JHU SAIS to Host Conference on Competing Visions of Europe and America

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will host a two-day conference, "Competing Visions of Europe and America," on Monday, 09/22 and Tuesday, 09/23.

The conference, co-sponsored by the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the American Consortium on European Union Studies, will address such questions as "Does culture matter in transatlantic politics?", What does it mean to be American?", "What does it mean to be European?", and "What do our assumptions about who we are mean for transatlantic relations?" Writers, novelists and opinion-makers from the United States and Europe will address these issues.

Featured speakers include:

Bernard-Henri Levy, writer, philosopher and author of a recent book about the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Perle

Brent Glass, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Pierre Hassner, professor at the Institute of Political Studies and Center for International Studies and Research at the National Foundation for Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) in Paris

Roberto Pazzi, leading Italian novelist

Francis Fukuyama, SAIS dean of faculty and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy

A complete conference agenda, listing all speakers and panel sessions is below.

The first day of the conference, Monday, 09/22, will be held in the Embassy of Italy's Chancery located at 3000 Whitehaven St., N.W. The second day of the conference, Tuesday, 09/23, will be held in Kenney Auditorium located on the first floor of SAIS' Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. The conference is free and open to the public. Members of the public must register to attend the conference by Friday, 09/19 by calling 202.663.5730 or emailing transatlantic@jhu.edu. Conference attendees should bring a photo I.D. for entrance to the Italian Embassy.

Members of the media who want to attend the conference should register with Felisa Neuringer Klubes at the SAIS Public Affairs Office at

202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

and

The Center for Transatlantic Relations

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Johns Hopkins University

and the

American Consortium on European Union Studies (ACES)

"Competing Visions of Europe and America"

09/22-23/2003

Monday, 09/22

LOCATION: Auditorium

Embassy of Italy, Chancery

3000 Whitehaven Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20008

2:00-2:15 p.m. Welcome

Stefano Stefanini, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Italy

Esther Brimmer, Deputy Director and Director of Research, Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

Samuel F. Wells, Jr., Director West European Studies and Associate Director, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Identities and Culture

2:15-4:00 p.m. Session One: Visions of Europe

Roberto Pazzi, novelist, poet, commentator

Bernard-Henri Lévy, writer, novelist, commentator

Discussant: Martin Walker, writer and Chief International Correspondent, United Press International

Moderator: Esther Brimmer

4:00-4:15 p.m. Coffee

4:15-6:00 p.m. Session Two: Visions of America

Brent D. Glass, Director, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Gary Lapera, architect, Michael Graves & Associates

Peter Schoenfeld, Consultant, Universal Studios and former President Universal Studios New Media Group

Cynthia Schneider. Associate Professor of Art History, Georgetown University and former U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands.

Discussant: Elemér Hankiss, Director, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Moderator: Esther Brimmer

6:00-7:30 p.m. Reception/Buffet Dinner -Embassy of Italy

Tuesday, 09/23

LOCATION: Kenney Auditorium

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Johns Hopkins University

1740 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20036

Identities and International Politics

9:00-10:30 a.m. Session Three: Europe Strong or Weak: Implications for Transatlantic Relations

Strong or weak Europe?

Pierre Hassner, Institute of Political Studies and Center for International Studies and Research, National Foundation for Political Sciences (Sciences-Po), Paris

What identity for Europe: implications for transatlantic relations?

Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Samuel F. Wells, Jr.

10:45-12:15 p.m. Session Four: Constitutional Visions of European Integration

The federalist vision

Professor U.K. Preuss, Free University, Berlin (Invited)

The inter-governmental vision

Jan Rood, Director of Research, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague

The hybrid vision

Philippe Moreau Defarges, French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Paris

Moderator: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

12:15-1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00- 2:30 p.m. The European Union with Whom and for What?

Where does the EU stop?

Ulrike Guérot, German Council for Foreign Affairs (DGAP)

What should the EU do?

Giovanni Grevi, Associate Director of Studies, European Policy Centre, Brussels

Moderator: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat,

2:30-3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks: Culture and Transatlantic Relations

Moderator: Samuel F. Wells