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Conferences Archive: 2005/06

03.30.2006 - 03.31.2006
Location: USC
Topic: After Yugoslavia: A Symposium for Scholars and Practitioners

03.03.2006 - 03.04.2006
Location: Davidson Conference Center
Topic: Northeast Asia's Economic and Security Regionalism: Old Constraints and New Prospects
In cooperation with the Center for International Studies (CIS) at USC, this conference has been sponsored by the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership (CGP), the Korea Studies Institute (KSI) at USC and the Kim Dae Jung Presidential Library and Museum at Yonsei University.

02.02.2006 - 02.03.2006
Location: Davidson Conference Center, USC
Topic: CONFERENCE on INTELLIGENCE STUDIES
CONFERENCE on INTELLIGENCE STUDIES
Sponsored by:
CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence
in cooperation with
The University of Southern California’s
School of International Relations
Center for International Studies
Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events
Center on Public Diplomacy

Davidson Conference Center,
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA
2-3 Feb 2006

On 2-3 February 2006, the University of Southern California and CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence will sponsor the first of a series of regionally-focused conferences on intelligence studies. The conference will bring together scholars from Southern California as well as veteran intelligence officers from Washington, D.C. to discuss topics of critical importance to understanding today’s national intelligence community. All panels will feature a mix of veteran intelligence officers and scholars.

Panels will include:
• “The Intelligence Community Today: How the Intelligence Community Is Structured and Functions; How It Differs from the Past; Tasks of the New Organizations and the Role Of The DNI”
• “Terrorism Risk Assessment”
• “What to Expect from Intelligence: What Intelligence Can Do And What It Cannot Do”
• “Public Diplomacy and Intelligence”
• “Intelligence and the Academy: Relations between Intelligence Community and US Institutions of Higher Education, Past, Present, and Future”


Speakers will include:

John C. Gannon, Vice President for Global Analysis, BAE Systems; formerly Staff Director House Select Committee on Homeland Security; Head White House Team, Department of Homeland Security Transition Planning Office; Vice Chair, Intellibridge Corporation; Assistant Director for Analysis and Production, CIA; Chair of the National Intelligence Council; Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA.

Mark Lowenthal, President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC; former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production; Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council, and Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence.

Kevin O’Connell, Director, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis in Washington, D.C.; formerly Director of Central Intelligence Community Management Staff; Special Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs; Senior Analyst, White House Situation Room, National Security Council; Analyst, Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Martin C. Petersen, Business Development Manager, Science Applications International Corporation; formerly Deputy Executive Director of CIA; Assistant Deputy Director of Intelligence for Strategic Planning and Programs, CIA; Director of the Office of Asian Pacific and Latin American Analysis, CIA; and Director of the Office of East Asian Analysis, CIA.

Jennifer Sims, professorial lecturer, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, freelance writer and a private consultant in Washington, DC; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination and Department of State’s first Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning.

Melissa Smisloval, Acting Director, Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center (HITRAC) U.S. Department of Homeland Security; formerly Senior North Korean Analyst, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense. (Invited)

Gregory Treverton, senior policy analyst at RAND and Associate Dean of the RAND Graduate School; formerly Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center (RAND). Served on the staff of the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of the National Security Council, and as Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council.

Please see this web link for confernece link, details & registration form: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/


If you are interested in attending this conference, please contact:
Linda Cole
School of International Relations
University of Southern California
213 740 2139
lcole@usc.edu


10.14.2005
Location: Davidson Conference Center
Topic: East Asian Cross Regionalism

09.23.2005 - 09.24.2005
Location: Davidson Conference Center
Topic: Urban and Environmental Governance in Global Perspective: An International Workshop
Please Contact the Center for International Studies for more information.