Events for the Week of March 21

UMD EVENTS:

Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Conference: Civilizations in Embrace

WHEN: Monday, March 21 (9:00am-3:00pm)
WHERE: Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Juan Ramon Jimenez Room
DESCRIPTION: This conference, presented by the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, will explore such questions as: What is the relationship between civilizations and power? Do civilizations always clash with each other or (and perhaps more often) interact peacefully and engage in mutual learning? The history of civilizations may thus be told not in terms of blood, treasure and conflict, but of convergence of ideas, identity and mutual benefit. Today, civilizations continue to learn from each other.

LINK: http://www.bahaichair.umd.edu/civilizations

Migration and Education in Mexico with Silvia Giorguli

WHEN: Monday, March 21 (12:00pm)
WHERE: 1101 Morrill Hall
DESCRIPTION: Silvia Giorguli is the first woman to be appointed president of El Colegio de Mexico, the country’s premier social sciences and humanities research university. This talk will be presented by the Maryland Population Research Center.
LINK: http://socy.umd.edu/node/1149

How to Find an Internship

WHEN: Wednesday, March 23 (12:00-1:00pm)
WHERE: 3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing, University Career Center & The President’s Promise
DESCRIPTION: Not sure where to start with your internship search? Or, do you feel like you are at a standstill and unsure about the next steps in your search?

To help you with your internship search, we will discuss:

-Specific resources available to research internship opportunities in non-profit, government and corporate sectors

-Quick tips on making a positive first impression on resumes and during interviews

-Strategies to connect with UMD alumni working within your intended career field
LINK: https://umd-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php?s=event&ss=ws&mode=form&id=ca67b9b1f79412a9051ecd13e59d5d7a

CISSM Forum/Development Circle – Asia’s Latent nuclear Powers: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

WHEN: Thursday, March 24 (12:00-1:15pm)
WHERE: 1203 Van Munching Hall
DESCRIPTION: After ten years heading the IISS Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Programme, Mark Fitzpatrick moved to Washington in December 2015 to also take on the role of executive director of the office there. Fitzpatrick's research focus is on preventing nuclear dangers through non-proliferation, nuclear security and arms control. He is the author of "Asia’s Latent Nuclear Powers: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (IISS Adelphi book 455, 2016)", "Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers (IISS Adelphi book 443, 2014)" and "The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes (IISS Adelphi Paper 398, 2008)." He was the editor of the IISS Strategic Dossiers on North Korean Security Challenges (2011), Iran’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Capabilities (2011), Iran’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities (2010), Preventing Nuclear Dangers in Southeast Asia and Australasia, (2009), Nuclear Programmes in the Middle East: in the shadow of Iran (2008) and Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the rises of proliferation networks (2007). He has lectured throughout Europe, North America and Asia and is a frequent commentator on proliferation and disarmament on BBC, NPR and other news outlets.

Fitzpatrick is a founding member of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Nuclear Security.

He came to IISS in 2005 after a distinguished 26-year career in the US Department of State, where for the previous ten years he focused on non-proliferation issues. In his last posting, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation (acting), responsible for policies to address the proliferation problems posed by Iran, North Korea, Libya, Iraq, South Asia and other regions of concern. Among his duties, he also oversaw implementation of the Proliferation Security Initiative, advanced conventional arms and technology controls, proliferation sanctions, and export control cooperation programmes.

Fitzpatrick had previously served for four years at the US Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, including as Charge d’Affairs and as Counselor for Nuclear Policy, in charge of liaison with the International Atomic Energy Agency. In previous State Department postings, he headed the South Asia Regional Affairs Office, responsible for non-proliferation and security policies regarding India and Pakistan; served as special assistant to deputy secretary Strobe Talbott; headed the Political-Military Branch of the US Embassy in Tokyo; served as North Korea desk officer; and held postings in South Korea and New Zealand.

Fitzpatrick received a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and joined officers of the Japanese Self Defense Forces in a one-year post-graduate study programme at the Japanese National Institute of Defense, where his dissertation on Korean unification was published in journals in Japan and South Korea.
LINK: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forumdevelopment-circle-asias-latent-nuclear-powers-japan-south-korea-and-taiwan

Sadat Forum: The Consequences of Cyber Spying for U.S. Foreign Policy

WHEN: Thursday, March 23 (3:30-5:00pm)
WHERE: Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Grand Ballroom
DESCRIPTION: The Sadat Forum- The Consequences of Cyber Spying for U.S. Foreign Policy: From Berlin to Tehran will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union on March 24th, 2016 from 3:30-5pm. The Sadat Forum will include a panel discussion featuring General Michael Hayden(Former Director of the National Security Agency and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency), Professor Dana Priest (John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland; Washington Post Investigative Reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner), and Professor Shibley Telhami (Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution).
LINK: go.umd.edu/sadatforum2016

DC EVENTS:

Cybersecurity and Innovation: It’s The States, Stupid

WHEN: Monday, March 21 (11:00am-12:00pm)
WHERE: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20004
DESCRIPTION: Second term Governor John Hickenlooper will give a special talk about efforts in Colorado to address a rise in cyber threats while also driving innovation and creating jobs. As Federal support for cyber incidents begins to focus on the most high-level targets, leaving states and their businesses and non-profits to fend for themselves in the event of a breach, new solutions are necessary.

The Governor will describe his state's initiatives, including a new National Cyber Intelligence Center, which will provide training, incident response and serve as a resource for business, non-government organizations, and Colorado government officials. Why does it matter and what will it do? 

Speakers: The Honorable John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO, Wilson Center
LINK: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/cybersecurity-innovation-its-the-states-stupid

The South China Sea: Law, Strategy, and Politics

WHEN: Tuesday, March 22 (10:00-11:30am)
WHERE: CSIS, 1616 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
DESRIPTION: A discussion with:

James Kraska

Howard S. Levie Professor of International Law and Research; Director, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law,US Naval War College

Lawrence Martin

Partner, Foley Hoag LLC

Yann-Huei Song

Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Moderated by:

Christopher Johnson

Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Please join the Freeman Chair in China Studies for a discussion on Taiwan's stance on the Philippines-China case and what is at stake from a legal perspecitve in terms of freedom of navigation, joint exploration, and international peace and security.  
LINK: http://csis.org/event/south-china-sea-law-strategy-and-politics

Justice Scalia, Religious Freedom and the Future of the Supreme Court
WHEN: Tuesday, March 22 (7:00-9:00pm)
WHERE: Knight Conference Center, Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
DESCRIPTION: A month before his death, Justice Antonin Scalia expressed the view that the U.S. Constitution permits the government to favor religion over “non-religion.” He clarified, “To be sure, you can’t favor one denomination over another.” How will the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice change or build upon Justice Scalia’s understanding of religious liberty? What is at stake for this appointment, given that, to date, no Native American, Jewish, or Sikh plaintiff has ever won a Free Exercise case before the U.S. Supreme Court?

PANELISTS

Lauren W. Herman (moderator) is a civil rights lawyer, community organizer, and scholar of religion and the law. Lauren currently serves as the Harvard Public Service Venture Fund legal fellow at Make the Road New Jersey and as a curriculum designer and instructor at the Religous Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute.

Hannah Smith (panelist) is the Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund where she recently helped secure victories in key U.S. Supreme Court religious liberty cases, Holt v. Hobbs and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Previously, she completed two clerkships at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

J. Brent Walker (panelist), executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, is both a member of the Supreme Court Bar and an ordained minister. He is an adjunct professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond and previously served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Nathan C. Walker (moderator) is the executive director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute and the community minister for religion and public life for the Church of the Larger Fellowship, a Unitarian Universalist congregation.

Joel Williams (panelist) is the staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He previously worked as the Senior Legislative Officer with Cherokee Nation and director of the tribe’s Washington, DC office and Assistant Counsel with the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of General Counsel.
LINK: http://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org/event/2016-03-22-p/

The emerging China-Russia axis: The return of geopolitics?

WHEN: Thursday, March 24 (9:00-11:00am)
WHERE: Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium
DESCRIPTION: Over the past decade, Russia and China have come into closer alignment and their bilateral collaboration has grown. At the same time, Beijing and Moscow have each taken steps to alter the status quo in their respective peripheries (e.g. Russia in Ukraine and China in maritime East Asia). Warmer Sino-Russo relations elicit the question of whether the closer alignment of these two neighbors is somehow changing international politics to the disadvantage of the United States and its friends in Europe and Asia.

On March 24, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings will hold a public forum that brings together experts from Japan and the United States to examine how recent actions by China and Russia have impacted the global order. Additionally, panelists will analyze whether new geopolitical rivalries have returned both between and within the East and the West. After the panel discussion, the speakers will take audience questions.
LINK: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2016/03/24-china-russia-axis-geopolitics