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DC Events | September 6 - September 10

Tuesday, September 7
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
10:00 AM Women, Development Making the Most of the MDG Summit: Advancing Progress through Empowerment of Women and Girls CSIS Melanne Verveer RSVP
10:00 AM Muslim Americans ISNA Interreligious Summit Press Club
11:00 AM American Muslims Park 51 Islamic Center near Ground Zero: Issues in Conflict Georgetown John Bryson Chane, John L. Esposito, Thomas Farr, Intisar Rabb, John Voll RSVP
11:30 AM Justice Globalism Mapping Justice Globalism: Reassessing the Ideological Landscape of the 21st Century (Day 1) AU SIS Manfred B. Steger
12:00 PM Global Issues Chairman's Forum: Daniel Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy Stimson Daniel Poneman RSVP
12:15 PM Colombia, Drug War Hostage Nation: Colombia’s Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs New America Karin Hayes, Jorge Enrique Botero, Victoria Bruce RSVP
2:00 PM Iraq Mission Transformed: Antony Blinken on the U.S. Policy Towards Iraq USIP Antony Blinken, Laith Kubba RSVP
2:00 PM Brazil Roundtable Discussion on the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) US Chamber of Commerce Guilherme Ramalho RSVP
3:30 PM India, Military Arming Without Aiming: India’s Military Modernization Brookings Stephen P. Cohen, Sunil Dasgupta, Ed Luce, Ashley Tellis RSVP
4:00 PM Notable Profiles, Cold War The Berlin Edition: Willy Brandt—Berliner Ausgabe Wilson Center Bernd Rother, Karsten D. Voigt, Marcus Graeser RSVP
6:00 PM Political Satire Super Sad True Love Story Georgetown Gary Shteyngart
6:00 PM Muslim Americans Discussion on “Ground Zero” Controversy with Imam Johari Busboys Imam Johari Abdul-Malik
6:30 PM New Orleans, Katrina Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six Busboys Jordan Flaherty
7:00 PM Women in Society The Second Sex Politics and Prose Simone De Beauvoir
 

Wednesday, September 8
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:00 AM Defense Sustaining Programs for Defense Cooperation: Doing More with Less (Conference) Press Club RSVP
10:00 AM Maternal Health Care Improving Monitoring, Transparency, and Accountability for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Wilson Center Sallie Craig Huber, Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Ellen Starbird, Monique Widyono RSVP
10:30 AM Renewable Energy UBA’s Recent Study on the Technical Feasibility of 100% Renewable Energy Supply by 2050 for Germany WRI Jochen Flasbarth RSVP
11:00 AM Yemen, Counterterrorism U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in Yemen USIP Daniel Benjamin RSVP
11:00 AM Tunisia, Women Progress and Challenges to Women's Empowerment: Lessons from Tunisia Wilson Center Nabiha Gueddana RSVP
11:30 AM Justice Globalism Mapping Justice Globalism: Reassessing the Ideological Landscape of the 21st Century (Day 2) AU Manfred B. Steger
12:00 PM South Asia The Service Revolution in South Asia Cato Ejaz Ghani, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
12:15 PM Health Care Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA): Implementation Opportunities and Challenges for Employers and Consumers All Health Terry Gardiner, Steve Finan, Steve Wojcik, Janet Trautwein RSVP
12:30 PM Criminal Justice System Paths to Achieve Indigent Defense Reform AU Law Steve Bright
12:30 PM Islam, China Islam in China: Past and Present Georgetown Dr. Yujie Wang RSVP
2:00 PM Education Early Reading: Igniting Education for All Brookings David Barth, Adolph Cameron, Amber Gove, Patricia Edwards RSVP
2:30 PM Sudan Sudan: Conflict and Peace Along the North-South Border USIP Benedetta de Alessi, Amir Idris, Christopher Milner, Martin Pratt RSVP
3:30 PM North Korea Knowing the North: Intelligence and Intentions of the DPRK Wilson Center James Person, Robert Carlin, Dae-sook Suh, Jae-jung Suh
5:00 PM China China's Soft Power: Fact or Fiction? Elliott School David Shambaugh RSVP
5:00 PM China The New Face of Rural Poverty in China SAIS Alan Piazza RSVP
5:30 PM Arab Americans Amreeka (Film) Georgetown RSVP
6:30 PM Job Market, College Graduates Young, Educated and Unemployed: Keeping College Graduates from Becoming a Lost Generation. Busboys Eleanor Holmes-Norton
6:30 PM Refugees Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America" Busboys David Haines
9:00 PM Rwanda, Burundi Elections Review: Rwanda and Burundi SAIS Almami Cyllah, Nancy Welch, Peter Lewis RSVP
 

Thursday, September 9
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
10:00 AM Copyright Laws, Internet WEBINAR: Closed for Business New America Joe McNamee, Sherwin Siy, Renata Avila, Sunil Abraham, Clare Curren RSVP
12:00 PM Judicial Selection The Assault on the Elected Judiciary: How Well-Funded Special Interests Are Seeking to Change (for the Worse) How States Select Their Judges Heritage Cliff Taylor, Colleen Pero, Robert Alt RSVP
12:30 PM Synthetic Biology Synthetic Biology: What Does the Public Think? Wilson Center Peter D. Hart
2:00 PM Europe, Economy Europe's Neighborhood Policies in a New Context: The Impact of Crisis Wilson Center Panagiota Manoli RSVP
4:00 PM Romania Property Restitution and Ethno-National Political Discourses and Projects in Post-communist Romania Wilson Center Damiana Otoiu, Mircea Munteanu RSVP
6:00 PM American Muslims Journey into America Georgetown Akbar Ahmed
6:30 PM Hip-Hop Culture Hip Hop State of Mind…How Rap Rules, from Your Street to Wall Street Busboys Jabari Asim
 

Friday, September 10
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:00 AM Middle Class Heartland Monitor Poll: What's Next for Middle Amreica ? National Journal
8:00 AM Eastern Europe Market Day Politics and Prose James Sturm
10:00 AM China 2010 Shanghai: Rising to the Challenge US Chamber of Commerce Frank Lavin
11:00 AM Cuba Is Cuba Really a State Sponsor of Terror? AU SIS Dr. Philip Brenner, Anthony Quainton
2:00 PM Society, Human Behavior How Pleasure Works: The New Science on Why We Like What We Like AEI Paul Bloom, Peter Kramer, Roger Scruton RSVP
2:00 PM International Peacemaking When Is International Peacemaking Illegal? USIP David Cole, Alistar Millar, Kenneth Wainstein, Chester Crocker, Kay Guinane RSVP
6:30 PM Tea Party Examining the Tea Party Press Club Dick Armey, Kate Zernike, Jill Lepore, Tucker Carlson RSVP
 

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