Wilson China Fellowship Conference 2024

Monday, June 3 // 9:00 am–4:15 pm (ET)

The United States and China face an era increasingly defined by disruption, competition, and disorder. Washington and Beijing find themselves at odds across a number of vital issues: critical and emerging technologies, trade, the future of international order, and China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Yet, amid competition, they must also cooperate. Climate change, pandemics, and mitigating the risk of military conflict, among other crucial global issues, demand bilateral cooperation.

Please join us on June 3rd at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as our 2023–24 Wilson China Fellows present their projects and discuss these issues and more with program alumni and other esteemed experts for our fourth annual Wilson China Fellowship Conference.

STILL TO Come THIS Week

Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability

Tuesday, June 4 // 2:00–3:00 pm (ET)

Kennan Institute Advisory Council Chair Michael Kimmage will discuss his new book on the war in Ukraine, Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability. The book chronicles the long march to the 2022 full-scale invasion, starting in 2008 and covering developments in Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the United States. Kimmage will explore the origins of this war and will place this momentous and terrible event in historical context.

The High Seas Treaty: Latin American Leadership on Ocean Conservation

Thursday, June 6 // 10:30am–12:15 pm (ET)

Prior to the High-Level Event on Ocean Action: Immersed in Change, from June 7 to 8 in San José, Costa Rica, the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), will host a dialogue on Latin America’s leadership in supporting ratification and implementation of the High Seas Treaty as an important means to protecting the oceans and achieving the 30x30 global conservation agenda.

Mexico's Elections: Outcomes and Implications

Thursday, June 6 // 11:00 am–12:30 pm (ET)

Ahead of the June presidential elections in Mexico, the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute organized a series of webinars covering critical issues concerning the electoral process to develop policy recommendations on the major challenges the incoming administration will face. Following the elections on June 2nd, we will provide analysis from top experts from civil society, academia, and the press from both sides of the border on what the results mean for the future of democracy in the country, and what to expect once the new president takes office.

After Václav Havel: From Theater to Social Activism in Eastern Europe and Russia

Thursday, June 6 // 3–4:00 pm (ET)

New Drama (Новая драма), an artistic movement that uses theater to speak about social problems, first gained traction in Russia’s regional centers in the early 1990s before storming Moscow’s theater scene. In this lecture, Title VIII Early Career Scholar Susanna Weygandt will discuss some of the findings from her forthcoming book, From Metaphor to Direct Speech: Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory (University of Wisconsin Press). She will also present an early version of her digital archive project which showcases activist Russian documentary drama within the broader context of theater for social change in Belarus and Ukraine.