Here you will find a monthly calendar of academic events organized within Maxwell School. There are very good quality academic events that go on all over Maxwell, but currently, there is no web page in which you can find complete information about all of them. We will try to classify the best ones to recommend them to you.
 

In this calendar you will also find the Seminars, Conferences and Workshops organized by Maxwell networking, such as the one performed with Ambassador Calderon last October.  As you may remember, Ambassador Calderon is the Acting President of the Conference for Disarmament of the United Nations. For the next months, we have done the arrangements for the following lectures in Maxwell:

• We have already organized together with PARC, the presentation of the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas Jose Miguel Vivanco, as a speaker. His conference will be in March 2^nd, 2006. (confirmed)

• Neil Walker, Chief Oversight  of the UNDP Latin-American Office, will speak about the Millennium Development Goals, approved by the United Nations in the year 2000. He can visit Syracuse on April 10th. (confirmed).

• Anel Townsend, Peruvian Congresswoman and member of the Board of Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC), of the NGO Vital Voices, founded by Senator Hillary R. Clinton, and focused in promoting the international women's leadership and of the Latin-American Parliament (regional organization that gathers 22 Parliaments in Latin America). She will speak about prevention and sanctions of corruption crimes in the Public Administration. Day of presentation: March 28th.(confirmed).

• Viviana Krstisevic, Executive Director of CEJIL (Center for the International Justice) a large NGO based in Washington D.C, specialized in the Interamerican System of Human Rights. They defend human rights cases in front of the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights from the OAS. These are cases occurred in the interamerican region (Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Central America). They will perform a Workshop on April 24.(confirmed).

• Ambassador Luis Chuquihuara, representative of the Latin American countries at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. Ambassador of the Peruvian Government at the European Union. He will speak about the relationship between European Governments and Latin American Governments, looking forward to the International Meeting to be held at Vienna in May 2006. Day of presentation: fourth week of April, to be confirmed.

• Ambassador of Peru at the United Nations, Oswald de Rivero, member of the Security Council of the United Nations. He will speak about International Security, Peace and Development. Day of presentation, to be established in the next days.

• We  took contact with   the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Dr. Miguel Insulza,  Arturo Valenzuela, former  advisor of President Clinton in Latin American issues and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under Secretary of the United Nations for economic and social affairs. More than one of them   accepted to be in communication in order to invite them to give lectures in the following months. These activities could take place in the fall semester.

• We spoke also with Anders Agherskov; advisor for the Integrity Unity from the World Bank, about organizing teleconferences, due to a programmed WB has for Universities. The only cost of them will be the price to pay for downloading the satellite signal.