Assessing the Open Society Foundations and George Soros’s Legacy

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Thursday, March 14th, 2013 – Friday, March 15th, 2013

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Thursday, March 14, 20135:00PM - 6:00PMThe Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
Friday, March 15, 20139:30AM - 4:30PMThe Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
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Description

March 14:

5pm Keynote Speaker Aryeh Neier President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations
“What have the Open Society Foundations accomplished?”

6:30-7:30pm Reception at the Campbell Lounge

March 15

9:30 Introduction Janice Stein

10:00 Roundtable 1 “Democracy in Eastern Europe”
• Chair: Louis Pauly
• Istvan Rev
• Masha Gessen
• Bernard Rorke

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00 Roundtable 2 “Exporting the Open Society and Influencing US Policies”
• Chair: David Cameron
• Gara LaMarche
• Tawanda Mutasah
• John O’Sullivan

Contact

Daria Dumbadze
416-946-8945


Speakers

Bernard Rorke
International Research and Advocacy Director for the Roma Initiatives Office

Janice Stein
Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs

Aryeh Neier
President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations

Istvan Rev
Professor of history at Central European University in Budapest. Director of the Open Society Archives at Central European Univeristy.

Louis Pauly
Chair of Political Science, University of Toronto Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance

David Cameron
University of Toronto

Tawanda Mutasah
Director of Programs at the Open Society Foundations

John O'Sullivan
Vice President and executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Gara LaMarche
Senior Fellow at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, the former President of Atlantic Philanthropies, and, the former Vice-President and Director of U.S.Programs of the Open Society Foundations.

Masha Gessen
Journalist, Author ("Putin: Man without a Face")


Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Sponsors

Munk School of Global Affairs

Leslie and Anna Dan


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