OXFORD comes to WASHINGTON PROGRAM IN BRIEF Registration Lunch 8:00 am – 3:00 pm 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm n Palladian/Diplomat Ballrooms SPEAKER: The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson Continental Breakfast 8:30 am – 9:30 am n Diplomat Ballroom Break 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Continental Breakfast featuring Jonathan Black, Director of Careers Service 8:30 am – 9:30 am n Congressional Room Ocean Circulation and Climate: Why the Oceans Matter! 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm n Diplomat Ballroom Welcoming Remarks featuring Professor Nick Rawlins SPEAKER: 9:45 am – 10:00 am n Palladian Ballroom Professor David Marshall Enigmas of Arrival Politics of the Extremes 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm n Empire Ballroom 10:00 am – 11:15 am n Palladian Ballroom SPEAKERS: MODERATOR: Professor Elleke Boehmer Mr. Elliot Gerson Dr. Faisal Devji SPEAKERS: Dr. Imaobong Umoren The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes Dr. E.J. Dionne Professor Marc Stears Coffee Break 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm n Diplomat Foyer Coffee Break 11:15 am – 11:45 am n Diplomat Foyer Oxford and the Education of Leaders 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm n Palladian Ballroom MODERATOR: A Hidden Revolution that The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson Will Transform Medicine SPEAKERS: 11:45 am – 12:45 pm n Diplomat Ballroom The Honorable Sylvia M. Burwell SPEAKERS: The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Professor Matthew Freeman Professor Ngaire Woods Professor Dame Carol Robinson The State of American Politics Drinks Reception 11:45 am – 12:45 pm n Empire Ballroom 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm n Diplomat Ballroom MODERATOR: Professor Jay Sexton SPEAKERS: Congressman Jim Himes Professor Lisa L. Miller #OxNA2016 Use our hashtag and find Twitter handles for our speakers throughout the program to join the conversation on Facebook and Instagram! SATURDAYSATURDAY 12 9 APRILAPRIL PROGRAMPROGRAM Continental Breakfast Politics of the Extremes 8:30 am – 9:30 am 10:00 am – 11:15 am Informal breakfast with open seating available Many countries are currently seeing the rise of parties with non- to all registered attendees. compromising policies, extreme approaches to social problems, and rhetorical styles that reject specific social groups. Why are these voices from the political edges becoming dominant in Continental Breakfast featuring Jonathan electoral campaigns? Are we entering a new age of extremes? Black, Director of Careers Service ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION! 8:30 am - 9:30 am @Politics_Oxford @EJDionne @mds49 Breakfast with a 15 minute talk/workshop on networking and interviewing - brush up your skills and get ready for the day MODERATOR: Mr. Elliot Gerson is Executive Vice ahead. President of Policy and Public Programs, ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION International Partners at the Aspen @OxfordCareers @JonathanPBlack Institute, an educational and policy studies organization whose mission is to foster leadership through the creation of forums for the discussion of critical Welcoming Remarks domestic and international policy issues. A 9:45 am – 10:00 am member of the senior management team since 2004, he also holds responsibility for maintaining relations SPEAKER: with the Institute’s international partners, which includes Professor Nick Rawlins is Pro-Vice- organizations in eight countries in Europe and Asia. Mr. Gerson’s Chancellor (Development & External earlier career spans both law and business, including time as a US Affairs) at Oxford University, and Watts Supreme Court Clerk, Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut, Professor of Psychology and Professorial and tenures as Executive Vice President of Travelers, Fellow of Wolfson College. His research Metrahealth, and UnitedHealthcare. He is a graduate of Harvard lies broadly within behavioral College, Yale Law School and the University of Oxford, where he neuroscience and spans areas including was a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College. Mr. Gerson serves as the neural basis of memory, brain American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust and has administrated degeneration, and pain and anxiety. He the Rhodes Scholarships in the United States since 1998. He was was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognized as a Distinguished Friend of Oxford in 2014. 2006, and became Associate Head of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division in 2008. Professor Rawlins was a Fellow of SPEAKERS: University College for more than 20 years, serving as a The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, Development Fellow from 2001 to 2007, before moving to was educated at St Benedict’s School, Wolfson College as a Professorial Fellow. In 2010, he took up Ealing and Balliol College, Oxford, where post as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, responsible for leading the he read Modern History and was elected development of the University’s external fundraising strategy; a Domus Exhibitioner. In 1974, he was managing the work of the Directors of Development, Alumni appointed the youngest ever Director of Meeting Minds Relations, and Public Affairs; and overseeing civic relations in the Conservative Research Department, liaison with the Registrar. a post which he held until 1979. Lord Patten was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997, overseeing the return of Hong Kong to China. He also served as Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, European Commissioner for Oxford comes to Washington 3 commentator on politics for National Public Radio (NPR), ABC’s “This Week” and MSNBC, and has been writing a column for EVENTS WITH The Washington Post since 1993. Before joining The Post in 1990 as a political reporter, Dr. Dionne spent 14 years at The OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S New York Times, where he covered state and local government, national politics, and reported from around the world in CAREERS SERVICE locations such as Paris, Rome and Beirut. He is the author of six Combining Business books, including “Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism- From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond” (2016), “Our with Pleasure Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent” (2012), and “Why Americans Hate Politics” n Jonathan Black, Director of Careers Service, will (1991), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was be in the Council Room throughout the day a National Book Award nominee. Dr. Dionne was elected as a n Morning coffee break - with a 10 minute talk on member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in five top tips for your résumé 2005, named Chair of the Editorial Committee for Democracy journal in 2008, and served as Vice President of the American n Afternoon coffee break - with a 10 minute talk on Political Science Association in 2014-15. He received a BA interviewing skills from Harvard University in 1973 before matriculating at Balliol n Outside of these sessions, Jonathan Black will be College, Oxford, where he received a DPhil in Sociology as a available for confidential 1:1 discussions on any Rhodes Scholar. career-related topic, as well as informally over lunch and at drinks Professor Marc Stears has recently taken up post as Chief Executive of the Take advantage of these free and impartial career New Economics Foundation. While he sessions, delivered from one of the most innovative was Professor of Political Theory at the university careers service programs. Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford, he took leave to act as Chief Speechwriter to the then Leader of the Opposition, the Rt Hon Ed External Relations, and in January 2005, took his seat in the Miliband MP. Before his leave, Professor House of Lords. Lord Patten’s other government appointments Stears’ major research interest was in British and American have included: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, political thought. His book, Demanding Democracy: American Northern Ireland Office; Minister of State at the Department of Radicals in Search of a New Politics (2010), examines radical Education and Science; Secretary of State for the Environment; American political movements across the twentieth century. His and Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign & continuing academic research analyzes the various ways in Commonwealth Office. He was appointed to the Privy Council which British, West European, and American thinkers sought to in 1989, named a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a Life celebrate the victory of free societies over authoritarian ones in Peer in 2005. In 2006, he was appointed Co-Chair of the the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, through UK-India Round Table. Lord Patten was Chairman of the BBC such events as the Festival of Britain and the American Trust from 2011 to 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Freedom Train. Professor Stears also works in contemporary Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and Honorary Fellow of normative political theory where he has particular interests in Balliol College, Oxford. He served as Chancellor of Newcastle research methods. He recently edited a volume for OUP, University from 1999 to 2009, and was elected Chancellor of Political Theory: Methods and Approaches with David Leopold, the University of Oxford in 2003. His publications as well as the Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies with include, What Next? Surviving the 21st Century (2008), Not Michael Freeden and Lyman Tower Sergeant. Professor Stears Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs (2005), also works in American politics, where he is especially and East and West (1998), written about Asia and its relations concerned with the nature of the American state, and in British with the rest of the world. politics, where he largely concentrates on the evolution of the British Labor Party. He has been a Visiting Fellow of the Dr. E.J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated Institute for Public Policy Research and published Everyday columnist for The Washington Post, Democracy: Taking the Left Beyond State and Market (2011). University Professor in the Foundations Professor Stears matriculated at Nuffield College in 1993 and of Democracy and Culture at earned a DPhil in Politics from Oxford.