Ambassador Hector Timerman
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Inaugural Rabbi Marshall Meyer Great Issues Lecture on Social
Justice
"The Struggle of Being a Human Being in Difficult Times," by
Ambassador Hector Timerman
- Wednesday, May 3
- 4:30 p.m.
- 105 Dartmouth Hall
Ambassador Timerman has served as the consul general of Argentina and
director of the Promotion Center in New York since July of 2004. Previously he
was a consultant for Public Affairs Analyst and editorial director of Latin
American Finance. He has written articles in The New York Times, Newsweek,
The Nation, and the Los Angeles Times. Ambassador Timerman was
cofounder and board member of Human Rights Watch. He will discuss social
justice in the context of his own and his father's struggles against state
repression in Argentina and elsewhere. Jacobo Timerman, an outspoken
journalist, spent 30 months under house arrest in Argentina in the 1970s. This
period, when the military junta killed thousands of people, is detailed in the
1981 book, Prisoner without a name, Cell without a Number. Jacobo died
in 1999, but his son has continued their campaign for human rights.
The Rabbi Marshall Meyer Great Issues Lecture on Social Justice will be an
annual Dickey Center event,
made possible by a generous gift from Marina and Andrew Lewin '81. Rabbi Meyer
graduated from Dartmouth in 1952. He founded the Seminario Rabinico
Latinoamericano, a rabbinical school that became a center of Conservative
Judaism in Latin America. During the years of the Argentinean military regime
of 1976 to 1982, Rabbi Meyer became a strong critic of the military government
and its violations of human rights. He worked to save the lives of hundreds of
people that were being persecuted by the regime and he visited prisoners, among
them Jacobo Timerman. Timerman dedicated his book to the Rabbi, who
"brought solace to Jewish, Christian, and atheist prisoners." The
annual lecture, drawing on the Jewish value of tikkun olam, repairing the world
through social action, features a person who expresses the values that Rabbi
Meyer saw as the core of Judaism.
The lecture is cosponsored by the Tucker Foundation and the Jewish Studies Program.
War and Peace Studies Program Discussion
"America's Oil Addiction and National Security: Driving US to the
Brink?" with Michael Klare
- Thursday, May 4
- 4:30 p.m.
- Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Michael Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security
Studies and director of the Five College
Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS). He served as director
of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy
Studies in Washington, D.C., (1977-84) and has written widely on U.S. defense
policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs. Klare is the author of
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency
on Imported Petroleum.
The Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow
Lecture
"Terrorists, Tycoons, Tyrants and Theocrats: American Policy Challenges in
the Middle East," by Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer
- Tuesday, May 9
- 4:30 p.m.
- Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Kurtzer is
the S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University. He joined the faculty of the
Woodrow Wilson School in 2006 after retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service with
the rank of Career-Minister. Between 2001 and 2005 he served as the United
States ambassador to Israel and was previously the United States ambassador to
Egypt. Kurtzer was a member of the American delegation to the
Israel-Palestinian autonomy negotiations (1979-1982), and helped negotiate the
creation of the Multinational Force and Observers (1981-1982). He crafted the
1988 peace initiative of Secretary of State George P. Shultz and, in 1991,
served as a member of the U.S. peace team that brought about the Madrid Peace
Conference. He received several of the U.S. government's most prestigious
awards, including the Presidents' Distinguished Service Award, the Department
of State Distinguished Service Award, the National Intelligence Community's
Award for Achievement, and the Director General of the Foreign Service Award
for Political Reporting.
The Class of 1950 Fellows program began when, at their 50th reunion in
spring 2000, the class presented a generous gift to the Dickey Center with the
purpose "to bring distinguished foreign leaders, scholars, and specialists
to the Dartmouth campus for short periods, to interface with the students on
the important issues of the day." Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs
Fellows deliver a public lecture, are available for classroom talks, and hold
informal discussions with students and faculty.
For more information, call 646-2023 or visit www.dartmouth.edu/~dickey.
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