Academic Conference Calls
The Council currently offers two types of events to engage the academic community. The Academic Conference Call series provides students the opportunity to interact with a Council fellow in a forty-five minute phone conversation and is made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Webcasts of Council meetings feature policymakers and scholars in timely discussions; students and educators watch the meeting in real time via the Internet. Once a webcast of a Council meeting has concluded, it is made available as a video in the multimedia section of For Educators or as part of an Adademic Module on a related subject.
Email questions about conference calls and webcasts to Irina Faskianos, vice president, National Program and Outreach, at educators@cfr.org.
Past Academic Conference Calls
Academic Conference Call
U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Speaker: Dan Caldwell, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Pepperdine University
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
April 21, 2011
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Academic Conference Call
Nigeria on the Brink
Speaker: John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
April 6, 2011
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Academic Conference Call
The Post-Washington Consensus
Speakers: Nancy Birdsall, Founding President, Center for Global Development
Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
March 24, 2011
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Academic Conference Call
UN Security Council Enlargement and U.S. Interests
Speaker: Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
March 2, 2011
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Academic Conference Call
Post-Referendum Sudan: Prospects for Peace
Speakers: Katherine Almquist, Former Assistant Administrator for Africa, USAID
Payton L. Knopf, International Affairs Fellow in Residence, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
February 17, 2011
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Academic Conference Call
Energy Innovation in Brazil, China, and India: U.S. Policy Implications
Speakers: Michael A. Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations
Shannon K. O'Neil, Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
February 2, 2011
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Academic Conference Call
A Conversation with Jim Hoge
Speaker: James F. Hoge Jr., Editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
December 2, 2010
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Academic Conference Call
The Role of Women in Economic and Political Development
Speaker: Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Director of the Program on Markets and Democracy, and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
November 10, 2010
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Academic Conference Call
The History of Hedge Funds
Speaker: Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
October 28, 2010
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Academic Conference Call
U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula
Speaker: Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
October 13, 2010
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