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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Past Events

Conferences

Global Capitalism, Trust and Accountability Conference

Friday, April 4, 2025 | 1:30 PM - Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 5:30 PM (Pacific)

Panel Discussions

Dark Money: The Hidden Enablers of Crime and Global Exploitation

Friday, April 4, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

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Seminars

Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Problem of Delegation

Thursday, April 3, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)

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Seminars

Electoral Preferences of Turkey's Elusive Alevi Population | Ali Çarkoğlu

Monday, March 31, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)

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Film Screenings

Seminars

Panel Discussions

Featured Past Events

Past Events

Global Capitalism, Trust and Accountability Conference

Dark Money: The Hidden Enablers of Crime and Global Exploitation

Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Problem of Delegation

Electoral Preferences of Turkey's Elusive Alevi Population | Ali Çarkoğlu

Ukrainian Film Screening: Porcelain War

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