CIS 50th Anniversary Symposium
May 16, 2002
MIT's Wong Auditorium

• INTRODUCTION: CIS Director Richard Samuels
  Director, MIT Center for International Studies
  Ford International Professor of Political Science

• VIDEOTAPED REMARKS: Walt W. Rostow
  Dr. Rostow was Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin . He directed early CIS studies of China and the Soviet Union while holding a professorship in economic history at MIT during the 1950s.

• PANEL 1: Research and the National Interest
  Carl Kaysen
  David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, and Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs in the Kennedy administration
  Francis Bator
  Lucius Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
  Francis X. Sutton
  Former Deputy Vice President of the Ford Foundation's International Division
  Thomas Schelling
  Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
  Ernest Moniz
  MIT Professor of Physics and former Undersecretary of Energy

• PANEL 2: Conflict in the Twenty-first Century
  Stephen Van Evera
  Associate Director, MIT Center for International Studies
  MIT Professor of Political Science
  John Mueller
  Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, Ohio State University
  Jack Snyder
  Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
  Cindy Williams
  Principal Research Scientist, MIT Security Studies Program
  Q&A

• REMARKS: Former CIS Director Eugene Skolnikoff
  MIT Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

• PANEL 3: Human Rights and Justice
  Balakrishnan Rajagopal
  Ford International Assistant Professor of Law and Development
  Director, CIS Program in Human Rights and Justice
  Saskia Sassen
  Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
  Tom Farer
  Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
  CG Weeramantry
  Retired Vice President of the International Court of Justice
  Joshua Cohen
  Head, MIT Department of Political Science
  Q&A Part 1
  Q&A Part 2

• PANEL 4: Global Education and Its Significance in the New Century
  Suzanne Berger
  Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, MIT
  Director, MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI)
  Norman Neureiter
  Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State
  Arthur Pfaelzer
  President, Intronics, Inc.
  Xiaomin Mou
  Former MISTI intern in Japan and China
  MIT M.A., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Q&A

• REMARKS: Former CIS Director Kenneth Oye
  MIT Associate Professor of Political Science