Program | Schedule

Feb22
Time 7:00pm - 10:30pm
Location
Cabot Auditorium

Panel: Power Transitions in the 21st Century

 

Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University; Author, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War 
 
Ariel Levite, Non-resident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment; former Principal Deputy Director General for Policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission 
 
Gwyn Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; Member, Strategy Advisory Panel, Minister of Defense, United Kingdom 
 
Zhang Qingmin, Professor of Diplomacy, Center for International Strategic Studies, Peking University    
 
Sergey Zuev, Rector, Moscow School of Social and Economic Science    
 
Presentation on BRIC: The Role of Rising Powers in the International Order

Lowell H. Schwartz, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation; former Adviser on Arms Control and European Security, International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

with EPIIC Colloquium and TILIP students 

 

Feb26
Time 9:30am - 3:00pm
Location
Alumni Lounge, 40 Talbot Avenue.

ALLIES: Diplomatic Crisis Simulation Exercise: Algeria

The Intellectual Roundtable Simulation is a diplomatic crisis simulation centering around a potential geo-political crisis in Algeria that would have consequences for the stability of the entire MENA region, with concerns for American interests as well. The simulation begins with a joint exercise between the US African Command (AFRICOM) and the Algerian National People’s Army (ANP), in the face of decreasing stability in the country, brought about by the significant inroads of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) into the southern portion of the country. Move 1 revolves around the increased threat of AQIM, which is coming into increased conflict with Algerian security forces, creating both human rights and stability concerns. Students will consider themselves advisors to the National Security Council and will evaluate the dangers to American interests in Algeria and possible strategies to confront them.

Feb26
Time 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location
Goddard Chapel, 2 The Green

ALLIES: Post Arab Spring Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa

  • Mr. Ahmed Ali – Senior Analyst on Iraq and Iraq Team Leader, Institute for the Study of War
  • Mr. Karim Haggag – Deputy Director, Policy Planning Division, Foreign Ministry, Egypt • CAPT (ret.) Mark Huber – Program Manager, Middle East and Central Asia, Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Dr. Marina Ottaway – Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Co-author, Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World; Co-editor, Yemen on the Brink
Feb26
Time 6:00pm
Location
Sophia Gordon, 15 Talbot Ave, Tufts University

EPIIC Alumni Reception

IGL is hosting a reception of EPIIC alumni to bring this special community together.  Come reconnect with old friends, say hello to IGL co-founder and director, Sherman Teichman and hear about this year’s symposium.  We hope you will join us.

Refreshments will be served.  After the reception, please join us for the symposium’s opening Cultural Night featuring music from the region and performers such as violinist Nabih Bulos, Concertmaster for the Palestinian National Orchestra.  The event will be held in the Distler Performance Hall of the Granoff Music Center (across the street from the reception) at 8pm.

Feb26
Time 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location
Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Avenue

ALLIES Keynote Address: Kathleen Hicks

Former Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense, where she led the development of the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance and the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review; Henry A Kissinger Chair and Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic International Studies

Feb26
Time 8:00pm - 10:15pm
Location
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, 20 Talbot Avenue

Cultural Evening

PROGRAM

Master of Ceremonies: Li Fan and Rebecca Varley, EPIIC ‘14
 
Welcome
EPIIC Director Sherman Teichman
 
Made for More than Survival: Notes from Syria’s Refugee Crisis
Curt Rhodes Jr, International Director and Muthanna Khriesat, Jordan Country Director, Questscope
 
A Woman’s War: Egypt
Photographic Presentation by Elizabeth D. Herman, ‘10, EPIIC ‘07-08
 
The Sounds of Future Folklore
Solo Performance by Karim Nagi
 
Intermission 
 
Four Egyptian Tunes
Joshua Hahn ‘11, nay; Rich Jankowsky '95, EPIIC '91-92, riqq; Tala Kayyali ‘11, qanun; Kareem Roustom, MA ‘06, oud 
I. Samai Bayyati al-Aryan - Ibrahim al-'Aryan (1850-1920)
II. El-Hilwa Di - Sayed Darwish (1892-1923)
III. Dhikrayati - Muhammed al-Qasabji (1892-1966)
IV. Longa Farahfaza - Riadh al-Sunbati (1910-1981)
 
Three Rivers (Kareem Roustom)
Beth Bahia Cohen, Arabic violin and yayli tanbur; Mal Barsamian, clarinet and oud; Joshua Hahn ‘11, nay; Tala Kayyali ‘11, qanun; Rich Jankowsky and Fabio Pirozzolo MA ‘14, percussion; Sarita Uranovsky and Gabriel Rothman ‘15, violins; Will Myers ‘13, viola; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Chris Finis ‘14, bass; Kareem Roustom, conductor
I. Aayr Araxi Aperov
Traditional Armenian - anonymous
II. Uyaney Gözlerim Gafletden Uyan 
Ottoman - attributed to Sultan Murad (1612-1640)
III. The Eternal River
Egyptian - Instrumental suite from the song Al-Nahr Al-Khaaled by Mohammed Abdel Wahaab (1902-1991)
 
Three Rivers is an arrangement of three melodies from Armenia, Ottoman Turkey, and Egypt for traditional instruments and string quartet arranged by Kareem Roustom
 
Scheherazade (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1835-1905)
Nabih Bulos, violin;  Mark Kuss, piano; George Mathew, piano
III. Allegretto
 
Followed by a presentation by George Mathew on the collaboration between Music for Life International and the Institute for Global Leadership to aid Syrian Children

Tickets are priced the same as the regular events of the EPIIC Symposium. Please refer to Overview for pricing. Tufts students participate in the entire symposium (concert included) for $5.

 

Feb25
Time 7:00pm
Location
Distler Auditorium, Tufts University

Russian Cultural Night

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There will be a performance of Ukrainian folk songs, led by Lysander Jaffe; a small Tufts choir performance of "Subrali, Sa Se Subrali" (Bulgarian), "Ghirs ars da martal" (Georgian), and "Iz strany, strany dalyokoi" (Russian) led by Emma Daniels; and a violin and piano presentation on the development of professional Russian music led by Vera Rubin on violin and Yevgenia Semeina on piano. The evening also will feature the photography of Eric Bouvet from his work in Ukraine. Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary of the photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award and the Paris-Match Award.

There will be a performance of Ukrainian folk songs, led by Lysander Jaffe; a small Tufts choir performance of "Subrali, Sa Se Subrali" (Bulgarian), "Ghirs ars da martal" (Georgian), and "Iz strany, strany dalyokoi" (Russian) led by Emma Daniels; and a violin and piano presentation on the development of professional Russian music led by Vera Rubin on violin and Yevgenia Semeina on piano.

The evening also will feature the photography of Eric Bouvet from his work in Ukraine.  Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary of the photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award and the Paris-Match Award.

Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Oratory and Director of Graduate Studies in Drama in the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts will present on the plight of theatre in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.