The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship Fall 2011 Lecture and Film Series
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October 3 (Monday): James McCormick
Topic: Barack Obama: A Foreign Policy of Change?
Time: 7:30 p.m.-8:45 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
James M. McCormick is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University. He has authored or edited ten books and received research and leadership awards throughout his career at ISU.
October 5 (Wednesday): Roy Bennett
Topic: The Struggle for Democracy in Zimbabwe
Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Location: Sheslow Auditorium
Roy Bennett is a Zimbabwean politician, former colonial policeman, and a former member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe. Bennett’s farm was confiscated by the Mugabe government, and he has been jailed for his efforts on behalf of the movement for democracy in Zimbabwe. He is currently the Treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai.
October 10 (Monday): Brian Fishman
Topic: Combating Terrorism: Lessons Learned
Time: 7:30-8:45 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
Co-sponsor: National Security Network
Brian Fishman is a Counterterrorism Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and a Research Fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. He served as the CTC’s Director of Research, was a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, authored and edited books on terrorism, and was a founding editor of the CTC Sentinel.
October 12 (Wednesday): Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano
Topic: Democracy, Development and Africa’s Future
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Location: Reading Room at Cowles Library
Co-sponsors: World Food Prize, Drake University African Student Association
Joaquim Alberto Chissano served as the second President of Mozambique for 19 years from 1986 until 2005. Chissano has become an elder statesman, is called upon by international bodies (such as the United Nations) to be an envoy or negotiator, and currently chairs the Joaquim Chissano Foundation and the Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government.
October 20 (Thursday): Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (USN ret.)
Topic: National Security and Iowa’s Energy Future
Time: 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
Co-sponsor: Coalition of Legislators for Energy Action Now (CLEAN)
Retired Vice Admiral McGinn served 35 years as a naval aviator, test pilot, aircraft carrier commanding officer, and national security strategist. He highlights the close link between energy and international security and the imperative for innovative government policies, focused investments and effective deployment of technology to create a high-quality, sustainable global environment.
October 24 (Monday): Jim Walsh
Topic: Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism
Time: 7:30-8:45 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
Co-sponsor: National Security Network
Dr. Jim Walsh is an expert in international security and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program (SSP). His research and writings focus on international security, including nuclear weapons and terrorism, and he is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled to both Iran and North Korea for talks with officials about nuclear issues.
October 25 (Tuesday): VJ Burma: Reporting from a Closed Country (film, 2008)
Location: Bulldog Auditorium Time: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Filmmaker Anders Ãstergaard offers a look at technology’s use in the revolution for a free and democratic Burma in a documentary about the Democratic Voice of Burma. A handful of young video journalists filmed the 2007 protests against a military dictatorship, as well as violent acts committed by police and military officials, and then smuggled the footage to Thailand and news organizations the world over.
October 26 (Wednesday): Malek Mohamed Awny
Topic: Digital Revolutions? On the Role of the Media in the Arab Spring
Time: 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Location: Meredith 101
Malek Mohamed Awny is Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief and Supervisor of International Relations Analysis Unit, Al Siyassa Al Dawliya (International Politics) Journal, Al Ahram Foundation, Egypt. He is a graduate of Cairo University.
October 31 (Monday): Ian Holliday
Topic: Rebuilding Burma: Options for the United States
Time: 7:30-8:45 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
Ian Holliday is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Burma/Myanmar’s political reform, and his teaching includes dilemmas of humanitarian intervention. Each summer he directs a program that takes students to the Thai-Burma border and other parts of Southeast Asia to deliver intensive English language classes in marginalized and impoverished communities.
November 1 (Tuesday): Ian Holliday
Topic: Burma and Global Justice
Time: noon-1:00 p.m.
Location: Central Des Moines Public Library, Grand Ave.
Co-sponsor: Iowa International Center
November 7 (Monday): Caroline Wadhams
Topic: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and U.S. National Security
Time: 7:30-8:45 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
Co-sponsor: National Security Network
Caroline Wadhams focuses on Afghanistan, Pakistan, terrorism issues, and U.S. national security as a Senior Fellow at American Progress. She served as a U.S. election observer in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections in September 2010, as a legislative assistant on foreign policy issues, and at the Council on Foreign Relations
November 14 (Monday): Paul Carrol
Topic: North Korea: Dealing with an Enigma
Time: 7:30-8:45 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Auditorium
Co-sponsor: National Security Network
Paul Carroll manages grant making at the Ploughshares Fund to direct resources toward the smartest people with the best ideas for reducing conflict and risks from nuclear weapons. Carroll has traveled to North Korea and met with foreign ministry officials regarding the nuclear program and Six Party process. He has expertise on nuclear weapons policy and the production process, including work for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
William Strong
