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2014-2015 Public Programs

April 13, 2015 - Co-sponsored public event

Recalculating Wall Street Rationalities: A Rethinking of Financial Risk and "Risk Culture"
3:30 PM
Rockefeller 002

 

Karen Ho, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Karen Ho is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of finance, globalization, and capitalism. She received her BA and MA from Stanford University and her PhD in anthropology from Princeton University. She is the author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke, 2009) based on work as both an investment banker and a researcher. Her talk will extend her work on the organizational culture of risk on Wall Street that stresses enhancing shareholder value but also generates corporate instabilities magnified by market dynamics and rhythms.

 

April 14, 2015

A Political Economy Project Debate and
The Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship
Are CEOs Overpaid?
4:30 PM
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Co-sponsored with the Political Economy Project

 

Panelists:

Lucian Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance; Director of the Program on Corporate Governance; Harvard Law School

Lucian Bebchuk is the Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance and Director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School. Bebchuk is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inaugural Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Network, and Director of the SSRN Corporate Governance Network. Trained in both law and economics, Professor Bebchuk holds an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Harvard Economics Department. His research focuses on corporate governance, law and finance, and law and economics. Upon electing him to membership in 2000, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences cited him as "[o]ne of the nation's leading scholars of law and economics," who "has made major contribution to the study of corporate control, governance, and insolvency." Bebchuk is the author or coauthor of more than one hundred research papers, as well the widely acclaimed book Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation. Bebchuk’s papers have appeared in the top academic journals in law, in economics, and in finance. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has ranked him first among legal academics of all fields in terms of citations to his work in each of the past five years. Bebchuk has been a frequent contributor to policy-making, practice, and public debate in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. He has appeared in hearings and roundtables before the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Banking Committee, the House of Representatives Committee of Financial Services, and the SEC; has authored numerous op-ed pieces, including in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Financial Times; has advised governmental bodies, such as the Special Master on TARP executive compensation during the financial crisis, and publicly traded firms; has served on the board of directors of OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium. Bebchuk was  included in the list of the "100 most influential players in corporate governance" of Directorship, the "100 most influential people in finance" of Treasury & Risk Management, and the list of top 10 ”governance stars” of Global Proxy Watch.

 

 

Steven N. Kaplan, Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Steven Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he joined the faculty in 1988. Professor Kaplan is also the faculty director of Booth’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is one of the world’s top researchers on private equity, venture capital, corporate governance, executive talent and income inequality. His papers on private equity and venture capital are the standard references in the field. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Kaplan teaches advanced MBA, law and executive courses in entrepreneurial finance and private equity, corporate finance, corporate governance, and wealth management. His course in entrepreneurial finance and private equity is consistently among the most popular in the school. BusinessWeek named him one of the top 12 business school teachers in the country and one of the top four teachers of entrepreneurship.Professor Kaplan co-founded the entrepreneurship program at Booth. With his students, he helped start Booth’s New Venture Challenge, which has spawned over one hundred companies that have raised over $300 million from investors and have created over $3 billion in market value.  Companies include GrubHub and Braintree (sold to eBay for $800 million). Professor Kaplan serves on the board of Accretive Health, Columbia Acorn Funds, and Morningstar. He earned his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University, and his AB, summa cum laude, in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College.

 

Moderator:

Douglas Irwin, John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College

Douglas Irwin is the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is author of Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011), Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, third edition 2009), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on trade policy in books and professional journals. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

April 16, 2015

2016 Election. Their Budget. Our Future.
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003

Co-sponsored by Dartmouth Rootstrikers, College Democrats and College RepublicansSupported by the Rockefeller Center and First Budget

Lecture

Nick Troiano, Youngest Congressional Candidate, Independent Party, PA; Co-founder, The Can Kicks Back

Nick Troiano is a civic entrepreneur from Milford, PA. He is active in leading efforts and supporting organizations that are aimed at strengthening American democracy and tackling our country's most pressing challenges. He is an Advisor to Run for America, a founding member of the Centrist Project, and a James Madison Fellow with the Millennial Action Project.

Nick ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014 from Pennsylvania's 10th District and drew national attention as both the youngest candidate and the most successful independent of the cycle, garnering over 22,000 votes. In 2012, Nick co-founded The Can Kicks Back campaign to advocate for bipartisan policies to reduce the national debt and was instrumental in the introduction of the INFORM Act to increase transparency in the federal budget. Previously, he served as National Campus Director for Americans Elect where he organized and supported student groups at over 300 colleges nationwide.

Nick earned a Master's degree in American Government from Georgetown University, where he completed his undergraduate studies with honors and championed the creation of a $1 million Social Innovation and Public Service Fund. He has spoken on the topics of youth engagement, political reform, and fiscal issues to dozens of groups across the country, including along three national bus tours that collectively visited over 40 states. Nick has also provided commentary to a range of television, radio, and print media outlets and is featured in two documentaries, Follow the Leader (PBS) and Broken Eggs.

 

Panel on Fiscal Policy

Steve Marchard, Former Mayor of Portsmouth, NH (D)

Bill Zeliff, Former Congressman from New Hampshire's First District (R)

 

April 23, 2015

China at the Crossroads? Reform Challenges Ahead
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003

Co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Department of Government

 

David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, and Director, China Policy Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

David Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. He is presently Professor of Political Science & International Affairs and the founding Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Center for East Asian Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution. He was previously Reader in Chinese Politics in the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), where he also served as Editor of The China Quarterly. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He has been selected as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Senior Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a Distinguished Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Shambaugh is also a frequent commentator in the international media, serves on a number of editorial boards, and has been a consultant to various governments, research institutions, foundations, and private corporations. As an author, he has written or edited 30 books, including China Goes Global: The Partial Power (2013 and selected by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Bloomberg News as one of the “Best Books of the Year”).

 

April 27, 2015

Class of 1930 Fellow Lecture
Islam and the West: Dialogue or Clash of Civilizations?
5:15 PM
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

 

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, School of International Service, American University; former High Commissioner from Pakistan to the UK and Ireland; Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Fellow

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C and the former Pakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Previously, Ambassador Ahmed was the Iqbal Fellow (Chair of Pakistan Studies) and Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. He has also taught at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He is the author of more than a dozen award-winning books including an unprecedented quartet of books examining relations between the West and the World of Islam after 9/11: Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (Brookings 2007); Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam (Brookings 2010); The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam (Brookings 2013); and Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Empire (forthcoming). Ambassador Ahmed is also a published poet and playwright.

 

April 30, 2015

Law Day Celebration at Dartmouth: The Stephen R. Volk '57 Lecture
Dark Money and Shadow Parties:  The Real Problem in Campaign Finance
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003

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

 

 Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Professor Heather Gerken specializes in election law and constitutional law. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic’s “Ideas of the Year” section, the Ideas Section of the Boston Globe, and NPR’s On the Media. It has also been the subject of three academic symposia. Professor Gerken clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt and Justice David Souter. After practicing for several years, she joined the Harvard faculty in September 2000 and was awarded tenure in 2005. In 2006, she joined the Yale faculty. Professor Gerken has won teaching awards at both Yale and Harvard, been named one of the nation’s “twenty-six best law teachers” by a book published by the Harvard University Press, was featured in the National Law Journal for balancing teaching and research, and won a Green Bag award for legal writing, testified three times before Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Professor Gerken served as a senior legal adviser in the “Boiler Room” for the Obama for America campaign in 2008 and 2012. Her proposal for creating a “Democracy Index” was turned into reality by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which created the nation’s first Election Performance Index in 2013.

May 1, 2015

A Discussion with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski1:00 PMCook Auditorium, Murdough Hall, Tuck School of Business

Co-sponsored with the Center for Global Business and Government, Tuck School of Business

Joe Scarborough, Co-host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC

Former congressman Joe Scarborough (R-FL) is the host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe." the show TIME magazine calls "revolutionary" and the New York Times ranked as the top news program of 2008. In April 2011, Scarborough was named to the prestigious "TIME 100" list of the world's most influential people. Previously, Joe hosted "Scarborough Country" on MSNBC. In addition to his career in television, Joe is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise, a book that draws on the forgotten genius of conservatism to offer a road map for the movement and the country. Prior to his career in television, Joe was the publisher and editor of the award-winning newspaper the Florida Sun.

Joe served as a member of Congress from 1994 to 2001. While in office, he was a member of the judiciary, armed services, oversight, and national security committees. He was also part of a small group of young Republican congressmen who were said to possess a surprising amount of power given their youth and lack of years in Congress by the National Journal.

Mika Brzezinski, Co-host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC

Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and the author of three best-selling books. Her memoir All Things At Once became a New York Times best seller in January 2010. Her second book Knowing Your Value, which examines the role of women in the workplace, reached #1 on The New York Times best sellers list for business books in spring 2011. Her most recent book Obsessed: America's Food Addiction and My Own debuted on the best-sellers list in spring 2013. Brzezinski also writes "Getting What You Want" for Cosmopolitan, a monthly column about career confidence and empowerment.

Prior to joining MSNBC in January 2007, Brzezinski was an anchor of the "CBS Evening News Weekend Edition" and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to "CBS Sunday Morning" and "60 Minutes." She reported live from Lower Manhattan for CBS News during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Curt Welling, '71, Tu'77, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Business and Governance, Tuck School of Business; Chair, Board of Visitors, Rockefeller Center

Curt Welling joined the Center for Global Business and Government at Tuck in January 2014. Welling is the former president and CEO of AmeriCares, the nonprofit global health and disaster relief organization that delivers medicines and medical supplies to people in crisis. As president and CEO, Welling oversaw the distribution of $9 billion in aid worldwide. Under his leadership, AmeriCares became the world's leading organization for delivering donated medicines and medical supplies, and launched multi-year relief efforts for several major disasters including the Japan earthquake and tsunami, the Haiti earthquake, and the Southeast Asia tsunami.

Before joining AmeriCares in 2002, Welling spent 25 years in senior executive roles in the investment banking and securities industries, including president and CEO of SG Cowen Securities Corporation and senior managing director of global equity capital markets at Bear Stearns. He currently serves on the boards of both Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE/Euronext Paris: CCE) and Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE). He also chairs the Board of Visitors of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth, and serves on the board of the Adirondack Council.

 

May 1, 2015

Law Day Celebration at Dartmouth: Law Day Panel
Money in Politics: A Discussion of Recent Developments
3:00 PM
Rockefeller 003

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

 

Moderator:

John M. Greabe '85, Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law

Professor John Greabe has taught full time at the University of New Hampshire School of Law since 2010, and part time since 1997. His scholarship focuses on federal courts and procedure, civil rights litigation, and constitutional law. Before becoming a full-time law teacher, Professor Greabe taught at Vermont Law School and clerked for several judges within the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Greabe teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, First Amendment, and Judicial Opinion Drafting. He earned his BA from Dartmouth College and his JD from Harvard Law School.

 

Panelists:

Gilles Bissonette, Staff Attorney, New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union

Gilles Bissonnette has extensive civil litigation experience, which has included aggressive advocacy in both the freedom of speech and privacy arenas. He was named a “New England Super Lawyers Rising Star” in the 2013 edition of New England Super Lawyers magazine. Prior to joining the NHCLU, Gilles was a civil litigator in Boston at the law firms of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, Todd & Weld LLP, and Cooley LLP.

 

 

 Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Professor Heather Gerken specializes in election law and constitutional law. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic’s “Ideas of the Year” section, the Ideas Section of the Boston Globe, and NPR’s On the Media. It has also been the subject of three academic symposia. Professor Gerken clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt and Justice David Souter. After practicing for several years, she joined the Harvard faculty in September 2000 and was awarded tenure in 2005. In 2006, she joined the Yale faculty. Professor Gerken has won teaching awards at both Yale and Harvard, been named one of the nation’s “twenty-six best law teachers” by a book published by the Harvard University Press, was featured in the National Law Journal for balancing teaching and research, and won a Green Bag award for legal writing, testified three times before Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Professor Gerken served as a senior legal adviser in the “Boiler Room” for the Obama for America campaign in 2008 and 2012. Her proposal for creating a “Democracy Index” was turned into reality by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which created the nation’s first Election Performance Index in 2013.

 

Daniel Weeks, Executive Director, Open Democracy

Daniel Weeksis Executive Director of Open Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit working to increase civic engagement and government accountability in the Granite State. Founded by legendary reformer Doris “Granny D” Haddock, Open Democracy conducts legislative advocacy, public education, and grassroots organizing at the state and local level; our NH Rebellion walks across New Hampshire gained national and international attention in 2014-15. Prior to Open Democracy, Weeks served as president of Americans for Campaign Reform (now Issue One), working with a bipartisan team of U.S. Senators to advance citizen-funded elections in Congress. As founding director of Students for Clean Elections in Connecticut, he helped pass the first legislature-approved public funding law in the country in 2005. Weeks has written and spoken extensively on democracy issues in the US, UK, and South Africa, including for The Atlantic, New York Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and on PBS, NPR, and BBC. He is currently writing a book on poverty and democracy based on poverty-line research he conducted in 30 states by Greyhound bus as a Harvard fellow. Weeks is a graduate of Oxford and Yale.

 

May 11, 2015

The Bernard D. Nossiter '47 Lecture
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Europe in Crisis
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003

 

Henry Chu, London Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Nieman Fellow, The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

Henry Chu is London bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. He has reported from more than 30 countries for the paper and was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. In addition to London, he has been posted in Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, and New Delhi. He is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

 

May 19, 2015

A Conversation with NH Governor Maggie Hassan
4:30 PM
Silsby 028

 

NH Governor Maggie Hassan

Now in her second term, Governor Hassan is moving forward with implementing her "Innovate NH" jobs plan, seeking to build the best workforce in the country and strengthen the economy by freezing in-state tuition at public colleges and universities and restoring scholarship funding, doubling and making permanent the state's research and development tax credit, and providing businesses with technical assistance to help them create jobs. Governor Hassan also worked across party lines to enact a bipartisan plan that expands access to health coverage to as many as 50,000 hard-working Granite Staters, the most significant piece of health care legislation that the State of New Hampshire has seen in decades. Recognizing that a modern, safe transportation infrastructure is critical for New Hampshire's businesses and commuters, Governor Hassan signed a bipartisan transportation funding bill, a measure supported by the business community that invests in road and bridge projects across the state – including finishing the expansion of I-93. And the Governor has worked to maintain New Hampshire's high quality of life as one of the safest, healthiest and most livable states in the nation. Governor Hassan successfully worked to invest in a stronger mental health system, put more State Troopers on the road, restore the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program, increase funds for services for people with acquired brain disorders and developmental disabilities, and restore funding for the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP).

Governor Hassan began her career in public service in 1999 when Governor Jeanne Shaheen asked her to serve on the Advisory Committee to the Adequacy in Education and Finance Commission. Her experience as a business attorney, along with her role as the parent of two children, one of whom experiences severe disabilities, enabled her to provide a unique perspective as the commission did its work. In 2004, Governor Hassan was first elected to the New Hampshire Senate, serving the people of the 23rd District, which included numerous Seacoast towns. During her six years in office, she was selected by her colleagues to serve as both President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader of the State Senate. As a leader in the Senate, she helped pass universal kindergarten so that every child has the same opportunity to succeed; helped lower the state's dropout rate by increasing the legal dropout age to 18 and establishing alternative education programs; worked to pass New Hampshire Working, a nationally recognized effort to help businesses and workers during the recession; sponsored the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to reduce long-term energy costs, curb pollution, and create jobs; and was instrumental in passing marriage equality in New Hampshire.

The Governor earned her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from the Northeastern School of Law.(source: http://governor.nh.gov/about/)

 

 Charles Wheelan, Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Nelson A. 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 publications Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, and The Centrist Manifesto were published in 2013. Prof. Wheelan is the co-founder of the Centrist Party, the party that supports candidates and public policies that enable the development of free enterprise, limited government and individual liberty, while protecting the common good, well being and the economy of the public at large.

 

May 20, 2015

"Struggling Toward Meritocracy: The Need for Economic Diversity at Top Colleges"
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003

 Co-sponsored by Department of Government

 

David Leonhardt, Columnist, The New York Times; Editor of The Upshot, The New York Times

David Leonhardt is a columnist at The New York Times and the editor of The Upshot, a Times website covering politics, policy and other subjects. In 2011, he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, for his economic columns. He is the author of the e-single, "Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth," an Amazon.com and New York Times bestseller. David was previously a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the newspaper's Washington Bureau Chief.

Before joining The Times in 1999, he worked for Business Week magazine and The Washington Post. He studied applied mathematics at Yale and is a third-generation native of New York. His Twitter handle is @DLeonhardt.

 

June 1, 2015 - Co-sponsored Program

"Southern Slavery and Its Political Legacy: How America's Peculiar Institution Continues to Affect American Politics Today"
4:30 PM
Rockefeller 003

Co-sponsored by the Program in Quantitative Social Science

 

Matthew Blackwell, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University

Matthew Blackwell is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He studies political methodology, with a focus on dynamic causal inference, missing data, panel data, and social network analysis. His substantive interests include American politics, negative advertising, and historical political economy. (source: http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/matthew-blackwell)

 

 Maya Sen, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Maya Sen is a political scientist and an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. Sen writes on issues involving the political economy of U.S. race relations, law and politics, and statistical methods. Her research has been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, MSNBC, and other outlets, and has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Judicature, the Du Bois Review, and the Journal of Legal Studies. Her current book-length project, co-authored with Matthew Blackwell (Harvard) and Avidit Acharya (Stanford), explores the lasting impact of U.S. slavery on contemporary politics. Sen graduated with her Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University. She also holds an A.M. in Statistics and an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. (source: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/maya-sen)

 

Winter 2015 Programs

January 13, 2015 - Co-sponsored Program

A Shattered Past: Looting and Destruction in the Cradle of Civilization
4:30 PM
Carpenter 013

Co-sponsored by the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program (AMES), Hood Museum of Art, The Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center

Stephennie Mulder, Assistant Professor, Art History: Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

Stephennie Mulder (M.A., Princeton University, 2001 - Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2008) is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. A specialist in architectural history and archaeology, she has worked for more than 10 years as the ceramicist for Princeton University's excavations of the Islamic site of Balis, Syria, and is preparing a book-length study of medieval Islamic ceramics based on her work at the site. A second project, The Architecture of Coexistence: Sunnis, Shi'is and the Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria, which identifies, draws, and maps dozens of 'Alid shrines and argues for their role in medieval sectarian conciliation and accommodation, is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. (Source: http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah/about/people/stephennie-mulder)

 

January 15, 2015

The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture
Constitutional Review and a General "Right to Liberty"
4:30 PMRockefeller 003
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group

 Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law, has written numerous books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall and, most recently, Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, In the Balance: The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, Why the Constitution Matters, and Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Perspective, and has edited several others. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

January 16, 2014

Lessons Learned in Ferguson and the Implications for the Country
4:00 PM
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Co-sponsored by the Tucker Foundation

 

Rev. Starsky D. Wilson, Co-chair, The Ferguson Commission; President & CEO, Deaconess Foundation

The Reverend Starsky D. Wilson is president & CEO of Deaconess Foundation, a faith-based grant making organization devoted to making child well-being a civic priority in the St. Louis region. Wilson earned a bachelor of arts in political science from Xavier University of Louisiana, master of divinity from Eden Theological Seminary and is pursuing the doctor of ministry degree at Duke Divinity School. Rev. Wilson is also pastor of Saint John's Church (The Beloved Community) in St. Louis. At Saint John's, Wilson has led congregational activism on myriad issues, including youth violence prevention, Medicaid expansion, public school accreditation, voter mobilization, and initiative petitions to cap predatory lending rates and raise the minimum wage in Missouri, while more than tripling worship attendance and financial stewardship in five years.

Rev. Wilson was recently selected by Missouri Governor, Jeremiah Nixon, to co-chair the Ferguson Commission, created to study and make specific recommendations for how to make progress on the issues raised by events in Ferguson. In other community leadership, Wilson serves boards for the United Church of Christ Cornerstone Fund, YMCA of Greater St. Louis, FOCUS-St. Louis, Teach for America-St. Louis and the Mayor's Commission on Children, Youth and Families, where he co-chaired the Regional Youth Violence Prevention Task Force. He is a member of the governing council for Washington University's Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences and the Professional Advisory Council for the Brown School of Social Work. Under his leadership, the Urban League Young Professionals established St. Louis' Young Blacks Give Back initiative, which has provided thousands of community service hours to local non-profits over the last twelve years.

 

January 20, 2015

Faculty Panel:
We Were There...Dartmouth and the Civil Rights Movement
4:30 PMRockefeller 003

Co-sponsored by African and African-American Studies (AAAS)

 

Moderator and Panelist:

Gretchen H. Gerzina, Kathe Tappe Professor in Biography, Professor of English, Chair, The African and African-American Studies (AAAS) Program, Dartmouth College

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography, Professor of English, and Chair of African American Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author or editor of seven books, and was for fifteen years the host of the nationally syndicated public radio program "The Book Show." She has often appeared on American and British radio and television.

 

Panelists:

J. Bruce Nelson, Emeritus Professor of History, Dartmouth College

Bruce Nelson taught U.S. history at Dartmouth from 1985 to 2009. He was an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and was jailed in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, on the eve of the famous Selma to Montgomery march. He received his bachelor's degree in religion from Princeton University, his master's degree and PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Jay Satterfield, Special Collections Librarian

Jay Satterfield is the head of Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Since arriving at Dartmouth in 2004, he has worked to integrate Special Collections into the intellectual life of the College. He received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa in 1999 and is the author of "The World's Best Books": Taste, Culture and the Modern Library (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002).

 

January 28, 2015 - Co-sponsored public event

Is There Life after College? An Empirical Study of How Recent Graduates Are Doing in the Job Market, in Relationships, and in Life

4:00 PM

Class of 1930 Room

Co-sponsored with the Daniel Webster Project

Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University

Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at New York University. His areas of interest include education, legal and institutional environments of schools, social stratification, student achievement and socialization, formal organizations and self-employment. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Selected works include: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Richard Arum and Melissa Velez, eds. Improving Learning Environments in Schools: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2012); Yossi Shavit, Richard Arum and Adam Gamoran, eds. Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007); and Richard Arum and Walter Mueller, eds. The Reemergence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2004).

 

February 9, 2015 - Co-sponsored public event

21st Century Zion: America, Israel and the Challenges of a New Era

4:30 PM

Cook Auditorium, Murdough Hall, Tuck School of Business

Co-sponsored by: Dartmouth College Hillel, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, The John Sloan Dickey Center, Jewish Studies, J Street U, Dartmouth Students for Israel, Hillel International

Ari Shavit, author, columnist for Haaretz, and public commentator on Israeli Public Television

Ari Shavit is the author of the critically-acclaimed, New York Times bestseller My Promised Land: the Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. An outspoken columnist for Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record, and a prominent commentator on Israeli Public Television, Shavit has become one of the strongest voices in the nation’s public arena. He challenges the dogmas of both Right and Left with his unique insights into the roles of Israel and Zionism in the 21st century.

 

February 12, 2015 - Co-sponsored public event

Getting Serious about Inequality

4:30 PM

Haldeman 041

Co-sponsored with Department of Sociology

Kevin Leicht, Professor of Sociology, University of Iowa; currently Sociology Program Officer, National Science Foundation

Kevin Leicht is a professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa, and is currently on leave for 2014-2015 at the National Science Foundation. His interests include sociology of work, organizations and organization theory, social stratification, and political sociology. His current research is examining gender inequality among professionals, transaction-cost approaches to career decision-making, the development of economic development programs by the U.S. states, and the causes and consequences of corporate restructuring. He teaches courses in the sociology of work, organizational theory, economy and society, political sociology and social stratification.

 

Fall 2014 Programs

September 18, 2014

Constitution Day Program
Hey, You Can't Just Look in There: Current Fourth Amendment Issues Regarding Cell Phone and Email Privacy after Riley v. California (2014)

Rockefeller 003

4:30 pm

 

Jennifer Brooke Sargent, Visiting Associate Professor of Writing, Institute for Writing and Rhetoric; Faculty, National Judicial College; Former Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Former District Court Special Justice, NH Judicial Branch

Jennifer Sargent is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Dartmouth College. Professor Sargent is also a faculty member at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. Professor Sargent served as a District Court Judge in New Hampshire for eight years. She resigned from the bench to serve as Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the New Hampshire Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Office. Professor Sargent graduated from Emory University in 1989 and Suffolk University Law School in 1992. After law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the judges of the District and Superior Courts of Vermont. She then spent eight years as a criminal defense trial and appellate attorney in New Hampshire with the New Hampshire Public Defender and New Hampshire Appellate Defender. Professor Sargent taught as an Associate Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Dartmouth during the years she was on the bench.

 

September 22, 2014

A Millennial's Take on Emerging Higher Education Policy Issues in the 21st Century

Rockefeller 003

4:30 pm

Zakiya Smith, Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation

Recently named one of Forbes' top 30 under 30 in education, Ms. Zakiya Smith is currently a Strategy Director at the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest foundation dedicated solely to higher education. At Lumina, she leads the work of the foundation to develop new models of student financial support for higher education. Prior to her work in philanthropy, Ms. Smith served as a Senior Advisor for Education at the White House Domestic Policy Council, where she was tasked with developing President Obama's higher education policy. Ms. Smith also served in the Obama administration as a senior adviser at the U. S. Department of Education, where she developed programmatic, policy and budget solutions to respond to pressing challenges in college access, affordability, and completion. Ms. Smith has provided insights on higher education policy at dozens of conferences, briefings, and panels across the nation. She has been featured on C-SPAN and Fox Business News as well as profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes Magazine, and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Ms. Smith holds a bachelor's degree in political science and secondary education from Vanderbilt University, and a master's degree in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

September 27, 2014 - Co-sponsored Program

Tyranny and Totalitarianism: Past, Present, and Future
A Conference at Dartmouth College

Rockefeller 001

8:30 am-3:30 pm

Conference Directors: James B. Murphy, Dartmouth College, and Robert Paquette, Alexander Hamilton Institute

Co-sponsored with the Daniel Webster Project at Dartmouth College and the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization at Hamilton College 

Ancient Tyranny: 8:30-10:30 am
Moderator: Lucas Swaine, Dartmouth CollegePanelists: Ryan Balot, University of TorontoSara Forsdyke, University of MichiganLynette Mitchell, University of Exeter, UK

Moderator Tyranny: 11:00 am-12:30 pmModerator: James Russell Muirhead, Jr., Dartmouth CollegePanelists: Paul Rahe, Hillssdale CollegeWalter R. Newell, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

The Future of Tyranny: 2:00-3:30 pmModerator: Julie Rose, Dartmouth CollegeSteven Bilakovics, University of Califormia, Las Angeles,Joao Carlos Espada, Catholic University of Portugal

 

October 2, 2014 - Co-sponsored Program

Killingstad Global Insights Series

Back to Business: Sustaining American Prosperity through Bipartisanship
Georgiopoulos Classroom, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business
12:00 pm

Co-sponsored with the Center for Global Business and Government, Tuck School of Business

Seating is limited, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Senator Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III

Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III is a lawyer who served as U.S. Senator (D-Indiana) from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. During his Senate career, Bayh served on five Senate committees: Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, on which he is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance; Armed Services; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Small Business Committee.
According to Biography.com: "More conservative than his liberal father, the second Sen. Bayh established himself as a centrist who seeks common ground with Republicans. In the Senate, Bayh organized a group called the New Democrat Coalition, and in 2001 he became chairman of the influential Democratic Leadership Council. A member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, Bayh was co-sponsor of the resolution which authorized President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq in 2003."

 

October 2, 2014 - Co-sponsored Program

Latin America and U.S. National Security: the Policy Challenges Ahead
Rockefeller 001
4:30 pm

Co-sponsored with the Program in Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Ambassador Peter DeShazo '69, Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies in 2015, former career U.S. diplomat

Ambassador Peter DeShazo is the Executive Director of LASPAU. Before joining LASPAU, he was the director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC from 2004 to 2010. Prior to joining CSIS, he was a member of the career US Senior Foreign Service, serving as deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs and deputy US permanent representative to the Organization of American States. During his Foreign Service career, Ambassador DeShazo directed the Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the State Department and was director of Western Hemisphere affairs at the US Information Agency. He served in US embassies and consulates in La Paz, Medellin, Santiago, Panama City, Caracas, and Tel Aviv. DeShazo holds an AB from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Latin American history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with postgraduate study at the Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of books and articles in academic and foreign affairs journals. He teaches at the Extension School of Harvard University and taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Himself a former Fulbright scholar, Ambassador DeShazo was president of the US-Chile Fulbright Commission.

 

October 6, 2014 - Co-sponsored Program

5th Annual C. Everett Koop Distinguished Lecture
Corporate Threats to Children's Health –A Panel Discussion

Silsby 028

4:30 pm

Co-sponsored with the C. Everett Koop Institute and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center

Panelists:

Joel Bakan, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia

Joel Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His critically acclaimed international hit, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Free Press, 2004), electrified readers around the world, and became a bestseller in several countries. The book inspired a feature documentary film, The Corporation, written by Bakan and co-created with Mark Achbar, which won numerous awards, including best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and was a critical and box office success. Bakan's highly regarded scholarly work includes Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (University of Toronto Press, 1997), as well as textbooks, edited collections, and numerous articles in leading legal and social science journals. His most recent book, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children, was published in 2011, and recognized by the American Library Association's "Booklist" as one of the top 10 business books of the year.

 

Bruce Lanphear, Professor, Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital, and Simon Fraser University

Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, is a Clinician Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. His primary goal is to help quantify and ultimately prevent disease and disability due to exposures to environmental contaminants and pollutants, such as lead, tobacco and pesticides. Over the past decade, Dr. Lanphear has become increasingly vexed by our inability to control the "pandemic of consumption" – the largely preventable, worldwide epidemic of chronic disease and disability due to industrial pollutants, environmental contaminants and excess consumption. He is leading an effort to build an online Atlas of Environmental Health to enhance public understanding of how environmental influences impact human health.

James Sargent, Scott M. and Lisa G Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Geisel School of Medicine

James Sargent is a pediatrician and behavioral epidemiologist whose current research involves evaluating media and marketing influences on adolescent cancer risk behaviors, including smoking, alcohol consumption, eating, and sexual activity. The research is an acknowledgement that unhealthy consumption of products produced and marketed by large corporate interests is the largest cause of preventable cancers and the biggest threat to population health overall. The solution lies not in adjusting unhealthy behaviors at the individual level or altering metabolic processes to make unhealthy products less harmful. Instead, society needs to exert control over corporate activities and constrain how products like cigarettes, alcohol, energy dense food, and guns are produced and promoted. Dr. Sargent is Co-director of the Cancer Control Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and holds the Scott M. and Lisa G Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology. Dr. Sargent received his MD from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1984 and completed his residency in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital. He has been at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 1989. 

 

October 8, 2014

The William H. Timbers '37 Lecture:
Mechanical Brains and Responsible Choices: Challenges of Neuroscience to Responsibility

Rockefeller 003

4:30 pm

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

 Michael S. Moore, Walgreen University Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois College of Law

Michael Moore currently holds the only University-level chair at the University of Illinois' three campuses, the Walgreen Chair. He is also the Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University. He has previously taught at Penn, Berkeley, San Diego, USC, ANU, Virginia, Stanford, Northwestern, and others. His research interests have had as one of their centers the issues related to moral responsibility. Five of his seven books (including the most recent, Causation and Responsibility, OUP 2009, paper 2010) have been devoted to these issues. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Research Project and Chair of its Intentions and Decisions research group; he also lectures from time to time to the Neuroscience Seminar of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

 

October 9, 2014

The Presidency in Real Time: A Rudman Center Conversation with Presidential Chiefs of Staff
Livestreamed from the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy

Rockefeller 003

3:00 pm

Co-hosted with the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, UNH's Carsey Institute, and sponsored by Bank of America

Moderator at the Rudman Center:

Christopher Whipple, Executive Producer of the documentary film The Presidential Gatekeepers

Christopher Whipple, a former Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News 60 Minutes and ABC News PrimeTime, is president of CCWHIP Productions, specializing in nonfiction television. He is Executive Producer of The Presidents' Gatekeepers, a groundbreaking look at the role of the modern White House chiefs of staff. For the four-hour documentary series, which aired on the Discovery Channel in 2013, Mr. Whipple interviewed all 20 living chiefs and two former presidents, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush. Mr. Whipple is currently writing a book that examines how each presidency has hinged on the effectiveness of the chief of staff. Last summer he moderated a panel on the White House chiefs with Jimmy Carter's Jack Watson, Ronald Reagan's Kenneth Duberstein, Bill Clinton's John Podesta, and George W. Bush's Joshua Bolten.

Confirmed panelists:

Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan

Kenneth M. Duberstein is chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group, an independent strategic planning and consulting company advising leading corporations and a select group of trade associations. Duberstein served as a key member of the Reagan Administration during his various assignments as White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. He was awarded the President's Citizens Medal by President Reagan in January 1989. Duberstein graduated from Franklin and Marshall College and American University. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Franklin and Marshall.

Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, III, Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton

Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, III is chairman of McLarty Associates, a strategic international advisory firm, which he co-founded in 1998 following a distinguished record of business leadership and public service, including various roles advising three U.S. Presidents: Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. He is also chairman of McLarty Companies, a fourth generation automotive and transportation company based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. McLarty is the recipient of the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Medal; the highest civilian honors of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela; and the Center for the Study of the Presidency Distinguished Service Award.


Andrew H. Card, Jr., Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush

On November 26, 2000, Andrew H. Card, Jr., was appointed Chief of Staff in the presidential administration of Texas Governor George W. Bush. Card was chosen because of his impressive service record in the public and private sector, including serving in the administrations of two former presidents. Card's last day was April 14, 2006, making him the second-longest serving White House Chief of Staff. From 1992 until 1993, Card served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George Bush. In August 1992, at the request of President Bush, Card coordinated the Administration's disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. Later that year, Card directed President Bush's office during the transition from the Bush administration to the Clinton administration. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975-1983. In 1982, Card was named Legislator of the Year by the National Republican Legislators Association and received the Distinguished Legislator Award from the Massachusetts Municipal Association.

 

Moderator at the Rockefeller Center:

Dean Lacy, Professor of Government and Director of the Program of Law and

Dean Lacy is Professor of Government and Director of the Program in Politics and Law at Dartmouth College. His research and teaching focus on American and comparative politics, particularly elections, public opinion, and lawmaking. Professor Lacy has also written on economic sanctions in international relations, third party candidates, economic voting, referendums and initiatives, and divided government. Most of his work is based on experiments, quantitative methods, survey research, or game theory. He frequently teaches statistics to graduate students from all over the globe in a summer program at the University of Michigan. Professor Lacy recently served as a visiting lecturer at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Peking University, both in China. He studied for his Ph.D. at Duke University and his B.A. at the University of Virginia.

 

October 15, 2014

Inaugural Lecture in Interregional Asian and Middle Eastern Studies:
Network Asia: Histories of the Future
3:15 pmCarson L01

Lecture co-sponsored by the Advanced Seminar in East Asian Studies, Charles and Elfriede Collis Professorship in History, Department of Anthropology, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.

 

Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore, where he is also Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to Chinese history, he works more broadly on Asia in the twentieth century, and on historical thought and historiography. Prof. Duara, originally from Assam, India, spent a major part of his career teaching at the Department of History in the University of Chicago, where he was also chairman of the department from 2004-2007. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in history from St. Stephen's College in Delhi, his M. Phil. in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his Ph.D in History and East Asian languages from Harvard University.

 

  October 15, 2014

Public Service Is Not for the Faint of Heart: Hard Lessons

4:30 pm

Rockefeller 003

Perkins Bass Distinguished Lecturer

John T. Broderick, Jr., Executive Director, Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy, UNH School of Law

John T. Broderick, Jr., was named the first Warren B. Rudman chairman at UNH Law and executive director of its Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Policy, on July 1, 2014. Broderick became the fifth dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law in 2011, and stepped down in 2014. Prior to the UNH School of Law appointment, Broderick served on the New Hampshire Supreme Court for 15 years. During his tenure as Chief Justice over the last six years, he was the administrative head of all the state's courts, in addition to his judicial duties, and became nationally known for reexamining the way the court system works and redesigning it to meet the challenges of the 21st century. A frequent speaker around the nation on the need to improve and modernize our judicial system, Broderick was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Board of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), on which he served for 10 years. Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, Broderick was a litigation attorney in the Manchester, NH, law firm of Devine, Millimet, Stahl & Branch, and was a founding shareholder of Broderick & Dean, Professional Association (formerly Merrill & Broderick). He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth for more than 10 years. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and, magna cum laude, of the College of the Holy Cross.

 

October 21, 2014

The Center for Environmental Leadership Training (CELT) Tribal Sustainability Partnerships and Arctic Protection Initiatives
How can Dartmouth be a leader in Indigenous Sustainability Partnerships and Arctic Protection Initiatives?
Class of 1930 Room
12:00-1:00 pm or 1:00-2:00 pm

Co-sponsored with the Climate Institute.

 

 

Lunch and a chance to talk with the President and CEO of The Climate Institute, John Topping Jr. '64 and other interns. Find out how YOU can get involved!

 

October 22, 2014

Washington, DC Policy Speaker Series

Rockefeller 003

4:30 pm

Co-hosted with the Department of Government

 

Judge Thomas B. Griffith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Judge Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 2005. A graduate of Brigham Young University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Judge Griffith was engaged in private practice from 1985 to1995 and again in 1999, first in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was an associate at Robinson, Bradshaw and Hinson, and later in Washington, D.C., where he was an associate and then a partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding. His primary areas of emphasis were commercial and corporate litigation and government investigations. From 1995 to 1999, Judge Griffith was Senate Legal Counsel of the United States. In that capacity, he represented the interests of the Senate in litigation and advised the Senate leadership and its committees on investigations, including the impeachment trial of President Clinton. From 2000 until his appointment to the United States Court of Appeals, Judge Griffith was Assistant to the President and General Counsel of Brigham Young University. From 1999 to 2000, Judge Griffith was General Counsel to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, a congressional commission created to study the interplay between tax policy and electronic commerce. From 2002 to 2003, Judge Griffith served as a member of the United States Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which examined the role of Title IX in intercollegiate athletics. Judge Griffith has long been active in the American Bar Association's Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI). He currently serves on the CEELI Council of the ABA's Rule of Law Initiative and on the board of directors of the CEELI Institute in Prague. Since joining the Court, Judge Griffith has taught courses on Presidential Powers and Judicial Process at the Brigham Young University Law School and on the Role of an Article III judge at Stanford Law School.

 

October 27, 2014

Brooks Family Lecture

:

The Coming Battles over Social Security

Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

5:30 pm

Mike Astrue, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration

Michael Astrue has split his career between public service and the biotechnology industry. He led one of the most successful turnarounds in the history of the industry as CEO of Transkaryotic Therapies and served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. He also worked for thirteen years in senior positions in four Administrations. Among other positions, he served in the Reagan and Bush White Houses as Associate Counsel to the President, and as General Counsel of HHS (1989-1992), where he personally litigated the first federal HIV discrimination and patient dumping enforcement cases. As Commissioner of Social Security (2007-2013) he reported directly to Presidents Bush and Obama. He overhauled the agency's antiquated IT systems and electronic services, reduced backlogs, created fast tracks for patients with severe rare disorders, and significantly improved the economic information provided to the public, particularly to women, as they make retirement choices. A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, he has received two honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the Public Health Award from the National Organization of Rare Disorders and Humanitarian of the Year from the Alzheimer's Association.

 

November 6, 2014

Veterans Day Program
International Environmental Security: What in the World Is Worth Fighting For?

Rockefeller 003

4:30 pm

W. Chris King, Dean, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Dr. W. Chris King serves as the Chief Academic Officer of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff. Dr. King earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee in 1988. Dr. King has authored two books, and 15 book chapters with his most recent manuscript being, Understanding International Environmental Security: A Strategic Military Perspective. He has published more than 30 journal articles and scientific reports, and lectured at more than 50 professional conferences, including the technical sessions of the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. Dr. King won both the American Academy of Environmental Engineering Honor Award in 1992 for his work on the Kuwait health risk assessment and the Army Science Award for outstanding research for his work in geophysical remote sensing. In 2000, he completed his M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies at the Naval War College. Dr. King is a licensed professional engineer and is board certified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers with a specialty in hazardous waste management. He is a founding member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change. He retired from active duty after 34 years of commissioned service at the rank of Brigadier General.

 

POSTPONED

Washington, DC Policy Speaker Series

Co-hosted with the Department of Government

 

Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Jr., Counselor to the Department of State, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil

Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., was appointed Counselor of the Department by Secretary Kerry on December 24, 2013. Ambassador Shannon had served briefly as Senior Advisor to the Secretary following his return in September from Brazil, where he served as United States Ambassador for nearly four years. He is a Career Ambassador in the Senior Foreign Service of the United States. Ambassador Shannon is only the seventh Foreign Service Officer to hold the position of Counselor since World War II, and the first in 32 years. Prior to his tenure in Brazil, Ambassador Shannon served as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2005-2009), as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council (2003-2005), and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State(2002-2003), where he was Director of Andean Affairs (2001-2002). He was U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), with the rank of Ambassador (2000-2001). Ambassador Shannon also served as Director of Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council (1999-2000), as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela (1996-1999), and as Regional Labor Attache at the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa (1992-1996). Ambassador Shannon graduated with high honors from the College of William and Mary in 1980, having studied government and philosophy. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then studied at Oxford University, where he received a M. Phil in Politics in 1982, and a D.Phil in Politics in 1983. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed and any materials presented during a public program are the speaker's own and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the Rockefeller Center or constitute an endorsement by the Center.

 

 

Summer 2014 Programs

June 19, 2014

Using an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Make Social Impact
Rockefeller 003
7:00 PM

Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Dartmouth Athletics, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Office of Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer, and Office of Pluralism and Leadership

Panelists:

Jamie Coughlin, Director of New Venture Incubator Programs, Office of Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer

Jamie Coughlin is the Director of New Venture Incubator Programs at Dartmouth College, where he will oversee the growth of new venture creation and incubation, special events, communications and marketing for the greater Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN)and act as the liaison to the economic development ecosystem. Previously, Jamie was the CEO and Entrepreneur in Residence of the abi Innovation Hub, NH's oldest business incubator, where he led the successful turn-around and rebranding of this 15 year old organization into NH's most active incubator and innovation center. In the process, Jamie was awarded NHBR's 2012 "Business Excellence" Award as NH's most innovative non-profit leader, as well as recognized as a 2013 NH Union Leader's "40 Under Forty" recipient. Jamie serves as the President of the NH Business Incubator Network, is a Board member of the NH High Technology Council and has served as an Adjunct Professor of entrepreneurship for the University of New Hampshire. As an entrepreneur, Jamie has founded and managed a variety of ventures, including an edutech solution focused around audience response systems and an online funding platform for the faith-based market.A New Hampshire native, Jamie received his BA from Princeton University.

 

Grace Teo, Founder and co-chair of Open Style Lab

Grace Teo is the founder and co-chair of Open Style Lab, and a recent graduate of MIT. While pursuing her PhD at MIT, she received a MIT Public Service Fellowship to establish Open Style Lab. Open Style Lab is a summer program that teams up designers, engineers and occupational therapists to create clothing for people with disabilities. Through multiple partnerships with fashion labels, rehabilitation networks and technology companies, she hopes to bring user-centered and universal design principles into apparel design, and provide a platform for the the health and fashion industry to communicate. Grace is originally from Singapore where she received her B.Eng. at Nanyang Technological University, before moving to Boston to complete her Health Sciences and Technology PhD at MIT.

 

  Henrik Scheel, CEO & 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.

 

June 20-21, 2014

The Startup Experience Workshop
Make Social Impact. Explore. Innovate. Prototype. Present.The DEN Innovation Center @ 4Currier
June 20, 4:00-8:00 pm & June 21, 9:00 am-6:00 pm

Registration required: http://bit.ly/rockystartupxp14

Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Dartmouth Athletics, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Office of Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer, and Office of Pluralism and Leadership

The Startup Experience is a crash course on high-impact entrepreneurship and social innovation. Participants will go through an intense journey to identify a problem and turn it into a viable opportunity for a startup company. During the workshop, participants will learn how to identify and understand a big problem, screen new technologies, and use design thinking to come up with great new ideas. Working within lean workgroups, participants will then find an innovative business model and use prototyping and visual communication to pitch the idea to a panel of experts. The Startup Experience simulates the life in a startup company and forces students to get out of their comfort zones. Participants will get hands-on experience with social innovation and gain the necessary confidence to become successful innovators in the future. The program was created in close collaboration with leading entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and has been run successfully in 10+ countries around the world. 

 

July 10, 2014

The Center for Environmental Leadership Training (CELT)Tribal Sustainability Partnerships and Arctic Protection Initiatives
How Can Dartmouth Make a Difference?

Class of 1930 Room

12:00 pm

Co-sponsored by the Climate Institute.

 

 

Lunch and a chance to talk with the President and CEO of The Climate Institute, John Topping Jr. '64, and a panel of current CELT interns. Find out how YOU can get involved! Register for luncheon here.

Panelists:

John C. Topping, Jr. '64, Hanover, NH, Co-Founder and President of the Climate Institute since 1986, winner in 2002 of Dartmouth's first Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award for Lifetime Achievement and recipient in 2008 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of a Certificate of Recognition for Contributing to the Award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC.
Ethan Forauer, Clark University 2015, CELT Summer and Fall Coordinator.
Katie Zhang '16, Thayer School of Engineering, Co-Team Leader for Alaska Hydropower Team.
Hope Wilson '16, Environmental Studies, Co-Team Leader for Alaska Hydropower Team.
David Kadoch, CELT Graduate Fellow, Sustainable Agriculture Expert, Team Leader for Sustainable Agriculture Team.
Michael Dunaway, CELT Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate Cornell University, Member of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Team Leader of Solar Powered Biodiesel Refinery.
Trevelyan Wing '14, Awarded Lombard Public Service Fellowship to create global Indigenous Youth Forum on Climate Change, to employ virtual platform bringing Native youth leaders in dialogue on climate change issues.

 

July 17, 2014

Students' Rights: A Public Forum on Due Process, Free Speech and Privacy Rights in Educational Institutions
Rockefeller 003
4:30 pm

Co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union

 

Moderator:

Gilles Bissonnette, Staff Attorney, New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union

Gilles Bissonnette has extensive civil litigation experience, which has included aggressive advocacy in both the freedom of speech and privacy arenas. He was named a "New England Super Lawyers Rising Star" in the 2013 edition of New England Super Lawyers magazine. Prior to joining the NHCLU, Gilles was a civil litigator in Boston at the law firms of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, Todd & Weld LLP, and Cooley LLP.

 

Panelists:

D. Chris McLaughlin '81, Cheshire County Attorney

D. Chris McLaughlin has more than 25 years of experience prosecuting and defending criminal cases in the State of New Hampshire. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center), Mr. McLaughlin began his legal career with the NH Public Defender Program in 1988. He left the public defender program in 1992 and was in private practice until his return to the public defender program in 1996. As a public defender, he worked both as a trial attorney and appellate attorney. In 2006, he began his work as a prosecutor, serving as an assistant county attorney in Cheshire County. In February of 2013, he took over his current position of Cheshire County Attorney.

 

George H. Ostler '77, DesMeules, Olmstead & Ostler

George Ostler has 30 years experience defending persons accused of crimes. He practices statewide in the state courts of New Hampshire and Vermont as well as in the Federal Courts in Vermont and New Hampshire. Mr. Ostler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1977 and Vermont Law School in 1983 (Magna Cum Laude). He was employed by the NH Public Defender Program from 1983 to 1994 and has been a partner in DesMeules, Olrnstead and Ostler since 1994. Mr. Ostler is a member of the Vermont Bar Association, New Hampshire Bar Association, Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the NORML Legal Committee.

 

Leah Plunkett, Director of Academic Success & Associate Professor of Legal Skills, UNH School of Law

Leah A. Plunkett is the Director of Academic Success & Associate Professor of Legal Skills at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She is also Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she works on the Student Privacy Initiative. She was a Climenko Fellow & Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School conducting legal scholarship in the areas of criminal and family law. Ms. Plunkett founded the Youth Law Project at New Hampshire Legal Assistance, which handles school discipline, special education, and other matters on behalf of kids and teenagers who are facing criminal charges. She has also been a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, which promotes laws, regulations, and policies that advance economic security for low-income or vulnerable consumers, such as domestic violence survivors.

 

Judith R. Sizer, Rose, Chinitz & Rose

Judith R. Sizer has practiced as a higher education lawyer for over twenty-five years. Before joining Rose, Chinitz & Rose, she served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She has worked in many areas of charities law, including non-profit governance, Board support, advisory boards, fundraising and development, compliance, conflicts, contract negotiation, museum collections, executive compensation, policy work, non-profit tax, and trust and estate administration. Judy began her legal career in the Office of the General Counsel at Yale University, followed by several years in the tax and benefits group at Ropes & Gray in Boston. She has served as Chair of the Boston Bar Association College and University Law Group and in various capacities in the National Association of College and University Attorneys. She has spoken on higher education law issues at numerous conferences and other venues.

August 12, 2014

Policy Research Shop's 1st Annual Summer Open House

Hinman Forum

4:00 pm

An open house for those interested in public policy research, and those who want to know how New Hampshire and Vermont make more effective environmental, judicial, and energy policy.

 

August 14, 2014

Deficit Hawks vs. Civil Debtors - Politics and Policies of Our National Debt

Paganucci Lounge, Class of 1953 Commons

4:30 pm

Co-sponsored with the Concord Coalition, Campaign to Fix the Debt, Josiah Bartlett Center, and Millennial Action Coalition

 

Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and U.S. Congressman Dick Swett, Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby, and the Josiah Bartlett Center President Charles Arlinghaus will participate in a spirited conversation on the programs and policies driving our national debt.

 

Professor Charles Wheelan '88 will moderate the discussion on our fiscal future and delve into the divisive politics preventing meaningful reform.

 

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed and any materials presented during a public program are the speaker's own and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the Rockefeller Center or constitute an endorsement by the Center.