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“Ending World Hunger: Meeting the Challenge,” Ambassador David Lane
Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
Ambassador David Lane is the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and the chief of the United States Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome, Italy. He has served in leadership roles in President Obama and the President Clinton administrations, including assistant to President Obama, counselor to the chief of staff, and chief of staff to the United States Secretary of Commerce, as well as executive director to the National Economic Council under President Clinton. Previously, he served as president and chief executive officer of the ONE Campaign, an international advocacy organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. During his tenure with the ONE Campaign, he successfully merged two organizations and drove strategic initiatives on issues ranging from food security and effective governance to global health and economic development.
“The Rule of Nobody,” author Philip Howard
Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
Phillip Howard calls “The Rule of Nobody” a guide for how to liberate human ingenuity to meet the challenges of this century. He argues that America has lost the authority needed to support a free society and makes the claim that our government is broken, and from that comes wasteful government spending, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship. Howard concludes that our democracy must be radically simplified and rebuilt on a foundation of individual responsibility and accountability, and calls the book a guide for how to liberate human ingenuity to meet the challenges of this century.
Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Monday, May 12, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
Alex Jones is the director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Laurence M. Lombard lecturer in Press and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1987 while covering the press for the New York Times. His most recent book, “Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy” was published in August 2009 and explored the changing U.S. media landscape and its implications for American democracy. Jones sits on the boards of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, International Center for Journalists, Foundation of the Society of Professional Journalists, Harvard Magazine, the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, along with other professional organizations.
“Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences,” Professor John Hibbing
Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
John Hibbing is a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences.” Hibbing claims our biological predispositions are responsible for a significant portion of the political and ideological conflict that we witness every day. In “Predisposed,” Hibbing presents evidence that people differ politically, not just because they grew up in different cultures or were presented with different information, but because people have diverse psychological, physiological, and genetic traits. These biological differences influence much of what makes people who they are, including their orientations to politics.
“The Jennifer Schuett Case Study”
Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
In August of 1990, Jennifer Schuett was only eight years old when she was kidnapped, brutally raped and left for dead in Dickinson, Texas. Desperate to find her attacker, Schuett collaborated with a local detective and a federal agent in 2008 and one year later, her attacker was captured through DNA evidence. Jennifer Schuett will share her inspiring story of healing in the face of a life-altering attack, as well as a rape survivor’s view of the frustrations and triumphs of working closely with law enforcement on her journey of almost 20 years to seek justice.
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