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October, 2009
Book Launch: Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America
Friday, October 09 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Enrique Peruzzotti, Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute
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September, 2009
The Legacy of the Bracero Program
Wednesday, September 30 2009, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-AZ;Jorge Castañeda, former Foreign Minister of Mexico and Professor, New York University; Matthew Garcia, Outreach Director for the Bracero Archive and Associate Professor, Brown University
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Police Reform in Mexico
Thursday, September 17 2009, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Edgar Mohar, former Secretary of Citizen Security, Querétaro State Government, Mexico; Juan Salgado, Associate Professor, Center for Economic Research and Education (CIDE), Mexico City; Daniel Sabet, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Maureen Meyer, Associate for Mexico and Central America, WOLA
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August, 2009
National Security and Transparency in Mexico
Friday, August 07 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sigrid Arzt, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Former National Security Adviser to President Felipe Calderón; María Marván Laborde, Commissioner and Former President, Federal Institute of Access to Public Information (IFAI); Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute
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July, 2009
Mexico’s Midterm Elections and the Future of Democracy
Friday, July 10 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
José Antonio Crespo, Professor and Researcher, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Mexico City; Jeffrey Weldon, Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City
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Energy and Oil Reform in the Americas
Tuesday, July 07 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Chris Garman, Eurasia Group; Ana Maria Sanjuan, Universidad Central de Venezuela; Roger Tissot, PFC Energy; Duncan Wood, ITAM
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June, 2009
Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement Trends
Friday, June 26 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Xóchitl Bada, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jonathan Fox, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Óscar Chacón, Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities; Marcelo Gaete, Vice-President of Public and Governmental Affairs, Entravision; Former Senior Director of Programs, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ Educational Fund; Esther Olavarría, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security; Marc R. Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute; Claudio Sánchez, Correspondent, National Public Radio; Alice Bennett, Associate Organizer, Helping Empower Local People (CHARLOTTE);Teresa Castellanos, Interim Director, Office of Human Relations, County of Santa Clara (California) (SAN JOSE); Ricardo Gambetta, Manager of Inclusive Communities Program, National League of Cities; Former Executive Director, Mayor's Commission on Latino Affairs, City of Indianapolis; Luvia Quiñones, Associate Director, New Americans Initiative, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (CHICAGO); Michael Klein, MEChA student representative, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (LAS VEGAS); Myrna Martínez, Director, Pan Valley Institute, American Friends Service Committee (FRESNO); Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Project Director, Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California, Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES); Florencio I. Zaragoza, President, Fundación México (TUCSON); Lourdes Gouveia, Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha (OMAHA); David Ayón, Senior Research Associate, Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University; Israel Fuentes, President, El Comité de Unidad Guatemalteco/Guatemalan Unity Committee (LAS VEGAS); Juan José González, New Americans Democracy Project, ICIRR (CHICAGO); Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES); Robert Donnelly, Program Associate, Mexico Institute
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Renewing the Partnership between the United States and Mexico: Shared Responsibility and Shared Strategies
Monday, June 08 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico; José Antonio Fernández, Chair and CEO, FEMSA; Roger Wallace, Vice President, Pioneer Natural Resources; Maria Echaveste, President, Nueva Vista and former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton; Carlos Heredia, Researcher, CIDE and former Congressman; Jim Kolbe, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates and former Congressman; Jim Jones, President, Manatt Jones and former Ambassador to Mexico; Andrés Rozental, President, Rozental y Asociados & former Deputy Foreign Minister; Javier Treviño, Vice President, Cemex and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Philip Bennett, Senior Advisor, Washington Post Group and former Managing Editor, Washington Post; Roderic Ai Camp, McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College; Luís de la Calle, Founding Partner of De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C. (CMM); Rossana Fuentes-Berain, Vice President, Grupo Editorial Expansión; Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director, Center for Hemispheric Policy, University of Miami; Diana Negroponte, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Peter Smith, Simon Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies, UCSD; Raúl Rodríguez Barocio, Chair, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University and former Director, NADBank
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Trends and Best Practices in Environmental Dispute Resolution in Latin America
Wednesday, June 03 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Pablo Lumerman, Director, Fundacion Cambio Democrático; Mara Hernández, Director, Centro de Colaboración Cívica, A.C.–México; Carlos Salazar, Director, Socios Peru: Centro de Colaboración Cívica
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May, 2009
Challenges for Mexican Democracy with Beatriz Paredes
Tuesday, May 26 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Beatriz Paredes, President of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
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Oil Security and Friendly Suppliers: Where Are We Now?
Thursday, May 14 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Joseph Dukert, Independent Energy Consultant;
Duncan Wood, Director, Canadian Studies Program and Undergraduate International Relations Program, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Otavio Cintra, Senior Vice President, Downstream, Petrobras America, Inc.
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Influenza Outbreak in the Americas: International Cooperation in Response to the Spread of H1N1 Flu
Tuesday, May 05 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Jarbas Barbosa, Area Manager, Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention, Pan American Health Organization; Katherine Bliss, Deputy Director, Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Gib Clarke, Coordinator, Wilson Center Global Health Initiative
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April, 2009
The V Summit of the Americas: Perspectives from the Region
Friday, April 03 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Rodrigo Borja, former President of Ecuador and former Secretary-General of the Unión de Naciones Sudamericanas (UNASUR)
Olga Pellicer, Researcher, Department of International Affairs, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Ricardo Sennes, President, Prospectiva Consultants and Profesor of International Affairs at the Pontifica Universidade Catolica - São Paolo (PUC- SP)
Francine Jacome, Executive Director, Instituto Venezolano de Estudios Sociales y Políticos (INVESP) and Director of the Red Democracia Activa
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March, 2009
Does North America Exist?: Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11
Monday, March 30 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Stephen Clarkson, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto; Sidney Weintraub, William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Charles Doran, Director, Center of Canadian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Robert Pastor, Professor of International Relations, and Director, Center for North American Studies, American University
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Mexican National Leadership: Dr. Roderic Camp on "Has Democracy Made a Difference?"
Friday, March 27 2009, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College
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The Americas and the World: A New Study on Public Opinion in Latin America on Foreign Affairs Coordinated by CIDE
Monday, March 23 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Cynthia J. Arnson, Woodrow Wilson Center; Guadalupe González, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Jorge Schiavon, CIDE; Robert Pastor, American University; Francisco Gonzalez, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS; Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, Peschard-Sverdrup and Associates, CSIS; José Miguel Insulza, Organization of American States; Ferrán Martínez I Coma, CIDE; Miguel Angel López, Universidad de Chile; Mauricio Cárdenas, Brookings Institution; Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue; Andrew Selee, Woodrow Wilson Center
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A Conversation with Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón
Thursday, March 19 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, Mayor, Mexico City
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International Efforts to Combat Organized Crime
Friday, March 13 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Luis Astorga, Researcher, Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Aldo Civico, Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University; Douglas Farah Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center; Vanda Felbab-Brown, Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Eric Olson, Senior Adviser, Security Initiative, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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February, 2009
U.S. Policy Towards Mexico: Opportunities and Challenges
Tuesday, February 24 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
with Harriet C. Babbitt, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss and Salmon, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States; James Jones, Chairman, Manatt Jones Global Strategies, and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Member of Congress; and Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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Report Launch of The United States and Mexico: Towards a Strategic Partnership
Friday, February 06 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow, president, Institute of the Americas, and former Assistant Secretary of State, and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; Governor Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and former Governor of Michoacán, Mexico; Dr. Denise Dresser, professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and columnist, Reforma and Processo; Andres Martinez, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, New America Foundation and former Editorial Page Editor, The Los Angeles Times; Ginger Thompson, National Correspondent and former Mexico City Bureau Chief, The New York Times
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