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UPCOMING SPEAKERS

Clemson University Globalization Lecture Series

Free and open to the public

The location of the seminars varies as indicated below

The time of all seminars is the same, 7:00-8:00 pm

 

Date:  Monday, September 8, 2008       

Topic: Global Implications of the Georgian-Russian Conflict

Speaker: Richard Miles, former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia

Place: Jordan Hall 033 (Jordan Hall Auditorium)

Co-sponsor:  Clemson University Renaissance Center, Greenville

 

Date: Monday, September 15, 2008

Topic: Changing the World Through Secret Intervention:  The Use and Misuse of Covert Action as an Instrument of American Secret Foreign Policy

Speaker:  Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia; Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Place: Strom Thurmond Institute Auditorium

Co-sponsors:  Phi Beta Kappa and the Strom Thurmond Institute 

 

Date:  Tuesday, September 30, 2008     

Topic: Turkey: Clemson National Scholars’ perspectives

Speakers: Zeynep Taydas, Department of Political Science, chairing a panel with Clemson students who participated in the National Scholars’ trip to Turkey

Place: Jordan Hall 033 (Jordan Hall Auditorium in basement level)

 

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Topic: The US and the UN in the 21st Century

Speaker: Gillian Martin Sorensen, Senior Advisor, The United Nations Foundation

Place: 100 Vickery Hall

Co-sponsor: Clemson University Renaissance Center, Greenville

 

Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Topic: Serbia and the United States

Speaker: Vladimir Matic, Department of Political Science, chairing a

      panel with students having participated in his Summer 2008 study

      trip to Serbia

Place: Sirrine Hall 364

 

Date: Monday, November 17, 2008

Topic: CIA, Politics vs. The Pro’s

Speaker: Carlos Luria, former CIA executive

Place: 100 Holtzendorff Hall

Co-sponsor: International Education Week sponsored by the Gantt Intercultural Center

The Globalization Seminar Series is sponsored by the Department of Political Science.  All lectures are followed by a question period.  For queries, contact the Seminar Director, Dr. Michael Morris, Department of Political Science, Brackett Hall 232 (morrism@clemson.edu) or the graduate assistant, Kweku Ainuson (kainuso@clemson.edu)

 

 
 

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