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Keeping the Lights On: The Battle for the Ukrainian Grid [[link removed]]
Tuesday, September 17 // 10:00–11:00 am (ET)
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian grid became the target of Russian missile attacks. In October 2022 Russia began a concerted bombing campaign of Ukraine electrical distribution infrastructure which resulted loss of electricity to large number of Ukrainian consumers and at least one major nation-wide blackouts on November 23, 2022. In spring 2024, Russia renewed its attack on the grid and in several massive barrages damaged upward of 80 percent of thermal and hydro power generating facilities. How has Ukraine been able to keep the lights in the face of Russian malice? What does the immediate and long-term future hold for the Ukrainian grid? How do developments in Ukraine affect European energy security and Europe’s grid? And what are the lessons for national electrical grids and their operators worldwide from the war in Ukraine?
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Cyprus Banks on the Frontline of Sanctions Compliance [[link removed]]Monday, September 16 // 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for a conversation with the top compliance officers from leading banks in the region for a look at how they have worked at the forefront of combatting Russia’s sanctions evasions efforts and to make Cyprus a model for sanctions and anti-money laundering enforcement.
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Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century [[link removed]]Monday, September 16 // 4:00 –5:30 pm (ET)
For the 75th anniversary of 1984, historian Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they remain critical today. Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics; the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own – rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies – make his writing even more of the moment. Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work – six novels, three non-fiction works, and multiple essays on politics, language, and the class system – to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all of his complexity.
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Securing Africa’s Critical Mineral Wealth: A Role for Sovereign Wealth Funds [[link removed]]Tuesday September 17 // 10:00 –11:30 am (ET)
Join the Wilson Center on September 17 from 10:00-11:30 AM for a Brown Capital Management - Africa Forum public event on how policymakers and private investors can think differently about how to harness Africa’s critical mineral wealth to build infrastructure and new economies on the continent.
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Latin America: The Vision of its Leaders [[link removed]]Wednesday, September 18 // 3:30 –4:30 pm (ET)
Book Event “Latin America: The Vision of its Leaders” (Planeta, June 2024) by Andres Rugeles, associate member of the University of Oxford, member of the advisory board of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE), and fellow of the I+D Foundation. With the participation of Ivan Duque, former President of Colombia; Rebecca Bill Chavez, president of the Inter-American Dialogue; and Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Uruguay Goes to the Polls [[link removed]]Thursday, September 19 // 10:00 - 11:00 am
Join the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program for a conversation about Uruguay’s presidential election, with insights from experts including Lacalle Pou’s father, former President Luis Lacalle Herrera, who will participate from Montevideo. Nicolás Saldías, Amparo Mercader, and Gabriel Oddone will join us in Washington.
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Making Socialism Work: Economic Reform and the Soviet Enterprise, 1960s-2000s [[link removed]]Thursday, September 19 // 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Focused almost exclusively on Moscow, scholars typically suggest that the Kosygin Reform of 1965 had little effect on the Soviet economy. But by looking instead at the level of the factory — in this case the Shchekino Chemical Combine, a large producer of chemical fertilizers located in the Tula Region — Title VIII Research Scholar James Nealy will demonstrate how the Kosygin Reform had a long-lasting influence on production in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia. In doing so, this talk aims to demonstrate precisely how much we can learn about authoritarian regimes by simply looking outside of traditional centers of power.
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Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 [[link removed]]Thursday, September 19 // 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Join Radoslav Yordanov (Harvard University) for a discussion on his book, Our Comrades in Havana. In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America. But by the late 1980s, Havana’s relationship with the Soviet-led socialist bloc had soured over its inability to adopt modes of socialist planning and Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Yordanov examines Cuba’s ideological, political, and economic relations with the Eastern European states.
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Advancing Biodiversity for Community Resilience and Global Stability: Insights Ahead of COP16 [[link removed]]Friday, September 20 // 9:30 - 11:00 am
Join the Wilson Center with a distinguished panel of experts as they explore the significance of the biodiversity summit, why it matters to the resilience of communities around the world and global stability, and what investments are needed to advance biodiversity protection.
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