Professional Workshops

Microbial Threats and Global Society | Computer Power and Engineering Research and Technological Innovation | Human Rights and Humanitarian Emergencies | Beyond Beijing: The Global Empowerment of Women | Darwinism and Artificial Intelligence | Transportation and the Environment: A Global Perspective | Genetic Engineering and Our Humanness | The Future of Telecommunications | Prospects for Democratic Reform in the Former Soviet Union | Implications of the Globalization of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions | Development Banks, Private Investment, and Poverty Reduction | Biotechnology and Animal Research | Art, Science and Technology: Concerning Our Reflection | The Future of Africa | Benefits of Space

Microbial Threats and Global Society

Convened By:

  • Stuart Levy
    Director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Ruth Berkelman
    Deputy Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control

Topics:

  • What will be the definition of a developed country in the next century vis a vis helath and economics?
  • How will the world respond to a vancomycin-resistant E. Fiecium enterocci bacteria?
  • What would constitute a cost-effective surveillance system and control mechanisms to contend with microbial threats?

Participants:

Christopher Foreman, Jr.
Government Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Author, Plagues, Products, and Politics: Emergent Public Health Hazards and National Policymaking

Laurie Garrett
Author, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance; Health and Science Writer, Newsday

Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner of Health, New York City

Joshua Lederberg
Professor and former President, Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in Medicine

Jonathan M. Mann
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, International AIDS Center; Harvard AIDS Institute

Chris Murray
Medical Economist; Harvard Center for Human Population; Adviser, Tubercleosis and AIDS, World Bank

Computer Power and Engineering Research and Technological Innovation

Convened by:

  • Gianni Astarita
    Professor of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Material and Production Engineering, University of Naples, Italy
  • Jerry Meldon
    Professor of Chemical Engineering, Tufts University

Topics:

  • The effect of the computer power revolution on the style of research and on the pace of technological innovation
  • The competition between the electronic and the human brain
  • The quantitative versus the qualitative power of computers

Participants:

Arup K. Chakraborty
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California/Berkeley

Martin R. Feinberg
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester

David W. Savage
Research and Engineering, Exxon Corporation

George Stephanopoulos
Porfessor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Human Rights and Humanitarian Emergencies

Convened by:

  • Hurst Hannum
    Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  • Jennifer Leaning
    Editor, Medicine and Global Survival
  • Susannah Sirkin
    Physicians for Human Rights
  • Landrum Bolling
    Sevior Advisor, Conflict Management Group, Inc.

Topics:

  • Role of humanitarian relief agencies in situations of rights abuse
  • Impact on conflict of humanitarian agency presense and human rights groups monitoring
  • Balance between desire for peace and desire for justice

Participants:

Adol Atwei
Director of Africa Division, Amnesty International USA

Tanya Baldwin
Amnesty International, United Nations Office

Joel Charney
Policy Director, Oxfam America

John Ebersol
Training Service, U.N Secretariat

Larry Garber
Senior Policy Advisor, USAID

Amb. Robert Gosende
Presidential Special Envoy to Somalia

Kevin Henry
Special Advisor for Operations and Strategy, CARE

Francois Jean
Advisor, President, Operations, Medcins sans Frontieres

Darren Kew
Program on Preventive Diplomacy, Council on Foreign Relations

Matt Lorin
National Security Council, Office of Morton Halperin

Gay McDougall
International Human Rights Law Group

Juan Mendez
Executive Counsel, former Executive Director Americas Watch Human Rights Watch

Andrew Natsios
Executive Director, WorldVision Relief and Development

Norah Niland
Executive Director, United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Organization

Diane Orentlicher
Professor of International Law, American University

Roy Williams
Director of Operations, International Rescue Committee

Beyond Beijing: The Global Empowerment of Women

Convened by:

  • Kristina Hare
    EPIIC '87, Representative to U.N. Conference on Population and Development, Cairo
  • Mark Munger
    Planned Parenthood, Representative to U.N. Conference on Population and Development, Cairo

Topics:

  • Population and Development Issues
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Media Images
  • Human Rights

Participants:

Kathleen Cloud
Bunting Institute Fellow; Director, Graduate Interdisplinary Concentration in Gender Roles and International Development

Monica Das Gupta
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Population and Development, Harvard University School of Public Health

Rev. Carol A. Johnson
Founder, Harvard Aids Ministries, Harvard University Divinity School

Bill Ryerson
Population Communications International

Junko Shiota
Program Coordinator, Community Service Learning Program, Lincoln-Filene Center, Tufts University

Michela Walsh
President, Women's Asset Management

Melissa Wells
Special U.S. Envoy to the Sudan; Former U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique and Zaire

Darwinism and Artificial Intelligence

Convened by:

  • Daniel C. Dennett
    Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Conciousness Explained

Topic:

  • Intentionality

Participants:

Rodney Brooks
Director, Mobile Robots, MIT

Murray Gell-Mann
Nobel Physicist; Co-Founder, Santa Fe Institute; Author, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex

David Haig
Fellow, Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology

Danny Hills
Founder, Thinking Machines

Douglas Hofstadter
Cognitive Scientist; Pultitzer Prize-winning Author, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

John Holland
Associate Director, Logic of Computation Group, University of Michigan

Kevin Kelly
Executive Editor, Wired; Author, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization

Patricia Maes
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, The Media Lab, MIT

Bruce Mazlish
Professor of History, MIT; Author, The Fourth Disconttinuity: The Co-evolution of Humans and Machines

Marvin Minsky
Japan Prize Recipient; Co-Founder, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT; Author, The Society of Mind

Hans Moravec
Director, Mobile Robot Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

Seymour Papert
LEGO Professor of Learning Research, MIT; Co-Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

Oliver Selfridge
Computer Scientist, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT; Creator, "Pandemonium" model

Transportation and the Environment: A Global Perspective

Convened by:

  • William Moomaw
    Director, Internatinal and Environment Resource Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Topics:

  • Who and what do we have to move
  • What technology will move them
  • What strategies do we need to develop for substituting bits for atoms
  • What is the impact of the dematerialization of transport
  • What are the challenges for industrial and developing countries

Participants:

Daniel Brand
Founder, Charles River Associates (Mag Lev-public transport policy)

Richard Daly
Director, Taxi 2000

Ronald Goldner
Department of Engineering, Tufts University

Jack Goldstone
Director, Center for Comparative Research in History, Society, and Culture, University of California/Davis; Participant, Project on Environment Scarcities, State Capacities, and Civil Violence, AAAS

Amory Lovins
Ecologist; Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute; MacArthur Fellow

Jim MacKenzie
World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.; Author, Keys To The Car, Car Trouble

Chou Ming
Director, Green China

Vaclav Smil
Ecologist; Author, China's Environment Crisis; Participant, Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacities, and Civil Violence, AAAS

Genetic Engineering and Our Humanness

Convened by:

  • Sheldon Krimsky
    Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University; Author, Biotechnics and Society

Topics:

  • Ethical and social issues of human germ-line gene manipulation
  • When is it justified?
  • Can it be regulated?
  • What is the public good?

Participants:

Adrienne Asch
Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction, Wellesley College

Karl Ebert
Professor, Animal and Cellular Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University

Ruth Hubbard
Professor of Biology Emerita, Harvard University; Author, The Politics of Women's Biology; Co-Authour, Exploding the Gene Myth

Stuart Newman
New York State Medical School

Pilar Ossario
Biologist and Lawyer, University of California/Berkeley

Henri Termeer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Genzyme Corporation

Dr. Nelson Wivel
Director, Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, National Institutes of Health

The Future of Telecommunications

Convened by:

  • Derek Leebaert
    Professor of Management of Technology, Graduate School of Business, Georgetown University; Editor, Technology 2001: The Future of Software

Topics:

  • Media in the year 2000
  • Consequences for industries and consumers
  • How will the information highway develop?
  • What will be the role of government?
  • What is the impact on privacy?
  • What are the social implications?

Participants:

Jeffrey Bellin
Director, Bell Atlantic Video

David Bennahum
Contributing Editor, Lingua Franca; Author, Coming of Age in Cyberspace (forthcoming)

Gustave Essig
Chief Executive Officer, UniNet Communications

Howard H. Frederick
Professor, Global Communications, Emerson College; Founder PeaceNet

Denos Gazis
Director, Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Russ Neuman
Director, Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Eli Noam
Director, Institute of Telecommunications, Columbia University

Majid Tehranian
Fellow, Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Senior Fellow, Center for the World Religion; Program on Information Resource Policy, Harvard University

Coralee Whitcomb
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Administrator, Vitual Reality Project

Dale Williams
Executive Director, National Information Infrastructure Testbed

Prospects for Democratic Reform in the Former Soviet Union

Convened by:

  • Fiona Hill
    Project Director, Ethnic Conflict Project, Strengthening Democracy Institutions Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Hannes Adomeit
    Professor of International Politics, Director, Program on Russia, East/Central Europe and Central Asia, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Topic:

  • The political, economic, ethnic, and ecological tensions within the FSU and their impact on the future course of Russia and the former Soviet republics

Participants:

Evgenai Albats
Investigative Journalist, Isvestia

Elizabeth Bernstein
Associate Director, Russian Research Center, Harvard University

Sergei Girgoriev
Former Press Spokesman, Mikhail Gorbachev

Mark Kramer
Brown University

Kostiantyn Morozov
Former Minister of Defense, the Ukraine

Carol Savitch
Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University

Sarah Terry
Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University

Implications of the Globalization of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions

Convened by:

  • Jack Blum
    Lobel, Novins, Lamont & Flug; Former Investigator, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Director, investigations into B.C.C.I., Lockheed, ITT/Allende

Topics:

  • History of internationalization
  • Offshore banking
  • Regulation
  • International bankruptcy
  • International Criminal Procecution

Participants:

Stuart R. Allen
Senior Associate, Lindquist, Avey, MacDonald, Baskerville, Inc., Forensic Financial Investigations; Former Lead Investigator of Offshore Fraud, SEC

Alan Block
Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University; Author, Masters of Paradise

Tom Naylor
Professor of Economics, McGill University; Author, Hot Money and the Politics of Debt

Edward Nell
Chairman, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research

Ira Silverman
Senior Producer, NBC News; Peabody Award Recipient for his reporting on B.C.C.I.

Cheryl Smith
Vice President, U.S. Trust, Boston

Development Banks, Private Investment and Poverty Reduction

Convened by:

  • Nancy Alexander
    Manager, International Financial Institutions Accountability Project, Bread for the World

Topics:

  • How to best evaluate efforts of multilateral development banks to ensure best use of private investment
  • Relationship between market forces and poverty alleviation
  • What kind of investment regimes can successfully reduce poverty?

Participants:

Kevin Baumert
University of Notre Dame

David Beckmann
President, Bread for the World

Barbara Bramble
World Wildlife Federation

Tom Coleman
Former Vice President and Director, Economic Analysis and Planning, Chicago Board of Trade

Mark Collins
Former U.S. Executive and Alternate Executive Director, Trinity International Partners

Hilary French
WorldWatch Institute

Neva Goodwin
Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University

Denis Goulet
O'Neil Chair, Education for Justice, University of Notre Dame

Jo Marie Griesgraber
Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, Center for Concern, Washington, DC

Lisa Jordan
Both Ends, Amsterdam

Celestin Monga
Research Fellow, Sloan School, MIT

Seamus O'Cleireacain
Ford Foundation

Delwin Roy
President, Hitachi Foundation

Ismail Serageldin
Vice President, Environmentally Sustainable Development, World Bank

Paul Taylor

Raymond Vernon
J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Michaela Walsh
President, Women's Asset Management

Rob Wright
International Development Business Consultants

Biotechnology and Animal Research

Convened by:

  • Franklin M. Loew
    Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
  • Andrew N. Rowan
    School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University

Topics:

  • Animal research
  • Animal biotechnology
  • Farm animal welfare
  • Gender factors and animal issues

Participants:

Henry Spira
Animal Activist

Harriet Ritvo
Historian, MIT

Art, Science and Technology: Concerning Our Reflection

Convened by:

  • Noah Riskin
    Research Fellow, Center for Advanced and Visual Studies, MIT

Topics:

  • Future of light-based technologies
  • The potential and dangers of global interconnectedness
  • Use and exploration of light in art and contemporary physical theory
  • The linkages between light and human consciousness

Participants:

Lowry Burgess
Artist, Carnegie Mellon University

Madeline Caviness
Professor of Art History, Mary Richardson University Professor, Tufts University

Tim Fohl
President, Tech Integrated Group, Inc.; Former Director of Engineering, Sylvania

Lynn Holden
Egyptologist and Cultural Historian

Marie Mathieu
Holographer, Montreal

Seth Riskin
Research Fellow, Center for Advanced and Visual Studies, MIT

The Future of Africa

Convened by:

  • Michael Chege
    Visiting Scholar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Former Director, Institute for International Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Former Program Officer, Governance and International Affairs, Eastern and Southern Africa, Ford Foundation

Topic:

  • What are the prospects for economic and political reform in Africa?

Participants:

Seung Hong Choi
President, World Resource Center; Former World Bank Resident Representative in Ghana and Uganda

John Cohen
Fellow, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University

Maimouna Mills
Shorenstein Fellow, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Dipolelo Ngatane
Project Development Officer for Higher Education, USAID; Mason Fellow, John F, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Joseph Okpaku
President, Okpaku Communications; Publisher, Third Press Publications; Advisory Board, UNDP's African Futures Project

Pearl Robinson
Director, International Relations Program, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

Michael Roemer
Economist, Harvard Institute for International Development

Ferdinand Swai
Director, Kibaha Education Center, Tanzania; Mason Fellow, Harvard University

Melissa Wells
Special U.S. Envoy to the Sudan; Former U.S. Ambassador, Mozambique and Zaire

Benefits of Space

Convened by:

  • Peter Glaser
    Vice President of Space Operations, Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Author, From the Moon to the Space Station and Beyond
  • Eric Chaisson
    Director, Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University; Author, The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics

Topics:

  • Outer space activities
  • Energy
  • Space shuttles
  • Living in space