CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:00 A.M. | Registration and Continental Breakfast | ||||
8:30 A.M. | Introduction and Welcoming Remarks LARRY DIAMOND, Hoover Institution |
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8:45 A.M. | Panel I: The Current Political Landscape in Iran ALI M. ANSARI, University of Durham “Regime Change From Within?” |
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10:15 A.M. | Break | ||||
10:45 A.M. | Panel II: Religion and Politics ABDULKARIM SOROUSH, Princeton University “Islam and Democracy” |
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12:00 NOON | Lunch in the Staff Lounge and Hatfield Court | ||||
1:00 P.M. | Dessert Reception in the Herbert Hoover Exhibit Pavilion “Creating an Islamic Republic: Iranian Collections from the Hoover Library and Archives” |
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1:30 P.M. | Panel III: The Judicial System and the Rule of Law in Iran ABDULKARIM LAHIJI, human rights lawyer, Paris “Democracy, Human Rights, and the Iranian Legal System” |
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2:30 P.M. | Panel IV: The Nuclear Question MOHSEN MASSERAT, University of Osnabruek “Iran’s Energy Policy and the Economics of Nuclear Energy” |
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3:30 P.M. | Break | ||||
4:00 P.M. | Roundtable Discussion: U.S.-Iran Relations HORMOZ HEKMAT, Editor of Irannameh MICHAEL MCFAUL, Hoover Institution ABBAS MILANI, Hoover Institution CHAIR: LARRY DIAMOND, Hoover Institution |
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5:15 P.M. | Conference Concludes |