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.
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.
Brief bio
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.
Brief bio
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.
Brief bio
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.
Brief bio
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.
Brief bio
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