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Friday, April 17, 2009

9:30am-10:45am
Welcome:
Mark Watson, Interim Dean of the, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Keynote Address: "The Imperative for a New Multilateralism"
Hon. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations       

Introduction by:
Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Professor of Molecular Biology

Location: McCarter Theatre Center*
*click here for directions to McCarter
The Secretary-General’s talk on Friday, April 17 is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 9:00 a.m. for general admission seating. No cameras, backpacks, or umbrellas will be allowed into the venue, and all attendees will be asked to bring a photo ID in the event that security measures require it. Because of security considerations, the audience must be seated by 9:15, so attendees are encouraged to arrive early. As parking for the McCarter Center is extremely limited, the Woodrow Wilson School will provide shuttle bus service from Lot 21 on the Princeton campus to the McCarter Center starting at 8:00 a.m. Friday. (Buses will leave from the FitzRandolph Road side of the parking lot). Members of the news media wishing to attend the Secretary-General's address should e-mail the University's Office of Communications at commpro@princeton.edu NO LATER THAN noon Wednesday, April 15.

10:45am-11:00am
Coffee and Refreshments
Location: Robertson Lobby

                                 
11:00am-12:00pm
Featured Presentation: "Perspectives on Global Health"
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Presenter: Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada, President, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Discussants:
Adel Mahmoud, Lecturer with the rank of Professor, WWS and Molecular Biology
Christina Paxson, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing

12:00-1:00pm
Box Lunch (for panelists, sponsors, keynotes, alumni, and invited guests)
Location: Bernstein Gallery

1:00-2:30pm
Panel: "A Planet in Danger: Climate Change and Its Consequences for Global Society"
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Moderator:  Denise Mauzerall, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering and International Affairs

Panelists:
Keya Chatterjee, Deputy Director, Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund
Stephen Pacala, Director, Princeton Environmental Institute; Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

                       
2:30-2:45pm
Coffee and Refreshments
Location: Robertson Lobby

2:45-4:15pm
Panel: "International Finance and Trade in a Time of Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?"
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Moderator: Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Panelists:
Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs
Helen Milner, B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs; Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance; Chair, Department of Politics
Ashoka Mody, Assistant Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund

4:30-6:00pm
Panel: "Globalization and Its Accidents: Failures in a Complex System"
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Moderator: Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology and International and Affairs

Panelists:
Amb. Robert Hutchings, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; former Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council (2003-2005)
Edmond Keller, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa

6:00pm
Reception and Cocktails (for panelists, sponsors, keynotes, alumni, and invited guests)
Location: George P. Shultz ‘42 Dining Room

Saturday, April 18, 2009

9:00-9:30am
Coffee and Refreshments
Location: Robertson Lobby

9:30am-11:00am
Panel: “Whose Century? A Framework for International Security in a Globalized World”
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Moderator: G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Panelists:
Robert Cooper, Director-General, External and Politico-Military Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union
James Shinn '73, *01, Visiting Lecturer, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
Zhu Feng, Director, International Security Program and Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

11:15am-12:45pm
Featured Presentation: “How Information Technology Will Transform the Global Information Landscape”
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Moderator: Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
Discussant: Eric Schmidt '76, Chairman and CEO, Google Inc.

12:45-1:30pm
Box Lunch (for panelists, sponsors, keynotes, alumni, and invited guests)
Location: Bernstein Gallery

1:30-2:45pm
Panel: “A World in Motion: Migration and Its Impacts on Global Society”
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Moderator: Rafaela Dancygier, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs

Panelists:
Demetrios Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute
Francisco Rodríguez, Head of Writing Team, 2009 Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme

2:45-3:00pm
Coffee and Refreshments
Location: Robertson Lobby

3:00-4:15pm

Keynote Address: "The Return of Depression Economics?"
Paul Krugman
Professor of Economics and International Affairs; 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics          

Introduction by:
Mark Watson, Interim Dean of the, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

4:15pm
Closing Reception
Location: George P. Shultz '42 Dining Room

2009 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Most Colloquium events will be simultaneously web-cast and distributed online in video format through UChannel (uc.princeton.edu), to reach as broad an audience as possible. The Colloquium will also produce a report which will be posted on the website: http://www.princeton.edu/~pcpia