Preview of FPRI Calendar for Winter – Spring 2017

January 6, 2017

Preview of FPRI Calendar for Winter – Spring 2017

Philadelphia, PA — The Foreign Policy Research Institute is pleased to provide this preview of our spring season of events but first we would like to note some changes in our formats. Be on the lookout for our full calendar, hitting mailboxes soon.

For information on how to register for individual events, please contact our Events Coordinator Rachel Hemler at rhemler@fpri.org or (215) 732-3774 x 112.

Geopolitics with Granieri has been moved to the evenings at the National Liberty Museum, with lectures followed by dinners for our $2,500 level members. In the meantime, the late morning slots at FPRI offices will feature booktalks and impromptu briefings open to all members, followed by lunches for our $500-level members. The programs themselves (though not the meals) are free to all members. Be sure to join us on January 24 for our first Geopolitics of the season. We are pleased to welcome back our old friend Robert Kaplan to discuss his new book Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World.

The Main Line Breakfast Briefings will move to an evening format but remain at the Merion Cricket Club and thus will now be called the Main Line Briefings. The lead-off for that series on March 8 will feature FPRI Robert A. Fox Fellow Clint Watts on Fake News and Russian Information Operations, also the subject of his January 19 Manhattan Salon talk.

Don’t miss out on our Princeton series which begins on February 23 with a talk on the threat from North Korea by Robert Litwak. Additionally, we have a couple of series in the works. Be on the lookout for a series in Wilmington, Delaware and Miami, Florida, as well as a new Ginsburg Lecture Series.

If you are not yet a member of FPRI, now is a good time to join, and if you are already a member, now is a good time to sign up at a higher level! The calendar preview appears below.

Preview of FPRI’s Winter-Spring 2017 Calendar

Annual 2017 Champagne Brunch for Partners at The Rittenhouse Hotel

Sunday, April 23: Russia and the West in Strategic Perspective Gen. Philip Breedlove, former Supreme Allied Commander

Geopolitics with Granieri at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia

Tuesday, January 24: On his new book Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World Robert Kaplan
Tuesday, Februrary 7: What Makes a War “Civil?” David Armitage, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 4: China and the Geopolitics of East Asia Jacqueline Deal, Long Term Strategy and FPRI
Tuesday, May 2: On his new book Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Afshon Ostovar, US Naval Postgraduate School

Critical Conversations at the National Liberty Museum

Tuesday, March 14: A Conversation on the Future of Israel and Palestine with Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, Head of the PLO Delegation in DC, conducted by Alan Luxenberg, President of FPRI
Wednesday, June 7: A Debate on The Use and Abuse of Drones, featuring Michael Boyle, La Salle University and FPRI; Michael Horowitz, UPenn andFPRI; moderated by Michael Noonan, Director of Research, FPRI

Main Line Briefings at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, PA

Wednesday, March 8: Fake News and Russian Information Operations Clint Watts, Robert A. Fox Fellow
Tuesday, April 25: Trump’s First 100 Days Ron Granieri, Executive Director of the FPRI Center for the Study of America and the West
Thursday, May 18: Iraq: Where Do We Go from Here? Denise Natali, National Defense University; Nada Bakos, FPRI; and Samuel Helfont, Robert A. Fox Fellow
Wednesday, June 21: The Geo-Economics of East Asia Felix Chang, FPRI

Princeton Committee of FPRI at Present Day Club in Princeton, NJ

Thursday, February 23: What to do about North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program Robert Litwak, Vice President, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Thursday, March 30: The Geopolitics of US Patent Law Lawrence Husick, FPRI
Thursday, April 20: Putinomics Chris Miller, Yale University and FPRI

FPRI at the New York Historical Society

NOTE: To register for these events, please contact the NYHS

Saturday, April 8: The Great War, the Russian Revolution, and the Birth of the Modern Era, Jeremy Black, FPRI
Saturday, June 10: Churchill and the Great War John H. Maurer, FPRI

Other Programs

Thursday, January 19, Manhattan Salon: Fake News and Russian Information Operations, Clint Watts, Robert A. Fox Fellow
Thursday, February 2, BookTalk: The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, Chris Miller, FPRI and Yale University
Monday, February 6, Sponsor Forum: Counter Terrorism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Paul Springer, FPRI
February 6-7: A Discussion at The Hill School, Paul Springer, FPRI
Friday, February 10, Private Briefing: Where is Europe Headed? Jeremy Black, FPRI
Sunday, March 5: At Congregation Adath Jeshurun on How Americans Misunderstand the Middle East, Islam, and Terrorism Adam Garfinkle, Robert A. Fox Fellow
Friday, April 7, Sponsor Forum: A Guide to Geopolitics in the 21st Century Jeremy Black, FPRI

Conferences

Thursday, January 26: 25 Years Since the Fall of the USSR: Where is Eurasia Headed?, Keynote Speaker: Amb. James Collins, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Saturday – Sunday, March 25-26: Why Does America Go To War? A History Institute for Teachers at the First Division Museum, Wheaton, IL Speakers include Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution, Hal Brands of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Walter A. McDougall of FPRI and University of Pennsylvania and many more.
Additional conferences are being planned in Washington, D.C. and in Philadelphia.