Past Programs

January 2008:  Lieutenant General Robert G. Gard, Jr. (USA, ret.)

“The Way Forward in a Nuclear World”

 

February 2008:  Bill O'Grady

“U.S. Elections and the Potential Impact on the Future Direction of U.S Foreign Policy”

 

March 2008:  Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (Former President of Bolivia)

“The Winds of Change: Our Neighbors in South America”

 

April 2008:  John Langhus (Senior Counsel Forest Oil Corporation)

“Peak Oil—The Most Important Issue You've Never Heard Of”

 

May 2008:  Xenia Dormandy (Director of the Belfer Center's Project on India and the Subcontinent, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)

“Prospects for Pakistan”

 

 

 

2007

January 2007:  Imam Ibrahim Kazarooni

“An Iraqi Perspective on Iraq”

 

February 2007:  Professor Jill Carroll

“The Phenomenon of Global Fundamentalism”

 

March 2007:  Dave Evans, President of the Denver World Affairs Council

“Terrorism and the Middle East:  The Absence of Understanding”

 

April 2007:  Charles Peña, Former Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute

“Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism”

 

May 2007:  Captain Eric Esswein, U.S. Public Health Service

“Responding in the Face of Uncertainty—Bioterrorism on Capitol Hill, SARS in Taiwan, and the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand”

September 2007:  Wojtek Mackiewicz-Wolfe

“Energy Security and U. S. Foreign Policy”

October 2007:  Dina Temple-Raston, NPR FBI Correspondent

“The Jihad Next Door”

November 2007:  Col. Thomas A Drohan

“An Update on Afghanistan”

 

 

2006

January 2006:  Reza Aslan

“No god but God:  The Origins, Evolution & Future of Islam”

 

February 2006:  Ambassador L. Paul Bremer

“My Year in Iraq”

 

March 2006:  Wadi Muhaisen

“Hamas Sweeps Palestinian Elections—What Can the Future Hold?”

 

April 2006:  Andre Price-Smith, Author of The Health of Nations

“Influenza Pandemic:  Is the US Prepared?”

 

May 2006:  T.R. Reid, Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

“Globalization:  Winners & Losers”

 

September 2006:  Suisheng Zhao

“China's Democratization and the Rule of Law”

 

October 2006:  Gary Hart, Former U.S. Senator

“The New Security in the 21st Century”

 

November 2006:  Professor Robert Golten

“Human Rights and the Rule of Law Since 911—Has the U.S. Lost Its Moral Compass?”