Occasional Lecture Series
2009
- Government and International Affairs/Global Issues Initiative (GIA/GII)
Monday, November 23, 2009, 6:30PM, Alexandria:
Making Life and Death Decisions in a War: The Russian Georgian Conflict
Speaker: Dr Andrei Illarionov
Senior Fellow, The Cato Institute, Washington, and President of the Institute of Economic Analysis, Moscow
- with Middle East Working Group (MEWG)
Friday, April 10, 2009, 5PM, Blacksburg:
Problems and Prospects of Democrary in Iran
Dr. Abbas Milani
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford University, and Co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institute
- Government and International Affairs/Global Issues Initiative (GIA/GII)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7PM, Alexandria:
The Politics of Trade Policy in the Obama Era
Todd Tucker
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
- with Middle East Working Group (MEWG)
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 7:30PM, Blacksburg:
The New Administration & Middle East Policy: Challenges and Implications
Speakers: Dr. Rachel Scott; Dr Yannis Stivachtis; Dr. Ben Sax; Dr Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Dr. Daniel Breslau
2008
- Government and International Affairs/Global Issues Initiative (GIA/GII)
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7PM, Alexandria:
CENTCOM'S Middle East: Geopolitical Imaginings & Interventionary Practices
Dr John Morrissey
Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway; & The City University of New York
- Government and International Affairs/Global Issues Initiative (GIA/GII)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 7PM, Alexandria:
Middle East Youth: From Social Exclusion to Impetus for Reform and Growth
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech and Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
2007
- Government and International Affairs/Global Issues Initiative (GIA/GII)
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 7PM, Alexandria:
Fighting Terrorism not Terrorists: Turkey and the PKK
Deniz Ulke Aribogan
Professor and President, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul
- Government and International Affairs/Global Issues Initiative (GIA/GII)
Thursday, October 18, 2007, 7PM, Alexandria:
The Political Lives of Bronze Soldiers: Contemporary Estonian-Russian Relations
Robert Kaiser
Professor, University of Wisconsin