Recent public lectures sponsored by the Center:

Thursday, April 24 , 2008
Frank Calzon, Center for a Free Cuba
Daniel Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue

Tuesday, April 22 , 2008
Jackpot: Maryland's Slot Debate
SMP by Zack Bankert

Monday, April 21, 2008
Latin American Film Series
Super Amigos
With film maker Arturo Perez

April 9-10 , 2008
Patuxent Defense Forum: The Privatization of the Millitary
Co-Sponsored by the Patuxent Partnership

Monday, April7, 2008
Latin American Film Series
Before Night Falls
A Latin American Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Recent Experiences in Iraq with Dr. Lena Harzell, Naval Dentist
Co-Sponsored with SMASH

Saturday March 29 , 2008
No End in Sight
With interviewee and Iraq Expert Colonel Paul Hughes
Co-Sponsored with the Global Justice League

Friday, Marych 28 , 2008
2007 Benjamin C. Bradlee Distinguished Lecture in Journalsim
Tom Brokaw
NBC News Correspondent

Tuesday, March 25
"Latin America's Turn To The Left"
A Panel Discussion with
Professor Victor Armony, Department of Sociology
University of Quebec at Montreal
and
Paulo Sotero, Director of Brazilian Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington,DC
An Event of the Latin American Symposium on Democratic Experiences
Blackistone Room 4:30 PM

Monday, March 17, 2008
Latin American Film Series
XXY
(cosponsered by WGSX)

Thursday, February 28, 2008
David Bell
The Culture of War and Peace in Europe, 1750-1815
(cosponsered by the History Department)

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Democracy, the 2008 Elections and Middle East Policy: An Analysis of Politics in the United States

Wednesday, January 31, 2008
Focus the Nation

Monday, January 28, 2008
Latin American Film Series
Luminous Shadows

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mike McConnell
Director of National Intelligence

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Student Panel on the College Convention
Sam Birnbaum, Jacqueline Caminiti, Elizabeth LeBlanc, Molly McKee, and
Dr. Todd Eberly, assistant professor of Political Science
(Co-Sponsored by the Political Science Department )

Monday, November 19, 2007
Attorney General Doug Gansler

Monday, November 12, 2007
Global Warming Forum
Professor Bill Williams, professor of biology, St. Mary's College of Maryland
County Commissioner President Jack Russell
Mike Tidwell, director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
(Co-Sponsored by the St. Mary's Student Environmental Action Coalition)

Monday, November 12, 2007
Latin American Film Series
A Fronteira (The Border)

November 2 - 3, 2007
"Rediscovering Maryland in the Atlantic World"
A symposium on Early Maryland History and Culture
(co-sponsored by The SlackWater Center, the Maryland Heritage Project and the Departments of Anthropology, Art History, and History)

Friday, November 02, 2007
Martin Espada
A conversation with the author
(co-sponsored by Voices of St. Mary's, Department of International Languages and Cultures and the Department of African and African Diaspora)

Thursday, November 01, 2007
Martin Espada
A poetry reading
(co-sponsored by Voices of St. Mary's, Department of International Languages and Cultures and the Department of African and African Diaspora)

Monday, October 29, 2007
Dr. Napisa Waitoolkai
Thai Speaker on Democracy
(co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Department of Economics)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Pierina Correa Delgado
Rafael Correa: A One Hundred Year Wait
A Latin American Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation
(Co-Sponsored by Latin American Studies)

Monday, October 22, 2007
Pierina Correa Delgado (pictured right )
Migration in Latin Americca: A sign of the Times
A Latin American Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation
(Co-Sponsored by Latin American Studies)

Monday, October 22, 2007
Dr. Bianca Premo
"Rights without Revolutions, Liberty without Liberation: Everyday Enlightenment in Colonial Spanish America and Spain"
A Latin American Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation
(Co-Sponsored by the History Department, Africa and African Diaspora Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

Friday, October19 , 2007
Janks Morton
What Black Men Think
(Co-Sponsored by The Black Student Union)

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Heather Raffo
"Nine Parts of Desire"
(Co-Sponsored by Arts Alliance of St. Mary's, Department of Political Science, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Art and Art History Department, and Theatre, Film and Media Studies )

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Change of Government: A Public Forum
Doug Duncan and Patrick Murphy

Monday, September 17, 2007
Constitution Day
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and James Apple

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