Summer Faculty Institute 2003

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

8:30 am: Registration at Lewis-Sebring Commons, Valentine Hall

10:00 am: Lorna Peterson (Five Colleges, Inc) - Welcome

10:15 am: Michael Klare (PAWSS) - Opening Remarks

10:30 am: Janne Nolan (Georgetown University) - The Threat of Mass Destruction in a Changing Global Security Environment

12:00 pm: Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:00 pm: Leonard Spector (Monterey Institute of International Studies) - The Trajectory of Proliferation Trends Over the Last Twenty Years

2:45 pm: Coffee Break

3:00 pm: Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment) - The New Debate over Non-Proliferation Policy

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 Evening

6:00 pm: Reception and Dinner (Dining Commons)

7:30 pm: Public Forum - The War and The Weapons: What Has Been Learned About Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Speakers: Joseph Cirincione, Christopher Paine, Susan Wright). Location: Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

7:30 am: Breakfast (Dining Commons)

9:00 am: Christopher Paine (Natural Resources Defense Council) - A Critical Assessment of the Bush Administration's National Security Strategy

10:30 am: Coffee Break

10:45 am: Robert Alvarez (Institute for Policy Study, formerly with DOE) - Asian Security and North Korea's Nuclear Program

12:15 pm: Lunch (Dining Commons)

2:00 pm: Pervez Hoodbhoy (Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan) - Pakistan, India, and America: The Nuclear Dangers Ahead

3:30 pm: Coffee Break

3:45 pm: Steven Miller (Kennedy School, Harvard University) - Managing Russia's WMD Arsenal

6:00 pm: Dinner (Dining Commons)

7:30 pm: Movie: Avoiding Armageddon

Thursday, June 12, 2003

7:30 am: Breakfast (Dining Commons)

9:00 am: Susan Wright (University of Michigan) - Rethinking the Biological Weapons Threat

10:30 am: Coffee Break

10:45 am: Peter Weiss (Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy) - The Illegality of Weapons of Mass Destruction

12:15 pm: Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:15 pm: Frances Fitzgerald (Author) - The History and Mythology of Ballistic Missile Defense

2:45 pm: Coffee Break

3:00 pm: David Wright (Union of Concerned Scientists & MIT) - Recent Developments in Ballistic Missile Defense and Space Weapons

Thursday, June 12, 2003 Evening

6:00 pm: Reception and Banquet Dinner to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of PAWSS

Speakers: Allen Krass (Office of Non Proliferation, State Dept) - A Retrospective View of PAWSS and Gregory Prince (President, Hampshire College)- The Academy's Future Contribution to Peacemaking

Friday, June 13, 2002

7:30 am: Breakfast (Dining Commons)

8:30 am: Michael Klare and Laura Reed (PAWSS) - Integrating the Themes of the Institute into Undergraduate Courses

9:45 am: Lawrence Wittner (SUNY Albany) - A History of Worldwide Resistance to the Nuclear Arms Race

11:00 am: Coffee Break

11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) - The Future of Arms Control in Promoting Peace and Security

12:30 pm: Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:00 pm: Adjourn