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The President participates in a Photo Opportunity with Racing Champions
2025-04-09 14:00 (America/New_York) | South Portico
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The President signs Executive Orders
2025-04-09 14:30 (America/New_York) | Oval Office
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Foreign Policy in the New Administration: A Talk by Charles Kupchan
2025-04-09 18:30 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
A Talk by Charles Kupchan

As a second Trump administration gets underway, Charles Kupchan discusses early indications of the direction of Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, which promises to upend the global status quo. Kupchan, a former member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, shares insight on topics such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, NATO and European security considerations and controversies, consequences of the Israel-Hamas war, the mounting conflicts with China on multiple fronts, and America’s position in the changing global order. A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Georgetown University, he is the author of Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World and No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn.

This event is the annual Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture.

Presented with the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and the European Union Studies Center.

Standing Above the Clouds: Screening & Discussion
2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, Theater 200, New York, NY, 10003, United States
A special screening with director Jalena Keane-Lee and protagonist Hāwane Rios.

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands, Nā `Ōiwi NYC, NYU Native American & Indigenous Students Group, NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and NYU Center for Media, Culture, and Communication.
Through the intergenerational stories of women from three Native Hawaiian families, Standing Above the Clouds traces the decades-long movement to protect Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaiʻi. The documentary film follows teacher and community organizer Kumu Pua Case and her two daughters — artist-activists Hāwane Rios and Kapulei Flores — as they stand for the sacred mountain.
As they face opposition and arrests, they are joined by a community of kiaʻi (protectors) who have dedicated their lives to preventing the desecration of Mauna Kea. Case reflects, “We are no different than Native people everywhere around the world standing for their mountaintops, for their waters, for their land bases, their oceans and their life ways.” Winner of the Bill Nemtin Award for Best Social Impact Documentary (HotDocs International Film Festival), Standing Above the Clouds is an intimate journey through the women’s lives both on and off the mountain, and explores the physical and emotional toll of sustaining a grassroots movement.
The A/P/A Institute at NYU is thrilled to welcome back the film’s director, producer, and cinematographer Jalena Keane-Lee and artist Hāwane Rios for this special screening and discussion, moderated by Professor Lou Cornum (NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis).
Accessibility note: This venue is accessible via elevator. If you have any access needs, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.

Jalena Keane-Lee is a filmmaker who explores intergenerational trauma and healing through an intersectional lens. She was named one of DOC NYC’s 2024 40 Under 40 Filmmakers to Watch, and a 2023 Adobe x Sundance Woman to Watch. Keane-Lee co-founded Breaktide, an all-women-of-color video production company, and is the winner of Tribeca Through Her Lens 2020 and DocPitch 2022. Her short films have streamed on POV and Criterion Collection, played at over fifty film festivals, and been awarded best short at the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival in 2020 and the Jury Award at Sundance in 2023. Keane-Lee’s directing style is guided by a politic that is rooted in the liberation of all people and radical hope that a better world is not only possible but up to all of us to create. Her first feature-length documentary Standing Above the Clouds premiered at HotDocs in 2024 where it won Best Social Impact Documentary. It has gone on to play at over twenty film festivals and won Special Mention for Best International Director at Doc Edge 2024, Best International Cinematography at Film Ambiente, Best Feature Documentary at the 2024 San Diego Asian Film Festival, and Best Made in Hawaiʻi Feature Film at the 2024 Hawaiʻi International Film Festival.
Lou Cornum is an assistant professor of Native American Studies in the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Recent publications include “Way We Move” in Temporal Territories: An Anthology of Experimental Indigenous Cinema and “Seizing the Alterity of Futures” in the History of the Present Journal. As part of the Pinko collective, they contributed to After Accountability: The Critical Genealogy of a Concept, published by Haymarket Books. Cornum is a member of the Navajo Nation.

Image: Still from Standing Above the Clouds. Film protagonist Hāwane Rios stands facing off with police while holding the kiʻi of Ku, god of war.

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2025-04-10 08:30 UTC | Washington, DC

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2025-04-10 09:00, 2025-04-11 08:45 (America/New_York) | NY
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The President recieves his Intelligence Briefing
2025-04-10 10:00 (America/New_York) | Oval Office

The President participates in a Cabinet Meeting
2025-04-10 11:00 (America/New_York) | Cabinet Room

Socrates in the Studio with Andrew Klavan & Dr. John West
2025-04-10 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | House of the Redeemer, 7 East 95th Street, New York, NY, 10128, United States
Socrates in the City Presents: Socrates in the Studio Tapings with Andrew Klavan & Dr. John West (+ Host Eric Metaxas!)

Join us for Socrates in the Studio on April 10th from 12pm-4pm at the House of the Redeemer, where we’ll be filming two thought-provoking interviews with renowned guests and SITC Host Eric Metaxas.
One ticket grants you access to both talks, filmed back-to-back in an intimate setting—these interviews won’t be live-streamed, offering you a rare chance to be part of an exclusive in-person experience.
At noon, bestselling author Andrew Klavan will discuss his latest book, The Kingdom of Cain, exploring “The Joyful Revelation of Humanity’s Fallen Nature.”

Andrew Klavan is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and media commentator. An internationally bestselling novelist and two-time Edgar Award-winner, Klavan is also the host of a popular podcast on DailyWire.com, The Andrew Klavan Show. His work has been made into films starring Clint Eastwood, Michael Douglas, and Michael Caine. His non-fiction works include The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ and The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus. His latest book, The Kingdom of Cain, will be available nationwide May 6, 2025.

Then, Dr. John West will delve into the ideas behind his new book, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity:Why America’s Christian Leaders are Failing — and What We Can Do About It.

Dr. John West is Vice President and a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, where he also serves as Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, which he co-founded with philosopher of science Stephen Meyer in 1996. His current research examines the impact of science and “scientism” on public policy and culture. His other areas of expertise include constitutional law, American government and institutions, and religion and politics. Dr. West has written or edited thirteen books, including most recently Stockholm Syndrome Christianity.

Schedule:

12pm: Andrew Klavan
2pm: Dr. John West

Location: House of the Redeemer (7 E. 95th Street)

The President participates in a Swearing-In Ceremony for the Solicitor General
2025-04-10 12:30 (America/New_York) | Oval Office

The President participates in a Bill Signing
2025-04-10 16:00 (America/New_York) | Oval Office

Contractions: Practicing Refusal
2025-04-10 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Dawn Weleski discusses their role as co-founder and co-director of Conflict Kitchen, followed by a Q&A.

Part of the 2024-25 ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping Series:
Contractions: Practicing Refusal
Weleski co-founded and co-directed Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that served cuisine from countries with which the U.S. government is in conflict. Operating seven days a week for 7 years, Conflict Kitchen’s food was offered in custom-designed wrappers, upon which were printed interviews with those living in the nation-state of focus and the diasporas around the world. Highlighting past and current socially engaged projects that privilege first-person perspectives, Weleski will present several artworks that employ variations of speech shadowing, a translation and psycholinguistic method that they have utilized towards a fugitive, living archive of transgression, re-cognition, and re-memberment.
Dawn Weleski’s art practice administers a political stress test, antagonizing routine cultural behavior by repurposing underground wrestling matches, revolutionary protests, and political offices as transformative social stages. Their practice is rooted in the dramaturgy of care work, investigating the material artifacts and dramaturgy of hospitality as an agent of hostility within the imperialist project, including Three Views of a Mountain, where a South Korean guide led hikers through the Gwanak Mountains of Anyang, South Korea to climb and meet North Korean defectors at the summit who recount the architecture and stories of their homes via narrative and pantomime, and The Foreigner, where Conflict Kitchen customers could enjoy their lunch with a resident of our nation-state of focus through an actor-avatar connected live via Phone. Weleski has worked in hospitality and food service for over 25 years, and their current wage work as bartender/baker/line cook, house cleaner, landscaper, adjunct professor, and Emergency Medical Technician, among other gigs, informs their collective stewardship of emergentCNY, a Central New York mutual aid network that exchanges goods and services during times of ever-present crisis through reciprocal care, repair, and regeneration. They are a recipient of a 2017 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow, a 2023 Anonymous was a Woman Environmental Art Grant, a 2023 Harpo Foundation Grant Award, a 2023 New York State Traditional and Rural Artist Fellow, and a 2024 New York State Council on the Arts Grant. Weleski currently serves as the 2023-25 University of Michigan Student Life Sustainability Artist in Residence, where they co-initiated Noon at Night, a wandering classroom that prototypes creative adaptation to crisis.

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Our mission is to create knowledge for public action—to catalyze conversations that lead to more just, equitable, and democratic societies.
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The President departs The White House en route Walter Reed Hospital
2025-04-11 10:50 (America/New_York) | South Lawn
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The President arrives Walter Reed Hospital for his Annual Physical
2025-04-11 11:00 (America/New_York) | NY

Socrates in the Studio with Ross Douthat & Dr. William Hurlbut
2025-04-11 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | House of the Redeemer, 7 East 95th Street, New York, NY, 10128, United States
Socrates in the City Presents: Socrates in the Studio Tapings with Ross Douthat & Dr. William Hurlbut (+ Host Eric Metaxas!)

Join us for Socrates in the Studio on April 11th from 12pm-4pm at the House of the Redeemer, where we’ll be filming two thought-provoking interviews with renowned guests and SITC Host Eric Metaxas.
One ticket grants you access to both talks, filmed back-to-back in an intimate setting—these interviews won’t be live-streamed, offering you a rare chance to be part of an exclusive in-person experience.
At noon, bestselling author Ross Douthat will discuss his latest book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, described as “a Mere Christianity for the 21st century” by World Magazine.

Ross Douthat has been a New York Times Opinion columnist since April 2009. Previously, he was a senior editor at the Atlantic. He is the author of The Deep Places; The Decadent Society; To Change the Church; Bad Religion; Privilege; and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party. He is the film critic for National Review. He lives with his wife and five children in New Haven, Connecticut. His latest book, Believe, released nationwide February 11, 2025 and was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Then, Dr. William Hurlbut will discuss “The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, and Machines in the Age of Technology.”

William B. Hurlbut, M.D. is a Senior Research Scholar in the Dept. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and an Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Neurobiology at Stanford University Medical Center. His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. In addition to teaching at Stanford, he has worked with NASA on projects in astrobiology and as a member of the Chemical and Biological Warfare working group at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. From 2002-2009 Dr. Hurlbut served on the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Schedule:

12pm: Ross Douthat
2pm: Dr. William Hurlbut

Location: House of the Redeemer (7 E. 95th Street)

Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
2025-04-11 13:00 (America/New_York) | James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
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2025-04-11 14:05, 2025-04-12 07:20 (America/New_York) | NY
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The President departs Walter Reed Hospital en route Joint Base Andrews
2025-04-11 15:45 (America/New_York) | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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2025-04-11 16:00 (America/New_York) | Joint Base Andrews

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2025-04-11 16:10 (America/New_York) | Joint Base Andrews

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2025-04-11 18:15 (America/New_York) | Palm Beach International Airport
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2025-04-11 18:25 (America/New_York) | Palm Beach International Airport

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2025-04-11 18:40 (America/New_York) | Mar-a-Lago

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2025-04-12 00:00 - 23:59 UTC | Gabon
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Camp United Nations for Girls Brisbane 2025
2025-04-12 08:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | 515 Queen St, 515 Queen Street, Brisbane City, QLD, 4000, Australia
Girls step on the world stage to study global affairs and diplomacy then hone their decision making skills at Camp United Nations for Girls.

Camp United Nations for Girls Brisbane 2025 introduces girls (ages 9-17) to work of the United Nations and international policy. Camp United Nations begins with a lesson on the history of the United Nations and the organization’s purpose. This is followed by a study of the structure, leadership, and the rules of procedure of the United Nations. Each student will be given an assignment to serve as a delegate for a UN Member State. When the General Assembly convenes delegates will propose a resolution. The resolution will be subject to negotiation and amendment by the UN Delegates before a vote on a final version of the resolution. Girl Scouts and Girl Guides earn a Global Action Award or World Thinking badge for participating in Camp United Nations for Girls.
For additional information contact us at +1 866-277-2123 extension 1, via email at info@girlsinpolitics.com or visit our website at www.girlsinpolitics.com. Ticketing options for students ages 8-11 and 12-17. Please no solicitation emails or calls. We do not book speakers, book vendors or recruit volunteers for events.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this event a drop-off? All camps are drop-off unless parent participation is indicated. Parents may wait at the venue for the duration of the camp in any of the lounge or seating area throughout the hotel. The meeting room space capacity can only accommodate students and staff.
Is the registration fee refundable? The registration fee is non-refundable unless the organizer cancels the session. If a participant is unable to attend a session a credit will be placed on file that may be used at any time for a future program. The credit does not expire.
Is this a partisan program or supported by a political party? No, the Girls in Politics Initiative is an independent organization that is self-funded through the fees generated from hosting sessions. The curriculum is civic education.
Is financial assistance available? Due to rising costs associated with hosting events, there is no financial assistance available for this event and there is no promo code for this event.
Who are the instructors? Our Lead Instructors are women that currently or have previously worked in government or electoral politics. Our support staff are current or former licensed teachers. All instructors and support staff undergo background screening. All instructors and support staff are also in compliance with any local ordinances or state/provincial regulations applicable to those working with children.
