Join former ambassador P. Michael McKinley (Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, Brazil, and currently a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC) to discuss careers in international affairs and work in the government and foreign service world. All students welcome, all majors and class years. Bring your curiosity and questions.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs, presents Ambassador P. Michael McKinley (ret) and “Foreign Policy Implications of the U.S. Presidential Election.”
Ambassador McKinley (ret) will provide an overview of the continuities and contrasts in foreign policy during the Trump and Biden administration, and the implications for the United States in the context of today’s challenging global environment.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Xan Smiley’s career in journalism has spanned more than half a century, predominantly as a writer and editor for The Economist, focusing on coverage of sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and the Soviet Union, the Middle East, the European Union, and the United States. In this lecture, Xan will analyze the success and failures of The Economist’s (and his own) coverage of events that have shaped the world.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
— a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
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