Robert S. Norris, senior fellow for nuclear policy at the Federation of American Scientists will lead a Wilson Center panel discussion entitled, "Cuban Missile Crisis: Nuclear...
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Regional Educational Politics in Russia 20 Years after the Collapse of the USSR
Alexandr Rusakov, Rector, Yaroslavl State University
Igor Kiselev, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Yaroslavl...
October 23, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Regional Educational Politics in Russia 20 Years after the Collapse of the USSR
Alexandr Rusakov, Rector, Yaroslavl State University
Igor Kiselev, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Yaroslavl...
October 23, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Regional Educational Politics in Russia 20 Years after the Collapse of the USSR
Alexandr Rusakov, Rector, Yaroslavl State University
Igor Kiselev, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Yaroslavl...
October 23, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Improving Citizen Security in Central America: Options for Responding to Youth Violence
Featuring, among others:
Guillermo Céspedes, Deputy Mayor, City of Los Angeles
José Luis Sanz...
October 18, 2012 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
Book Discussion--Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for the Global Economy
The report provides a detailed account of the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in light of the sharply increased global competition for the benefits of the next generation of innovation...
October 17, 2012 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
The National Broadband Map: A Case Study on Open Innovation for National Policy
The National Broadband Map, designed to provide consumers nationwide reliable information on broadband internet connections, was built incorporating emerging technology. It protects consumers,...
October 15, 2012 - 9:30am - 11:00am
Relations with China from the Perspectives of Brazil, U.S. and Canada Global Businesses
Since 2009, when China became Brazil’s largest trading partner, the relation between the two nations has gained in both visibility and importance. Beijing was the first foreign capital President Dilma Rousseff visited outside of South America....
October 12, 2012 - 9:00am - 12:30pm
Access to Information and Accountability: A Global Context
Opening Remarks:
Andrew Selee, Vice President for Programs, Woodrow Wilson Center
...October 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 12:30pm
Gender Equity, Health, and Cultural Tensions in the Amazon
In developing countries, indigenous populations, particularly women, are often the most vulnerable and marginalized among the rural poor. Indigenous women generally have limited access to services,...
October 22, 2012 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s
Shen Zhihua, former Wilson Center public policy scholar and director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University will discuss his latest book...
October 30, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
The Role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Industrialization of the Republic of Korea during the Park Chung Hee Era
Though Germany and Korea were both...
October 5, 2012 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian...
October 15, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Is the World More Dangerous 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In October the world will observe the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came closest to nuclear war...
October 15, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
FRENCH FEVER PHILLIPS AFTER 5
Celebrate French artist Xavier Veilhan’s first major U.S. museum exhibition with a film screening, food, and gallery talks. In collaboration with the Alliance Française de Washington....
November 1, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:30pm
Reservations strongly advised for this popular event. $12; $10 for visitors 62 and over and students. Members always admitted free, no reservation needed.
Strategic Asia: China’s Military Challenge
In Strategic Asia 2012-13: China’s Military Challenge by the National Bureau of Asian Research, leading experts assess China’s growing military capabilities, regional responses to China’s increasing military...
October 3, 2012 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
DC Modern Preservation, Partnered with National Building Museum
In 2006, the D.C. Preservation League took a comprehensive look at Washington’s mid-20th-century architecture. Six years later, a panel of architects, developers, and preservationists looks back at...
October 4, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
$12 National Building Museum and D.C. Preservation League members $12 Student | $20 Non-member. Prepaid registration required.Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
D.C. Builds: Reconnecting the Grid
After more than 20 years, plans are now moving ahead to deck over the exposed portion of I-395 and reweave Washington, D.C.’s F and G Streets, NW back into the urban fabric. Experts discuss the...
October 29, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
$12 Member | $12 Student | $20 Non-member. Prepaid registration required.
Home Movie Day
What hidden treasures lie in your old home movies? Share your films (or just watch everyone else’s), see films from local institutions, learn how to save them for future generations, and play Home Movie...
October 20, 2012 - 11:00am - 2:00pm
FREE. Registration required.
The Radiant Sun
The documentary The Radiant Sun: A Portrait of Mid-Century Designer Ruth Adler Schnee by director Terri Sarris chronicles the life and work of mid-20th-century designer ...
October 17, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
$12 Members; $12 Students; $20 Non-members. Prepaid registration required. Walk-in registration based on availability.
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