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April 24, 2009
Anne Odom
Hillwood Estate and Museum
"Treasure into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938"
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April 22, 2009
Douglas Irwin
Dartmouth College
David Colander
Murray Dry
James Morrison
All of Middlebury College
"The Role of Political and Economic Ideas in Policymaking"
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April 21, 2009
Jeff A. McMahan
Rutgers University
"Proportionality and Self-Defense in War"
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April 20, 2009
Christian H. Thommessen
Constantia a.s. - Sollund a.s. - Hovedstaden Eindomsselskab a.s.
"Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor"
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April 10, 2009
Strom Thacker
Boston University
"Does Democracy Promote Development?"
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April 10, 2009
Paul Monod
Middlebury College
"The Crisis of the British Empire, 1763-83: A Textbook Problem"
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April 3, 2009
Ambassador William Milam
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.
Hassan Abbas
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Pakistan and Afghanistan: Directions for the New Administration - The Pakistan Element"
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April 2, 2009
David Vogel
University of California, Berkeley
"The Market for Virtue: A Critical Appraisal of the Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility"
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April 1, 2009
Stefano Mula
Middlebury College
"Historical Linguistics: A Philologist's Perspective"
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March 16, 2009
Hannah Washington
University of Texas
"Metaphony: A Contrastive Cross-linguistic Study within Southern Romance"
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March 13, 2009
Naazneen Barma
Public Sector Specialist, The World Bank
"Challenges of Development in East Asia"
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March 12, 2009
Victoria de Grazia
Columbia University
Dagmar Herzog
City University of New York
"Sex, Gender and Fascism: A Round-Table Discussion with Victoria de Grazia and Dagmar Herzog"
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March 5, 2009
Peter W. Singer
The Brookings Institution
"Wired for War"
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February 27, 2009
David Stoll
Middlebury College
"Endangered Languages and the Strange Case of the Summer Institute of Linguistics"
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February 25, 2009
Angelo Segrillo
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Russia and Brazil: Democratization in Comparative Perspective"
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February 18, 2009
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College
"On Linguistice Diversity, Child Language, and the Notion of 'Possible Human Language' "
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February 13, 2009
Rabbi Michael Cohen
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
"Environment as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East"
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January 26, 2009
Leo G. Michel
National Defense University
"France, the United States, and NATO: A New ‘Ménage à Trois?'"
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January 14, 2009
Lawrence Chalmer
NATO Education Center
"Obama, NATO, and You"
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January 13, 2009
David Makovsky
Washington Institute for Middle East Policy
"Middle East Challenges to the Obama Administration"
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December 5, 2008
William Waldron
Middlebury College
"Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to People's Republic?"
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November 21, 2008
Jeffrey Lunstead
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2003-2006
"Big Powers/Small Conflicts: The U.S. in the Sir Lanka Peace Process"
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November 14, 2008
Heikki Oksanen
European Commission, Directorate General for the Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels, Belgium
"Population Aging and Pension Reforms in Europe: What is the Role of the European Union in Meeting the Challenge?"
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November 7, 2008
Projects for Peace Presentations
Student Presentations of 2008 Davis Projects for Peace
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November 4, 2008
Phil Oldham '90
Mercy Corps
"Finding a Way Forward: Options for Ending the Conflict in Eastern DRC"
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November 3, 2008
Jacques Rupnik
Harvard University and CERI-Sciences-Po
"The Empire Strikes Back: American and European Responses to a Resurgent Russia"
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October 7, 2008
Jan Macháček
Respekt Magazine
"Europe, Russia and Energy Security"
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October 3, 2008
Robert Schlesinger
U.S. News and World Report
"White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters"
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October 1, 2008
David Colander, Scott Pardee, Robert Prasch
Middlebury College economics department faculty
"Is the Economy Coming to an End? What's Going on in the Financial Markets?"
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September 26, 2008
Mickey Edwards
Aspen Institute and Princeton University
"Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back"
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September 19, 2008
Middlebury College Seniors
Cully Cavness, Samuel Lazarus, Jeremy Martin
"Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants"
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September 12, 2008
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
"Making a Difference in the World"
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VIDEOS BY TOPIC
April 20, 2009
Christian Thommessen, Chairman, Constantia a.s. - Sollund a.s. - Hovedstaden Eiendomsselskab a.s.
Founder of UNDP's Growing Inclusive Markets initiative
"Creating Value for All: Strategies for doing Business with the Poor"
Robert A. Jones ’59 House conference room
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April 14, 2009
Cheyenna Weber, Organizing Director, Responsible Endowments Coalition
Socially Responsible Investing 101
The Orchard, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
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April 2, 2009
David Vogel, Haas School of Business, UC – Berkeley
The Market for Virtue: A Critical Appraisal of the Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility
Robert A. Jones ’59 House conference room
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February 19, 2009
Randy Kritkausky, President, Ecologia
Corporate Social Responsibility, From Vermont to China
(part of ES Program’s Howard E. Woodin Colloquium Series)
The Orchard, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
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November 11, 2008
JD Bergeron, Senior Manager, Kiva Fellows Program
Microfinance’s Role in International Development and the Kiva Story
(additional co-sponsor - the Henry Luce Foundation)
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October 2, 2008
David Blittersdorf, President & CEO, Earth Turbines, Inc.
Our Energy Future – A Major Change
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April 24, 2009
Anne Odom
Hillwood Estate and Museum
"Treasure into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938"
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April 22, 2009
Douglas Irwin
Dartmouth College
David Colander
Murray Dry
James Morrison
All of Middlebury College
"The Role of Political and Economic Ideas in Policymaking"
Watch a digital video
April 20, 2009
Christian H. Thommessen
Constantia a.s. - Sollund a.s. - Hovedstaden Eindomsselskab a.s.
"Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor"
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April 2, 2009
David Vogel
University of California, Berkeley
"The Market for Virtue: A Critical Appraisal of the Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility"
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March 13, 2009
Naazneen Barma
Public Sector Specialist, The World Bank
"Challenges of Development in East Asia"
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November 14, 2008
Heikki Oksanen
European Commission, Directorate General for the Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels, Belgium
"Population Ageing and Pension Reforms in Europe: What is the Role of the European Union in Meeting the Challenge?"
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October 1, 2008
David Colander, Scott Pardee, Robert Prasch
Middlebury College economics department faculty
"Is the Economy Coming to an End? What's Going on in the Financial Markets?"
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April 4, 2008
Charles MacCormack '63
President, Save the Children Federation
"The Role of NGOs in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"
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February 29, 2008
Paul R. Gregory
University of Houston and Hoover Institution
"Dictatorship and Repression"
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February 21, 2008
Allan Hubbard
Former Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
"Economic Challenges Facing the United States"
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November 9, 2007
Eileen O'Connor
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP
"Dealing with Russia: A Business, Political, and Legal Perspective"
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September 28, 2007
David Rothkopf
Carnegie Endowment for Peace
"The Superclass"
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September 14, 2007
David Colander
C.A.Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics
Middlebury College
"The Making of a European Economist"
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April 11, 2007
Toby Miller
Director, Program in Film & Visual Culture
University of California, Riverside
"The New International Division of Cultural Labor and Global Hollywood"
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April 5, 2007
Donald Clarke
Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
"The Role of Law in China's Economic Development"
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November 10, 2006
R. Bruce Hiland
Former Independent Management Consultant
Founding Member of the Middlebury Revitalization Initiative
"Middlebury vs. Bangalore. How Does a Small Vermont College Town Deal with Globalization ... And Does It Really Have To?"
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October 2, 2006
Andrew J. Nathan
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
"Swimming Against the Tide: Resilient Authoritarianism and Globalization in China"
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May 3, 2006
Samuel J. Palmisano
Chair of the board, president, and chief executive officer
IBM Corporation
"Innovation That Matters"
Read the prepared remarks
April 13, 2006
Vladimir Popov
Sector Head
Academy of the National Economy, Moscow
"Democracy and Growth Reconsidered: Why Economic Performance of New Democracies Is Not Encouraging"
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April 7, 2006
Charles MacCormack
President, chief operating officer, and member of the board
Save the Children Federation
"Making Poverty History: Slogan or Reality?"
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December 1, 2005
Said Amir Arjomand
Professor of Sociology
Stony Brook University
"Islam and Globalization"
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February 13, 2009
Rabbi Michael Cohen
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
"Environment as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East"
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September 19, 2008
Middlebury College Seniors
Cully Cavness, Samuel Lazarus, Jeremy Martin
"Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants"
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April 17, 2007
Michael Klare
Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies
Hampshire College
"The Impact of Resource Wars in Africa"
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April 19, 2006
Stanley Tambiah
Esther and Sidney Rabb Research Professor of Anthropology
Harvard University
"The Tsunami and Its Effects on Sri Lankan Politics and Reconstruction Efforts"
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November 9, 2007
Eileen O'Connor
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP
"Dealing with Russia: A Business, Political, and Legal Perspective"
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October 25, 2007
Jan Macháček
Hospodarske noviny, Prague
"Democracy, Institution-Building and the Rule of Law in Central and East Europe"
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October 6, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University
Naz Modirzadeh, Harvard School of Public Health
"Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy"
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October 5, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Andrew March, Yale University
David Patel, Cornell University
James Piscatori, Oxford University
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"Why Does Islam Become Politicized?"
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October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Keynote Lecture
James Piscatori
Oxford University Professor
Senior Scholar at the Centre for Islamic Studies
"Iraq and the Future of Political Islam"
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October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Middlebury College Islamic Society Members
Mahmoud Hayyat, Islamic Society of Vermont
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"What It Means To Be A Muslim"
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April 5, 2007
Donald Clarke
Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
"The Role of Law in China's Economic Development"
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March 2, 2007
Nathan Brown
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
George Washington University
"Islam, Human Rights and Constitutionalism"
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October 6, 2006
Bereket Habte Selassie
William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies and
Professor of Law
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Current State of Constitutional Law in Africa: Perspectives of a Former African Justice"
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April 25, 2005
The Honorable Richard J. Goldstone
Member
Independent Inquiry Committee into the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
Former chief prosecutor
U.N. International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Former justice
Constitutional Court of South Africa
"The Future of International Criminal Justice"
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April 1, 2009
Stefano Mula
Middlebury College
"Historical Linguistics: A Philologist's Perspective"
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March 16, 2009
Hannah Washington
University of Texas
"Metaphony: A Contrastive Cross-linguistic Study within Southern Romance"
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February 27, 2009
David Stoll
Middlebury College
"Endangered Languages and the Strange Case of the Summer Institute of Linguistics"
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February 18, 2009
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College
"On Linguistice Diversity, Child Language, and the Notion of 'Possible Human Language'"
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MEDIA
October 3, 2008
Robert Schlesinger
U.S. News and World Report
"White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters"
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February 27, 2008
Jeff Fager
Executive Producer of 60 Minutes
"The Winning Formula of 60 Minutes--Staying on top by covering the war while ignoring Britney Spears"
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April 11, 2007
Toby Miller
Director, Program in Film & Visual Culture
University of California, Riverside
"The New International Division of Cultural Labor and Global Hollywood"
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April 9, 2007
Janine Zacharia '95
Diplomatic Correspondent for Bloomberg News
"A Reporter's Notebook: Mideast Update from Washington"
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March 16, 2007
Thomas Van Order
Assistant Professor of Italian
"Fellini Betrayed: The English and Italian Soundtracks of La strada "
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January 24, 2006
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
China Correspondent, Beijing Bureau
British Broadcasting Corporation
"Reporting the News in China"
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April 22, 2009
Douglas Irwin
Dartmouth College
David Colander
Murray Dry
James Morrison
All of Middlebury College
"The Role of Political and Economic Ideas in Policymaking"
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April 10, 2009
Strom Thacker
Boston University
"Does Democracy Promote Development?"
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April 3, 2009
Ambassador William Milam
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.
Hassan Abbas
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Pakistan and Afghanistan: What Should the Obama Administration Do? - The Pakistan Element"
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February 25, 2009
Angelo Segrillo
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Russia and Brazil: Democratization in Comparative Perspective"
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January 26, 2009
Leo G. Michel
National Defense University
"France, the United States, and NATO: A New ‘Ménage à Trois?'"
Watch a digital video
January 14, 2009
Lawrence Chalmer
NATO Education Center
"Obama, NATO, and You"
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January 13, 2009
David Makovsky
Washington Institute for Middle East Policy
"Middle East Challenges to the Obama Administration"
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December 5, 2008
William Waldron
Middlebury College
"Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to People's Republic?"
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November 21, 2008
Jeffrey Lunstead
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2003-2006
"Big Powers/Small Conflicts: The U.S. in the Sir Lanka Peace Process"
Watch a digital video
November 4, 2008
Phil Oldham '90
Mercy Corps
"Finding a Way Forward: Options for Ending the Conflict in Eastern DRC"
Watch a digital video
November 3, 2008
Jacques Rupnik
Harvard University and CERI-Sciences-Po
"The Empire Strikes Back: American and European Responses to a Resurgent Russia"
Watch a digital video
October 7, 2008
Jan Macháček
Respekt Magazine
"Europe, Russia and Energy Security"
Watch a digital video
September 26, 2008
Mickey Edwards
Aspen Institute and Princeton University
"Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back"
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April 11, 2008
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Professor (Emeritus) and Research Director at Unviersité Paris-Sorbonne
"Public Diplomacy and the Challenges of European Power"
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March 3, 2008
Joseph Fewsmith
Boston University and Harvard University
"China: Is Political Reform Possible?"
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February 29, 2008
Paul R. Gregory
University of Houston and Hoover Institution
"Dictatorship and Repression"
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February 22, 2008
William Pyle
Middlebury College
"Political Power and Property Rights in Russia's Regions"
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January 9, 2008
Andrew J. Bacevich
Boston University
"After Iraq: Whither U.S. Strategy?"
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November 9, 2007
Eileen O'Connor
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP
"Dealing with Russia: A Business, Political, and Legal Perspective"
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October 25, 2007
Jan Macháček
Hospodarske noviny, Prague
"Democracy, Institution-Building and the Rule of Law in Central and East Europe"
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October 19, 2007
Sophie Meunier
Princeton University
"What is Anti-Americanism? The Case of France"
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October 6, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University
Naz Modirzadeh, Harvard School of Public Health
"Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy"
Watch a digital video
October 5, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Andrew March, Yale University
David Patel, Cornell University
James Piscatori, Oxford University
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"Why Does Islam Become Politicized?"
Watch a digital video
October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Keynote Lecture
James Piscatori
Oxford University Professor
Senior Scholar at the Centre for Islamic Studies
"Iraq and the Future of Political Islam"
Watch a digital video
October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Middlebury College Islamic Society Members
Mahmoud Hayyat, Islamic Society of Vermont
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"What It Means To Be A Muslim"
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November 26, 2007
Martin K. Dimitrov
Dartmouth College
"The Politics of Piracy in China and Russia"
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October 25, 2007
Jan Macháček
Hospodarske noviny, Prague
"Democracy, Institution-Building and the Rule of Law in Central and East Europe"
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September 28, 2007
David Rothkopf
Carnegie Endowment for Peace
"The Superclass"
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April 30, 2007
Gideon Rose
Managing Editor
Foreign Affairs
"The U.S. and the New Middle East"
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April 25, 2007
Dmitri Trenin
Deputy Director
Carnegie Moscow Center
"Russia Leaves the West
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April 5, 2007
Beate Sirota Gordon
Japan Society New York [Ret.]
"The Only Woman in the Room"
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April 4, 2007
Pierre Englebert
Associate Professor of Politics
Pomona College
"Africa's Sovereign Sorrow: The Politics of Poverty"
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November 29, 2006
Peter Kornbluh
Senior Analyst
National Security Archive"After Fidel: Cuba, Venezuela, and the Challenge to US Policy in Latin America"
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November 17, 2006
Neil L. Waters
Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies
Middlebury College
"History and Propaganda in Northeast Asia"
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November 1, 2006
Egveni Kiselev
Independent Political Analyst
"The End of Freedom? Putin's Russia"
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October 27, 2006
John F. Campbell
Former Ambassador to the UN from Ireland and
President of the European Union (2004)
"The Future of the European Union"
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October 11, 2006
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, [Ret.]
Hudson Institute
"Reflections on American Hegemony in Light of the Invasion of Iraq"
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October 2, 2006
Andrew J. Nathan
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
"Swimming Against the Tide: Resilient Authoritarianism and Globalization in China"
Watch a digital video
April 28, 2006
Jacques Rupnik
Visiting professor of government
Harvard University
"US vs. EU Approaches to Democracy Promotion"
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April 24, 2006
Marshall Goldman
Associate director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
Merle Goldman
Associate, Fairbank Center
Harvard University
"China and Russia: Superpowers, Past, Present, and Future"
Watch a digital video
April 18, 2006
Mansour Farhang
Former Iranian ambassador to the U.N.
Professor of politics and international relations
Bennington College
"Iran's Nuclear Program and U.S. - Iranian Relations"
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October 27, 2005
Thomas O. Melia
Deputy executive director
Freedom House
"The Infrastructure of American Democrary Promotion"
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April 21, 2005
John Lewis Gaddis
Robert A. Lovett Professor of History
Yale University
"The Past and Future of American Grand Strategy"
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April 8, 2005
Hillel Newman
Consul of Israel to New England
"The United States and Israel in a Post-Cold War World"
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March 10, 2005
R. Nicholas Palarino
Senior policy analyst, Government Reform Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
"U.S. Policy in the Middle East: A Congressional Perspective"
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February 21, 2005
Aditya Mahendra Raval
State Department producer
ABC News
"Tarnished Image: How Diplomacy Can Lead the Way to New Relations between America and the World"
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November 11, 2004
Philip Zelikow
Former executive director
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission)
White Burkett Miller Professor of History
University of Virginia
"The Road to 9/11 - And Where We Are Today"
Watch a digital video
May 7, 2004
Taylor M. Fravel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
Harvard University
"China's New Diplomacy and U.S,-China Relations"
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April 7, 2004
Jacques Rupnik
Director of Research
CERI-Sciences-Po, Paris
"The New Europe Between the US and EU"
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November 17, 2003
Cynthia J. Arnson
Deputy director, Latin American Program
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"Colombia's Conflict: Moving Beyond the 'War on Terrorism'"
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December 5, 2008
William Waldron
Middlebury College
"Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to People's Republic?"
Watch a digital video
October 6, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University
Naz Modirzadeh, Harvard School of Public Health
"Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy"
Watch a digital video
October 5, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Andrew March, Yale University
David Patel, Cornell University
James Piscatori, Oxford University
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"Why Does Islam Become Politicized?"
Watch a digital video
October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Keynote Lecture
James Piscatori
Oxford University Professor
Senior Scholar at the Centre for Islamic Studies
"Iraq and the Future of Political Islam"
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October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Middlebury College Islamic Society Members
Mahmoud Hayyat, Islamic Society of Vermont
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"What It Means To Be A Muslim"
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April 19, 2007
Jane Smith
Hartford Seminary
"Islam: A Truly American Religion?"
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April 9, 2007
Prema Kurien
Associate Professor
Syracuse University
"A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism"
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March 15, 2007
Fenggang Yang
Associate Professor of Sociology
Purdue University
"The Pluralism Project of Distortion: What do Asian Americans Really Believe?"
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March 9, 2007
Sharon Suh
Associate Professor in the department of Theology and Religious Studies
Seattle University
"Religion, Immigration and the Quest for a Self: An Examination of Contemporary Korean American Buddhism"
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March 2, 2007
Nathan Brown
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
George Washington University
"Islam, Human Rights and Constitutionalism"
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March 1, 2007
Raymond Williams
Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
Wabash College
"Transnational Religions and American Identities"
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May 2, 2006
David Stoll
Associate professor of anthropology
Middlebury College
"The Moral Economy of Religious Change in Latin America"
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April 26, 2006
Christopher Marsh
Associate professor of political science
Baylor University
"One Nation Under God: Religion, Nation, and the Drive for Statehood in the Post-Soviet World"
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April 21, 2006
Jeffrey M. Peck
Professor in communication, culture, and technology
Georgetown University
"Identity in Question: Being Jewish in the New Germany"
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April 20, 2006
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Professor of political sociology
American University in Cairo
"How Democratic Could the Arab or Muslim World Be?"
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April 19, 2006
Stanley Tambiah
Esther and Sidney Rabb Research Professor of Anthropology
Harvard University
"The Tsunami and Its Effects on Sri Lankan Politics and Reconstruction Efforts"
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April 11, 2006
Ijaz Gilani
Professor of social sciences
International Islamic University, Islamabad
"Global Muslim Identity and the Denmark Cartoon Crisis"
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April 4, 2006
Misha Glenny
Independent Scholar
Former European Correspondent
British Broadcasting Corporation
"Crime v. Nationalism: What Really Drove War in the Balkans?
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March 15, 2006
Erik Bleich
Associate professor of political science
Middlebury College
"Muslim is the New Black: Constructing the Ethno-Racial Outsider in Western Europe"
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March 1, 2006
Walker Connor
Scholar-in-Residence
Middlebury College
"Religion and Nation: Competitors or Reinforcers?"
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December 1, 2005
Said Amir Arjomand
Professor of Sociology
Stony Brook University
"Islam and Globalization"
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April 24, 2009
Anne Odom
Hillwood Estate and Museum
"Treasure into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938"
Watch a digital video
April 20, 2009
Christian H. Thommessen
Constantia a.s. - Sollund a.s. - Hovedstaden Eindomsselskab a.s.
"Creating Value for All - Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor"
Watch a digital video
April 10, 2009
Strom Thacker
Boston University
"Does Democracy Promote Development?"
Watch a digital video
April 10, 2009
Paul Monod
Middlebury College
"The Crisis of the British Empire, 1763-83: A Textbook Problem"
Watch a digital video
April 2, 2009
David Vogel
University of California, Berkeley
"The Market for Virtue: A Critical Appraisal of the Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility"
Watch a digital video
March 12, 2009
Victoria de Grazia
Columbia University
Dagmar Herzog
City University of New York
"Sex, Gender and Fascism: A Round-Table Discussion with Victoria de Grazia and Dagmar Herzog"
Watch a digital video
December 5, 2008
William Waldron
Middlebury College
"Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to People's Republic?"
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November 14, 2008
Heikki Oksanen
European Commission, Directorate General for the Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels, Belgium
"Population Ageing and Pension Reforms in Europe: What is the Role of the European Union in Meeting the Challenge?"
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November 7, 2008
Projects for Peace Presentations
Student Presentations of 2008 Davis Projects for Peace
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November 4, 2008
Phil Oldham '90
Mercy Corps
"Finding a Way Forward: Options for Ending the Conflict in Eastern DRC"
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September 12, 2008
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
"Making a Difference in the World"
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April 4, 2008
Charles MacCormack '63
President, Save the Children Federation
"The Role of NGOs in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"
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March 7, 2008
Ellen Oxfeld
Middlebury College
"The Culture of Food in Rural China"
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February 22, 2008
William Pyle
Middlebury College
"Political Power and Property Rights in Russia's Regions"
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October 26, 2007
Anne Allison
Duke University
"Sociality of Neoliberalism: Affect, Family and Japanese Youth"
October 19, 2007
Sophie Meunier
Princeton University
"What is Anti-Americanism? The Case of France"
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October 6, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University
Naz Modirzadeh, Harvard School of Public Health
"Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy"
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October 5, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Andrew March, Yale University
David Patel, Cornell University
James Piscatori, Oxford University
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"Why Does Islam Become Politicized?"
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October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Keynote Lecture
James Piscatori
Oxford University Professor
Senior Scholar at the Centre for Islamic Studies
"Iraq and the Future of Political Islam"
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October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Middlebury College Islamic Society Members
Mahmoud Hayyat, Islamic Society of Vermont
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"What It Means To Be A Muslim"
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October 3, 2007
Anna Vassilieva
Professor and Russian Studies Program Head
Monterey Institute of International Studies
"The Evolution of the Post-Soviet Identity: In Search of the Russian Soul"
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September 28, 2007
David Rothkopf
Carnegie Endowment for Peace
"The Superclass"
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April 25, 2007
Edward C. Knox
College Professor Emeritus
Director, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs 2006-07
"American Writing on France-- Plus ça change ?"
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April 19, 2007
Jane Smith
Hartford Seminary
"Islam: A Truly American Religion?"
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April 11, 2007
Toby Miller
Director, Program in Film & Visual Culture
University of California, Riverside
"The New International Division of Cultural Labor and Global Hollywood"
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April 5, 2007
Beate Sirota Gordon
Japan Society New York [Ret.]
"The Only Woman in the Room"
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April 4, 2007
Pierre Englebert
Associate Professor of Politics
Pomona College
"Africa's Sovereign Sorrow: The Politics of Poverty"
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March 16, 2007
Thomas Van Order
Assistant Professor of Italian
"Fellini Betrayed: The English and Italian Soundtracks of La strada "
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March 9, 2007
Sharon Suh
Associate Professor in the department of Theology and Religious Studies
Seattle University
"Religion, Immigration and the Quest for a Self: An Examination of Contemporary Korean American Buddhism"
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March 1, 2007
Raymond Williams
Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
Wabash College
"Transnational Religions and American Identities"
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February 27, 2007
Van Jones
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
"The New Dream: Updating MLK's Vision"
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February 20, 2007
Mark Johnson
Knight Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Oregon
"The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding"
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January 22, 2007
Wilford Welch
Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs
David G. Hopkins '07
Middlebury College
"Social Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts Education"
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November 3, 2006
Michael R. Katz
C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies
Middlebury College
"The Russian Response to Modernity: Crystal Palace, Eiffel Tower, and Brooklyn Bridge"
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October 20, 2006
Alexis Spire
National Center for Scientific Research
"The Weight of the Colonial Past in French Immigration"
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April 27, 2006
Edward C. Knox
College Professor Emeritus of French
Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs 2006-2007
Middlebury College
"An 'impossible portrait of America'?--Reading Bernard-Henri Lévy's American Vertigo
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April 21, 2006
Jeffrey M. Peck
Professor in communication, culture, and technology
Georgetown University
"Identity in Question: Being Jewish in the New Germany"
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April 20, 2006
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Professor of political sociology
American University in Cairo
"How Democratic Could the Arab or Muslim World Be?"
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April 6, 2006
Fatima Gailani
Chair
Afghan Red Crescent Society
Paula Nirschel
Founder
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women
"The Afghan Women: An Emerging Political Force in the Face of Immense Obstacles"
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April 5, 2006
Ashraf Haidari
First Secretary
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington D.C.
"Rebuilding Afghanistan: Achievements, Challenges, and the Future"
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March 15, 2006
Erik Bleich
Associate professor of political science
Middlebury College
"Muslim is the New Black: Construction the Ethno-Racial Outsider in Western Europe"
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December 2, 2004
Joshua A. Fishman
Distinguished University Research Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences
Yeshiva University
"Don't Leave Your Language Alone! Language Loyalty and Group Identity"
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April 21, 2009
Jeff A. McMahan
Rutgers University
"Proportionality and Self-Defense in War"
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March 5, 2009
Peter W. Singer
The Brookings Institution
"Wired for War"
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February 13, 2009
Rabbi Michael Cohen
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
"Environment as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East"
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November 21, 2008
Jeffrey Lunstead
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2003-2006
"Big Powers/Small Conflicts: The U.S. in the Sir Lanka Peace Process"
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November 4, 2008
Phil Oldham '90
Mercy Corps
"Finding a Way Forward: Options for Ending the Conflict in Eastern DRC"
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March 14, 2008
Alex Rossmiller '04
National Security Network Fellow
"Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures from Baghdad to the Pentagon"
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January 9, 2008
Andrew J. Bacevich
Boston University
"After Iraq: Whither U.S. Strategy?"
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April 23, 2007
Jeffrey Goldberg
Washington correspondent for The New Yorker
"Israel, Iran and the Future of Terrorism"
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April 9, 2007
Janine Zacharia '95
Diplomatic Correspondent for Bloomberg News
"A Reporter's Notebook: Mideast Update from Washington"
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October 30, 2006
Eynat Shlein-Michael
Embassy of Israel, Washington, DC
"Implications of the Summer of 2006: An Israeli Perspective
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October 11, 2006
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, [Ret.]
Hudson Institute
"Reflections on American Hegemony in Light of the Invasion of Iraq"
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September 15, 2006
Kateri Carmola
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Middlebury College
"Private Military Contractors and the Challenge of Regulating New Wars"
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April 18, 2006
Mansour Farhang
Former Iranian ambassador to the U.N.
Professor of politics and international relations
Bennington College
"Iran's Nuclear Program and U.S. - Iranian Relations"
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April 4, 2006
Misha Glenny
Independent Scholar
Former European Correspondent
British Broadcasting Corporation
"Crime v. Nationalism: What Really Drove War in the Balkans?
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March 28, 2006
Leonard S. Spector
Deputy director
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
"Iran, South Asia, and North Korea: Meeting the Proliferation Threat?"
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November 8, 2004
Avraham Burg
Former speaker of the Israeli Knesset and Geneva Accord negotiator
"Struggling Towards Peace in Times of Terror"
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March 30, 2000
Richard Butler
Visiting Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Former director, United Nations Special Commission on the Disarmament of Iraq (UNSCOM)
"Disarming Iraq: Reflections of a Policy Practitioner"
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November 4, 2008
Phil Oldham '90
Mercy Corps
"Finding a Way Forward: Options for Ending the Conflict in Eastern DRC"
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April 17, 2007
Michael Klare
Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies
Hampshire College
"The Impact of Resource Wars in Africa"
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April 4, 2007
Pierre Englebert
Associate Professor of Politics
Pomona College
"Africa's Sovereign Sorrow: The Politics of Poverty"
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October 6, 2006
Bereket Habte Selassie
William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies and
Professor of Law
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Current State of Constitutional Law in Africa: Perspectives of a Former African Justice"
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March 13, 2009
Naazneen Barma
Public Sector Specialist, The World Bank
"Challenges of Development in East Asia"
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December 5, 2008
William Waldron
Middlebury College
"Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to People's Republic?"
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September 19, 2008
Middlebury College Seniors
Cully Cavness, Samuel Lazarus, Jeremy Martin
"Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants"
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March 7, 2008
Ellen Oxfeld
Middlebury College
"The Culture of Food in Rural China"
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March 3, 2008
Joseph Fewsmith
Boston University and Harvard University
"China: Is Political Reform Possible?"
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November 26, 2007
Martin K. Dimitrov
Dartmouth College
"The Politics of Piracy in China and Russia"
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October 26, 2007
Anne Allison
Duke University
"Sociality of Neoliberalism: Affect, Family and Japanese Youth"
October 2, 2007
Middlebury College Faculty and Student Panel
"Saffron Revolution: The Monks' Recent Protest in Burma"
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April 5, 2007
Donald Clarke
Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
"The Role of Law in China's Economic Development"
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April 5, 2007
Beate Sirota Gordon
Japan Society New York [Ret.]
"The Only Woman in the Room"
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November 17, 2006
Neil L. Waters
Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies
Middlebury College
"History and Propaganda in Northeast Asia"
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October 2, 2006
Andrew J. Nathan
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
"Swimming Against the Tide: Resilient Authoritarianism and Globalization in China"
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April 24, 2006
Marshall Goldman
Associate director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
Merle Goldman
Associate, Fairbank Center
Harvard University
"China and Russia: Superpowers, Past, Present, and Future"
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April 19, 2006
Stanley Tambiah
Esther and Sidney Rabb Research Professor of Anthropology
Harvard University
"The Tsunami and Its Effects on Sri Lankan Politics and Reconstruction Efforts"
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March 28, 2006
Leonard S. Spector
Deputy director
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
"Iran, South Asia, and North Korea: Meeting the Proliferation Threat?"
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January 24, 2006
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
China Correspondent, Beijing Bureau
British Broadcasting Corporation
"Reporting the News in China"
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May 7, 2004
Taylor M. Fravel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
Harvard University
"China's New Diplomacy and U.S,-China Relations"
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April 10, 2009
Paul Monod
Middlebury College
"The Crisis of the British Empire, 1763-83: A Textbook Problem"
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January 26, 2009
Leo G. Michel
National Defense University
"France, the United States, and NATO: A New ‘Ménage à Trois?'"
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January 14, 2009
Lawrence Chalmer
NATO Education Center
"Obama, NATO, and You"
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November 14, 2008
Heikki Oksanen
European Commission, Directorate General for the Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels, Belgium
"Population Ageing and Pension Reforms in Europe: What is the Role of the European Union in Meeting the Challenge?"
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November 3, 2008
Jacques Rupnik
Harvard University and CERI-Sciences-Po
"The Empire Strikes Back: American and European Responses to a Resurgent Russia"
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October 7, 2008
Jan Macháček
Respekt Magazine
"Europe, Russia and Energy Security"
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April 11, 2008
Jean-Claude Redonnet
Professor (Emeritus) and Research Director at Unviersité Paris-Sorbonne
"Public Diplomacy and the Challenges of European Power
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October 19, 2007
Sophie Meunier
Princeton University
"What is Anti-Americanism? The Case of France"
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September 14, 2007
David Colander
C.A.Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics
Middlebury College
"The Making of a European Economist"
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March 16, 2007
Thomas Van Order
Assistant Professor of Italian
"Fellini Betrayed: The English and Italian Soundtracks of La strada "
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October 27, 2006
John F. Campbell
Former Ambassador to the UN from Ireland and
President of the European Union (2004)
"The Future of the European Union"
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October 20, 2006
Alexis Spire
National Center for Scientific Research
"The Weight of the Colonial Past in French Immigration"
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April 28, 2006
Jacques Rupnik
Visiting professor of government
Harvard University
"US vs. EU Approaches to Democracy Promotion"
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April 21, 2006
Jeffrey M. Peck
Professor in communication, culture, and technology
Georgetown University
"Identity in Question: Being Jewish in the New Germany"
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March 15, 2006
Erik Bleich
Associate professor of political science
Middlebury College
"Muslim is the New Black: Construction the Ethno-Racial Outsider in Western Europe"
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April 7, 2004
Jacques Rupnik
Director of Research
CERI-Sciences-Po, Paris
"The New Europe Between the US and EU"
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April 24, 2009
Anne Odom
Hillwood Estate and Museum
"Treasure into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938"
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March 12, 2009
Victoria de Grazia
Columbia University
Dagmar Herzog
City University of New York
"Sex, Gender and Fascism: A Round-Table Discussion with Victoria de Grazia and Dagmar Herzog"
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February 25, 2009
Angelo Segrillo
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Russia and Brazil: Democratization in Comparative Perspective"
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November 3, 2008
Jacques Rupnik
Harvard University and CERI-Sciences-Po
"The Empire Strikes Back: American and European Responses to a Resurgent Russia"
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October 7, 2008
Jan Macháček
Respekt Magazine
"Europe, Russia and Energy Security"
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February 29, 2008
Paul R. Gregory
University of Houston and Hoover Institution
"Dictatorship and Repression"
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February 22, 2008
William Pyle
Middlebury College
"Political Power and Property Rights in Russia's Regions"
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November 26, 2007
Martin K. Dimitrov
Dartmouth College
"The Politics of Piracy in China and Russia"
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November 9, 2007
Eileen O'Connor
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP
"Dealing with Russia: A Business, Political, and Legal Perspective"
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October 25, 2007
Jan Macháček
Hospodarske noviny, Prague
"Democracy, Institution-Building and the Rule of Law in Central and East Europe"
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October 3, 2007
Anna Vassilieva
Professor and Russian Studies Program Head
Monterey Institute of International Studies
"The Evolution of the Post-Soviet Identity: In Search of the Russian Soul"
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April 25, 2007
Dmitri Trenin
Deputy Director
Carnegie Moscow Center
"Russia Leaves the West
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November 3, 2006
Michael R. Katz
C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies
Middlebury College
"The Russian Response to Modernity: Crystal Palace, Eiffel Tower, and Brooklyn Bridge"
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November 1, 2006
Egveni Kiselev
Independent Political Analyst
"The End of Freedom? Putin's Russia"
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April 26, 2006
Christopher Marsh
Associate professor of political science
Baylor University
"One Nation Under God: Religion, Nation, and the Drive for Statehood in the Post-Soviet World"
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April 24, 2006
Marshall Goldman
Associate director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
Merle Goldman
Associate, Fairbank Center
Harvard University
"China and Russia: Superpowers, Past, Present, and Future"
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April 13, 2006
Vladimir Popov
Sector Head
Academy of the National Economy, Moscow
"Democracy and Growth Reconsidered: Why Economic Performance of New Democracies Is Not Encouraging"
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April 4, 2006
Misha Glenny
Independent Scholar
Former European Correspondent
British Broadcasting Corporation
"Crime v. Nationalism: What Really Drove War in the Balkans?
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February 25, 2009
Angelo Segrillo
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Russia and Brazil: Democratization in Comparative Perspective"
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September 19, 2008
Middlebury College Seniors
Cully Cavness, Samuel Lazarus, Jeremy Martin
"Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants"
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November 29, 2006
Peter Kornbluh
Senior Analyst
National Security Archive
"After Fidel: Cuba, Venezuela, and the Challenge to US Policy in Latin America"
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May 2, 2006
David Stoll
Associate professor of anthropology
Middlebury College
"The Moral Economy of Religious Change in Latin America"
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November 17, 2003
Cynthia J. Arnson
Deputy director, Latin American Program
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"Colombia's Conflict: Moving Beyond the 'War on Terrorism'"
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April 3, 2009
Ambassador William Milam
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.
Hassan Abbas
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Pakistan and Afghanistan: What Should the Obama Administration Do? - The Pakistan Element"
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February 13, 2009
Rabbi Michael Cohen
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
"Environment as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East"
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January 13, 2009
David Makovsky
Washington Institute for Middle East Policy
"Middle East Challenges to the Obama Administration"
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November 21, 2008
Jeffrey Lunstead
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2003-2006
"Big Powers/Small Conflicts: The U.S. in the Sir Lanka Peace Process"
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March 14, 2008
Alex Rossmiller '04
National Security Network Fellow
"Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures from Baghdad to the Pentagon"
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January 9, 2008
Andrew J. Bacevich
Boston University
"After Iraq: Whither U.S. Strategy?"
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October 6, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University
Naz Modirzadeh, Harvard School of Public Health
"Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy"
Watch a digital video
October 5, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Andrew March, Yale University
David Patel, Cornell University
James Piscatori, Oxford University
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"Why Does Islam Become Politicized?"
Watch a digital video
October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Keynote Lecture
James Piscatori
Oxford University Professor
Senior Scholar at the Centre for Islamic Studies
"Iraq and the Future of Political Islam"
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October 4, 2007
Clifford Symposium Panel
Middlebury College Islamic Society Members
Mahmoud Hayyat , Islamic Society of Vermont
Anas Malik, Xavier University
"What It Means To Be A Muslim"
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April 30, 2007
Gideon Rose
Managing Editor
Foreign Affairs
"The U.S. and the New Middle East"
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April 23, 2007
Jeffrey Goldberg
Washington correspondent for The New Yorker
"Israel, Iran and the Future of Terrorism"
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April 9, 2007
Janine Zacharia '95
Diplomatic Correspondent for Bloomberg News
"A Reporter's Notebook: Mideast Update from Washington"
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March 2, 2007
Nathan Brown
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
George Washington University
"Islam, Human Rights and Constitutionalism"
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October 30, 2006
Eynat Shlein-Michael
Embassy of Israel, Washington, DC
"Implications of the Summer of 2006: An Israeli Perspective
Hear an audio recording
October 11, 2006
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, [Ret.]
Hudson Institute
"Reflections on American Hegemony in Light of the Invasion of Iraq"
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April 20, 2006
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Professor of political sociology
American University in Cairo
"How Democratic Could the Arab or Muslim World Be?"
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April 18, 2006
Mansour Farhang
Former Iranian ambassador to the U.N.
Professor of politics and international relations
Bennington College
"Iran's Nuclear Program and U.S. - Iranian Relations"
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April 11, 2006
Ijaz Gilani
Professor of social sciences
International Islamic University, Islamabad
"Global Muslim Identity and the Denmark Cartoon Crisis"
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April 6, 2006
Fatima Gailani
Chair
Afghan Red Crescent Society
Paula Nirschel
Founder
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women
"The Afghan Women: An Emerging Political Force in the Face of Immense Obstacles"
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April 5, 2006
Ashraf Haidari
First Secretary
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington D.C.
"Rebuilding Afghanistan: Achievements, Challenges, and the Future"
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March 28, 2006
Leonard S. Spector
Deputy director
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
"Iran, South Asia, and North Korea: Meeting the Proliferation Threat?"
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March 10, 2005
R. Nicholas Palarino
Senior policy analyst, Government Reform Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
"U.S. Policy in the Middle East: A Congressional Perspective"
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December 1, 2005
Said Amir Arjomand
Professor of Sociology
Stony Brook University
"Islam and Globalization"
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April 8, 2005
Hillel Newman
Consul of Israel to New England
"The United States and Israel in a Post-Cold War World"
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November 8, 2004
Avraham Burg
Former speaker of the Israeli Knesset and Geneva Accord negotiator
"Struggling Towards Peace in Times of Terror"
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March 30, 2000
Richard Butler
Visiting Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Former director, United Nations Special Commission on the Disarmament of Iraq (UNSCOM)
"Disarming Iraq: Reflections of a Policy Practitioner"
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April 3, 2009
Ambassador William Milam
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.
Hassan Abbas
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Pakistan and Afghanistan: What Should the Obama Administration Do? - The Pakistan Element"
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April 2, 2009
David Vogel
University of California, Berkeley
"The Market for Virtue: A Critical Appraisal of the Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility"
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March 5, 2009
Peter W. Singer
The Brookings Institution
"Wired for War"
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January 13, 2009
David Makovsky
Washington Institute for Middle East Policy
"Middle East Challenges to the Obama Administration"
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November 21, 2008
Jeffrey Lunstead
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2003-2006
"Big Powers/Small Conflicts: The U.S. in the Sir Lanka Peace Process"
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November 3, 2008
Jacques Rupnik
Harvard University and CERI-Sciences-Po
"The Empire Strikes Back: American and European Responses to a Resurgent Russia"
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October 3, 2008
Robert Schlesinger
U.S. News and World Report
"White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters"
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October 1, 2008
David Colander, Scott Pardee, Robert Prasch
Middlebury College economics department faculty
"Is the Economy Coming to an End? What's Going on in the Financial Markets?"
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September 26, 2008
Mickey Edwards
Aspen Institute and Princeton University
"Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back"
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September 12, 2008
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
"Making a Difference in the World"
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February 27, 2008
Jeff Fager
Executive Producer of 60 Minutes
"The Winning Formula of 60 Minutes--Staying on top by covering the war while ignoring Britney Spears"
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February 21, 2008
Allan Hubbard
Former Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
"Economic Challenges Facing the United States"
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January 9, 2008
Andrew J. Bacevich
Boston University
"After Iraq: Whither U.S. Strategy?"
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October 19, 2007
Sophie Meunier
Princeton University
"What is Anti-Americanism? The Case of France"
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September 28, 2007
David Rothkopf
Carnegie Endowment for Peace
"The Superclass"
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April 25, 2007
Edward C. Knox
College Professor Emeritus
Director, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs 2006-07
"American Writing on France-- Plus ça change ?"
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April 19, 2007
Jane Smith
Hartford Seminary
"Islam: A Truly American Religion?"
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April 11, 2007
Toby Miller
Director, Program in Film & Visual Culture
University of California, Riverside
"The New International Division of Cultural Labor and Global Hollywood"
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April 9, 2007
Prema Kurien
Associate Professor
Syracuse University
"A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism"
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March 15, 2007
Fenggang Yang
Associate Professor of Sociology
Purdue University
"The Pluralism Project of Distortion: What do Asian Americans Really Believe?"
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March 9, 2007
Sharon Suh
Associate Professor in the department of Theology and Religious Studies
Seattle University
"Religion, Immigration and the Quest for a Self: An Examination of Contemporary Korean American Buddhism"
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March 1, 2007
Raymond Williams
Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
Wabash College
"Transnational Religions and American Identities"
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February 27, 2007
Van Jones
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
"The New Dream: Updating MLK's Vision"
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January 22, 2007
Wilford Welch
Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs
David G. Hopkins '07
Middlebury College
"Social Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts Education"
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November 10, 2006
R. Bruce Hiland
Former Independent Management Consultant
Founding Member of the Middlebury Revitalization Initiative
"Middlebury vs. Bangalore. How Does a Small Vermont College Town Deal with Globalization ... And Does It Really Have To?"
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October 11, 2006
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, [Ret.]
Hudson Institute
"Reflections on American Hegemony in Light of the Invasion of Iraq"
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May 3, 2006
Samuel J. Palmisano
Chair of the board, president, and chief executive officer
IBM Corporation
"Innovation That Matters"
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April 28, 2006
Jacques Rupnik
Visiting professor of government
Harvard University
"US vs. EU Approaches to Democracy Promotion"
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April 27, 2006
Edward C. Knox
College Professor Emeritus of French
Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs 2006-2007
Middlebury College
"An 'impossible portrait of America'?--Reading Bernard-Henri Lévy's American Vertigo
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April 18, 2006
Mansour Farhang
Former Iranian ambassador to the U.N.
Professor of politics and international relations
Bennington College
"Iran's Nuclear Program and U.S. - Iranian Relations"
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October 27, 2005
Thomas O. Melia
Deputy executive director
Freedom House
"The Infrastructure of American Democrary Promotion"
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April 21, 2005
John Lewis Gaddis
Robert A. Lovett Professor of History
Yale University
"The Past and Future of American Grand Strategy"
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April 8, 2005
Hillel Newman
Consul of Israel to New England
"The United States and Israel in a Post-Cold War World"
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March 10, 2005
R. Nicholas Palarino
Senior policy analyst, Government Reform Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
"U.S. Policy in the Middle East: A Congressional Perspective"
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February 21, 2005
Aditya Mahendra Raval
State Department producer
ABC News
"Tarnished Image: How Diplomacy Can Lead the Way to New Relations between America and the World"
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November 11, 2004
Philip Zelikow
Former executive director
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission)
White Burkett Miller Professor of History
University of Virginia
"The Road to 9/11 - And Where We Are Today"
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May 7, 2004
Taylor M. Fravel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
Harvard University
"China's New Diplomacy and U.S,-China Relations"
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April 7, 2004
Jacques Rupnik
Director of Research
CERI-Sciences-Po, Paris
"The New Europe Between the US and EU"
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April 22, 2009
Douglas Irwin
Dartmouth College
David Colander
Murray Dry
James Morrison
All of Middlebury College
"The Role of Political and Economic Ideas in Policymaking"
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April 21, 2009
Jeff A. McMahan
Rutgers University
"Proportionality and Self-Defense in War"
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April 20, 2009
Christian H. Thommessen
Constantia a.s. - Sollund a.s. - Hovedstaden Eindomsselskab a.s.
"Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor"
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April 10, 2009
Strom Thacker
Boston University
"Does Democracy Promote Development?"
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April 1, 2009
Stefano Mula
Middlebury College
"Historical Linguistics: A Philologist's Perspective"
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March 16, 2009
Hannah Washington
University of Texas
"Metaphony: A Contrastive Cross-linguistic Study within Southern Romance"
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February 27, 2009
David Stoll
Middlebury College
"Endangered Languages and the Strange Case of the Summer Institute of Linguistics"
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February 18, 2009
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College
"On Linguistice Diversity, Child Language, and the Notion of 'Possible Human Language' "
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November 7, 2008
Projects for Peace Presentations
Student Presentations of 2008 Davis Projects for Peace
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October 1, 2008
David Colander, Scott Pardee, Robert Prasch
Middlebury College economics department faculty
"Is the Economy Coming to an End? What's Going on in the Financial Markets?"
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September 19, 2008
Middlebury College Seniors
Cully Cavness, Samuel Lazarus, Jeremy Martin
"Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants"
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September 12, 2008
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
"Making a Difference in the World"
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April 4, 2008
Charles MacCormack '63
President, Save the Children Federation
"The Role of NGOs in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"
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September 28, 2007
David Rothkopf
Carnegie Endowment for Peace
"The Superclass"
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February 20, 2007
Mark Johnson
Knight Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Oregon
"The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding"
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September 15, 2006
Kateri Carmola
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Middlebury College
"Private Military Contractors and the Challenge of Regulating New Wars"
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April 7, 2006
Charles MacCormack '63
President, chief operating officer, and member of the board
Save the Children Federation
"Making Poverty History: Slogan or Reality?"
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March 1, 2006
Walker Connor
Scholar-in-Residence
Middlebury College
"Religion and Nation: Competitors or Reinforcers?"
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April 25, 2005
The Honorable Richard J. Goldstone
Member
Independent Inquiry Committee into the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
Former chief prosecutor
U.N. International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Former justice
Constitutional Court of South Africa
"The Future of International Criminal Justice"
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December 2, 2004
Joshua A. Fishman
Distinguished University Research Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences
Yeshiva University
"Don't Leave Your Language Alone! Language Loyalty and Group Identity"
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