Students and other audience members have the opportunity to engage speakers in thoughtful discussion following each lecture. Our four program areas, Inequality and Equity, Justice and Security, Sustainability, and Public Health and Well-Being; as well as our Leadership and Social Innovation initiatives, provides a focus for our year-long lecture series, as well as for our Faculty Lunch series and Innovation Roundtable discussions.

Spring 2017 Speakers & Panel Discussions

International Challenges for the Trump Presidency: East Asia, Latin America, and the Mid-East
Alexsia Chan, Professor of Government; Kira Jumet, Professor of Government; and Heather Sullivan, Professor of Government

Rethinking Campus Sexual Assault: Taking Stock of Obama-Era Reforms,
Against Affirmative Consent, and Rethinking the Sexual Violence Framework
Janet Halley, the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

The Legacy of Barack Obama
Al Tillery, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

The Half-life of Democracy: Regime Decay in Theory and Practice
Frank Anechiarico, Professor of Government; Alfred Kelly, Professor of History; and
Richard Werner, Professor of Philosophy

Knocking the Hustle
Lester K. Spence, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Empathy, story-telling and American prisons
Doran Larson, Professor of English and Creative Writing

Japanese Interment 75 Years Later
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor of Women’s Studies

Counterterrorism: What Works and What Doesn’t
Erica De Bruin, Professor of Government

Identity and Difference
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor of Women’s Studies

Envisioning the Future of Food
Claire Hinrichs, Penn State University; Margaret Gray, Adelphi University; and Evan Weissman, Syracuse University

No One Left Behind: A Bond Forged in Combat
Matt Zeller ’04 and Janis Shinwari, Co-Founders of No One Left Behind

Turkey at a Crossroads: After the Referendum
Riada Asimovic Akyol ’07, contributing  writer for Al-Monitor; Mustafa Akyol, Turkish journalist for Al-Monitor and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times; and Erol Balkan, author of multiple books on politics and economics. Professor Balkan teaches economic development,  international finance and political economy of the Middle East at Hamilton College

Muslim Women and Perceptions in the East and West
Riada Asimovic Akyol ’07, contributing  writer for Al-Monitor

Fall 2016 Speakers & Panel Discussions

The Homeland Security Paradox and Community Resilience
Benjamin Joelson, senior associate at the Chertoff Group; former U.S. Airforce, Security Forces; and Antiterrorism Officer

A Cuban Perspective on US-Cuba Relations
Ernest Dominquez Lopez, Associate Professor and Chair, U.S. Studies Program, CEHSEU, University of Havana

Election 2016 HAMILTON FACULTY SPEAKERS:

Regional Challenges for the Trump Presidency
Alexsia Chan, Kira Jumet, and Heather Sullivan (Government Department)

Gender, Sexuality, Misogyny, and Election 2016
Joyce Barry and Anne Lacsamana (Women’s and Gender Studies)

The Half-life of Democracy: Regime Decay in Theory and Practice
Frank Anechiarico (Government), Alfred Kelly (History), and Rick Werner (Philosophy)

Year of the Party-Crashers: 2016 and the State of the American Party System
Sam Rosenfeld (Government), David Frisk (AHI), and Maurice Isserman (History), and Gbemende Johnson (Government)

High Stakes for the Planet: The 2016 Presidential Election
Peter Cannavo (Government)

Transparency, Politics, and the Federal Reserve
Ann Owen (Economics)

The State of the Election
Sam Rosenfeld, Phil Klinkner, and Gbemende Johnson (Government)

American Foreign Policy and the Election
Alan Cafruny (Government)

Hot Seats: The Math of Electoral Apportionment
Dick Bedient (Math)

Inequality and the Election
Dennis Gilbert (Sociology)

American Religions and the Election
Steve Ellingson (Sociology) & Quincy Newell (Religious Studies)

Whose Politics? Race, History, and American Politics
Celeste Day-Moore (History) and Margo Okazawa-Rey (Women’s and Gender Studies)

SPring 2016 Speakers & Panel Discussions

Between Two Worlds
John Dau, Human Rights Activist 

What Is the Problem for which Gun Control Is the Solution? 
The 2nd and 14th Amendments and Gun Culture; 
Gun Controls: Keeping Firearms out of the Hands of Dangerous Users;
Good Guns and Bad Guns 
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts at the New York University School of Law 

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Pennsylvania State 

Understanding Gender Bias in Developing World
Robert Jensen, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania 

Walking with Abel: Herding Cattle in Mali and Other Ways of Looking at the World
Anna Badkhen, journalist covering stories of people around the world in extremis

Ancient Myth: A Tool for Self-Discovery
Rhodessa Jones, Director of The Medea Project