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RECENT EVENTS
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Public Debate:
Who Gets a Voice? Immigrants and Civic Engagement
Demos and the World Policy Institute presented a
discussion with four experts in the field of
immigration rights, moderated by WPI's Executive Director Michele Wucker.
At Baruch College on June 30, 2009
6-8:30 pm.
The Unsilenced
Voices:
Writings of Exile and Dissent
Tiananmen 20 Years Later: Bao Pu and the Memoirs of
Zhao Ziyang.
At the Asian American Writer's Workshop on
June 21, 2009
2 - 3:30 PM.
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Means of
Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the
World
Demos
and the World Policy Institute present a lunch
discussion with author Michelle Goldberg.
Michele Wucker moderated.
At
Demos
on June 9, 2009
12-1:45 pm.
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A New Indian Government: Deciphering the Election
Results and Their Implications
Asia
Society, the South Asian Journalists Society, and
the World Policy Institute presented a discussion with
four experts in the field, including WPI's Senior
Fellow Mira Kamdar.
At Asia
Society on June 4th, 2009
8:00-9:30 am.
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The Portable
Island:
Cuban Diaspora Views
on Integration and U.S. Policy
Americas
Society/Council of the Americas and the World Policy
Institute presented a book launch and discussion with
editors of The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in
the World Lucía M. Suárez and Ruth Behar.
AUDIO:
Here.
SUMMARY:
Here.
At
Americas Society/Council of the Americas on May 28, 2009
6 - 8 pm.
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Transatlantic
Relations after the U.S. Elections: Germany, Europe
and the United States
In
this discussion, Karsten D. Voigt, visiting scholar
at NYU's Deutches Haus and Coordinator of
German-North American Cooperation in the German
Federal Foreign Office,
examined ways in which
the transatlantic partnership can be intensified and
areas where Europe and the United States will have
to agree to disagree. Senior Fellows Belinda Cooper
and Claudia Dreifus moderated.
At Demos
on April 29, 2009,
4 - 5:30
pm.
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Song as Crime:
The
Prosecution of a Pop Star, and Other New Cases on
Incitement to Genocide
A lunch
discussion with Susan Benesch at Demos, Tuesday, March
31, 12-1:30
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The Hillary Effect: How will the Secretary of
State Change the Status of Women Worldwide?
In honor
of the 2009 International Women's Day celebrations,
Demos, American-Scandinavian Foundation and WPI
presented a panel discussion with Senator Pilar
Cayetano, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Rounaq Jahan and
Ambassador Kirsti Lintonen. Claudia Dreifus
moderated. See the
World Policy Blog for event reportage.
March 9,
2009
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Globalization's Challenge to Liberalism
Alan
Wolfe discussed his new book,
The Future of Liberalism, at Demos on March
3, 2009.
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DISARM
The World Policy
Institute celebrated the DVD release of Mary Wareham and Brian
Liu's acclaimed film with a panel discussion and film screening on
March 2, 2009. Evocative, visually stunning, and utterly
unforgettable, DISARM spans a dozen countries to look at how,
despite a global ban, millions of antipersonnel mines continue to
claim victims daily in countries around the world.
A
portion of the proceeds from the sale of DISARM will support the
World Policy Institute's
work promoting collaborative global policies to ensure human
security. Click
HERE to buy your copy.

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