2004 - 2005 Events 

19-24 June 2005 and 26 June - 1 July 2005
The Center and Historic St. Mary's City -- NEH Landmarks in American History Program:
"Life, Liberty, and Opportunity: The Struggle for Freedom in Tidewater Maryland, 1634-1865

Wednesday, May 4, 2005
"Exile: An Iranian Family through Revolution," an encore presentation of a SMP by Mr. Ramtin Arabluoei.

Saturday, April 30, 2005
"The Challenges Facing the American Judiciary," with the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Mr. Kenneth Wainstein.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005
"School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics," with Washington College Assistant Professor of Political Science Melissa M. Deckman.
(co-sponsored with the SMCM Political Science department)

Wednesday April 13, 2005
"Playing for Peace: Using Basketball to Unite and Educate Children in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel" with Sean Tuohey, founder of Playing for Peace.

Friday, April 1, 2005
"National Security in a Post- 9/11 World," with former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey.
(co-sponsored with Booz Allen Hamilton and The Patuxent Partnership)

Wednesday, March 2, 2005
"Four More Years: Understanding the Agenda of the Second Bush Administration," SMCM Professors Michael Cain, Louis Hicks, Alan Dillingham, Sahar Shafqat, and David Andersen.
(co-sponsored with the Political Science Honor Society)

Wednesday, March 2, 2005
"At Home Abroad: Perceptions of America and Americans," with SMCM international students and SMCM students who have studied abroad.
(co-sponsored with the SMCM Office of International Education)

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
"Did Jazz Help Bring Down the Iron Curtain," with trumpet great Valery Ponomarev.
(co-sponsored with the SMCM History Department and the Department of Dramatic Arts, and the Division of Arts and Letters)

Friday, February 25, 2005
"Bad Conformity and Good Consent," with Mr. Cass R. Sunstein, the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, Wednesday, February 9, 2005
"The Civil Rights Movement and the Possibilities of Democracy," with Dr. John Dittmer, Emeritus Professor of History at DePauw University.
(co-sponsored with the SMCM History Department, the African/African Diaspora Studies Department, and the African American Heritage Month Committee).

Friday, January 28, 2005
"The U.S. and the Islamic World: What's Next?" The 2005 Benjamin Bradlee Lecture in Journalism with Washington Post foreign affairs correspondent Robin Wright.

Saturday, November 13, 2004
Now Let Me Fly, a play based on hundreds of oral histories and personal interviews, Now Let Me Fly brings to life the real stories and real people behind the Brown v. Board case. Considered the most important U.S. Supreme Court decision ever, Brown v. Board pronounced "Separate But Equal" education illegal and started unraveling the chains of all legal segregation. Friday, November 12, 2004
"The Global Impact of the Civil War" with Dr. James McPherson, Professor of History, Princeton University and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Battle Cry of Freedom. Dr. McPherson was the Center's first visiting scholar. He was on campus the week of November 8-12, 2004 and participated in Professor Charles Holden's upper level seminar on the Civil War. He also led a group of students to Fredericksburg to tour Civil War battlefields.

Friday, October 29, 2004
"The Vote America Concert," with The Woods, Byzantine Top 40, Ponded and Intifada.
(Co-sponsored with The Point News to get out the vote)

Wednesday, October 27, 2004
"Political Debate: College Democrats, Republicans and Non-Partisans," moderated by SMCM Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, David Andersen.

Thursday, October 7, 2004
"Campaign Issues Facing Young Voters," with Ms. Heather Mizeur, Maryland State Director for Kerry/Edwards 2004.
(Co-sponsored with the College Democrats)

Thursday, September 30, 2004
"Triggering a Cultural Renaissance," with Mr. Clarence Carter, director of the Federal Office of Community Services.
(Co-sponsored with the College Republicans)