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The
Manhattan Institute has been an important force in shaping American political
culture. By supporting and publicizing research on our era's most challenging
public policy issues: taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life,
race, education, and many other topics, we have won new respect for market-oriented
policies and helped make reform a reality.
The
Manhattan Institute regularly hosts forums in New York City and Washington,
DC for policy makers, business people, researchers and journalists. The
following is a listing of recent Manhattan Institute conferences and luncheons.
Select events are transcribed or video taped and those are available to
the general public here on the website.
Individuals
who support the Institute at the Benefactor level or above receive invitations
to most of these events. If you have been thinking about joining the Manhattan
Institute or increasing your membership support but are not yet convinced,
we would be happy to invite you to be a guest at one of our upcoming events.
We're confident that our talent and scope will impress you. To learn more,
please contact Alison Smith, Development Officer, at (212) 599-7000, or
via email at asmith@manhattan-institute.org.
June 2009
June 11, 2009- Washington DC
Captiol HIll Briefing
Topic: Forging A New Plan for Health-Care Reform
Presenter: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Former Director of the Congressional Budget Office
Panelists: United States Senator Richard Burr, State of North Carolina; United States Senator Tom Coburn, State of Oklahoma
June 8, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Title: The Criminalization of Corporate Conduct: Trends, problems, and Solutions
Speakers: Kenneth G. Langone, Chairman & CEO, Invemed Associates, LLC; Co-Founder, Home Depot;
Dick Thornburgh, Of Counsel, K & L Gates LLP; Former Attorney General of the United States
Interviewer: J.P. Donlon, Editor-in-Chief, Chief Executive Magazine
May 2009
May 8, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Book Forum
Title: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg, Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center
May 7, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Keeping New York In The Black: Our Current Fiscal Woes In Light Of The 1975 Fiscal Crisis
Panelists: Stephen Berger, Chairman, Odyssey Investment Partners;
Eugene Keilin, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, KPS Capital Partners, LP;
John E. Zuccotti, Co-Chairman, Brookfield Properties Corporation
Opening Remarks: Fred Siegel, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal
Moderator: Dr. Frank J. Macchiarola, Chancellor, St. Francis College
May 5, 2009 | New York City
Center for American University Forum
Topic: Threats to Academic Freedom: Do Campuses and Courts Care?
Speaker: Donald A. Downs, Professor, University of Wisconsin
Introduction: John Leo, Senior Fellow, Center for the American University; Editor, MindingTheCampus.com
April
2009
April 30, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: School Choice: The Answer For New York's Twin Fiscal & Educational Crisis?
Introduction: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Manhattan Institute
Opening Remarks: Malcolm Smith, Majority Leader, New York State Senate
Panel I: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
Speaker: Marcus Winters, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Panel II: Actionable School Choice Proposals
Speakers: Jay P. Greene, Special Education Scholarships, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute;
David G. Greenfield, Esq., Education Tax Credits, Executive Director, Sephardic Community Federation;
Thomas W. Carroll, Religious Charters?, President, Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability;
Joe Williams, President Obama's Lift The Charter Cap Plan, Executive Director, Democrats for Education Reform;
Sol Stern, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City Journal
Moderator: Edward F. Cox, Of Counsel, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP; Trustee, New York State University; former Chairman, Student Sponsor Partnership
April 29, 2009 | New York City
2009 Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Honoring: The Honorable RAYMOND W. KELLY, Police Commissioner, City of New York and The Honorable HENRY A. KISSINGER, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. and Former U.S. Secretary of State
April 23, 2009 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: Improving Teacher Quality: Key To Urban School Reform
Keynote: Eric A. Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Panel I: Reforming Teacher Compensation
Speakers: Daniel Koretz, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard University;
Michael Podgursky, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Missouri;
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers;
Marcus Winters, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Moderator: Sol Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal; Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Panel II: Reforming teacher Training and recruitment
Speakers: Temp Keller, Founder & President, Resources for Indispensable Schools & Educators (RISE);
Sandra Stotsky, Professor of Education Reform, 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality, University of Arkansas;
Kate Walsh, President, National Council on Teacher Quality;
Jeff Wetzler, Senior Vice President, Teacher Preparation, Support and Development & Chief Learning Officer, Teach for America
Moderator: David C. Bloomfield, Professor & Head, Master's Degree Program in Educational Leadership, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
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April 22, 2009 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Topic: What's Wrong with New York City's Property Tax? And How We Can Fix It
Panelists: Edmund J. McMahon, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy;
Rosemary Scanlon, Associate Professor of Economics, Schack Institute of Real Estate, New York University;
Steven Spinola, President, Real Estate Board of New York;
Martha E. Stark, Commissioner, New York City Department of Finance
Moderator: Hope Cohen, Deputy Director, Center for Rethinking Development
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April 20, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Forum
Topic: Energy and the Environment: Myths and Facts
Presenter: Drew Thornley, Author, Energy and the Environment: Myths and Facts
Discussants: Robert Bryce, Editor, Energy Tribune, Author, Gusher of Lies;
Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute;
Mark P. Mills, Partner, Digital Power Capital
April 7, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: A Plan for Health-care Reform
Speaker: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Former Director of Domestic and Economic Policy, 2008 John McCain Presidential Campaign
Introductory Remarks: Paul Howard, Director, Center for Medical Progress
April 2, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Forum
Topic: Will We Bury The Nuclear Renaissance? Does President Obama's Opposition to Yucca Mountain Imperil the Expansion of Nuclear Power and What we can do to get Nuclear Waste Policy Back on Track
Keynote: The Honorable Pete V. Domenici, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Chairman, Senate Energy Committee
Panelists: Dorothy R. Davidson, Vice President for Government Programs, AREVA Inc.;
David J. Modeen, Director, External Affairs for Nuclear Power, Electric Power Research Institute;
Jack Spencer, Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy, The Heritage Foundation
Moderator: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment
Panel Discussion | Key Note Address and Q & A
March
2009
March 31, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
Author: Robert Bryce
Introductory Remarks: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment
March 26, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: In the Wake of Wyeth v. Levine: Making the Case for FDA Preemption and Administrative Compensation
Presenters: James Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute; Paul Howard, Director, Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute
Respondents: Philip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling; John C. O'Quinn, Former Deputy Associate Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
February
2009
February 25, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Forum
Topic: Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey
Author: William Tucker
Introductory Remarks: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment
February 24, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Black America in the Obama Era
Speakers: The Honorable Cory A. Booker, Mayor, City of Newark, New Jersey;
Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Pastor, The Greater Allen A.M.E.Cathedral of New York;
Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone
Moderator: John McWhorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
February 11, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom The Economy If We Let It Happen
Speakers: Stephen Moore, Senior Economics Writer, The Wall Street Journal, Former President, Club for Growth
February 5, 2009 | New York City
Center for the American University Forum
Topic: New Institutional Forms in Higher Education
Panel I: History of Higher Education and Its Contemporary Implications
Panelists: Charles Harper, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategist, Templeton Foundation;
James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia;
Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University
Moderator: James Piereson, President, William E. Simon Foundation
Panel II: The University Of The Future
Panelists: Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University;
Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute;
Carol D'Amico, President & CEO, Conexus Indiana; former Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator: John Leo, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Editor, MindingTheCampus.com
Luncheon Keynote: David Gelernter, Professor, Yale University; National Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
January
2009
January 27, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Reagan I Knew By William F. Buckley, Jr.
Speakers: Richard Lowry, Editor, National Review; L. Brent Bozell, III, Founder & President, Media Research Center;
Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review, Author, George Washington on Leadership
Moderator: Brian C. Anderson, Editor, City Journal
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January 21, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law
Author: Philip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling, Founder & Chairman, Common Good
Introductory Remarks: James Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute
January 15, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Energy Challenge
Speaker: Michael G. Morris, Chairman, President & CEO, American Electric Power
Introductory Remarks: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
Discussant: J. P. Donlon, Editor, Chief Executive
January 14, 2009 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Topic: Infrastructure We Can Live With: The Neighborly Substation
Presenter: Hope Cohen, Deputy Director,Center for Rethinking Development
Panelists: Ronald H. Bozgo, Vice President for Engineering, Con Edison;
Ashok Gupta, Air and Energy Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council;
James T. Gallagher, Senior Vice President, NYC Economic Development Corp., Chairman, Mayor's Energy Policy Task Force;
Janno Lieber, President, World Trade Center Properties, Silverstein Properties
Moderator: Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
January 8, 2009 | New York City
Center for American University Book Forum
Topic: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
Author: Mark Bauerlein, Professor, Emory University
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