2011 Seminars

All seminars take place 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the Strings Music Pavilion, Pine Grove Road & Mt. Werner Road. Free tickets will be distributed in front of the Pavilion starting at 4:15 on the day of each seminar. Doors open at 4:30. 

To guarantee your seat at either the seminar or the following dutch-treat dinners, you can reserve free tickets online by clicking HERE.

Robin Wright

July 21
Robin Wright:  Rock the Casbah: The Changing Arab World
Wright, a journalist specializing in the Middle East, is a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Seymour Hersh Photo

August 4
Seymour Hersh: A Foreign Policy Report from Washington: Are Obama’s Policies Working?
Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
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Tamar Jacoby Photo

August 11
Tamar Jacoby: Fresh Perspectives on Immigration
Jacoby is the president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of small business owners working to advance better immigration law, and a journalist and author.
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Zalmay Khalilzad Photo

August 15
Zalmay Khalilzad: Afghanistan and Iraq: An Insider’s View
Khalilzad is a former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations.
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David Walker Photo

August 25
David Walker: Restoring Fiscal Sanity
Walker, an economist, is the founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and was former Comptroller General and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Friends of the Seminars can attend post-seminar, Dutch-treat dinners to continue a dialogue with the speakers.  To become a Friend, go to Donate.

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