Lecture Series

2008-2009

White House Chief of Staff Summit

Thursday, September 18, 5:30 pm reception and 6:00 pm program at SMU.

Former White House Chiefs of Staff Andrew Card and Mack McLarty will address the immediate challenges facing the next President. McLarty and Card ushered in the new Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to the White House.

Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation

Thursday, September 25 5:30 Reception and 6:00 pm Program - McCord Auditorium, SMU

Peter H. Shuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale University, will give the Dedman College Scott Hawkins Lecture, which  will be moderated by Professor Joseph Kobylka.

National Security in Transition

Tuesday, October 7, 5:00 – 7:00 pm  

James Steinberg, Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, will discuss national security during transitions. Private reception and program.

The Future of Conflict: Military Roles and Missions

Thursday, November 13 evening reception and program at SMU.

The Tower Center National Security Forum, a view from the Pentagon, featuring The Joint Chiefs of Staff (invited) of the United States Military Forces

Election Post-Mortem

Wednesday, November 19, 11:45 am – 1:30 pm  

Luncheon with SMU Political Science faculty panel, analyzing the results of the recent national elections – presidential, national and local. Panel includes noted professors Cal Jillson, Dennis Simon, Harold Stanley, and Matthew Wilson.

Higher Realism, A New Foreign Policy for the United States

Tuesday, December 9 11:45 – 1:30 pm

Joint Tower Center/World Affairs Council of D/FW Foreign Policy Luncheon at the Hotel Crescent Court. SMU’s Tower Chair and acting Tower Center Director Seyom Brown will discuss his new book.

Austin Briefing

February 17th, 10:30 am to 4:00 pm

The briefing will feature Representative Dan Branch, chair of the Tower Center and other Texas state leaders at the Texas State Capitol .

Foreign Policy in the New Administration: A Fresh Start

Tuesday, March 24, 11:45-1:30 pm.

A lunchtime conversation about the new administration’s foreign policy team, and its initiatives, challenges and opportunities. Featuring PBS’ Lehrer NewsHour contributor and senior Tower Fellow Lee Cullum and Seyom Brown, John Goodwin Tower Chair in International Politics and National Security.

 Washington Briefing

Thursday evening and Friday morning, April 16-17   

The Tower Center D.C. Seminar featuring an evening reception with members of our Texas congressional delegation (invited), followed by a morning seminar on International Affairs and National Security.

2007-2008

Inaugural SMU Tower Center Seminar in Washington DC

Friday, April 18, 2008

Speaker: Ambassador Robert Galluci, Dean of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Topic: Proliferation Issues: What Comes Next?
Location: Tower Center Washington DC Office - APSA Building

Luncheon and Booksigning with Joseph Nye, Former Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Friday, April 4, 2008

Topic: The Powers to Lead - booksigning
Location: Tower Center Boardroom

Private Reception with The Honorable John Howard, Former Prime Minister of Australia

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Location: the Harlan Crow Library

Tower Center Medal of Freedom Event

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Honoring the Right Hon. Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain (click on name for more information)

Tower Center/Council on Foreign Relations evening reception

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Speaker: Walter Russell Mead, Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, CFR
Topic: Gold and Gold: Britain, American, and the Making of the Modern World
 

Evening lecture and sushi dinner with Dr. Arthur Alexander

Monday, February 11, 2008

Speaker: Dr. Arthur Alexander, Scholar and Researcher on the Japanese Economy, Karl F. Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Japanese Innovation, Technology and Science
A Japan American Society of Dallas Fort Worth event, co-sponsored by the Tower Center

Luncheon with Seyom Brown

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
12:00 – 1:30 pm

Speaker: Seyom Brown, John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security and Director of Studies at the Tower Center
Topic: The Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States
A Tower Center/DCFR event
Location: Jones Hall, Meadows Museum

Reception and Program with Fred Barnes

Thursday, November 7, 2007
5:00 Reception, 5:30-7:00 pm Program

Speaker: Fred Barnes, Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard, and Co-Host of The Beltway Boys, Fox News Channel
Topic: The Political Landscape for 2008
Sponsored by Richard Collins, TODAY Newspapers, and the Tower Center

Luncheon with Michael Gerson

Tuesday, November 6
11:45 am-1:30 pm Lunch
 
Speaker:  Michael Gerson, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush
Topic: Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't)
Sponsored by the Tower Center, DCFR, and the Council on Foreign Relations

Program and Book Signing with Steve LeVine

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
6:00 pm Reception, 6:30 Program and Book Signing

Speaker: Steve LeVine, former correspondent, Wall Street Journal and Tower Center Research Associate
Topic: The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
Location: Hotel Crescent Court, Cedar Springs at Pearl
Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth, Co-sponsored by the Tower Center

Seminar with Klaus Zimmermann

Thursday, October 1, 2007
4:00 - 5:30 pm

Leader: Klaus Zimmermann, Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Director of the German Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn), and President of the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin)
Topic: Measuring Ethnic identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior (to access paper, please click on the title)
Location: Tower Center Boardroom - 227 Carr Collins
Sponsored by the Tower Center and the Department of Economics at SMU and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Luncheon with Jon Alterman

Monday, September 24, 2007
11:30 Registration, 12:00-1:30 luncheon

Speaker: Jon Alterman, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Topic: Thinking Small: The Way Forward in Iraq
Location: Park City Club, 5956 Sherry Lane, Suite 1700
Co-Sponsored by the Tower Center and The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

The Annette Strauss "Internationalizing Dallas" Series

This lecture series, introduced in 1998, provides faculty speakers on international affairs and politics topics to civic and community groups in the Dallas area.