Preview of FPRI Calendar for Fall 2017

August 15, 2017

Philadelphia, PA — The Foreign Policy Research Institute is pleased to provide this preview of our fall season of events. 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’s first event will turn the tables on our erstwhile host. Alan Luxenberg will be interviewing FPRI’s Ron Granieri about the state of conservatism in the age of Trump. Be sure to join us on September 7 for our first Geopolitics of the season.

The Main Line Briefings will begin on September 19, featuring Chris Miller, Research Director of the Eurasia Program at FPRI, on the economics of Putin’s Russia.

Don’t miss out on our Princeton series which begins on September 26 with a talk on Middle East policy by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin.

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.

2017 Annual Dinner at the Union League of Philadelphia

6:00 p.m. Reception; 6:30 p.m. Platinum Partners Reception;
7:00 p.m. Program; 8:00 p.m. Dinner; 9:15 p.m. Adjournment

Tuesday, November 14: Challenges to American Security
Ash Carter, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)

Seats at the Annual Dinner are guaranteed to FPRI Partners.
Individual tickets are available to purchase on a first-come,
first-serve basis for $300 per seat.

Geopolitics with Granieri at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia

6:15 p.m. Registration; 6:30 p.m. Program; 7:30 p.m. Adjournment
Free for all Members of FPRI and Members of NLM; otherwise $10 for Non-Members.
*Dinner immediately following exclusively for Bronze ($2,500) Partners of FPRI.

Thursday, September 7: Conservatism in the Age of Trump
Alan Luxenberg, President, FPRI and Ron Granieri, Executive Director, Center for the Study of America and the West, FPRI
Tuesday, October 10: BookTalk: A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
Heather Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, December 5: Thinking about North (and South) Korea
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, FPRI

Main Line Briefings at the Merion Cricket Club

Tuesday, September 19: Putinomics: The Price of Power in Russia
Chris Miller, Research Director, Eurasia Program, FPRI
Thursday, October 12: Does America Need an Enemy?
Dominic Tierney, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Thursday, November 2: BookTalk: Nexus of Global Jihad: Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorists
Assaf Moghadam, Director of Academic Affairs, International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya Assaf Moghadam, IDC Herzliya (Israel),
will be interviewed by Barak Mendelsohn, Haverford College/FPRI

Princeton Committee of FPRI at Present Day Club

6:00 p.m. Reception; 6:30 p.m. Lecture; 7:30 p.m. Adjournment
Free for Sponsor ($250) Members of FPRI.

Tuesday, September 26: Is There a U.S. Middle East Policy? Trudy Rubin, Columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer
Thursday, October 26: France: Macron’s Balancing Act
Hajnalka Vincze, Senior Fellow, FPRI, European Foreign and Security Analyst
Tuesday, November 28: Booktalk: Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University

21st Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs at the National Liberty Museum

6:15 p.m. Registration; 6:30 p.m. Lecture; 7:30 p.m. Adjournment
Free for all Members of FPRI and Members of NLM; otherwise $12 for Non-Members.
*Dinner immediately following exclusively for Silver ($5,000) Partners of FPRI.

Tuesday, November 7: Of Little Green Men and Long Black Robes: The Role of the Orthodox Church in the Conflict in Ukraine
Father Anthony Perkins, St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Seminar

BookTalks and Briefings at the FPRI Library

11:30 a.m. Program; 12:30 p.m. Adjournment
Free and open to the public. Advance registration required.
*Lunch immediately following exclusively for Patron ($500) Members of FPRI.

Monday, October 16: BookTalk: False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Be on the lookout for other BookTalks, impromptu briefings on current events, and trip reports by FPRI Scholars.

Conferences

Friday, September 8: Does Democracy Matter? The United States and
Global Democracy Support
Perry World House, UPenn
Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Perry World House, Penn Law – CERL, and Penn Department of Russian and East European Studies
Wednesday, September 13: Non-Traditional Security in East Asia: Disaster Relief and Cybersecurity in a Time of Rising Challenges and Constrained Resources
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wednesday, September 27: Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York
Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (NYC)
Monday, November 6: The New Eurasia Energy Landscape
German Marshall Fund, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the German Marshall Fund, and the Silk Road Studies Institute

Madeleine and W.W. Keen Butcher History Institute for Teachers (Registration Closed)

Saturday – Sunday, October 21 – 22: What is Eurasia? And Why Does it Matter?
To what extent is Eurasia a coherent region? What forces have driven its development over time. What led to the Soviet collapse? How did the post-Soviet conflicts unfold? How did Putin’s leadership shape today’s Russia? And finally, what will US relations with Eurasia look like in the coming years? These are the questions that FPRI’s Eurasia History Institute for Teachers will address in October 2017.