Event Highlight
Lectures & Events
January 25, 2010
Asian Film Series: "Twilight Samurai"
8 pm Cole Cinema
January 28, 2010
"Defense Acquisition Issues in the Obama Administration" by Jacques Gansler
5 pm Cole Cinema
March 1, 2010
Asian Film Series: "Tuya's Marriage"
8 pm Cole Cinema
March 23 - 26, 2010
"EnGendering Political Change"
Annual Women, Gender, and Sexuality Colloquium
All events in Cole Cinema
April 1, 2010
"Obama's War: al Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Pakistan" by Bruce Riedel (Brookings Institution)
6 pm Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary's Hall
April 6, 2010
"Ramchand Pakistani"
8 pm Cole Cinema
April 7, 2010
"China's March Toward the Market" by James Dorn (Cato Institute)
4:45 pm Cole Cinema
April 8, 2010
"Riding the Tiger: How the Communist Party Has Stayed in Charge of China" by John Pomfret (Washington Post)
8 pm Daugherty-Palmer Commons
April 13, 2010
"Scaling the New Great Wall: International Broadcasting to East Asia's Closed Societies" by Sarah Jackson-Han (Radio Free Asia)
4:30 pm Cole Cinema
April 16, 2010
Annual Bradlee Lecture on Journalism
"How to Make the 'Long War' Shorter: Some Thoughts from a Journalist's Notebook" by David Ignatius (Washington Post)
8 pm Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary's Hall
April 20-21, 2010
Patuxent Defense Forum
9 am – 4 pm Cole Cinema
April 26, 2010
2010 Maryland Legislative Wrap-Up
Annual Discussion of the Highlights of the Session in Annapolis
with Delegates Bohanan, O'Donnell, and Wood
3:30 pm Glendening Annex
Program Highlight
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Student Spotlight
St. Mary's Votes!
Since its inception in 2004, the club has registered over 850 young people to vote in State and National elections. In 2008, the club expanded its role in civic engagement to include working as election and poll judges during primary and general elections.
Student Offerings
The Center is designed to help students explore their interests in democracy and government at home and abroad. Professors at the Center provide a wide range of student activities. These include curricular, internships, special educational events, and community activities.
The Center currently provides support for the democracy studies minor at St. Mary's College, and funds summer internship offerings in local, state, and federal government service. The Center also promotes citizen engagement in the political process by supporting student organizations such as St. Mary's Votes! that advocate student participation in elections.
The Center provides support to student organizations interested in the many languages of democracy by funding activities of interest to them--whether they are speakers, exhibits, debates, literary or artistic performances. We ask you to join the discussions we host on campus and to recommend new speakers and dialogues on contemporary problems we face.
In the past, the Center has also made it possible for students to study abroad by hosting international exchanges between St. Mary's College of Maryland and the developing democratic countries of Senegal, The Gambia, Brazil, and Thailand.
