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EVENT: The Future of U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy
Recommendations for the Next Administration

Cosponsored by Berkley Center at Georgetown University
Start:  Friday, October 10, 2008  8:45 AM
End:  Friday, October 10, 2008  3:45 PM
Location:   Copley Formal Lounge (Georgetown University)

EPPC is pleased to co-sponsor the third of three symposia commemorating the tenth anniversary of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Act. Panelists will address U.S. IRF policy and democracy promotion, civil society, religion-based terrorism, law (domestic and international) and public diplomacy. The symposium, hosted by Georgetown University and co-organized by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and the Council on Faith & International Affairs at the Institute for Global Engagement, will lead to a published brief on U.S. IRF policy for the new administration.

For more information, please view the webpage: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/1364

Please RSVP to berkleycenter@georgetown.edu.

Agenda 

8:15 - 8:45: Light Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00: Opening Remarks
Thomas Banchoff (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs)
Chris Seiple (Institute for Global Engagement)

9:00 - 10:00: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Religious Extremism
Rick Santorum (Ethics and Public Policy Center)
William Schulz (Center for American Progress)
Moderator: Chris Seiple (Institute for Global Engagement)

10:00 - 11:00: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Public Diplomacy
William Galston (The Brookings Institution)
Jennifer Marshall (The Heritage Foundation)
Moderator: Dennis Hoover (Institute for Global Engagement)

11:00 - 11:15: Break

11:15 - 12:15: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Democracy
Mark Plattner (National Endowment for Democracy)
Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame)
Moderator: Thomas Farr (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs)

12:15pm - 12:45pm Light Lunch (wraps and drinks)

12:45 - 2:00: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Civil Society
Andrew Natsios (Georgetown University)
Elizabeth Prodromou (Boston University)
Carroll Bogert (Human Rights Watch)
Moderator: Mark Silk (Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life)

2:00 - 2:15: Break

2:15pm - 3:45pm: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and the Law
T. Jeremy Gunn (American Civil Liberties Union)
William L. Saunders (Federalist Society)
David Saperstein (Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism)
Hadley Arkes (Amherst College)
Moderator: Cole Durham (International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Please RSVP to berkleycenter@georgetown.edu.

Give the Gift of Ideas
Gift subscriptions to EPPC's journal 'The New Atlantis' now available

 

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The Age of Neuroelectronics

For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics. 

M. Edward Whelan III
Blogging on the Courts

EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.

Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:

From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."

From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog:  "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours." 


"Cube and Cathedral" Now in Paperback

Senior Fellow George Weigel's 2005 book The Cube and the Cathedral -- a Foreign Affairs bestseller -- is now available in the United States in paperback, and has been published in several foreign-language editions: Polish, Italian, and French. For more information, or to purchase copies, click here.