Past Events

 

2012: The Paradox of Progress

Executive Directors: Andrew Davis, Eleanor Gardner, Jillian Martynec

John Ashcroft
Former Attorney General
8pm February 28, 2012

Occupy Wall Street Panel
8pm March 06, 2012

David Frum 
Editor of FrumForum.com
8pm March 15, 2012

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
49th Mayor of Baltimore
8pm March 28, 2012

Valerie Plame
Former Covert CIA Operations Officer, Author
8pm April 03, 2012

Stephen Moore 
Senior Economics Writer, Editor for the Wall Street Journal
8pm April 12, 2012

Robert Gibbs
Former White House Press Secretary
8pm April 17, 2012

2011: Global Citizenship: Re-examining the Role of the Individual in an Evolving World

Executive Directors: Caroline Berger, Kieran Coleman, Isaac Jilbert

Senator Chuck Hagel
Co-Chairman of President’s Intelligence Advisory Board
Chairman of The Atlantic Council
7pm February 16, 2011

Cady Coleman
NASA Astronaut
2:30pm February 20, 2011

Franklin Raines
Former Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae
8pm February 24, 2011

Bob Woodward
Investigative Reporter and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
8pm March 1, 2011

Richard C. Koo
Chief Economist
Nomura Research Institute
7pm March 9, 2011

Thomas Friedman
Pulitzer Prize Winning Columnist
The New York Times
8pm March 10, 2011

Cybersecurity Panel
Dennis McCallam, Lawrence Gordon, Sam Small, Adam Surl
8pm March 14, 2011

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Author and Activist
8pm April 5, 2011

R. Gil Kirlikowske
Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
8pm April 13, 2011

Lieutenant General Paul J. Selva
Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
8pm April 26, 2011

Nobel Prize Panel
Peter Agre, Carol Grelder
5pm April 29, 2011

2010: Re-engaging the World: the New Global Community

Executive Directors: Mark Brennan, Max Cohen, Yuvaraj Sivalingam

Mr. Nicholas Kristof
New York Times Journalist
7pm February 2, 2010

Chaplain James Yee
US Army Chaplain of Islam
7pm February 9, 2010

Professor John Yoo
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel at the US Department of Justice
8pm February 17

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former National Security Adviser
7:30pm February 23

Panel Discussion – Obama’s First Year
8pm 25 February

Panel Discussion – The Way Forward: US Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan
8pm March 3

Ms. Lisa Jackson
EPA Administrator
5:30pm March 10

Dr. Niall Ferguson
British Historian of Financial and Economic History
8pm March 24

First Sgt. (Ret.) Matthew Eversmann
Co-author of The Battle of Mogadishu
8pm April 6

Dr. Reza Aslan
Iranian-born writer and scholar of religions
8pm April 13

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol, M.D.
former president of Médecins Sans Frontières – France
7pm April 15

Panel Discussion – The War In Our Neighborhood: Narco-trafficking in Latin America
8pm April 21

2009: Global Leadership in the 21st Century

Co-Chairs: Claire Cravero, Michael Glenwick, Jonathan Jacobs, Laila Ameri

Prince Zeid Bin Ra’ad
Jordanian Ambassador to the United States
7pm February 4
Hodson 110

David E. Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times
8pm March 3
Glass Pavilion

Robert Kagan
Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment,
Author of Dangerous Nation
8pm March 11
Glass Pavilion

Global Financial Crisis Panel
8pm March 31
Glass Pavilion

Global Environmental Disasters Panel
8pm April 6
Glass Pavilion

Jane Evelyn Atwood
Documentary Photo-Journalist
8pm April 21
Remsen 101

Darfur Now Screening
with Adam Sterling
Executive Director of the Sudan Divestment Taskforce
and the Genocide Intervention Network
8 pm April
Mudd Hall

John Micklethwait
Editor-in-Chief of the Economist
5pm April
Mudd Hall

The Bush Legacy in Foreign Policy
8pm April
Mudd Hall

2008: A Decade of Discussion

Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Caudle, Katie Collins, Pamela Lachman, Anne Smedinghoff

Paul Rusesabagina
Inspiration behind the film Hotel Rwanda
8pm February 5
Shriver Hall

Perceptions of Islam in the Western World
5:30pm February 13
Glass Pavilion

Islam in Britain’s Green and Pleasant Lands

The Art of Integration
Art Exhibit Commissioned by the British Embassy
February 14-20
Mattin Center

College Democrats vs. College Republicans
A Debate
8pm March 4
Glass Pavilion

Energy Conservation and Sustainability:
The Impending Climate Crisis
8pm March 11
Glass Pavilion

Mike McConnell
Director of National Intelligence
4 pm March 12
Shriver Hall

AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Contemporary Global Epidemics
8pm March 26
Glass Pavilion

Nuclear Proliferation in Iran
8pm April 1
Glass Pavilion

Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel Prize Winner and former Chief Economist of the World Bank
8pm April 8
Glass Pavilion

The Rise of Socialism in Latin America
8pm April 9
Glass Pavilion

Kimberly Dozier
CBS News Correspondent wounded in Iraq
8pm April 14
Hodson 110