The Week That Will Be

Event Announcements

Monday, May 15, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET: The Wilson Center hosted a virtual event to discuss how G7 leaders can lead by example and demonstrate unity and a respect for international law, ahead of the summit meeting in Japan later this month. The event featured a conversation with Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States; William Drozdiak, global fellow at the Wilson Center; Robert S. Litwak, senior vice president and director of international security studies at the Wilson Center; Robin S. Quinville, director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program; and Philip Reeker, chair of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program. The webcast was moderated by Shihoko Goto, director for the Wilson Center’s Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific Enterprise and deputy director of the Asia Program.

Monday, May 15, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. ET: The Brookings Institution will host a discussion about the future of the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Brazil. The event will feature remarks by Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, and Thomas A. Shannon Jr., former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. Department of State and former U.S. ambassador to Brazil. These remarks will be followed by a discussion featuring: Vanda Felbab-Brown, director of the Brookings Institution’s Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors; Matias Spektor, professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas and visiting scholar at Princeton University; and Shannon. The conversation will be moderated by Bruce Jones, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will host a conversation about how great power competition in the Middle East has affected geopolitics and created new security challenges. The discussion will feature Carnegie Endowment Vice President Marwan Muasher, and Carnegie Senior Fellows Amr Hamzawy, Jennifer Kavanagh, Karim Sadjadpour, and Frederic Wehrey.

Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. ET: The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University will host a seminar to discuss how partisanship affects online content moderation. The event will feature a conversation between Jennifer Pan, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and moderator Jeff Hancock, director of the Stanford Social Media Lab.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. ET: The Carnegie Endowment will host an event to discuss how the U.N. Human Rights Council can more effectively promote human rights and ensure accountability of violators. The conversation will feature Amb. Michèle Taylor, U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council; and Sarah Yager, director of Human Rights Watch’s Washington D.C. operations. The conversation will be moderated by Stewart Patrick, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. ET: The Brookings Institution will host a webcast to discuss how artificial intelligence will affect the domestic division of labor. The event will feature remarks by Sanjay Patnaik, director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on Regulation and Markets, and Ekaterina Hertog, associate professor in AI and society at Oxford University. Next, a panel discussion will feature Elizabeth J. Altman, associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hertog; and Beth K. Humberd, associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The conversation will be moderated by Patnaik.

Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. ET: The Atlantic Council will host a virtual event to discuss the implications of a likely Ukrainian counteroffensive this spring. The conversation will feature five discussants: Gen. (ret.) Wesley Clark, former supreme allied commander for NATO; Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security; David Kramer, executive director of the George W. Bush Institute; Vladimir Milov, vice president of international advocacy for the Free Russia Foundation; and Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former minister of defense of Ukraine. The discussion will be moderated by John E. Herbst, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.

Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. ET: The Atlantic Council will host an event to discuss how Russian individuals and entities targeted by U.S. sanctions are circumventing these measures, with the help of financial facilitators. The event will feature three discussants: Scott Anderson, acting assistant director for national security programs at the U.S. Department of Commerce; Seth Bridge, coordinator of the Treasury Department’s Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) Task Force; and David Lim, deputy director of the Justice Department's Task Force KleptoCapture (TFKC). The conversation will be moderated by Kimberly Donovan, director of the Atlantic Council’s Economic Statecraft Initiative.

Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET: The Carnegie Endowment will host a discussion about how the ongoing Turkish elections will affect the country’s relationship with the U.S. The event will feature Christopher S. Chivvis, director of the Carnegie Endowment’s American Statecraft Program; Amb. James F. Jeffrey, chair of the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Program; and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe.

Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. ET: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing to assess U.S. policy in the western Balkans. The Committee will hear testimony from Derek Chollet, counselor to the U.S. Department of State, and Gabriel Escobar, deputy assistant secretary for the Western Balkans in the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will host a live event to discuss how innovative technologies, such as the mobile application Diia, enable Ukrainians’ access to vital government services. The event will feature Samantha Power, administrator of USAID; Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister of Ukraine; and Kara Swisher, editor-at-large of New York Magazine.

Employment Announcements (More details on the Job Board)

Director of Development, Lawfare

Deputy Director, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology

Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Fellowship, George Washington University Law School

In-House Counsel, Protect Democracy 

Policy Associate/Analyst, Center for Democracy & Technology

Director of Finance and Administration, American Society of International Law

Director of Programs, American Society of International Law

Policy Counsel/Senior Policy Counsel, Equity in Civic Technology, Center for Democracy & Technology

Fall 2024 Student Volunteer Program, U.S. Cyber Command

Research Assistant, National Security Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University