My name is Elliott Goldberg and I am a graduate student in the BA/MPP program and am also a graduate assistant in the Department of Israel Studies on campus. I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event that we are holding that I think you might be interested in attending. On September 20, we are having our annual Richard & Elizabeth Dubin Lecture Series from 5:00-6:30 pm, with this year’s topic being the 2012 Presidential Election and its Impact on US-Israel Relations. This lecture series will feature Chris Wallace, an award – winning journalist and host of Fox News Sunday. Also, attached is a copy of a pdf flyer for the event. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!
Elliott
Please join the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies for the annual Richard & Elizabeth Dubin Lecture Series. This year, the GIIS will be hosting Chris Wallace, an award winning journalist and host of FOX News Sunday, a weekly political and public affairs program. Mr. Wallace will share his insights on the current Presidential elections and their impact on U.S. –Israel relations in particular. With elections just weeks away and nationally televised debates occurring within days from the lecture, Mr. Wallace’s talk will prove timely and informative.
Date: Thursday, September 20th
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Please RSVP online: www.israelstudies.umd.edu
(As we anticipate this event to fill to capacity, we advise you to RSVP if you plan to attend.)
RSVP link will close on Wednesday, September 19th by 5pm.
RSVP seating only guaranteed for people who check in by 4:30PM.
After 4:30PM, we will release seats to the standby line.
Parking and Directions:
Free parking available in Lot 1b
Pay Parking available in Stadium Drive garage
For more information on parking or to obtain driving directions to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, please visit:
http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2010/c/about/parking/
For more information on this event, please visit: www.israelstudies.umd.edu
Chris Wallace
During his distinguished career, Chris Wallace has been presented with three Emmys and a Peabody Award. Since 2003, he has been the host and moderator of Fox News Sunday, the network’s premier political and public affairs program. Previously, Mr. Wallace worked at NBC and ABC News where he served as chief White House correspondent, moderator of Meet the Press, anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News, senior correspondent for Primetime Thursday, and occasional host of Nightline.
The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies (GIIS) is dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of the State of Israel through exemplary teaching and scholarship. GIIS is educating today’s students and tomorrow’s leaders by providing them with an unparalleled opportunity to wrestle with the complex issues shaping Israel and the Middle East. Located near our nation’s capital, GIIS is positioned to inform policy debates by providing balanced academic research on critical issues. In addition, GIIS is strengthened by a close partnership with the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.
This event is cosponsored by the Institute for International Programs and the College of Arts and Humanities
Elliott Goldberg
Graduate Assistant
GIIS Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/GIISatUMD
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Fed Event: CISSM Forum Sept. 6th, 12:15-1:30 PM, 1203 VMH
CISSM FORUM | SEPTEMBER 06, 2012
"The Future of Indo-Pak Relations"
by Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Stephen P. Cohen joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in 1998, after a career as a professor of political science and history at the University of Illinois. In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of America’s 500 most influential people in the area of foreign policy.
Dr. Cohen is the author, co-author or editor of several books focusing primarily on South Asian security issues, the most recent being The Future of Pakistan (Brookings Institution Press, 2011) and Arming without Aiming: India Modernizes its Military (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). He has also written on India, Pakistan, nuclear proliferation, disaster management, and the application of technology to the prevention or amelioration of terrorism.
In early 2008, Dr. Cohen was visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, where he taught a course on the politics of manmade and natural disaster. He has also taught in Japan (Keio University) and India (Andhra University). He has consulted for numerous foundations and government agencies, and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff (Department of State) from 1985-1987. He was visiting scholar at the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, from 1992-1993.
Dr. Cohen is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and was the founder of several arms control and security-related institutions in the United States and South Asia. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in political science and Indian studies from the University of Wisconsin.
About the CISSM Forum
The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is open to the public (no RSVPs required) and is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. CISSM also sponsors special events on campus and in downtown Washington, D.C.
"The Future of Indo-Pak Relations"
by Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Stephen P. Cohen joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in 1998, after a career as a professor of political science and history at the University of Illinois. In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of America’s 500 most influential people in the area of foreign policy.
Dr. Cohen is the author, co-author or editor of several books focusing primarily on South Asian security issues, the most recent being The Future of Pakistan (Brookings Institution Press, 2011) and Arming without Aiming: India Modernizes its Military (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). He has also written on India, Pakistan, nuclear proliferation, disaster management, and the application of technology to the prevention or amelioration of terrorism.
In early 2008, Dr. Cohen was visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, where he taught a course on the politics of manmade and natural disaster. He has also taught in Japan (Keio University) and India (Andhra University). He has consulted for numerous foundations and government agencies, and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff (Department of State) from 1985-1987. He was visiting scholar at the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, from 1992-1993.
Dr. Cohen is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and was the founder of several arms control and security-related institutions in the United States and South Asia. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in political science and Indian studies from the University of Wisconsin.
About the CISSM Forum
The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is open to the public (no RSVPs required) and is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. CISSM also sponsors special events on campus and in downtown Washington, D.C.
Fed Event: CISSM Open House on Aug. 30th
Please join us as CISSM kicks-off its Fall 2012 CISSM Forum schedule with an Open House:
August 30, 2012
12:15 - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
CISSM faculty and associates will be on hand to introduce themselves and discuss their research. We'll also preview the Fall 2012 schedule of CISSM Forum speakers.
We'll be serving pizza and light refreshments.
The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is open to the public (no RSVPs required) and is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. For further information about the CISSM Forum contact cissm@umd.edu.
August 30, 2012
12:15 - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
CISSM faculty and associates will be on hand to introduce themselves and discuss their research. We'll also preview the Fall 2012 schedule of CISSM Forum speakers.
We'll be serving pizza and light refreshments.
The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is open to the public (no RSVPs required) and is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. For further information about the CISSM Forum contact cissm@umd.edu.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Welcome! And Upcoming Events!
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, 1203 Van Munching Hall
CISSM Forum-"The Future of Indo-Pak Relations", Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Stephen P. Cohen joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in 1998, after a career as a professor of political science and history at the University of Illinois. In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of America’s 500 most influential people in the area of foreign policy.
Dr. Cohen is the author, co-author or editor of several books focusing primarily on South Asian security issues, the most recent being The Future of Pakistan (Brookings Institution Press, 2011) and Arming without Aiming: India Modernizes its Military (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). He has also written on India, Pakistan, nuclear proliferation, disaster management, and the application of technology to the prevention or amelioration of terrorism.
In early 2008, Dr. Cohen was visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, where he taught a course on the politics of manmade and natural disaster. He has also taught in Japan (Keio University) and India (Andhra University). He has consulted for numerous foundations and government agencies, and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff (Department of State) from 1985-1987. He was visiting scholar at the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, from 1992-1993.
Dr. Cohen is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and was the founder of several arms control and security-related institutions in the United States and South Asia. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in political science and Indian studies from the University of Wisconsin.
Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
CISSM Forum
"The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History", Milton Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar, CISSM
Milton Leitenberg is a senior research scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. He recently coauthored an exhaustive history of the Soviet biological weapons program, The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History (Harvard Press, 2012).
Leitenberg was trained as a scientist and moved into the field of arms control in 1966. In 1968, Leitenberg was the first American recruited to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He was subsequently affiliated with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Center for International Studies Peace Program at Cornell University, and he joined CISSM in 1989. His research is widely published; in the years since 1966 he has authored or edited a dozen books or book length studies, and published 180 journal papers, monographs, and book chapters. Among these are major portions of Tactical Nuclear Weapons, European Perspectives, SIPRI (Taylor and Francis, 1978); Great Power Intervention in the Middle East (edited, Pergamon Press, 1979); The Structure of Defense Industry: An International Survey (edited, Croom Helm, 1983); The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945 - 1982: A Bibliographic Guide (ABC-Clio, 1984); a book of his selected studies on arms control, Resting und Sicherheitspolitik (Nomos Verlag, 1986); and Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters 1980-1986 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1987).
Leitenberg's research work is concentrated in three disparate areas of study: biological weapons; actual wars and conflicts of the past two decades, and the issue of international intervention in these; and the history of nuclear weapons between the U.S. and USSR between 1945 and 1995. CISSM published his major monograph Biological Weapons Arms Control in 1996.
With specific reference to biological weapons: a subject of particular current concern, Leitenberg's academic training was in Biology and Chemistry and his first paper dealing with biological weapons was published in 1967. At SIPRI, he was a member of the team that produced the six-volume study, The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare, published between 1971 and 1973. Since 1992, he has published thirty papers in the area of biological weapons. Leitenberg published two other recent books on the subject of biological weapons: "The Problem of Biological Weapons" (National Defense College, Stockholm, 2004) and "Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat" (US Army War College, December 2005).
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
Tuesday Policy Forum
Featuring Bruce Bartlett, the foremost speaker on taxes and politics, and author of the New York Times best-seller, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform—Why We Need It and What It Will Take (Simon & Schuster 2012)
CISSM Forum-"The Future of Indo-Pak Relations", Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Stephen P. Cohen joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in 1998, after a career as a professor of political science and history at the University of Illinois. In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of America’s 500 most influential people in the area of foreign policy.
Dr. Cohen is the author, co-author or editor of several books focusing primarily on South Asian security issues, the most recent being The Future of Pakistan (Brookings Institution Press, 2011) and Arming without Aiming: India Modernizes its Military (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). He has also written on India, Pakistan, nuclear proliferation, disaster management, and the application of technology to the prevention or amelioration of terrorism.
In early 2008, Dr. Cohen was visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, where he taught a course on the politics of manmade and natural disaster. He has also taught in Japan (Keio University) and India (Andhra University). He has consulted for numerous foundations and government agencies, and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff (Department of State) from 1985-1987. He was visiting scholar at the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, from 1992-1993.
Dr. Cohen is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and was the founder of several arms control and security-related institutions in the United States and South Asia. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in political science and Indian studies from the University of Wisconsin.
Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
CISSM Forum
"The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History", Milton Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar, CISSM
Milton Leitenberg is a senior research scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. He recently coauthored an exhaustive history of the Soviet biological weapons program, The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History (Harvard Press, 2012).
Leitenberg was trained as a scientist and moved into the field of arms control in 1966. In 1968, Leitenberg was the first American recruited to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He was subsequently affiliated with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Center for International Studies Peace Program at Cornell University, and he joined CISSM in 1989. His research is widely published; in the years since 1966 he has authored or edited a dozen books or book length studies, and published 180 journal papers, monographs, and book chapters. Among these are major portions of Tactical Nuclear Weapons, European Perspectives, SIPRI (Taylor and Francis, 1978); Great Power Intervention in the Middle East (edited, Pergamon Press, 1979); The Structure of Defense Industry: An International Survey (edited, Croom Helm, 1983); The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945 - 1982: A Bibliographic Guide (ABC-Clio, 1984); a book of his selected studies on arms control, Resting und Sicherheitspolitik (Nomos Verlag, 1986); and Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters 1980-1986 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1987).
Leitenberg's research work is concentrated in three disparate areas of study: biological weapons; actual wars and conflicts of the past two decades, and the issue of international intervention in these; and the history of nuclear weapons between the U.S. and USSR between 1945 and 1995. CISSM published his major monograph Biological Weapons Arms Control in 1996.
With specific reference to biological weapons: a subject of particular current concern, Leitenberg's academic training was in Biology and Chemistry and his first paper dealing with biological weapons was published in 1967. At SIPRI, he was a member of the team that produced the six-volume study, The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare, published between 1971 and 1973. Since 1992, he has published thirty papers in the area of biological weapons. Leitenberg published two other recent books on the subject of biological weapons: "The Problem of Biological Weapons" (National Defense College, Stockholm, 2004) and "Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat" (US Army War College, December 2005).
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
Tuesday Policy Forum
Featuring Bruce Bartlett, the foremost speaker on taxes and politics, and author of the New York Times best-seller, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform—Why We Need It and What It Will Take (Simon & Schuster 2012)
Monday, August 13, 2012
Internship Opening @ EMBARQ Development
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