[Intelforum] CASIS 20TH ANNIVERSARY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR
SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE STUDIES
Canada's Premier Organization for Scholars and Professionals Interested in
Security and Intelligence

CASIS 20TH ANNIVERSARY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
October 20-22, 2005
Plaza Hotel Centre-Ville Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada

BRAVE NEW WORLD?
UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL SECURITY CHALLENGES, REFORMING NATIONAL SECURITY PRACTICES


Thursday, October 20

11:00 Pre-Conference Background Briefing for Media: Overview of 
Security and        Intelligence Issues and Key Speakers

12:45 President's Welcome - Wesley Wark,  CASIS President
                         - Gérard Hervouet - CASIS Vice-President
1:00 Keynote Speaker - Hon. Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice (TBC)

1:45 Panel 1 Terrorism: Understanding the Threat

3:15           Break

3:45 Panel 2 Once More Into the Breach:
Lessons and Challenges of Intelligence Reform

5:15 Guest of Honour: The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of 
Public Safety and       Emergency Preparedness Hon. Anne McLellan 
(TBC)

6:00 President's Reception - Hosted by Jane's Information Group and 
Strategic     Consulting Services


- Weller Prize Winners Presentation for Best Graduate and 
Undergraduate Research Papers
- Cadieux-Little Award Presentation

7:15 GALA 20TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER

CASIS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author
Friday, October 21


8:30 Panel 3 North American Border Security:
Making It Happen

10:00 Break

10:15 Panel 4 (Concurrent) National Security in Multicultural 
Societies: Modern Answers to Age-Old Challenges

       Panel 5 (Concurrent) Asian Security Issues:
Global and National Challenges

12:00 CASIS Town Hall Debate: "That Canada has achieved the right 
balance        between security and civil liberties"

12:45 Lunch
THE JOHN TAIT MEMORIAL LECTURE
Margaret Bloodworth, Deputy Minister of Public Safety
and Emergency Peparedness

2:00 Panel 6 (concurrent) Rethinking Chatter: Global Communications 
and the Hunt for Good Intelligence

       Panel 7 (concurrent) Transportation Security: Have the 9/11 
Lessons Been Learned?

3:30 Break

3:45 Panel 8 (concurrent) The 'War on Terror': The View from Europe


5:15 Panel 9 The Best and the Brightest: The CASIS Weller Prize 
Winners' Panel (Weller Prize papers will be presented by their 
student authors and discussed by a panel of academics and 
practitioners, and the audience.)

6:15 Student Reception

7:30 Optional Literary Event and Dinner (Arrangements to be announced)

Saturday, October 22

8:30 Panel 10   Practitioner Research Panel: Current research   and 
publications by security and intelligence   practitioners

9:30 Panel 11 (concurrent)   Proliferation: The Threat and the Response?

       Panel 12 (concurrent)   In Pursuit of the Analytical Holy Grail:
               Innovation in Analysis, Warning and Prediction
- diplomatic/strategic intelligence analysis
- criminal intelligence analysis
- integrated intelligence analysis

11:00 Break

11:15 Panel 13   The Informed Citizen: Between the Scylla   of 
Secrecy and the Charybdis of   Manipulation

12:30 Panel 14   Conference Conclusions and Wrap-up

1:00 Close of Conference


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THE CASIS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
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