Events
Public and private events are held regularly at CIGI. In addition to policy workshops and public lectures, CIGI holds annual seasonal conferences that gather experts and policy makers from around the world to discuss possible solutions to the issues raised by CIGI’s research.
Notable past guest speakers at CIGI-sponsored events include Paul Martin, Ernesto Zedillo, Dr. James Orbinski, Jeff Rubin, Dambisa Moyo, Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)