Events
New Scholarship in Race and Ethnicity -- The Human Rights Hierarchy and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
April 16, 2008 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
New Book Discussion -- Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future
April 01, 2008 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
New Book Discussion -- We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States
March 24, 2008 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Jo Freeman, Independent Writer, and Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, author; commentators Mary Ellen Curtin, Lecturer in American History, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; A. James Reichley, Author and former Visiting Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University.
New Book Discussion -- Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power and the University
March 19, 2008 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Robert O'Neil, Professor of Law Emeritus and University President Emeritus, and Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, University of Virginia; commentators Ann H. Franke, President, Wise Results LLC; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service, George Washington University.
New Scholarship in Race and Ethnicity -- Immigration Policies Go Local: The Varying Responses of Governments to Low-Skilled and Undocumented Immigration
March 12, 2008 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside, speaker; commentators Roberto Suro, Annenberg School of Journalism, University of Southern California; William H. Frey, Brookings Institution.
Ethical Decision-Making at the End of Life
March 10, 2008 // 2:00pm — 5:00pm
Edmund Pellegrino, Chairman, President's Council on Bioethics; K. Eric De Jonge, Director of Geriatrics, Washington Hospital Center; Jennifer L. Crawley, Senior Social Worker, Washington Hospital Center; Marie T. Connolly, former coordinator of the U.S. Department of Justice's Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, and Fellow, Wilson Center; Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Chair in Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, and Fellow, Wilson Center.
Connecting Muslim Communities and Governments in the United States and Europe
March 05, 2008 // 8:30am — 10:30am
The Honorable Sue Greenwald, Mayor, City of Davis, California; Bernard Godard, Advisor, Central Office of Religions, Ministry of Interior, FranceSajida Madni, Birmingham Citizens Organisation, England; Mounir Azzaoui, Spokesman, "Green Muslims," German Green Party, and Member, Working Group on Constitutional Issues, German Islam Conference.
Book Discussion -- The Search for Negotiated Peace: Women's Activism and Citizen Diplomacy in World War I
January 17, 2008 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Book Discussion -- Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice
January 15, 2008 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition: Pluses, Problems, and Prospects
January 10, 2008 // 8:00am — 8:00pm