September 9, 2008
Senator Benjamin Cardin
“National Issues facing America at Home and Abroad”

September 17, 2008
Constitution Day
Maryland Court of Appeals
“Constitutional Interpretation and the Politics of Judicial Appointments”

September 23, 2008
Nicholas Crowe
Turbulence and Toleration: Enlightenment Oxford and Her New World Exports
Co-sponsored with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

September 26, 2008
Parris Glendening
Smart Growth: From a Maryland Beginning to a National Movement
Co-sponsored by the Student Environmental Action Coalition and the St. Mary’s River Watershed Association

September 29, 2008
Collins Bailey
Republican Candidate for, Maryland’s 5th District for Congress

October 9, 2008
Judge James Robertson
Habeas Corpus Redux
Judge William O.E. Sterling Lecture in Law and Politics

October 21, 2008
Thomas F. Schaller
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Political Columnist, Baltimore Sun
Dr. Tom Schaller
Whistling Past Dixie and the 2008 Election: How the Democrats can Win the White House without the South

October 27, 2008
Ali Aslan
Democracy in Turkey: The Role of U.S. and Europe
A Democracy in Old & New Europe Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation

October 30, 2008
Paul Roth and Frank Goodyear
Richard Avedon: The Family – Photographs and Insights into Power
Co-sponsored with the Art and Art History Department, Lecture and Fine Arts, and the Szabo Symposium

November 3, 2008
Good-Bye Lenin
A Democracy in Old & New Europe Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation

November 10, 2008
Ambassador Samuel Lewis
Europe and Israel: Awkward Historical Partners
A Democracy in Old & New Europe Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation
Co-sponsored with Philosophy and Religious Studies

November 24, 2008
The Honorable Clay Johnson, III
The Challenges of a Presidential Transition
Co-sponsored with the Political Science Department

December 1, 2008
Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown
The New American Democracy

December 8, 2008
Democracy in Europe Film Series: Grbavica:, The Land of My Dreams
Democracy in Europe Film Series
A Democracy in Old & New Europe Symposium Event Supported by the Mellon Foundation

January 20, 2009
Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States: Faculty and Student Viewpoints
11:30 am – 3:30 pm | Cole Cinema

Co-sponsored with Student Activities and Student Affairs

January 26, 2009
Indigènes: Days of Glory
Democracy in Old and New Europe Film Series: European Societies in Transition
8:00 pm | Cole Cinema
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

January 27, 2009
“Maryland Designe: The First Wall between Church and State”
Thomas Penfield Jackson,
 U.S. District Court Judge (retired), 2009 Chaney Visiting Scholar “Maryland Designe: The First Wall between Church and State”
4:30 pm | DPC

Co-sponsored with Historic St. Mary’s City

February 12, 2009
William Baker
, President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
“Will Science-Based Public Policy and the Rule of Law Prevail? Saving the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributary Rivers”
6:00 pm 
| Cole Cinema
Co-sponsored with the Sustainability Committee, and Nitze Scholars Program, and the Environmental Studies Program

February 13, 2009
Firoozeh Dumas
Mark Twain Annual Lecture on Culture and Humor
8:00 pm
| St. Mary’s Hall

February 25, 2009
“Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century”

Peter W. Singer, Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative, Brookings Institute

4:30 pm
| St. Mary’s Hall
Co-sponsored with The Patuxent Partnership and the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium
March 2, 2009
Democracy in Old and New Europe Film Series: European Societies in Transition Film 

8:00 pm
| Cole Cinema
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

March 4, 2009
Professor Richard Nickolson
Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
“How to Tell a War Story: European and American Perspectives”
4:45 pm | Cole Cinema
Co-sponsored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Art and Art History Department, Democracy Studies, Lecture and Fine Arts, and The Patuxent Partnership

March 23, 2009
The Edge of Heaven
Democracy in Old and New Europe Film Series: European Societies in Transition
8:00 pm
| Cole Cinema
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

March 26, 2009
Democracy in Old and New Europe: From Oxford to Istanbul Symposium
Dr. Aleksander Surdej
Department of European Studies, Cracow University of Economics
“New Politics in Old Europe”

4:30 pm
| Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

March 31, 2009
“The Image of America Abroad: European Viewpoints”
Joe Szabo, Political Cartoonist, Witty World

4:30 pm | Goodpaster Hall, Room 195
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

April 6, 2009
Dirty Pretty Things
Democracy in Old and New Europe Film Series: European Societies in Transition
8:00 pm
| Cole Cinema
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

April 21-22, 2009
2009 Patuxent Defense Forum: Roles of the U.S. Military in Fragile and Failed States
9:00 am
 | Cole Cinema
Co-Sponsored with The Patuxent Partnership, 

Underwritten by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and its subsidiary, EMA