Welcome Dinner
CSDS will host a pre-conference welcome dinner for SDF Centre representatives and invited guests. Details are as follows:
Thursday, October 1
Renaissance Room
Fairmont Château Laurier
1 Rideau St., Ottawa
19.00 - 21.30
Please note that this is a private dinner for SDF Centre representatives and invited-guests only.
Dinner Keynote Speaker
“Obama's Global Strategy: What We've Learned, and the Risks Ahead”
- David Sanger
- Chief Washington Correspondent
- The New York Times
David E. Sanger is Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 25-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs and, since 2001, the arc of the Bush presidency. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Sanger released the New York Times bestseller, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, in January 2009. It is an examination of the Bush administration’s legacy, its successes and failures, and the complex challenges facing President Obama.
Sanger appears regularly on public affairs and news shows. Twice a week he delivers the Washington Report on WQXR, the radio station of the Times. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group and is a writer-in-residence for the Center for a New American Security.
Conference Accommodations
CSDS will cover the accommodation costs for two rooms for two nights for each SDF Centre. In addition, CSDS will cover the full travel costs for individual panel participants. We hope that each Centre will be able to send at least two representatives to the conference, and that graduate students will be among those represented.
The designated conference hotel is the Mariott Courtyard in Ottawa’s scenic Byward Market. For more information on the Courtyard Mariott, see marriottcourtyardottawa.com.
Please send the names of those who will be attending to Cathleen Schmidt as soon as possible. We will reserve the rooms directly. If you require more than two rooms and/or more than two nights, please let us know. We will secure a discounted rate for any additional rooms or nights.
For information, please contact Cathleen Schmidt at .
Transportation
CSDS has arranged transportation from the hotel to the conference venue on Friday morning, Oct 2: a bus will depart from the Marriott Courtyard at 08:15. If you miss the bus, the conference venue is only a short taxi ride, or a 20 minute walk.
For those traveling by air, shuttle service is available from the Ottawa Airport directly to the Marriott Courtyard. Tickets can be purchased at the airport for one way or roundtrip travel. For more information on the shuttle schedule and fares, visit: www.yowshuttle.com.
Business Meetings
An informal Directors' meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon, October 1. Details are as follows:
Thursday, October 1
NPSIA Boardroom, Room 1419, Dunton Tower [please note that we have switched back to the orignal room]
Carleton University
15.00 - 17.00
This meeting is only open to Directors, Deputies or their designates, and the Chair of Defence Management Studies.
A map of Carleton can be found here. Dunton Tower is designated "DT" on the map. If you are driving, the closest available parking lot is designated "P1" on the map. For those traveling by taxi, you can ask the driver to deliver you directly to Dunton Tower. There is construction going on at the moment so you may need to negotiate the entrance to the building. CSDS will reimburse taxi fare to/from Carleton, so please keep receipts.
A dinner meeting of Centre administrators will take place on Friday, October 2. For further details contact Cathleen Schmidt at .