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Current and Upcoming Events
There are no current or upcoming events scheduled.Past Events
The Russia House - What's Up and Who's in Charge?
Thursday, September 5, 2002Ian Bremmer — President, Eurasia Group
Nina Khruscheva — Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
Two panels to mark the events of September 11, 2001
Tuesday, September 10, 2002On September 10, 2002 Bard College will present two panels to mark the events of September 11, 2001. Panel One: "The War on Terrorism" (4:30-6:00 p.m.), featuring: Thomas Keenan (moderator), Director, Bard Human Rights Project; Mark Lytle, Professor of History, Bard College; and James Miller, Deputy Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. Panel Two: "What's Next- War or Peace?" (7:30-9:00 p.m.), featuring: Jonathan Becker (moderator), Dean of International Studies; Caleb Carr, Author, "The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians"; Barbara Crossette, contributing writer, "The New York Times"; James Chace, Paul W. Williams Professor of Government, Bard College; and Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Politics, Bard College.
The panels will be on September 10, 2002 in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. The panels are free and no reservations are required.
Sponsored by: Dean of International Studies, Dean of the College, the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, the Human Rights Project and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association.
4:30 pm
Location: Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
The Humanitarian Trap
Thursday, October 3, 2002David Rieff — author of A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
The US as a Permanent World Policeman?
Thursday, November 7, 2002Reuben Brigety — Arms Division, Human Rights Watch
Thant Myint-U — Policy Analyst, United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs, and former Spokesman, United Nations Protection Force, Sarajevo
International Crime - Unraveling the Trail of Money
Thursday, December 5, 2002Jack Blum — Former US Senate Investigator on International Financial Crime, Corporate Fraud and Government Corruption; Consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service on international financial crime and off-shore tax evasion
America at War
Thursday, February 20, 2003Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations; Features Editor, Op-Ed Page, The Wall Street Journal; Author of The Savage Wars of Peace & Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and The Guardian.
Lecture: "America at War"
Thursday, February 20, 2003The BGIA presents Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations; Features Editor, Op-Ed Page, The Wall Street Journal; Author of The Savage Wars of Peace & Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights, Democracy, and New Media Studies, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and The Guardian.
6:15 pm
Lecture: "Imperial America"
Thursday, March 13, 2003The BGIA presents Caleb Carr, Military Historian, Best Selling Novelist. Author of The Alienist and The Lessons of Terrorism.
6:15 pm
Lecture: "American Empire: The Realtities and Consequences of Diplomacy"
Wednesday, April 9, 2003Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program lecture by Andrew Bacevitch.
5:30 pm
Location: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, NYC
Lecture: "American Empire: The Realtities and Consequences of Diplomacy"
Wednesday, April 9, 2003Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program lecture by Andrew Bacevitch.
5:30 pm
Location: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, NYC
Humanitarianism at Bay
Thursday, May 8, 2003Joelle Tanguy
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, New York, NY
Lecture: "Humanitarianism at Bay"
Thursday, May 8, 2003Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program lecture by Joelle Tanguy.
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, New York, NY
The Consequences of the Iraq War
Thursday, September 11, 2003Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, European Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The End of the American Era and Max Boot, Senior Fellow in National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The Savage Wars of Peace
6:00 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Russia and the Future of American Foreign Policy
Thursday, October 9, 2003Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group
Jonathan Becker, Dean of International Studies, Bard College
6:00 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Is Colombia the Next Vietnam?
Thursday, November 13, 2003Kenneth Sharpe, Swarthmore College, coauthor of Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial. Silvana Paternostro, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute and author of In the Land of God and Man
6:00 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
On the Road to Empire
Thursday, December 11, 2003Mark Danner, Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College and author of The Massacre at El Mozote.
6:00 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
BGIA Speaker Series
Monday, February 2, 2004"Geneva and Beyond" Marcia Freedman, Former Member of Israeli Parliment.
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Lecture: Russia, Central Asia, and American Foreign Policy
Thursday, February 12, 2004Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group; Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books,The New York Times Magazine , New Republic, and The Guardian; and Karl Meyer, editor of World Policy Journal. The lecture will be moderated by James Chace, director of the BGIA Program. Reservations requested.
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Lecture: International Crime
Thursday, March 18, 2004Jack Blum, former U.S. Senate Investigator on International Financial Crime, Corporate Fraud and Government Corruption.
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Lecture: The Consequences of Iraq
Thursday, April 8, 2004Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group; Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights, Democracy, and New Media Studies, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books,The New York Times Magazine , New Republic, and The Guardian
College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and The Guardian. For reservations or further information, call 212-333-7575 or e-mail cristol@bard.edu.
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
The Consequences of the Iraq War
Tuesday, September 21, 2004Max Boot, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Mark Danner, Professor of Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College, and Author of The Massacre at El Mozote
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
The Nature of the Iraqi Resistance
Wednesday, October 13, 2004Molly Bingham, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University and Steven Connors, Freelance photojournalist
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
US Foreign Policy after the Election
Thursday, November 11, 2004Jonathan Schell, Senior editor, The Nation
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Democracy in the Middle East and Elsewhere: Is it the Right American Policy?
Thursday, December 2, 2004Omar Encarnación, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard College and Adrian Karatnycky, former President, Freedom House
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Power, Terror, Peace, and War
Monday, February 7, 2005Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Author of Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
The United Nations and the Prevention of Genocide
Thursday, March 3, 2005Juan Méndez, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations; President, International Center for Transitional Justice
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
A Discussion with David Rieff
Monday, March 14, 2005A discussion with David Rieff, author of "At the Point of a Gun: Humanitarian Dreams and Armed Intervention" and Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
6:00 pm
Location: 400 West 59th Street, Third Floor
The North Korean Question
Thursday, April 14, 2005Charles Armstrong, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University; Leon Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council; reservations required
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
The Future of Middle East Security
Thursday, May 12, 2005Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Chairholder in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, Sarah Lawrence College; Author of "The Jihadists: Unholy Warriors"
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Sustaining a Liberal Empire
Thursday, September 22, 2005Lt. Gen. William Odom, US Army (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; author of America's Inadvertant Empire and Fixing Intelligence
Website: Event Website
Does Preventive War Have a Future?
Thursday, October 27, 2005Thomas Nichols, former Chairman of Strategic Studies, US Naval War College; Scott Silverstone, Associate Professor of Political Science, US Military Academy, West Point
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
The Rise of Chinese Power
Thursday, November 10, 2005Dan Blumenthal, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Coming Challenges to the United Nations
Thursday, December 1, 2005Barbara Crossette, former UN Bureau Chief, New York Times; Edward Luck, Director, Center on International Organization, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Investigating Saddam Hussein: Lessons Learned from the Balkans
Thursday, February 23, 2006Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch; Tom Parker, former UK Special Advisor on Transitional Justice, and Head of the Crimes Against Humanity Investigation Unit, Coalition Provisional Authority; former Investigator, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
America and the World
Thursday, March 2, 2006Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International; author of The Future of Freedom
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Water Wars
Thursday, April 27, 2006Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and Security, Hampshire College; author of Blood and Oil, and Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict; Mark Lytle, Professor of History, Bard College
6:15 pm
Location: Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY
Website: Event Website
Five Years Later: Are We Prepared?
Thursday, September 14, 2006Paul J. Browne, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, New York City Police Department; former Chief of Staff, US Treasury Department Office of Enforcement. Richard K. Betts, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism; author of Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning.
Iran: Our Gravest Threat?
Thursday, October 12, 2006Tom Parker, Director, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center; Former UK Special Advisor on Transitional Justice, and Head of the Crimes Against Humanity Investigation Unit, Coalition Provisional Authority; currently a Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Brown University. James A. Phillips, Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Heritage Foundation; Member, Committee on the Present Danger.
Latin America’s New Left: Implications for Inter-American Relations
Saturday, November 11, 2006Javier Corrales, Associate Professor of Political Science, Amherst College; author of Presidents Without Parties: The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s. Omar Encarnación, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard College; author of The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil.
Russia Rising: Eurasia, The United States and the European Union
Thursday, December 14, 2006John Hulsman, author of Paradigm for the New World Order and co-author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Anatol Lieven, author of The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence and co-author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
How Moral Can We Get? War, Ethics, and US Foreign Policy
Thursday, March 1, 2007Joel Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
HIV and International Security
Thursday, March 22, 2007Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, United States Global AIDS Coordinator; former Assistant Director for Medical Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services. Joelle Tanguy, Managing Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GBC); former US Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers)
Anti-Americanism in World Politics
Thursday, April 19, 2007James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; author of Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought and Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics among many others. Paola Cesarini, Instructor, Providence College; co-editor Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe; contributing author, Anti-Americanism
Unknown Unknowns: Anticipating and Countering Insurgency in Iraq
Thursday, May 10, 2007Caleb Carr, Visiting Professor of History, Bard College; author of The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians and The Alienist. Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer; former Captain, United States Marine Corps. Jon Lellenberg, former Director, Policy & Strategy, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's special operations and counterterrorism bureau.
Iraq After the Petraeus Report
Thursday, September 27, 2007Jeffrey D. McCausland, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Visiting Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, former Dean of Academics, US Army War College. Maj. James Spies, Special Forces Branch Representative, United States Military Academy at West Point
Can Market Mechanisms Address Climate Change
Thursday, October 25, 2007Yannick Glemarec, Executive Coordinator for UNDP Global Environment Facility
6:30 pm
The J Curve: Why Nations Rise and Fall
Thursday, November 15, 2007Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group.
6:30 pm
The New Russia Challenge
Thursday, December 6, 2007Leonard Benardo, National Foundations Regional Director, Open Society Institute. Jonathan Becker, Dean of International Studies, Bard College; author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition
6:30 pm
Can the CIA Get it Right?
Thursday, January 31, 2008Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the New York Times, author of the books Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA and Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames: An American Spy
6:30 pm
Venture Philanthropy: Can Social Investors Transform Nonprofits?
Thursday, February 21, 2008Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green; Beth Cohen, Senior Director, Global Philanthropists Circle, Synergos; Diana Ayton-Shenker, President, Global Momenta, Senior Fellow, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program
6:30 pm
Pakistan: What Happens Now
Thursday, March 27, 2008Arif Jamal, Lahore based scholar and journalist; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. Robert Templer, Director, Asia Programs, International Crisis Group
6:30 pm
Has Multiculturalism Failed?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism, Bard College; Author, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies. Paul Scheffer, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Amserdam; Author, The Multicultural Drama.
6:30 pm
The Second World
Thursday, September 11, 2008Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Leadership in International Affairs
Thursday, September 18, 2008Ted Sorensen, Special Counsel and Adviser to President John F. Kennedy and author Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
Global Issues and Values-Based Foreign Policy
Monday, September 22, 2008Paula Dobriansky, Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Implications of Globalization
Thursday, October 2, 2008Robert Shapiro, Former Undersecretary of Commerce and author of Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work
War for Wealth
Thursday, October 16, 2008Gabor Steingart, Senior Correspondent, Der Spiegel and author of The War for Wealth: The True Story of Globalization, or Why the Flat World is Broken
Foreign Policy in Campaign 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008Christopher Cox, John McCain's presidential campaign's New York Executive Director; Edward Cox, John McCain's presidential campaign's New York Chairman; Jeh Johnson, Foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's presidential campaign and member of Barack Obama's national finance committee; Josh Rothstein, Volunteer for Barack Obama for America Foreign Policy Team
6:30 pm
Location: 116 E. 55th St. New York, NY
Website: Event Website
Russia
Thursday, November 13, 2008Steve LeVine, Correspondent in BusinessWeek’s Washington Bureau and author of Putin’s Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
6:30 pm
Website: Event Website
The Great Inflation: The Impact on Globalization
Thursday, December 18, 2008Robert Samuelson, Columnist for the Washington Post and Newsweek, and author of The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
Climate Change
Thursday, February 5, 2009Michael A. Levi, Council on Foreign Relations' David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
6:30 pm
Location: 116 E. 55th St. New York, NY
Website: Event Website
Fixing Global Finance
Thursday, February 26, 2009Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times and author of Fixing Global Finance, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55 St., 6:30 PM
6:30 pm
Website: Event Website
Rise and Fall of Hyperpowers
Thursday, March 12, 2009Amy Chua, Professor at Yale Law School and author of Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance- and Why They Fall, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St, 6:30 PM
6:30 pm
Location: 116 E. 55th St. New York, NY
Website: Event Website
The Great Experiment: Globalization
Thursday, April 16, 2009Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and author of The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States and the Quest for a Global Nation, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St, 3:00 PM
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: 116 E. 55th St. New York, NY
Website: Event Website
The Future of Pakistan
Thursday, April 30, 2009Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program Director, New America Foundation and Jonathan Paris, Associate Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, King's College London, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St., 6:30 PM
Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Tuesday, May 19, 2009Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO and Founder of Acumen Fund and author of Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St, 6:00 PM
6:00 pm
Website: Event Website
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
Thursday, September 17, 2009Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars, at 36 West 44th St., Suite 1011, 6:30 PM
Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
Thursday, October 8, 2009Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 East 64th St., 6:30 PM
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Diplomacy in the Middle East: Current Obstacles and Potential Solutions
Friday, October 16, 2009Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Harvard University, former US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 36 West 44th St., Suite 1011, 6:30 PM
Current Challenges in Humanitarian Action
Thursday, November 5, 2009Sophie Delaunay, U.S. Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres, Doug Shipman, Executive Director of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights & Rebecca Hamilton, Open Society Fellow, 36 West 44th St., Suite 1011, 6:30 PM
Emerging Markets in the Current Economic Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday, November 12, 2009Lawrence Spinelli, Acting President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, at 36 West 44th St., Suite 1011, 6:30 PM
Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization
Thursday, November 19, 2009David Grewal, Harvard University Society of Fellows, at 36 West 44th St., Suite 1011, 6:30 PM