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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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
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
Friday, April 4, 2008
Topic: The Powers to Lead -
booksigning
Location: Tower Center Boardroom
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Location: the Harlan Crow Library
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Honoring the Right Hon. Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain (click on name for more information)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This lecture series, introduced in 1998, provides faculty speakers on international affairs and politics topics to civic and community groups in the Dallas area.