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Making Crisis, Sovereignty, and the Environment in Iraq and Kuwait
2025-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | 121 Bay State Rd, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215, United States
Please join us for our first Pardee Research Seminar of the fall semester, featuring Arbella Bet-Shlimon.

Arbella Bet-Shlimon, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, will be presenting on research that considers how imperialism, anticolonialism, and the contradictions of sovereignty in twentieth-century Iraq and Kuwait are reflected in environmental concerns. She illustrates how a state of crisis between the two countries historically occurred at the nexus of resource extraction and consciousness of climate anomalies (now understood as climate change). Viewing this issue through the problem of freshwater access helps us understand the different, and conflicting, ways that formerly colonized people articulate their aspirations for liberation amid imperial intervention.

The Halabja Massacre: Remembering, Reflecting and Rebuilding
2025-09-15 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Institute of World Politics, 1521 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Explore the effect on Kurdish and Iraqi life of the 1988 Halabja Massacre from survivor Dr. Yerevan Saeed.

About the Lecture:
Dr. Saeed will speak about the Halabja Massacre that occurred on March 16, 1988—a chemical weapons attack under the direction of Ali Hassan al-Majid (“Chemical Ali”), a cousin of Saddam Hussein. The attack claimed between 7,000 and 10,000 civilian lives. Dr. Saeed will discuss the lasting impact on Kurdish and Iraqi history, its role in the discussion of genocide, and his own experience as a survivor of the attack.

About the Speaker:
Yerevan Saeed is the Barzani Scholar in Residence and the Director of the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace at American University’s School of International Service and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington He is a TEDx speaker and former lecturer at the University of Kurdistan Hewler. Saeed previously was a visiting scholar and research associate at AGSIW. Saeed is a political analyst who researches and writes on security, political, and energy issues in the Middle East, focusing on Iraq, Turkey, Iran, the Gulf, and the Levant. He has served as White House correspondent for the Kurdish Rudaw TV, and his work has been published in the Washington Institute’s Fikra Forum, the Diplomatic Courier, The New York Times, the London-based Majalla magazine, Rudaw, Global Politician, and several Kurdish newspapers. In addition, he has been interviewed by Voice of America, NPR, CNN, Voice of Russia, and Kurdish television programs and newspapers. From 2009-13, Saeed worked with Stratfor; additionally, he worked for several media outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, BBC, and The Guardian, as a journalist and translator in Iraq from 2003-07. Saeed holds a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, with a focus on Middle East studies and international negotiation and conflict resolution. He received his PhD from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He speaks Kurdish and Arabic and has a command of Farsi.

2024 Malawi General Election
2025-09-16 00:00 - 23:59 UTC | Malawi
General

U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes
2025-09-16 08:30 UTC | Washington, DC

The President and The First Lady arrive London, United Kingdom
2025-09-16 15:50 (America/New_York) | London Stansted, United Kingdom
Out-of-Town Travel Pool

From Tariffs to WTO Reform: The Next Era of Global Commerce
2025-09-16 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, United States
Join us for a conversation with Sir Conor Burns to discuss the future of global commerce.

Global trade is entering a period of transition as governments revisit tariffs, adopt new non-tariff measures and weigh reforms to international institutions. These shifts raise important questions about how the United States and its partners can adapt to a more competitive and multipolar world.
On Sept. 16, former U.K. trade policy at the Department for International Trade, Sir Conor Burns, will join Ambassador David Satterfield for a discussion on the changing landscape of global trade. The conversation will address the renewed use of tariffs compared with other trade measures, prospects for reforming the World Trade Organization, and the long-term implications of the current U.S. trade approach.. They will also consider how the global trading system may evolve as U.S. economic influence adjusts to a changing international landscape. This event is free and open to the public.

The Role of Media in National Security
2025-09-16 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Institute of World Politics, 1521 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
With media’s role being to provide transparency to the public, how can that be balanced with the opposed tenets of national security?

About the Lecture:
Exploring the role of media in national security and how coverage can both positively and negatively impact the public’s perception of the work performed. In a world where transparency equals trust, the lecture will examine how to navigate the seemingly opposed priorities of transparency and national security.

About the Speaker:
Jenny Burke is a professional communicator with a career spanning national security, border security, public safety, and technology for more than 25 years. For the last 19 years, she has worked in public affairs across the Department of Homeland Security.
With a background in technology communications in the private sector, Ms. Burke was recruited by the newly established Department of Homeland Security in 2006 to help the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office – currently the Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction – establish its communications office. This work led directly to U.S. Customs and Border Protection as the agency deployed radiation detection monitors to ports of entry across the country.
Ms. Burke spent ten years at CBP working with national security, technology, trade, and travel topics. She became the agency’s first-ever press secretary in 2014 working directly for the Commissioner with high-profile topics such as use of force and the unaccompanied child migration crisis.
In the years following CBP, Ms. Burke worked with several components with DHS. She ran the public affairs office at the DHS headquarters during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations in 2017. She served the Federal Emergency Management Agency as press secretary in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. She also served as the press secretary for the Transportation Security Administration and at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement where she was also the senior career official in the Office of Public Affairs.

Livestream—From Tariffs to WTO Reform: The Next Era of Global Commerce
2025-09-16 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us online as Sir Conor Burns discusses the future of global commerce.

Global trade is entering a period of transition as governments revisit tariffs, adopt new non-tariff measures and weigh reforms to international institutions. These shifts raise important questions about how the United States and its partners can adapt to a more competitive and multipolar world.
On Sept. 16, former U.K. trade policy at the Department for International Trade, Sir Conor Burns, will join Ambassador David Satterfield for a discussion on the changing landscape of global trade. The conversation will address the renewed use of tariffs compared with other trade measures, prospects for reforming the World Trade Organization, and the long-term implications of the current U.S. trade approach.. They will also consider how the global trading system may evolve as U.S. economic influence adjusts to a changing international landscape.

Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
2025-09-17 03:30 (America/New_York) | Winfield House, London, United Kingdom

Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
2025-09-17 03:30, 2025-09-18 01:30 (America/New_York)

The President and The First Lady participate in a Windsor Castle Arrival Ceremony
2025-09-17 07:20 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President and The First Lady participate in a Windsor Castle Arrival Ceremony
2025-09-17 07:20 (America/New_York)

The President and The First Lady participate in a Private Luncheon
2025-09-17 08:05 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Closed Press

The President and The First Lady participate in a Private Luncheon
2025-09-17 08:05 (America/New_York)

State Job Openings and Labor Turnover
2025-09-17 10:00 UTC | Washington, DC

The President and The First Lady participate in a St. George's Chapel Visit and Wealth Laying at the Tomb of Queen Elizabeth II
2025-09-17 10:00 (America/New_York)

The President and The First Lady participate in a St. George's Chapel Visit and Wealth Laying at the Tomb of Queen Elizabeth II
2025-09-17 10:00 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President and The First Lady participate in a Beating Retreat Musical Performance
2025-09-17 11:25 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President and The First Lady participate in a Beating Retreat Musical Performance
2025-09-17 11:25 (America/New_York)

The President and The First Lady participate in a State Banquet
2025-09-17 15:30 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President and The First Lady participate in a State Banquet
2025-09-17 15:30 (America/New_York)

The President and The First Lady participate in a Post-Dinner Program
2025-09-17 17:15 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President and The First Lady participate in a Post-Dinner Program
2025-09-17 17:15 (America/New_York)

Pandemic Political Education Book Club
2025-09-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Under the Umbrella Bookstore and Cafe, 511 West 200 South, #Suite 120, Salt Lake City, UT, 84101, United States
Read books to learn lessons from HIV/AIDS Activism and Disability Justice.

Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
2025-09-18 01:30 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President and The First Lady participate in Farewells to the King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2025-09-18 05:00 (America/New_York)

The President and The First Lady participate in Farewells to the King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2025-09-18 05:00 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President departs Windsor Castle en route Chequers Estate
2025-09-18 05:30 (America/New_York) | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

The President departs Windsor Castle en route Chequers Estate
2025-09-18 05:30 (America/New_York)
