What Foreign Policy Issues Will Shape the 2016 Election?
A presentation by Eleanor Clift, a Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, where she covers the White House and writes about politics and culture. She previously worked for Newsweek and is a panelist on the syndicated talk show The McLaughlin Group. Clift regularly comments about politics on MSNBC, appeared as herself in several movies, and has authored or co-authored five books. Clift, who lives in Washington, D.C., is on the advisory council of the International Women’s Media Foundation, the boards of the Center for Politics and Journalism
and the American News Women’s Club, and the Board of Governors of the National Hospice Foundation. Clift attended Hunter College and Hofstra University.
February 2, 2016 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Cyberwar and Cybersecurity: Critical Decisions Facing the Next U.S. President
A conversation with Dr. Peter Warren Singer, Strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and founder of NeoLuddite, a technology advisory firm. Dr. Singer is considered a leading expert on changes in 21st-century warfare. He has consulted
for and advised the U.S. Military, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI, the Defense Department, the CIA, and the European Union. Dr. Singer has authored five award-winning books and has provided commentary on security issues for nearly every major TV and radio outlet. He was the youngest scholar named Senior
Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s 98-year history and he was named to Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers List. Singer received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard and a B.A. from the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.
February 11, 2016 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Salam Neighbor, Documentary Film Screening
A film about the experience of two filmmakers as they become registered members of the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Throughout the month they spent there, Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple documented the lives of their displaced neighbors in order to understand this dire humanitarian crisis.
February 25, 2016 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Salam Neighbor: Life in a Syrian Refugee Camp
A conversation with Chris Temple, an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Along with Zach Ingrasci, Temple co-founded Living on One, a studio that creates films to raise awareness of and inspire action around pressing global issues. The duo has created two films: Living on One Dollar, which chronicled their work as radish
farmers surviving on one dollar a day in Guatemala, and Salam Neighbor, which follows their experiences in a Syrian refugee camp. They were the first ever filmmakers allowed by the United Nations to be registered at and given a tent in a refugee camp. The duo has spoken at the United Nations, and they have raised nearly $500,000 directly for micro-finance loans, education scholarships, and refugee services around the world. Temple and Ingrasci graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2012.
February 26, 2016, Kittredge Dining Hall: lunch and lecture 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
How to Stop Groups Like Isis
A lecture by Benedetta Berti who is currently a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a TED Fellow, and lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Berti’s expertise lies in human security, internal conflict, integration of armed groups, post-conflict stabilization and peace-building, and crisis management and prevention. Her research has appeared in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and she commentates in news outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Having worked
within NGOs and research institutes across the globe, she now consults on foreign policy for political risk consulting firms, NGOs, international organizations and governments. In 2015, her native Italian government awarded her the Order of the Star of Italy (order of Knighthood). Berti earned degrees from the University of Bologna (B.A.) and Tufts University (M.A. and Ph.D.).
March 29, 2016 at 7:30 pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
