CONFERENCE

The Call for a New World Order:
Dialogue among Civilizations Revisited

Co-sponsored by Search for Common Ground
& The International Society for Iranian Culture

Monday, September 27th, 2004
9:00AM - 5:00 PM
The Harvard Club of New York City

9:00-9:30am Breakfast

9:30-9:45 Introductory Remarks:
H.E. Ambassador (ret.) William Miller, Search for Common Ground
and The International Society for Iranian Culture

9:45-11:15 Panel I: The Role of Interfaith Dialogue
Reverend James P. Morton, Interfaith Center of New York, Chair
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University
Marshall Breger, The Catholic University of America
George McLean, The Catholic University of America

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-1:00 Panel II: Rethinking the New World Order
Shireen Hunter, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Chair
Javad Faridzadeh, Former Director, Iranian Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations, and Senior Advisor to President Khatami
Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

1:00-2:30 Lunch

Keynote Address:
H.E. Kamal Kharrazi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran

2:30-4:30 Panel III: The Role of Diplomacy in Dialogue Among Civilizations
Ruhollah Ramazani, University of Virginia, Chair
H.E. Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Permanent Representative to the United Nations
H.E. Thomas R. Pickering, The Boeing Company, and Former U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs

The Harvard Club of New York City is located at 27 West 44th Street
between 5th Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) in Manhattan.

For more information please contact us at:

contactus@isicweb.org

search@sfcg.org