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23 May 2011

Auditorium, Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem

From 16:15: Registration and reception

16:45-17:00: Greetings

17:00-19:00: Facing New Challenges: Is it all about the economy?

Chairman: Prof. David Newman, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BGU

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Amy Verdun, Chair –Co Editor of the Journal of Common Market studies, The Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada

Speaker: Prof. Kurt Huebner, Director – The Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

Discussant: Prof. Alfred Tovias, Chair – Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

24 May 2011

Djanogly Hall, Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem

10:00-11:30: The Middle East Conflict and International Intervention

Speaker: Dr. Shlomo Shpiro, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Discussants:

Prof. Michael Schulz, School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dr. Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies/Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, UK

11:30-11:45: Coffee Break

11:45-13:15: Asia Rising

Speakers:

Prof. Martin Holland, Director – National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury New Zealand

Dr. Michael Bruter, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Discussant: Prof.Elise Brezis, Bar Ilan University, Israel

14:30-15:30 The Transatlantic Relations in the Age of the Lisbon Treaty

Key Note Speaker: Prof. Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University, U.S.A

Discussant: Dr. Joel Peters, Virginia Tech University, USA

15:30-15:45: Coffee Break

15:45-17:00: Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq

Speaker: Dr. Claire Spencer, Head – Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, UK

17:00-17:15: Coffee Break

17:15-19:15: A Paradigm Shift for Europe’s Arab Minority? – Effects of the Arab World’s Upheaval on Europe’s Arab Population

Introduction: Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, Executive Director, Israel Council on Foreign Relations/Chief Editor The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

Speakers:

Mohammed Ibrahim, German Development Agency (Berlin) and active member of the Palestinian community in Germany

Prof. Rapfael Israeli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of The Islamic Challenge in Europe

Bashar Azzeh, Entrepreneur, board member of Fatah Youth (Jerusalem) and founding member of "The March 15th Movement"

Don Macintyre, Jerusalem Correspondent, The Independent, recently returned from assignments in Egypt and Libya

Moderator: J. Samson Altman-Schevitz, Program Coordinator, ICFR Israeli-European Young Diplomats Forum