Goldstein Program in Public Affairs
Lecture Series
IS Newsletter
Fall 2009
- 10/07/09 — Panel Discussion: Civil War and Violence in Africa
Bill Berkeley
former investigative reporter & editorial writer for The New York Times
Author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa
Howard French
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Journalism - Columbia University
Author of A Continent For the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa Wednesday, October 7th, 7:00 p.m.
John S. Toll Science Center Litrenta Auditorium
- 10/20/09 — Roger Trigg
Professor of Theology, Oxford University
"The Foundations of Religious Freedom"
Tuesday, October 20th, 5:00 p.m. Casey Academic Center Forum
- 11/11/09 — Heidi Burns
Senior Editor for publisher Peter Lang
"Faculty Workshop "The Fundamentals of Getting Published"
Wednesday, November 11th, 12:00 p.m. Rose O'Neill Literary House
- 11/12/09 — Harris Whitbeck
Washington College Alumnus
former CNN International Correspondent
Latin America: The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel (Host)
Thursday, November 12th, 7:00 p.m. Hynson Lounge*
- 11/23/09 — The Honorable Philip Dimitrov
former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, first post-Communism
leader of the Reform Movement under Communism
"Religion and the Transition from Communism in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe"
Monday, November 16th, 7:00 p.m.
John S. Toll Science Center Litrenta Auditorium
* Location may change
Recent Lectures
Spring 2009
- 2/23/09 - Mark Blumenthal Editor and Publisher of Pollster.com, Columnist for NationJournal.com, "Polls, Pollsters, and the 2008 Election"
- 4/02/09 - Layli Miller-Muro, JD, MA, Executive Director, Tahirih Justice Center, 2008 EXCEL Award, "Equality of Women and Men: An Evolving Global Challenge"
- 4/15/09 - Professor Kathryn C. Lavelle, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Professor of World Affairs, Case Western Reserve University, "A New Iron Triangle? Congress, the Treasury, and The Federal Reserve in the Financial Crisis of 2008"
Fall 2008
- 9/24/08 - Professor Lucas Gonzalez, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Universidad Catolica Argentina. "Brazil: Public Policy, Poverty, and Inequality."
- 10/2/08 - Philip Gourevitch, Author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Your Families and co-author of Standard Operating Procedure. "War Lit."
- 10/14/08 - Professor Richard Wolff, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts. "Social Investing: Big Money, Big Flaws, and Big Possibilities."
- 10/23/08 - Stephen Hess, Senior fellow Emeritus at Brookings Institution, Research Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, author of Media and the War on Terrorism and The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette, USA Today columnist, "The Hess Report." "Presidential Transitions: The Strange History of Hitting the Ground Stumbling."
- 11/11/08 - David Greenlee, Ambassador to Bolivia 2002-2006, Ambassador to Paraguay 2002, Special Coordinator for Haiti, Department of State 1997-1999, U.S. Delegate and Chair of the Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group 1996-1997. "The Politics of Poverty in Latin America: Bolivia as a Paradigm."
Spring 2007
- 03/28/07 - As'ad Abu Khalil, Professor of Political Science, California States, and Daniel Levy, Senior Fellow and Director of Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation and Policy Adviser to the former Israeli Ahad Barak's government in the Ministry of Justice. "The Underlying Causes of the Israeli War on Lebanon"
Fall 2007
- 09/12/07 - Santiago Alles, visiting Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina. "Latin American Populism: Left Versus Right"
- 09/27/07 - James Thurber, Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University. "Rivals for Power: Conflict and Cooperation between Congress and the President"
- 11/13/07 - Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Associate Professor at the American University School of International Service in International Peace and Conflict Resolution in Washington, DC, and Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute, American University. "Peace and Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East"
Spring 2006
- 02/02/06 - Peter Raymont, documentary producer of Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire
- 02/08/06 - Elsa Tomasto, Professor of Archaeology at Pontifica Universidad Catolica in Peru. "Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights in Peru"
- 04/04/06 - Dr. Gerald Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. "The Myth of the Color-Blind Society and the Invisible Whiteness of Being"
Fall 2005
- 11/28/05 - Dr. Stephen F. Hayes, author of "The Connection: How Al'Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America." "Bias and Beyond: Liberals, Conservatives and the New World of Political Journalism"
- 11/14/05 - Lois Raimondo, photo journalist at the Washington Post. "Fragments of Grace: Photographs from The Front Lines of Afghanistan & Iraq"
- 09/13/05 - Dr. Steven Haines of the Royal Holloway College, University of London. "Anticipation, Pre-Emption and Prevention: Self Defense, International Law and Strategic Common Sense"
Archived Lecture Series
2004-2005
- 09/27/04 - Thomas W. Walker, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Ohio University. "Witness to Change: Electoral Observation in Latin America"
- 10/13/04 - Seymour Hersh, investigative reporter and author. "American's Foreign Policy in the Coming Election"
- 10/18/04 - Theatrical/musical performance of "Tres Vidas/Three Lives" produced by Barbara Mujica
- 11/04/04 - Philip Watts, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh. "Paris, Hollywood and France's Memories of World War II"
- 11/05/04 - Peter Bergen, CNN terrorism expert, "Al Qaeda and the War on Terrorism," an International Studies alumni fundraising event held at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, DC
- 11/11/04 - David Shipler, Pulitzer Prize winning author. "The Working Poor: Invisible in America"
- 01/27/05 - Carl Ray, stage actor, "A Killing in Choctaw" (a one-man play)
- 03/17/05 - Augusta L. Bolles, Jamaican author, Seminar in Anthropology lecture
- 03/28-04/01/05 - Eric Grove, Professor of Politics & International Studies and Director of the Centre for Security Studies, "European Perspectives on the War on Terror" and Richard Woodward, Lecturer in British Politics and Global Political Economy, Department of Politics & International Studies, Hull University, England
- 04/03-09/05 - Ahmed El Kaladi, Maitre de Conferences, Universitié d'Artois, France, "French Politics in the Arab World: From De Gaulle to Chirac"
2003-2004
- 10/23/03 - Scott Palmer, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Boston University, "Terror in the Name of Mao: True Believers and People's War in Peru and Nepal"
- 10/31/03 - Yehudit Keshet, Rawan Damen and Mai Nassar, "Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision"
- 11/06/03 - Nadine Strossen, President of the Civil Liberties Union, "Protecting Civil Liberties and National Security After 9/11: How to Strike a Balance"
- 11/12/03 - Davorin Kracun, Slovenian Ambassador to the United States, "The New Europe and the European Community: The Case of Slovenia"
- 11/13/03 - Joyce Mpanga, former member of the Parliament of Uganda, "Social and Political Change for Women in Uganda: The Effect of HIV/AIDS"
- 11/20-21/03 - Mildred and Robert Mortimer, "War and Peace in Africa as a Challenge to America: Political and Literary Perspectives"
- 02/03/04 - Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Brown vs. Board of Education, "Pride and Protest: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement"
- 02/04/04 - Michael Lind, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation, "Red States, Blue States: Regional and Cultural Divisions in American Politics"
- 02/11/04 - Debra Newman Ham, Brown vs. Board of Education, "Expert Witnesses: The NAACP's Brown Case Strategy"
- 03/16/04 - Ngawang Sangdrol, "The Repression of the Tibetan Freedom Movement In China - A Former Political Prisoner Speaks Out"
- 03/18/04 - Mona Cadena, Field Organizer for the AIUSA Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, "The Women of Juarez - Ten Years of Murder in Mexico"
- 03/23/04 - Lenneal Henderson, Brown vs. Board of Education, "Brown at 50: New Challenges of the Hardening of the Categories"
- 03/25/04 - Joseph Wilson, former Ambassador in Iraq, "The Politics of Truth: The Mess in Iraq and the Way Ahead"
2002-2003
- 10/09/02 - Dr. David L. Craven, University of New Mexico, "Competing Interpretations of Abstract Expressionism in the Art World and the Civil Rights Movement"
- 10/24/02 - Nubar Hovesian, Associate Director of the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania; Scott Lasensky, Foreign Policy analyst at the Council of Foreign Relations; Haim Malka, Research Analyst at the Brookings Institution; Janine Zacharia, Washington Correspondent for The Jerusalem Post; "One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict in the Middle East"
- 11/12/02 - Townsend Hoopes, Senior Fellow, "Middle East Dilemmas"
- 11/19/02 - E.J. Dionne Jr., Political Analyst for The Washington Post, "The People Have Spoken: What did they say? An Analysis of the 2002 Elections"
- 01/30/03 - Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector ton Iraq, "The Coming War with Iraq: How Did We Get Here?"
- 02/06/03 - Eugene Brown, "Chess and Life: Parallel Lessons"
- 03/24/03 - Alberto Piedra, The Catholic University, former Ambassador to Guatemala, "The Myth and Reality of the Cuban Revolution"
- 04/01/03 - Kevin Phillips, political analyst, "Wealth and Democracy: Political Change in America"
- 04/02/03 - Dr. Adrienne McCollum, president and CEO of Research Assessment Management, "Choices and Challenges of a Minority Business Woman"
2001-2002
- Lecture, "Operation Black Vote," Simon Wooley, National Coordinator, Operation Black Vote, United Kingdom
- Symposium on National Missile Defense, James Lindsey, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Jack Spencer, Policy Analyst, Defense & National Security, The Heritage Foundation; Col. Andrew Fallon, US Army (Ret.)
- Lecture, "Risk and Return in Emerging Markets: A U.S. Investor in Nicaragua," Dr. Alvin Drischler, Leucadia Investment Corporation
- Lecture, "A Conversation with Kweisi Mfume," President and CEO, NAACP
- Lecture, "The Way Things Get Done in Washington: The Challenge to Government and Business since 9/11," Jeff Birnbaum, Washington, DC Bureau Chief, Fortune Magazine
- Lecture, "Soul Music: The Importance of Music in a Democratic World," Eliot Fisk (co-sponsored)
- Lecture, "Post-Primitive Art: A Global Tale," Shelly Errington, University of California at Santa Cruz
- Lecture, "The Changing Face of U.S. Politics," Anita Perez Ferguson, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
- Lecture, "Dilemmas of Successful Capitalism," Dr. Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution (co-sponsored)
- Lecture, "The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties in the USA: from Nixon to 9/11, Christian Parenti, Author, "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis"
2000-2001
- Lecture, "The Civil Rights Movement: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," Judy Richardson, Activist, Educator, and Award-winning Producer of "Eyes on the Prize"
- Lecture, "Succeeding as a Dot.Org Man in a Dot.Com Society: The Value of Idealism and a Liberal Education," Bruce Collins, Corporate Vice-President and General Counsel for C-SPAN
- Symposium, "Strategic Partners or Competitors? U.S. and China in the New Era," Dr. Minxin Pei, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Dr. Bates Gill, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
- Lecture, "Caesar Rodney of Delaware and the American Revolution," Jane Scott, Author
- Lecture, "Race Matters," Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University
- Lecture, "Leading the Band or Dancing Along? The Essential Role of Citizens in New Democracies," Dr. Ramon Daubon, Senior Associate, Kettering Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
- Lecture, "The Effect of Globalization on Migration," Dr. Ana Maria Aragones, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Symposium, "Globalization Revisited: Contemporary Alternatives to Capitalism," Humberto Miranda Lorenzo, Researcher, and Gilberto Valdes Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Havana, Cuba
- Lecture, "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine Democracy," James Fallows, Author and Former Editor, U.S. News and World Report
- Lecture, "Restorative Justice: 'Ubuntu' Revisited," Linda and Peter Biehl
- Lecture, "The Future of Network News," Bob Faw, National Correspondent for NBC Nightly News
1999-2000
- Lecture, "Beyond the Development Impasse: Reflections on Local Economic Development and Job Creation in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Dr. Etienne L. Nel, Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University
- Lecture, "The CIA in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Robert D. Vickers, Jr., National Intelligence Council
- Symposium on the Millennium, "Reflecting on the Past and Anticipating the Future," Sir. John Maddox, Dr. Vivian Klaff, and Dr. Allen Hammond
- Lecture, "Democratic Consolidation in Southern Africa," Dr. David Pottie, Electoral Institute of South Africa
- Lecture, "Jordan's Path to Peace: King Hussein's Legacy," Dr. Marwan Jamil Muasher, Jordanian Ambassador to the United States
- Lecture, "Bias, Censorship, and Tabloidism in Today's Media," Jeff Cohen, Director, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
- Lecture, "The Future of Diplomacy in the 21st Century," the Honorable Anthony Quainton, former Ambassador and Director General of the Foreign Service
- Lecture, "Struggling with Stereotypes: Anglo-French Relations in the 'New' Europe," Professor Yannick Boutier, Artois University, France
