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EVENT: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy: Assessing the Results
Start:  Monday, April 21, 2008  9:00 AM
End:  Monday, April 21, 2008  3:00 PM

In October 1998 Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). The IRFA mandated the promotion of religious liberty around the world as a central element of American foreign policy. In 2008 three symposia at Georgetown examine the origins (February 25), performance (April 21) and promise (October 10) of IRF policy. Experts from across the spectrum of American public life-scholars, policymakers, experts and journalists-as well as informed officials and observers from around the globe, will analyze policy. The October symposium, building on the earlier two, presents recommendations for the new administration.

EPPC is pleased to co-sponsor this series, which is 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. Other co-sponsors include:

International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University

Council for America's First Freedom, Richmond, Virginia

Religious Liberties Practice Group of The Federalist Society, Washington DC

Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Hartford, Connecticut

Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY.

Panel 1: U.S. Foreign Policy Practitioners: The State Department, the Commission, Congress, and the White House

Robert A. Seiple, President of the Council for America's First Freedom and former U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom

Tad Stahnke, Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program at Human Rights First and former senior staffer at U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

David Killion, senior staff of House Committee on Foreign Affairs and former senior staffer on human rights issues for Rep. Tom Lantos

William Inboden, Senior Vice-President of the Legatum Institute and former senior staff at National Security Council

Panel 2: U.S. Foreign Policy Scholars: International Religious Freedom Policy, American Ideals, and American National Interests

Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Philip Gordon, Brookings Institution

Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute

Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations (invited)

Thomas Farr, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, moderator

Panel 3: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy: The Critique from the Muslim World

Abdolkarim Soroush, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs

Asma Afsarrudin, University of Notre Dame

Radwan Masmoudi, Center of the Study of Islam & Democracy

Thomas Farr, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, moderator

This event is open to the public.  Light breakfast and lunch will be served. 
An RSVP is required: berkleycenter@georgetown.edu

 

The New Atlantis (Spring 2008)
The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes a major new poll on embryo research, plus articles and essays on biofuels, health care and the presidential election, biotech enhancement, multitasking, the mind of Einstein, and much more. Visit http://www.thenewatlantis.com/ today! 

Technology and Society
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.