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2012-2013 Public Programs

April 9, 2013

Rough Side of the Mountain: A Conversation Featuring Dr. G.B. Burt
Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center
4:30 pm

Reception to follow

Co-sponsored with the Hopkins Center for the Arts, in support of the Year of the Arts at Dartmouth

Dr. G.B. Burt
76-year-old Alabama bluesman and twelve-string guitarist, former Civil Rights-era activist

Moderator:
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography, Dartmouth College

In a special interview with Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Dr. G.B. Burt shares stories of his distinctive music-making, his Civil Rights era activism, the link between music and social activism, and why living on the "rough side" of the mountain allows him to hold onto the truth.

April 12, 2013

The Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship
What is Online Learning?
Room 003, Rockfeller Center
4:30 PM

Chip Paucek
CEO, 2U Inc.

Chip Paucek is 2U's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. After graduating from The George Washington University with a bachelor's degree in political communication, Paucek founded Cerebellum Corporation, the company behind the award-winning educational Standard Deviants television program. Standard Deviants was distributed on over 100 PBS stations and was selected by TV Guide/Today Show as the top show for kids. After leading Cerebellum Corporation for a decade, Paucek co-managed the re-election campaign of U.S. Senator from Maryland, Barbara Mikulski. Senator Mikulski won the election in a landslide and set a state record for campaign contributions. Paucek then returned to education as the CEO of Hooked on Phonics and expanded access to the program by bringing it from infomercial sales to distribution across major U.S. retailers. His innovative work at 2U earned him the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year 2012 Award, and in 2012 he was invited to be on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Education & Skills. When not managing 2U, Paucek is most likely on his boat in the Chesapeake Bay with his wife, Gabrielle, and two sons. Chip is currently obtaining his MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

April 15, 2013

The Portman Lecture Series
Private Answers To Public Challenges: Innovating Market Solutions to Humanitarian and Social Problems
Room 003, Rockfeller Center
4:30 PM

Binta Brown
World Economic Forum Global Leader; Humanitarian; Council on Foreign Relations Term Member; Strategist

Binta Niambi Brown is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group of the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has represented corporate clients in connection with merger and acquisition transactions, public and private debt and equity offerings, and secured debt financings. Fortune magazine listed her on its list of business's 40 under 40 "hottest rising stars," and the World Economic Forum honored her as a Young Global Leader in early 2012. Binta was the only lawyer in private practice in North America honored as a Young Global Leader in 2012, and on the October 2012 Fortune 40 under 40 list. She was an informal national security adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, where she focused in particular on human rights and international institutions. Binta is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Truman National Security Fellow. Her pro bono practice has included advocating on behalf of women and girls, assisting with democratic institution-building and rule-of-law reforms, and engaging in other human rights matters throughout the world. She is currently co-leading an initiative recommending rule of law reforms to Myanmar to facilitate capital flows and foreign investment there.

April 18, 2013

Dartmouth Develops
A Panel of Dartmouth Alumni Entrepreneurs
Room 001, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

A panel of Dartmouth alumni entrepreneurs will share their insights on their career paths and what it means to be an entrepreneur. They will also describe how Dartmouth uniquely provided them with the skills necessary to create their businesses.

Planned and hosted by Rockefeller Business and Entrepreneurial Leadership (RBEL) Student Discussion Group

Panelists:
Bill Bender '78, Founder, SolaFlect Energy

Bill Bender is President of Solaflect Energy, a company developing heliostats and PV Trackers. The company has won two nationally competitive $1 million awards from the SunShot Initiative of the Department of Energy to further develop its patented technology, and is currently introducing its products to market. Previously, Bender founded and led Online Development Corporation (ODC) from 1993 until its sale to Data Sage in 1999. ODC's early web analytics service in the newly-emerging era of e-commerce transformed catalogue companies' efforts to transition from a mail-order model to on-line sales, and helped them acquire critical skills to maximize an effective web presence.

Bill Bender is a Dartmouth summa cum laude graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and Ph.D. economist. Bender's early career was in international consulting for 10 years, on economic issues in food and nutrition policy in developing countries. Projects included partnerships with the EC, World Bank, UK Overseas Development Administration, UNICEF, the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, UN Dept of Humanitarian Affairs, US AID, and others. Developing countries frequently lack the capability and systems for data-mining and statistical analysis. Bender's projects collected and distilled technical analyses for non-technical audiences to inform cabinet-level decisions and policy choices.

Steven Reinitz '09, Co-founder, B.B.R. Medical Innovations, Inc.

Steve earned his A.B. and B.E. from Dartmouth concurrently in 2009. After graduating, he entered the Ph.D. track at Thayer as part of the second ever class of incoming Innovation Fellows. As an Innovation Fellow, Steve has been involved in the development of more than a dozen medical devices and related technologies for which he has helped author more than a half dozen accepted or pending patents. His company, B.B.R. Medical Innovations, Inc., which he co-founded with Kathryn Bi '09 and a DHMC physician, was a runner up in Tuck's Barris Incubator competition and a semi-finalist in the Dartmouth Ventures Business plan competition. They are currently in the process of raising capital to complete bench top testing and move into animal and clinical trials for a device which reduces certain potentially lethal hospital acquired infections.

Nick Taranto '06, Co-founder, Plated.com

Nick Taranto is co-founder of Plated.com where he runs all non-technical aspects of the e-commerce gourmet recipe kit delivery business. Plated was recently accepted to join the techstars accelerator; only 11 out of 1,700 candidates were chosen. Nick graduated from Dartmouth College and then started a microfinance institution in Central Java, Indonesia while on a Fulbright grant. Nick is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer, and has spent time consulting with McKinsey & Co and as a private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs. He received his MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He was recently named to Forbes "30 under 30" list for food and wine.

Moderator:
George Philipose '15, RBEL Student Discussion Group Leader

George Philipose graduated from Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, NJ in the top of his class and was accepted into the Governor's School on the Environment and the National Honors Society. At Ridge, George was captain of the forensics team and earned awards at national tournaments for Student Congress. As president, the team earned their 10th consecutive State Championship title. He also served as a president for Amnesty International, the economics club, the local political club, and the history club. At Dartmouth, George plans to major in economics and neuroscience. He is a member of the Nathan Smith Society Executive Committee and a portfolio manager for Dartmouth Investment and Philanthropy Program. He works for America Reads, volunteers at the Haven Homeless Shelter, and is a member of the Dartmouth Society of Investment and Economics. After graduating, George hopes to enter a career in finance or health care policy.

May 1, 2013

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Keynote Address
Breaking Barriers
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
7:00 PM
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Opening Reception: 8:00 pm, Filene Foyer, Moore Hall

Co-sponsored with Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL), Office of LGBTQIA+ Student Advising, Office of the Dean of the College, Office of the President, SPEC, Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association, Undergraduate Deans Office, Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity, Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Alumni/ae Association, Center for Gender and Student Engagement, and Student Health Promotion & Wellness

Lt. Dan Choi
Former American infantry officer, U.S. Army, and LGBT rights activist 

Lt. Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and Iraq veteran, announced that he was gay on The Rachel Maddow Show on March 19, 2009. Because of three words – "I am gay." – Lt. Choi's life changed forever. One month after his announcement, Lt. Dan Choi was notified that the Army had begun discharge proceedings against him. After protests, petitions, and hard work, Lt. Choi fought for the eventual repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Lt. Choi continues to advocate for full LGBT civil rights and veteran's health. Lt. Choi has appeared frequently on national and international news programs, and serves on the boards of Marriage Equality USA and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Scout Leaders Course, Air Assault School, and Parachutist School. Lt. Choi is an embodiment of intersectional identities: an openly gay, male-identified, Asian American, veteran, and political activist well-known for his work for social and political change.

May 2, 2013: Law Day

Conversation about Body Politics: Women, Families and Reproductive Rights
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
12:00 PM

Co-sponsored with the Women's and Gender Studies Katy Lebowitz Class of '76 Academic Enhancement Fund, the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group

Sarah Weddington
Lawyer, Professor, and Women's Rights Advocate

Sarah Weddington has lived a life of leadership and now shares her expertise and insights with others. She is particularly well known for her work on issues affecting women in her many roles as attorney, legislator, presidential advisor, professor, and expert called upon by the national media. She is a proven leader in government at the national and state levels. From 1978 to 1981, she served as assistant to President Jimmy Carter, directing the Administration's work on women's issues and leadership outreach. As general counsel of the US Department of Agriculture in 1977 and the first woman to ever hold that position, she supervised more than 200 lawyers. From 1983-1985, Dr. Weddington was the first woman director of the Texas Office of State-Federal Relations. Elected in 1973 and serving three terms, she was the first woman from Austin in the 150-member Texas House of Representatives. In her first book, A Question of Choice, Dr. Weddington detailed the landmark Roe v. Wade case, which she successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. She is believed to be the youngest person ever to win a case before the US Supreme Court. A founding member of the Foundation for Women's Resources, she has been integral in all its activities, including the "Leadership Texas" and "Leadership America" programs and the creation of The Women's Museum, which opened September 29, 2000, in Dallas, Texas. She is featured as one of 39 in the "Unforgettable Women" exhibit in the Record Breakers case with Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Amelia Earhart.

Anita LaFrance Allen
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, women's rights, and race relations. In 2010 she was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011), Everyday Ethics: Opinion-Writing about the Things that Matter Most (Academic Readers/Cognella, 2010), Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2011), The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004), Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), and Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988). She co-edited (with Milton Regan) Debating Democracy's Discontent (Oxford, 1998). Allen, who has written more than a 100 scholarly articles, has also contributed to popular magazines and blogs, and has frequently appeared on nationally broadcast television and radio programs. Allen has served on numerous editorial and advisory boards, and on the boards of a number of local and national non-profits and professional associations including the Hastings Center, EPIC and the Bazelon Center. (Source: https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/aallen/)

 

Janet Benshoof
President and Founder, Global Justice Center

Janet Benshoof is internationally recognized for her human rights and constitutional law expertise. She established landmark legal precedents in the U.S. Supreme Court and international forums. Ms. Benshoof spearheaded several successful legal efforts from the approval of emergency contraception for women by the FDA, to the application of international rape law to ensure the rights of women in the Iraq High Tribunal prosecutions of Saddam-era war crimes. She lectures and trains women leaders, judges, parliamentarians, and various UN bodies on implementing international human rights laws, such as CEDAW, and international humanitarian law, including women's rights to criminal accountability under Security Council Resolutions and by the International Criminal Court. Ms. Benshoof is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including by the National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America", the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" in recognition of her legal work, the Gloria Steinem Women of Vision Award, the Edith Spivack Award for Outstanding New York Women Lawyers, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award. (Source: http://www.globaljusticecenter.net/index.php/about-us/our-team)

 

Moderator:
Susan Brison
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group Steering Committee member

Susan Brison is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College where she has been teaching since 1985.  She has held visiting positions at Tufts University, New York University, and Princeton University, and has been a Mellon Fellow at New York University and an NEH-funded member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ). She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Professor Brison is currently the faculty associate of Dartmouth's East Wheelcok Cluster.

May 2, 2013: Law Day

The Stephen R. Volk '57 Lecture - Honoring "Law Day"
Some Leaders Are Born Women!
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group, and the Women's and Gender Studies Katy Lebowitz Class of '76 Academic Enhancement Fund

Sarah Weddington
Lawyer, Professor, and Women's Rights Advocate

Sarah Weddington has lived a life of leadership and now shares her expertise and insights with others. She is particularly well known for her work on issues affecting women in her many roles as attorney, legislator, presidential advisor, professor, and expert called upon by the national media. She is a proven leader in government at the national and state levels. From 1978 to 1981, she served as assistant to President Jimmy Carter, directing the Administration's work on women's issues and leadership outreach. As general counsel of the US Department of Agriculture in 1977 and the first woman to ever hold that position, she supervised more than 200 lawyers. From 1983-1985, Dr. Weddington was the first woman director of the Texas Office of State-Federal Relations. Elected in 1973 and serving three terms, she was the first woman from Austin in the 150-member Texas House of Representatives. In her first book, A Question of Choice, Dr. Weddington detailed the landmark Roe v. Wade case, which she successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. She is believed to be the youngest person ever to win a case before the US Supreme Court. A founding member of the Foundation for Women's Resources, she has been integral in all its activities, including the "Leadership Texas" and "Leadership America" programs and the creation of The Women's Museum, which opened September 29, 2000, in Dallas, Texas. She is featured as one of 39 in the "Unforgettable Women" exhibit in the Record Breakers case with Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Amelia Earhart.

May 3, 2013: Law Day

Panel: Societal Impacts of Civil Rights Cases before the Roberts Court
3:30-4:30 pm
Room 002, Rockefeller Center

Participants:
Bruce Duthu '80
Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies (NAS), Chair of the NAS Program

Professor N. Bruce Duthu is an internationally recognized scholar of Native American law and policy. He joined the regular faculty at Dartmouth in 2008 as professor of Native American Studies. Professor Duthu earned his BA degree in religion and Native American studies from Dartmouth College and his JD degree from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty, Professor Duthu was on the law faculty at Vermont Law School. He served as the law school's Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and as director of the VLS-Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) Partnership in Environmental Law. He also served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, the universities of Wollongong and Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Trento in northern Italy. He is the author of American Indians and the Law (2008) and was a contributing author of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005), the leading treatise in the field of federal Indian law. He also contributed chapters for two other books, Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts: Canadian and International (2004) and First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (1997).

Julie Kalish '91
Lecturer in Writing, Institute for Writing & Rhetoric

Julie Kalish not only has students reading and writing about constitutional law in the courses she teaches for the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric -- Writing 5 and Writing 41: Writing and Speaking Public Policy -- she is also at the forefront of defending constitutional rights via her work for the Vermont ACLU. Most recently for the ACLU, Professor Kalish and her colleague Attorney Bernie Lambek represented Franklin, Vermont resident Marilyn Hackett in Hackett v. the Town of Franklin. For years, Ms. Hackett had complained that the recital of a sectarian prayer at the opening of her town's annual meeting was unconstitutional. Attorneys Kalish and Lambek argued their case based on Vermont Constitution's Article 3, which ensures freedom of conscience while prohibiting state endorsement of any religion through compelled attendance at worship—an argument that prevailed in the Vermont Superior Court. Professor Kalish and her colleague were awarded the Jonathan B Chase Cooperating Attorney Award for their achievement.

May 3, 2013: Law Day

Career Panel: Having It All in Law: Questions and Reflections on Legal Careers
4:45-5:45 pm
Room 002, Rockefeller Center

Panelists:

Julie Connolly '84
Julie Connolly Law, PLLC, Concord, NH

Julie has extensive experience in private practice, as an assistant attorney general at the New Hampshire Department of Justice, and as a law clerk at both the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Julie's experience includes complex business litigation, personal injury litigation, and criminal litigation. She was a law clerk to First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey R. Howard, and to United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire Judges Steven J. McAuliffe, Paul J. Barbadoro, Joseph N. Laplante, and Magistrate Judges James R. Muirhead and Landya B. McCafferty. She also worked for several years as the pro se law clerk for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.

Sue Finegan '85
Pro Bono Partner, Mintz Levin, Boston, MA

Susan Finegan is a Litigation Partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.  She currently serves as the Chair of the Pro Bono Committee and as the full-time Pro Bono Partner, overseeing 400 varied cases throughout Mintz Levin's eight offices. Her pro bono experience has primarily focused in the last fifteen years on sexual assault and domestic violence. In addition to representing hundreds of individual domestic violence and sexual assault victims, she led a team of Mintz Levin pro bono lawyers who successfully worked for several years to pass Massachusetts legislation that allows sexual assault, stalking, and harassment victims to obtain criminally enforceable protective orders, filling a gap in the existing statute. For these legislative efforts specifically, and the firm's signature Domestic Violence Project generally, the American Bar Association awarded the firm its 2010 Pro Bono Publico Award. Ms. Finegan also has filed appellate and amicus briefs on issues relating to sexual assault and domestic violence in the U.S. Supreme Court and Massachusetts appellate courts.

Sarah Merlo '00
Associate, Vitt Brannen & Loftus, PLC, Norwich, VT

Sarah Merlo is an associate with the law firm of Vitt Brannen & Loftus, PLC in Norwich, Vermont.  Her current practice focuses on general civil litigation.  She is a member of the Vermont and New Hampshire Bars as well as the American Bar Association and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association.  Sarah graduated from Dartmouth in 2000 as a psychology major and after college she explored career opportunities in production stagecraft and social work with at-risk children before deciding on law school.  She graduated in 2008 with a J.D. from Vermont Law School.  At VLS she was an editor for the Vermont Law Review; a participant in the General Practice Program; and a recipient of a Rubin Fellowship where she spent a summer working at the South Royalton Legal Clinic assisting low-income Vermonters with family law issues.

Moderator:

Alexandra Meise '01
Associate, Foley Hoag, Washington, DC

Alexandra "Xander" A. Meise is an attorney and guest lecturer currently working in the international litigation and arbitration practice of Foley Hoag LLP. Her academic and professional careers have focused on the sustainable resolution of international conflicts to promote economic and political development. Research into the causes of genocidal conflict/civil war and the rebuilding of economic and societal structures post-conflict led her to a Fulbright year in Albania just after Dartmouth, as well as work in international political development in countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, and Yemen. Meise has also worked for the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Department of State (in Spain, Switzerland, and Macedonia), the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in East Timor, and the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. 
In her private legal practice she has represented sovereign states and claimants in arbitrations under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the International Chamber of Commerce, and she has defended sovereign governments in U.S. state and federal courts. In addition, she has advised corporations on matters of corporate social responsibility, including legal risk management associated with work in post-conflict, transitional regions.

May 6, 2013

The Bernard D. Nossiter '47 Lecture
Observations about the World after the Arab Spring
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Souad Mekhennet
German journalist, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and ZDF (German television); 2013 Barry Bingham Jr. Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Souad Mekhennet is a German reporter and columnist of Turkish and Moroccan descent who works for The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and ZDF (German television). Since 9/11, she has covered conflicts and terrorist groups in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Mekhennet helped report the "Inside the Jihad" series for the Times and together with her colleague Don van Natta, broke the story of Khaled el-Masri, a German-Lebanese man who had been kidnapped and sent via extraordinary rendition to Afghanistan. She previously reported for The Washington Post and is the co-author of two books about Islam and terrorism, which were published in Germany. Mekhennet will study how the uprisings in Arab countries in 2011 have influenced the long-term strategies of terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda and how Shariah (Islamic law) deals with human rights, women and democracy. She is the 2013 Barry Bingham Jr. Nieman Fellow. Bingham, a 1956 Harvard graduate, was the editor and publisher of the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times.

May 15, 2013 (Rescheduled from Fall 2012)

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Fellow
Global Insights Distinguished Speaker

Unemployment and Debt
Georgiopoulos Classroom, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business
5:00 PM

Co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the Center for Global Business and Government at Tuck School of Business

Peter Diamond
2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Winner
Professor of Economics, MIT

Peter Diamond is an American economist acclaimed for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy. He is currently serving as an Institute Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an institution where he has been since 1966. In 2010, Diamond was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their analysis of the foundation of search markets. Prior to researching search markets, he worked as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s and a consultant in Congressional Finance Committee hearings. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, being a founder of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Diamond's numerous publications cover tax and social security policy, with his last two books on the subject, Pension Reform: A Short Guide and Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices, being published in 2010 and 2008, respectively. He graduated summa cum laude to receive his B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.

May 20, 2013

The Portman Lecture Series
Leveraging Differences for Business Impact
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 pm

Co-sponsored with Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), and Office of Pluralism & Leadership (OPAL)

In support of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

 

Jane Hyun
Global Leadership Expert; Founder and President, Hyun & Associates; Author of "Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling"

Jane Hyun, author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, and founder and president of Hyun & Associates, is an executive coach and leadership strategist to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and professional associations. Prior to starting her consulting firm, she was a Vice President of HR at JP Morgan and Director of Recruiting at Deloitte & Touche and Resources Global. She has advised senior management teams and diversity councils on the importance of leading effective multicultural teams. Hyun is continually sought after for her expertise in the area of talent management of women and multicultural professionals. Her work has received international recognition and Hyun appears regularly on CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio, and Marketwatch, as well as in Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Chief Executive, and other media. A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in economics/international studies, she serves on the Women's Alumnae Council, is an advisor to the Toigo Foundation, and is an advisor to the Hidden Brain Drain Taskforce, the organization which authored recent Harvard Business Review studies, "Off-Ramps/On-Ramps," "Sin Fronteras," "Female Talent in Emerging Markets," and "The Sponsor Effect." Hyun's groundbreaking book, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, opened up a critical dialogue for the need for a culturally grounded talent development approach for organizations.

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Winter 2013 Public Programs

January 14, 2013

Clear and Present Safety: America Has Never Been Safer
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Michael Cohen
Fellow, The Century Foundation

Michael Cohen is a regular writer and commentator on American politics and U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America as well as a columnist for the Guardian newspaper. He previously wrote a weekly column for Foreign Policy and was a blogger for the New York Daily News. Formerly, Mr. Cohen was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the American Security Project. He also served in the U.S. Department of State as chief speechwriter for U.S. Representative to the United Nations Bill Richardson and Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat. He is a frequent writer on politics and international affairs, and his work has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, Politico, World Policy Journal, The Nation, Dissent and Reuters. Mr. Cohen holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from American University and a master's degree from Columbia University, where he teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs.

January 28, 2013

The Brooks Family Lecture
Federal Budgeting in a Post-Cliff Environment
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Senator Judd Gregg
Former U.S. Senator (R-NH)
Dartmouth Distinguished Fellow

A leading voice for fiscal discipline, Senator Judd Gregg served three terms in the U.S. Senate, concluding his tenure there as the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee. Senator Gregg continues to be a national leader on fiscal policy, a well-know budget expert, and a respected voice on health care, economic, and financial regulatory issues. He is currently co-chairing the Simpson-Bowles, plus "Fix the Debt" initiative with Erskine Bowles, Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Governor Ed Rendell (PA), a bi-partisan effort to promote significant Congressional action to reduce the debt and the deficit. Prior to serving three terms in the U.S. Senate, he served as Governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993 and as U.S. Representative (R-NH) from 1981 to 1989.

Senator Gregg is a regular contributor on CNBC, co-hosting "Squawk Box" and "World Wide Exchange," and a guest on numerous other shows such as "Kudlow" and "Squawk on the Street." He writes a weekly column in The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C. Senator Gregg often does speaking events across the country involving audiences that represent trade groups, professional organizations and symposiums.

The Senator serves as a Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth College, teaching, lecturing and counseling Dartmouth graduate and undergraduate students. Senator Gregg is married to Kathleen MacLellan Gregg. The couple have three children, Molly, Sarah, and Joshua, all of whom graduated from Dartmouth College.

 

January 29, 2013

The Perkins Bass Lecture
The State of State Government: Lessons from Concord
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Introduction: Representative Charlie Bass '74
Former U.S. Congressman (R-NH)
Son of the late Representative Perkins Bass '34

Governor John Lynch
Former Governor of New Hampshire
Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor

Re-elected in 2010 to a historic fourth term, Gov. John Lynch has been a strong, effective leader in working to make real progress on the issues that matter most to New Hampshire families and businesses ­– improving the quality of education, promoting job creation and economic development, reducing health care costs, ensuring public safety and protecting New Hampshire's environment and natural resources. Under Gov. Lynch, New Hampshire was named the "Most Livable State" in the nation, as well as the "Safest State" for three years in a row. New Hampshire has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, the lowest states taxes, and fourth lowest government spending per capita. Under Gov. Lynch it has been named one of the most business-friendly and best-managed states in the nation. Gov. Lynch has worked with Democrats and Republicans to make kindergarten available to every child, to cut New Hampshire's high school dropout rate in half, pass the toughest laws in the nation to protect children from sexual predators, to reduce spending by making government more efficient and build the economy by making it easier for companies to retain and hire new workers, increasing job training and providing tax credits for research and development.

A commitment to putting the interests of people first is an extension of Gov. Lynch's work as a business and community leader. As the President and CEO of Knoll, Inc., a national furniture manufacturer, he transformed a company losing $50 million a year into one making a profit of nearly $240 million. Under his leadership, Knoll created new jobs, gave factory workers annual bonuses, established a scholarship program for the children of employees, created retirement plans for employees, and gave workers stock in the company.

Gov. Lynch has also served as chair of the University System Board of Trustees, where he worked to keep tuition increases to a minimum; as director of Admissions at the Harvard Business School, where he made ethics one of the criteria for admissions; and as president of the Lynch Group, a business-consulting firm in Manchester. Long a community leader, John Lynch served on the board of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester and on the board of the Capitol Center for the Arts. He is the past president of the UNH alumni association, and a longtime coach of youth soccer, hockey, softball and baseball. Working his way through college, Gov. Lynch earned his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1974. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He and his wife of over 30 years, Susan, live in Hopkinton, and have three children, Jacqueline, Julia and Hayden.

February 5, 2013

The William H. Timbers '37 Lecture
Animals and the Frontiers of Citizenship
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association

 

Will Kymlicka
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. From 2004-2006, he was the President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). His most recent book, co-authored with Sue Donaldson, is Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011).

February 7, 2013

System Change Not Climate Change: Manifesto for a New Economy
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Booksigning following the public program

James Gustave Speth
Professor of Law
Vermont Law School

James Gustave Speth joined the faculty of the Vermont Law School as Professor of Law in 2010. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at both Demos and the United Nations Foundation. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 1993 to 1999, Gus Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (Carter Administration); and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. Throughout his career, Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation and promote sustainable development, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation's Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America's Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Environmental Law Institute and the League of Conservation Voters, and the Blue Planet Prize. He holds honorary degrees from Clark University, the College of the Atlantic, the Vermont Law School, Middlebury College, the University of South Carolina, and Green Mountain College. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books including the award-winning The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. His latest book is America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy, published by Yale Press in September 2012.

February 12, 2013

Film Screening & Discussion
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
A film by Matthew Heineman & Susan Froemke
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
430 PM

ESCAPE FIRE tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken medical system? The film examines the powerful forces trying to maintain the status quo in a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. Filmmakers Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke interweave dramatic personal arcs of patients and physicians with the stories of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. ESCAPE FIRE is about finding a way out of our current crisis. It's about saving the health of a nation.

Discussants:

Ellen Meara
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.

 

Charles Wheelan '88
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center

Charles Wheelan is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. Formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Center welcomed Professor Wheelan back to Dartmouth fulltime in June 2012. Since 2006, Wheelan has taught economics and public policy courses at Dartmouth during sophomore summer. He has also served as a correspondent for The Economist, and written freelance articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Wheelan's first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, served as an accessible and entertaining introduction to economics and is now published in 10 languages. The Chicago Tribune described Naked Economics as "clear, concise, informative, and (gasp) witty," and was selected as one of The 100 Best Business Books of all Time by 800-CEOREAD.

February 25, 2013 - CANCELED until further notice

Judges on Judging: View from the Bench
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

David O'Brien
Professor of Politics
University of Virginia

David M. O'Brien is the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor at the University of Virginia. He has been a Judicial Fellow and Research Associate at the Supreme Court of the U.S., and held Fulbright Teaching and Research Awards at Oxford University, England, the University of Bologna, Italy, and in Japan, as well as was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, and a Visiting Professor at Institut d'Etudes Politique Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2. He was a commissioner on the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Exchange and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (9th ed., 2011), which received the ABA's Silver Gavel Award; a two-volume casebook, Constitutional Law and Politics (8th ed., 2011); an annual Supreme Court Watch; Animal Sacrifice & Religious Freedom: The Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (2004), and To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan (1996). In addition, he has edited several books, including Judges on Judging (4th ed., 2013).

February 27, 2013

Pollapalooza
Haldeman 041
4:00 pm

Co-sponsored by ISTS, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy & Clinical Practice, the Departments of Film & Media Studies and Sociology, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences

 

Kate Phillips
New York Times Polling Editor

Kate Phillips was the editor of news surveys and election analysis for the 2012 presidential campaign cycle, and has now returned to the Business Desk temporarily to edit labor and energy policy issues. Within the last decade at The New York Times, Kate Phillips has also overseen business health care coverage (2010-2011), worked as the online politics editor (2006-2010), Washington editor, and deputy Op-Ed editor. She was also a 2003 Nieman fellow at Harvard, and has divided her time between New York and Washington, D.C. in recent years.

 

Fall 2012 Rockefeller Center Public Programs

September 17, 2012

Constitution Day Program
The Role of the Senate
Room 028, Silsby Hall
4:30 PM

Senator Judd Gregg
Former U.S. Senator (R-NH)

A leading voice for fiscal discipline, Senator Judd Gregg served three terms in the U.S. Senate, concluding his tenure there as the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee. Senator Gregg continues to be a national leader on fiscal policy, a well-know budget expert, and a respected voice on health care, economic, and financial regulatory issues. He is currently co-chairing the Simpson-Bowles, plus "Fix the Debt" initiative with Erskine Bowles, Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Governor Ed Rendell (PA), a bi-partisan effort to promote significant Congressional action to reduce the debt and the deficit. Prior to serving three terms in the U.S. Senate, he served as Governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993 and as U.S. Representative (R-NH) from 1981 to 1989.

Senator Gregg is a regular contributor on CNBC, co-hosting "Squawk Box" and "World Wide Exchange," and a guest on numerous other shows such as "Kudlow" and "Squawk on the Street." He writes a weekly column in The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C. Senator Gregg often does speaking events across the country involving audiences that represent trade groups, professional organizations and symposiums.

The Senator serves as a Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth College, teaching, lecturing and counseling Dartmouth graduate and undergraduate students. Senator Gregg is married to Kathleen MacLellan Gregg. The couple have three children, Molly, Sarah, and Joshua, all of whom graduated from Dartmouth College.

September 20, 2012

Which Drugs Should Be Legal? How Legal Should They Be?
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy, UCLA

Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. This fall he is Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia's Batten School of Leadership and Policy, and a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice. He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis and on drug abuse and crime control. Mr. Kleiman edits the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis and serves on the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council. He is the author of When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment and co-author (with Angela Hawken and Jonathan Caulkins) of Drugs and Drug Policy and (with Hawken, Caulkins, and Beau Kilmer) of Marijuana Legalization. Previous books include Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results and Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control. In addition to his academic work, Mr. Kleiman provides advice on crime control and drug policy to governments here and abroad. He has held policy positions with the U.S. Department of Justice and the City of Boston.

October 5, 2012

Conversation with Mike Pyle '00
Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
3:30 PM

Michael J. Pyle
Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
White House's National Economic Council

Michael J. Pyle is a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House's National Economic Council (NEC). In that capacity, he advises the NEC Director and other senior White House officials on a range of international and domestic economic and financial issues, including the European sovereign debt crisis, the U.S.-China economic and financial relationship, U.S. macroeconomic and fiscal policy, surface transportation and other infrastructure policy, and retirement security and savings policy. Previously, Mr. Pyle was a senior advisor to Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, where he helped to manage the full range of Treasury's international economic policy efforts. Before that, Mike was an advisor to Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, where he worked extensively on the first two Obama Administration budgets as well as on the fiscal and budgetary aspects of health reform. He began his career in economic policy as a special assistant to Director Orszag at the Congressional Budget Office. Earlier in his career, Mike worked as a capital markets and financial institutions lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell in London and Washington, D.C., and he served as a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mike graduated with a degree in economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he was salutatorian of his class and received the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize in Economics as the outstanding undergraduate in the field. He holds law degrees from Yale Law School, where he was a notes editor on the Yale Law Journal, and from the University of Cambridge, where he studied economics and law as a Keasbey Scholar.

October 5-6, 2012

Military Service and National Obligation: A Symposium
Hosted by the Dartmouth History Department
Co-sponsored by the Nachman Fund in History, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center

This two-day symposium will engage some of the central themes of President Emeritus James Wright's new book, Those Who Have Borne The Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them (PublicAffairs, a member of Perseus Books, 2012).

October 5, 3:15 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Roundtable Discussion: "American Soldiers, U.S. Obligations"
Panelists:
James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History
Dr. John Nagl, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
Jennifer Fluri, Assistant Professor of Geography, and Women's and Gender Studies
Russell Muirhead, Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics
Moderator:
Benjamin Valentino, Associate Professor of Government

October 6, 10:00 AM, Room L02, Carson Hall
Scholarly Panel: "Civic Ideals and Warrior Experiences"
Panelists:
Paul Christesen, Assistant Professor of Classics, "'Steal or Starve': The Role and Significance of Sanctioned Stealing in the Training of Spartan Soldiers"
Colleen Glenney Boggs, Associate Professor of English, "Civil War Soldiers and the Failed Romance of War"
Robert Bonner, Professor of History, "Patriotic Vistas: Soldierly Gazes & Glimpses of the U.S. Civil War"
Chair:
Randall Balmer, Chair, Religion Department

October 6, 1:30 PM, Room L02, Carson Hall
Scholarly Panel: "Politics and Veterans in the Early Twentieth Century"
Panelists:
Reena Goldthree, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, "'Democracy Shall Be No Empty Romance': World War I Veterans and Popular Protest in the British Caribbean"
Tryg Thronveit, "Extending the Living Force of Americanism: The Nationalist Internationalism of the Early American Legion"
Chair:
David Lagomarsino, Charles Hansen Professor of History

October 6, 3:15 PM, Room L02, Carson Hall
Scholarly Panel: "Sacrifice and Obligation: Two Comparative Views"
Panelists:
Ron Edsforth, Senior Lecturer in History, "From the Glorious Few to a Democracy of Death: How Western Nations Have Treated Their War Dead"
Edward Miller, Associate Professor of History, "Sacrifice, Reconciliation, and the Politics of Reform: Veterans and Memories of the Vietnam War in Contemporary Vietnam"
Chair:
Michael Ermarth, Professor of History

October 9, 2012

The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture
Backlash Revisited: The Lost History of Legislation on Violence and Women
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Victoria Nourse
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Congressional Studies, Georgetown University Law Center

Victoria Nourse started her legal career in Washington before she joined the legal academy. She was a junior counsel to the Senate-Iran Contra Committee under Senators Rudman and Inouye, an appellate lawyer for the Department of Justice in the Reagan-Bush years, and senior advisor to now-Vice President Biden on legislative matters, including the Violence Against Women Act. She is currently a law professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches classes on Congress and the Constitution and is Director of the Law School's Center on Congressional Studies. She has previously held chairs at the University of Wisconsin and Emory University, and has been a visiting professor at NYU and Yale University Law Schools. Her most recent book, In Reckless Hands, tells the real life drama of the 1942 Supreme Court case striking down state eugenics laws, a case that announced the right to procreate and marry. She has published widely on violence, history, politics, and law.

October 11, 2012

The Federal Government's Fiscal Crisis: How It Will Affect Your Earnings and Your Life
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
5:00 pm

Hosted by PoliTALK student discussion group

William Beach
Director, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation

As Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (CDA), William Beach is the think tank's chief "number cruncher." He oversees original statistical research on taxes, Social Security, energy, crime, education, trade and a host of other issues. Under his leadership, Heritage has acquired one of the largest collections of privately held public-policy databases in the U.S., as well as state-of the-art econometrics models and peer-reviewed analytical models. Prior to joining Heritage in 1995, Beach held a variety of posts in the public, private and academic sectors. He served as a litigation economist with two Kansas City, Mo., law firms where he specialized in analyzing how anti-trust legal remedies would alter product pricing and availability. Later, as an economist for Missouri's Office of Budget and Planning, he designed and managed the state's econometric model and advised the governor on economic and revenue issues. After a stint at Sprint United Inc.'s corporate headquarters, Beach moved to the Washington, D.C. area to serve as president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. In April 2012, Beach was named Heritage's inaugural Lazof Family Fellow. Beach, a regular source for news reporters and a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, also serves on the Economics Advisory Panel for ABC News.

October 15, 2012

The U.S. Fiscal Crisis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

What's the big deal about the deficit? Is the United States headed for a European style debt crisis? What does it mean for students today and in the future? Will it change the way you vote In November? A panel of Dartmouth students discuss the big questions with budget expert Robert Bixby (IOUSA, The Movie) and the Rockefeller Center's Charlie Wheelan (The Naked Economist). Moderator Marjorie Rose will probe audience reactions and questions with the panel on one of the key issues facing the U.S. electorate.

Panelists:
Robert Bixby
Executive Director, The Concord Coalition

Robert L. Bixby is Executive Director of The Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility, founded in 1992 by former U.S. Senators Warren Rudman (R-NH) and the late Paul Tsongas (D-MA). Former Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE) now serves as Co-Chair of the organization. Mr. Bixby was named Executive Director of the Concord Coalition in 1999, after serving as the organization's Policy Director, National Field Director, and in other capacities since 1992. He frequently represents Concord's views on budget and entitlement reform policy at congressional hearings and in the national media. Mr. Bixby has a bachelor's degree in political science from American University in Washington, D.C., a juris doctorate from George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va., and a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to his work with the Concord Coalition Mr. Bixby practiced law and served as the Chief Staff Attorney of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Adrian Ferrari '14

Adrian Ferrari is from Los Altos Hills, CA. At Dartmouth, he hopes to major in Government and Economics, with a minor in Public Policy. During the summer of 2012, he served as a judicial intern to Judge John Mott '81 of the D.C. Superior Court. Adrian also serves as a policy analyst and researcher for the Policy Research Shop and the LGBT liaison on Dartmouth's Inter-Community Council. After graduating from Dartmouth, Adrian hopes to either attend law school or write for Jon Stewart, whichever he feels will allow him to best participate in the political process.

Sarah Morse '15

Sarah Morse grew up outside of Albany, NY, where she attended Bethlehem High School. Sarah first became interested in economic policy when she participated in the High School Fed Challenge during her senior year. She is now a sophomore at Dartmouth, majoring in Economics and Neuroscience.

Charles Wheelan '88
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center

Charles Wheelan is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. Formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Center welcomed Professor Wheelan back to Dartmouth fulltime in June 2012. Since 2006, Wheelan has taught economics and public policy courses at Dartmouth during sophomore summer. He has also served as a correspondent for The Economist, and written freelance articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Wheelan's first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, served as an accessible and entertaining introduction to economics and is now published in 10 languages. The Chicago Tribune described Naked Economics as "clear, concise, informative, and (gasp) witty," and was selected as one of The 100 Best Business Books of all Time by 800-CEOREAD.

Moderator:
Marjorie Rose, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics

Marjorie Rose is currently a senior lecturer for the Department of Economics at Dartmouh College, where she teaches courses in Macroeconomics and International Finance. Before entering academia, Rose served as an economist and later senior economist for the International Monetary Fund. Her areas of focus included Asia and African departments, as well as serving as the senior economist for India and Nepal. She continues to serve as a consultant for the Institute today. Prior to her stint with the Council of Economic Advisors for the Executive Office of the President, Rose spent four years as an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Money and Finance, focusing on issues of international macroeconomics. Professor Rose received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, and went on to attend the University of California at Los Angeles for her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics.

October 16, 2012

Reading, Discussion, and Book Signing
Madeleine M. Kunin
The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
4:30 PM

Hosted by the Dartmouth College East Wheelock Program. Co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Center for Women and Gender Studies, and the Norwich Bookstore.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Madeleine M. Kunin was the first woman governor of Vermont and the first woman in the U.S. to serve three terms as governor. She served as Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland in the Clinton administration. Kunin is the author of The New Feminist Agenda; Pearls, Politics and Power; and Living a Political Life. She is also a Marsh professor at the University of Vermont, a commentator on Vermont Public Radio, and founder and board member of the global Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a nongovernmental organization focused on climate change and civil society.

October 18, 2012

Will Our Polarized Politics Push Us over the Fiscal Cliff?
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Alice Rivlin
Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Alice M. Rivlin is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University. In 2010 President Obama appointed Rivlin to the Simpson-Bowles Commission on the federal budget. She also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force. An expert on fiscal and monetary policy, social policy, and urban issues, Rivlin served as the vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 1999. She was director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1994 to 1996, helping to transform a large budget deficit into substantial surpluses by the end of the decade. She founded the Congressional Budget Office in 1975 and served as its director until 1983, creating an independent agency that continues to provide high-quality, nonpartisan analysis to Congress as it works on spending and revenue legislation.

Rivlin is the author of numerous books and articles, among them Systematic Thinking for Social Action and Restoring the American Dream. In 2008, Rivlin received the inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Rivlin has received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, and has taught at Harvard, George Mason, and New School Universities.

October 22, 2012

Your Vote Is Your Voice: How Will the New NH ID Law Affect You?
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

John Greabe
Professor of Law, UNH School of Law

John Greabe is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he has taught Constitutional Law, First Amendment Law, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, and Judicial Opinion Writing.  His scholarship focuses on constitutional law, civil rights, and federal jurisdiction, and has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, and the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.  Earlier this year, his paper "A Federal Baseline for the Right to Vote" was published in the Columbia Law Review's Sidebar.  Before joining UNH Law, Professor Greabe taught at Vermont Law School and served as a law clerk to a number of federal judges within the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 

October 23, 2012

Enrique's Journey and the America's Immigration Dilemma
Room 028, Silsby Hall
4:30 PM

Book signing to follow lecture.

Sonia Nazario
Bestselling author of Enrique's Journey
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have tackled some of this country's most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration. To date, she is the youngest writer to have been hired by the Wall Street Journal. She has won numerous national journalism and book awards. In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in the US, entitled "Enrique's Journey," won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.

Expanded into a book, Enrique's Journey immediately became a national bestseller and won two major book awards. It was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, People, The Miami Herald, and the San Antonio Express-News. It has been translated into eight languages and is now required reading for incoming freshmen at dozens of colleges and high schools across the U.S. By the end of the 2011-2012 academic year, Ms.Nazario had spoken at nearly 200 universities.

 

POSTPONED until spring: 

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Fellow
Global Insights Distinguished Speaker

Co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the Center for Global Business and Government at Tuck

Unemployment and Debt

Peter Diamond
Winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010
Professor of Economics, MIT

Peter Diamond is an American economist acclaimed for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy. He is currently serving as an Institute Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an institution where he has been since 1966. In 2010, Diamond was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their analysis of the foundation of search markets. Prior to researching search markets, he worked as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s and a consultant in Congressional Finance Committee hearings. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, being a founder of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Diamond's numerous publications cover tax and social security policy, with his last two books on the subject, Pension Reform: A Short Guide and Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices, being published in 2010 and 2008, respectively. He graduated summa cum laude to receive his B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.

November 1, 2012

Thurlow Gordon '06 Lecture
U.S. Financial System: Still Risky after All These Years
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Jennifer Taub
Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Jennifer S. Taub researches and writes in the areas of financial reform, corporate governance, and mutual fund regulation. Her book, The Great Betrayal: How Washington Bailed Out Wall Street but Left Main Street Underwater, is in progress. Professor Taub joined the faculty of Vermont Law School after serving as coordinator of the Business Law Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Isenberg School of Management. Prior to joining academia, she was an Associate General Counsel with Fidelity Investments. She has written extensively on the financial crisis, including a case study on American International Group available in the online edition of Monks and Minow's Corporate Governance. In addition, she has published "The Sophisticated Investor and the Global Financial Crisis," in Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis (Hawley, Kamath, and Williams, eds). Forthcoming work includes "What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Banking," in the Oxford University Press Handbook on the Political Economy of the Financial Crisis (Epstein and Wolfson, eds).

November 8, 2012

What Now? Post-Election Opportunities & Challenges
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Panelists:
Joseph Bafumi
Associate Professor of Government

Joseph Bafumi is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He was a 2010-2011 American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow serving on the Senate Budget Committee staff. Bafumi teaches courses in American government, public policy and quantitative methods. He has published in several scholarly journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis and PS: Political Science & Politics. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.

 

 

Linda Fowler
Professor of Government
Linda L. Fowler is Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses on American politics and has published widely on topics ranging from congressional elections and candidate recruitment, voter learning in primary elections and congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy. Beginning in 1995, Fowler served for nine years as the director of the Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth, she was a professor of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Fowler served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and as aide to the Administrator for Water Quality at the Environmental Protection Agency. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.

 

 

  Brendan Nyhan

Assistant Professor of Government

Brendan Nyhan is currently an Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on political scandal, misperceptions about politics and health care, and applications of social network analysis and applied statistical methods to contemporary politics. Before coming to Dartmouth, Nyhan served as a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. In 2004, Nyhan co-authored the New York Times bestseller All The President's Spin. He is an avid blogger and currently serves as New Hampshire campaign correspondent for Columbia Journalism Review. Nyhan received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University.

 

Moderator:
Charles Wheelan
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center

Charles Wheelan is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. Formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Center welcomed Professor Wheelan back to Dartmouth fulltime in June 2012. Since 2006, Wheelan has taught economics and public policy courses at Dartmouth during sophomore summer. He has also served as a correspondent for The Economist, and written freelance articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Wheelan's first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, served as an accessible and entertaining introduction to economics and is now published in 10 languages. The Chicago Tribune described Naked Economics as "clear, concise, informative, and (gasp) witty," and was selected as one of The 100 Best Business Books of all Time by 800-CEOREAD.

November 12, 2012

Veterans Day Program
World War II Remembered: The Impact of War Then and Now
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Booksigning of World War II Remembered and refreshments will follow panel.

Panelists: Kendal of Hanover Residents

Clinton Gardner '44

A member of the Dartmouth class of 1944, Clint Gardner served four years in the army as an officer in antiaircraft artillery. He was wounded in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and again in the Battle of the Bulge. Shortly before the war in Europe ended he was put in charge of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. He had reached the rank of captain when he returned to finish Dartmouth in 1946-7. In 1956 he and his wife Libby founded a national mail order company called Shopping International, a venture based in Norwich, Vermont, that sent them on buying trips to more than 40 countries.

 

 

 

Mary Mecklin Jenkins

The daughter of a Dartmouth professor, Mary grew up in Hanover. Two months after graduating from college, she married brand new Second Lieutenant, John Jenkins, and went with him to a B-29 Air Force base in Victoria, Kansas where he was an intelligence officer. After the war, while raising four children, Mary was president of a local League of Woman Voters in Connecticut, the first woman moderator of Westport's Representative Town Meeting, and served on the town's Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Finance. Recipient of a grant from the West German government to study German women in politics, Mary also went to the Soviet Union twice on exchanges sponsored by Bridges for Peace: US-USSR.

 

 

 

Robert Christie

At the tender age of 16, in 1940 Robert Christie matriculated at Norwich University, the Military College of Vermont and oldest private military college in the nation. He enlisted in the U.S. Army immediately after Pearl Harbor, and after being called to active duty, he spent a year as an enlisted man and eventually graduated form OCS at Fort Knox as a 2nd lieutenant in Armor. His military service was in Europe as a tank unit commander in Germany from the onset of the Battle of the Bulge until the war's end in 1945. Bob was separated from service in 1946 as a company commander. Forty months later he returned to Norwich to get his BS, and with the help of the GI Bill of Rights, graduated from State University of NY College of Medicine at NYC. Dr. Christie interned and had residencies at DHMC, and for three years practiced general medicine in Northfield, VT. He later specialized in pathology and laboratory medicine, directed eight hospital laboratories in NH and VT, and served on the DMS faculty.

November 13, 2012

Final 2012 Veterans Day Observances Program
Faith and Force: Religion in the U.S. Military Today
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM

Reception will follow panel.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Human Resources, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, and William Jewett Tucker Foundation

Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff '68

Rabbi Resnicoff is a consultant on interfaith values and interreligious affairs, a retired Navy Chaplain, a former Special Assistant for Values and Vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force (a position that carried with it the equivalent military rank of Brigadier General), and a former National Director of Interreligious Affairs for the American Jewish Committee. Rabbi Resnicoff's Navy career included early service as an enlisted reservist in a submarine unit while still in high school, and then - after graduation from Dartmouth NROTC - more than 28 years on active duty, including service as a line officer in the rivers of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, as part of Operation Game Warden, the effort to keep the rivers free of Viet Cong infiltrators. He was the driving force behind the military's decision to participate in the National Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (DRVH) and served as the Navy's representative for the DOD Guide to Holocaust Remembrance observances. The first Jewish Chaplain to attend the Naval War College, he received the NWC President's Honor Graduate Award, and later taught the class, Faith and Force: Religion, War, and Peace, the first course taught by a chaplain at any U.S. military war college. Present at the October 23, 1983 suicide truck bomb attack in Beirut, Lebanon – the first modern suicide attack against American forces -- his report of that event, written at White House request, was read by then President Ronald Reagan as his keynote speech to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's Baptist Fundamentalism '84' Convention in Washington, DC.

Summer 2012 Rockefeller Center Public Programs

July 18, 2012

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think, and It's Not Too Late
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
5:30 PM

Michael Ellsberg
Entrepreneur and Author

Michael Ellsberg is the bestselling author of The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think, and It's Not Too Late, which debuted as an instant best-seller and was named to multiple "Best Books of the Year" lists in 2011. He is also the author of The Power of Eye Contact: Your Secret for Success in Business, Love and Life. The Education of Millionaires is a bootstrapper's guide to investing in your own human capital. Ellsberg interviewed some of the most successful people on the planet who didn't complete college and who educated themselves in the real world, to deconstruct their secrets and create a "Syllabus for a Successful Life" based on what he learned from them. He has lectured at Google, the Thiel Fellowship, and the World Technology Forum – to name a few, and is currently one of the most sought-after young thinkers and speakers in the world.

Co-sponsored Programs

July 25, 2012

"WIRED" Performance by FLOCK Dance Troupe
Dartmouth Green (rain location: Top of the Hop)
6:30 pm

WIRED. A community theater dance production of FLOCK Dance Troupe
"Out of the chaos of greed will come reform around a new paradigm."

WIRED's storyline traces the influence of money in our society through the entangling of corporations, politics and the judicial system. With a blend of compassion, outrage and humor, the FLOCK Troupe will dance of consumption, the media, the Occupy Movement, and our place as human beings in the natural order of life on earth.

FLOCK recognizes that community dance and ritual theater are powerful in ways that go beyond the price of an admission ticket: strengthening relationships, deepening our sense of place, and building community through a performance of shared intention.

Sponsored by the William Jewett Tucker Foundation and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center

Interesting People, Interesting Times

The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, with support from the Tuck School of Business and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth, is presenting its 2012 Summer Speaker Series, "Interesting People, Interesting Times," on the Dartmouth campus this year. There will be four speaker events in the series.

The 2012 Summer Speaker Series is co-sponsored by Ms. Mimi Baird, Canoe Club, Dartmouth College, Fairpoint Communications, King Arthur Flour, Ledyard Bank, National Life Group, National Notary Association, NBT Bank, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth, New England Business Journals, Rutland Herald, Mr. & Mrs. David Spalding, Times Argus, Tuck School of Business, Union Mutual of Vermont Companies, Wild Apple Graphics, and The Woodstock Inn.

July 11, 2012

Governor Jim Douglas
Shapiro Room, Tuck School of Business
5:00 PM

 

Governor Jim Douglas
Former Governor of Vermont
Executive in Residence, Middlebury College

Governor Douglas served the people of Vermont for more than 35 years. Following his graduation from Middlebury College, he served first in the Vermont House of Representatives, rising to the position of majority Leader at the age of 25. He was then elected Secretary of State, and then State Treasurer, before occupying the Governor's office for four consecutive terms. As Governor, he worked to strengthen Vermont's economy, protected it natural environment, and advance groundbreaking reforms in health care. He was appointed co-chair of the Council of Governors by President Obama in 2010, and currently serves as Executive in Residence at his alma mater.

July 18, 2012

"Reflections on America's Obligations to Those Who Have Fought Its Wars"
Jim Wright
Shapiro Room, Tuck School of Business
5:00 PM

James Wright
President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College

James Wright is President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Wright, an American historian, served as Dartmouth's President for over a decade, and has been a member of its faculty since 1969. He has been featured in the New York Times and on ABC News, and has been recognized for his achievements by the New England Council, the Council of College and Military Educators, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the United States Marines, among countless others. Wright's new book, "Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them," was published this spring.

July 25, 2012

Panel Discussion: "Obama & Coolidge: What the 44th President of the United States Might Learn from the 30th"
Georgiopolous Room, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business
5:00 PM

Panelists:

Governor Howard Dean
Former Governor of Vermont
Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Governor Howard Dean, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, presidential candidate, six term Governor of Vermont, and physician, currently works as a part-time independent consultant focusing on the areas of health care, early childhood development, alternative energy, and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world.

 

Roger Brinner
Chief Economist, The Parthenon Group

Dr. Roger Brinner is the Chief Economist of The Parthenon Group and is a well-known analyst of U.S. and international economics. He has been an economics professor at Harvard University and MIT, and served as Senior Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisors and was a Visiting Fellow with the Federal Reserve.

 

Douglas Irwin
Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College

Douglas Irwin is Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is author of numerous articles on trade policy and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

Matt Slaughter
Associate Dean of the MBA Program and Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business

Matt Slaughter is the Associate Dean of the MBA Program and Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Tax Policy Forum.

 

 

Moderator:

Sarwar Kashmeri
Professor of American Foreign Policy, Dartmouth College's School of Continuing Education-ILEAD

Sarwar A. Kashmeri is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's International Security Program, and a fellow with the Foreign Policy Association, an author, current affairs commentator, and a strategic communications advisor to international companies.

 

August 15, 2012

Vicki Goldberg
Frantz II Classroom, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business
5:00 PM

Vicki Goldberg
Critic, Essayist, Lecturer

Ms. Goldberg is an internationally renowned critic, essayist, and lecturer on the subject of photography and its social history. She is a regular contributor to such eminent publications as The New York Times, The Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair. She has also authored several books, including "The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History" - a look at how the camera lens has captured the White House throughout the years with views both high-profile and public, as well as personal and private.