RECENT EVENTS
April 17
The Program on Citizenship and Security at The World Policy Institute and Breakthrough present: Ask Me No Questions: Immigrant Communities and the Post-9/11 Security Crackdown
A conversation with Marina Budhos, author of Ask Me No Questions
(Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster), a novel for young adults about
a Bangladeshi family snared in the post 9/11 crackdown when their father is
detained at the Canadian border and Theresa Thanjan, whose documentary, "Whose
Children Are These," is about three young people in New York City facing deportation
Monday, April 17th, 2006 6 p.m. - 7.30 pm Wolff Conference Room 65 Fifth Avenue,
second floor.
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April 6
Fortress America's Barriers to Global Talent
A World
Policy Institute panel discussion
Moderated by Michele Wucker
A panel discussion with
MARIAM ASSEFA, Executive Director of World Education Services and 2006, President of NAFSA: Association of International Educators
RICHARD GARNICK, President of North American Services, Keane, Inc.
and
MICHAEL PANZNER, Vice President, Rabo Securities, and author of The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle: An Insider's Guide to Investing in a Changing World (Prentice Hall, 2005)
America has long been seen as the destination of
choice for the world's best and brightest. But in the past few years, hastily
implemented post-9/11 security measures and a long-neglected immigration system
created a bottleneck in visa processing. Applications from foreign students
to U.S. universities dropped precipitously, and businesses reported a conservative
estimate of over $30 billion in losses because of visa delays. Even as the
government has worked to resolve bureaucratic glitches, an increasingly rancorous
debate over whom to let in to America threatens to undermine our ability to
attract global talent. How are these developments affecting America's status
as a center of innovation, and what should be done to keep America competitive
in face of growing global competition for talent?
Visit www.online.newschool.edu and click "guest access" for a webcast.
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March 23-25, Berlin, Germany
Immigration and Security: European Challenges and International Perspectives.
In partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation and German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the Program on Citizenship & Security hosted a workshop of invited experts focusing on aspects of the overlap of migration and national security policies that are most pertinent to Europe, though it will include panels that draw on the experiences of the other regions and will include Indian and U.S. guests. Participants will include scholars, representatives of the government and of the private sector, policy makers, immigration experts and activists.
The conference was made possible through the support of our partners, the Boell Foundation and DGAP, and of Henry Arnhold, the Macarthur Foundation's Initiative on Global Migration and Human Mobility, the German Marshall Fund, and the Cultural Section of the U.S. Embassy, Berlin.
Internationale Politik, the journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik, has published two editions in conjunction with the conference. The German edition, on Migration and Security, with some of the articles accessible in PDF format, can be found at http://www.internationalepolitik.de/ . The English edition, on Transnationalism and Conflict, is at http://www.internationalepolitik.de/english/
Click Here for Conference Agenda
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS
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February 23: Old Europe vs. New Europe
A World Policy Institute Panel Discussion
The issues of migration, immigration and security lie at the heart of the evolving relationship between the 'old' and the 'new' Europe. Squaring the circle for all of the competing interests, from the need for new workers to keep economies vibrant, to increasing anti-immigrant feelings among key sector of Europe's working class, to the challenges of integrating disparate immigrant populations, are among the issues this panel will address. As Eastern European states add their voices to the already discordant note all too often being sounded by the British government in Brussels, how is the political, economic, ideological and indeed philosophical map of Europe going to change as the EU seeks to define a common identity and set of interests for the continent?
Chair: Ian M. Cuthbertson, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
Dr. Nicole Lindstrom, Visiting Professor, MA in International Relations Program, New School, Professor, International Relations Department, Central European University
Michael Meyer, European Editor, Newsweek International
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The World Policy Institute hosted Program on Citizenship & Security Advisory
Board Member Jocelyne Cesari for a presentation on the new paperback edition
of her book, When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United
States, at The New School January 24, 2006. International Center for Migration,
Ethnicity, and Citizenship Director Aristide Zolberg introduced the talk and
Mira Kamdar moderated the discussion.
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Belinda Cooper spent a week in Portland, Oregon in January, where she gave
a talk on the situation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a lawyers' group on January
17 and to a local Jewish congregation on January 19.
Thursday, November 3, 2005, The New
School, New York
THE FUTURE OF SECULAR EUROPE
a panel discussion with
TALAL ASAD, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center.
Author
of Formations of the Secular, WILLEM MAAS, Faculty Fellow, Center for
European Studies, New York University. Book in progress: Creating European
Citizens, and MARK MAZOWER, Professor of History, Columbia University.
Author of Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950
Moderated by
MIRA KAMDAR, Senior Fellow, The World Policy Institute
What defines Europe? Globalization and the post-colonial intrusion into European space of Muslim immigrants have thrown the question of European identity into crisis. French and Dutch voters recently rejected the European Union's constitution, suddenly putting the entire grand project of the European Union into question. Anxiety about global threats to Europe's high standard of living, the apparently conceptually difficult project of extending the boundaries of the European Union to include predominantly Muslim Turkey, and fears of the irresistibility of a consumer-driven, individualistic American model which threatens to overwhelm Europe's unique social contract all contribute to Europe's current malaise. The new pope has taken the name of Europe's patron saint as a powerful sign of what he has made one the priorities of his papacy: the recalling of Europe to its Christian heritage as the only way to save Europe from its enemies both within and without. Viewed from the passionately religious United States where policies both domestic and foreign are increasingly dictated by the imperatives of a conservative Christian ethos, Europe has seemed a haven of the secular. How will Europe accommodate the irruption of religion into the secular space of its carefully elaborated public sphere? What is at stake for us all in the outcome?
Visit www.dialnsa.edu for a live webcast and online discussion.
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| "The Future of Secular Europe" panelists at The New School November 3, 2005 |
Friday, May 13, 2005, New School University, New York
BETWEEN HOST & HOMELAND: EUROPE AND THE POLITICIZATION OF
SECOND-GENERATION DIASPORAS
A joint roundtable of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity &
Citizenship at the Graduate Faculty and the Program on Citizenship & Security
at the World Policy Institute
To download the agenda, click here for a
Word document or here for a PDF version.
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Monday, January 24, 2005, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany
THE INTERSECTION OF TERRORISM, SECURITY, AND IMMIGRATION:
GUARDING THE NATION VS. PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
Program on Citizenship & Security at the World Policy Institute and Harvard
Center for European Studies, Berlin Dialogues series
Panelists: DR. PERCY B. LEHNING, Professor of Philosophy, Erasmus University
Rotterdam.
DR. GEROLD LEHNGUTH, Head of Department Migration, Refugees, Integration,
European Harmonization, Ministry of the Interior, Berlin
Moderator BELINDA COOPER, Senior Fellow, Project Leader, Program on Citizenship
& Security at World Policy Institute
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Thursday, November 11, 2004, New School University
WHY THE MEDIA MISUNDERSTANDS TERRORISM: IMAGING THE ENEMY
A panel discussion with MICHAEL MEYER, European Editor, Newsweek International
and LEE SMITH, Slate Magazine
Moderator IAN CUTHBERTSON, Senior Fellow; Director, Counter-Terrorism Project,
World Policy Institute at the New School; Author Minorities: The New Europe's
Old Issue.
Visit www.dialnsa.edu
for live webcast and online discussion.
Thursday, November 4, 2004, New School University
LOCAL CITIZENS OR GLOBAL CITIZENS: NATIONAL LOYALTIES AT
PLAY IN AN AGE OF MASS MIGRATION Panelists
JORGE PINTO, Pace University, former Consul General of Mexico
BRYAN PU-FOLKES, Executive Director, New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Moderator MICHELE WUCKER, Senior Fellow and Project Leader, Program on Citizenship
& Security
Visit www.dialnsa.edu
for live webcast and online discussion.
