US Foreign Policy Today
A lecture by David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, covering a broad range of strategic issues from national affairs to foreign policy. Known for his compelling front-page analyses, from both the White House and around the globe, that expose and explain the most complex events of our time, Sanger has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize and has received numerous awards for investigative, national security, and White House reporting. He is author of The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (2010) and Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (2013).
January 21, 2014 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Whither the European Union: between crisis and success
A presentation by Ivan Vejvoda, Vice President for Programs at The German Marshall Fund. He served, From 2003 to 2010, as executive director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the GMF dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions in Southeastern Europe. He came to GMF in 2003 from distinguished service in the Serbian government as senior advisor on foreign policy and European integration to Prime Ministers Zoran Djindjic and Zoran Zivkovic. Vejvoda has held various academic posts in the United States and the U.K., including one-year appointments at Smith College in Massachusetts and Macalester College in Minnesota, and a three-year research fellowship at the University of Sussex in England.
January 30, 2014 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Rafea: Solar Mama, Documentary Film Screening
Rafea: Solar Mama is a documentary following the efforts of an illiterate mother in Jordan, Rafea, as she learns to become a Solar Engineer through Barefoot College’s solar program in India.
February 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Capturing the Zeitgeist
A conversation with Jehane Noujaim, director of Rafea: Solar Mama. Jehane Noujaim graduated from Harvard University and joined the MTV News and Documentary Division as a segment producer for the documentary series Unfiltered. She has earned much acclaim for her documentaries including Control Room, Engineer Rafea, and the recently released The Square, which won the Audience Award at the last Sundance Film Festival and the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the most recent Toronto Film Festival. PBS’s Tom Roston Calls The Square “a riveting, poignant film,” Time Magazine’s Ishaan Tharoor calls it “Oscar Worthy,” and Bloomberg’s Craig Seligman aptly says of it” “No news report could render the hope and the desperation of the people who risked their lives in Tahrir Square so fully, or so thrillingly.”
February 5, 2014 at 12pm in Kitteridge Dining Hall
Preventing Conflicts, Ending Wars, Healing Nations, Building Peace
A lecture by José Ramos-Horta who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, in 1996 “for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. He was appointed, in 2002, as Timor Leste’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in 2006 he was sworn in as Prime Minister and in 2007 he was elected the second President of Timor-Leste by a 70% margin. In 2008 President Ramos-Horta survived an assassination attempt by members of the renegade military group. While the country prayed for his survival, the remaining members of the renegade group surrendered and turned in their arms. He has recently served as United Nation’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding office in Guinea-Bissau.
February 25, 2014 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
