In collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School, The American University of Paris will host the first of a pair of conferences marking the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, one of many settlements that issued from the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Leading scholars, authors and diplomats, public policy experts and world leaders, as well as emerging scholars will convene to advance new perspectives on the historical and public policy implications of Paris 1919. Iconic Paris locations with ties to the Paris Peace Conference have been secured for this ground-breaking conference.