Program | Schedule
Panel: Power Transitions in the 21st Century
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
Panel: The Present and Future Battlefield
Braden Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University; Founding Chair, Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security
Ronald Arkin, Regents’ Professor and Director, Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-editor, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Ariel Levite, Non-resident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment; former Principal Deputy Director General for Policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
William C. Martel, Associate Professor of International Security Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Former Director and Founder, Center for Strategy and Technology
Jonathan D. Moreno, Author, Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progres
Capt. Wayne Porter (US Navy), Co-author (with Mark Mykleby), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; Chair, Systemic Strategy and Complexity, Global Public Policy Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School; former Special Assistant for Strategic Synchronization to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff
“Mr. Y”: US National Strategic Policy Directions
Antonia Chayes, Professor of Practice in International Politics and Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Under Secretary of the US Air Force*
Lt. General Dirk Jameson (USAF, ret), former Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Strategic Command
Col. Mark “Puck” Mykleby (US Marines, ret.), Co-author (with Wayne Porter), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; former
Special Strategic Assistant to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff; former Deputy Division Head for the development of
strategy for Special Operations Forces, USSOCOM
Capt. Wayne Porter (US Navy), Co-author (with Mark Mykleby), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; Chair, Systemic Strategy and Complexity, Global Public Policy Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School; former Special Assistant for Strategic Synchronization to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Eye to Eye, Drone to Drone: The (De)Personalization of Warfare
Ronald Arkin, Regents’ Professor and Director, Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-editor, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Ami Ayalon, former Commander, Israel Navy; former Director, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet); Member, Knesset
Lt. General Dirk Jameson (USAF, ret), former Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Strategic Command
William Ostlund (US Army), former Commander, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry, Kunar Province, Afghanistan; former Deputy Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Security Studies Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Col. Ferdinand Safari, Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Wendell Wallach, Chair, Working Research Group in Technology and Ethics, Yale University
#Power: Youth, Technology and the State
Montasser Jemali Anas, Student, Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, Tunis; President and Founder, League of Young Patriots
Oliver Wilcox (EPIIC’01), Senior Development Advisor, Middle East Bureau, US Agency for International Development*
Sherif Mansour, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa, Freedom House; Co-founder, International Quranic Center in Washington, DC
Student Presentations:
Welcome/Introductions/Recognition
Recognition of Amir, Author of Zahra’s Paradise, and Lt. Anne Gibbon, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, US Navy
Dr. Jean Mayer Award Keynote Address
Steven Pinker, Author, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined; Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Discussant: Christopher Lydon, Journalist; Host, Radio Open Source
Responsibility to Protect, Right to Prosecute?
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation; Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Senior Advisor, African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan
Steven Pinker, Author, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined; Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Discussant: Christopher Lydon, Journalist; Host, Radio Open Source
Kishore Mandhyan, Deputy Political Director and former Deputy Director of Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, Executive Office, United Nations Secretary-General
Col. William Ostlund (US Army), former Commander, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry, Kunar Province, Afghanistan; former Deputy Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Security Studies Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Abiodun Williams, Acting Senior Vice President, Center for Conflict Management, US Institute of Peace; former Director of Strategic Planning, Office of the United National Secretary-General
Resource Wars and the Changing Climate of Conflict
Cullen Hendrix, Assistant Professor of Government, College of William and Mary; Author, “Climate Change, Rainfall, and Social Conflict in Africa”*
Abbas Maleki, Associate Professor of Energy Policy, MIT
William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Money, Munitions, and Markets: The Perpetuation of Conflict
Mark Baillie, King's College, London, War Studies Dept.; Consultant, AKE Ltd
Jack Blum, Attorney, specializing in issues of money laundering, financial crime, and international tax evasion; former Investigator, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Angelica Duran Martinez, PhD Candidate, Brown University; Co-author, "Does illegality breed violence?: Drug trafficking and state-sponsored protection rackets"
Andrew Feinstein, Author, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade; Founding Director, Corruption Watch*
Andrew Kain, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AKE; former Member and Instructor, Special Air Service Regiment, United Kingdom
Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Jake Sherman, Deputy Director for Programs (Conflict), Center for International Cooperation, New York University*
Dick Simon, Co-founder, Peace Action Network, Young Presidents’ Organization; Chair, Presidents Action Network Chapter, World Presidents’ Organization (WPO) (PAN)
The Media and Warfare
Daniel Bennett, War Studies Department, King’s College, London; Author, Reporting War, a blog for the Frontline Club
Nick Birnback, Chief, Public Information, United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS)
Carlotta Gall, Senior Reporter for Afghanistan/Pakistan, The New York Times; Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University
Jeff Howe, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University; Author, Crowdsourcing: How the Power of Crowds Is Driving the Future of Business*
Gary Knight, Photojournalist; Co-founder, VII Photo Agency; Author, Evidence: The Case Against Milosevic; Founding Director, Program on Narrative and Documentary Practice, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor and Head, Camera Culture Research Group, MIT Media Lab*
Presentation of Photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s work as compiled by Photojournalist Christopher Anderson
Future Flashpoints
Sami al-Faraj, Founder and Director, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Nick Birnback, Chief, Public Information, United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) Christian Parenti, Author, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Editor-in-Chief, International Security
Col. Ferdinand Safari, Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy
John P Williams, Program Manager, Asymmetric and Irregular Threats, The Johns Hopkins University
Post-Conflict Challenges and Building Peaceful Societies
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, former National Security Advisor, Iraq (under the Coalition Provisional Authority); former MP, Iraq's Council of Representatives (Parliament)
Susan Bissell, Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation; Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Senior Advisor, African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan
Sahana Dharmapuri, former Gender Advisor on conflict and complex emergency situations, Office of Women in Development, USAID; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
Zainab Salbi, Founder and President, Women for Women International*
Ervin Staub, Author, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism; Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Student Presentation:
EPIIC Uganda Group
Power Transitions in the 21st Century
Sami al-Faraj (EPIIC’87), Founder and Director, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies. Mowaffak al-Rubaie, former National Security Advisor, Iraq (under the Coalition Provisional Authority); former MP, Iraq's Council of Representatives (Parliament)
Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University; Author, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War.
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Professional Workshop
An EPIIC “Pugwash” Professional Workshop
A Response to
The Report on Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing
by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
February 21, 2013
8:30 AM Arrival, Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions
Workshop Introduction: David Harris
Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts University
Co-Conveners Jonathan Moreno and Juan Enriquez
Institute for Global Leadership Founding Director Sherman Teichman
9:15 AM Summary of the Presidential Commission Report
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Associate Director, Presidential Commission for the
Study of Bioethical Issues
10:00 AM Overview: Program, Promise and Ethical Concerns
Co-Conveners Dr. Jonathan Moreno and Mr. Juan Enriquez
10:30 AM The Progress and Promise of Whole-Genome Sequencing
Jason Bobe, Executive Director, PersonalGenomes.org
Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Venture Management
Robert Green, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Research Institute Division of Genetics
Jamie Heywood, Founder ALS Therapy Development Institute
Christian Macedonia, Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office, US Department of Defense
Nancy Wexler, Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University School of Medicine
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Ethical Genomics: Ensuring Privacy and Preventing Abuse
George Annas, Professor of Medicine and Law, Boston University
Melissa A. Gymrek, PhD candidate, Whitehead Institute, MIT
Debra Matthews, Assistant Director, Science Programs, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Moreno, Professor of Medical Ethics and the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Rugnetta, former Research Assistant, Progressive Bioethics Initiative, Center for American Progress
2:30 PM Panelist Discussion and Deliberation
Where should the balance be placed between individual privacy and the potential for medical breakthroughs? What are some of the dangers of exploitation of genomic data for discrimination? Are the surrounding fears justified? How will private citizens and entities deal with discrimination and stigmatization based on genomic information?
What are the consequences of failing to ensure genetic privacy? Conversely, what are the problems which could arise should the sharing of genetic data be restricted? How can consent for related individuals be protected should one decide to sequence, thus partially exposing the others’ genomes?
What compensation, if any, should individuals receive for their genes? Should one be allowed to profit, and to what extent, from the development of medicines based off of someone else’s life code? How will these advances affect the cost of medicine in a nation that already spends a large portion of its budget on healthcare?
3:30 PM Recommendations for the Presidential Commission for the
Study of Bioethical Issues
4:30 PM Adjourn
An EPIIC Professional Workshop
A Response to
The Report on Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing
by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Participant Biographies
George Annas, considered “the father of patient rights,” is a Professor of Medicine and Law at Boston University and the founder of the international NGO, Lawyers for Human Rights. A Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Medical Ethics, his books include: Worst Case Bioethics, The Rights of Patients, Judging Medicine, Some Choice: Law, Medicine and the Market, and American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries.
Jason Bobe is Executive Director of PersonalGenomes.org and Director of the Community for the Personal Genome Project, a collaborative effort with Professor George Church at Harvard Medical School which seeks to improve the accessibility and utility of whole-genome sequencing. Bobe is also a founder of DIYbio.org, a community which fosters amateur biology and provides classes in methods, safety, and ethical practice. He has worked as a Business Development Consultant for OpenWetWare.org, as the Director of Business Development at DNA Direct, and as an independent consultant.
Juan Enriquez is a Managing Director at Excel Venture Management, a venture capital firm that invests in companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. He was the Founding Director of Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences Project and among his books are As the Future Catches You, on the impact of the bio-based economy, and Homo Evolutis (co-authored with Dr. Steve Gullans), on the potential for human-directed genetic augmentation.
Robert C Green is a faculty member in the Division of Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the founder of Genomes2People Research Program exploring translational genomics and health outcomes. He directs the REVEAL Study a series of randomized trials exploring the impact of genetic disclosure, the PGen Study of consumer genetics customers and the MedSeq Project, the first empirical study of whole-genome sequencing in clinical medicine. He is a regular member of the Societal and Ethical Issues in Research Study Section at NIH and is a Board Member of the Council for Responsible Genetics.
Melissa A. Gymrek is a doctoral candidate in Dr. Yaniv Erlich’s group, which focuses on building new tools and algorithms for studying human genomics, at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. Her most recent work, “Identifying personal genomes by surname inference,” was published in Science and exposes the insecurity of genetic studies previously thought to be anonymous.
Jamie Haywood founded the ALS Therapy Development Institute in 1999. ALS TDI is the world’s first non-profit biotechnology company; it accelerated research on the disease by hiring scientists to develop treatments outside of academia and for-profit corporations. It was the first to publish research on the safety of using stem cells in ALS patients. In 2005, Jamie and his youngest brother Ben, along with close friend Jeff Cole, built PatientsLikeMe.com to give patients control and access to their healthcare information and compare it to others like them. Its bold (and somewhat controversial) approach involves aggregating users health info in order to test the effects of particular treatments, bypassing clinical trials. It was named one of "15 companies that will change the world" by CNN Money.
Christian Macedonia, a gynecological surgeon, is a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office of the US Department of Defense. His research is aimed at understanding how humans can thrive under adverse conditions. His early work with DARPA included contributions to the development of 3-D sonography and telemedicine under the Revolutionizing Ultrasound program in the mid-1990s. He has served in a variety of leadership roles in his 27 years of service as a U.S. Army Medical Corps officer, including chief of the medical staff of the 115th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq and as the Medical Sciences Officer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In addition to his role at DARPA, Macedonia is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and serves on a volunteer basis at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center.
Debra JH Mathews is the Assistant Director for Science Programs for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Institute of Genetic Medicine. She completed the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy, which is jointly administered by Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. As a Greenwall Fellow, she worked at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, in Washington, DC, and the US Department of Health and Human Services. As the Assistant Director for Science Programs, Mathews is responsible for overseeing the Stem Cell Policy and Ethics program and the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences, as well as other Institute initiatives in policy and ethics related to biomedical research.
Jonathan Moreno is a Professor of Medical Ethics and the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. The editor of the website Science Progress, Moreno has written The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America, as well as eleven other books and over 400 papers on bioethics, science and society. He is the former President of the American Society of Bioethics and the Humanities.
Michael Rugnetta is a former Research Assistant at the Progressive Bioethics Initiative at the Center for American Progress. He also writes for the Huffington Post and Science Progress about the impact of cutting-edge scientific advances on society. He is currently a second year student at Boston University’s School of Law.
Kayte Spector-Bagdady is Associate Director at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She was the Associate Director on Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing and a lead staff investigator for Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. She joined the Commission staff in 2010 after working as an associate at Hunton & Williams, where she advised drug and device companies on federal and FDA compliance issues and worked pro bono for an international children's health NGO. Her interests include reproductive and pharmaceutical ethics and law, and she has published articles on issues such as direct-to-consumer advertising, informed consent in posthumous reproduction, and patient screening practices for assisted reproductive technologies.
Nancy Wexler is Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, as well as the President of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Involved in public policy, individual counseling, genetic research, and federal health administration, she is most widely known for her important scientific contribution on Huntington's disease. Wexler currently holds, or has held, numerous public policy positions, including Chair of the Joint NIH/DOE Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group of the National Center for Human Genome Research, Chair of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) and Member of the Institute of Medicine. Wexler has served as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and on the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health, NIH.
Food Insecurity: Hunger, the Environment, and Conflict
Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund
Ron Haviv, Photojournalist; Founding Photographer, VII, worked on Starved for Attention and Fatal Neglect series with MSF
Noel W Solomns, Program Director for Central America, Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation
Irwin Rosenberg, Jean Mayer University Professor and Senior Scientist and Interim Director, Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University
Peter Walker, Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security and Director of the Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University; former Director of Disaster Policy, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Bystanders, Perpetrators and Survivors: A Global Health Perspective on Sexual Violence
Hassa Blake, Co-Founder, Focal Point Global
Dimitrios Bouras, Photojournalist, Greece, currently working on HIV/AIDS
Jennifer F. Klot, Senior Advisor, Social Science Research Council, and directs initiatives on Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
The Nexus of Water and Disease
Junaid Ahmad, Director of Sustainable Development, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
Jeffrey Griffiths, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine; Chair, Drinking Water Panel, Environmental Protection Agency
David M. Gute, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts; former Assistant Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Daniele Lantagne, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University; former Public Health Engineer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Janine M. H. Selendy, Founder, Chairman, President and Publisher, Horizon International, Yale University; Editor, Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures
Student Presentation
Village Zero Project: Maia Majumder, David Meyers, Tara Kola
Drugs for Survival: The Pharmaceutical Industry
Jerome Kassirer, former Editor, New England Journal of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Karin Mack, Team Lead, Unintentional Drug Deaths, National Center for Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Introduction and Keynotes
Anthony Monaco, President, Tufts University, Symposium Introduction
Gwythian Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events and Research Professor, London School of Economics
Zoonoses and Pandemics: The Next Big One
Scott F. Dowell, Director, Division of Global Disease Detection & Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Author, The Coming Plague
Christos Lynteris, Andrew Mellon & Isaac Newton Interdisciplinary Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
Kristine Smith, Associate Director of Health and Policy, EcoHealth Alliance
A State of Well-Being: Mental Health and Security
Barbara Lopes Cardozo, Founding Member, Doctors Without Borders – Holland; Psychiatric Epidemiologist, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Justine Hardy, Founder, Healing Kashmir
Giuseppe Raviola, Director, Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Director of Mental Health, Partners In Health
Elizabeth Herman (A'10), Photojournalist; documentary project: "A Woman's War"
Zach Iscol, Executive Director and Chairman, Headstrong Project
Violence: A Global Public Health Challenge
Kassam Dawood, former National Security Adviser, Iraq
Gregg Nakano, former Development Outreach Coordinator, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; former Military Liaison Officer, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Merrill Singer, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health, University of Connecticut
Richard Sollom, Deputy Director at Physicians for Human Rights
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: How Significant a Threat?
Hillel W Cohen, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Author, The Coming Plague
Amb. Bonnie Jenkins, Coordinator for Threat Reduction Program, US Department of State
Ali Khan, Director of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
Sam R. Telford III, Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
Health and Human Rights in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Ezra Barzilay, Lead Epidemiologist, Health Systems Reconstruction Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Commander, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Daniel Holmberg, Senior Humanitarian Adviser, Sudan, USAID
Brigadier General Yitshak Kreiss, Surgeon General, Israel
Jennifer Leaning, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Richard Sollom, Deputy Director at Physicians for Human Rights
Health Care Delivery Systems: Bringing Care Where It's Needed Most
David Chiriboga, former Minister of Health, Ecuador; former President, Health Council of the Union of South American Nations.
Lachlan Forrow, Director of Ethics Programs and Director of Palliative Care Programs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
Anne Goldfeld, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School
of Public Health
Bhaswati Goswami, Communications Officer and Program Management Unit for boat clinics, Centre for North East Studies
Jean Kagubare, Principal Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for Health; former Director, Health Planning Department, Rwanda
Ali Sindi, Minister for Planning, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq; former Deputy Minister of Health and Social Affairs; former Head, Health Sector Committee, UN Oil for Food Program
Student presentations
Kosovo
Kerala
Cambodia
Rwanda
Colombia
New Technologies at the Juncture of Health and Security
Ira M. Herman, Professor and Director, Tufts Center for Innovations in Wound Healing
Daphne Moffett, Deputy Director, Health Systems Reconstruction Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Walt, Robinson Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Walt Lab, Tufts University
Cultural Evening
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.
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
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.
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
Cultural Evening
PROGRAM
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.
The State of the States in the Middle East and North Africa
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Presentation of the ALLIES Joint Research Project 2013 to Turkey
ALLIES: Civil-Military Collaboration in Security Sector Reform
- Vice Admiral Paul J Bushong – US Security Coordinator, Israel-Palestinian Authority, Jerusalem
- Dr. El Ghazawi – Egyptian Ministry of the Interior; International Fellow, Peace Keeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army War College
- COL (ret.) Anthony Leito – Professor of Governance Planning, Peace Keeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army War College
- Dr. Richard Shultz – Professor of International Politics and Director, Security Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
ALLIES: Israel’s Perspective on the Strategic Environment
- BG Rami Ben Efraim – Special Assistant, J5 Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; former Commander, Ramat David AFB
ALLIES: The Impact of Civil-Military Relations on Domestic Political Decisions
- COL (ret.) Michael Hess – Former Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
- Mr. Richard Hoffman – Senior Lecturer and Director, Center for Civil-Military Relations, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Sixth U.S. Army
- Ms. Heather Hurlburt – Former Executive Director, National Security Network; former Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State
Collapse of Soveriegnty: The State of the State Report
- Nimrod Hurvitz | Professor of Middle East History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- Ariel Levite | Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Principal Deputy Director General for policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
- Introduction by Marie Jose Fabre, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Keynote Address: 100 Years after World War I: Enduring Consequences for the Middle East and North Africa
- Elizabeth Thompson | Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia; Author, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East
- Introduction by Abuzar Royesh, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
The Future of the Kurds
- Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
- Maria Fantappie | Iraq and Kurd Analyst, International Crisis Group
- Kamal Kirkuki | Speaker, Kurdistan Parliament, and Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurdish Regional Government, Iraq
- Malik Mufti | Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; and Author, Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea
- Student Presentation: Ethan Finkelstein and Ryan Youkilis, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Moderated by Gia Rowley, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Iraq: Its Uncertain Future
- Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
- Peter Harling | Project Director, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and Senior Middle East and North Africa Adviser, International Crisis Group
- Richard Shultz | Director of the International Security Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Author, The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against al Qaeda
- Emma Sky | Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University; former Political Advisor to U.S. General Ray Odierno, Iraq; former Governorate Coordinator of Kirkuk, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq
- Student Presentation: Elayne Stecher, Yasir Abbas, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Moderated by Patrick Hamon, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Civil-Military Relations and Security Sector Reform in Political Transitions
- Ibrahim el Ghazawi | Former Advisor, Office of the Minister of Interior, Egypt; Visiting Fellow, U.S. Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
- Karim Haggag | Deputy Director, Policy Planning Division, Foreign Ministry, Egypt
- Anthony S. Lieto | Colonel (ret.) U.S. Army; Professor of Governance Planning, U.S. Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI); former Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation and Senior U.S. Defense Official in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Yemen
- Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux | PhD Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Independent Consultant for Governance in Libya
- Moderated by David Riche, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Sarah Butterfield and Isabel Weiner, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Jackie Faselt, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Political Islam and Governance
- Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
- Issandr el Amrani | Project Director, North Africa, International Crisis Group; Founder, The Arabist blog
- Amr Hamzawy | Spokesman, “Board of Wise Men,” established to mediate between the Mubarak government and the protestors in 2011; Founder, Freedom Egypt Party; former Member of Parliament, Egypt
- Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
- Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group
- Emmanuel Sivan | Professor Emeritus of History, Hebrew University; former Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister, Israel; former Editor, Jerusalem Quarterly
- Student Presentation: Max Fathy and Rebecca Varley, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
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Presentation of EPIIC Colloquium Recognition Award by Kirsten Gute, 2014EPIIC Colloquium Member
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Moderated by Sam Whitefield, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Introductions and Keynote
- Introductions and Welcomes, 6:30pm:
- David Harris | Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts University
- Sherman Teichman | Director, Institute for Global Leadership
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Gabriella Zoia | 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
- Keynote Address, 7:00pm
- William J Burns | Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State; Career Ambassador; former Under Secretary for Political Affairs; former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; former Ambassador to Jordan
- Introduction and Dr. Jean Mayer Award Presentation by Mahpari Sotoudeh, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
US Foreign Policy and Security in the Middle East and North Africa
- Bernardino León | Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean Region, European Union; former Secretary-General and Foreign Policy Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Spain
- Augustus Richard Norton | Professor of International Relations and Anthropology, Boston University; Author, Civil Society in the Middle East
- Adm. James Stavridis (US Navy, ret.) | Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO Alliance
- Tamara Cofman Wittes | Senior Fellow and Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, US Department of State
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Moderated by Rebekah Waller, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
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Dr. Jean Mayer Award Presentations by Sookrit Malik and Madeleine Pelton, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
Domestic Politics in the Gulf: Regional Impact
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Frederic Wehrey | Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprising
Matar Ebrahim Matar | Scholar at Risk, Bahrain; Former Member of Parliament with the al-Wefaq Political Party, resigned in protest of government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors; Recipient, 2011 Leaders of Democracy Award, Project on Middle East Democracy
Presentation of the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy by Lilly Tahmasebi '17, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Presentation of Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy
Presentation of Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy to Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait
Vying for Influence: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Nawaf Obaid | Visiting Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to Prince Turki Al Faisal, Saudi Arabia
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Wu Bingbing | Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Moderated by Ayesha Forbes '15, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
International Institutions and Intervention
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Richard Atwood | Director of Research and future Director of Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Eileen Babbitt | Professor of Practice of International Conflict Management, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Michael Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Duncan Pickard | Nonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; Constitutional Adviser, Democracy Reporting International
Mark Katz | Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University; Author, “Moscow’s Middle East Policy” (inFocus Quarterly, 2014)
Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group
Moderated by Elissa Miller '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Expert-led Discussions/Breakout Sessions
Political Islam
Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
Elizabeth Nugent | PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
State of the State
Nimrod Hurvitz | Professor of Middle East History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Jonathan Shimshoni | Retired Battalion and Brigade Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; Author, Israel and Conventional Deterrence
Media
Ahmed Benchemsi | Visiting Scholar, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford University; Founding Publisher and Editor, TelQuel (French) and Nishan (Arabic)
Amahl Bishara | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University; Author, “New Media and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Assembling Media Worlds and Cultivating Networks of Care”
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist
Mourad Gargoum | Former Head, Media Office, National Council for Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Libya
Rule of Law & Human Rights
Enes Aldsrey | Head, Documenting and Monitoring Department, Benghazi Office, National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Sherif Mansour | Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists; former Senior Program Officer, Freedom House
Iran and Nuclear Proliferation
Ariel Levite | Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Principal Deputy Director General for policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Trauma and Resilience
Justine Hardy | Mental Trauma Specialist; Writer
Entrepreneurship
Gideon Argov | Founder, Shlomo Argov Fellows, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Advisory Director, Berkshire Partners
Dick Simon | Chair and Co-Founder, Peace Action Network, Young Presidents’ Organization
Terrorism
Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London
Refugees
Mike Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Women
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh | Scholar at Risk, Iran; Founder, Meydaan Zanan (Women’s Field); former Editor in Chief, Farzaneh Journal; Editor and Chief Researcher, Alternative National Report on Women’s Status in Iran
Dalia Ziada | Executive Director, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Israel-Palestine
Robert Blecher | Deputy Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
Mouin Rabbani | Head, Programme in the Middle East, Conflict Management Initiative
Gulf politics
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Lebanon
Sahar Atrache | Lebanon Analyst, International Crisis Group
Alex Taylor | Former Reporter and International Editor, The Daily Star, Beirut; MALD Candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Unraveling of Syria
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist, contributing to Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and other major media outlets
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Denis Sullivan | Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Northeastern University
Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London
Radwan Ziadeh | Scholar at Risk, Syria; Recipient, 2009 Academic Freedom Award, Middle East Studies Association; Senior Fellow, United States Institute for Peace; Founder and Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies
Irina Zvyagelskaya | Vice-President, Centre for Strategic and Political Studies, Russia; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Bruna Gaspar '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Moderated by Sam Rock '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Keynote Address: American Policy and the Arab Revolutions
R. Nicholas Burns | Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008, he was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program; Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Border Crossings: Refugees, Jihadists, Money, and Arms
- Michaël Béchir Ayari | Senior Analyst, Tunisia, International Crisis Group
- BG Rami Ben Efraim | Special Assistant, J5 Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; former Commander, Ramat David AFB
- Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- Ibrahim Warde | Author, The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror; Consultant and Adjunct Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- Moderated by Iris Levine, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Elizabeth Robinson, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
- Umar Shareef, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members Adrienne Larson and Tory Martin, Poverty and Power Research Initiative Co-Chairs, Institute for Global Leadership
Education, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
- Perihan AbouZeid | Co-Founder and CEO, Qabila Media Productions, Egypt; Legatum Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Junaid K. Ahmad | Director, Sustainable Development Unit Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
- Inger Andersen | Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
- Robert Springborg | Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
- Muthanna Khreisat | Jordan Country Director, Questscope
- Moderated by Samantha Lund, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Bradley Friedman and Adam Nagy, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Bahar Ostadan and Katherine Saviano, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
EPIIC Film Series: Brat (1997)
Film Series Movie
TBA
Russian Cultural Night
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.
Keynote: Russian Identity
• Gregory Carleton, Professor of Russian Studies, Tufts University; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
• Suzanne Massie, Author; Trust but Verify: Reagan, Russia, and Me
Religion, Politics, and Identity
• Geraldine Fagan, Moscow Correspondent, Forum 18 News Service; Author, Believing in Russia: Religious Policy after Communism • Suzanne Massie, Author; Trust but Verify: Reagan, Russia, and Me
• Michael Khodarkovsky, Professor of Russian History, Loyola University, Chicago; Author, Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
• Roman Lunkin, Director, Institute for Religion and Law; Leading Institute Fellow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Marya Rozanova, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Socio-Cultural Integration and Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, St. Petersburg; Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
The State and the Media
• Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief, The New Times, Moscow; Permanent Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Karina Alexanyan, Postdoctoral Scholar/Project Manager, mediaX, Stanford University; Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
• Oksana Boyko, Host, Worlds Apart, RT TV; former Political and Foreign Correspondent (confirmed in principle for this panel)
• Karoun Demirjian, Moscow Correspondent, The Washington Post
• Irina Gordienko, Correspondent, Novaya Gazeta; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
• Max Trudolyubov, Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; Former Editor and Columnist, Vedomosti
Russia and Asia: The Bear Looks East?
• Alexander Cooley, Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Barnard College, Columbia University; Deputy Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Author; Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
• Guan Guihai, Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University
• Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman and Director of investment and entrepreneurial activities in Russia and Ukraine, SUN Group, India; Chairman, Russia Country Committee, Confederation of Indian Industry
• Artyom Lukin, Associate Professor, Deputy Director for Research, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok
• Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor, Endicott College, Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; former Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
Welcome, Introductions and Keynote
Anthony Monaco, President, Tufts University
James Glaser, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University
Sherman Teichman, Founding Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Ben Spevack, EPIIC 2015 Colloquium Member
• Alumni Award Presentation: Alexandra Vacroux (EPIIC’86), Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; James Hershberg
• Kirill Koroteev, Senior Lawyer, Human Rights Centre, Memorial, Moscow
• Joshua Rubenstein, Former Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International; Author, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
A Keynote Conversation on the U.S.-Russian Relationship
• Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93
The New Cold War? Russia-U.S. Relations
• Oksana Boyko, Host, Worlds Apart, RT TV; former Political and Foreign Correspondent
• Matthew Rojansky, Director, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; former Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Feodor Voitolovsky, Head of the political section, Center for North American Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAN); Co-author, IMEMO’s 2013 annual forecast on “Russia and the World: Economy and Foreign Policy”
• Andrew S. Weiss, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr. Legvold, Amb. Matlock, and Dr. Trenin will join the panel discussion
Ruling Russia: Governance in the 21st Century
• Ilya Ponomarev, Member of Russian Parliament, State Duma; Chairman of Innovation and Venture Capital Subcommittee, Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee; one of the leaders of the left flank of Russian politics
• Thomas F Remington, Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science, Emory University; Author, Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective and The Politics of Inequality in Russia
• Anna Vassilieva, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Author, The Russian Émigré Press on Democracy in Russia, 1980-1990s, Co-author, Influence on Russian Culture on Russian Negotiating Style; Co-editor, Russia and East Asia: Informal and Gradual Integration, Crossing National Borders
Student Presentation: Grigory Khakimov, EPIIC Colloquium Member; Junior, majoring in International Relations with a thematic concentration on Europe and the Former Soviet Union; Former Member, Russian Democratic Party Yabloko
Beyond the Barrel: The Russian Economy
• Ari Axelrod, Senior Fellow, Council on Emerging Market Enterprises, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Partner, Banyan Family Business Advisors
• Birgit Hansl, Lead Economist for the Russian Federation and Country Sector Coordinator in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network in the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
• Matthew Murray, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce
• Stephan Vitvitsky, International Economist, Office of Europe and Eurasia - US Treasury
Security Strategy: Military Reform and Nuclear Capability
• Lt. Gen Arlen Jameson (USAF, ret.), Former Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; Vice Chairman, Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
• Michael Kofman, Russia/Eurasia Security and Defense Public Policy Scholar, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, Adviser for military to military engagements for senior officers at National Defense University
• Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army retired), Director, Defense and Intelligence Projects at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Svetlana Savranskaya, Director, Cooperative Projects with Russia and Editor, Russian and East Bloc Archival Documents Database, National Security Archive
• Major General Pavel Zolotarev (Russian Armed Forces, ret.), Deputy Director, Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (confirmed in principle)
Expert-led, Small-group Discussions
Geopolitics: Russia and the Post-Soviet Sphere
• Maxim Bratersky, Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Igor Istomin, Lecturer, Department of Applied Analysis of International Crises, MGIMO; Executive Editor, International Trends
• Carol R. Saivetz, Research Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
• Shorena Shaverdashvili (EPIIC’99), Partner and Editor, Liberali, Georgia
• Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
• Maxim Suchkov, Fellow, Institute for Strategic Studies, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93
Keynote Address: Russia and Glboal Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy
• Thomas Pickering, Career Ambassador; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Political Engagement: Civil Society, Youth, and Dissent
• Samuel Greene, Head, King's Global Institutes and Director, King's Russia Institute, King's College, London
• Roman Lunkin, Director, Institute for Religion and Law; Leading Institute Fellow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Marya Rozanova, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Socio-Cultural Integration and Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, St. Petersburg; Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
Sanctioned Split? Russia and the European Union
• R. Bruce Hitchner, Professor of Classics and International Relations and Director, Peace & Justice Studies Program, Tufts University; Chair, Dayton Peace Accords Project
• Angela Stent, Professor of Government and Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University; Author, The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century
• Vasily Zharkov, Director, Political Science and International Relations Programme, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Columnist, Novaya Gazeta
Film Screening: Red Army
Film Screening of "Red Army," 8pm, Somerville Theater, Davis Square
Red Army is an inspiring story about the Cold War played out on the hockey rink, and a man who stood up to a powerful system and paved the way for change for generations of Russians. Trailer: http://sonyclassics.com/
Brought to you thanks to the efforts of Board Member David Cuttino and Mindy Hanneman from MPAA.
Callouts
ALLIES
The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations.
TILIP
The Tufts Initiative for International Leadership and Perspective (TILIP) is a program that seeks to foster cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study.
[EXPOSURE]
[EXPOSURE] is the Institute for Global Leadership's undergraduate-led program for photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights.