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More
information about the next Bank of America Lecture Series in 2009-10 will be
available during the Fall of 2008. If you have ideas for the next Bank of
America theme, please contact Ellie
Marranzini ’09 or Stephen
Kalin ’09, SAC Event Coordinators
2007-08 Lecture Series:
Principles, Power, and
the Future of American Leadership
“The Values that Can Fix American
Foreign Policy”
Samantha Power
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author/Journalist and Human Rights Activist
September 26,
2007
8:00pm- Duke Family Performance Hall
For over
a decade, Samantha Power has produced some of the most thought-provoking
journalism from some the world’s most troubled regions. From 1993-96, she covered wars in the
former Yugoslavia
for the US News and World Report, The Boston Globe, and The Economist. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America
and the Age of Genocide received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction
and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in US
foreign policy. Her 2005 New Yorker article on Darfur won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best
reporting. Ms. Power was the founding
executive director of the Carr
Center for Human Rights
Policy. She currently is The Anna
Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at
Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
“U.S. Foreign Policy and Nation
Building”
Andrew Natsios
Distinguished
Professor in Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown
University
November 7, 2007
7:00pm- Duke Family Performance Hall
Best
known for his time as Administrator of the US Agency for International
Development (USAID), Mr. Natsios now serves as President’s Special Envoy to Sudan. During his USAID career, he also served as Special
Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian
Coordinator for the Sudan,
director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, and assistant
administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now the Bureau
for Humanitarian Response). Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Natsios
served as chairman and chief executive officer for the Massachusetts Turnpike
Authority, where he took over management of the Central Artery/Tunnel
Project, or "Big Dig" after a period of scandal and cost
overruns. He has served as Vice
President of World Vision U.S., the largest faith-based non-governmental organization
in the world and
as a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace.
“Environmental Stress, Security
and American Leadership”
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon
George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Pierre Elliott
Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto
Thursday, January
24, 2008
7:00pm- Duke Family Performance Hall
One of
the world’s leading experts on the relationship between environmental
degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflict, Dr. Homer-Dixon’s work
has appeared in Foreign Affairs,
the New York Times, the Toronto
Globe and Mail, and a variety of other scholarly journals, popular
magazines and newspapers. His
award-winning books include: Environment, Scarcity and Violence,
winner of the 2000 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize from the American Political
Science Association; The Ingenuity Gap,
winner of the 2001 Governor General’s Non-fiction Award; and The Upside of Down, winner of the 2006
National Business Book Award and a Gold Award from ForeWord Magazine as the
best book in Political Science for 2006.
“Do We Want to Be the New Rome?”
Dr. Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
7pm-Duke Family Family Performance Hall
One of
the most widely recognized experts on American foreign policy, Ambassador
Haass draws from a wide range of academic and policy-making experience. Among his many positions, he served as
Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State and as Special
Assistant to President George Bush and Senior Director of Near
East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National
Security Council. Ambassador Haass is
the author of ten books on American Foreign Policy, including The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course. He served as Vice President and Director of
Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution, a senior associate at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a Lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government. In 1991, Ambassador Haass
received the Presidential Citizens Medal and the State Department’s
Distinguished Honor Award.
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