2011-2012 Public Programs
April 19, 2012
The Portman Lecture in the Spirit of EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship and the Future of the Global Economy
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
5:15 PM
Carl J. SchrammPresident, Schramm & Company
Bush Fellow, George W. Bush Institute
Visiting Scientist, MIT
Carl J. Schramm is recognized internationally as a leading authority on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. For 10 years he served as president of the Kauffman Foundation making it into the world's premier organization dedicated to the development of high-growth firms and understanding the role they play in economic growth. Under his leadership, Kauffman became the largest private funder of economic research related to growth and innovation. Dr. Schramm currently serves as a visiting scientist at MIT and is a fellow at the Bush Institute. He is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schramm co-founded the Obama Administration's Start Up America initiative. He chaired the U.S. Department of Commerce Committee on Measuring Innovation during the Bush administration. He advises government leaders worldwide on economic growth including service on the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council chaired by the Prime Minister of Singapore.
April 23, 2012
North Korea—China: A Modern Day Underground Railroad
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Mike Kim
Human Rights Activist and Author
Founder, Crossing Borders
Mike Kim is an author, consultant, NGO founder, and North Korean specialist based in Washington D.C. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal-featured book Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country, a current events memoir about his experiences at the China-North Korea border helping North Koreans escape the regime. Kim gave up his financial planning business and left for China on a one-way ticket, carrying little more than two duffle bags. While living near the North Korean border, he operated undercover as a student of North Korean taekwondo, training and competing under two famous North Korean masters from Pyongyang — eventually receiving a second-degree blackbelt. During his time in China, he learned of the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans fleeing to China through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad, which runs from Pronyang to Bangkok, in search of food and freedom. He has successfully led sex trafficking victims to safety in Southeast Asia using drug trafficking routes in the region and has had many harrowing experiences, including interrogation, house arrest, and being held at gunpoint. He founded Crossing Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to North Korean refugees, has testified at a U.S. congressional hearing, and has been a long-time contributor to the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report.
April 27, 2012
Democracy at the Local Level: 25 Years of Lessons and Some Questions
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Brian Walsh '65
Former Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Hanover, NH
Brian Walsh is the former Chairman of the Board of Selectmen in Hanover, NH. He served on the Board from 1996 to 2011. In his business career, he was the founder and original CEO of three technology start-ups including Fujifilm Dimatix (originally Spectra, Inc) of Lebanon, NH. Currently he is a Director of Americans for Campaign Reform and the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies as well as the Community Member of the Quality Council at Dartmouth Hitchcock. He has also served on the Hanover Planning Board, and numerous other boards of for profit and not-for-profit organizations. He is an inventor on a number of patents and has authored numerous proprietary papers. Walsh is a painter. As an artist, through his watercolor paintings, he seeks to portray the beauty of our earth's special times and places: 10 percent of the proceeds from the sale of his works is donated to non-profit organizations working to protect the environment.
May 1, 2012
Class of 1930 Fellow LectureThe Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Theda SkocpolVictor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
(Photo credit: Martha Stewart)
Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. At Harvard, she has served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2005-2007) and as Director of the Center for American Political Studies (2000-2006). In 1996, Skocpol served as President of the Social Science History Association and, in 2002-2003, she served as President of the American Political Science Association. Skocpol has also been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. Her work covers a broad spectrum of topics including both comparative politics (States and Social Revolutions, 1979) and American politics (Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, 1992). Skocpol's research focuses on U.S. social policy and civic engagement in American democracy. Her books and articles have been widely cited in political science literature and have won numerous awards. Skocpol's research focuses on U.S. social policy and civic engagement in American democracy. Her most recent books are Health Care Reform and American Politics (2010, with Lawrence R. Jacobs), Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama’s First Two Years (2011, co-edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs), and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (2011, with Vanessa Williamson).
May 3, 2012
The Stephen R. Volk '57 Lecture - Honoring "Law Day"
The Separation of Powers and the Executive's Defense of Congressional Enactments
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
Solicitor General of the United States, U.S. Department of Justice
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. is the 46th Solicitor General of the United States. Verrilli previously served as Deputy Counsel to President Obama and as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to his government service, he was a partner for many years in Jenner & Block, and co-chaired the firm’s Supreme Court practice. He handled numerous cases in the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals, including MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, which established that companies building businesses based on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works can be liable for inducing infringement; and Wiggins v. Smith, which established principles governing the right to effective assistance of counsel at capital sentencing. Verrilli maintained an active pro bono practice throughout his career in private practice, and received several awards for his efforts. He also taught First Amendment law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School from 1992 through 2008. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. On January 26, 2011, President Obama nominated Verrilli to succeed Elena Kagan as Solicitor General after she was sworn into the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. On June 6, he was confirmed by the Senate in a 72–16 vote, and on June 9, 2011, Verrilli was sworn in as Solicitor General of the United States.
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
May 4, 2012
Law Day Celebration
Law Day Panel
The Separation of Powers: A Debate
Room 002, Rockefeller Center
3:00 PM
Moderator:
Sonu Bedi
Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
Panelists:
John Greabe '85Professor of Law
University of New Hampshire School of Law
John M. Greabe '85 is a professor of law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and an expert in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, federal courts and jurisdiction, appellate practice and procedure, civil rights, conflict of laws, and criminal procedure. Prior to UNH, Greabe was a professor at Vermont Law School. Greabe has served as law clerk to Judges Jeffrey R. Howard, Norman H. Stahl, and Hugh H. Bownes of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Greabe also served as law clerk to United States District Court Judges Paul J. Barbadoro and W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., and to Magistrate Judge James R. Muirhead. He has a legal practice that focuses on federal appeals and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits; and the United States District Courts for the Districts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Greabe is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Capital Region Food Program. Greabe earned his BA in classics, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1985, and his JD from Harvard Law School in 1988.
Hon. Paul Hodes '72
Former U.S. Congressman (2007-2011, D-NH)
A native of New York City, Paul has spent most of his life in New Hampshire practicing law and pursuing community and public service. He began his legal career in 1978 under former United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter in the criminal justice division of the New Hampshire Attorney General's office. As an Assistant Attorney General for New Hampshire, he pursued a series of successful homicide prosecutions and was lead counsel on the first successful environmental prosecution against polluters. He continued his service as the Special Prosecutor for the State of New Hampshire where he led the successful prosecution of the largest white-collar fraud scheme up to that date in the state's history, the "Stewart-Meyers" case. In 1983, he entered private practice, successfully practicing in the fields of personal injury, criminal defense, civil litigation, divorce and family law and entertainment law. He joined Shaheen & Gordon in 1996. With the support of his partners and the firm, Congressman Hodes ran for the United States Congress in 2004. Hewas elected to Congress in 2006, and became the President of the historic 2006 freshman class. Congressman Hodes served on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Oversight, where he focused on understanding how to make markets work better and institutions function more effectively in the wake of the financial collapse of 2008. During his time in Congress, Paul successfully passed new laws and provisions in health insurance, economic development, small business, veterans' services, and financial services. He created the Northern Border Development commission, a federal-state partnership that funds economic development in the North Country of New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and New York. He wrote and passed Michelle's Law, which ensures that college kids who get seriously ill will be able to stay on their parents' insurance. He passed expanded depreciation rules to help small businesses invest in equipment and expand. And he helped to craft a series of reforms to induce greater investment in green building and the creation of financial instruments that support renewable energy investment.
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
Solicitor General of the United States, U.S. Department of Justice
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. is the 46th Solicitor General of the United States. Verrilli previously served as Deputy Counsel to President Obama and as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to his government service, he was a partner for many years in Jenner & Block, and co-chaired the firm's Supreme Court practice. He handled numerous cases in the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals, including MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, which established that companies building businesses based on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works can be liable for inducing infringement; and Wiggins v. Smith, which established principles governing the right to effective assistance of counsel at capital sentencing. Verrilli maintained an active pro bono practice throughout his career in private practice, and received several awards for his efforts. He also taught First Amendment law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School from 1992 through 2008. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. On January 26, 2011, President Obama nominated Verrilli to succeed Elena Kagan as Solicitor General after she was sworn into the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. On June 6, he was confirmed by the Senate in a 72–16 vote, and on June 9, 2011, Verrilli was sworn in as Solicitor General of the United States.
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
Law Day Celebration
How Do You Combine Public Service with a Law Career?
Room 002, Rockefeller Center
4:15-5:15 pm
Moderator:
Alexandra Meise Bay '01
Associate, Foley Hoag LLP, Washington, DC
Alexandra Meise Bay is an associate in the Washington office of Foley Hoag LLP and a member of the International Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group. She has substantial experience in international litigation matters, particularly in post-conflict regions, and has represented foreign governments, international corporate clients, and sovereign officials in state courts, federal district courts, federal courts of appeals, international commercial arbitrations, and investment treaty arbitrations. She has worked for prosecutors and judicial chambers in international criminal tribunals. Prior to joining Foley Hoag, Xander worked at a major international law firm in Washington, D.C., served as a clerk on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and volunteered with the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia under the auspices of the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Tribunals. She has also worked for an international political development organization in countries such as Yemen, Bosnia and Albania, and for the U.S. State Department in Switzerland, Spain and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Her pro bono work has included representing asylum seekers in United States immigration proceedings and facilitating the incorporation of international non-profit organizations.
Panelists:
Leah Threatte Bojnowski '01
Associate, Nixon Peabody LLP, Albany, NY
Leah Bojnowski is an Associate at Nixon Peabody in Albany, NY, and is a member of the Financial Services and Securities Litigation Practice Group. She represents clients in various areas of law, including commercial disputes, arbitration matters, class action defense, white collar crime, regulatory investigations, insurance, securities, and antitrust matters in state and federal courts. She has also represented several clients on a pro bono basis in family court and immigration matters. She is chairman of the Board at the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Health Center.
Todd Cranford '85
Of Counsel, Patton Boggs, Washington, D.C.
As Of Council at Patten Boggs LLD, Todd Cranford draws from his extensive experience in the public sector and with securities and financial services issues to assist clients on matters related to public policy, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement, capital markets, and corporate governance, among other matters. Cranford's government experience gives him an insider's understanding that allows him to advance his clients' interests and help to see that their needs are being addressed by Congress. Before joining Patton Boggs, Mr. Cranford was Senior Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, advising Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) and other members on a breadth of substantive policy and legal issues coming before the committee. Specifically, he dealt with mutual fund reform, implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002, hedge funds, oversight of national securities exchanges, and credit rating agencies, while also focusing on market structure issues and securities arbitration.
Craig Nolan '90
Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Assistant United States Attorney Craig S. Nolan is Rutland Branch Chief and Lead Attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force in the District of Vermont. Since joining the Department of Justice in January 2007, Nolan has prosecuted a variety of victim and non-victim cases and currently serves as lead counsel in the prosecution of a capital kidnapping and child pornography production case. Previously, Nolan was State's Attorney for Washington County, Vermont, and Deputy State's Attorney for Lamoille County, Vermont. As a state prosecutor, he prosecuted thousands of victim crimes, including homicides and sexual assaults. Before becoming a prosecutor in 2002, Mr. Nolan clerked for the late Hon. Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Terrence W. Boyle of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and practiced with leading law firms in Burlington, Vermont and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
Solicitor General of the United States, U.S. Department of Justice
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. is the 46th Solicitor General of the United States. Verrilli previously served as Deputy Counsel to President Obama and as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to his government service, he was a partner for many years in Jenner & Block, and co-chaired the firm's Supreme Court practice. He handled numerous cases in the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals, including MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, which established that companies building businesses based on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works can be liable for inducing infringement; and Wiggins v. Smith, which established principles governing the right to effective assistance of counsel at capital sentencing. Verrilli maintained an active pro bono practice throughout his career in private practice, and received several awards for his efforts. He also taught First Amendment law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School from 1992 through 2008. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. On January 26, 2011, President Obama nominated Verrilli to succeed Elena Kagan as Solicitor General after she was sworn into the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. On June 6, he was confirmed by the Senate in a 72–16 vote, and on June 9, 2011, Verrilli was sworn in as Solicitor General of the United States.
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
May 7, 2012
The Solicitor General: From the Japanese American Internment to Health Care
Room 028, Silsby Hall
4:30 PM
Neal Katyal '91
Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown Law School
Director, Center on National Security and the Law
Neal Katyal, the Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University, focuses on constitutional law, criminal law, and intellectual property law. He has served as Acting Solicitor General of the U.S., where he argued several major Supreme Court cases involving a variety of issues, such as his successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, his victorious defense of former Attorney General John Ashcroft for alleged abuses in the war on terror, and his unanimous victory against eight states who sued the nation's leading power plants for contributing to global warming. He served as Counsel of Record hundreds of times, and orally argued 15 U.S. Supreme Court cases, as well as numerous others in lower courts. He was also the only head of the Office of the Solicitor General to argue a case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on the important question of whether certain aspects of the human genome were patentable. While teaching at Georgetown, Katyal won Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case that challenged the policy of military trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. Katyal previously served as National Security Adviser in the U.S. Justice Department and was commissioned by President Clinton to write a report on the need for more legal pro bono work. He also served as Vice President Al Gore's co-counsel in the Supreme Court election dispute of 2000, and represented the deans of most major private law schools in the landmark University of Michigan affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger (2003). Katyal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as well as Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Katyal is the recipient of the very highest award given to a civilian by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Edmund Randolph Award, which the Attorney General presented to him in 2011.
May 14, 2012
The Bernard D. Nossiter '47 Lecture
The Fine Line Between Science and Politics
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Samiha Shafy
International Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Science writer, Der Spiegel
Samiha Shafy has worked as a science reporter for Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, since 2007, covering new developments in the fields of science, environment, energy, water, climate, public health, and their political and social implications. A Swiss citizen based in Hamburg, Germany, she reports from all over the world, but most frequently from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Her journalistic career started after her graduation from high school in 1999 with an internship at a local Swiss newspaper. She worked both as a freelancer and a staff writer for major Swiss and German publications such as Tages-Anzeiger, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Welt, and Geo, before moving to Berlin, Germany, to co-develop the German Vanity Fair,in 2006. She holds a master degree in Environmental Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where she studied biomedicine, aquatic systems, sociology, and environmental economics. Currently, she is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Co-sponsored Programs
April 9, 2012
Doing Better than "Do No Harm": Elevating Human Rights through an International Development Lens
Collis Common Ground
4:30 PM
Chloe Schwenke
Senior Advisor on Demopcracy, Human Rights and Governance and on LGBT Policy at the Africa Bureau of USAID
Dr. Schwenke currently serves as the Senior Advisor on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance at the Africa Bureau of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is a senior political appointment by the Obama Administration. She has three decades experience as a development project manager and ethics advisor in developing countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, and especially Africa. In previous employment, she has worked with Creative Associates International (2007-2009), Management Systems International (2000-2005) and at the Louis Berger Group (1992-2000). Schwenke also recently served as an Adjunct Professor teaching international development and applied ethics at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park. She remains on the adjunct faculty at at the Liberal Studies Program at Georgetown University and at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
Co-sponsored by: African & African American Studies, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity, Tucker Foundation, Center for Women and Gender, Dickey Center, Ethics Institute, Women and Gender Studies, OPAL
In support of Dartmouth Centers Forum theme: Words and Their Consequences
April 12, 2012
Ad Fontes Forum
Too Many Holes or Not Enough Net? Sustainability & Solvency of American Health Care
Moore Theatre
4:30 PM
Panelists:
Elliott Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Dartmouth Medical School
Dr. Fisher is the James W. Squires Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Director for Population Health and Policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He is also Co-Director of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. His early research focused on exploring the causes of the two fold differences in spending observed across U.S. regions and on understanding the implications of these variations for health and health care. His recent work has focused on developing policy approaches to slowing the growth of health care spending while improving quality. He was one of the originators of the concept of "accountable care organizations" (ACOs), and is now leading, with Mark McClellan, a joint Brookings-Dartmouth program to advance ACOs through research, coordination of public and private initiatives and the creation of a learning collaborative that includes pilot ACO sites across the U.S. He is also working with multiple stakeholders to accelerate the adoption and implementation of more robust measures of health outcomes, care experience, decision-quality and costs to support both practice improvement and performance measurement.
John Goodman, Ph.D.
President and CEO, National Center for Policy Analysis, TX
John C. Goodman is president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis. He is widely known as the "Father of Health Savings Accounts" and Modern Healthcare named him as one of four people who have most influenced the modern health care system. He is also the Kellye Wright Fellow in health care. The mission of the Wright Fellowship is to promote a more patient-centered, consumer-driven health care system. He frequently testifies before Congress on health care reform and retirement topics and is the author of more than 50 published studies and 10 books, including Lives at Risk: Single Payer National Health Insurance Around the World; Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws; and the trailblazing Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis, the condensed version of which sold more than 30,000 copies. Dr. Goodman regularly appears on the FOX News Channel, CNN, FOX Business Network and CNBC. He was a debater on many of William F. Buckley's Firing Line programs. He is also a frequent editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, the Health Affairs blog, and Townhall.com.
Patrice A. Harris, M.D.
Trustee, American Medical Association
Director of Health Services for Fulton County, GA
Patrice Harris, MD, who has diverse experience as a private practicing physician, public health administrator, patient advocate and medical society lobbyist, was elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees in June 2011. Active in organized medicine her entire career, Dr. Harris has served on the board of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and was an APA delegate to the AMA. She has also been a member of the governing council of the AMA Women Physicians Congress, and has served on AMA work groups on health information technology, SGR and private contracting. The AMA-BOT appointed her to the AMA Council on Legislation in 2003, and she was elected by the council to be its 2010–2011 chair. Dr. Harris has held many positions at the state level as well, including serving on the board and as president of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association and on the Medical Association of Georgia's Council on Legislation and Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. She was also the founding president of the Georgia psychiatry political action committee. Currently, Dr. Harris is the director of Health Services for Fulton County, GA. She directs all county health services, including health partnerships that deliver a wide range of public safety, behavioral health and primary care treatment and prevention services.
Moderator:
Ellen Meara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rockefeller Center
Ellen Meara is an Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. After earning her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, she spent 11 years on the faculty of the department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School before joining TDI in 2010. She teaches the undergraduate course, Health Policy Reform and she co-teaches Health Economics and Policy in the Masters in Health Care Delivery Science program. Mearaʼs research examines trends in medical spending and health outcomes in the U.S. and the interaction of public policy and health outcomes. Much of this research has focused on medically vulnerable populations such as Medicaid enrollees, the uninsured and individuals with mental and substance use disorders.
Co-sponsored by: Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of Faculty, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Sciences
April 16, 2012
A Scientist in the White House: Reducing Youth Drug Use as a National ImperativeRoom 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Bertha Madras
Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School
Former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Hosted by: Chabad at Dartmouth; co-sponsored by the Office of the President, Department of Sociology, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, and Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity
May 1, 2012
Growth Is Better than Austerity: The Origins of Bretton Woods
Room 028, Silsby Hall
3:00 PM
Eric Rauchway
Professor of History, University of California-Davis
Why does the United States pick the head of the World Bank instead of the International Monetary Fund? Does a high ranking US Treasury official who was feeding information to the Soviet Union have something to do with it? Professor Rauchway will discuss his forthcoming book on the origins of the Bretton Woods system, the framework governing the world economy from the late 1940s until the early 1970s, which was negotiated at the New Hampshire resort in 1944.
May 9, 2012
Israelis and Palestinians: Is There Any Hope?Room 105, Dartmouth Hall
4:30 PM
Panelists:
David Makovsky
Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director, The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process
David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process. He is also an adjunct lecturer in Middle Eastern studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Mr. Makovsky is the coauthor with Dennis Ross of the 2009 book Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East (Viking/Penguin). Mr. Makovsky is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. His commentary on the peace process and the Arab-Israeli conflict has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.
Ghaith Al-Omari
Advocacy Director, American Task Force in Palestine (ATFP)
Ghaith Al-Omari is advocacy director at the American Task Force in Palestine (ATFP). Prior to that, he served in various positions within the Palestinian Authority, including director of the International Relations Department in the Office of the Palestinian President, and advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. In these capacities, he provided advice on foreign policy -- especially vis-à -vis the United States and Israel -- and security. He has extensive experience in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, having been an advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team throughout the permanent status negotiations (1999–2001). In that capacity, he participated in various negotiating rounds, most notably the Camp David summit and the Taba talks. After the breakdown of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, he was the lead Palestinian drafter of the Geneva Initiative, an unofficial model peace agreement negotiated between leading Palestinian and Israeli public figures. Mr. al-Omari is a lawyer by training and a graduate of Georgetown and Oxford universities. Prior to his involvement in the Middle East peace process, he taught international law in Jordan and was active in human rights advocacy.
Moderator:
Daryl PressAssociate Professor of Government
Professor Press is the author of Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats, a book on decision-making during crises (Cornell University Press, 2005). He has published scholarly articles in International Security, Security Studies, and China Security, as well as articles for a wider audience in Foreign Affairs, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times. Professor Press has worked as a consultant for the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense, and is a research affiliate at the Security Studies Program at MIT. He also serves as an Associate Editor at the journal International Security. Professor Press is currently writing a book (with Keir Lieber, Georgetown University) on nuclear deterrence - during the Cold War and the future - as well as a series of articles (with Eugene Gholz, UT Austin) on energy and security. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Sponsored by the Tamara Friedman Nixon and Daniel D. Nixon '55 Fund in Support of the Scholar-in-Residence at Dartmouth College Hillel, Dartmouth College Hillel, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, and The William Jewett Tucker Foundation.
May 16, 2012
Volunteering in the Developing World: Who Helps Whom?
Haldeman 041
5:30 pm
A Panel Dissecting the Controversy of Who Benefits
Moderator:
Sadhana W. Hall
Deputy Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Sadhana Hall is Deputy Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. She has more than 20 years of experience in health and development including strategic planning, staff and program management, financial planning, program development, community needs assessment, implementation, evaluation, and customer relations. Hall has developed programs targeted toward addressing public policy issues and has designed, developed, implemented, monitored, evaluated, and managed community development programs in Tuvalu, Bhutan, and the Caucasus. Her experience also includes managing primary health care programs for the state of New Hampshire. Hall has directed three annual conferences for a nonprofit organization with 1,500 participants representing 80 countries and served as a liaison for the Peace Corps volunteers program in the Pacific. Hall holds a B.S. from the University of Delhi, India; an M.A. from the University of Rajasthan, India; and an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health.
Panelists:
Megan Brooks
Executive Director, Volunteers for Peace
Meg had her first taste of international travel when she was selected as an International 4-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) representative from Vermont in 1988 and was sent for 8 months to Taiwan where she lived and worked with local farmers. Since 1989, Meg has been actively involved with VFP including organizing and assisting with international workcamps in Vermont and around the USA as US Program Coordinator (1999-2000); placing thousands of volunteers oversees as Outgoing Placement Coordinator (1989-1993); as Co-Director (1990-1993) organizing and facilitating programs in the former Soviet Union, as well as living there for almost 5 years; and as a member of the Board of Directors since 2001. She is an active participant in many local non-profit and social service organizations, a regular host of international visitors and often presents cultural information at schools and fairs. She has a B.S. in Management and Leadership with a Russian minor (1995) and a M.S. in Education (2010) from St. Michael's College and extensive board and non-profit experience.
Bernie Benn
Peace Corps, Tunisia
Mr. Benn served in the Peace Corps from 1965-1967, with the Ministry of Public Works in Tunisia. While there, he designed and constructed New Town "El Kantaoui", constructed prototype contemporary mosque, and developed curriculum for and founded the first school to teach architectural skills to high school dropouts. He is currently an architect, BL Benn Architects. In addition, he serves as a NH State Representative (2000-present; Assistant Democratic Leader, Finance Committee, Public Works Committee).
Stella Safari '13
Democratic Republic of Congo
May 29, 2012
Internal Palestinian Politics
Carson L01
5:00 pm
Barak Barfi
Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Barak Barfi is a research fellow with the New America Foundation, specializing in Arab and Islamic affairs. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, New Republic, Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, and CTC Sentinel, in addition to being regular featured in Project Syndicate. He is also a frequent commentator on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Fox News, and France 24, and has testified before Congress about the threats posed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. A former visiting fellow with the Brookings Institution, he spent six months in Libya during the revolution.
With the Middle East peace process frozen and the region adrift, many commentators have blamed Israel for the lack of progress. Lost in the debate are the internal difficulties and challenges facing the Palestinian national movement. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are under the control of different political factions. The jockeying for power within the Fatah organization and the Islamist Hamas movement has paralyzed the Palestinian territories. Join us as New America Foundation Research Fellow Barak Barfi explores the challenges perpetuating the divisions within Palestinian politics. Barak lived in the region for several years and has met the major political players on both sides of this intra-Palestinian conflict.
Hosted by CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, and Dartmouth Students for Israel (DSI), with support from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Winter 2012 Rockefeller Center Public Programs
January 9, 2012
A Pre NH Primary Event
America at a Crossroads: The Fiscal Challenges and a Way Forward
4:30 PM
Hon. David M. Walker
Founder and CEO, Comeback America Initiative
Former Comptroller General of the United States
David Walker is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI, where he leads CAI's efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and sustainability by engaging the public and assisting key policymakers on a nonpartisan basis to help achieve solutions to America's federal, state, and local fiscal imbalances. Previously, he served as the first President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Walker served as the seventh U.S. Comptroller General and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (1998-2008). This was one of Walker's three presidential appointments, each by different Presidents during his 15 years of total federal service. He also has more than 20 years of private sector experience, including as a Partner and Global Managing Director of Human Capital Services for Arthur Andersen LLP. Walker serves on the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee (Chairman), the Boards for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Advisory Committees for The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Peterson Foundation. He has authored three books, with the latest one entitled Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (2010). He is a frequent writer and media commentator, and is a subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A.
January 12, 2012
The William Timbers '37 LectureOur Foreign Affairs Constitution: The President, Congress, and the Making of International Law
Room 2, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Co-sponosred by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
Oona Hathaway
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School. She has served as a Law Clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and for D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald, held fellowships at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Center for the Ethics and the Professions, served as Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law, as Associate Professor at Yale Law School, and as Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Her current research focuses on the intersection of U.S. constitutional law and international law, the enforcement of domestic and international law, and the law of war. Professor Hathaway received the Carnegie Scholars Award in 2004, is a Professor (by courtesy) of the Yale University Department of Political Science, is Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, serves on the Executive Committee of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State, has testified before Congress several times on legal issues surrounding the U.S. war in Iraq, and consults regularly with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on current issues of constitutional and international law.
February 3, 2012
A Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration EventWhy Civil Resistance Works: Nonviolence in the Past and Future
Room 3, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Prof. Erica Chenoweth
Assistant Professor of Government, and Director of the Program on Terrorism and Insurgency Research, Wesleyan University
Erica Chenoweth is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and director of Wesleyan’s Program on Terrorism and Insurgency Research. Professor Chenoweth is currently a Visiting Scholar at both the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Previously, she has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Maryland. Professor Chenoweth is an authority on terrorism, nonviolent resistance, and counterterrorism. Her three books include: Why Democracy Encourages Terrorism (under contract with Columbia University Press); Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict(Columbia University Press, 2011) with Maria J. Stephan of the U.S. State Department; and Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict (MIT Press, 2010) with Adria Lawrence of Yale. The author of dozens of scholarly and popular articles, she hosts a blog called Rational Insurgent and is an occasional blogger at The Monkey Cage and Duck of Minerva. Chenoweth teaches courses on international relations, terrorism, civil war, and contemporary warfare. She was honored as the 2010 recipient of the Carol Baker Memorial Prize for junior faculty excellence in teaching and research at Wesleyan.
February 8, 2012
The New U.S. Political Economy
Room 028, Silsby Hall
4:00 PM
Dr. Peter Orszag
Vice Chairman of Global Banking, Citigroup, Inc.
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Contributing Columnist, Bloomberg View
Former Director, Office of Management and Budget, Obama Administration
Peter R. Orszag is Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, Inc., and a member of the Senior Strategic Advisory Group there. He is also a Contributing Columnist at Bloomberg View and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining Citigroup in January 2011, he served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Contributing Columnist at The New York Times. Dr. Orszag previously served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration from January 2009 until July 2010. In that Cabinet-level role, he oversaw the Administration's budget policy, coordinated the implementation of major policy initiatives throughout the federal government, and reviewed federal regulatory action, among other responsibilities. From January 2007 to December 2008, Dr. Orszag was the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), supervising the agency's work in providing objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses of economic and budgetary issues. Under his leadership, the agency significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change. Prior to CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project, Director of the Retirement Security Project, and Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center. During the Clinton Administration, he was a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and, before that, a staff economist and then Senior Advisor and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Orszag has also founded and subsequently sold an economics consulting firm.
February 15, 2012
The Brooks Family LectureHealthcare Litigation: U.S. States v. U.S. Government
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
E. Duncan Getchell, Jr.
Solicitor General of Virginia
Earle Duncan Getchell, Jr., is currently the Solicitor General of Virginia, working in the Office of the Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli since 2009. Mr. Getchell worked previously with the Chair Appellate Practice Group at McGuireWoods, L.L.P. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.Mr. Getchell was an invited participant in the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice, and was Adjunct Professor at the Marshall Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary during the Spring 2009 semester, teaching legislative redistricting. He has served as Special Counsel for: the Commonwealth of Virginia, defending the 2001 redistricting at trial and on appeal; the National Gambling Impact Study Commission; and the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. In 2007, President George W. Bush nominated him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Getchell graduated with a B.A. from Emory University, and with a J.D. fromDuke University Law School, where he was on the staff and editorial board of the Duke University Law Review. He was in the Air Force Honors Program and attained the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force, detached to the Office of General Council Secretary of the Air Force.
February 27, 2012
Congress to Campus Public Program
What Is Wrong (and Right) with Congress
Room 001, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
A Critique by Two Former Congresswomen
Moderated by Professor Ron ShaikoResearch Associate Professor of Government
Senior Fellow, Associate Director of Curricular Programs of Rockefeller Center
Former Congresswoman Beverly Byron (D-MD)
Hon. Beverly Byron served as Congresswoman for Maryland from 1979-1993. Throughout her long and distinguished career, Byron was respected for her ability to reach across the aisle and make legislative compromises with members of both parties. Her specific interests focused on military policy, where she served as head of the Armed Services subcommittee and chaired the House Special Panel on Arms Control and Disarmament.
Former Congresswoman Sue Kelly (R-NY)
Hon. Sue Kelly served as Congresswoman for New York from 1995-2007. She used her time in office to focus on corporate accountability, serving on the Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. She cosponsored the Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Reform bill aimed at stricter corporate accountability, and in 2004 founded the Congressional Anti-Terrorist Financing Task Force to combat the financiers of terrorist cells. Kelly also served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and championed women’s rights as the chief House sponsor of the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998.
Co-Sponsored Programs
February 13, 2012
Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Still Possible?
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:00 PM
Co-sponsored with J Street U
Dr. Gershon Baskin
Co-Chairman, Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
Gershon Baskin, Ph.D., was the initiator and the person responsible for the secret back channel between Israel and the Hamas that successfully negotiated the release of Israeli abducted soldier Gilead Schalit. He is the founder and co-director for 24 years of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) in Jerusalem. Dr. Baskin is an author and columnist for Jerusalem Post, a radio talk show host on All for Peace Radio, and has served as advisor to two Israeli Prime Ministers on peace process issues.
Fall 2011 Rockefeller Center Public Programs
September 17, 2011
Constitution Day
Read about the virtual event - with a YouTube playlist of past lectures, educational resources, and an online US Constitution Quiz
October 11, 2011
Republican Presidential Debate
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
8 - 10 PM
October 17, 2011
Dartmouth Global Health Ethics Conference
Co-sponsored event
October 27, 2011
Injustice On Our Plates: Understanding the Plight of Immigrant Women Employed in the U.S. Food Industry
Room 1, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Mónica RamÃrez
Director and Senior Staff Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center
Mónica RamÃrez is the director of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a project dedicated to eradicating sexual violence and gender discrimination against farmworker and low-wage immigrant women. She is a Senior Staff Attorney with SPLC's Immigrant Justice Project. The daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, Ramirez has been a farmworker and immigrant rights advocate for more than 15 years – representing them in court and organizing a national working group to address these issues. She is the co-editor and author of selected chapters of Representing Farmworker Women Who Have Been Sexually Harassed: A Best Practices Manual and co-author of a report called Injustice On Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry.
November 11, 2011
A Lecture in Honor of Veterans Day
Remembering Those "who have borne the battle"
Room 3, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
James Wright
President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College
James Wright has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since he joined the History Department in 1969. The 16th president of Dartmouth, he is now President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History. Professor Wright has worked with veterans since 2005, when he visited wounded Marines in Washington, D.C. hospitals. He has continued to visit military hospitals since then. A Marine at the age of 17, Wright was a first-generation college graduate with a BA degree from Wisconsin State University-Platteville, and masters and doctoral degrees from UW, Madison. He has received numerous awards for his work in education and with veterans. He has spoken at veterans' and other programs, including remarks at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington on Veterans Day 2009. Wright serves on the Board of the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and is a member of the New Hampshire Civics Education Task Force. He has completed a book, Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them, which will be published in Spring 2012.
November 16, 2011
The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture
The Role of Law in International Human Rights Advocacy
Silsby 028
4:30 PM
Stephanie Farrior
Director of International and Comparative Law Programs and Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Stephanie Farrior is Professor of Law and Director of International and Comparative Law Programs at Vermont Law School. She has taught international law courses at Oxford, George Washington, American and Pennsylvania State universities, and was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown and Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. Professor Farrior is former Legal Director and general counsel of Amnesty International (AI), based at its International Secretariat in London. She oversaw AI's legal work during the Pinochet extradition hearings, met with then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and worked closely with numerous United Nations human rights bodies. Her research focuses on issues of discrimination, state responsibility for human rights abuses by non-state actors, and the work of international human rights monitoring bodies.