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Spring ’08 Events

May 2, 2008
"Children and Electronic Media: Teaching in the Technological Age" conference hosted by Woodrow Wilson School.

Introduction and Panel 1: What Does the Research Have to Say?
Running time 1:56:32
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Introductions: Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Acting Dean, Woodrow Wilson School; John Webb, Director, Teacher Preparation Program; Elisabeth Donahue, Associate Editor, Future of Children
Participants: John Black, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Telecommunications & Ed. and Director Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University; Craig A. Anderson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University; Kathryn C. Montgomery, Professor, School of Communication, American University

Panel 2: Innovative Uses of Technology in the Classroom
Running time 1:07:28
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Moderator: Lisa Markman, Associate Director, Education Research Section, Outreach Director, Future of Children Journal, Princeton University
Participants: Vicki A Davis, Teacher/IT Director, Westwood Schools; Kevin Jarrett, Google Certified Teacher, Technology Facilitator/District Webmaster, Northfield Community School; Daniel P. McVeigh, Director, Oceans of Know

Keynote: Cyber Savvy Students: What You and Your Students Need to Know
Running time 44:42
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Moderator: Elisabeth H. Donahue, Associate Editor, Future of Children, Princeton University
Speaker: Nancy Willard, Executive Director, Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use

Panel 3: Professional Development and Technology
Running time 1:13:03
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Moderator: Jennifer Hunsinger, Director of Communications and Information Technology, NJ Principals and Supervisors Association
Participants: Barry Joseph, Director of the Online Leadership Program, Global Kids; Rob Mancabelli, Director of Information Systems, Hunterdon Central School District; Kathleen Schrock, Administrator for Technology, Nauset Public Schools, Orleans, Massachusetts

April 30, 2008
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Assoc. Professor of Politics and African-American Studies, Princeton University
"Images of Christ in Black Politics"
Running time  58:26
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April 29, 2008
"Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great Political Movement Got Lost -And How It Can Find Its Way Back"
Running time  1:29:22
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Moderator: Robert George, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Panelists: Mickey Edwards, author, "Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great Political Movement Got Lost -And How It Can Find Its Way Back"; Jeffrey Bell, Founder and Chairman, "Of the People"; Andrew Busch, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, Claremont McKenna College; Robert Sean Wilentz, Professor of History, Princeton University.

April 28, 2008
"The Health-Care Debate: Lessons from Canada, Implications for the United States"
Running time  1:23:56
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Opening remarks: Uwe Reinhardt, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Discussants: Theodore R. Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale School of Management; Antonia Maioni, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

April 23, 2008
"How Did We Get Into this Mortgage Mess, and How Do We Get Out?" at the Princeton Club of New York. Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and The Economist magazine
Running time  1:23:04
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Panelists: Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Zanny Minton Beddoes, Economics Editor, The Economist magazine; Peter Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office.

April 22, 2008
Amaney Jamal, Asst. Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"Muslim Americans: Enriching or Threatening American Democracy"
Running time  1:00:45
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April 21, 2008
George Biddle, Senior Vice-President, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
"Five Years Later, a Hidden Crisis: The Plight of the Iraqi Refugees"
Running time  1:02:22
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April 16, 2008
Sylvain Cypel, Editor in Chief, Le Monde
"Israel-Palestine: Why Today's Crisis is Rooted in the Denials of Yesterday"
Running time  1:22:35
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April 15, 2008
Amat Alsoswa, Asst. Secretary General, Asst. Administrator and Dir. of the Regional Bureau for Arab States, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
"Human Security and Human Development in the Arab Region: the next AHDR (Arab Human Development Reports) series"
Running time  1:15:59
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April 14, 2008
"Unequal Democracy"
Running time  1:23:19
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Moderator: Nolan McCarty, acting dean of the Woodrow Wilson School and the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
Panelists: Jonathan Alter, columnist and senior editor of Newsweek magazine; Larry M. Bartels, the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics; Paul R. Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs at the School and New York Times columnist; and James A. Stimson, the Raymond Dawson Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

April 11-12, 2008
Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
"The Grand Challenges: Energy, Development, and Global Health"
Please see the Colloquium web site.

April 10, 2008
Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and the S. Daniel Abraham Chair of Middle East Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East"
Running time  1:08:09
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April 9, 2008
"Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, and What That Means in 2008"
Running time  1:30:07
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Panelists: Bill Berkowitz, Freelance writer and contributor to Media Transparency and Inter Press Service; Bruce Schulman, Professor of History, Boston University; Paul Starr, Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

April 8, 2008
Antoinette Sayeh, Minister of Finance of Liberia
"From Foreign Student to Technocrat to Minister: Changing Perspectives on Development"
Running time  1:13:32
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April 2, 2008
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
"Real Change: Bringing Health and Healthcare into the World that Works"
Running time  1:05:42
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March 26, 2008
Sallai Meridor, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.
"U.S.-Israeli Relations and the Middle East Peace Process"
Running time  1:08:30
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March 25, 2008
Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT
"U.S. Deployment of Ballistic Missile Defenses in Eastern Europe: Should Russia Worry?"
Running time  1:12:25
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March 24, 2008
Qin Yaqing, Executive V.P. at China Foreign Affairs University and Member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
"Managing Sino-U.S. Relations: The Chinese Way"
Running time 1:28:30
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March 13, 2008
Col. Manuel Supervielle, Former General Counsel for U.S. and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan
"Challenges and Opportunities: Afghans Must Choose Their Future"
Running time  1:18:30
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March 12, 2008
Peter Orszag, Director, U.S. Congressional Budget Office
"Health Care: Capturing the Opportunity in the Nation's Core Fiscal Challenge"
Running time  1:05:16
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March 12, 2008
Kurt Volker, Principal Dep. Asst. Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
"NATO: Is There Life After Afghanistan?"
Running time  1:13:06
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March 11, 2008
Michael Isikoff, Investigative Correspondent for Newsweek magazine
"Investigative Reporting and the Presidency"
Running time  1:13:05
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March 10, 2008
Susan Shirk, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego; former Dep. Asst. Secretary of State for China, U.S. State Department
"China: Fragile Superpower"
Running time  1:29:00
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March 5, 2008
Mike Moore, a research fellow at the Independent Institute and former editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance"
Running time  1:08:58
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March 4, 2008
Michael Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University
"Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite"
Running time 1:14:09
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March 4, 2008
Col. Guy Cosentino, U.S. Army Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
"Military Force Planning and Decision-Making: Organizing and Rebuilding Iraqi Security Forces"
Running time 34:55
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February 29, 2008
King Abdullah II of Jordan 
"Public Address"
Running time 30:34
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February 27, 2008
"The Dilemma of Democracy Promotion in the 21st Century"
Running time 1:19:19
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Panelists: Jeremy Kinsman '63, former Canadian ambassador to the European Union; Barbara Bodine, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen and a WWS Diplomat-in-Residence; Mark Palmer, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary and Vice Chairman of Freedom House; Robert Hutchings, former Chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council and a WWS Diplomat-in-Residence.

February 26, 2008
Frank Schaeffer, author of "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back"
"Crossroads of Religion and Politics" lecture series
Running time 1:14:12
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February 25, 2008
David L. Kirp, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of CA, Berkeley and Stanley N. Katz, Faculty Chair of the Undergraduate Program, Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and Director of the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars
"The Sandbox Investment: Kids First Politics"
Running time 1:22:18
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February 22, 2008
"Regional Models for Economic Development: Planning, Implementation and Financing" conference hosted by Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR) and the Regional Plan Association (RPA).

Part 1: Introduction and Overview
Running time 48:02
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Participants: Richard F. Keevey, Director, Policy Research Institute for the Region; Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Part 2: Projects in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia
Running time 1:11:09
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Moderator: Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
Panelists: Peter Longstreth, Executive Director, PIDC, Philadelphia; Alexandros Washburn, Director of Urban Design, New York City Dept. of City Planning; Chris Paladino, President, New Brunswick Development Corp.; Richard Kahan, Founder, Take the Field

Part 3: Financing Projects in NY, NJ, and Philadelphia
Running time 1:06:24
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Moderator: Michael Francois, Director, Real Estate Development, Port Authority of NY & NJ
Panelists: Caren Franzini, CEO, NJ Economic Development Authority; Paul Levy, President & CEO, Center City District, Philadelphia; Richard Ravitch, Principal, Ravitch, Rice & Company

Part 4: Closing Remarks
Running time 1:06:16
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Moderator: Richard F. Keevey, Director, Policy Research Institute for the Region
Panelists: Rush Holt, U.S. Representative from the 12th Dist. of NJ; Gary Rose, Chief, NJ Office of Economic Growth

February 21, 2008
Hank Klibanoff, Managing Editor, Atlanta Constitution and Gene Roberts, Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
"The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, And The Awakening of a Nation"
Running time 1:22:19
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February 20, 2008
"Is it Any of Our Business? The Dilemma of Democracy Promotion in the 21st Century" at the Princeton Club of New York. Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Running time  1:18:42
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Panelists: Amb. Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian ambassador to the EU, Dilomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School; Amb. Robert Hutchings, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School, former Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council (2003-2005); Amb. Mark Palmer, Member, U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, Vice-Chairman, Freedom House;
Deborah Yashar, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School.

February 20, 2008
Pierre Vimont, Ambassador of France to the United States
"French – U.S. Relations"
Running time 1:20:53
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February 19, 2008
Kenneth Luongo
, Executive Director of Partnership for Global Security.
"The Past and Future of Cooperative Threat Reduction” 
Running time 57:34
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February 13, 2008
Efraim Inbar, Professor in Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies
"The Rise and the Demise of the Palestinian Option"
Running time 1:02:23
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February 12, 2008
Warren Hoge
, New York Times U.N. correspondent
The United Nations at a Time of Change
Running time 1:04:10
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February 8, 2008
"The Dilemma of Darfur" at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by The Economist magazine and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Running time 1:29:49
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Panelists: Bill Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Woodrow Wilson School visiting professor; Mia Farrow, Darfur activist and actress; Lauren Landis, Senior Representative to Sudan, U.S. State Department; Robert Guest, Washington correspondent for The Economist and author of the book The Shackled Continent; Julius Coles, President of Africare.

February 7, 2008
Doug Brooks, President of the International Peace Operations Association
"Stability Operations for Dummies: the role of the Private Sector in Iraq"
Running time 1:18:22
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February 5, 2008
"Diminishing Returns: Income Inequality in the United States
Running time 1:25:26
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Panelists: Alan Krueger, the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Survey Research Center at the Woodrow Wilson School; Douglas Massey, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the School; and Viviana Zelizer, the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton.