History Events
Book Discussion: Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of US Foreign Policy
September 28, 2006 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
History and Public Policy Program
The Quest for Self-Reliant Security in the Two Koreas, Then and Now
September 06, 2006 // 9:30am — 5:30pm
History and Public Policy Program
Book Launch -- The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
May 18, 2006 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
European Studies
With authorJeffrey Herf, Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park and former Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow; and Commentator Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor, George Washington University, Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Scholar,and former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ethnohistorical Evidence and Aboriginal Claims in Canada and the United States
May 04, 2006 // 8:30am — 11:30am
Canada Institute
The Canada Institute and Division of United States Studies hosted a roundtable discussion with a distinguished panel of experts on the role of ethnohistory in aboriginal claims in Canada and the United States.
Commemoration of the Chernobyl Disaster: The Human Experience Twenty Years Later
April 26, 2006 // 8:30am — 7:30pm
Kennan Institute
Although many people know the basic story of Chernobyl, for U.S. audiences the details and the human experience of Chernobyl have faded. The Kennan Institute, in cooperation with the University of Alberta and the Harriman Institute, will commemorate the disaster on its twentieth anniversary in an attempt to help to bring the personal side of the story back into the spotlight.
Framing Violence: Photography, Serbia and World War I
March 15, 2006 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
European Studies
Melissa Bokovoy, Wilson Center Fellow and Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Thy Will Be Done: The Catholic Church and the Politics in Poland since 1989
December 21, 2005 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
European Studies
Sabrina Ramet, Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-Trodheim, Research Associate at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo and currently Visiting Professor, Georgetown University and WWICS Public Policy Fellow
Epidemics in the United States: Public Policy Responses and the Lessons to be Learned
December 12, 2005 // 11:00pm
United States Studies
The Wilson Center brings together four public health historians to discuss the "politics of disease" – the social and moral factors that have influenced the U.S. public policy responses to epidemics – as well as to suggest lessons for better preparedness in future epidemics.
Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions
September 28, 2005 // 4:00pm — 6:00pm
History and Public Policy Program
With author Trudy Huskamp PetersonFinal Acts is a guide to questions of law, politics, physical preservation, and access regarding materials generated by the 20 truth commissions that have completed the work of examining and reporting on the abuses of deposed regimes.
Art Exhibit: "The Business of Sustainable Development--An African Forest Tale"
April 18, 2005 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
Africa Program
A special exhibition of art by Senegalese Glass Painter Mor Gueye, illustrating a children's story written by Woodrow Wilson Fellow Jesse Ribot on the disjuncture between European and local discourses in colonial and post-colonial forestry. The exhibit is open to the public from April 18, and runs through June 15.