2013 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
"Challenges to U.S. Policy in the Middle East"
May 3-4, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
5:00-6:30 p.m.
- Keynote Address
Senator George Mitchell
U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, 2009-2011
Introduction by Cecilia E. Rouse, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School; Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Location: McCosh 50. The talk is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entry.
Tickets for the talk are no longer available. There will be a wait line outside McCosh Hall and the talk will be simulcast in Dodds Auditorium.
Ticketholders must be seated by 4:50 p.m., at which point seating will be opened to individuals in a wait line. For security reasons, no umbrellas, backpacks or flash photography will be allowed inside the venue. Tickets will not be valid after 4:50 p.m.
The event will be webcast live at http://hulk03.princeton.edu:8080/WebMedia/channels and archived online for later viewing on the Woodrow Wilson School’s Web media site - http://wws.princeton.edu/webmedia.
6:30-7:00 p.m.
- Reception
Location: Main Lobby, Robertson Hall
7:00 p.m.
- Alumni Weekend Dinner for Graduate Alumni and Colloquium Speakers
Location: Shultz Dining Room and Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall
8:30 p.m.
- Meet the Dean - Alumni - Q&A with Cecilia Rouse
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Saturday, May 4, 2013
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
- Breakfast
Location: Shultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall
MORNING SESSION
8:45 – 10:00 a.m.
- Keynote Address
William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Introduction by Daniel Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham Professor in the Middle East Policy Studies; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
- Break
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.
- Panel: When America Intervenes: Is There a Strategy?
Moderator: David E. Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times
Panelists:
Bill Keller, Writer and Former Executive Editor, The New York Times
Keren Yarhi-Milo, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Michael O’Hanlon '82, MA '88, PhD ’91, Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Director of Research & Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Theodore H. Kattouf MCF ’83, President & CEO, AMIDEAST; former U.S. Ambassador to United Arab Emirates and Syria
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
- Panel: The Arab Awakening
Moderator: Griff Witte '00, Lecturer, the Council of the Humanities; Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University; Deputy Foreign Editor, The Washington Post
Panelists:
Amaney Jamal, Associate Professor of Politics; Director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University
Thanassis Cambanis MPA '00, Writer; Fellow, The Century Foundation
Barbara Bodine, Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
Hady Amr MPA '94, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for International Development
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
12:45 – 1:30 p.m.
- Buffet Lunch
Location: Shultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
- Keynote Address
Ryan C. Crocker MCF ’85, U.S. Foreign Service Career Ambassador
Introduction by L. Carl Brown, Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs, Emeritus; Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
- Break
3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
- Panel: Iran
Moderator: Harold Feiveson MPA '63, PhD '72, Senior Research Policy Analyst, Woodrow Wilson School and the Program on Science and Global Security; Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Panelists:
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Associate Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School; Program on Science and Global Security
Geneive Abdo, Fellow Middle East/Southwest Asia, Stimson Center
Mirjam Künkler, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Bruce W. MacDonald MPA '73, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Senior Advisor, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Project, United States Institute of Peace
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
4:15 – 4:30 p.m.
- Break
Location: Robertson Hall
4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
- Panel: Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Moderator: Christopher Eisgruber '83, Princeton University President-Elect, Provost; Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; University Center for Human Values
Panelists:
Daniel Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt
Steven N. Simon MPA '83, Executive Director of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)-United States; Corresponding Director of IISS-Middle East
Robert Malley, Program Director, Middle East & North Africa, International Crisis Group
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Director and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
5:45 – 6:00 p.m.
- Wrap-up by Dean Cecilia E. Rouse
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
6:00 p.m.
- Alumni Weekend Buffet Dinner for Graduate Alumni and Colloquium Speakers
Location: Shultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall