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Past Events

"Has Multiculturalism Failed?"

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Ian 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.”

“Can the CIA Get it Right?”

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tim 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

“Russia Rising: Eurasia, the United States and the European Union,”

Thursday, December 14, 2006
John Hulsman, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies, and Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation, co-authors of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World
Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY

"Latin America's New Left and The Future of Inter-American Relations"

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Javier 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 and Omar Encarnacion, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard College; author of The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil
Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY

“Fresh Demands on American Diplomacy in a Changing World.”

Monday, October 16, 2006
Brandon Grove, President, The American Academy of Diplomacy
Olin, Room 102

"Iran: The Graver Threat?"

Thursday, October 12, 2006

James Phillips, Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Heritage Foundation

Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; author of The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam

6:15 pm, Bard Hall, 410 West 58th St., New York City

“Evangelicals and US Foreign Policy: A Blessing?”

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Richard Cizek, Vice President, National Association of Evangelicals,

Esther Kaplan, journalist, commentator and author of With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House

7:00 pm, Campus Center Multipurpose Room, Annandale-on-Hudson

"Five Years Later: Are We Prepared?"

Thursday, September 14, 2006

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

Paul J. Browne, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, New York City Police Department; former Chief of Staff, US Treasury Department Office of Enforcement

6:15pm, Bard Hall 410 West 58th St., New York City

"Preventive War, American Democracy, and the Challenge of a Shifting Threat Environment."

Monday, September 11, 2006

Scott Silverstone, Associate Professor of Political Science United States Military Academy at West Point. Co-sponsored by the Academy Bard Exchange (ABE) and Model UN

7:00 pm, Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson