SAIS Europe - Amici di Bologna 2024 | Washington D.C.

Past Editions

October 5th, 2024

Who's Coming
Joan Abbott (B'20,B'21, '21)
Dace Akule (B'04)
Richard Albright (B'80, '81)
Julianne Altieri (B'96, '97)
Seth Arenstein (B'83, '85)
James Ballas (B'07, '08)
Michael Barth (B'74'73)
Adele Barzelay (B'16, '17)
Gretchen Bauer (B'85, '86)
Sharon Benzoni (B'18, '19)
Ankit Bhatia (B'22, '24)
Kevin Brownawell (B'89, '90)
Baran Cansever (B'19)
Elliot Carmean (B'09, '10)
Andrew S. Cohen (B'89, '89)
Jill Craig (B'07, '08)
Paolo Curiel
Lopo de Castro Neto (B'20, '21)
Renaud Dehousse
Sara Forden (B'87, '88)
Laura Forte (B'86, '87)
Paul Fraker (B'83, '84)
Yseult Gibert (B'23, '24)
John Greenawalt
Juan Manuel Gutierrez (B'02, '03)
Kateryna Halstead ('25)
Thomas Hanshaw (B'80, '81)
Patricia Hartendorp (B'09, '10)
Richard Jones (B'66'65)
Edward Joseph (B'81, '81)
Iva Joseph
Joy King (B'16, '17)
Scott Kleinberg (B'88, '90)
Cheng Chwee Kuik ('10)
Benie Kwarteng (B'23, '24)
Anne Lester Trevisan ('90)
Alain Letort (B'72, '73)
Yiyang Lian (B'24, '25)
Christoph Lindemann (B'80, '81)
Christine LoCascio (B'99, '00)
Audrey Lodes (B'23, '24)
Alex Lok (B'07, '08)
Theresa Luetkefend (B'22, '23)
Leyla Mammadli Mammadli (B'10, '11)
Jason Marczak (B'02, '03)
Mary Marks (B'80, '81)
Matthias Matthijs (B'02, '03)
Zachary McCutcheon (B'19, '20)
Sean McElhose (B'21,B'22)
Jill McGovern
David Mena (B'23, '24)
Noor Menten (B'23)
Milos Milivojevic (B'22, '23)
Karen Miller (B'10, '11)
Marcela Monsalve ('24)
Melissa Moye (B'86, '86)
Kate Murray (B'18, '19)
James Nadel (B'16, '17)
Jessica Norris
Caitlin O’Grady (B'18, '19)
Alysson Oakley ('09)
Peter OBrien (B'03, '04)
Paul Oliva (B'91, '92)
Laurence Olivieri (B'22, '23)
Jennifer Owen (B'87, '88)
John Parachini (B'87, '90)
Maddalena Perretti (B'16, '17)
Mariola Pogacnik (B'02, '03)
Elif Nisa Polat (B'19)
Luke Radice (B'24, '25)
Catherine Reynolds (B'06, '07)
Edmund Ruffin (B'87, '88)
Aida Sacks
Richard Sacks (B'87, '88)
Rachel Schneller (B'00, '01)
Lauren Scolnic (B'09, '10)
Sonia Sharan (B'16, '17)
Ben Shinogle (B'21, '22)
David Snyder (B'81, '80)
Matthew Sola (B'85, '86)
Cecelia Spitznas
Joel Starr
Pamela Stedman-Edwards (B'87, '88)
Chris Stelling (B'86, '87)
Colleen Sullivan (B'21,B'22)
James Tawney (B'19, '20)
Adrian Trevisan (B'89, '90)
Stephen Vanilio (B'76, '77)
Albrecht von Campenhausen (B'24, '25)
Alison von Klemperer (B'86, '87)
Sophia Celeste Vos (B'23,B'24)
Rebecca Williams (B'86, '87)
Rhys Williams (B'86, '87)
Bonnie Wilson (B'67,B'71)
Bridget Winstead Mitchell (B'24)
Andrew Young (B'87, '88)
Shuhan Yue (B'22, '23)
David Zeger (B'24, '25)
Alina Zyszkowski (B'87)

Sponsors

Platinum
Nicholas Cortezi (B'87, '08, JHU '88)
Jill McGovern
Eric Melby (B'71, '72) &Pamela Melby
Clare Munana (B'77, '78) & Madeleine McCartney (B'15, '16)
Thomas Tesluk (B'81, '82) & Kathleen Tesluk ('83)

Gold
Kenneth Keller & Bonita Sindelir
Marshall Millsap (B'75, '76) & Teddi Alexander
Alison von Klemperer (B'86, '89)
Jack Wasserman (B'64) & Carol Wasserman

Programs & Photos from Past Editions


Amici di Bologna 2024 Photo Gallery


Amici di Bologna 2023
Delegates Dining Room at the United Nations, NY
October 14th, 2023
Photo Gallery

Challenges to the Global Liberal Order: Which Way Forward? .
    Speakers:
  • Michael Plummer (B'82), SAIS Europe Director (outgoing) and ENI Professor of International Economics
  • Eugene Finkel, Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs and Academic and Faculty Liaison

    • Moderated by:
  • Sara Gay Forden (B'87, '88), DC Legal Team leader for Bloomberg News, Author of House of Gucci - New York Times Best Seller


Amici di Bologna 2022
Manhattan Penthouse
October 15th, 2022
Photo Gallery

The War in Ukraine and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
    Speakers:
  • Jessica Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Director of the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program
  • Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor

    • Moderated by:
  • James Steinberg, Dean of SAIS

Amici di Bologna 2021 (Virtual)
Online
October 9th, 2021
U.S.-China Relations in the New Era of Tech Competition
    Speakers:
  • Sergey Radchenko, SAIS Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor
  • Thomas Rid, SAIS Professor of Strategic Studies

    • Moderated by:
  • Julia Friedlander ('10), CEO, Atlantik-Brücke

Amici di Bologna 2020 (Virtual)
Online
October 3rd, 2020
U.S. Foreign Policy After the Elections: Which Direction?

    Speakers:

  • Madeleine Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group and Albright Capital Management; Former U.S. Secretary of State

  • Christopher Hill, SAIS Senior Adjunct Professor
    Moderated by:

  • Michael Leigh, SAIS Academic Director, Master of Arts in European Public Policy; and Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies

Amici di Bologna 2018
UN Delegates Dining Room - New York City
October 6th, 2018
Photo Gallery

The Migration Challenge: Immigration Issues Facing the US and Europe
    Speakers:

  • Antonio Parenti (B '94, '95), Minister Counsellor, EU Delegation to the UN; and Principal EU negotiator to the UN Global Compact on Migration

  • Jaqueline Mazza (B '83, '84, PhD.'98), Adjunct Professor of International Development at SAIS
    Moderated by:

  • Michael G. Plummer (B '82), Director of SAIS Europe; and Eni Professor of International Economics


Amici di Bologna 2017
Austrian Embassy - Washington D.C.
"Amici di Bologna Austrian Ball"
October 7th, 2017
Photo Gallery

Populism and Foreign Policy
    Speakers:

  • Christopher Hill, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs

  • Margaret MacMillan, Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs
    Moderated by:

  • Erik Jones (B'89, '90, SAIS PhD '96), Director of European and Eurasian Studies; and Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy


Amici di Bologna 2016
Clyde Frazier's Restaurant - New York City
"Boo-logna Halloween Party"
October 29th, 2016
Photo Gallery

Policy Challenges Facing the Next Administration: What Scares You the Most?
    Speakers:

  • Sandra Babcock (B'85, JHU'86), Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

    Human Rights in an Age of Populism
    At their national conventions, the rhetoric and platforms of Republicans and Democrats offered different glimpses of policy choices that will have profound implications for the country's human rights practices at home and abroad. Will the winner of the November elections imperil or strengthen the United States' human rights record?

  • Alan Kuperman ('96), Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

    Nuclear Weapons Modernization: Spending Billions to Make Us Less Secure?
    President Obama has embraced modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons to make them more usable, by increasing their precision and reducing their yield. Will the next president continue down this road that makes nuclear war more likely?

  • Michael Plummer (B'82), Director, SAIS Europe, and Eni Professor of International Economics

    What Happens When Rhetoric Meets Economic Reality after November?
    Candidates for both parties have presented economic programs that will require extensive elaboration once in office. Which known unknowns will be of greatest concern?
    Moderated by:

  • Paul Cruickshank (B'03,'04), CNN's Terrorism Analyst, Editor in Chief, CTC Sentinel

Amici di Bologna 2015
The Italian Embassy - Washington, DC.
October 10th, 2015
Photo Gallery

Looking Over the Horizon - Strategic Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Next U.S. Administration
    Speakers:

  • Deborah Bräutigam, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor in International Political Economy; Professor of International Development and Comparative Politics; and Director of International Development Program and China-Africa Research Initiative - SAIS

  • Mark Gilbert, Professor of International History, SAIS Europe

  • John McLaughlin, (B'66, '66), Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, The Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, SAIS Europe
    Moderated by:

  • Mary E. Kissel, (B'03, '04), Member of the Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal

Amici di Bologna 2014
The Atlantica - New York City
October 25th, 2014
Photo Gallery

Russia, Ukraine and the West: A New Cold War?
    Speakers:

  • Nicholas Burns ('80), Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and former Under Secretary of State

  • John Harper (B'76, '77, Ph.D '81), Professor of American Foreign Policy at SAIS Europe

Amici di Bologna 2013
UN Delegates Dining Room - New York City
October 5th, 2013
Photo Gallery

The Limits of American Strategy and the Challenges of Intervention
    Speakers:

  • David C. Unger, Member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times; and Adjunct Professor of American Foreign Policy - SAIS Europe

  • Erik Jones (B'89, '90, SAIS PhD '96), Director of European and Eurasian Studies; and Director of the Bologna Institute for Policy Research (BIPR) - SAIS Europe

Amici di Bologna 2012
New York Athletic Club - New York City
June 1st, 2012
Photo Gallery

The End of the End of History: So What's Next?
    Speakers:

  • Marco Cesa, Professor of International Relations, SAIS Bologna Center and University of Bologna

  • Michael Plummer (B'82), ENI Chair in International Economics, SAIS Bologna Center
    Moderated by:

  • Erik Jones (B'89, '90, SAIS PhD '96), Professor of European Studies, SAIS Bologna Center; and Director, Bologna Institute for Policy Research

Amici di Bologna 2011
230 Fifth - New York City
June 4th, 2011
Photo Gallery

Beyond Regionalism: Complexity and Risk in a Changing Global Environment
    Speakers:

  • Mahrukh Doctor (B'89, '90), Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Hull, UK; and SAIS Europe Visiting Associate Professor

  • Mark Gilbert, SAIS Europe Visiting Associate Professor of History

  • Erik Jones (B'89, '90, SAIS PhD '96), SAIS Europe Professor of European Studies

Amici di Bologna 2010
Desmond Tutu Center - New York City
June 5th, 2010

Islam in Europe
    Speakers:

  • Karim Mezran (SAIS PhD '02), Adjunct professor of Middle East Studies

  • Erik Jones (B'89, '90, SAIS PhD '96), Professor of European Studies

  • Thomas Row (B'79, '80, SAIS PhD '88), Senior Adjunct Professor of History
    Moderated by:

  • Kenneth H. Keller (MSE JHU'63, JHU PhD '64), Bologna Center Director and Professor of Science and Technology Policy

Amici di Bologna 2009
UN Delegates Dining Room - New York City
June 6th, 2009

Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
    Speakers:

  • Marco Cesa, Professor of International Relations

  • Erik Jones (B'89, '90, SAIS PhD '96), Professor of European Studies

  • Vera Negri Zamagni, Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics
    Moderated by:

  • Kenneth H. Keller (MSE JHU'63, JHU PhD '64), Bologna Center Director and Professor of International Policy

Amici di Bologna 2008
Bank of America and Tribeca Restaurant- New York City
June 2008



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