06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Alfred Stepan delivered the ninth annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on "Democratization Theory and the Arab Spring."
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Famed Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) were among those present to pay tribute to Burma’s democracy movement, which was honored with theNational Endowment for Democracy’s 2012 Democracy Award at a Capitol Hill ceremony on Sept. 20.
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
On Sept. 19, 2012, the National Endowment for Democracy held a panel discussion with the honorees of its 2012 Democracy Award, which was presented to the Democracy Movement of Burma.