Rxlogo3
Home
Speaker schedule
Parking & location map
Students

All events - 7:30pm - Wednesdays - University of Delaware - Mitchell Hall

SPEAKERS
LOCATION
PARKING
RESOURCES
VIDEOS
PHOTOS
POSTERS
STUDENTS
FEB 23
Khouri
MAR 9
Ischinger
[RECESS]
APR 6
Chandrasekaran
APR 20
Martel
APR 26
Salbi
MAY 4
Sherman
MAY 18
CANCELLED

February 23, 2005

7:30pm
Mitchell Hall
Newark, DE

MAKING SENSE of the MIDDLE EAST

Rami Khouri

Arab journalist

Rami Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut (Lebanon), Amman (Jordan), and Nazareth (the West Bank). He is executive editor of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. He is an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author, and was previously editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times for seven years.

View the video - now available (requires RealPlayer)

Khouri



March 9, 2005

OCEANS APART? Europe and the U.S.

7:30pm
Mitchell Hall
Newark, DE

Wolfgang Ischinger

Ambassador of Germany to the United States

Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger has been Germany's diplomat in Washington since 2001. He previously was special assistant to two German Foreign Ministers, and through the 1990's served on Germany's delegations of several international negotiations on EU enlargement and the Bosnia and Kosovo crises.


Ischinger

View the video - now available (requires RealPlayer)





April 6, 2005

7:30pm
Mitchell Hall
Newark, DE

IRAQ: the Best Medicine

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

former Baghdad Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

Rajiv Chandrasekaran was Baghdad Bureau Chief for The Washington Post for 18 months, ending in the fall of 2004. He covered the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, filing more than 130 front-page stories in 2003 alone and supervising dozens of Washington Post staffers covering the war. He is believed to have spent more time in Iraq in 2003 than any other American journalist.



View the video - now available (requires RealPlayer)


TBA


April 20, 2005

7:30pm
Mitchell Hall
Newark, DE

TOMORROW'S ENEMY: al-Qaeda and Beyond

William Martel

U.S. Naval War College and Tufts University

William Martel has conducted research for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Reconnaissance Office, the Office of Secretary of Defense, U.S. Air Force Space Command, and other agencies on a wide range of technological and policy issues. He also teaches courses on defense technology and policy analysis at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston. He is Professor of National Security Affairs, Director of the defense analysis course, and Alan Shepherd Chair of Space Technology and Policy, at the U.S. Naval War College, and was previously Associate Professor of International Relations and founder and Director, Center for Strategy and Technology, at the U.S. Air War College.

Martel

View the video - now available (requires RealPlayer)


NOTE UPDATE!
RESCHEDULED!
April 26
, 2005

7:30pm
Note change of location for this event ONLY:
PEARSON
Hall
Newark, DE

SECRET POTION: Worldwide Women

Zainab Salbi

Founder & President, Women-for-Women International

An Iraqi native who arrived in the U.S. at age 19, Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty into self-sufficient and active citizens who promote peace and stability.


Salbi

View the video - now available (requires RealPlayer)


May 4, 2005

7:30pm
Mitchell Hall
Newark, DE

ASIA ENIGMA: China & North Korea

Amb. Wendy Sherman

State Department advisor to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

Ambassador Wendy Sherman is a Principal of The Albright Group, an international advisory firm. From 1997 to 2001, she was the Counselor of the Department of State, serving then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as a special advisor and consultant on major issues of foreign policy. She also served as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State, and the North Korea Policy Coordinator.


View the video - now available (requires RealPlayer)

Kay


May 18, 2005

PROGRAM CANCELLED

SLEEPING GIANTS: Nuclear Threats

Hon. John Bolton

Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security - nominated for US Ambassador to the United Nations

John Bolton has spent many years of his career in public service. Prior to his appointment in 2001, Mr. Bolton was Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit public policy center in Washington. He was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affair, 1989-1993; Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 1985-1989; Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1982-1983; General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-1982.

Bolton