Thursday, May 8
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Jacques Gansler,
Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise &
Director, CPPPE
"Contracting in Iraq"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Monday, May 12
6:30-7:30 p.m. The Future of Medicine
A Live Taped Discussion with
Author Stephen C. Schimpff, MD, FACP; Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Research Professor, School of Public Policy; Moderated by Douglas J. Besharov, Professor, School of Public Policy
Tyser Auditorium, Van Munching Hall
Doors close promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Book Signing and Reception to Follow
RSVP by May 8th to cpppeinfo@umd.edu or 301-405-9702
Last Day Of Classes
Wednesday, May 21
Final Exams End
Friday, May 23
4:00-7:00 p.m. MSPP Commencement
Robert Rubin, Secretary of Treasury during the Clinton administration and currently Director of Citi (formerly Citigroup, the parent company of Citibank) will be the commencement speaker
Kay Theatre of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center | Reception to follow at the Riggs Alumni Center
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PAST EVENTS
Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King Holiday
Wednesday, January 23
12:15-1:30 Candidate for Faculty in International Development Policy
Rajeev Dehejia, Associate Professor, Tufts University Centre for Economic Performance
"The Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Tanzania"
1203 Van Munching Hall
Monday, January 28
12:15-1:30 Candidate for Faculty in International Development Policy
William Dickens, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
"Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries and Growth"
1203 Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, January 29
12:15-1:30 Candidate for Junior Faculty in International Development Policy
Trang Nguyen, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, MIT
"Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education"
1203 Van Munching Hall
Thursday, January 31
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Jeanine Braithwaite, Lecturer, Maryland School of Public Policy; Senior Economist, The World Bank
"Disability & Poverty: A Review of WB Poverty Assessments"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, February 1
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
"KING CORN" Documentary
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, February 5
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Professor James Gimpel (GVPT)
"Patchwork Nation: Researching the U.S. Electorate”
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, February 6
9:30-10:30 a.m. Spring Community Meeting
Room 1207, Van Munching Hall
Thursday, February 7
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, George Mason University
"Nuclear Weapons Designers After the Cold War"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
6:00 p.m. Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers | Live Video Simulcast
Lecture Hall 2200, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Tickets available at the Ticket Office | first come, first serve basis | Limited quantities are available
Sponsored by UM's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, the UM School of Public Policy and the Norman and Florence Brody Famiy Foundation Public Policy Forum
Friday, February 8
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Sajal Sthapit, Ecoagriculture Partners
"Understanding Ecoagriculture: An Overview"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, February 12
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Laura Moore, Graduate Student Government President, University of Maryland
"Graduate Student Employees and Adjunct Professors: The Case for Collective Bargaining"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, February 13
12:15-1:30 Candidate for Junior Faculty in International Development Policy
Daniel Bennett, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Brown University
"Clean Water Makes You Dirty: Water Supply and Sanitation Behavior in the Philippines"
1203 Van Munching Hall
6:00 p.m. MSPP Alumni Chapter Happy Hour
Maryland Terrapins vs. Duke Blue Devils (tip-off 7:00 p.m.)
Buffalo Billiards, Dupont Circle
RSVP to Rob Sandoli ('01)
Thursday, February 14
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists
"Global Strike and US Strategic Planning"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, February 15
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Rawleston Moore, Adaptation and Country Relations Officer, Global Environment Facility
"Bali and the Way forward for Adaptation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, February 19
8:00 a.m. Roundtable on Law School Leadership Education
University of Maryland School of Law
500 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD
12:15-1:30 Candidate for Junior Faculty in International Development Policy
Pedro Vicente, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Oxford University
"Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence From A Field Experiment in West Africa"
1203 Van Munching Hall
Thursday, February 21
12:15-1:30 Candidate for Junior Faculty in International Development Policy
Madiha Afzal, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Yale University
"Voter Rationality and Politician Incentives: Exploiting Luck in Indian and Pakistani Elections"
1203 Van Munching Hall
Friday, February 22
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Award Winning Movie: "BLACK GOLD"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Saturday, February 23
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. "Women and Leadership"
Carol Pearson, Ph.D., Director, James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Van Munching Hall, Room 1203
Sponsored by the American Association of University Women College Park and Laurel Branches and the Maryland Women's Heritage Center
Monday, February 25
12:15-1:30 Policy Seminar Series
Jennifer Golbeck, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies and Assistant Director, Center for Information Policy and E-Government
"Trust, Social Networks, and the Internet"
1207 Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, February 26
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
John Walker, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
"Proliferation Pointers from the Past: Lessons from the UK Nuclear Weapons Programme 1952-1969"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, February 27
5:30 p.m. Dr. Gerry Galloway, MEPP affiliated professor, and expert in water resources and infrastructure engineering and policy, will deliver the National Academy of Sciences Second Annual Gilbert F. White Lecture in the Geographical Sciences.
“Managing American Water Resources: Recognizing the Realities of Geography”
Keck Center of the National Academies, Room 100, 500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC
Thursday, February 28
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Robert H. Nelson, Professor, Maryland School of Public Policy
"Philippine Economic Mystery"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, February 29
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Dr. Glenn Moglen, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland
“Impervious Surfaces and Ecological Integrity: Threshold-based Policies, Data Limitations, and Unintended Consequences”
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, March 4
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Douglas M. Duncan, Vice President for Administrative Affairs, University of Maryland
"Trends in Maryland Politics"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, March 5
4:15 p.m. Academy Talks Speaker Series
Donna Edwards, Candidate for Maryland's Fourth Congressional District
Maurer Library, 1126 Taliaferro Hall
Thursday, March 6
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Mike Moore, Journalist, Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
"TWILIGHT WAR: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance "
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, February 7
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
César Izaurralde, Joint Global Change Research Institute with background information and opening remarks by Jay S. Gregg, University of Maryland, Department of Geography
"Current Trends in U.S. Ethanol Production and Development of a Sustainable Bioenergy Economy"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, March 11
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Rebecca M. Blank, Robert V. Kerr Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; Co-director, National Poverty Center
"What's Happening in the Labor Market?"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
6:30-8:30 p.m. Career Networking Night
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Thursday, March 13
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Helena Cobban, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, March 14
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Film The Charcoal People
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, March 25
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
"Election 2008 and Beyond: Where Are We Heading?"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, March 26
12:15-1:30 p.m. Candidate for Faculty in International Development Policy
Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, The World Bank
"Where in the World Are You? Assessing the Importance of Circumstance and Effort in a World of Different Mean Country Incomes and (Almost) No Migration"
Room 1207, Van Munching Hall
6:30-8:00 p.m. Spring Open House (pdf)
Thursday, March 27
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Timothy Gulden, Research Scholar, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM); adjunct professor, Maryland School of Public Policy
"Global Microscale Estimation of GDP"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, March 28
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Dr. Richard V. Pouyat, USDA Forest Service
"The Ecological Dimensions of Biofuels Workshop: A Summary of Ecological Society of America 's Conference and Workshop"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
1:00-2:00 p.m. Farewell Reception for Mary Chevalier
Dean's Conference Room
Monday, March 31
12:15-1:30 p.m. Policy Seminar Series
Ashok Agrawala, Professor of Computer Science and Director, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (MIND), University of Maryland
“The Future of Information: Its Changing Role in Society”
Second Floor Conference Room, Hornbake Library
Tuesday, April 1
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Alan Ehrenhalt, executive editor, GOVERNING Magazine
“Myths and Realities of the Downtown Comeback”
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, April 2
12:00-1:30 p.m. Leadership Network Speaker Series
H. Michael Mears, Founder and Director, CIA Leadership Academy
"Leadership in the Intelligence Community"
1126 Taliaferro Hall
Thursday, April 3
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Steven Kull, Director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA)
"Muslim Public Opinion on US Foreign Policy: What Are They So Angry About?"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, April 4
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Michelle Perez ‘02, Senior Analyst, Agriculture and Natural Resources Environmental Working Group and MSPP PhD Student
“Reflections on the politics of Farm Bill policy”
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, April 8
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
William A. Galston, College Park Professor and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
"The Politics of Polarization"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, April 9
7:00 p.m. College Park Scholars Public Leadership Program
Thomas McMillan
Room 1111, Cambridge Community Center
Thursday, April 10
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Catherine Kelleher, College Park Professor, University of Maryland
"Transatlantic Relations on the Eve of the Presidential Election: Waiting to Exhale"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, April 11
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Bill Kovarik, Department of Media Studies, Radford University
"Biofuels: History, Public Debate and Climate Change"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Tuesday, April 15
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
John Rauh, President, Americans for Campaign Reform
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, April 16
9:30 a.m. Dissertation Defense
PhD Candidate Richard Clinch
"The Community Capacity Building Impact of the Baltimore Empowerment Zone"
Dean's Conference Room
Thursday, April 17
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Linda Bishai, Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International
U.S. Institute of Peace
“Sudan: Identity Politics at the Crossroads”
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, April 18
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Steve Fetter, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
"The Role of Nuclear Power in Reducing Carbon Emissions"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. The National Center for Smart Growth and the Environmental Finance Center host
A Brown Bag Presentation by Dr. Tschangho John Kim, Endowed Professor of Urban and Regional Systems, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Role of Transporation in Smart Cities in the Information Age"
Room 1112V, Preinkert Field House
Tuesday, April 22
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Steve Teles, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
"Building a Policy Network: Lessons for Liberals from the Conservative Legal Movement"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, April 23
1:00-4:00 p.m. Leadership Network Speaker Series
"Women in Political Leadership" Panel Moderated by James MacGregor Burns, Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner
1126 Taliaferro Hall
Thursday, April 24
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
James Nickel, Arizona State University
"Relativism and Human Rights"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
3:45-4:45 p.m. Reception Honoring James MacGregor Burns
Atrium, Van Munching Hall
Friday, April 25
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Steven J. Smith, Senior Staff Scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute
"Long-Term Scenarios of Renewable Electricity Generation"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Saturday, April 26
Maryland Day
Tuesday, April 29
12:15-1:30 Tuesday Forum
Carmen Reinhart, Professor, Maryland School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics
"The U.S. Financial Crisis: Where Are We Heading?"
Community Room, 1113 Van Munching Hall
Thursday, May 1
12:15-1:30 p.m. CISSM Forum
Elizabeth 'Lili' Cole, Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
"The Place of History Education in Post-Conflict Political Reconciliation"
Room 1107, Van Munching Hall
Friday, May 2
12:00-1:30 p.m. Environmental Policy Roundtable
Alan Loeb, Legal-institutional advisory services on environmental law and regulatory policy
"Technology Choice in the Auto Industry and Policy Regimes, 1895-present"
Room 1113, Van Munching Hall
Monday, May 5
5:00 p.m. Inaugural Presentation of the Richard and Elizabeth Dubin Distinguished Lecture Series
His Excellency Sallai Meridor Ambassador of Israel to the U.S.
“Israel At 60: Facing Threats, Keeping Hope”
Tyser Auditorium, Van Munching Hall
Wednesday, May 7
12:00-2:00 Stern Professorship Luncheon
A Conversation with Mickey Edwards and Bill Galston
"Remaking American Politics"
2517 Van Munching Hall
12-1:30 p.m. Leadership Network Speaker Series
Vicky Foxworth, Director, Center for Leadership and Organizational Change
"From Theory to Practice: Doing Leadership Work with UM Campus Clients"
1126 Taliaferro Hall
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