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Building the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arab World: China's Middle East Math
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST
Jonathan Fulton, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi; nonresident senior fellow for Middle East Programs and the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Atlantic Council, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Sanam Vakil, James Anderson Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe; Director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MQM8DkJVQ4S0XfZbTKJJGw#/registration.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.
"Sensing the Climate”: How Do International Policy Makers 'Sense' Nature?
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 12:00 pm EDT / H. 6:00 pm CEST
Joanne Yao, Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London and Ludovica Chiussi Curzi, Senior Assistant Professor in Public International Law, University of Bologna, delivers a seminar as part of the Festival of Ecological Imagination.
The event is hosted by Nina Hall, Associate Professor of International Relations, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VIIZahLuQPKlx8FGwE0n2g#/registration.
Monday, October 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual / Online.
New Economic Challenges Facing the Middle East in the Trump Era
SAIS Europe Campus
9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST
Raed Safadi, Partner & Chief Economist, Whiteshield, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Michael G. Plummer, Eni Professor of International Economics, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBOoFirETaKWGwutqPS-Dg#/registration.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.
How Europeans Saw the World and Europe: Global Perspectives on European Integration since 1918
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 12:00 pm EDT / H. 6:00 pm CEST
Anne-Isabelle Richard, historian at Leiden University, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Mark Gilbert, C. Grove Haines Professor, Professor of History and International Studies, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EEMEyaJJR5qFF5QMbqI2GQ#/registration.
Monday, October 13, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual / Online.
Syria Sanctions at a Crossroads
Join our panelists to discuss the current state of sanctions on Syria, examining their impact on governance, humanitarian access, and international diplomacy. By bringing together regional experts, the discussion will consider the future of sanctions in light of ongoing reconstruction prospects, and shifting global power dynamics. Join us for a timely and thought-provoking conversation on the effectiveness, ethics, and future trajectory of sanctions policy at this critical crossroads for Syria and the international community.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (Event is Open to) - SAIS Community, Audience (Event is Open to) - JHU Community. RSVP Link: SyriaSanctions.eventbrite.com.
Monday, October 13, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
555 Penn, Room 820 - Large Conference Center Room.
Ethnicity and Public Opinion in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Russia
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST,
Kyle Lohse Marquardt, Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Eugene Finkel, Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2FuiI5G9Q3qDRu-LZtzegg#/registration.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.
Faculty Research Forum: Vigilante Islamists with Joshua White
Professor Joshua White presents his new book, Vigilante Islamists: Religious Parties and Anti-State Violence in Pakistan, in conversation with Professor Devesh Kapur, with introductory remarks by Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs Peter M. Lewis.
Vigilante Islamists investigates the role that Pakistan's Islamist political parties have played since the 1990s as both collaborators and competitors with violent anti-state movements. Drawing on dozens of interviews with party insiders, Urdu-language publications, and internal documents, White explains the ways in which these small but influential parties have navigated between their interests in championing an ever-more expansive vision of Islamic law, and continuing their legitimate participation in democratic politics.
The book argues that the decisions of Islamist parties about whether to embrace violent anti-state movements or countenance vigilantism within their own ranks are shaped in part by their religious and ideological traditions, but more so by their…
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (Event is Open to) - Staff, Audience (Event is Open to) - Students, Audience (Event is Open to) - SAIS Community, Audience (Event is Open to) - JHU Community.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
555 Penn, Room 258 - Classroom.
Democracy and War: Politics and Identity in a Time of Global Threats
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 12:00 pm EDT / H. 6:00 pm CEST
Norbert Röttgen, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag; Former Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Hartmut Mayer, Steven Muller Chair and Academic Director, Master of Arts in Global Risk, Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ujq7PNbUStmraOA3xhChUQ#/registration.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual / Online.
Can Europe Restore its Credibility in the Middle East?
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 10:30 AM EDT / H. 3:30 PM CET
Daniel Levy, President, U.S./Middle East Project, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Nathalie Tocci, James Anderson Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe; Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zQjaS2ivTdSwCU_wfowGaw#/registration.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
Virtual / Online.