Sunday, January 11
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. | Reception, Foreign Service Club (by invitation) |
Monday, January 12
| 8:00-8:45 a.m. |
Registration and Continental breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 a.m. | Introductory remarks: Dr. Marc Susser The Historian, U.S. Department of State |
| 9:15-9:45 a.m. | Keynote speaker: Ambassador David Satterfield Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs |
| 9:45-10:00 a.m. | Introduction of the volume: Dr. Harriet Schwar, Editor |
| 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Panel 1: War, Intelligence, and the USS Liberty |
Moderator: Dr. Marc Susser, The Historian, U.S. Department of State
Commentator: Dr. Charles Smith, University of Arizona
Presenters:
Dr. David Robarge, Central Intelligence Agency History Staff, ?CIA Estimates and the Six-Day War? Dr. Michael Oren, Shalem Center, Jerusalem, "The USS Liberty and the Six-Day War"
Dr. David Hatch, Technical Director, Center for Cryptologic History, ?The NSA Liberty Releases: What they Say, What they Don't?
Hon. Jay Cristol, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida, ?The USS Liberty and the Role of Intelligence?
Mr. James Bamford, Retired Journalist, ?The USS Liberty and America?s Intelligence Community?
| 12:00 p.m.-1:15 p.m. |
Lunch for Panelists on 8th floor |
| 1:15-3:00 p.m. | Panel 2: Origins of the War: The International Perspective |
Moderator: Dr. Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas, Austin
Commentator: Dr. H.W. Brands, Texas A&M University
Commentator: Dr. Michael Oren, Shalem Center, Jerusalem
Presenters:
Dr. Isabella Ginor, Hebrew University, ?The Cold War?s Longest Cover-Up: How and Why the USSR Instigated the 1967 War? Dr. Arye Naor, Ben Gurion University, ?Objectives of the Six-Day War and Its Immediate Impact: an Israeli Perspective?
Ambassador Richard Parker, Foreign Service (retired), ?The Soviet Warning?
Mr. Michael Carroll, University of Toronto, ?From Peace(keeping) to War: the United Nations and the Withdrawal of UNEF?
| 3:00-3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15-5:00 p.m. | Panel 3: Johnson?s Foreign Policy and the Middle East Crisis |
Moderator: Dr. Arthur Klinghoffer, Rutgers University
Commentator: Dr. Warren Cohen, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Presenters:
Dr. David Lesch, Trinity University, ?From the Icebox to the Frontburner: the Post-1950s Blues and the 1967 War? Tuesday, January 13
Dr. Peter Hahn, Ohio State University, ?An Ominous Moment: Lyndon Johnson and the Six Day War?
Dr. Lily Polliack, Hebrew University, ?Middle East Conflict in the Shadow of President Johnson?
Dr. Arlene Lazarowitz, California State University, Long Beach, ?Towards a Patron-Client Relationship: the Johnson Administration in Israel, January 1964-May 1967?
| 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Check-in and Continental breakfast |
| 8:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m. | Panel 4: War, Cold War, and the Soviet Alliance System |
Moderator: Dr. Christian Ostermann, Director, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Commentator: Dr. James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
Presenters:
Dr. Rolf Steininger, Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (Innsbruck), ?The Soviet Union and the Six-Day War?
Dr. Galia Golan, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia, ?The Soviet Union and the Six Day War?
Dr. Yaacov Ro?i, Tel Aviv University, ?The Soviet Stake in the Middle East Conflict of June 1967?
Dr. William Gray, Texas Tech, ?War and Opportunism: East Germany and the Arab States in 1967?
| 10:15-10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Panel 5: The Regional Dynamics of War |
Moderator: Dr. Peter Hahn, Ohio State University
Commentator: Dr. William B. Quandt, University of Virginia
Presenters:
Ms. Laura James, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, ?Nasser and His Enemies: Foreign Policy Decision Making in Egypt on the Eve of the Six-Day War?
Dr. Mostafa Elwi Saif, Cairo University, ?The Evaluation of the Political Perception of Nasser During the May-June Crisis?
Dr. Ofira Seliktar, Temple University, ?Turning Water into Fire: the Jordan River as the Hidden Factor in the Six-Day War?
Dr. Jeffrey Sosland, American University, ?From Suez to 1967: The Role of Water Politics in the Advent of War?
| 12:00-1:15 p.m. |
Lunch for Panelists on 8th floor |
| 1:15-3:00 p.m. | Panel 6: War, Cold War, and the American Alliance System |
Moderator: Dr. Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
Commentator: Dr. Judith Klinghoffer, Rutgers University, Camden
Presenters:
Dr. James Vaughan, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, ?The United States and the Middle East Crisis of 1967?A British Perspective?
Dr. Steven Galpern, U.S. Department of State, ?The Six-Day War, Oil, and the Devaluation of Sterling: Strategic and Economic Consequences"
Mr. John Ciorciari, St. Antony?s College, University of Oxford, ?The Balance of Power on the Arabian Peninsula and Saudi-U.S. Alignment after the Six-Day War?
Dr. Carole Fink, Ohio State University, ?The Six-Day War and West Germany?
| 3:00-3:15 p.m. |
Break |
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3:15-5:00 p.m. |
Panel 7: Objectives and Consequences of War |
Moderator: Dr. Helena Finn, Counselor for Public Affairs, American Embassy, Tel Aviv
Commentator: Mr. David Makovsky, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Commentator: Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Presenters:
Dr. Hisham Khatib, former Jordanian Government Minister, ?Remembering the Arab-Israeli Crisis and War of 1967?
Dr. Tom Segev, Ha?aretz, ?Confronting the Palestinians Again?
Ms. Kristin Tassin, Tulane University, ??Men of Sacrifice?: the 1967 War, the Fedayeen, and the New Face of Palestinian Resistance?
Mr. Sean Foley, Georgetown University, "It Would Surely Be the Second: Lebanon, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli War of 1967"
| 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarks: Dr. Marc Susser The Historian, U.S. Department of State |
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