The U.S.-Russia Relationship: Where Is It Going? Why Is It Important? A Day of Reflection With Veterans of the Dartmouth Conference

Agenda



8:30 AM – Registration



9:00 AM – Opening Remarks



Harold H. Saunders, Director, International Affairs, Kettering Foundation; President, International Institute for Sustained Dialogue; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; and Dartmouth Conference Task Force Co-Chair



9:30 AM – Morning Panels: Does the Relationship Matter? Citizens Talk about the Relationship

Chair: Philip D. Stewart, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University; Executive Director, the Dartmouth Conference, 1972-1990 (Co-Moderator, 2000-present); Associate, the Kettering Foundation; and Secretary, International Institute for Sustained Dialogue



Reports on a Decade of Public Forums on the Relationship in Russia and the United States and on Russian and U.S. Roles in the World

Igor Nagdasev, President, Russian Center for Citizenship Education, St. Petersburg

Denis Makarov, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for International Relations, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Moscow State Pedagogical University; and Executive Director, Foundation for Development of Civic Culture, Russia

Brad Rourke, Associate, Kettering Foundation

John Doble, Senior Research Fellow, Public Agenda





10:40 AM – Reflections on the Implications of Public Attitudes for the Relationship

Alexsey Bogaturov, First Vice-Rector, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Irina Zvyagelskaya, Vice President, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Moscow; and Professor, MGIMO

James Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, and former Member of Congress

Nancy Kranich, Lecturer and Special Projects Librarian, Rutgers University, and former President, American Library Association



12:00 – Luncheon



"The Dartmouth Conference: A Citizens' Movement"

David Mathews, President, Kettering Foundation; former President, University of Alabama; and former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare



"Public Judgment and Public Policy"

Daniel Yankelovich, founder and chairman of Viewpoint Learning; founder and chairman of DYG, Inc.; and founder and chairman of Public Agenda



2:00 PM – Afternoon Panels: What is the Relationship's Future?



Chair: Harold H. Saunders, Director, International Affairs, Kettering Foundation; President, International Institute for Sustained Dialogue; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; and Dartmouth Conference Task Force Co-Chair



Conducting a Collaborative Great Power Relationship in the 21st Century: Dartmouth's Role, Past and Future

Vladimir Lukin, Human Rights Ombudsman of the Russia Federation; former Russian ambassador to the United States; former Deputy Speaker, State Duma of the Russian Federation

Veniamin Popov, Director, Center for Partnership of Civilizations at MGIMO, Moscow

James Collins, Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former U.S. ambassador to Russia

Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center







3:35 PM – Future of the Russia-U.S. Relationship in a New Euro-Atlantic Security System

Evgeny Velikhov, Chairman of the Public Chamber, Russian Federation, and President, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow

Vitaly Naumkin, Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and President, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Moscow

Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security adviser; Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Jack Matlock, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union



4:50 PM – Closing Remarks



Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center





This event will be held in the 6th floor Flom auditorium.



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