S 37TH ANNUAL MONETARY CONFERENCE: FED POLICY: A SHADOW REVIEW. 11/4, 8:00am-5:00pm. Sponsor: Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. Speakers including: James A. Dorn, Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute; Richard H. Clarida, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board; Peter Ireland, Murray and Monti Professor of Economics, Boston College; Jeffrey M. Lacker, Distinguished Professor of Economics, ​​​​​​​​Virginia Commonwealth University, and former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Carola Conces Binder, Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford College; Eric R. Sims, Michael P. Grace II Collegiate Chair and Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame.

IMPROVING THE U.S.-MEXICO-CANADA AGREEMENT. 11/4, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Speaker: R Street Institute. Clark Packard, Trade Policy Counsel, R Street Institute; Jennifer Hillman, Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy, Council on Foreign Relations; Bill Watson, Associate Fellow, R Street Institute.

NUCLEAR AND CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. 11/4, 2:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Institute for Korean Studies, GW. Speakers: Yong-sup Han, Professor, Korea National Defense University; Young-jun Kim, Professor, Korea National Defense University; Joanna Spear, Associate Professor of International Affairs, the George Washington University; Yonho Kim, Associate Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies.

AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND THE MAKING OF AN INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP. 11/4, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Georgetown U. Speaker: Dr. Ian Hall of Griffith University will discuss the Australia-India strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific.

IMPEACHMENT, FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, AND ELECTION SECURITY IN 2020. 11/4, 3:30-5:00pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: William A. Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings; Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow, Founding Director, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings; Molly E. Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Editor-in-Chief, Lawfare, Brookings; Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, Brookings.

MEASURING ENERGY SECURITY RISK: ASSESSING RISK IN A GLOBAL ENERGY MARKET. 11/4, 4:00-5:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Stephen D. Eule, Vice President for climate and technology, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute.

THE RISE AND FALL OF "GOOD GOVERNANCE" PROMOTION. 11/4, 6:00-8:30pm. Sponsors: Embassy of Canada; National Endowment for Democracy. Speakers: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor of Democracy Studies, Hertie School of Governance. 

Monday in Washington, March 25, 2019

DIVIDED POLITICS, DIVIDED NATION: HYPERCONFLICT IN THE TRUMP ERA. 3/25, 10:00-11:00am. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: author Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, Brookings; Karen Tumulty, National Political Correspondent, Washington Post.

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A VIETNAMESE PERSPECTIVE OF THE U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE & ASEAN-CENTRIC SECURITY INSTITUTIONS. 3/25, Noon-1:30pm, Lunch. Sponsor: East-West Center. Speakers: Quang Huy Pham, Visiting Fellow, U.S.-Japan-Southeast Asia Partnership in a Dynamic Asia Fellowship, East-West Center in Washington; Catharin Dalpino, Professor Emeritus, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Dr. Ellen L. Frost, Senior Advisor, East-West Center in Washington.

BOOK LAUNCH - THE RETURN OF BIPOLARITY IN WORLD POLITICS: CHINA, THE UNITED STATES AND GEOSTRUCTURAL REALISM. 3/25, 12:30-1:45pm. Sponsor: Sigur Center, GW. Speaker: author Dr. Øystein Tunsjø, Professor of International Relations and Head of Asia Program Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS).

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NAVIGATING CHINA AND THE U.S.: A CONVERSATION WITH PRIME MINISTER JOSÉ ULISSES DE PINA CORREIA E SILVA OF CABO VERDE. 3/25, 12:30-2:00pm. Sponsors: Wilson Center; CSIS. Speakers: H.E. Prime Minister José Ulisses de Pina Correia e Silva, Prime Minister, Cabo Verde; Moderator: Judd Devermont, Africa Program Director, CSIS.

A REAL EMERGENCY: EXECUTIVE POWER UNDER THE NATIONAL EMERGENCIES ACT. 3/25, 12:30-2:00pm. Sponsor: Cato Institute. Speakers: Spencer P. Boyer, Director of the Washington office, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law; Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Deborah Pearlstein, Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Adam J. White, Executive Director, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Moderator: Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute.

SECURING MARITIME COMMERCE: THE U.S. STRATEGIC OUTLOOK. 3/25, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Vice Admiral Daniel B. Abel, Deputy Commandant for Operations, United States Coast Guard; Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, Chief of Engineers and Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Jennifer A. Carpenter, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, American Waterways Operators; The Hon. Sean Maloney, Chairman, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee; Moderator: Bruce Jones, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings.

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WOMEN AND CHINA’S REVOLUTIONS. 3/25, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Eric Arnesen, Fellow, Professor of History, GW; author Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz; Moderator: Christian F. Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Wilson Center.

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THE NEW RULES OF WAR: VICTORY IN THE AGE OF DURABLE DISORDER. 3/25, 4:00-5:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics. Speaker: author Dr. Sean McFate, Professor of Strategy, NDU. Order Book.

HONG KONG'S ROLE IN THE U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP. 3/25, 4:45-6:00pm. Sponsor: SFS, GU. Speakers: Ms. Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong; Mr. Charles Mok, HK Legislative Council Member; Dennis Kwok, HK Legislative Council Member; Moderator: Dr. Michael Green, Director of Asian Studies Program, GU. 

Monday in Washington, October 24, 2016

CULTURAL HERITAGE: A TARGET IN WAR, AN ENGINE OF PEACE. 10/24, 8:45am-5:30pm. Sponsors: U.S. Institute of Peace; Smithsonian Institution; Turquoise Mountain. Speakers: Hila Alam, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; William Hammink, Assistant to the Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, USAID; Mark Taplin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Molly Fannon (Moderator), Director, Office of International Relations and Global Programs, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Julian Raby, Dame Jillian Sackler Director, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art; Dr. Derek Gillman, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Art History and Museum Leadership, Drexel University; Barmak Pazhwak (Moderator), Senior Program Officer, Asia Center, USIP; Dr. Tommy Wide, Assistant Director of Special Projects, Freer and Sackler Galleries; Majeed Qarar, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Jolyon Leslie, Architect; Laura Tedesco, Cultural Heritage Program Manager, U.S. Department of State; Scott Liddle (Moderator), Country Director, Turquoise Mountain Afghanistan; Amar Bakshi, Founder and CEO, Shared_Studios; Adam Lowe, Director, Factum Arte; Dr. Bastien Varoutsikos, Research Fellow, Centre national de la recherché scientifique (CNRS), Paris; Lina Rozbih, Managing  Editor, Ashna TV, Voice of America; Katherine Wood (Moderator), Senior Arts Adviser, USIP; Harry Wardill, Director, Turquoise Mountain Myanmar; Corine Wegener, Cultural Heritage Preservation Office, Smithsonian Institution; Tess Davis, Executive Director, The Antiquities Coalition; Joanna Sherman, Founder and Artistic Director, Bond Street Theater; Richard Kurin, Acting Provost and Under Secretary for Museums and Research, Smithsonian Institution.

A CONVERSATION WITH THE SERVICE SECRETARIES. 10/24, 9:00-10:30am. Sponsor: Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Speakers: Eric Fanning, United States Secretary of the Army; Deborah Lee James, United States Secretary of the Air Force; Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy; Barbara Starr, Pentagon Correspondent, CNN; Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder and CEO, CNAS. 

NUCLEAR ENERGY AT A CROSSROADS. 10/24, 11:30am-6:00pm. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Hon. Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy; John Hamre, President, CEO, CSIS; Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency; Frank Graves, Principal and Utility Practice Area Leader, Brattle Group; Tina Taylor, Director, Nuclear Sector, Electric Power Research Institute; Jonathan Hinze, Executive Vice President, International, UxC; Shoichi Itoh, Senior Analyst, Global Energy, Institute for Energy Economics – Japan; Whitney Herndon, Research Analyst, Rhodium Group; Hon. Allison Macfarlane, Director, Center for International Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School, GWU.

TAIWAN’S NEW SOUTHBOUND POLICY. 10/24, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage. Speakers: Lai I-chung, Executive Director, Prospect Foundation, Taiwan; Prashanth Parameswaran, Associate Editor, The Diplomat; Jeff M. Smith, Director, Asian Security Programs, Kraemer Strategy Fellow, American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC); Moderator: Walter Lohman, Director, Asian Studies Center. 

MIDDLE EAST AND REGIONAL TRANSITION, TERRORISM, AND CVE: WHAT THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL FACE. 10/24, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsors: Middle East Institute; American Academy of Political and Social Science. Speakers: Rand Beers, Former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President; Richard A. Clarke, Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism; Emilian Papadopoulos, President, Good Harbor Security Risk Management; Paul Salem, Vice President for Policy and Research, Middle East Institute; Mary Louise Kelley, National Security Correspondent, NPR. 

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TWO ROADS, ONE JOURNEY-EDUCATION IN CHINA AND THE U.S. 10/24, Noon-2:00pm. Sponsor: Woman’s National Democratic Club. Speaker: Greta Nagel, Former Professor of Education, California State University.

ELECTIONS IN HARD TIMES: BUILDING STRONGER DEMOCRACIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 10/24, 3:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University. Speakers: Irfan Nooruddin, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Thomas Flores, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Political Science, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. 

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THE WORLD REIMAGINED: AMERICANS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. 10/24, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speaker: author Mark Philip Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmidt Professor of History, University of Chicago. 

COPING WITH THE REFUGEE CRISIS AND VIOLENT CONFLICT: BOLD IDEAS FOR THE NEXT US PRESIDENT AND UN SECRETARY-GENERAL. 10/24, 4:30-6:00pm. Sponsors: Stimson Center; Center for American Progress. Speakers: Vikram Singh, Vice-President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress; Ibrahim Gambari, former Nigerian Foreign Minister, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs; Melanie Greenberg, President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding; Cindy Huang, Co-convenor of Idealists4Hillary, Visiting Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development; William Durch, Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center; Hardin Lang, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress.

VICTOR CHA ON THE U.S. ALLIANCE SYSTEM IN ASIA. 10/24, 6:30-9:00pm. Sponsors: US-Korea Institute, Johns Hopkins, SAIS; Sejong Society. Speaker: Author Victor Cha, CSIS. Powerplay. 

Monday in Washington, October 17, 2016

ENERGY AND THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION. 10/17, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Speakers: Kevin Book, Managing Director, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC; Elgie Holstein, Former Chief of Staff, Department of Energy; Hon. David Goldwyn, Chairman, Atlantic Council’s Energy Advisory Group, Former Assistant Secretary, Energy for International Affairs; Hon. Robert McNally, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, Former Senior Director, International Energy, National Security Council; Elizabeth Rosenberg, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy, Economics and Security Program, Center for a New American Security.

US ARCTIC COUNCIL CHAIRMANSHIP: ACHIEVEMENTS & REMAINING PRIORITIES. 10/17, Noon. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Ambassador Mark Brzezinski, Executive Director, U.S. Government Arctic Executive Steering Committee; Melanie Nakagawa, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Transformation, Bureau of Energy Resources, Department of State; Cathleen Kelly, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Moderator: Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard University JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Introducer: Ambassador Richard Morningstar, Founding Director and Chairman, Global Energy Center Atlantic Council.

FUKUSHIMA AFTER 2047 DAYS: CURRENT REVITALIZATION ON THE GROUND. 10/17, 3:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: CSIS Proliferation Prevention Program. Speakers: The Honorable Masao Uchibori, Governor of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan; Sharon Squassoni (Moderator), Director and Senior Fellow, Proliferation Prevention Program, CSIS.

WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION. 10/17, Noon-1:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Open Technology Institute. Speakers: Cathy O’Neil, Data Scientist and Activist; David Robinson, Co-founder, Upturn; Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Senior Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice; Daniel Castro, Vice President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF); K. Sabeel Rahman, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.

ECONOMIC DISRUPTION, POLITICAL UPHEAVAL, AND SOCIAL STRIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 10/17, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Governance Studies, Brookings. Speakers: Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, Brookings; Ed Luce, Washington Columnist and Commentator, Financial Times; David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief, Mother Jones; Jill Lawrence, Commentary Editor, USA Today.

LEADERSHIP AND SPACE: A CONVERSATION WITH SIMONETTA DI PIPPO. 10/17, 4:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Women in Public Service Project, Wilson Center. Speakers: Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs; Gwen Young, Director, Women in Public Service Project; Federiga Bindi, Director, Foreign Policy Initiative at the Institute for Women's Policy Research.