2013-2014 Public Programs
March 26, 2014
Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule
4:30-6:00 pm
Rockefeller 003
David Cobb
Spokesperson, Move to Amend Coalition
David Cobb is National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited. He is a lawyer and political activist. David has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and has been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. He truly believes we must use ALL the tools in the toolbox to effect the systemic social change we so desperately need. David was born in San Leon, Texas and worked as a laborer before going to college. He graduated from the University of Houston Law School in 1993 and maintained a successful private law practice in Houston for several years before devoting himself to full time activism to achieve real democracy in the United States. In 2002 David ran for Attorney General of Texas, pledging to use the office to revoke the charters of corporations that repeatedly violate health, safety and environmental laws. He did not win the office, but the Green Party of Texas grew dramatically during his campaign from four local chapters to twenty-six. In 2004, he ran for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket and successfully campaigned for the Ohio recount.
April 3, 2014
Democracy, the Jewish State, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Conversation with Gershom Gorenberg
4:30-6:00 pm
Kemeny 007
Gershom Gorenberg
American-Israeli journalist and historian
Gershom Gorenberg is a historian and journalist who specializes in Middle Eastern politics. He is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is mediating peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and is currently preparing a framework document (to be released in late April) that will guide the parties as they negotiate towards a two-state solution. Gershom will discuss Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, its effect on Israel's democratic character, and the consequences of success or failure of the current negotiations.
Co-sponsored with J Street U and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
April 14, 2014
Embers of War: Vietnam Reconsidered
4:30-6:00 pm
Rockefeller 003
Co-sponsored with the History Department and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Booksigning: 6:00-6:30 pm
Photo credit: Lindsay France
Fredrik Logevall
Stephen '59 and Madeline '60 Anbinder Professor of History, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
Fredrik Logevall is an award-winning, renowned historian, accomplished educator, and prolific writer on the Vietnam War. His epic and groundbreaking book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam won both the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in History and the prestigious Parkman Prize, which deemed it an "extraordinary work of modern history." In addition to his prolific writing career, Logevall is also the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He is a popular speaker at lecture series, colleges and universities, and historical organizations across the country. In addition to his expertise in all aspects of the Vietnam War, his in-depth knowledge of international relations and foreign policy allows him to skillfully draw parallels between history and modern day— inspiring audiences and encouraging dialogue about the lessons the past can teach us.
April 17, 2014
Who Cares? Film Screening5:30-7:30 pm
Rockefeller 003
Who Cares? is a 93-minute feature film shot in seven countries and carries a very empowering message for individuals: anyone can be a changemaker, regardless of leadership or marketable skills. It starts with having a vision for society while seeking accomplishment in one's life through contributions to improving the lives of others.
May 1, 2014 - Law Day Celebration
The Stephen R. Volk '57 Lecture
Can President Obama End the War on Terror?
4:30-6:00 pm
Rockefeller 003
Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group
David Cole
Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
David Cole teaches constitutional law, national security, and criminal justice at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He has been published widely in law journals and the popular press, and is the author or co-author of several award-winning books. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from Yale University. He worked as a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights from 1985-90, and has continued to litigate as a professor. He has litigated many significant constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, including Texas v. Johnson, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburningHe has been involved in many of the nation's most important cases involving civil liberties and national security, including the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen rendered to Syria by U.S. officials and tortured there. The late New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis called David "one of the country's great legal voices for civil liberties today." David has received two honorary degrees, and numerous awards for his human rights work, including, in 2013, the inaugural Norman Dorsen Presidential Prize from the ACLU for lifetime commitment to civil liberties.
May 2, 2014 - Law Day Celebration
Panel: Preserving Liberty and Security in Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from the Past, Challenges for the Future
12:30-2:00 pm
Haldeman 041
Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group
Panelists:
Daniel Benjamin
Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Prior to joining the Dickey Center, in 2012, Daniel Benjamin served as Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department. In that position, he was the principal advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on counterterrorism. Ambassador Benjamin was the longest serving coordinator for counterterrorism since that position was created, and during his tenure, the Office of the Coordinator was elevated to become the Bureau of Counterterrorism. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Benjamin was a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. From 2001 to 2006, he was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs in Washington, and prior to that, he was a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. During more than five years on the National Security Council staff in the 1990s, Benjamin served as a foreign policy speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and as director for transnational threats.
David Cole
Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
David Cole teaches constitutional law, national security, and criminal justice at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He has been published widely in law journals and the popular press, and is the author or co-author of several award-winning books. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from Yale University. He worked as a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights from 1985-90, and has continued to litigate as a professor. He has litigated many significant constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, including Texas v. Johnson, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburningHe has been involved in many of the nation's most important cases involving civil liberties and national security, including the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen rendered to Syria by U.S. officials and tortured there. The late New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis called David "one of the country's great legal voices for civil liberties today." David has received two honorary degrees, and numerous awards for his human rights work, including, in 2013, the inaugural Norman Dorsen Presidential Prize from the ACLU for lifetime commitment to civil liberties.
Katharine Gelber
Professor of Public Policy, University of Queensland
Katharine Gelber is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and an ARC Future Fellow, at the University of Queensland. Her recent publications include Speech Matters: How to Get Free Speech Right (University of Queensland Press, 2011), which was a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Awards 2011 (Literature Non-Fiction category), and articles in journals including Political Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, Melbourne University Law Review, Review of International Studies, the Australian Journal of Human Rights and the Australian Journal of Political Science. In 2011 she was awarded the PEN Keneally award for contributions to freedom of expression. In 2011 she was the Australian Expert Witness at a United Nations regional meeting discussing States' compliance with Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR. In 2009 Prof Gelber presented the Mitchell Oration in Adelaide on the topic of "freedom of speech and its limits."
Moderator:
Susan Brison
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Susan Brison is 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 3, 2014
2014 New Hampshire Millennial Action Summit:A Symposium on Health and Education in the 21st Century
Dartmouth Hall 105
Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, and the Millennium Action Coalition
10:00 am
Keynote: On Activism: The Six Essential Qualities of Leadership
Sam Potolicchio, PhD, Professor, Politics and Public Policy and Research Methods for the Semester in Washington Program at Georgetown University; Chair in Global Leadership Studies at the Russian Presidential Academy
11:30 am
Redefining Teacher Quality and Effective Training
Panelists:
Meredith Liu, MBA, Chief Financial Officer, Match Education
Irv Richardson, PhD, Coordinator for Public Education and School Improvement, NEA-NH
Page Tompkins, PhD, Director, Upper Valley Educators Institute
Moderator:
Ronald Shaiko, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Rockefeller Center
2:45 pm
Sector Transformations in Value-Based, Patient-Centered Care
Panelists:
Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy & Clinical Practice
Albert Mulley, Jr., MD, MPP, Director, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science
Janet Marchibroda, MBA, Director, Health Innovation Initiative, The Bipartisan Policy Center
Moderator:
Ellen Meara, PhD, Associate Professor, The Dartmouth Institute
5:15 pm (dinner served)
Passing Down the Yoke: Lessons from Generational Activists
Nick Troiano, Co-Founder, The Can Kicks Back; National Campus Director, Americans Elect
Charles Wheelan, PhD, Founder, The Centrist Project
May 8, 2014
The Bernard D. Nossiter '47 Lecture
Pop-Up Learning: How Technology Is Changing and Challenging College
4:30-6:00 pm
Rockefeller 003
Jeffrey R. Young
Louis Stark Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Jeffrey R. Young is an editor and writer focused on technology issues and the future of education. This summer he will return to The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he is a senior editor covering technology. He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, teaching a course on multimedia storytelling. Young is the author of the e-book Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guide to Higher Education's High-Tech Disruption. He has also written for national publications including The New York Times, New Scientist, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal. Young is a frequent speaker on issues of education and technology, having given talks at the World Knowledge Forum, SXSW, and education and campus events. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University in 1995 and a master's in communication, culture, and technology from Georgetown University in 2001.
May 8, 2014 - Co-sponsored program
Historical Introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
6:30-7:30 pm
Rockefeller 001
Co-sponsored with Students for Justice in Palestine
Anne Sa'adah
Professor of Government, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, Dartmouth College
Anne Sa'adah is a professor of government and law and political science at Dartmouth College. Her areas of expertise include European politics, politics in the Middle East, political development and democratization, democratic theory, and religion and political development. Professor Sa'adah is interested in when, why, and how human communities—political movements, universities, countries—come to organize themselves in ways that maximize both productive conflict and inclusiveness. She is particularly interested in what happens when societies face moments of deep and disorienting change, moments when democratic politics is a possibility, but sometimes only one possibility among others and in any case capable of taking a variety of forms (some more conflict-friendly and inclusionary than others): the revolutionary periods in England, America, and France, Reconstruction in the United States, and postwar and post-unification Germany. Her most recent book, Contemporary France: A Democratic Education, uses modern French politics to analyze the recurrent challenges that attend the political project of combining conflict and community. She earned a A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
May 12, 2014
Debating Income Inequality: What's the Problem? What's the Solution?
4:30-6:00 pm
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Co-sponsored with the Political Economy Project
N. Gregory Mankiw
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
The Brooks Family Lecturer
N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. As a student, he studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. As a teacher, he has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics, and principles of economics. Professor Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more widely accessible forums, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. He has written two popular textbooks—the intermediate-level textbook Macroeconomics (Worth Publishers) and the introductory textbook Principles of Economics (South-Western/Thomson). Principles of Economics has sold over a million copies and has been translated into twenty languages. In addition to his teaching, research, and writing, Professor Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the ETS test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden, Obama Administration
Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama's economic team. Bernstein's areas of expertise include federal and state economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, international comparisons, and the analysis of financial and housing markets. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is the author and coauthor of numerous books for both popular and academic audiences, including Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?, and nine editions of The State of Working America. Bernstein has published extensively in various venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Research in Economics and Statistics. He is an on-air commentator for the cable stations CNBC and MSNBC, contributor to The New York Times Economix blog, and hosts jaredbernsteinblog.com. Bernstein holds a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University.
Moderator:
Charles Wheelan '88
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center
Charles Wheelan is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow at the Rockefeller Center, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics. Wheelan was formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago. 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. Wheelan's next two pubications Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, and The Centrist Manifesto were published in 2013
May 14, 2014
The Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship
Co-sponsored with the Office of Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer
Financial Inclusion & Women Empowerment
4:30-6:00 pm
Rockefeller 003
Chetna Sinha
Founder & Chairperson, Mann Deshi Mahila Bank and the Mann Deshi Foundation
Ashoka Fellow
An economist, farmer, and activist, Chetna Sinha works for social change in some of the poorest and most drought-stricken areas of rural India. She is the founder and president of the Mann Deshi Mahila Bank, a micro-enterprise development bank. The Bank's clients are low-income women with incomes averaging INR 40 (USD 1.00) per day. The Bank currently has seven branches, more than 185,000 clients, and conducts 10,000 transactions daily. Because of the Bank's success, Chetna's advice on financial inclusion and women's banking has been sought by the Federal Reserve Bank of India. Through the Mann Deshi Bank and its non-profit sister organization, the Mann Deshi Foundation, Chetna uses a holistic approach to help her clients – one that combines economic activity with the educational tools and health care necessary to lead a productive life. Since 2006, Chetna has partnered with global organizations such as HSBC, British Asia Trust, Accenture, the Clinton Global Initiative, GIZ, Deutsche Bank, Bonita Trust, the Commonwealth of Learning and Global Giving to develop corporate community partnership programs which allow the corporate sector in the U.S. and Europe to gain a unique view of the impact that micro-finance initiatives have on the local rural population.
Chetna Sinha was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 for India by Palaniappan Chidambaram, Finance Minister of India on 11th November, 2013. She has been honored with the 2005 Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar award for rural entrepreneurship. She has also been awarded lifetime membership with Ashoka Innovators for the Public, and was selected for the first class of Yale University's World Fellows program in 2002-20033.
Winter 2014 Programs
January 9, 2014
The New Hampshire Rebellion
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Lawrence Lessig
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and founder of Rootstrikers, a network of activists leading the fight against government corruption. He has authored numerous books, including Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Our Congress—and a Plan to Stop It, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Free Culture, and Remix. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
January 14, 2014 - Co-sponsored program
Community Health PanelRoom 003, Rockefeller Center4:30-6:00 pm
Panelists:
John Malpede & Kevin Michael Key
Skid Row-based Los Angeles Poverty Department
Ceil Furlong
Good Neighbor Health Clinic, White River Junction, VT
Moderator:
Sara KobylenskiExecutive Director, The Haven
Co-sponsored by the Hopkins Center and the Rockefeller Center
January 15, 2014 - Co-sponsored program
An Evening in Honor of Freya con Moltke (1911-2010), German-Born Resistence Fighter and Local HeroLoew Auditorium
7:00-9:00 pm
Film screening and panel discussion with director Rachel Freudenburg and friends of Freya
Co-sponsored by the Departments of German Studies, History and Government, the Rockefeller Center and the Women's Network of the Upper Valley, and the Norwich Historical Society
January 16, 2014
Nothing Hard about the Math; It's All about the Politics4:30 PM
Faculty Panelists:
Linda L. FowlerProfessor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies
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 to 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.
Russell Muirhead Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics, Department of Government
Russell Muirhead is the Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics in the Department of Government. He teaches courses on Political Ideas, American Political Thought. Theoretical Foundations of Modern Politics, Ethics, Everyday Life and Law, Left and Right: Party Spirit and Ideology in American Politics, Political Speech, Morality and Capitalism, Partisanship and Ideology. His publications include "The Political Virtue," review essay, Tulsa Law Review 49, no. 2 (forthcoming, 2014), "The Case for Party Loyalty," in Sanford Levinson, Joel Parker, and Paul Woodruff, eds. Loyalty: Nomos LIV (New York: NYU Press, 2013), "Meaningful Work and Politics," The Hedgehog Review 14 no. 3 (Fall 2012), "The Partisan Connection," with Nancy L. Rosenblum, California Law Review Circuit 3 (March 2012) 99-112, "The Ethics of Exit: Moral Obligation in the Afghan Endgame," in Hy S. Rothstein, and John Arquilla eds., Afghan Endgames, (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012). He earned his A.B. in Government from Harvard University, his B.S. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Ronald G. Shaiko Senior Fellow and the Associate Director for Curricular and Research Programs, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Ronald G. Shaiko is a Senior Fellow and the Associate Director for Curricular and Research Programs at The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. The 2013-2014 academic year marks his twenty-seventh year of university teaching and his thirteenth year at Dartmouth College. In November of 2007, he received the Linda '82 and Paul Gridley Faculty Fellow Award from the Dean of the College; the award recognizes exemplary faculty involvement outside of the classroom. Prior to coming to Dartmouth, Shaiko was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Politics in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Poland during the 2000-2001 academic year. Throughout the decade of the 1990s, Shaiko taught at American University, where he founded and served as the academic director of the Lobbying Institute. During his 10 years at American, Shaiko served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993-1994 and as a Democracy Fellow at the United States Agency for International Development in 1998-1999. During his twenty-five years of teaching, he has received more than $1.3 million in grants, awards, and fellowships. Shaiko holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from Ursinus College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Charles Wheelan '88Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Charles Wheelan '88 is senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center and senior lecturer in economics in the Department of Economics. He was formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago. 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. Wheelan's book Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data (2013) makes statistics fun and shows how the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer any number of questions. Wheelan founded the Centrist Party in 2013 upon publication of his most recent book, The Centrist Manifesto.
Moderator:
Marjorie RoseSenior 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.
January 19, 2014 - Co-sponsored program
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Faith Celebration
Rollins Chapel
3:00-4:30 pm
Father Greg Boyle
Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries
A part of the Martin Luther King Jr Celebration at Dartmouth
Co-sponsored by Dean of the College, Ethics Institute, Institutional Diversity & Equity (ID&E), Rockefeller Center, Tucker Foundation
January 23, 2014
The Class of 1930 LectureFree by Default
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
4:30 PM
A part of the Martin Luther King Jr Celebration at Dartmouth
Cass R. SunsteinRobert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School
Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Fellow
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Sunstein is the author of many articles and a number of books, including Republic.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2001), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008) and most recently Simpler: The Future of Government (2013). Mr. Sunstein received his BA from Harvard College, and his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was executive director of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He served as a law clerk for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
January 28, 2014 - Rescheduled from Fall 2013
U.S. Leadership in Fighting Hunger, Poverty, and Undernutrition
4:30 PM
Jonathan Shrier '85Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State
On June 6, 2011, Jonathan Shrier became the Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security and as such, is responsible for coordinating all aspects of U.S. diplomacy related to food security and nutrition, and serves concurrently as Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future, the U.S. global hunger and food security initiative. He focuses on major donors, strategic partners, multilateral fora such as the G8 and G20, and policy reforms in partner countries. Mr. Shrier came to the State Department's Office of Global Food Security from the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. He has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he helped design and establish the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas launched by President Obama. While at the National Security Council and National Economic Council, Mr. Shrier coordinated interagency policy at the intersection of energy, climate, and agriculture, including responses to the spike in commodity prices in 2007-2008. A career Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Shrier handled international trade and investment issues for then Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Sheeran, just prior to her appointment as head of the World Food Program. During his service at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. Shrier worked with USAID to establish a development assistance program for Tibetan communities in China, with a focus on agriculture-led development. Mr. Shrier has earned degrees from the National Defense University (M.S. in National Security Resource Strategy), University of London (M.B.A. in International Management), London School of Economics (MSc in International Relations), and Dartmouth (A.B. in Government). His languages include Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
February 4, 2014 - Co-sponsored program
Annual William Jewett Tucker Lecture
Becoming Global Citizens: Civil Discourse across Difference and for Social Change
4:30-6:00 pm
Hanover Inn Grand Ballroom
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), Dean of the College, Dickey Center, Ethics Institute, Institute for Writing and Rhetoric (IWR), Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL), Rockefeller Center, Tucker Foundation, and Undergraduate Deans Office
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah is often called a postmodern Socrates, challenging us to look beyond the boundaries—real and imagined—that divide us, and to celebrate our common humanity. Named one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 public intellectuals, Appiah teaches at New York University. He has previously taught at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Duke, and the University of Ghana. He is also the President of the PEN American Center, the world's oldest human rights organization. In 2012, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by The White House. Anthony Appiah's book Cosmopolitanism is a manifesto for a world where identity has become a weapon and where difference has become a cause of pain and suffering. Cosmopolitanism won the Arthur Ross Book Award. In his latest book, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, Appiah lays out how honor propelled moral revolutions in the past—and could do so in the future. Appiah was born in London, raised in Ghana, and educated in England, at Cambridge University, where he received a Ph.D. in philosophy. As a scholar of African and African-American studies, he established himself as an intellectual with a broad reach. His book In My Father's House and his collaborations with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—including The Dictionary of Global Culture and Africana—are major works of African struggles for self-determination. In 2009, he was featured in Astra Taylor's documentary Examined Life, alongside Martha Nussbaum, Slavoj Zizek, and other leading contemporary philosophers.
February 17, 2014
The William H. Timbers '37 LectureToward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Act
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
Robin WestFrederick Hass Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law Center
Faculty Director, Georgetown Center for the Study of Law and Humanities
Robin West is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Study of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor West has written extensively on gender issues and feminist legal theory, constitutional law and theory, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and law and literature. She is the author of, most recently, Teaching Law: Justice, Politics and the Demands of Professionalism, and Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction, both from Cambridge University Press. West earned her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Maryland and her J.S.M. from Stanford.
CANCELLED: February 26, 2014
The Brooks Family LectureThe New Republican
4:30-6:00 pm
Silsby 028
Alex CastellanosFounder, NewRepublican.org
Founding Partner, Purple Strategies
As a consultant in the United States and around the globe, Alex Castellanos has developed communications strategies and campaigns for some of the world's largest companies. Castellanos has helped elect over a dozen US Senators and Governors and has consulted seven US Presidential candidates. Through his experience, Alex has also been credited with the discovery of the political "soccer mom," and has also been called the "father of the attack ad." Castellanos is a co-founder of Purple Strategies: a national, bipartisan public affairs firm which takes its name from the merger of colors commonly identified with Democrats (blue) and Republicans (red). He is also the founder of NewRepublican.org, an organization dedicated to advancing conservative principles into the political campaigns of the communications age. Castellanos currently serves as a member of CNN's "Best Political Team on Television," and is frequently featured on NBC's Meet the Press. In addition to his television experience, Fortune Magazine singled out Castellanos as a "new style Media Master," and in 2007 GQ called him one the 50 most influential people in DC. A Morehead and National Merit Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Castellanos has lectured domestically and internationally for the Washington Speakers Bureau, with venues ranging from Harvard University to the United States Army Communication School. Castellanos has also served as a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A native of Havana, Cuba, Castellanos is fluent in Spanish and English. His parents, refugees who fled Castro's Cuba in 1961, came to this country with one suitcase, two children, and eleven dollars.
Fall 2013 Programs
September 18, 2013
Constitution Day Program
Our Founders' ConstitutionRoom 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
In collaboration with the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group
Annette Gordon-Reed '81Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Dartmouth College Board of Trustees Member
Annette Gordon-Reed is an author, historian and legal scholar. She has written four books, edited one volume of essays, along with numerous articles and chapters in books. She published her first book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy in 1997. In 2008, Gordon-Reed published The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which won 16 book awards, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award. Gordon-Reed was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. For her original and groundbreaking research on Jefferson, Monticello and slavery, Gordon-Reed won a MacArthur "Genius Award" and a National Humanities Medal in 2010. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She now teaches law at Harvard Law School, is a professor of history at Harvard University, and holds the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
September 24, 2013
Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Roots of America's Intervention in the Vietnam War
Room 003, Rockefeller Center4:30 PM
Co-sponsored with the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Edward MillerAssociate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Edward Miller is a historian of America's relations with the world, with particular expertise in the Vietnam War. Since arriving at Dartmouth in 2004, he has offered courses on the U.S. and the World, American Empire, and the Vietnam War. His first book, Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam, was published by Harvard University Press in 2013. This book is based in part on extensive research in Vietnamese sources, including South Vietnamese government records held in archives in Ho Chi Minh City.
Postponed due to U.S. Government shutdown. Rescheduled for October 21, 2013. Postponed again. Rescheduled for winter term.
U.S. Leadership in Fighting Hunger, Poverty, and UndernutritionRoom 003, Rockefeller Center
New time: 7:00 PM
Co-sponsored with the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Jonathan Shrier '85
Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State
On June 6, 2011, Jonathan Shrier became the Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security and as such, is responsible for coordinating all aspects of U.S. diplomacy related to food security and nutrition, and serves concurrently as Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future, the U.S. global hunger and food security initiative. He focuses on major donors, strategic partners, multilateral fora such as the G8 and G20, and policy reforms in partner countries. Mr. Shrier came to the State Department's Office of Global Food Security from the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. He has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he helped design and establish the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas launched by President Obama. While at the National Security Council and National Economic Council, Mr. Shrier coordinated interagency policy at the intersection of energy, climate, and agriculture, including responses to the spike in commodity prices in 2007-2008. A career Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Shrier handled international trade and investment issues for then Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Sheeran, just prior to her appointment as head of the World Food Program. During his service at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. Shrier worked with USAID to establish a development assistance program for Tibetan communities in China, with a focus on agriculture-led development. Mr. Shrier has earned degrees from the National Defense University (M.S. in National Security Resource Strategy), University of London (M.B.A. in International Management), London School of Economics (MSc in International Relations), and Dartmouth (A.B. in Government). His languages include Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
October 23, 2013
Reign of Error: Responding to the Assault on Public Education
Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts7:30 PM
Co-sponsored by Dartmouth College Department of Education's Teacher Education Program and the Vermont School Boards Association
Diane RavitchProfessor at New York University, Author, and Historian of Education
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She blogs at dianeravitch.net, a site that has had nearly 3.5 million page views in less than a year. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program. She was appointed by the Clinton administration's Secretary of Education Richard Riley in 1997 and reappointed by him in 2001. From 1995 until 2005, she held the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution and edited Brookings Papers on Education Policy. Before entering government service, she was Adjunct Professor of History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. A native of Houston, she is a graduate of the Houston public schools. She received a BA from Wellesley College in 1960 and a PhD in history from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1975.
October 31, 2013
The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture
The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental RightsRoom 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
James E. Fleming
Professor of Law and The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law
James E. Fleming is Professor of Law, The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, and Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Boston University School of Law. He is author or co-author of Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy (University of Chicago Press, 2006); Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (Oxford University Press, 2007) (with Sotirios A. Barber), and American Constitutional Interpretation (4th ed., Foundation Press, 2008) (with the late Walter F. Murphy, Barber, and Stephen Macedo). He has just published a new book, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013), with his wife, Linda C. McClain (who is Professor of Law and Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law). He is working on a book on constitutional interpretation, Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution (under contract with Oxford University Press). Finally, he is outgoing Editor of Nomos, the annual book of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and incoming Vice President (for Law) of the Society.
November 7, 2013
No Time to Think
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, and the William Jewitt Tucker Foundation
In support of the Dartmouth Centers Forum Theme, Body Politic(s): Health, Wellness, and Social Responsibility
David Levy '71
Professor, The Information School, University of Washington
David Levy is Professor at the Information School, University of Washington in Seattle. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and a diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute in London. For more than 15 years, he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, exploring the transition from paper and print to digital media. At the University of Washington since 2000, he focuses on bringing mindfulness training and other contemplative practices to address problems of information overload and acceleration.
November 15, 2013
Veterans Day Program
Why Continuing Service to Your Country MattersRoom 003, Rockefeller Center
4:00 PM
Michael Breen '02
Executive Director, The Truman National Security Project and the Center for National Policy
Michael Breen is the Executive Director of the Truman National Security Project and the Center for National Policy. Breen is frequently called on to testify before Congress, regularly briefs government officials and elected leaders on security issues, and makes frequent media appearances. A former U.S. Army officer, Breen served with the infantry in Iraq and led paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. After leaving the military, Breen clerked for the Office of White House Counsel. He co-founded the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, an organization that provides safe passage and new beginnings for Iraqi refugees. Mike has worked with refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan—establishing the first clinical legal education program in Jordan. He serves on the Boards of IRAP and Yellow Ribbons United. Breen holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and a JD from Yale Law School. Mike is a proud New Hampshire native and a member of the NH Bar Association.
November 18, 2013
A Conversation on "Ghosts in the Machine: Our Messed-up Constitution"with Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor and Staff Writer, The New Yorker & John Carey, Chair, Government Department
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 PM
Hendrik Hertzberg Senior Editor and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker. According to Forbes magazine, he is one of "The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media." He is a six-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, which he won in 2006. He is the author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, named as a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and ¡Obamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era. Hertzberg originally joined The New Yorker in 1969 after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He later worked as a White House speechwriter under President Jimmy Carter and as editor of The New Republic before returning to The New Yorker in 1992. Hertzberg, a Harvard graduate, has also been a fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics and its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
Summer 2013 Programs
August 20, 2013
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Public HearingAlumni Hall, Hopkins Center
9:30 am-12:30 pm
Open to the public. Continental breakfast will be served.
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is a 2011 law to reform our nation's food safety laws. FSMA aims to ensure that the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for implementing the law and has proposed two rules to begin this implementation. As drafted, the two rules may have far reaching impacts that could threaten small farms in New England and our growing sector of farmers markets, co-ops, and other local food venues.
In order to help the FDA understand how these rules will impact New England, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the New Hampshire and Vermont Departments of Agriculture, in collaboration with Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster '78, will host a public input session so that the FDA can hear directly from farmers and consumers. Combined with comments received during the ongoing public comment period, this input session will help FDA to refine and revise the proposals to ensure that the final rules promote food safety while protecting New England's unique agricultural sector.
The Portman Lecture Series: How Might We...
Henrik ScheelCEO & Founder, Startup Experience Inc.
Henrik Scheel is a Danish serial entrepreneur currently living in San Francisco where he focuses on startup projects in entrepreneurship education and telecom. While still an engineering student, Henrik founded two companies in IT and Design Thinking. He then worked with the Global Research team at Vestas Wind Systems and became specialized in strategy development and Innovation Management. In 2010 he moved to Silicon Valley where he founded Startup Experience Inc. Through Startup Experience he has formed partnerships with governments, NGOs and corporate non-profits in 15+ countries and is striving to transform entrepreneurship education in today's school system.
August 1, 2013 - Public Lecture
How Might We Discover Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Social Good?Henrik Scheel, CEO & Founder, Startup Experience Inc.
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
5:00 PM
Open to the public.
August 2-3, 2013 - Student Workshop & Networking Reception
How Might We Improve Lives through Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship?Collis Common Ground
August 2, 4:00-8:00 pm
August 3, 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Networking reception to follow, sponsored by Career Services and Mitosis
Open to students only - undergraduate and graduate.
The Startup Experience is a crash course on high-impact entrepreneurship and social innovation. Students will go through an intense journey from identifying a problem and turning it into a viable opportunity for a startup company. The Startup Experience simulates life in a startup company, providing hands-on experience with social innovation. This workshop is targeted to those who want to be successful innovators now and in the future.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Career Services, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Dartmouth Athletics, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Society, Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation (DALI) Lab, Kairos Society, Mitosis, Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer, Thayer School of Engineering, Tuck School of Business, and Tucker Foundation.