About the Webinar
The next generation of innovative conservation leaders are now emerging from our colleges, universities, and research organizations, and they are out to change the world. Please join us on for a live, online discussion with Colorado College students and recent graduates who are out on the water, in the water, and in dialogue with senior federal decision makers. Hear several of their tales, and learn how an upcoming conference will bring some of our brightest young conservation innovators together to share their dreams and experiences.

Will Stauffer-Norris and Zak Podmore will tell us more about their journey in kayaks and rafts along the length of the Colorado River, from the Green River in Wyoming to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, and how they shared their findings – and their call to action to save the Colorado River – with U.S. Department of Interior officials in Washington, DC. Read more about Conservation Innovation: Students as Conservation Catalysts

Ellis Goldberg, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington

Co-Sponsored by the Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Lunch will be served

About the Speaker
Ellis Goldberg is a professor of political science at the University of Washington where he teaches Middle Eastern politics. Most of his work has been on the political economy of Egypt in the 20th century including two monographs, Tinker, Tailor and Textile Worker and Trade, Reputation and Child Labor. His articles have appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Theory. He has been a visiting faculty member at Princeton University, the American University in Cairo and a visiting research fellow at Harvard. He lived in Cairo during the first six months of 2011 where he attended most of the major demonstrations and rallies before and after the collapse of the Mubarak government. He is now working on two books. One is a study of political theory by influential Arab intellectuals and its relation to the revolutionary uprising of 2011. The other is a study of the origins of the concept of the rule of law in Egypt and its impact on the structure of the court system. In 2007 Goldberg was a Carnegie Scholar and in 2012 he is a Guggenheim Fellow.

Wang Lanmin, Ph.D., Director, Earthquake Administration of Gansu Province, China, and Ash Center New World Fellow

Dr. Wang has been Director of Gansu Province’s Earthquake Administration since 2004; he also serves as one of the coordinators for earthquake emergency response across Northwest China. In this brownbag seminar, he discussed Gansu’s ongoing efforts to prepare for major natural disasters, focusing specifically on lessons learned from two recent events: the devastating Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008, which heavily affected southern Gansu, and the Zhouqu Debris Flow Disaster, which killed over 1,500 people in 2010.

Moderated by Dr. Arnold Howitt, Executive Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and Faculty Co-Director, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School. Read more about Preparing for Catastrophic Emergencies

Panel Discussion & Lunch
Co-sponsored by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Event Video

Panelists
Congressman John Sarbanes, U.S. Representative, Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District
Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Spencer Overton, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School