Special Events

Date and Location

Event Description

September 7, 2004


Course registration and first day of class
September 13, 2004

"The Politics of Terrorism"
Lecture, followed by Reception and Book Signing, 7:30 pm
Cabot Auditorium

Steve Coll

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Managing Editor and former South Asian (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) Correspondent, Washington Post; Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Co-sponsored by the Tufts Program in International Relations
EPIIC 20th Anniversary Event

September 14, 2004

"The Saudi - US Relationship: Oil Politics and the War on Terrorism"
Brown Bag Lecture and Discussion, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Institute for Global Leadership (96 Packard Ave)

Steve Coll,

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Managing Editor and former South Asian (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) Correspondent, Washington Post ; Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

EPIIC 20th Anniversary Event

September 14, 2004

"Unocal and Afghanistan - A Case Study in Oil and US Foreign Policy"
Lecture and Discussion, 4:00 pm
Barnum 104

Steve Coll

Pulitzer Prize-winning Managing Editor, Washington Post ; Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 and The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular - and Catastrophic - Takeover of All Time

EPIIC 20th Anniversary Event

September 21, 2004
"The End of the Oil Age"
Lecture, 4:00 pm

David Goodstein, Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech
Author, Out of Gas

Co-sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts

September 30 -
October 21, 2004
Practitioner-in-Residence

Peter Droege

Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy, Asia Pacific; Director, 'Solar City,' International Energy Agency CERT; Adviser, Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and Design; Leader, Missions in Africa and the Middle East, United Nations Development Programme; Editor, Intelligent Environments: IT, Telecommunications and Urban Form

October 7, 2004
"United Nations Responses to Resource Based Conflicts"
EPIIC Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation, 8:00 pm
Braker 001

Julia Taft

Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme; Headed the UNDP Task Force for Afghanistan; Former Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, United States Department of State; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, InterAction

October 13, 2004

"A Critique of US Foreign Policy"
EPIIC Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation
Barnum 008, 7:00pm

Professor Stanley Hoffmann

Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University; Author of numerous books on international affairs, he is also an essayist for The New York Review of Books and the Western Europe review editor for Foreign Affairs

October 15, 2004

IGL/EPIIC Student Research Abroad Presentations
3:00-6:00 pm, Crane Room, Paige Hall

Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, France, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Panama, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Uganda, United Arab Emirates

Hosted with Provost Jamshed Bharucha

October 25, 2004

"Waging an Effective Fight Against Terrorism: The Role of Human Rights"
EPIIC Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation
Braker 001, 8:00 pm

Ken Roth

Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

October 28, 2004

"Resource Wars"
Lecture and Discussion, 4:00 pm
Barnum 104

Michael Klare

Author, Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency

November 8, 2004

"Envoys of War"
Reception and Lecture, 6:00 pm
Remis Sclupture Court

Peter Howe

Photographer, Author, Editor, Agent, Writer, and Curator

Hurst Hannum

Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School
20th Anniversary Event

November 8 - 21, 2004
"Envoys of War"
EPIIC/EXPOSURE/VII Photo Agency Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center
20th Anniversary Event
November 18, 2004

"The Closing of the American Mind"
EPIIC Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation
Barnum 008, 8:00 pm

Dr. Allan E. Goodman

President, Institute for International Education (IIE), the leading not-for-profit organization in the field of international educational exchange and development training that administers the Fulbright program; former, Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University; Former Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence

December 2, 2004

"The New Geography of Conflict in the Middle East: Using GIS to Inform Decision-making for Marine, Hydrologic, and Oil Resources"
Barnum 104, 4:00 - 6:30 pm

This workshop will provide an introduction to marine GIS, coastal resource management, and research challenges for oil and water, including a demonstration of how a GIS is used for global ocean analysis using examples from a marine archeology case study in Israel. It will also be an introduction to new ways that a GIS can be used to inform decisions on contested resource issues in the Middle East.

Joe Breman

Editor; Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas; Served as Vice-President on the board of directors of the Society for Conservation GIS; Member of ESRI's professional services division

December 3, 2004

"Light on the Hill Award: Nick Birnback"
The Light on the Hill Award has been presented annually since 1995 to Tufts alumni who are leaders in their fields, who have offered constant support to Tufts and who are outstanding role models. It is the highest honor the student body bestows on an alumnus/a.
Cabot Auditorium, 8-10 pm

Nick Birnback received his B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University and also has a Masters degree in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship, and he received the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity 2000 Humanitarian Award as part of his work with UNAMET. Mr. Birnback also was the recipient of the EPIIC Alumni Recognition Award in 2003.

December 3, 2004
"Problem Solving using GIS: Applications in Oceanography, Geology, and Multidimensional Modeling"
Anderson 212, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

This workshop will demonstrate how a GIS can be used to visualize key oceanographic concepts. Topics covered will include sea floor spreading, plate tectonics, bathymetry, and the layers of the Earth. ArcGIS will be used to demonstrate global ocean phenomenon including, exclusive economic zones, marine pollution, and oil pollution. There will be a focus on the hydrological and marine data models and demonstration of how they are used in GIS problem solving.

Joe Breman

Editor; Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas; Served as Vice-President on the board of directors of the Society for Conservation GIS; Member of ESRI's professional services division

December 3, 2004
"GIS Technical Workshop: Using Spatial Analyst, Model Builder, and Implementing ArcGIS Data Models"
GIS Center in the Map Room at Tisch Library, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

This hands-on workshop is an introduction to using ESRI's ArcGIS software for GIS spatial analysis.

December 9, 2004

"Should Climate Change Drive Energy Policy?"
Cabot 206, 6:00 pm

Hear an environmental scientist, Professor Bill Moomaw, and a former oil executive, Professor Bruce Everett, share their views on oil, climate change, and the impacts they should have on business and the modern economy.

Co-sponsored by Fletcher Environment & Sustainability Initiative and
the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts

January 20, 2005

"The Politics of Oil in Nigeria: Blessing or Curse?"

Professor Darren Kew

Professor in the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts

January 24-25, 2005
Practice Session for the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition
Budislav Vukas, Vice-President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
February 1-28, 2005
"Vanishing"
Plasma Screen Exhibition Antonin Kratochvil, VII Photo Agency
A de.MO photographic project by Giorgio Baravalle
February 17, 2005
EPIIC Film Series presents: Thirst
February 23, 2005
"Vanishing"
Lecture and Discussion, 8:00 pm
Antonin Kratochvil
February 24-27, 2005
EPIIC Symposium: Oil and Water
February 27, 2005
WSSS Workshop
"Water as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation: Exploring the Potential"
April 7-10, 2005
Inquiry simulation: The World's Oceans
April 16-17, 2005
"VII Seminar"
A collaboration between VII Photo Agency, Canon Photography and the Institute for Global Leadership