Diverse Perspectives on a Changing World - Bologna Center

T H E M A G A Z I N E O F T H E B O L O G N A C E N T E R Winter/Spring 2009
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES - SAIS
DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON
A CHANGING WORLD

Message from the Director
When we plan the contents of each issue of Rivista, we have several goals
in mind: to convey to alumni and friends the flavor of what’s going on
today at the Bologna Center, how things are the same as well as how
they are different; to help readers understand what makes the Center a special
place; and to stimulate, as all of SAIS does, thoughtful, textured discussions of the
global issues that practitioners of public policy must confront today. Indeed, the
two thoughtful articles on water you will find here are part of an all-SAIS effort
this year to focus on water as just such an issue.
As always, our students are central to understanding why the Center is a special
place, and we deliberately give them great prominence in these pages. The setting
of Bologna is, of course, also an important element in who we are, in part
because it is a place that is easy to love and exciting to live in, but also because it
provides, for most of us, a distinctly different place from which to observe the
events that are changing our world.
In these past months, as the American election campaign unfolded, that special
advantage has been apparent. To have experienced at first hand the sight of Italian
crowds in the Sala Borsa watching election results through the night on a large
screen and to see the celebratory reactions in the streets afterward, regardless of
where one stands politically, drove home as little else could how strong both the
political and emotional connection remains between the U.S. and Europe and how
real “soft power” is, even if it sometimes appears to be an overused phrase.
We have, of course, had our share of discussions of the financial crisis, but here,
the voices heard from our own faculty members as well as visitors come from Italy,
Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries, including the U.S. On the other
hand, the status and visibility of SAIS in Italy allows us to bring an American perspective
to Italy and our faculty are frequently called upon by Italian media for an
American perspective. The Manageritalia event, reported on in this issue, also illustrates
how we are working to link academia to the Italian business world. You can
get a good sense of the message that Erik Jones delivers in these settings from his
article in these pages, which also makes a timely restatement of our strong belief
that the integration of politics and economics, a central feature of a SAIS education,
remains one of its great strengths.
A last word: as I have remarked each
time in introducing the Rivista issue, the
Bologna Center is moving steadily and
purposefully to increase its research and
policy activities, its efforts outside the
classroom. You will see it in the conferences
we are hosting, in our efforts related
to environment, human rights, and
other global issues, in the growing presence
of Ph.D. students at the Center.
These efforts are being helped enormously
by the generous contributions of
alumni and friends, many acknowledged
specifically in this issue. We need that
help; we welcome it. But more than that,
we welcome your involvement with the
Center, your interest, your comments,
your questions. Keep them coming!
Kenneth H. Keller
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Student writers
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Gabrielle Bennett
Edward Branagan (BC08)
Gabriella Chiappini
Ann Gagliardi
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Erik Jones (BC89/DC90/Ph.D.96)
Lidia Licari
Veronica I. Pye
Meera Shankar (BC95/DC96)
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The Center’s Communications
Office has launched a new public
website, and while much
about the site is new, the address is the
same—www.jhubc.it.
It’s another step towards the
Center’s goal of using the web more
strategically to facilitate communication
with key constituents: alumni, prospective
students, current students, academics,
media, friends and supporters.
It is also part of a conscious effort
to follow the established trend of print
media moving online. For the Center
this will mean more postings of publications,
conference invitations, and
announcements online.
Our recently published promotional
video—aimed at prospective students—
is just the beginning of the multimedia
products we hope to make available via
the new site in the near future.
Another brand new feature of the
website is the ‘press room’ which will
serve as a base from which to expand our
outreach with both Europe-based and
international journalists with the aim of
increased visibility. In the coming years
media outreach will grow along with our
communication methods.
Childe Costa-Stevens is the Center’s
webmaster who artfully carried out the
content transfer to the new site and
ensured an overall smooth transition.
Special thanks to Paolo Forlani and
Lorenzo Righetti of the Center’s
Information Technology Systems
Office; SAIS Washington’s Office of
Communications; and student writers
Deniz Ozdemir (BC09, U.S.), Jon Rosen
(BC08, U.S.) and John A. Gans Jr.
(BC08, U.S.) for their support and
advice throughout the project.
Alumni, please continue to
update us on your professional
and personal accomplishments as well
as your contact information at
www.jhubc.it/keepintouch or
email us at update@jhubc.it.
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Table of contents
The Return of the Reality Community
The Water Crisis?
ALUMNI PROFILE
David Schaub-Jones (BC99/DC00)
Creating New Solutions for an Age-old Problem
STUDENT PROFILE
Julia Romano (DC08/BC09)
The Challenge of Being in Uncomfortable Positions
BOLOGNA FEATURE
Bustling Bologna: Navigating the Heart of Europe
What’s New in Career Services
DEVELOPMENT SECTION
We Welcome Your Support and Your Involvement: Keep them Coming!
Washington Post/Newsweek Forum
Features SAIS Students from both sides of the Atlantic
New Global Challenges, Innovative Responses
SAIS Bologna Professors Dialogue with Italy’s Top Managers
Transforming Society by Mobilizing Youth
Events at the Bologna Center... and elsewhere
Hamburgers and Champagne
Election Night Experienced in Two Italian Cities
Faculty News and Recent Books
There are Lots of Ways to Help, and Many of You Do
Alumni Notes

THE RETURN
OF THE REALITY
COMMUNITY
by Erik Jones
We live in an era
when the forces
of economics
and politics,
domestic
and international,
are deeply
intertwined.
An unnamed senior official in the
George W. Bush administration
once derided journalist Ron
Suskind as being part of a
‘reality community’ that elevates facts over
convictions. Now the Bush administration is
ended, its convictions have been found wanting,
and yet the facts remain. Barack
Obama’s new administration takes an
altogether different view. Obama did not win
the United States presidency because he
believes that is his mission. Obama’s determination
was important to his victory but
Hillary Clinton and John McCain were
determined as well. They also expressed
confidence in the self-evident advantages of
long experience and deep networks in the
corridors of power. Obama defeated them by
embracing the ‘facts.’
Obama won by understanding the potential
of new technologies and the strength of
deep-seated human aspirations. He won by
being on the right side of the major issues
and by knowing how to change his views
when the evidence showed him to be wrong.
Most of all, he won by understanding that
narrow specialization is not the answer. You
cannot simply pick and choose between
economics and politics, or history and current
events. You cannot be the race candidate
or the working-class candidate, you cannot
win as a conservative or a liberal, you cannot
be content to be the ‘security’ candidate and
you cannot retreat behind the guise that the
economy is all that matters after all. Instead,
everything is interconnected and, as Obama
pointed out in the depth of the global financial
crisis, you have to be able to do more
than one thing at a time.
Obama’s inaugural address is a good
illustration. Although many pundits have
complained that it is not his most eloquent
speech, you have to admire the breadth of
the synthesis. As a broad theme, Obama uses
Chaos on the trading floor
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the history of America to underscore both
the strength of American ideals and the
potential for positive change. It is an empirical
argument and not an ideological one. The
strength of the country draws not from
divine inspiration but from the energy
invested in it.
This empirical focus is evident both in
what is said and what is not. While Obama
acknowledges the struggle against ‘fascism
and communism’ he does not pretend to
offer a universalistic theory of government to
stand in their place. He never uses the word
democracy and he insists that ‘America is a
friend of each nation and every man, woman,
and child who seeks a future of peace and
dignity.’ Legitimacy nevertheless comes
from the bottom up because ‘your people
will judge you on what you can build, not
what you destroy.’ This legitimacy is grounded
in equity and not just achievement; ‘a
nation cannot prosper long when it favors
only the prosperous.’
Of course there are many places where
you can take issue with Obama’s assertions.
The point to note is not that he is right but
rather that he goes to great effort to make the
case. Along the way he alludes to a number
of major debates in the social sciences. You
may deny that it is rousing rhetoric, but it
harder to deny that it is well-argued.
The man matches the moment. We live in
an era when the forces of economics and politics,
domestic and international, are deeply
intertwined. Just look at the global financial
crisis. On one level, it is obviously a problem
of American origin. Too many banks made
too many bad mortgages which they then
repackaged and sold on to the rest of the
world. Dig a little deeper and it becomes
more difficult to hold the United States to
blame. The financial technology used to originate
and then distribute the mortgages is
hardly unique to America and the banks
involved were not just American either.
The retreat to blame the crisis on
American consumerism or the loose monetary
policies of Alan Greenspan also has its
problems. Just ask yourself, how the United
States succeeded in financing such large current
account deficits and attracting such
huge volumes of the world’s savings while at
the same time holding interest rates so low.
Perhaps a different way to look at the problem
is to consider how China was able to
engineer such large and long-lasting surpluses
without suffering from inflation or an
appreciation of its currency. At least part of
the explanation lies in China’s insistence on
holding its export earnings in dollars (or dollar
denominated assets) rather than allowing
its exporters to invest the proceeds back
home. They may have good reasons for
doing this. Whatever those reasons are,
though, the global financial crisis is the
effect.
If China insists on holding its savings in
dollars then American banks will have to
find some way to loan that money out. Yet
with too many dollars chasing too few
investment opportunities it is easy to see
how the returns on those traditional dollardenominated
investments would run into the
ground. Financial innovation helps to square
the circle. Not only does it allow dollar holders
to create new opportunities for investment,
but it also allows them to swap their
incomes with investments held elsewhere.
This is not to point the finger at China.
The global origins of the financial crisis are
not very useful for assigning blame. The
mechanisms are at best only partial, there are
many intervening and exacerbating factors,
and in any event there is more than enough
blame to go around.
Rather, the goal is to understand how
solutions can be put together, to see what
structures need to be reformed and which
institutions created. It is also important to
see who must bear the costs of adjustment
and how those costs can be redistributed in
order to ensure that a workable solution can
be found. Right and wrong are less important
in this situation than coordination and agreement.
Moral superiority is less an advantage
than effective leadership.
The reality is there are no easy solutions
to the global financial crisis and strength of
conviction is not enough to see us through.
That is why a broad appreciation of the
mechanisms at work within the problem is
so important. If President Obama captures
the moment, a SAIS education can help
show the way forward. People often ask me
what is unique to SAIS and what a generalist
exposure to economics and politics,
regional studies and international relations
can equip you to do. The answer is to be
found in tackling complicated problems in
the real world. With our strong commitment
to empirically informed interdisciplinary
study, SAIS is a vital part of the ‘reality
community.’ Now it is time to show what the
reality community can accomplish.
Erik Jones is professor of European
Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center.
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THE WATER
CRISIS?
by Veronica I. Pye
Water tap.
Although water covers nearly threequarters
of the Earth’s surface, less
than 3 percent is freshwater, and of
that small amount, only one-third is
easily accessible to humans. The nature and
causes of the world water crisis are complex,
involving quantity, quality, the economic and
institutional environment, public perceptions
and expectations of the need and priorities for
water use, and also, finally, a function of scale.
Most water is found in the oceans and seas
(94 percent), groundwater (4 percent), and icecaps
and glaciers (2 percent, but melting fast).
Lakes, rivers, reservoirs and swamps account
for only about 0.025 percent of water.
Water resources are for the most part renewable
but availability differs worldwide.
Precipitation patterns may vary during the year,
and from year to year, so annual rainfall indicators
may not pick up problems. Country assessments
can also be misleading as ideally surface
water is managed according to river basins, which
do not respect either regional administrative or
national boundaries. There are 261 international
river basins worldwide shared by 145 countries.
The natural quality of freshwater varies
greatly and is affected by the geological characteristics
and climatic conditions that prevail in
the region, in particular rainfall and temperature.
Natural quality can, in turn, be affected by
human activities such as waste disposal practices,
spills, leaks and agricultural activities.
Climate change will inevitably have an
effect on water resources as weather patterns
change, leading to floods, droughts, mudslides,
hurricanes and typhoons. Pressures on the water
system include population growth and economic
development. It is estimated that water scarcity
may affect between 2 and 7 billion people in
the next forty years.
The term ‘water crisis’ has been bandied
about for many years, often without really defining
the causes of such a crisis and whom or what
it might affect. Is it a lack of water, or too much?
Is it a lack of access to water, or problems
related to water quality for the uses envisaged?
One could define the water crisis as a lack
of access to safe and affordable water, coupled
with a lack of access to safe and affordable
sanitation. Every year about 2 million people,
mainly children, still die from diarrhoeal diseases.
Provision of water and sanitation services
to the unserved, currently estimated at 1.1
billion people, is one of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG).
For the rural poor and malnourished, the
crisis consists of insufficient water to grow
crops and eke out an existence. Water-related
diseases in certain regions are certainly of crisis
proportions and need to be addressed, including
malaria which causes 300 to 500 million
episodes of sickness and between 1.5 and 2.5
million deaths a year. For others more fortunate,
water shortages could just mean a hosepipe ban
and the prospect of wilting flowers, brown
lawns and golf greens.
Water is a resource that must be shared
between many competing activities. These
include habitat maintenance in river uses (e.g.
fishing, transportation, recreation) and out-ofriver
uses, such as municipal water supplies,
hydroelectric energy production, industrial
cooling and agricultural irrigation. Use by one
community may alter either the quantity or
the quality of the water available for other
users downstream. Use of ground water in
areas where there is little natural recharge of
the aquifers amounts to ‘mining’ the water
resource, leaving little, if any, for future
generations.
Child drinking water from a tap.
Photo credit: WaterAid/Liba Taylor
A view of the
Cascata delle Marmore,
Terni, Umbria
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The historical Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, overshadowed
a lesser known gathering, the International Conference on
Water and Sustainable Development. Here, the Dublin Statement on
Water and Sustainable Development was ratified by representatives
from more than 100 countries and eighty international agencies, and
identified the world’s water problems that required immediate action.
Four guiding principles underscored their recommendations:
Freshwater is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain
life, development and the environment. Effective management
requires a holistic approach incorporating social and economic
development with ecosystem protection, linking land and
water uses;
Water development and management should be based on a participatory
approach involving users, planners and policy makers;
Women play a central role in the provision, management and
safeguarding of water. This should be recognized by empowering
them at all levels in water resources management, from decision
making to implementation;
Water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should
be recognized as an economic good. It is a basic right of all people
to have access to clean water and sanitation at an affordable
price. Management of water as an economic good should achieve
efficient and equitable use and would encourage conservation
and protection.
Based on these four principles, recommendations were put forward
which would enable countries to deal with their water problems and
which envisaged wide ranging benefits including alleviation of poverty
and disease, protection against natural disasters, water conservation
and reuse, sustainable urban development, protection of aquatic
systems and the resolution of water-related conflicts.
Water is a resource
that must be shared between
many competing activities…
Use by one community may alter
either the quantity or the quality
of the water available for other
users downstream.
Both this conference and the Earth Summit, which resulted in
Agenda 21 and its seven areas for action regarding freshwater, identified
water issues and changes in water management as central for sustainable
development.
The UN summit in 2000 set millennium development goals for 2015
that focus primarily on poverty, education and health and should ideally
be achieved without incurring further environmental degradation.
Participants identified eleven areas specific to freshwater to monitor:
Providing safe and sufficient water and sanitation
Securing the food supply through effective use of water
Ensuring ecosystem integrity through sustainable water
resource management
Sharing the water resource, both between states
and for different uses
Managing risks from water related hazards
Valuing water with a view to equitable pricing of water
Governing water wisely from the point of view of all stakeholders
Building cleaner industry with respect to water quality
and other use needs
Assessing water’s role in energy production
Improving the knowledge base and its availability
Meeting the challenge of increased urbanization
Part of the process of achieving any goal is to monitor progress, and to
do this both reliable indicators are needed as well as well-defined statistics
that will reflect the state of the system or the process studied.
The UN has seventeen case studies in progress to analyze change in
water management and its results in different geographic regions and
under different scenarios.
The water crisis is therefore about how we decide control over and
access to water resources and requires better governance and investment.
Water resources need to be a key feature of national planning,
especially in poorer countries, and there are signs of progress in this
direction.
Responsible action at all levels of society is still needed.
Individuals, communities, national governments and international
organizations need to share the responsibility for water. The 5th World
Water Forum is planned to take place in Istanbul in March 2009, with
the theme Bridging the Divides for Water. Preparatory meetings have
been taking place around the world over the past two years, another
step toward the intelligent and equitable management of an essential
resource.
Sources
- Lomborg, B. Ed. 2004, Global Crises, Global Solutions, Cambridge
University Press
- The Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development
- Pye, V.I., Patrick, R. and Quarles, J. 1983, Groundwater
Contamination in the United States, JHU Press
- World Water Assessment Program, UN World Water Development
Reports 1 and 2 (2003 and 2006)
Dr. Veronica I. Pye is Academic and Student Affairs coordinator and
coordinator of the Bologna Center Seminar Series. She was research
director at the Environmental Assessment Council, Academy of
Natural Sciences 1981-83. A former lecturer at London University
and at the Bologna Center she is the author of numerous publications
on environmental policy.
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Alumni Profile
Creating new solutions
for an age-old problem
David Schaub-Jones (BC99/DC00, UK)
by Karen Riedel
A new tapstand has replaced the old waterpump, next to the Niger river in Ségou, Mali
Grim statistics bear repeating.
More than 5 million people die
each year from water-related
diseases. Of these deaths, 84
percent are children from birth to fourteen
years. And 98 percent of water-related
deaths occur in the developing world. In
simpler terms, 5,000 children die every day
from the deadly combination of inadequate
and contaminated water. “This number
equates to ten jumbo jets full of kids crashing
every day,” says David Schaub-Jones
(BC99/DC00, UK), an alumnus helping people
gain access to a resource much of the
world takes for granted.
With degrees in civil engineering and
water supply and management as well as his
master’s in international relations from
SAIS, David is uniquely qualified to help
provide access to clean, safe water and effective
sanitation.
Based in South Africa, David is the outreach
and research officer for Building
Partnerships for Development in Water and
Sanitation (BPD), an NGO that operates
worldwide to develop strategic partnerships
among public and private sectors, other nonprofits,
and local communities.
Despite the daily human suffering and
the phenomenal task before him and others
in his field, David is dedicated to the challenge.
“One of the joys of working in this
field is that it can be viewed through so many
different prisms—as a engineering challenge,
a human right, a social problem, an
economic good and ultimately, as a political
topic,” he says.
“But this very complexity is also the key
challenge—perhaps this is why partnerships
seem to have an enduring appeal in the water
sector. And that’s why I was drawn back into
the water sector after exploring other career
possibilities a decade ago at SAIS.”
In response to specific questions, David
has this to say about the current state of
water issues from his perspective.
What are the challenges that your organization
faces?
Apart from the sheer numbers involved, one
of the largest challenges is changing institutional
mindsets. Water provision in developing
countries, especially urban areas, is
largely modeled on the way water is delivered
in the developed world—via centralized
water and sewerage utilities. Yet these utilities
have to deal with situations that no
longer exist in the West, such as crowded
urban slums, rapid urbanization and land
invasions, widespread poverty and, frequently,
political interference.
People meet their daily water and sanitation
needs through a wide variety of means,
ranging from hauling it from several miles
away, to dealings with small informal
providers, to NGO and community-led programs.
So while water utilities are important
players, they are by far not the only ones.
One of the key challenges is getting this recognized
and changing the way people think,
particularly within government, to equip
water sector professionals to work in new,
collaborative ways. Otherwise the needs of
poorer urban citizens tend to be ignored.
The problem, or challenge, seems vast,
while time and resources are limited. And
so many different interest groups are
involved. How does one operate within
this difficult terrain?
BPD’s whole philosophy is to try and find
practical ways to turn diversity into strength.
We reflect this, bringing the public sector
together with civil society and the private
sectors. The key to partnerships is being
open-minded about who can be part of the
solution and truly understanding the incen-
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tives of each of the actors required to get
services to those in need. It is not easy to
find flexible and effective ways to work
together that are robust enough to withstand
inevitable setbacks. Very few organizations
are set-up in a way that favors meaningful
collaboration across sectors and across disciplines.
So the real challenge lies in bringing
about an attitude on the ground where people
are willing to go the extra mile that partnerships
require.
A special sanitation truck
struggles with flooded slums
in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania
Sanitation, often water’s poor cousin,
is also crucial to humanity’s use and abuse
of water, and it is too easily forgotten
You talk about collaboration. Where
might SAIS play a role?
The water sector has long been dominated
by an engineering perspective and one of the
crucial things the water sector could do better
is learn from other sectors. This is perhaps
where a body like SAIS can make a difference.
For instance, how can we replicate
the incredible success of HIV/AIDS practitioners
in breaking taboos about their topic
and generating huge political will and public
interest? How can we spread this learning to
sanitation? Given that water utilities in
Africa are often serving less than two thirds
of the urban population, what can we learn
from others about harnessing and enabling
small-scale private providers and community-led
initiatives? I see SAIS as being well
equipped to bring about some of this badly
needed cross-fertilization.
What aspect is being left out of the discussion
on water?
I welcome the fact that SAIS has named this
year the SAIS Year of Water, recognizing
water’s crucial role, not only in human
development, but also in a range of other
economic and political arenas such as agriculture
and local and national conflicts.
Indeed water has risen up the global
agenda in recent years, in part due to water
resources being one of the first to be significantly
and visibly effected by climate
change. Yet sanitation, often water’s poor
cousin, is also crucial to humanity’s use and
abuse of water, and it is too easily forgotten.
This past year, 2008, was the UN international
year of sanitation, but then, it was also
the international year of the potato. So we
still have a long way to go in educating the
public at large.
Let’s not forget that ‘water-borne’ diseases
are in large part traceable to a lack of
adequate sanitation (for instance, cholera)
and squeamishness should not prevent us
from discussing and addressing the larger
challenge (numerically and practically) of
sanitation. Indeed, a large survey of doctors
in the scientific journal Lancet recently
declared improvements in sanitation the
biggest medical advance of the last 150
years. The problem is that this recognition of
the value of preventative health (which is
effectively what water and sanitation represent)
does not translate into money and
resources on the ground. Other, arguably
more glamorous, issues such as HIV/AIDS
or malaria tend to hog the headlines, public
attention, and even local action.
David has spent most of his career working on
water and poverty issues. Before arriving at
BPD, he was an independent consultant with
the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation
Program and with the UK environmental consulting
firm, Atkins. He also spent a year with
Voluntary Service Overseas, working on water
management issues in Morocco and India.
David’s degree from SAIS is in international
relations and international economics.
He also has master’s degrees in water supply
and sanitation from the École Nationale du
Génie de l’Eau et de l’Environment de
Strasbourg and in civil engineering and
European studies from Southampton
University. While living in Washington, D.C.,
David was also a United Nations Associate.
David, Anne-Catherine and their beloved India
David is married to fellow alumna
Anne-Catherine (BC99, Belgium) and they
recently welcomed the arrival of their
daughter, India. Why the unusual name?
“We met at an early Bologna dinner party
and chatted all night about having lived in
India and attending the same camel festival—so
the name seemed appropriate
somehow!” David says.
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Student Profile
The Challenge of Being in
UNCOMFORTABLE POSITIONS
Julia Romano (DC08/BC09, U.S.)
Julia Romano’s initial goal while studying history at UCLA was to become as impartial as humanly
possible. This would allow her to properly document history. She wanted to give readers a chance to analyze
her texts on their own terms and write about events in as objective a tone as possible. But the more time she
spent out of college, discovering new shades of grey in the world, the less she wished to strive for impartiality.
Too many feelings were surfacing to the forefront, demanding that she take action and get involved. Several
years after leaving, she decided to return to the classroom. Not for the sake of studying the past, but with the
aim of helping to shape the future.
First from left: Julia in Rome at the U.S.
Embassy Election Party where she was
interviewed.
by Annie Magnus
Looking back, Julia’s road seemed set
toward a career in journalism. She’d been
hired as a production assistant for the
show Radio Expeditions on National
Public Radio (NPR) right after graduation. Six
months of hard work as an intern while still in college
had paid off. “I worked from 4:30 am to 1:00
pm, then went straight off to a full day of class,” she
recounts. After spending three years at NPR she got
a job with Yahoo as an original content producer
and later joined the L.A.-based non-profit forum
ProCon.org as a researcher. Before the age of thirty
she’d worked for public and private media outlets
as well as traveled around the world. Most people
could only dream of such a record.
However, a pivotal moment in 2004 opened
Julia’s eyes to a world that needed more than her
extensive research and journalistic skills. Moved by
a story she did for NPR’s Next Generation Radio
about a group of indigenous activists from South
Africa and Botswana who had been expelled from
their land and traditional way of life, she accompanied
the group to the UN Headquarters in New York
City. They came to file a claim of cultural genocide,
but were yet again confronted with a fundamental
disconnect between their reality and the modern
world, a situation they struggled with every day.
While they won the right to return to their land,
they were forbidden from hunting or digging—
important aspects of their traditional life.
The final push towards a redirection of her
career came the following year in Rome. She’d
moved to Italy in the hopes of working with NPR’s
foreign correspondent Sylvia Poggioli. Barely a
month after her arrival, the Pope passed away.
From one day to the next she found herself working
sixteen to twenty hours a day, more than she’d ever
bargained for. Being the only two reporters for
NPR in Rome who spoke Italian, the two ladies
were in high demand. “It was an awesome experi-
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ence and a realization of everything I previously
thought I’d wanted to do,” she recalls. Ironically,
however, it made her understand that this was not
the work she ultimately wanted to do. She needed
something more. She needed to become engaged.
Halfway through her second year at SAIS, Julia
has found that deeper meaning. When she visited
SAIS during the Open House Day in Washington,
D.C. and heard Professor I. William Zartman tell
prospective students: “I don’t know why we are
here on this planet unless it is to help people,” she
knew he was right. “It was so simple, honest and
true,” she remembers.
Concentrating in Conflict Management and
International Law, Julia has reversed the usual trend of
beginning in Italy before moving to the U.S. for the
final year of the M.A. “It’s a better way to end,” she
affirms. Not only does it allow her to be close to her
Italian family once again (her father is from Naples),
it also gets her away from the intense job hunt she
observed other students go through during their last
semester in D.C. She already knows what she wants
to do. Her main concern at the moment is to get her
Ph.D. applications to Harvard, Georgetown,
Northwestern, and SAIS sent out in time.
Julia at a yoga class.
This pose is called dancer,
her favorite because it’s a
balance pose, and a heart-opener.
Academics aside, there’s another aspect of
Julia’s life to which she assigns high importance
and cannot live without. Yoga. “People tend to see
spiritual practice as being mutually exclusive of
academics,” she laments. “But for me, yoga isn’t
merely a spiritual and bodily practice, it’s also an
essential part of a training process for any work in
conflict resolution. It’s about learning how to sit
in uncomfortable positions and remain calm,
which is the essence of negotiating,” she explains.
Her dedication to yoga and desire to share it
with others has led her to found a yoga club at the
Bologna Center. During one hour each week students
leave their books, notepads and mobile
phones outside the classroom and instead gear their
focus on personal well-being. Although Julia practices
yoga every day by herself, she always attends
the common practice and will step in as teacher
whenever Clint Hougen (BC09, U.S.), a student
and professional yoga teacher who normally teaches
the class, cannot lead the group. “I’m totally
stoked,” she says about the overwhelmingly positive
response she’s gotten from fellow students (and
even professors) who join the yoga club each week
for better balance of their bodies and souls.
Balance in life is essential if one wishes to
tackle a hectic schedule. If life is busy for the average
SAIS student, it’s filled to the brim for Julia.
Studying at SAIS D.C., she simultaneously worked
with a project called PeaceKidz where she taught
disadvantaged youth how to mediate conflicts they
would inevitably be exposed to in their lives. “It’s
some of the most important and gratifying work
I’ve done while at SAIS,” she says. While studying
in Bologna, she’s busy traveling to conferences
around Europe. She attended the October session of
the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva,
Switzerland in the fall, went to Cypress with the
School of Conflict Management field trip in
January and joined the yearly study trip to Sarajevo
in February. During the spring semester she’ll have
her hands full helping put together the Bologna
Center Journal of International Affairs as its managing
editor. And not to mention: getting herself
ready for graduation in May.
After academia? Who knows? Perhaps Julia
will become a negotiator, working for track two,
“behind the scenes” diplomacy, or maybe we’ll find
her seated at UN negotiating tables. “I know I can
do a good job at mediation. I’m a good communicator
and facilitator.” She may not have the specific
path clearly outlined yet, but that doesn’t worry her.
“I believe that if you set your intention, you can
realize it.” Her goal is to make things better in this
world, “I don’t know how to do that, except to be
myself, to work hard, and with dedication.”
Annie Magnus (BC09, Norway) is a first year
M.A. student at SAIS Bologna with a concentration
in Conflict Management. Prior to coming
to SAIS she worked as a Research Fellow
for the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE PA) in Copenhagen and freelanced
as a journalist for The Copenhagen Post.
She holds a Master of Political Science from
Lund University in Sweden.
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Bologna Feature
BUSTLING BOLOGNA
NAVIGATING
THE HEART
OF EUROPE
by Maria Luisa Olivieri
Free bicycle sharing organized by the city of Bologna
Bustling Bologna
Siamo in arrivo alla stazione di Bologna
Centrale. As the familiar message
resounds from the loudspeaker, passengers
on the train reach for their coats and
bags. For students with another long-weekend
behind them, it’s time to get back to reality. For
businesspeople, it’s time to get to work.
Rory Jones (BC09, U.S.) is a first-year
Bologna Center student. Although he finds the
Italian train system expensive, “…there’s no better
way to travel than hopping on a Eurostar for
a couple hours, it’s ten times smoother than
Amtrak.” Students have learned to take advantage
of Trenitalia’s ease and its deals, such as the
tariffa amica, a 20 percent discount on tickets
bought in advance.
The convenience of the state-owned train
system has attracted others, such as Vera Negri
Zamagni, senior adjunct professor of
International Economics, to Bologna. “I moved
to Bologna… with my husband, because we
thought Bologna would be a better place to live
than Milan while pursuing two careers at different
universities, but also as a result of its excellent
train connections—in the beginning, I
worked at the University of Trieste and my husband
at the University of Parma!”
Bologna’s stazione centrale is fifth in Italy for
size and volume of traffic. 500 trains pass through
the station every day carrying 159,000 passengers,
for a yearly total of 58 million people. These
numbers are expected to increase by 2015 when
the station will be entirely made-over according
to the winning design by Japanese architect Arata
Isozaki. Besides a fancy new look, the new station
is planned to bring increased convenience to passengers.
Both sides of the station will be accessible,
not just the side within the city walls.
Improvements to the train station have
already been made. Since this school year started,
the information system inside the station has
received a face-lift. Flat screen monitors with up
to the minute information adorn every binario,or
platform, as well as the corridors and waiting
rooms of the station.
One exemplary service which has just been
launched is the Freccia Rossa, or Red Arrow,
high-speed train service between Milan and
Bologna. The trip now takes just an hour, making
it convenient to travel between the two cities or
catch a flight from a nearby airport.
“Bologna is becoming a hub for central
Italy,” says Enrico Levi, project manager at
PromoBologna. The high-speed train route will
soon be continued into southern Italy. Not only
will train travel be faster and more convenient, it
will also allow for smoother air connections.
Plans to construct a monorail between
Bologna’s train station and the Bologna
Guglielmo Marconi International Airport are
under way. A ten-minute monorail ride will
deliver passengers from the station to the airport.
When the Freccia Rossa is extended to Florence
later this year, visitors will be able to fly into
Bologna and reach Florence in just forty minutes.
The Bologna airport's extended runway is
able to accommodate Eurofly's direct Moscow-
Bologna flights. Ryan Air has decided to make
Bologna one of its hubs with flights to eleven
destinations starting in March and April. From
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the rails to the skies, Bologna is becoming a crossroads not only within
Italy, but also for those passing through Europe.
Zamagni explains Bologna’s appeal, “for students the attraction is
that it is the location of one of the oldest and most renowned universities;
for businesspeople its flourishing engineering district with the
major expo premises (BolognaFiere); for tourists its 36 km of arcades
(I portici) and the many cultural events that take place in Bologna as a
result of university activities and the numerous cultural institutions.”
With all that Bologna has to offer, it’s no surprise that people are
choosing to stop, and even stay, here instead of other larger and betterknown
cities.
From the rails to the skies,
Bologna is becoming a crossroads
not only within Italy, but also for
those passing through Europe.
Federico Minoli (BC73, Italy), CEO of BolognaFiere and Cantiere
del Pardo, first arrived in Bologna by train in the 1970s to attend the
Bologna Center. He explains, “For a tourist, Bologna offers much of
the beauty and history of Rome or Florence, but without the crowds,
and much of the efficiency and functionality of Milan, but without the
traffic jams.”
Rory Jones, who uses his motorino to navigate Bologna, echoes
Minoli’s sentiments. Jones used to work in Rome, where he says “stop
lights are a formality and one way streets are excellent opportunities
for shortcuts. Driving a motorino in Bologna is a walk in the park compared
to central Rome.” Like most other students Jones also uses a
bicycle or walks for short trips within Bologna.
One million people pass through Bologna’s center every day.
Getting around a town which hosts 50,000-60,000 university students
a year and whose center is home to 400,000 inhabitants is no easy
chore. When Minoli was a student, he walked or used a bicycle, which
he didn’t need to lock up with a chain. Today, he chains his bicycle and
says, “I still walk, but I do use a car (and used to use a motorcycle
when I worked at Ducati) to get back and forth to work, and I have to
deal with issues of parking, traffic, limited access to central areas, and
barriers, like everyone else who lives in the centro storico.”
Bologna’s extensive bus network offers a convenient solution for
people to reach the center of town. Jones finds the bus system to be “a
complete waste of time, too unreliable, unpredictable and if there’s
even an ounce of traffic, you’re better off walking.” Jones does admit
that Bologna’s buses are better than Rome’s, which are “even slower
with the added bonus of the occasional pickpocket (I caught someone
literally with their hand in my pocket once, no joke!)”
The bus system may not be perfect, but it’s popular for those on a
budget or those without a parking spot in town. In addition, Bologna
ATC, the entity responsible for the public bus service, provides other
useful services. Its eco-friendly initiatives include a free bicycle share
program and a car share program.
Even if you arrive at your destination grumbling about your commute,
appreciate Bologna. It is no ordinary city. Levi shares that
Bologna was selected as one of the 50 best cities in the world and will
have a booth at the 2010 World Expo. The theme for the expo, to be
held in Shanghai, China, is “Better City, Better Life.”
Bologna is a model for other cities in many ways. Levi explains
that in 1257, Bologna was the first city to liberate serfs and pass a law
against slavery. It’s a UNESCO City of Music, the first in Italy and
second in Europe. And its extensive strategic plan for the next twenty
years is unique in Italy and Europe on the whole.
The gem that is Bologna is easily reachable by trains and planes.
Once you’re here, you will discover your own way to experience it.
Fancy a stroll beneath Bologna’s portici or a ride on your bicycle over
the cobble-stoned streets. Get a monthly bus pass or pay per trip.
Experience the ease of parking a motorino or the freedom of driving
your own car. Put on your comfortable shoes, buy your ticket, or start
your engine, and go, go, go! Vi ringraziamo per aver scelto Bologna e
vi auguriamo buon viaggio.
Maria Luisa Olivieri (BC09, U.S.) is a graduate of Salem College with a
B.A. in Spanish and Communication. She has written for the Wall Street
Journal and Delta Sky Magazine. She will attend SAIS Washington in the
fall of 2009 and concentrate in International Relations.
The Freccia Rossa,Trenitalia’s high-speed train
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What’s New in
CAREER
SERVICES
by Ann Gagliardi
Gagliardi leads a Self-Assessment and Research module for a group of Bologna Center students.
This year, for the first time, there
are two staff members in the SAIS
Bologna Office of Career
Services. I joined the office fulltime
as a career counselor in March 2008
after three years as a consultant to students
on résumés and cover letters. Meera
Shankar, director of Career Services, recently
took on additional responsibilities for
alumni relations and student recruiting. This
external focus will permit her, from a Career
Services perspective, to work on internship
and job opportunities by strengthening relations
with existing employers and expanding
the European employer base for the benefit
of students across SAIS campuses.
In addition to providing a full-range of
counseling and professional development
programming, we are working to expand our
activities to create further opportunities for
constructive and productive interaction
between alumni and current students.
Professional Development Course:A
Joint SAIS Washington/Bologna
Endeavor
One new development is the mandatory
Professional Development Course, launched
at the beginning of the current academic
year. Past students have frequently expressed
the wish that they had somehow been
“forced” to think about professional development
earlier in their SAIS experience. The
Professional Development Course is an
attempt to meet this need. Students are
expected to attend six mandatory modules
(see sidebar) as well as an orientation session,
during their first year.
The goal is to familiarize them with fundamental
professional development skills
and concepts that, ideally, will serve them
not just in the short term, as they look for a
summer internship or for their first job out of
SAIS, but throughout their professional
lives. The course content was jointly developed
with our Washington colleagues, who
launched the same program this fall—one
result of increased coordination between the
offices of Career Services in Bologna and
Washington.
In Bologna, the bulk of the modules
were scheduled to take place during pre-term
and first semester. Recent alumni may well
recall the calendar exercise at the heart of the
Orientation session. Nothing serves to make
the period from late August to the end of
May appear as terrifyingly short as compiling
a diagram that shows academic deadlines
such as the end of add-drop for both semesters,
mid-terms, finals, and vacations alongside
a selection of dates such as career fairs,
employer visits, and specific internship
application deadlines. And yet, students
overwhelmingly comment that this activity,
though daunting, is useful because it provides
a very concrete sense of how the year
will play out and of the importance of being
organized.
In the other modules, students critique
sample résumés and cover letters, discuss
cultural differences (e.g. résumé vs. CV) and
professional etiquette, and learn strategies
for clear and compelling professional communication.
The overview of self-assessment
strategies and activities, complete with
a wide range of suggested activities, serves
as a starting point for students still wondering
what they want to do after SAIS. In discussions
of networking, students are encouraged
to view the process of making connections
as something organic that stems from a
sincere desire to obtain—and share—information,
rather than as the arid, artificial,
uncomfortable, and potentially mercantile
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activity brought to mind by words like
“schmoozing.” The course will culminate
in a mock-interview event designed to give
students a chance to practice some of the
strategies learned in the final module.
Students are asked to evaluate each
module; this feedback has proven crucial in
terms of calibrating material and approach
to make the sessions as useful as possible.
Response thus far has been overwhelmingly
positive. Students confirm that they
appreciate being required to consider
career-related issues they might otherwise
put off until later in the year. Many have
offered constructive suggestions for
improving the course after this pilot year.
The observation that students would
benefit from the inclusion of more ‘reallife’
examples in many of the modules has
generated a number of student-led projects.
The Professional Development Committee,
under the guidance of Heather Kauffman
(BC09, U.S.), the Student Government
Career Services liaison, is working to create
a booklet of SAIS-specific sample
résumés and cover letters to be made available
to future students. As part of this project,
they plan to contact recent alumni to
solicit documents for inclusion. Student
assistant Risa Grais-Targow (BC09, U.S.)
is developing a set of case studies to illustrate
research strategies for identifying
summer internship and job opportunities in
various sectors, while Suna Karakas
(BC09, Germany/U.S.), our other student
assistant, is developing a series of handson
activities to help students with practical
points like delivering working statements,
conducting informational interviews, and
maintaining their poise during job interviews.
Career Services Trips
Another first this year was the joint
Bologna-Washington Finance trip to
London, which took place in mid-October
and provided students with the opportunity
to meet alumni at private sector firms in
advance of finance and consulting internship
application deadlines. Despite the dismal
news in the finance sector in 2008, the
schedule came together and the event was a
success, providing fifteen students with an
opportunity to meet alumni working at
firms including Barclays Capitals, Morgan
Stanley, UBS, Power Capital, JP Morgan
Chase, ING, and Rogge Partners.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COURSE MODULES
MODULE
ORIENTATION
RESOURCES
RÉSUMÉS
PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS
STRATEGIC
CONNECTIONS
& PROFESSIONAL
ETIQUETTE
SELF-ASSESSMENT
& RESEARCH
INTERVIEWING
& DECISION MAKING
CONTENT
We are pleased that students were able to
gain insight into the finance sector early in
the year and plan to continue offering this
trip in the future. February trips to London
and Brussels, scheduled during the semester
break, were fully subscribed. Traditionally,
the goal of these trips is to give students an
opportunity to learn firsthand about the
many career options they can pursue in a
variety of employment sectors.
Career Clubs
As in past years, a concerted effort has been
made to encourage students to organize career
clubs. Given the predominance of first-year
M.A. students at the Bologna Center, student
club leaders have been encouraged to focus
on the research aspects of career preparation
focusing on: Consulting, Energy,
International Development, Conflict
Management, Finance, and Foreign
Relations/International Organizations. In
December, the Consulting Club organized the
Introduction to Career Services staff and services
offered, discussion of professional development and academic
calendars
Overview of tools and resources available to SAIS
Bologna students
Tailoring résumés for professional objectives
Theory and practice of cover letters and emails to ‘get in
the door,’ writing samples, thank you notes, follow-up
Finding and making contacts (networking), pointers for
sector and employer research, etiquette do’s and don’ts
Introduction to theories of self-assessment, presentation
of techniques for identifying personal values, skills, and
interests and for connecting them to potential sectors
and employers
Preparing for an interview, different types of interviews,
decision making, accepting offers
Center’s first-ever Case Study Marathon.
On a personal level, it is a real pleasure
to work in this dynamic office, helping students
as they work to identify and pursue
career goals, learning from alumni about
their work and career paths, and, whenever
possible, strengthening the SAIS network by
putting students and alumni in touch.
Ann Gagliardi is the Center’s career
services counselor. A native of Athol,
Massachusetts and graduate of Phillips
Exeter Academy, she holds a B.A. from
Wellesley College and an M.A. from the
University of East Anglia. A writer, editor,
and translator and, for years, an instructor
of English and of writing at venues including
SAIS Bologna—where she taught the
writing component of the intensive preterm
English course from 2001 to
2007—Ann has lived in Bologna for
fifteen years.
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We welcome
Our alumni are our strength, our best
advocates, and our loyal supporters.
Alumni contribute in many different ways,
helping in several areas from student recruitment, to
career advice, to alumni events, to social networking
and, last but not least, to financial support. All these
activities serve one single purpose: to help the
Bologna Center offer its students an excellent
program and a stimulating learning environment.
That’s what we are here for: in an increasingly
complex world, amid unprecedented worldwide
crises, and in unique historic moments we are here to
bring knowledge, to foster understanding and to
stimulate discussion. These values are our core values.
Our fifty-four years of experience testify to this.
The involvement of Bologna Center alumni is
fundamental to help perpetuate the Bologna Center
experience.
Play a role now
in the Center’s future!
Support our projects
Enhance the Center
Visit our giving page at www.jhubc.it/giving or contact
the Center’s development team at development@jhubc.it
and you
KEEP THT
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your support,
r involvement
EM COMING!
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In addition, higher rate tax payers can reclaim
the difference between the basic rate and the
higher rate on their annual tax reclaim.
1) Download the forms from:
http://alumni.jhu.edu/giving/international.htm
look for United Kingdom, then “Donation forms”
2) OR request the forms from Alessandra
Adami at aadami@jhubc.it
3) Inform Alessandra Adami for proper
tracking of your donation.
For donors in the USA
Contributions to the Johns Hopkins University,
Bologna Center, are tax-deductible in the
USA. An official gift receipt valid for tax
purposes in the USA will be issued by the
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
1) Please send your contribution to:
Ms. Elaine Dorsey
Associate Director, Data Administration
Development and Alumni Services
The Johns Hopkins University
Suite 2500 - 201 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21201 USA
Email: sedorsey@jhu.edu
2) Inform the Bologna Center Office of
Development (address below) for proper
tracking of your donation.
For donors in ANY OTHER COUNTRIES
Use the Bologna Center online giving form at
www.jhubc.it/giving or send your contribution to:
Ms. Alessandra Adami
JHU SAIS Bologna Center
Office of Development
Via Belmeloro 11, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Email: aadami@jhubc.it
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Patrick McCarthy Initiative
Patrick McCarthy 1941-2007
Professor of European Studies
Bologna Center
The above portrait of Patrick McCarthy by
Maurizio Osti was donated by John Williams
and Thomas Row
The life of Patrick McCarthy was
commemorated in a conference in
Bologna on March 7th and 8th,
2008, but that is not the only effort
in the works to remember him
permanently at the Bologna
Center. While the Center is finishing
up with some of its urgent
fundraising priorities, such as the
newly renovated building, the
quiet planning process for an
effort to name a fund for Professor
McCarthy has been taking place.
The Bologna Class of 1991 has
been most advanced in its planning
and has offered to act as a test case,
or first ‘tranche,’ of what will
become a much wider appeal to all
Bologna classes from Patrick
McCarthy’s time in Bologna. The
effort will be class-based (i.e.
classmates appealing to fellow
classmates), as this approach so
often proves the most successful
fundraising method for the Center.
The words of ’91 class leaders,
James Upton, Carl Gardiner
and Curtis Butler, say it best in an
excerpt from the planned letter to
their classmates:
Professor McCarthy had the
gift of all exceptional teachers—
the intellect, passion and humor
to make one a better thinker. We
can still hear, as we’re sure you
can, his distinctive intonation of
Foucault, utopia, deGaulle,
Pasolini, the SPD, Berlinguer,
dirigisme and Orwell. But beyond
the knowledge he imparted to us
on these and so many other subjects,
he enjoined us never to lose
Winter/Spring 2009
sight of a speaker’s agenda, to
think critically, dialectically and,
above all, with irony. One of our
favorite recollections of Bologna
was an evening Professor
McCarthy graced a small group
of us with his presence at a gnocchi
dinner hosted at our spartan
appartamento. After several
glasses of red wine, one of us suggested
passionately how important
his Politics and Culture
teachings were and how he should
carry them beyond the classroom
with a book. Rolling his eyes, he
lilted: “So much to do, so little
time…” (He of course got it done,
publishing Language, Politics and
Culture in 2002).
Within the parameters of a
tribute, there is a significant
financial difference between two
potential goals. To endow a permanent
research fund requires a
minimum of $100,000, while a
visiting professorship is $1 million
and a resident professorship
over $2.5 million. The immediate
plan is to reach the $100,000 minimum,
upon which the Patrick
McCarthy fund will be established.
The interest generated
would be used annually from that
date forward to fund research by
Bologna Center faculty members—something
very close to
Patrick McCarthy’s heart and
desperately needed by the Center.
If we were to reach the levels
required to fund an endowed professorship,
the fund’s purpose
could switch to fund a permanently
named professorship.
We know that we are far from
alone in our great fondness for
Professor McCarthy. He was a student’s
teacher, and as such we
have high hopes that the contributions
of many, even if modest,
might add up to a very significant
amount. What was so distinctive
about Professor McCarthy as an
academic and a teacher was his
breadth of knowledge across politics,
literature, economics and
finance—and how he brought
these areas together so vibrantly.
Wouldn’t it be fitting if his students
could pull together collectively to
endow a permanent research fund
or, in the most ambitious case, a
professorship that captured his
interdisciplinary spirit?
A full “roll-out” of the effort to
name a fund for Professor
McCarthy will follow on from
what will hopefully be a successful
launch by the Class of 1991. If
you are interested in acting as a
leader when your class gets
involved in the McCarthy effort,
please contact Gabriella Chiappini
at: gchiappini@jhubc.it
EVELOPMENT
Remembering
Frederick Hood
Upon his sudden and tragic death
on December 24, 2008, former
classmates and friends of
Frederick Hood have decided to
launch, in his memory, an initiative
connected to the Bologna
Center, a place he loved and was
part of for so many years.
Fred was an MAIA student in
Bologna from 2002 to 2004. He
was an extremely gifted student
and chose to undertake the Ph.D.
program initially at SAIS
Washington before returning to
the Bologna Center again from
2005 to 2007.
A core group of Fred’s closest
friends and compatriots from the
Bologna Center convened at his
funeral in New York on the 10th
of January, and decided that the
best way to commemorate Fred’s
love for his research, the Bologna
Center, and the city itself was to
create a fund in his memory. The
“Frederick Hood Research Fund”
will support research activities of
Ph.D. and MAIA students at the
Bologna Center, contributing to
research costs such as travel to
conferences or the purchase of
research publications.
The ultimate aim of the Fund is
to raise $100,000 over a period of
five years. Once this goal is
reached, an endowment will be
established providing yearly support
in perpetuity. Until this sum is
achieved, a small portion of the
fundraising will be made available
to candidates, starting in academic
year 2009-2010. Classmates,
friends and students of Fred who are
interested in joining the initiative
should contact Gabriella Chiappini
(gchiappini@jhubc.it) at the
Bologna Center or the initiative
leaders:
Bologna Class of 2003:
Saverio Grazioli-Venier
(graziolivenier@gmail.com)
Pete O’Brien
(peterobrien@gmail.com)
Headley Butler
(hbutler@lbutler.com)
Bologna Class of 2004:
Yoshi Funaki (yfunaki@gmail.com)
Lucy Payton
(lucypayton@gmail.com)
Bologna Classes of 2005 through
2007 and Ph.D. students:
Timo Behr (tbehr1@jhu.edu)
In addition to the fundraising
initiative, a memorial event will
take place on the Sunday morning
of Alumni Weekend, May 3, 2009
at the Bologna Center. More information
about the event will be
available from initiative leaders and
on the Bologna Center website.
Steven Muller
and Jill McGovern
Steven Muller and Jill McGovern
Photo by Bob Stockfield
Steven Muller, Johns Hopkins
University president emeritus, and
his wife, Jill McGovern, recently
established a fellowship at the
Bologna Center to support a student
for the two-year SAIS
Master’s program in Bologna and
Washington, D.C. The first
McGovern-Muller Fellow is
Lenea Reuvers (BC09, Germany)
who holds a degree in Economics,
Politics, and International Studies
from the University of Warwick.
Lenea is currently in her first year
at the Bologna Center and, thanks
to this generous fellowship, she
will be able to complete the second
year of the Master’s program
at SAIS in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Muller and Dr.
McGovern, who is senior consultant
at the American Institute
for Contem-porary German
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DEVELO
Studies at Johns Hopkins
University, are longstanding and
loyal advocates of the Bologna
Center and SAIS as a whole. The
McGovern-Muller Fellowship is
a tangible example of their deep
commitment to ensure that the
most talented students have the
opportunity to benefit from the
SAIS experience and earn a SAIS
degree. Dr. Muller commented,
“The Bologna Center and SAIS
have always played a vital role in
preparing students in international
relations. Jill and I are delighted
to be able to invest in the next
generation of leaders for our
increasingly globalized world.”
In addition to funding the fellowship
last fall, the Mullers
made a gift to support the renovation
and expansion of the Bologna
Center. “We were pleased to join
so many alumni and friends of the
Bologna Center in making the
Center an even more appealing
environment for faculty and students,”
they stated. In appreciation
for their generosity, the office
of the Steven Muller Professor
was named in their honor.
The Steven Muller Chair in
German Studies was established
at the Center in 1996 in recognition
of Dr. Muller’s dedication to
the Bologna Center and to
German-American relations. The
holder of this endowed chair for
the academic year 2008-09 is
Gunther Hellmann, Professor of
Political Science at the Goethe-
University in Frankfurt am Main.
On the right: Gunther Hellmann, Steven
Muller Professor in German Studies 2008-09,
with former German foreign minister, Joschka
Fischer, visiting with German students in 2005.
George Lawrence Abernethy
Endowment
Robert J. Abernethy
In April 2008, Robert J.
Abernethy, Johns Hopkins
University alumnus and Trustee
as well as Bologna Center
Advisory Council member since
1993 signed a three-year agreement
with the Bologna Center
establishing the purpose of the
George Lawrence Abernethy
Endowment to encourage and
enable collaborative research
between faculty and students at
the SAIS Bologna Center.
Research areas are those related
to George L. Abernethy’s principal
interests in his life-long work,
namely politics, ethics, economics,
public health and world
affairs. The endowment will support,
each year, up to four SAIS
and/or Johns Hopkins students, in
the dissertation stage of their
Ph.D. training, or students in the
thesis stage of their MAIA program
resident at the Bologna
Center and working in the stated
disciplinary areas. Endowment
disbursement will also be used to
support research activities and
publications of the Center for
Constitutional Studies and
Democratic Development
(CCSDD)—a joint venture
between the Bologna Center and
the University of Bologna since
1995, in which graduate students
from the Bologna Center or from
other universities are involved.
The George L. Abernethy
Endowment will, in these ways,
provide opportunities for SAIS
Bologna Center faculty to mentor
research students and, at the same
time, enrich the academic experience
of other SAIS Bologna
Center students.
The first two George L.
Abernethy fellows at the Bologna
Center for the academic year
2008-09 are Sara Konoe from
Japan holding a degree in Law
and Politics and currently working
on a thesis titled “The Politics
of Transforming Financial
Markets and Regulations: a
Comparison of the United States,
Japan and Germany” and Kai
Behrens from Germany holding a
degree in Politics and currently
working on a thesis on the role of
the German economy in Europe.
George L. Abernethy (August
23, 1910 - August 14, 1996) was
professor emeritus of Philosophy
at Davidson College, N.C.
Robert J. Abernethy is a JHU
graduate (School of Arts and
Science, 1962) and founder and
president of American Standard
Development Company in Los
Angeles, CA.
Bernard Lhoest
Memorial Fellowship
Bernard Lhoest
(BC86/DC87, Belgium)
Bernard Lhoest was an alumnus
of the Bologna Center from the
Class of 1986. A graduate of the
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Bernard came to the Center with a
clear cut interest in understanding
international development. As he
finished his second year in
Washington in 1987, he began
working with the Program of the
United Nations for Development,
then joined Red Cross
International. His first mission
was in Colombia. Later he worked
all over the world though more
frequently in Latin America and
Africa. During his many travels,
Bernard developed his own theory
about international development:
he had a strong trust in the role of
women in developing countries,
and believed they may be able to
“turn the world around” and make
change happen.
At his death in 2006, his
mother decided to honor his memory
by establishing the Bernard
Lhoest Memorial Fellowship for
women from Latin American or
African countries at the Bologna
Center to acquire the necessary
knowledge in international relations
to make Bernard’s dream
come true. The first recipient will
be selected from among the
incoming students of the Center’s
Class of 2010.
The Bologna Center Class of 1968 on the Center’s terrace
at their 40th anniversary reunion in May 2008
Class of 1968
Fellowship
The Class of 1968 gathered at the
Center in May 2008 to celebrate
their 40th anniversary. To mark this
very important milestone, the class
decided to finance a fellowship to
be awarded to deserving students
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PMENT
at the Bologna Center. The first
Class of 1968 Fellow will be
selected from the students attending
the next academic year, 2009-
2010. The class effort has been
energetically and generously supported
by twenty-four classmates
and has successfully raised
$20,600. “Our group of fourteen
classmates who celebrated their
40th anniversary in Bologna and
Tuscany did not only exchange
memories about the fantastic academic
year 67’/68’ at the Bologna
Center, but discussed with great
anima the idea of raising funds for
the Bologna Center and its students.
This discussion both revived
the relationships among classmates
created forty years ago and produced
the funding of a fellowship
for students of the Bologna Center.
This encouraging outcome is kind
of a proof for me that the spirit of
our class of ‘68 is still alive,” says
Helmut Dorn, class leader.
Eni Chair
in International Economics
Anthony Elson,
Eni Professor in
International Economics,
2008-09
Established in 1991, the Agip
Chair in International Economics,
the first fully funded Chair at the
Bologna Center, was renamed on
December 1, 2008 as part of a
new gift agreement with Eni SpA,
the company which incorporated
Agip and of which Agip is nowadays
a division. Eni is a major
integrated energy company, committed
to growth in the activities
of finding, producing, transporting,
transforming and marketing
oil and gas.
Listed on both the Italian and
the New York Stock exchanges, in
2007 Eni reported consolidated
revenues of 87 billion euros and
net profit of 10 billion euros, up
8.6% over 2006. In 2008, Eni was
recognized as the world’s most
sustainable company in the oil and
gas sector among the companies
included in the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index. A success in
addition to being confirmed on
both the Dow Jones Sustainability
World and the FTSE4Good indexes,
Eni is active in the following
fields: Exploration and Production,
Gas and Power, Refining and
Marketing, Engineering and
Construction.
The chair will now carry the
name: Eni Chair in International
Economics. The gift—over a three
year period—will offer outright
support towards the chair’s operating
costs. Eni and Eni Corporate
University have in this way reinforced
their ties to the SAIS
Bologna Center laying the foundation
for future successful cooperation.
The first Eni Professor in
International Economics at the
Bologna Center in academic year
2008-09 is Professor Anthony
Elson, senior consultant at the
IMF, World Bank and New Rules
for Global Finance Coalition.
According to Salvatore Sardo,
Eni chief corporate operations officer,
“The central role of people,
employee motivation and development
of capabilities and know-how
are core values of the Eni corporate
culture and the foundation on
which the company has built its
competitiveness and success. New
confirmation of this is the strengthening
of Eni’s ties with Johns
Hopkins University, a relationship
that reflects the importance the
company has traditionally attached
to investment in employee education
and training and to development
of a network of close ties with
the top Italian and international
universities, where its activities are
managed by an ad hoc company,
Eni Corporate University.”
Bologna Center Advisory
Council member and alumnus,
Raffaele Santoro (BC60, Italy),
and Bologna Center Advisory
Council member, Guglielmo
Moscato, have been instrumental
in securing this chair and its
renewed funding.
Class of 2008 Room
In May 2008, at the end of their
first year at the Bologna Center, the
Student Government decided to
present the school with its first
donation as young alumni. After
much thought, students decided to
designate their gift toward the
Bologna Center building project by
naming the basement locker room,
also known as the “ping pong
room.” Having enjoyed all aspects
of their life at the Center, including
a fully refurbished new building,
the Student Government wanted to
leave the Center a sign of gratitude
and appreciation for what they
defined as “a truly remarkable
year.” This kind of support also carries
an important message to future
generations of alumni: it is never
too early to get involved and leave
a legacy to the next class.
“We hope that this modest
token of our appreciation for the
unique Bologna experience will
establish an enduring, if symbolic,
connection between the Center
and the Class of 2008, as well as
demonstrate and further inspire
the spirit of a close-knit community,”
says the 2008 Student
Government.
BC Journal Special Issue
on the Environment
Thanks to the support of alumnus
Karl Homberg (BC67, Germany)
a special issue of the Bologna
Center Journal of International
Affairs focusing on the
Environment was published in
December 2008.
Bologna Center students
Christina Sohn, Mike Casey, Jill
O’Donnell, Rajiv D’Cruz and
Ryker Labbee worked very hard
to put the issue together. Efforts
started in the spring semester of
their 2008 year in Bologna and
were carried out during the summer
and the fall 2008 when they
started their second year in D.C.
As Christina Sohn, editor in
chief, said in her cover note: “It
is our hope that this special issue
of the BC Journal will not only
raise awareness of the pressing
issues at hand, but also provide a
forum for the debate and discussion
of the role of the environment
in international affairs.”
Alumni interested in receiving
a copy of the Journal should contact
Alessandra Nacamu’ at:
anacamu@jhubc.it or download
the pdf version available on the
Center’s website:
www.jhubc.it/publications
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The SAIS Bologna Center development team grew to three
people in 2007 to meet the increasing funding needs that face
the Center, including the building refurbishment, fellowship
funds, and research and program support, to name a few.
However as of February 2009, Gabrielle Bennett stepped
down as director of Development for the Bologna Center to
become the UK director of Development for INSEAD. She says
this was a difficult decision for her as she has loved being a part
of the Bologna Center team. In the transition before a new director
of Development is named, Gabriella Chiappini and Alessandra
Adami will carry the program forward until the team is back to
full strength.
The Center, like all schools of The Johns Hopkins University,
completed the Knowledge for the World Campaign on December
31st, 2008. The original goal for the Center when the campaign
started in 2002 was $7 million. By the end, the Center had raised
over $15 million.
Winter/Spring 2009
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WASHINGTON POST/NEWSWEEK FORUM
FEATURES SAIS STUDENTS
FROM BOTH SIDES
OF THE ATLANTIC
Did you know that one of Lithuania’s
coalition parties is composed
entirely of TV and music stars? Or
that Germany just elected its first
ethnic Turk party leader? You would have if
you’d been following SAIS Next Europe, a
newly created blogspot on The Washington
Post/Newsweek’s discussion forum PostGlobal.
Coordinated by The Post’s David Ignatius
and Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria, PostGlobal
brings together well-known, international editors
and journalists to discuss and debate
global issues on foreign affairs.
See the Next Europe section at
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/sais/nexteurope.
With Next Europe,
SAIS students have been given their own spot
on the forum. The idea of including fresh young
“expert” voices to the website originated with
Dan Hamilton, a Richard von Weizsäcker
In an increasingly connected world where
financial crises are the order of the day,
business and academia can gain more than
ever through dialogue and exchange. Last
October, SAIS Bologna partnered with Centro
di Formazione Management del Terziario
(CFMT) of Manageritalia to present Italia
Crescita Zero: Come Il Rilancio è Possibile at
the Grand Visconti Palace in Milan. The audience,
among them some of Italy’s top managers,
listened to a panel discussion followed
by a lively debate.
From the Center, director and professor
Keller and professors Plummer and Jones were
panelists together with a distinguished group of
Italian leaders in business, research and media.
Manageritalia is a national federation that
represents some 35,000 Italian executives and
managers and nearly 9,000 companies. In the
spirit of promoting their professional development,
the Center’s professors plan to work in
innovative ways with CFMT, the training
NEW GLOBAL CHALLENGES,
INNOVATIVE RESPONSES
SAIS BOLOGNA PROFESSORS DIALOGUE WITH ITALY’S TOP MANAGERS
branch of Manageritalia established in 1994, to
encourage Italian managers to view issues
broadly and bridge the international political
economic scene with their professional lives.
“The mission of the CFMT is to foster discussion
and stimulate the development of new
ideas stemming from managers for other managers
through a series of seminars and debates
on current issues... The collaboration with the
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna
Center is the first step toward an international
education bringing closer prestigious economists
and skilled managers in understanding
and facing the current economic situation in
Italy and worldwide,” says CFMT director
Michelangelo Patron.
From the Center’s perspective, it is hoped
this relationship will aid recruitment efforts
since the Manageritalia network can provide
visibility for the Center to prospective students
interested in international affairs.
The October event kicks off a series of
Professor and Director of
the Center for Transatlantic
Relations at SAIS
in Washington. Hamilton
wanted to create a blogspot
devoted primarily to questions
concerning a transforming
and expanding
Europe.
Recognizing the potential of a rich pool of student
opinions on both sides of the Atlantic, he
was curious to hear whether Europe has
“become a musty irrelevance, or if it offers lessons
for America and the world,” as he writes
on the website.
The site is mainly a collaboration between
Washington and Bologna students with the help
of the SAIS Communications Offices in both
places. Nonetheless, any faculty member or
student at SAIS who wishes to contribute may
submit. The two campuses communicate
through occasional videoconferences and a
shared Google spreadsheet where the writers
can organize key themes and topics to avoid
duplication. Ted Reinert (BC09, U.S.), a
European Studies concentrator and head student
coordinator on the Bologna side, confirms
that there are many students interested in writing.
While several have great insights, the contending
issue is finding time between exam
preparation and readings to write, “This isn’t
just someone’s blog, it’s the Washington Post,
so there’s quality control, and a short post can
take some time to develop,” he points out.
The submissions are based on students’
personal observations and opinions, and so far
published articles include a variety of themes
and topics. These range from discussions on
immigration and thoughts on the financial crisis,
to comments on the U.S. Presidential election
and Europe’s divergent reactions to it.
The Post’s readers are able to post their own
responses to the articles. Considering how a
couple of controversial issues provoked over
100 comments, Next Europe seems to not only
get noticed by the public but also to spark
debate.
As Next Europe matures and develops,
hopefully students will find the time to write
about what they’re experiencing on the ground
and reading about in the international press and
local news. A steady stream of articles to
replenish old ones is essential to keep the blog
lively with original and timely articles about
“what’s hot” and “what’s not” on the Old
(New) Continent. Even more, it’s a perfect way
for students to transcend borders—without
those heavy security controls. A.M.
repeated engagements geared toward Italy’s
managerial cadre, which will provide a forum for
the exchange of opinions and analysis regarding
global economic issues among Italy’s managers
and academics from SAIS Bologna.
In an overall climate characterized by international
and local economies in flux, where
both theory and practice require constant revision,
a forum where business and academia can
discuss innovative approaches to global issues
provides fertile ground for the development of
comprehensive solutions.
“The partnership with the SAIS Bologna is
an invaluable asset for the thousands of members
of Manageritalia throughout Italy, in which
it supports current and future leaders in developing
their own professionalism. It is fundamental,
in the context of the increasing complexity
of the current international economic
scenario, to benefit from the knowledge and
experience of a prestigious U.S. institution like
the SAIS Bologna Center to broaden horizons,
manage expectations and provide forward looking
support to our managers,” says
Manageritalia and CFMT president, Claudio
Pasini. The next SAIS Bologna-CFMT event is
planned for spring 2009 in Rome. O.B.R.
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TRANSFORMING
SOCIETY
BY MOBILIZING
YOUTH
by Edward Branagan
One student reflecting
on an exhibit at the
Sumarice Memorial Musuem,
Kragujevac, Serbia
must be the change you
want to see in the world”
is how the famous saying
“You
by Mahatma Gandhi goes.
An echo of these very words could be heard
in Kragujevac, Serbia, where fifty university
students from Eastern Europe gathered at
the annual Youth Organizing Institute (YOI)
this past July.
Since 2000, the Center for Constitutional
Studies and Democratic Development
(CCSDD)—an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins
University SAIS Bologna Center and the
University of Bologna’s Faculty of Law—has
administered YOI, a summer program seeking
to equip youth with skills that will
empower them to become instruments of
change in their communities. Funded in part
by the Central European Initiative and by
Robert J. Abernethy, Johns Hopkins University
Trustee, Bologna Center Advisory
Council member and long-time benefactor of
Johns Hopkins University this ten-day program
provides a forum for students to vocalize
their concerns, find common ground with
other students, and discover constructive
solutions to salient issues in their society.
The participants attended seminars related
to racism, discrimination, and gender
inequality. The students were challenged to
recognize and confront injustice in the most
uncommon places. Vibrant discussions, group
activities, or role playing usually followed
each of the seminars. In their free time, students
could be found socializing at the café,
showcasing their musical talents on a guitar,
or playing a game of pick-up soccer. For those
looking to get away from the retreat center, a
walk to the nearby lake or a late-night excursion
into town was always possible.
While many of the seminars proved to be
thought-provoking, some of the most memorable
discussions occurred during mealtime.
Over a tasty cevapi— a typical Serbian dish
consisting of beef-lamb sausages on pita
bread—one could hear the students sharing
personal stories, giving language lessons, or
debating over local politics. For many, one
of the most significant aspects of the YOI
was the opportunity to meet other students
across Eastern Europe. Mateuesz, a student
from Poland, remarked, “I loved having the
opportunity to meet people from so many
different countries.”
Students also embarked on two field trips.
First a visit to the Sumarice Memorial Park, a
World War II museum commemorating the
thousands of Serbs who were massacred
under Nazi occupation. The harrowing photos
of dead bodies and vivid accounts of innocent
civilians slaughtered, struck visceral chords in
the memories of many of the students who
recalled the brutality of the most recent war in
Yugoslavia. Some expressed their emotion
through tears, others through silence and still
others through comforting hugs. While boarding
the bus, one of the participants from
Serbia summed up the museum experience
when she tearfully mumbled to herself, “We
should have learned the first time. Why couldn’t
we have learned the first time?…”
Students were then taken to an Albanian
refugee camp located on the outskirts of
Kragujevac. For many, this visit was an eyeopening
experience as it allowed them firsthand
exposure to refugees. Following an
introduction, the students toured the camp
where they encountered quizzical looks as
they passed by the Albanians outside of their
makeshift homes. Although interaction was
brief, the encounters were real. They offered
the participants a poignant glimpse into the
life of a refugee.
The final days were designated for group
project work. Students identified prominent
issues plaguing their societies and formed
groups. Each group was instructed to investigate
the selected issue by performing further
research. Although the projects were predominantly
student-driven, program trainers
helped the groups establish a roadmap to analyzing
the problem. The projects covered a
wide spectrum of topics ranging from the
exclusion of Roma populations, to the discrimination
against homosexuals, to the marginalization
of youth. Once each issue had
been researched, the groups were asked to
develop a feasible action plan which could
help address the problem. On the final day,
each group presented its findings to other participants
and received constructive feedback.
All in all, the inherent value of the YOI
lies not in the projects that the participants
complete while attending the program, but
rather what the participants can be expected
to accomplish in the future. With newly
acquired skills, each of the participants is
tasked with the new responsibility of transforming
his or her own community.
Although it may seem to be a daunting
goal, they are not alone in this endeavor. As
the newest inductees into the YOI network, the
students inherit the connections and knowledge
of other participants. For it is in collaborating
with each other that the YOI participants
can be expected to have the largest and most
positive impact on their societies.
Edward Branagan (BC08, U.S.) is a
second-year M.A. student concentrating
in Conflict Management. He is spent this
past summer interning at the Center for
Constitutional Studies and Democratic
Development (CCSDD) and intends to
pursue a career in conflict management
following his graduation.
Winter/Spring 2009
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EVENTS
at the
Bologna Center
December 2008
Regional Human Rights
Mechanisms:
The European Convention
and the Arab Charter
Conference
On the left:
Mohamed Y. Mattar,
Executive Director,
Protection Project SAIS
and,, on the right:
Maleiha Malik,
Professor of Law,
Kings College, London
October 2008
Europe, the United States, and the Next American President
Stanley Hoffmann
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor,
Harvard University
February 2009
Time is Running Short for World Governance
Robert & Maria Evans Lectures Series in Italian Studies
Third from left: Ambassador Ferdinando Salleo
Former Italian Ambassador to Russia and United States
September 2008
Aquaporin Water Channels
From Atomic Structure to Malaria
Peter Agre
2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry;
Director, Johns Hopkins
Malaria Research Institute
November 2008
Secur(itiz)ing the West:The Transformation of Western Order Conference
January 2009
Lunch with Bologna Center students
in the penthouse:
Francis Fukuyama
Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of
International Political Economy
and Director of the International
Development Program, SAIS
October 2008
The Next Great Depression? Understanding the Global Financial Crisis
“The Dream Team”: Professors Plummer, Zamagni, Jones, Siebert and Cheong
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...and elsewhere
October 2008,
“Italia Crescita Zero: Come Il Rilancio è Possibile”
Grand Visconti Palace, Milan
From the left:
Eugenio Occorsio, Chief Editor Business and Finance, La Repubblica,
Michelangelo Patron, Director CFMT,
Director Kenneth H. Keller,
Claudio Pasini, President CFMT and Manageritalia,
Professor Erik Jones and Professor Michael G. Plummer
HAMBURGERS AND CHAMPAGNE
Election Night Experienced in Two Italian Cities
SAIS Bologna Center students show a mix of emotions from exhaustion to anticipation
as they watch the 2008 American Presidential Elections wind down at 3:30 A.M.
in Rome, Italy. Photo by Eric Seilo (BC09)
Two of the Center’s students watch live election
results come in the large screen in the
Fondazione del Monte-Unicredit Auditorium
© Joshua Corbett Photography (BC09)
They were in for a long night, the
twenty students who’d taken the
train from Bologna to Rome that
evening to attend a party. In no way would it
resemble anything they had attended before.
Nor was this an ordinary night. It was the
4th of November and the United States was
just about to elect its new president.
Opening the doors of the five-star Hotel
Exelia, a room full of embassy personalities,
professors and politicians, champagne and
canapés, as well as McDonald’s and
Budweiser beers, appeared in front of them.
“McDonalds had a table covered with chicken
nuggets with little toothpicks in them as
if they were fancy hors d’oeuvres and piles
of hamburgers, which I found incredibly
odd,” Elliot Carmean (BC09, U.S.) recounts.
The U.S. Embassy in Rome had put on
a cocktail reception for the night, and
thanks to professor Erik Jones, his personal
invitation was extended to include a
group of students from the Bologna Center.
“The event provided a great opportunity
for our students to reach out to the wider
Italian community and to share in celebrating
American democracy,” Jones later
commented.
Another, much larger group of SAIS
Bologna students was also awake that night.
Unlike their fellow classmates in Rome,
they were seated in the auditorium chairs of
the Bologna Center instead of mingling with
embassy personnel at a fancy cocktail party.
Food and drinks were also served, but pizza
and punch in place of McDonald’s and
champagne. And with students dressed
mostly in jeans and Obama t-shirts (in contrast
to high heels and black suits), the dress
code was significantly more relaxed.
As the night proceeded and the hours
started getting longer, time passed in different
ways for the two groups. The life-sized
Obama and McCain paper figures became
idle objects for photo sessions in between
snacking, mingling and drinking in Rome,
while in Bologna, students filled out electoral
maps and voted on which states would
go red or blue when the waiting became tiring.
“We had several types of entertainment
prepared,” Larina Helm (BC09, U.S.), one
of the organizers of the nightlong event at
the Bologna Center, explains, “but in the end
we didn’t need any extra entertainment.
People were content just hanging around,
talking and watching the big screen.”
How did Larina feel, being in Bologna
during the election? “I really liked it. It gave
me a totally different perspective.” She had
invested a lot of time and energy working
for the Obama campaign during the primaries
back home, but being in Italy allowed her
to observe the election with a bit of distance
and hear reactions from non-American fellow
students. Campbell Palfrey (BC09,
U.S.), one of the twenty students in Rome,
did not feel the same. “As an event, it was
exciting and an interesting experience. But
there was no collective sense, no urgency or
commitment to what was going on [at the
party],” he expressed.
Nevertheless, when it all came to an end
and the results were clear, smiles and
tears—as well as sparkling prosecco—
appeared in both places. A.M.
Winter/Spring 2009
23

BOLOGNA CENTER FACULTY - News
LETTER
FROM LIDIA
by Lidia Licari
At the end of the current academic year I will retire as coordinator
of the Bologna Center’s Language Program. While it is
true that I will no longer head the department, I do not intend
to abandon the Center. I hope to continue to teach French and to
guide that program for the next few years.
It is hard for me to fathom that forty years have passed since, with
an incredulous and ecstatic smile and feeling on top of the world, I
walked away from the Center after an interview with C. Grove
Haines—the founder of this institution—with the confirmation that,
starting the following October, I would teach a French course. “I know
that you are very young, even younger than the students you will
teach, I know that you still have not finished your studies, I know that
you do not have much teaching experience; but I believe you have all
the skills the Bologna Center is looking for. Let’s try it for a semester.
If it goes well, we’ll keep on going; if not, friends like before,” he said.
The American world that I was contesting on a political level—it
was the Vietnam years—had just offered an amazing opportunity to a
twenty-year-old kid: was this American director reckless to make the
offer? Or was I irresponsible to accept? After many years, my answer
is: we were both wise. This is the first reason I am grateful to the
Center: for providing me with an opportunity.
I already knew the Bologna Center. My sister Carmen had been
teaching here for a few years and I had gotten to know some of her
colleagues and friends. Some I knew better than others: Pierre
Hassner who used to come to Bologna from Paris every two weeks,
Sheila Murphy who “reigned” over the reception, Hannelore Aragno
who taught German and with whom I would later share an office,
Angelo Buldini who never once forgot to do the rounds of every
office each evening to check that lights were off and doors shut. With
others I was a bit more shy: Federico Mancini, Alfred Grosser,
Antonio La Pergola, just to name a few. However, it was from that
one lucky interview that my real Hopkins adventure began.
I began to teach grammar rules to respectful, diligent students
wearing jackets and tie, or classic women’s suits. Before each class, I
spent hours studying—perhaps more than they did—to prepare
answers to the questions they would ask me. Some days I thought I
wouldn’t make it! But, within a few years, I already knew a lot about
course content and teaching methodologies, and students began coming
to class in jeans, sandals and loud colors. Finding a job after their
Bologna experience was their main preoccupation. They were deeply
interested in getting to know other cultures, in the Eurocommunism
that was emerging, in how the city of Bologna was practicing it.
I continued to teach the same grammar rules, but my phrases, in
the exercises, were beginning to change. To practice prepositions I
no longer used “Ho visto un gatto per la strada” (I saw a cat in the
street) but rather “Ho visto un manifesto su un muro” (I saw a
poster on a wall). As the students grew, so did I. We continued to
share curiosity and enthusiasm and, with each new class, there was
always a new inspiration. This is the second reason for my gratitude
to the Bologna Center: for cultivating and stimulating a spirit of initiative
and a faith in the future.
During these past forty years
many things have changed,
except for one: the grammar rules...
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BOLOGNA CENTER FACULTY - Recent Books
After that first assignment in 1969, I was given another
to teach Italian in 1971, then to coordinate the intensive
course in 1973, and subsequently to oversee the
entire program in 1976. After that, I witnessed constant
expansion: an increase in the number of students, an
increase in applications, and new and diversified needs.
Besides the traditionally offered languages (English,
French, German, Italian), we began to provide other languages
that students rightfully requested (Spanish,
Russian, Portuguese, Arabic). As a result, we went from
four or five teachers in the 1970s to the fourteen we are
today. Chalk, chalkboard, red pencil, and printed exams,
went the way of audio-visual labs, email coursework, and
on-line exams. I continued to study my subject matter, to
update my skills, to experiment. However, while I know
and recognize the benefits of technology, I continue to
have a healthy wariness of anything that detracts from the
richness of personal relationships: so although today I
receive coursework via email, I then print it out, correct
it with my red pencil, and call the student into my office
to explain the errors, since it is only by seeing the look in
their eyes that I can determine whether they’ve truly
understood or not. Maybe this is one of my limitations,
but believe me, in terms of human relations, it still works.
The third reason for my gratitude toward the Center
is that here I have found a true sense of belonging and a
unique multicultural identity. It would be hypocritical to
say that our worlds were always in tune, or even that during
moments of difficulty I never asked myself why I did
not accept any of the other job offers which, by that point,
came to me regularly. In those moments there was always
a maternal shoulder to lean on in the administration—and
it is not by chance that I say “maternal” because they
were always women, with a great sense of solidarity; a
director to reassure me—and I have had the pleasure to
collaborate with all of them; and the enthusiasm and
affection of many students that kept me going. Each time
I opted for the Bologna Center—and I won the bet!
During these forty years many things have changed,
except for one: the grammar rules, which are what I
teach. After forty years, the adjective still agrees with the
noun and the past participle still agrees with the subject
when the auxiliary verb is “to be,” but instead when it’s
“to have”… but I don’t believe I only taught this. Patrick
McCarthy knew this well and like him, many other
friends and colleagues that the language department has
had in its classrooms, from John Harper to Tom Row, not
to mention Erik Jones, Mike Plummer, Meera Shankar
and many others, including some directors. This is the
strength of the Bologna Center: we live and share to grow
together and build. Everyone does his or her bit of work
that, in turn, is an essential piece of an interdependent
mechanism. But, if your little bit does not work, the
mechanism can break down. I am ready to bet that it will
not break down as long as there are colleagues, students,
and friends like those I have had, and still have today.
Ciao a tutti e arrivederci a presto,
Granet. De Rome à Paris,
le plein-air romantique,
catalogue de l’exposition,
Rome
By Anna Ottani Cavina
Académie de France. ed. Electa
Milan, 2009
Federico Zeri. Lettere alla
Casa Editrice Einaudi
Anna Ottani Cavina, editor
Einaudi Torino, 2008
Accesso alla giustizia dell’individuo
nel diritto
internazionale e
dell’Unione europea
Marco Gestri, co-editor
Giuffrè editore, Milan, 2009
The Future of European
Foreign Policy
Erik Jones and Saskia van
Genugten, co-editors
Routledge, 2009
The 2008 US Presidential
Elections: A Story in Four
Acts
Erik Jones, co-editor
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 (to be
published in Italian by Il Mulino)
Il potere dei simboli,
i simboli del potere. Laicità
e religione alla prova del
pluralismo
By Susanna Mancini
Cedam Publisher, Padova, 2008
Masters of Political Science
Gianfranco Pasquino, co-editor
European Consortium of Political
Research (Forthcoming 2009)
Le primarie comunali
in Italia
Gianfranco Pasquino, co-editor
Il Mulino, 2009
ASEAN Economic
Integration: Trade,
Finance, and Foreign
Direct Investment
By Michael G. Plummer
Imperial College London and
World Scientific, Singapore,
(Forthcoming 2009)
Standards of Investment
Protection
By August Reinisch
Oxford University Press, 2008
Rules for the Global
Economy
By Horst Siebert
Princeton University Press, 2009
Journal of Modern Italian
Studies (JMIS)
Special Issue. 14-1.
Proceedings of a conference
held at the SAIS Bologna
Center in March 2008:
‘A Special Vision of Italy:
Patrick McCarthy 1941-2007’
The issue is due to be
published in spring 2009.
Orders may be placed by
contacting jmis@uconn.edu.
See www.jhubc.it/mccarthy
for further details.
Winter/Spring 2009
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There are lots of ways to help,
and so many of you do…
The Bologna Center is
fortunate to have many
alumni who help advance
the work of the school and make
the SAIS network so vibrant.
In the Development section of
this issue of Rivista, we recognize
alumni who made financial contributions
to the Center; here we want
to thank alumni who contribute in
other ways equally essential to the
success of our work. These efforts
raise the visibility of the school,
attract new students to the program,
provide job opportunities for
students and alumni, and demonstrate
a level of commitment that we
are truly honored to have. Many
alumni help in multiple ways, and
those individuals are noted with a
diamond () since, for reasons of
space, names are listed here just once.
If, despite our best efforts to
mention everyone we have
inadvertently made an error, please
send a note to: alumni@jhubc.it.
We will make corrections in the
next issue of Rivista.
…Thank you.
GET INVOLVED INITIATIVE
Kenneth Anye (BC08, Cameroon)
Gaurav Deep Arora (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Patrick Avato (BC05/DC06, Germany)
Rachel Bahn (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
David Bonine (BC00/DC01, U.S.)
Duncan Burrell (BC06/DC07, UK)
Scott Cantor (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Filippo Chiesa (BC08, Italy)
Amy Cloud (BC06/DC07, U.S.)
Michael De Lucia (BC94/DC95, U.S.)
Edward Dougherty (BC05/DC08, U.S.)
Laura Freschi (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Aysha Ghadiali (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Michael Gujda (BC07, U.S.)
Tarig Hilal (BC06/DC08, UK)
Anna Hirtenfelder (BC08, Austria)
Peter Johnson (BC06/DC07, U.S.)
Thomas Kang (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Jonathan Kartt (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Felix Knidlberger (BC05/DC06, Germany)
Daniel Kollmann (BC07/DC08, Germany)
Harald Langer (BC08, Austria)
Ariel Mendez (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Chad Miner (BC08, U.S.)
Patricia Morales (BC08, U.S.)
Diana Salvemini (BC07/DC08, Italy)
Carlotta Saporito (BC05/DC06, Italy)
Alexander Schratz (BC07/DC08, Germany)
Manuel Seiffe (BC07/DC08, Germany)
Petr Stabrawa (BC07/DC08, Czech Republic)
Florian Theus (BC06/DC08, Germany)
Alison Umberger (BC05, U.S.)
Sarah Underwood (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
Alp Kerem Usar (BC05, Turkey)
Joseph Whalen (BC07/DC08, U.S.)
CAREER TRIPS
Dana Allin (BC85/DC86/Ph.D.90, U.S.)
Allen Appen (DC89)
Carter Atlamazoglou (BC06/DC07, U.S.)
Christopher Beauman (DC67, UK)
Cyrus Behbehani (DC91)
Gwen Bondi (BC85/DC86, U.S.)
Bronwen Brown (DC02, U.S.)
Nathaniel Bullard (BC05/DC06, U.S.)
Christopher Cantelmi (BC93/DC94, U.S.)
John Paul Cook (BC83/DC84/Ph.D.98, U.S.)
Nadia Costantini (BC96/DC97, Italy)
Michael Delia (BC83/DC84, U.S.)
Marco Dell’Aquila (BC85/DC86, UK/Italy)
Carel du Marchie Sarvaas (BC95, Netherlands)
Amjad Ghori (DC86, U.S.)
Richard Gildea (BC83/DC84, U.S.)
Daniel Gould (BC03, UK)
Anne-Claire Goupy (BC02/DC03, France)
John Graham (DC79, U.S.)
Julien Halfon (BC03/DC03, France)
Larry Hatheway (BC83/DC84, U.S.)
Stuart Hensel (BC95/DC96, Germany/Canada)
Chikako Kuno (BC85/DC88, U.S.)
Anna Kielbratowska (BC04/DC05, Poland)
David Klingensmith (DC74, U.S.)
Emily Landis Walker (BC80/DC81, U.S.)
Maria Malas (DC07, Lebanon)
Marco Mantovanelli (BC91/DC93, Italy)
Antonio Missiroli (BC93, Italy)
Ryan Packard (KSAS04, U.S.)
John Raines (BC05/DC06, U.S.)
Rabee Sahyoun (KSAS96)
Nihar Sait (DC98)
Matthew Shinkman (DC01, U.S.)
Karl von Klitzing (BC99/DC00, Germany)
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ALUMNI WEEKEND
CAREER COUNSELING
Kristoff Abbeloos (BC04, Belgium)
Armando Anfosso (BC01/DC03, Italy)
Miriam Awad (BC03/DC04, U.S.)
Jon Becker (BC78/DC79, U.S.)
Eric Bellman (BC93/DC94, U.S.)
Jeremy Bowen (BC83/DC84, UK)
Bernard Bridel (BC78, Switzerland)
Gary Davison (BC83/KSAS84, U.S.)
Martin Fraenkel (BC83/DC84, UK)
Filippo Gamba (BC03/DC04, Italy)
Blair Glencorse (BC03/DC04, UK)
Tim Gould (BC98, UK)
Armine Guledjian (BC05/DC06, U.S.)
John Isaacs (BC68/DC69, U.S.)
Scott Kleinberg (BC88/DC90, U.S.)
Christine Knudsen (BC93/DC94, U.S.)
Alla Kruglak (DC03)
Bernardo Monzani (BC03/DC04, Italy)
Anne Pearce (BC98/DC99, U.S.)
Giuseppe Pennisi (BC67/DC68, Italy)
Claudia Pieterse (BC03/DC04, Netherlands)
Joseph Richardson (BC03/DC04, UK)
Boris Ruge (BC88, Germany)
Paola Sophia Seremetis (BC88/DC89,
U.S./Greece)
Melinda Smale (BC78/DC79, U.S.)
Olga Smyrnova (BC04, Ukraine)
Partha Vasudev (BC05/DC07, India)
Michael Waldron (BC05/DC06, U.S.)
Fabian Wendenburg (BC06/DC07, Germany)
Holger Wilms (BC06/DC07, Germany)
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES & ADVICE
Ana Arino (DC06, Spain)
Sara Bignami (BC06/DC07, Italy)
Sören Buttkereit (BC99/DC00, Germany)
Leonardo Corsetti (BC06/DC08, Italy)
Ruben Diaz-Plaja (BC05/DC06, Spain)
Andras Fehervary (BC85/KSAS86, U.S.)
Claudia Fumo (BC92/DC93, Italy)
Christoph Hack (BC91, Austria)
Benjamin Hein (BC93/DC94, US/Germany)
Eduard Hochreiter (BC75, Austria)
Robert Jenkins (BC75/DC75, U.S.)
Katherine Joseph (BC96/DC97, UK)
Aki Kachi
Anna Koppel (BC02/DC03, Russia)
Barbara Lapini (BC94/DC95, U.S.)
Isabella Lindner (BC88, Austria)
Lieve Lowet (BC83/DC84, Belgium)
Joakim Lundquist (BC99/BC00, Sweden)
Marshall Millsap (BC75/DC76, U.S.)
Jessica Morrison (BC08, U.S.)
Paolo Natali (BC04/DC06, Italy)
Massimiliano Paolucci (BC97/DC98, Italy)
Jonas Paul
Ilaria Regondi (BC07/DC08, Italy)
Andrew Stephens (BC94/DC95, U.S.)
Jànos Strohmayer (BC94/DC95, Austria)
Tobias Thiel (BC08, Germany)
EUROPEAN ALUMNI CHAPTERS
Efsane Askin (BC93, Turkey)
Ralf Beke-Bramkamp (BC88, Germany)
Ioannis Bourloyannis-Tsangaridis (BC81, Greece)
Cappucine Carrier (BC89, Canada)
Sally Anne Corcoran (BC95/DC96, U.S.)
Claude Cornet (BC62, France)
Andreas Credé (BC76/DC77, Germany)
Gatis Eglitis (BC02, Latvia)
Claudia Flisi (BC71/DC72, Italy)
Hall Gardner (BC82/X89)
Jürgen Glückert (BC62, Germany)
Jaume Guardans (BC93, Spain)
Bikem Ibrahimoglu (BC93, Turkey)
John Kadelburger (BC86, Sweden)
Geraldine Kelly (BC80/DC81, Ireland)
Norbert Knittlmayer (BC89, Germany)
Sandra Kramer (BC89/DC90, Netherlands)
Karl Krammer (BC79/BC80, Austria)
Winfried Lambertz (BC68, Germany)
Alessandra Macrì (BC00, Italy)
Percival Manglano (BC98, Spain)
Mark Maskow (BC99/DC00, Germany)
Martin Miszerak (BC78/DC79, U.S.)
Charles Quigley (DC76, U.S.)
Lars Rosdahl (BC80/DC81, Sweden)
Denise Senmartin (DC03)
Indrek Tarand (BC93, Estonia)
Hasan Teoman (BC80/DC82, Austria/Turkey)
Eve Trezza (BC71/DC72, U.S.)
Hans Van Geloven (BC96/DC97, Netherlands)
Kurt Vandenberghe (BC91/DC92, Belgium)
Sebastian Vos (DC02, Netherlands)
Vladimir Zuberec (BC03, Slovak Republic)
BOLOGNA CENTER
SEMINAR SERIES 2007-08
Tiziano Bonazzi (BC65, Italy)
Paola Conconi (BC95/DC96, Italy)
Giovanna Dell'Orto (BC02, Italy)
Daniel Keohane (BC98/DC99, Ireland)
Aidan Lewis (BC02/DC03, UK)
Angelo Panebianco (BC72, Italy)
Gianfranco Pasquino (BC66/DC67, Italy)
Patrizia Poggi (BC95/DC96, Italy)
Seamus Taggart (BC98/DC99, UK)
Cüneyt Ülsever (BC75/DC76, Turkey)
Bertjan Verbeek (BC85, Netherlands)
AMICI DI BOLOGNA
Dennis Amato (BC68/DC68/Ph.D.72, U.S.)
David Ciulla (BC04/DC05, U.S.)
Anne Erni (BC85/KSAS86/DC90, U.S.)
Laura Forlano (BC00, U.S.)
Sara Hermann Fought (BC81/KSAS82, U.S.)
Vanessa Friedman (BC00/DC01, U.S.)
Philip Futterman (BC57/DC57, U.S.)
Richard Greco (BC95/DC97, U.S.)
John Jove (BC82/KSAS83, U.S.)
Ajay Kaisth (BC89, U.S.)
Daniela Kaisth (BC89/KSAS90, U.S.)
Jennifer Lind (BC91/DC92, U.S.)
Michelle Moosally (BC00/DC01, U.S.)
Hayley Nelson (BC00/DC01, U.S.)
Charles Park (BC96/DC98, U.S.)
Gianni Sellers (BC81/DC82, U.S.)
Thomas Stelzer (BC83, Austria)
Bart Stevens (BC81/DC82, Belgium)
Elda Stifani (BC74/DC75, U.S.)
Tom Tesluk (BC81/DC82, U.S.)
James Upton (BC91/DC92, U.S.)
Melody Woolford (BC01/DC03, U.S.)
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Alumni Notes
David S. Mason (BC70/DC71, U.S.)
and his wife, Sharon Wood Mason
(BC70/DC71, U.S.), both retired
this year. They are not only one of the many
couples who met at the Bologna Center; they
are also members of a multigenerational
SAIS family. David’s father, Richard, graduated
from the SAIS Class of 1948, and David
was the first second-generation student to
graduate from SAIS. David and Sharon’s
eldest daughter, Dana Mason (BC03,
U.S.), received her MAIA degree from the
Bologna Center with her parents and grandfather
in attendance. The Mason family is
believed to be the first family to have three
generations of graduates.
Sharon served for twenty-one years as a
chaplain at St. Vincent’s Hospital in
Indianapolis. David was professor of political
science at Butler University, where he taught
for thirty-three years. He recently published
his sixth book, The End of the American
Century, which documents the multiple and
interrelated dimensions of America’s domestic
and international decline. David welcomes BC
alumni to visit the website associated with the
book and to join in conversation about the
future of the United States:
www.endoftheamericancentury.blogspot.com
Scott Kleinberg (BC88/DC90, U.S.)
reports he has moved to Tel Aviv and is working
at USAID on the West Bank and Gaza
program.
Alex Skora
Alex Skora (BC90/DC91, U.S.) has been
a singer/songwriter since his late teens, producing
several albums. Past collaborators
include Bon Jovi, producer Luke Ebbin,
Cameron Greider (Chris Cornell), Jeff Allen
(Duncan Sheik), producer Roger Greenawalt
(Ben Kweller, Nils Lofgren, Ric Ocasek)
and Electonica stars Peter Kruder (Kruder
and Dorfmeister) and Rodney Hunter. His
current band includes ex-Billy Idol drummer
Thommy Price and former Blondie guitarist
Jimi Bones. He finished his last album a year
ago, titled No Eyes for the Future, and he
continues to record new tunes. His music can
be heard at myspace.com/alxband.
Phillip de Assis (BC95/DC96, U.S.)
reports that he is vice consul and fraud prevention
manager at the United States
embassy in Georgetown, Guyana.
Thomas Schneider (BC96, Germany)
has been appointed professor of mathematics
and physics at Hochschule Furtwangen
University, Faculty of Digital Media in
Germany.
Since returning to Italy in 2002, Kathryn
Knowles (BC01/DC02, U.S.) has made
Bologna home. After four years with a local
non-profit foundation, Kathryn joined
BolognaFiere in
January as business
development manager.
In 2006 she
directed the publication
of the second
edition of
Bologna Inside, a
guidebook for foreigners,
in collaboration
with the International Women’s
Forum of Bologna. Kathryn and her husband
Marco remind BC classmates that they are
always welcome for a visit.
Lucas de Beaufort (BC99/DC05, the
Netherlands) married Heather Beck on
October 11 in Charleston, South Carolina. A
large number of SAISers gathered together
to celebrate the wedding from all over the
United States, as well as from Afghanistan,
The wedding of Lucas de Beaufort
and wife Heather
Kathryn Knowles
and husband Marco
From left to right: Dirk Meerburg (BC99, the Netherlands),
Jean Francois Ruhashyankiko, Simcha Meerburg-da Costa,
Lisette Bekker-Olijslager, Wim Bekker (BC99/DC00, the
Netherlands), Helen Medina (BC99/DC00, U.S.), Carole
Ruhashyankiko-Chapelier (BC99/DC00, Belgium), Timothy
Flynn (BC99/DC00, U.S.), Marianne Stigset (BC99/DC00,
Norway), Ashley Van Straten, Sabrina Blake (BC99/DC00,
U.S.), Heather Beck and Lucas de Beaufort, Jody Barrett,
(BC/DC99, U.S.), Todd Cater (BC99/DC00) Anne-
Catherine (BC99, Belgium) and David Schaub-Jones
(BC99/DC00, UK), with daughter, India, Tom Kenyon
(BC99/DC00, UK), Anne Hassberger (BC99/DC00,
Switzerland), Mike Derham (BC99/DC03, U.S.), Antoine
Duvauchelle (BC99/DC00, France), Sandro Trosso
(BC99/DC00, Peru/Italy), Mary Morrison (BC03/DC04,
UK), and Edward Anderson (DC06).
SAIS alumni not pictured but present at the wedding were
Casey Reckman (DC06), Neil Boege (DC06), Jessica
Thompson (BC06/DC07, U.S.) and Brian Marterer (DC99).
Rwanda, the Netherlands, Austria,
Switzerland, Norway, France, Panama and
China.
David Schacht (BC01/DC02, U.S.) is
executive director of Amigos of Costa Rica,
a Washington, D.C.-based NGO that supports
the CRUSA Foundation in Costa Rica
which focuses on the environment, education,
economic competitiveness, and science
and technology. David leads a team building
Costa Rica’s first ever Social Investment
Promotion Agency, forming strategic
alliances with corporate and foundation partners
with shared interests in Costa Rica’s
development. David can be reached at
dschacht@amigosofcostarica.org, and is
happy to hear from fellow SAISers with an
interest in Costa Rica. David was previously
with Carana Corporation, a global consulting
firm, and is a former member of the
Bologna Center Advisory Council, its first
Young Alumni member.
Sebastian Tong (BC04/DC05, Singapore)
lives in London, where he is a correspondent,
Emerging Markets, at Thomson Reuters.
Sebastian and his wife, Melinda, welcomed
Esther, their baby girl, in October.
Miriam Elder (BC05/DC06,U.S.) is a freelance
journalist based in Moscow. She covers
politics, business and culture for a variety of
publications including the Sunday Telegraph
and the Financial Times. She is Russia correspondent
for GlobalPost, a new media venture.
Her work has also appeared in the
Independent, Business Week, the International
Herald Tribune and the Times of London.
Jay B. Lurie (BC06/DC07, U.S.) has
transfered offices within Macquarie Capital
Advisers from New York to Mumbai, where
he is working in the Infrastructure Finance
group, seeking project acquisitions for a new
infrastructure fund, based in Mumbai, sponsored
by Macquarie, State Bank of India and
the IFC (World Bank). His contact info is
jblurie@gmail.com and he looks forward to
visitors.
On January 20th Chad Miner (BC08, U.S.)
and Stephanie Harmon (BC08, U.S.)
attended the Inauguration of President Barack
Obama. At the end of the event Chad asked
Stephanie to marry him and “she said yes.”
Chad Miner and
Stephanie Harmon
28 The Johns Hopkins University - SAIS - Bologna Center

In Memoriam
Frederick Hood
15 October 1980
24 December 2008
by Erik Jones
Bologna e la famiglia mi mancano!
Fred’s Christmas card arrived just a few days
before the holidays started. He was supposed
to come and visit in early December.
Somehow that didn’t work out. We had
planned the trip in November during a long
telephone conversation about the global
financial crisis and his burgeoning career as
an investment banker. He toyed a bit with the
idea of finishing his doctoral dissertation at
some point. But we both expected that the
trip would be complicated and he seemed
too engaged in the world of finance for me to
believe he was ready to come back to school
any time soon. Early December came and
went. Then the card arrived: “Merry
Christmas from the frozen north! I’m looking
for a good time to come over... Bologna
e la famiglia mi mancano! Love, Fred.” My
wife, Una, was impressed that eighteen
months in Scotland had done little to weaken
his command of Italian grammar. I
remembered that I would have to tease Fred
about that one.
Fred started at the Bologna Center in
2002, the same year I came back to join the
faculty—and from what I could tell he never
really left. He was one of those rare people
who grows seamlessly from student to colleague,
to friend to family. It’s hard to
remember meeting him because it’s hard to
remember when he wasn’t there.
Of course that is not to suggest Fred ever
made a weak impression. He had tremendous
self-confidence and frightening abilities.
He was smart and funny, but he was also
caring and warm. He went to his first
Halloween Party as “Professor Row” and
ended up being adopted by Tom in the
Frederick Hood
process. He wrote and sang some crazy song
in that year’s variety show and so set a pattern
that would last for many years after. He
also studied and wrote—brilliantly.
When he came to my office only a few
months into the program to ask if he could
stay a second year, I jumped at the chance to
bring him into the MAIA. The same was true
a year later when he applied for the Ph.D. I’d
like to think they were the best moves I ever
made, but the choices were so obvious that
they hardly count as decisions.
Over the coming years, I learned to
depend on Fred far more than you would
expect from a student or research assistant.
We organized seminars, edited books, drafted
reports, and wrote papers together on a
continuous basis. And I wasn’t alone. Fred
was a major part of the Ph.D. program in
European Studies and a close friend and collaborator
to his supervisor, David Calleo.
He was the indispensable teaching assistant
for the core course “Evolution of the
International System” both with Tom Row
and with Adrian Lyttelton. He was also a
great friend and colleague to Patrick
McCarthy and an unofficial member of the
McCarthy clan.
Things weren’t always easy for Fred.
Those of you who knew him will also
remember how he could be too energetic—
and too able—for his own good. Working
with him was like trying to keep hold of
some awesomely powerful racehorse; sometimes
you worried that if you didn’t rein him
in he would run himself into the ground. He
wrote his MAIA thesis in just a handful of
days and with results that were near publishable
in quality. I asked him to help me with
a project on anti-Americanism in Italy and
he force-fed me with the post-World War II
history of Italian-American relations instead.
He agreed to co-teach a course on strategic
studies at the University of Bologna and in
his efforts to absorb the whole of that literature,
I think he gave up sleep entirely.
The beauty of working with Fred,
though, was that he would always find a way
to work around his own limitations. You just
had to give him enough time. We had some
great afternoons hanging out in London near
St. James. I don’t remember the reason for
the visit, but I guess it was to do something
at Chatham House. Whatever it was, it was
unmemorable—just a good excuse to hang
out in a place that Fred knew well. We ended
up spending the time talking about his experiences
at Eton, Harvard, and the Edinburgh
fringe festival. The running theme was
always the same. He would throw himself
into something, work like hell, find himself
buried in a mess, and then dig himself out.
Each story made Fred more impressive.
He had a knack for funny self-deprecation,
but it was easy to see that he also had a
solid core of hard-won achievement. He
didn’t fail at things, give up, and then reinvent
himself. He evolved, carrying all that
wealth of effort, experience, and selfknowledge
around with him.
Our last conversation really blew me
away. I was always teasing him about going
into investment banking. The running joke
was that he was finally worldly enough to
deserve the financial rewards that a banking
career would bring him. What I never
expected—largely because it never occurred
to me—was how much he would grow in the
job. True to form, he had a tough start but
quickly rose to the challenge and then some.
You could sense over the phone that he had
made another big step in his evolution.
There was no telling where he would go
next. I couldn’t wait to see him to find out.
Mi manca.
[Frederick Hood died in an avalanche while skiing in the
Austrian Alps on Christmas Eve, 2008.]
To learn about the Center’s memorial initiatives to honor
Frederick’s life, see page 17.

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