Schedule of Events: 2011-2012

    March 2012

    CSDS Speaker Series
    14

    Politics of the Trail: Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem

    Oded Löwenheim
    The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

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    4:00-5:30, Faculty of Public Affairs Boardroom, D382 Loeb Building, Carleton University.
    Wednesday, 14 March 2012

    Advanced registration requested by Monday, 12 March to csds1112lowenheim.eventbrite.com or call 613.520.2600 ext. 6671.

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    CSDS Special Seminar
    5

    U.S. Rebalance Toward the Asia-Pacific: Spotlight on U.S.-China Relations

    David F. Helvey
    U.S. Department of Defence

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    Monday, 5 March 2012

    This event is by invitation only. Please contact Prof. David Mendeloff for more information.

    Conference
    1-4

    2012 Annual Carleton University Model NATO Conference

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    Delta Hotel and Suites, Ottawa
    1-4 March 2012

    February 2012

    Conference
    23

    25th Annual Conference on World Issues | Conferénce annuelle sur les questions mondiales

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    8:30-2:00, Southam Hall and Tory Building, Carleton University
    Thursday, 23 February 2012

    This annual event brings together approximately 500 students from Ottawa-Gatineau area French and English-language high schools to attend a day of workshops – twenty-one in all – on a wide range of international and security issues. This year's English keynote will be given by Dr. John Curtis, on the topic, "Will the World Economy Ever Get Back to Normal?" (9:15-10:15 in Southam Hall, Theater B), and the French keynote will be given by Lt Col Eric Charron on the topic, «Les Forces Canadiennes dans un monde en changement» (9:15-10:15 in Azrieli Room 101).

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    Workshop
    20-21

    Canada and Asia: Setting a New Policy Agenda

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    Senate Boardroom, 6th Floor, Robertson Hall, Carleton University
    Friday-Saturday, 20-21 February 2012

    Biennial Canadian Foreign Policy Journal junior scholars' workshop. This year's theme is "Canada and Asia: Setting a New Policy Agenda." Panel subjects include regional security challenges, the feasibility of developing a unified policy, and the role of formal and informal diplomacy in trans-Pacific relations. A preliminary agenda is available here. For more information contact cfpj@carleton.ca

    CSDS Speaker Series
    9

    International Law and Public Attitudes toward Wartime Violence

    Geoffrey P.R. Wallace
    University of Kentucky

    CSDS Speaker Series
    2

    Islamic NGOs in Humanitarian Emergencies

    Valerie Percival and Mike Brison
    Carleton University

    January 2012

    CSDS Speaker Series
    24

    The Arab Spring One Year Later: Can We Do Anything?

    Ferry de Kerckhove
    Former Ambassador of Canada to Egypt

    CSDS Speaker Series
    19

    Explaining Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Occupied Poland and Ukraine

    Jeffrey Kopstein
    University of Toronto

    CSDS Speaker Series
    12

    Defence Support of Humanitarian Operations: Practice before Theory

    Richard Cohen
    Former Senior Advisor, Office of the Minister of National Defence

    December 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    5

    Keeping Watch: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations

    Walter Dorn
    Royal Military College of Canada and Canadian Forces College

    November 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    23

    Iran's Evolving Concept of Security

    Farzin Nadimi
    York University

    CSDS Speaker Series
    16

    Environmental Conflict: The Case of the Nile Basin

    Macy Demissie
    Centre for Security and Defence Studies

    October 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    26

    Women and Terrorism

    Mia Bloom
    Pennsylvania State University

    CSDS Speaker Series
    12

    After the Arab Revolutions: First Strategic Insights

    Frédéric Charillon
    Institute for Strategic Research, Ecole Militaire, Paris

    September 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    28

    UN Sanctions and Conflict: Responding to Peace and Security Threats

    Andrea Charron
    Centre for Security and Defence Studies