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Ambassadors' Roundtable
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Location: Stamford Yacht Club, 97 Ocean
Drive West: September-December 2007.
Hyatt Regency
Hotel: January through May 2008.
Time: Breakfasts: 7:30 am Dinners: 6:15 pm
Reception, 7:00
pm Dinner.
Directions:
http://www.stamfordyc.com/aboutsyc/directions.htm
The Ambassadors'
Roundtable is generously underwritten by
Murtha Cullina LLP
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Sept. 19, 2007
Wednesday
Breakfast-SYC |
Iraq: What is the End
Game?
Stephen D. Biddle
Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on
Foreign Relations |
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Oct. 10, 2007
Wednesday
Breakfast-SYC
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The Kosovo Dilemma: Independence or War
(Again)?
Ambassador. John K. Menzies
Dean, Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
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7, 2007
Wednesday
Dinner-SYC |
Which Way for American
Foreign Policy?
Nancy Soderberg
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University
of No. Florida
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Dec. 12, 2007
Wednesday
Breakfast-SYC
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Spain: The Nexus of
Europe, Africa and Latin America
Ambassador D. Carlos Westendorp
Ambassador of Spain to the US
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Jan. 16, 2008
Wednesday
Breakfast-Hyatt
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Making Money by Being Green
Dr. Daniel Esty
Director, Center for Environmental Law and
Policy, Yale University and Author of
Green
to Gold |
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Feb.
13, 2008
Wednesday
Breakfast-Hyatt
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The Putin Era and Russian
Political Culture
Nina Khruscheva
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute, The New
School |
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March 12, 2008
Wednesday
Breakfast-Hyatt |
The Long and Winding Road:
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran
Ambassador Ronald Neumann
Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan
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April 9, 2008
Wednesday
Breakfast
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Superclass: The New
Globalization Leaders
David Rothkopf
Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment, President
& CEO, Garten Rothkopf |
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May 13, 2008
Tuesday
Dinner |
China: An Olympian Challenge
Robert D. Hormats
Vice President & Managing Director, Goldman
Sachs International |
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WORLD
AFFAIRS FORUM
ALL EVENTS ARE
HOSTED BY UCONN'S CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (CIBER)
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Location:
University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus, One University
Place. Corner of Washington and Broad.
Refreshments: 6:15 pm Lecture:
6:45-8 pm
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Sept. 26, 2007
Wednesday
UCONN/Stamford Campus
Refreshments 6:15 pm
Lecture 6:45-8 pm |
The Failure of Immigration
Reform and Its Impact on US-Mexico Relations
Amb. Andres Rozental, former
Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and current
President of the Mexican Council on Foreign
Affairs
Sponsored by Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
LLP
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Oct. 17, 2007
Wednesday
UCONN/Stamford Campus
Refreshments 6:15 pm
Lecture 6:45-8 pm |
The US, Islam and Asia
Amb. Christopher J. LaFleur
US Ambassador to Malaysia
Sponsored by Cummings & Lockwood LLC
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Nov. 14, 2007
Wednesday
UCONN/Stamford Campus
Refreshments 6:00 pm
Lecture 6:30-8 pm
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Panel Discussion: Universal Health Care - What Other Countries Do
Australia: Ruth Lopert, PhD, GW
University
Canada: Colleen Flood, BA, LLB,
LLM,SJD
University of Toronto
France: Rene Jaheil, MD,
PhD, U. of CT |
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Feb. 20, 2008
Wednesday
UCONN/Stamford
Campus
Refreshments 6:15 pm
Lecture 6:45-8 pm
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Pandemics and
Other Reasons Never To Leave the House!
Dr. Stephen Jones, Assoc. Prof. of
Clinical Medicine, Yale University School of
Medicine
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March
17, 2008
Monday
UCONN/Stamford Campus
Refreshments 6:15 pm
Lecture 6:45-8 pm |
Pakistan's Political TrajectoryDaniel
Markey, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign
Relations |
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April
23, 2008
Wednesday
UCONN/Stamford Campus
Refreshments 6:15 pm
Lecture 6:45-8 pm
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The New Face of Africa
Dr. William Foltz
Professor Emeritus, African Studies and
Political Science, Yale University |
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October 22, 2007
6 pm Reception
7 pm Lecture
Pitney Bowes, One
Elmcroft Rd,
Stamford
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Annual Global Economic Trends Lecture
Alan Murray
Executive Editor, The Wall Street Journal Online |
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November 30,
2007 7-9:30
pm
Carriage Barn ArtsCenter
Waveny Park, New Canaan
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Annual Wine Tasting
ART OF THE CIRCUS WORLD - WONDERS OF WINES
ITALIAN
Raffle, Silent Auction
$80 per person admission |
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January 17, 2008
7 pm
Ferguson Library
Stamford |
The Marie Hurley Travel
Lecture
TREKKING IN NEPAL
Ellen Shapiro, Travel Writer &
Photographer
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Topic / Speaker |
Feb
2, 2008
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
UConn/Stamford Campus
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ACADEMIC WORLDQUEST--local high
school competition on international topics |
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Feb 6-8, 2008
JW Marriott Hotel
Washington DC
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WACA National Conference
“Us or Us and Them: Foreign Policy
and the Next Presidency”
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Thursday,
March 27
6 pm, reception/registration
7 pm, dinner
7:45 pm, game
Italian
Center, Stamford |
WORLDQUEST VIII - Fundraiser
The Ultimate International
Trivia Competition featuring David Smith as Game
Master
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Thursday, June
12
Meeting:
6 pm
Dinner/Lecture: 7 pm
Stamford Yacht
Club
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WORLD AFFAIRS FORUM ANNUAL MEETING
Jack Jacobs, Col., US Army Retired, Medal
of Honor Recipient, NBC Military and Political
Analyst
US Military & Intelligence: A
Strategic Update"
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NEW CANAAN PUBLIC LIBRARY |
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Time/Location |
Date/Topic |
7 PM ROUNDTABLE
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY
THE LAMB ROOM |
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SEPT 24: International Migration,
Dr. Hania Zlotnick, Director, Population
Division, UN
OCT 29: Central Asia: Power
Resource Rivalry, Dr. Carolyn Kissane, Prof.
of Global Affairs, NYU
NOV 26: Mexican Politics,
Eileen Heaphy, Former US Consul General,
Monterrey, Mexico |
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GREENWICH LIBRARY |
7PM ROUNDTABLE
GREENWICH LIBRARY
COLE AUDITORIUM |
FEB 28: European Union at 50,
Preston Keat, Eurasia Group
MARCH 19: Russia, Denis
Maslov, Eurasia Group
APRIL 29: China and Trade,
Rebecca Fannin, Author, "Silicon Dragon"
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