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CPU > Newsletter > 2005-2006 > 4/3/06 CPU NewsletterApril 3, 2006CPU EVENTS: 1. "Scottish Independence and the Changing Europe" - Alex Salmond, MP, Leader of the Scottish National Party (TODAY, 04/02) 2. "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security" (Wednesday, 04/05) CPU CO-SPONSORED EVENTS: 3. "For A Better New York" - KT McFarland, Republican Senate Candidate (Tuesday, 04/04) 4. "Syria: Challenges and Crisis" - Dr. Imad Moustapha, Ambassador of Syria to the UN (Tuesday, 04/04) 5. "Darfur Diaries: A Message from Home" - FREE SCREENING! (Tuesday, 04/04) 6. Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) Candidate Debates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The CPU Presents: "Scottish Independence and the Changing Europe" - Alex Salmond, MP, Leader of the Scottish National Party Date: Monday, 04/03 Description: ALEX SALMOND, MP for Banff and Buchan is the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Alex Salmond has served as an MP since 1987. In 1980, Alex joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, for whom he worked for seven years, first as an Assistant Economist, then as the Oil Economist, and latterly as Royal Bank Economist. He has recently taken up a post as Visiting Professor of Economics at Strathclyde University. Alex ws elected leader of the SNP in 1990, since when the SNp has emerged as the second party in Scotland, winning just under 30% of the vote and 35 MSPs in the first Scottish Parliament in the election of 1999. Alex served as Leader of the Opposition and Shadow First Minister in the Scots Parliament before standing down as Party Leader in September 2000, with his party on a historic high in the opinion polls. Although he stood down from the Scottish Parliament in 2001, he remained an MP at Westminster, and, after the leadership of 2004 returned as SNP leader with 75% of the vote. Sponsored by: The East Central European Center, Institute for the Study of Europe, SIPA, and The Columbia Political Union ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. A CPU Panel Discussion: "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security" Date: Wednesday, 04/05 **NON-CUID ATTENDEES MUST RSVP AT: http://www.cupolitics.org/rsvp Featuring: LIONEL BEEHNER is a staff writer for cfr.org, covering a variety of international subjects, including Iraq, Europe, and former Soviet Union. He has written for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, Russia Journal, Seed, and Worth Magazine. His commentary has appeared on CNN International, CNBC, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and Voice of America. He graduated from Holy Cross College and holds a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Beehner was recently the recipient the German Marshall Fund Journalism Fellowship for a book project.
World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Clawson has published op-ed articles in major newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. In addition to his frequent appearances on television and radio, he has authored more than thirty scholarly articles on the Middle East in such journals as Foreign Affairs, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, and Les Cahiers de l'Orient. He has also testified before congressional committees more than a dozen times. Currently serving as senior editor of Middle East Quarterly, he was previously editor of Orbis, a quarterly review of foreign affairs. ALI MIRSEPASSI is the interim dean of the Gallatin School, and professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York Uniersity. He has published in such journals as Contemporary Sociology, Radical History, Social Text, and Nepantla. He is the author of Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Truth or Democracy (published in Iran, 2002 and being translated into English); and coeditor of Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World (Syracuse University Press, 200). He is currently completing a book entitled Social Hope and Ethics. He has received several awards and grants, including the Iranian "Best Researcher of the Year" (2001), a teaching award from Tehran University, and grants from the Ford Foundation and the NEH.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. CPU Co-sponsored Event: "For A Better New York" - KT McFarland, Republican Senate Candidate Date: Tuesday, 04/04 Description: KT MCFARLAND is running for Senate in New York against Hillary Clinton. She will be speaking about her experience in the Department of Defense, her unique views about terrorism and national defense, and her upcoming election. Ms. McFarland served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs during the Reagan administration and was personally charged by President Reagan to maintain public support for the defense buildup. As the highest ranking civilian woman in the Defense Department, she helped draft President Reagan's Star Wars speech and all other Department of Defense communications. Before her time at the Department of Defense, Ms. McFarland was an advisor to the Ford and Nixon administrations and worked with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. She is also an expert in nuclear strategy. Ms. McFarland received a BA in Chinese Studies from George Washington University, a BA in Politics from Oxford, and a MA in Philosophy and Economics from Oxford. Ms. McFarland will be taking questions from the audience after her remarks. Sponsored by: The College Republicans and The Columbia Political Union --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. CPU Co-sponsored Event: "Syria: Challenges and Crisis" - Dr. Imad Moustapha, Ambassador of Syria to the UN Date: Tuesday, 04/04 Description: DR. IMAD MOUSTAPHA holds a PhD in Computer Science and was dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Damascus, and secretary general of the Arab School on Science and Technology. He is a co-founder of the Network of Syrian Scientists, Technologists and Innovators Abroad (NOSSTIA). He is a co-author of the UN-sponsored Arab Human Development Report (2003). He was also a member of the Syrian team responsible for drafting reform strategies for the ministries of Culture, Education, and Higher Education. Event is free and open to the CU community. RSVP to cutr@columbia.edu if you do not have CUID.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. CPU Co-sponsored Event: "Darfur Diaries: A Message from Home" - FREE SCREENING! Date: Tuesday, 04/04 Description: In October, 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers – Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro – left for Darfur, Sudan and eastern Chad. After monitoring the worsening political and humanitarian crisis for months and recognizing that the mainstream media offered marginal and inadequate coverage, the team set out with the goal of providing a platform for the people of Darfur (both those displaced inside Darfur and those living in refugee camps in Chad) to speak for themselves about their experiences, their fears, and their hopes for the future. The conflict serves as the ongoing narrative in the film, but the focus is on the people who are living through what has been termed a "genocide." Through the voices of refugees, displaced persons, and in particular women and children, who are always among the most vulnerable in any conflict situation, this film seeks to provide space for the marginalized victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with the world. Additionally, the film probes the history, culture and heritage of Darfur as a means of deepening understanding of the crisis and complicating easily assumed perceptions by which the conflict is often portrayed (such as a matter of race, ethnicity or religion). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. CPU Co-sponsored Event: Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) Candidate Debates: - Representatives-at-Large: - Rising Sophomores: - Rising Juniors: - Rising Seniors: - Executive Board:
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