Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
***Please note change in location***
A Conversation with
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and former U.S. National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter
and
LTG Brent Scowcroft
President, Scowcroft Group; and former U.S. National Security Advisor to President Gerald Ford and President George H. W. Bush
moderated by
Dr. Angela Stent
Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
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8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center
8:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM
A Keynote Address with
President Aleksander Kwasniewski
Distinguished Scholar, Georgetown University; and former President of Poland
10:00 AM
Panel I: How and Why Did Communism Collapse? Eyewitness Accounts
J. D. Bindenagel
Vice President for Community, Government and International Affairs, DePaul University; and former U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Andrei Grachev
former Political Advisor and Spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev
Jack Matlock
former U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1987-1991
Hans Misselwitz
former State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German Democratic Republic
moderated by
Harley Balzer
Associate Professor and Comparative Field Chair of Government and International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
12:30 PM
Lunch is served
1:00 PM
Lunchtime Address: How Europeans Today View the End of Communism - Recent Survey Findings
2:00 PM
Panel II: What Did We Get Right and What Did We Get Wrong?
Reflections on the Post-1989 Period in Europe
Frédéric Bozo
Professor, Sorbonne (University of Paris III)
Charles Gati
Senior Adjunct Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; and Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute
Charles King
Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University
Andrei Kortunov
President, New Eurasia Foundation
Kenneth Wollack
President, National Democratic Institute
moderated by
Jeffrey Anderson
Graf Goltz Professor and Director, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University