Congressional Information Panel

When: Thursday, November 6, 7:00-8:00
Where: 2407 Marie Mount Hall 
Description: Come to the Federal/Global Semester office to learn the ins and outs of how to obtain and capitalize on congressional internships. If you are interested in the possibility of working for Congress--now or later--this is the event for you! Panelists include:

• Mr. Scott Baker: Congressional contact and networker extraordinaire (now at Department   of State), UMD alumnus and former White House Fellow;
• Ms. Veena Thangavelu: former constituent services representative for a congresswoman (now at Department of State), graduate student at UMD School of Public Policy;
• Mr. Daniel Wolf: successful congressional intern (Spring 2014), Federal Semester alumnus, and current UMD student.

Pizza and cookies will be served!

Sponsored by the Federal and Global Semester Programs. 

Field Trip: Congressional Panels and Tour

When: Friday, November 7, 8:30am-2:45pm

            10:15-11:15   Panel 1 (staff members of committees)
            11:20 -12:30  Tour of Capitol and Floor

            12:30-1:30     Lunch 

            1:35 -2:35      Panel 2 (legislative aides)

Where: Longworth House Office Building and Capitol Building
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/a/terpmail.umd.edu/forms/d/1aBIr39AgANlWLayrc2GOpylgdOMLpz3ZX_eA5e2eEuE/viewform
Description: This event is exclusively for Federal and Global Semester students. We will be taking a field trip to Congress, where we will hear from a panel of committee staff members in the morning, take part in a tour of the Capitol building and House floor, and then hear from a second panel of legislative aides in the early afternoon. 

We will be departing from the College Park metro at 8:30am, and plan to head home around 2:45pm. 

We will provide permission letters as needed for missed courses. Please contact Sherry Preusch at spreusch@umd.edu. 

Negotiating with Hamas: What the man who negotiated Gilad Shalit's release can teach us about Israel's future

When: Tuesday, November 4, 6:30-8:00
Where: 0106 Francis Scott Key (KEY 0106)
Description: Gershon Baskin will describe how he was able to initiate the secret back channel between Israel and Hamas that successfully engineered the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. He will offer a new approach toward Hamas that will put Israel in the best position to end its conflict with the Palestinians. 

CISSM Forum: The Whole Equation: The Vice President as Advisor

When: Thursday, November 6, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Where: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forum-whole-equation-vice-president-advisor
Description: Dr. Mannes will talk about the evolving national security role of the vice president. He is a researcher at the University of Maryland's Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD). At LCCD, he is the subject matter expert on terrorism and international affairs to a team of inter-disciplinary scientists building cutting edge information systems to support decision-makers facing 21st century security and development problems. At LCCD he has co-authored a pair of books on using computational models to predict the behavior of terrorist groups in South Asia. 

Saul Stern Program – Election 2014: What Happened and Why?

When: Wednesday, November 5, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Where: School of Public Policy Atrium, Van Munching Hall 
Link: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/election-2014-what-happened-and-why
Description: 
A post election conversation sponsored by the Saul I. Stern Professorship of Civic Engagement. William A. Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha chair in Governance Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Jeremy D. Rosner (PhD. ’07) is executive vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in Washington, DC, and is a leading pollster and strategic consultant for political parties, candidates, governments, NGOs, and corporations around the globe. I.M. “Mac” Destler is the Saul Stern professor of Civic Engagement at the UMD School of Public Policy; director of the program on International Security and Economic Policy; and senior fellow at the Center for International and Security Policy at Maryland (CISSM)

Narratives of Violence and Human Rights in Southern Chile, 1990-2012

When: Tuesday, November 4, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Where: Merrill Room, Francis Scott Key Building
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=32864
Description: Brown Bag Lunch: Dr. Barrientos will address the production of indigenous people's oral narratives during the transition to democracy in Chile in the 1990s and 2000s. Barrientos draws upon interviews conducted by anthropologists working with Chilean human rights NGOs and shows how they sought to reveal hidden or forgotten experiences of state violence in indigenous and peasant communities during the dictatorship.

Richard & Elizabeth Dubin Lecture featuring Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer

When: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM 
Where: Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
RSVP: 
Due to extremely high demand, we have ended pre-registration for this event. If you are interested in attending this event and have not registered, we will form a standy-by line in the lobby of The Clarice beginning at 5 PM. At 6:25 PM, any empty seats in the theater will be filled from the stand-by line. We will also be live-streaming this event at ter.ps/watchUMTV. You can participate in the Q & A session with Ambassador Dermer by using the hashtag #DermerUMD.*
Link:
http://www.israelstudies.umd.edu/dubin.html
Description: 
Ron Dermer was appointed as Israel's Ambassador to the United States in July 2013. In 2004, he co-authored with Natan Sharansky the best-selling book, “The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror,” which has been translated into ten languages. Having previously served in various diplomatic and governmental posts, Ambassador Dermer will speak on the nature of the Israel-US relationship and Israel’s strategic role in a rapidly changing Middle East.