Past Israel Program Events

Featured Past Events

Climate Resilience Conference

More than 200 academics and political leaders met for “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv,” a groundbreaking conference organized by CDDRL's Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program.

Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Yossi Klein Halevi

The discussion is moderated by Professor Larry Diamond, in conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Q&A with the audience is moderated by Amichai Magen, FSI's inaugural Visiting Fellow in

Reflections on Israel at 75

Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Featuring a discussion on Israel’s many notable achievements as well as the challenges to its democratic nature.

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Seminars

Economic Growth in MENA: Challenges and Potential

Thursday, March 6, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific)

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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Shapes the Fate of Societies

Thursday, March 6, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)

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Yoav Heller — The Fourth Quarter: What Will Israel Look Like in 2048?

Thursday, March 6, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Pacific)

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Turkey in Syria: The Intersection of Domestic Politics and International Dynamics

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (Pacific)

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Press Under Pressure: Compliance and the Cost of Truth

Monday, March 3, 2025
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM (Pacific)

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Featured Past Events

Past Events

Economic Growth in MENA: Challenges and Potential

Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Shapes the Fate of Societies

Yoav Heller — The Fourth Quarter: What Will Israel Look Like in 2048?

Turkey in Syria: The Intersection of Domestic Politics and International Dynamics

Press Under Pressure: Compliance and the Cost of Truth

The Authoritarian Paradox: How Centralization Weakens Regime Control in Electoral Autocracies

Juliet Johnson | REDS Seminar — Show Me the Money: Central Bank Museums and Public Trust in Monetary Governance

The Art of Diplomacy with Stuart Eizenstat

Three Years of War: Updates from Ukraine

Race and Presidential Impeachment: Lessons for the Current Era

Book Launch | The Great Retreat, by Didi Kuo

The Future of India’s Democracy

Beyond the Pitch Deck: Truths About VC

After the Vote: What the 2024 Elections Mean for Immigration Advocacy and Reform

Keith Darden | REDS Seminar — The Russian-Ukrainian War and the Re-Nationalization of Europe

Syria in Transition: Historical Origins and Prospects

Leveraging Technology and Deliberation to Revitalize Democracy

Ari Shavit — Existential War: From Catastrophe, to Victory, to Revival

Andreas B. Wiedemann | How Electoral Realignment Changes Partisan Incentives to Provide Social Housing

Electoral Dynamics Under Democratic Erosion: Exploring the Turkish Experience from 1990 to 2023

Einat Wilf — Twenty-First Century Zionism: Idea Foundations for Israel After October 7th

Information Session - Fisher Family CDDRL Honors Program AY25-26

Yoshiko Herrera | REDS Seminar — Identities and War: What We Can Learn from Russia’s War on Ukraine

The EU Constitution in Time of War

Epidemiological Shocks, Governance, and Extraction in Colonial Mexico