December 2018
Grant Thornton Member Open House
Thursday, December 13, 2018
November 2018
His Excellency Daniel Mulhall
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Ambassador of Ireland to the U.S.
The Road to the Civil War
Friday, November 2, 2018
Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Leaders: Myth and Reality
Monday, December 3, 2018
General Stanley McChrystal, Founder, McChrystal Group
October 2018
Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution
Monday, October 1, 2018
Ben Fountain, Winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award
Clinton Impeachment: The Independent Counsel’s Memoir
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Ken Starr, Former United States Solicitor General
America’s Place in the World
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Suzy Hansen, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine & Author, Notes on a Foreign Country
America’s Role as Enforcer of Peace and Order
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Robert Kagan, Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Waiting for Eden: A Novel
Friday, October 19, 2018
Elliot Ackerman, Finalist for the National Book Award
Politics and the Press
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Sean Spicer, Twenty-eighth White House Press Secretary and White House Communications Director (2017)
Presidents of War
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian and Bestselling Author
September 2018
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Thursday, September 6, 2018
James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Finding Theo: A Father's True Story of Loss, Courage, and Discovery
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Tim Krause, Author
War in the Cyber Age
Thursday, September 20, 2018
David Sanger, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
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Escape to Freedom
Monday, September 24, 2018
Mohammed Al Samawi, Peace Activist & Author of The Fox Hunt
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Doris Kearns Goodwin, World-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author
Every Day is Extra
Friday, September 28, 2018
The Honorable John Kerry, 68th United States Secretary of State
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H.E. Sardar Masood Khan
Saturday, September 29, 2018
President of Azad Jammu Kashmir
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Music and The Omani Arts Economy
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Dr. Anne Rasmussen (Free Program) Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology, William M. and Annie B. Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; Director, The William and Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble
August 2018
WorldQuest – Japan “Festival at Mount Fuji”
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Colin Allred
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in Texas's 32nd congressional district
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July 2018
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
Monday, July 23, 2018
Sahm Venter, Senior Researcher at the Nelson Mandela Foundation & Journalist Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s Granddaughter & Entrepreneur
June 2018
A New Agenda & Bipartisanship for the Americas & the U.S.
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Christopher Sabatini, Lecturer, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Founder and Executive Director, Global Americans; Editor, www.theglobalamericans.org
Ambassador Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group; Ambassador to Turkey (1994-1997), U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (2011-2012)
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The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
Monday, June 11, 2018
Adm. Jim Stavridis, USN (Ret.), NATO’s 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe and 15th Commander of the U.S. European Command (2009-2013), Head of U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009), Former Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Chief International Security Analyst for NBC News; Operating Executive, The Carlyle Group
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Homelands: The Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Alfredo Corchado, Border-Mexico Correspondent, The Dallas Morning News
Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Permanent Representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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A Memoir of the Obama White House
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Advisor
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American National Security in an Age of Lies
Thursday, June 28, 2018
General Michael V. Hayden, Principal, The Chertoff Group; Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2006 - 2009); Director, National Security Agency (1999 - 2005)
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May 2018
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
Thursday, May 31, 2018
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (2010-2017)
Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Bret Baier, Chief Political Anchor, Fox News Channel; Anchor and Executive Editor, Special Report with Bret Baier
Negotiating the Nonnegotiable and Conflict Resolution
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Dr. Daniel L. Shapiro, Founder and Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program
The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Amir Husain, Entrepreneur and computer scientist; Founder and CEO of SparkCognition, Inc.
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The Changing Future of America’s Global Role: A Debate
Monday, May 14, 2018
Panelists:
Jasen Castillo, Associate Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Loren DeJonge Schulman, Deputy Director of Studies, Center for a New American Security
Ted Piccone, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy at Brookings
Anna Simmons, Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
Gregory Hellman, Defense Reporter, POLITICO (moderator)
The Soul of America: Battle for Our Better Angels
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Lion, Franklin and Winston and Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director, International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Pakistan-U.S. Bilateral Relations
Monday, May 7, 2018
His Excellency Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the U.S.
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The Final Year: Screening and Discussion
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Greg Barker - Director and Producer, The Final Year;
Ned Price - Former Special Assistant to the President, Spokesperson; Senior Director, National Security Council, The White House
April 2018
Taming the Sun
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Varun Sivaram, Philip D. Reed fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relation
Dueling Views of the Cold War's End
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Jeffrey Engel, Director, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Amherst College
Moderators: Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton, principals with George Washington University’s National Security Archive
American Influence: The Cost of American Nationalism
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
James Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at the Council on Foreign Relations
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The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant Today
Friday, April 6, 2018
Jorge Ramos, Writer and Journalist and winner of eight Emmy awards
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March 2018
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States
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Hacking, Fake News, Cyber Security: Their Impact on American Elections
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
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The Art of the Deal: Our Foreign Policy One Year Later
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Casimir Yost, Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
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South Korea: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
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His Excellency Armando Varricchio
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Ambassador of Italy to the U.S.
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February 2018
Our Time Has Come: India’s Place in the World
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations
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2018 International Educator of the Year Luncheon
Monday, February 19, 2018
President Vicente Fox, President of Mexico (2000-2006)
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The Line Becomes a River
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Francisco Cantu, Agent, United States Border Patrol (2008-2012); former Fulbright fellow; recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2017 Whiting Award
His Excellency Madjid Bouguerra
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
His Excellency Madjid Bouguerra, Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to the United States
January 2018
A Humpty Dumpty Europe
Friday, January 26, 2018
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
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Destined for War? The Future of the American and Chinese Relationship
Friday, January 19, 2018
Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
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