Past Speakers and Topics: 1978-2011
2011--Water: A Human Right and Resource
Chairperson: Nick Dempsey
R. Allyn Clarke: The Drive Train for the Climate System
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dr. Christopher L. Kukk, The Meribah System: Modern "Quarrels" over Water
Western Connecticut State U.
Dr. Juliet Christian-Smith, Water and Food: Retooling Agriculture to Promote Sustainable Water Management
Pacific Institute
Dr. Shimon C. Anisfeld, Understand the Water Crisis: From Local to Global
Yale Univ.
Patricia Jones, Making Right our Water Wrong: Making sure There is a Place for Everyone in our Blue Boat Home
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
2010 - Empowering Women and Children for Global Health
Chair: Suellen Peluso
Jennifer Prah Ruger: Global Health Inequalities and Governance
Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator for the Cente for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Susan M. Davis: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship and Microfinance in Empowering Women
Founder and President & CEO of BRAC USA
Scott Hansen: Society's Most Vulnerable in Danger: Human Trafficking and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
American Institute in Taiwan’s Economic Section handling Environment, Science, Technology and Health
Lisa Adams & Richard Waddell: Combatting Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: Women and Children First
Adams: Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth Medical School, and Director of the Global Health Initiative (GHI)
Waddell: Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health at Dartmouth
Ann Cotton: Girls Education in Africa: A Fundamental Precondition for Progress
Founder of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED)
2010 Conference Committee: Nick Dembsey, Suellen Peluso, David Cummiskey, Lisa Braiterman, Ted Trainer, Maria Getoff
2009 - Global Justice
Chair: David Cummiskey
Joel H. Rosenthal – Global Citizenship: Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism
President Carnegie Council: The voice of ethics and international policy
Janice Bially Mattern – Sovereign Practices and Global Justice
Associate Professor International Relations
Lehigh University
Linda Bishai – International Law and the ICC
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International
United States Institute for Peace
Dr. Lee R. Schwartz – Complex Emergencies and Humanitarian Response
Geographer of the US Department of State
Director of the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues
Geographer of the US Department of State
Director of the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues
Allen Springer -- Environmental Justice and International Law: Protecting the Global Environment in a World of Sovereign States
Professor of Government
Bowdoin College
2008 - Religion and International Politics - Now and Into the Future
Chair: Rosemarie Smurzynski
2008 - Religion and International Politics - Now and Into the Future
Chair: Rosemarie Smurzynski
Stanley R. Sloan
Author, Educator
Visiting Scholar at Rohatyn Center for International Studies
Middlebury College
Jayakiran Sebastian
Director of Multicultural Mission Center
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Emmanual Twesigye
Professor of Christian Studies
Ohio Weslyan University
Emran Quereshi
Author, Educator,
Wertheim Fellow at Harvard University
Author, Educator
Visiting Scholar at Rohatyn Center for International Studies
Middlebury College
Jayakiran Sebastian
Director of Multicultural Mission Center
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Emmanual Twesigye
Professor of Christian Studies
Ohio Weslyan University
Emran Quereshi
Author, Educator,
Wertheim Fellow at Harvard University
Paul Beran
Director for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
Hilary Rantisi
Director of Middle East Initiative
Kennedy School of Government
Director for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
Hilary Rantisi
Director of Middle East Initiative
Kennedy School of Government
2007 - Island Opened Late – No IA Conference Held
2006 - Power Shifts - Regional Hotspots Confronting the U.S.
Chair: Josh Spero
Jeffery Taliaferro
Associate Professor of Political Science
Tufts University
Sean Kay
Associate Professor of Politics and Government
Ohio Weslyan University
2006 - Power Shifts - Regional Hotspots Confronting the U.S.
Chair: Josh Spero
Jeffery Taliaferro
Associate Professor of Political Science
Tufts University
Sean Kay
Associate Professor of Politics and Government
Ohio Weslyan University
Alan Stolberg
Assistant Professor of National Security Studies
U.S. Army War College
Theresa Hitchens
Director of the Center for Defense Information
Washington DC
Eric Budd
Associate Professor of Political Science
Fitchburg State College
2005 - Food Security - Global Challenge to People, Cultures and Nations
Assistant Professor of National Security Studies
U.S. Army War College
Theresa Hitchens
Director of the Center for Defense Information
Washington DC
Eric Budd
Associate Professor of Political Science
Fitchburg State College
2005 - Food Security - Global Challenge to People, Cultures and Nations
Chair: Lloyd Yanis
Ellen Messer
Visiting Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology
Geoge Washington's Elliot School of International Affairs
Sara Sievers
Director for Research, Advocacy and Policy
Association Francois Xavier Bagnoud
Director for Research, Advocacy and Policy
Association Francois Xavier Bagnoud
Mark McPeak
Deputy Director
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Deputy Director
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Brian Tokar
Author, Educator, Faculty
Vermont's Institute for Social Ecology
Jim Slama
Founder and President of Sustain and FamilyFarmed.org
2004 - The World's Largest Democracy: India
Chair: Joann O'Hara
Harry G. Barnes, Jr.
Former United States Ambassador to India
Anne E. Monius
Professor of South Asian Religions
Harvard Divinity School
Author, Educator, Faculty
Vermont's Institute for Social Ecology
Jim Slama
Founder and President of Sustain and FamilyFarmed.org
2004 - The World's Largest Democracy: India
Chair: Joann O'Hara
Harry G. Barnes, Jr.
Former United States Ambassador to India
Anne E. Monius
Professor of South Asian Religions
Harvard Divinity School
Kilaparti Ramakrishna
Senior Associate for International Environmental Law
Woods Hole Research Center
Katharine Sreedhar
Director of UU Holdeen in India Program
Senior Associate for International Environmental Law
Woods Hole Research Center
Katharine Sreedhar
Director of UU Holdeen in India Program
Dr. Prabhakar Tamboli
Executive Director, International Training Programs
University of Maryland
2003 - Islam: One-Fifth of the World's People
Chair: Karen Mathiasen
Dr. Hibba Abugideiri
Professor, George Washington University
Dr. Anthony F. Lang
Program Officer, Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs
Dr. Azza Karam
Director, Women's Program at the World Conference on Religion and
Executive Director, International Training Programs
University of Maryland
2003 - Islam: One-Fifth of the World's People
Chair: Karen Mathiasen
Dr. Hibba Abugideiri
Professor, George Washington University
Dr. Anthony F. Lang
Program Officer, Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs
Dr. Azza Karam
Director, Women's Program at the World Conference on Religion and
Peace
Ms. Heather Gregg
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 - Contemporary China: Challenges of Global Engagement
Chair: Anne Howe
Brantly Womack
Professor, University of Virginia
Yasheng Huang
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Dan Hai Mu Esquire and Dr. Rong Yi
Boston University
Xiaorong Li
Research Scholar, University of Maryland (presented by Helena
Ms. Heather Gregg
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 - Contemporary China: Challenges of Global Engagement
Chair: Anne Howe
Brantly Womack
Professor, University of Virginia
Yasheng Huang
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Dan Hai Mu Esquire and Dr. Rong Yi
Boston University
Xiaorong Li
Research Scholar, University of Maryland (presented by Helena
Cobban)
Harry Harding
Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington Univ.
2001 - The U.S. and the Challenges of International Leadership and Cooperation
Chair: Ross Fenster
Harry Harding
Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington Univ.
2001 - The U.S. and the Challenges of International Leadership and Cooperation
Chair: Ross Fenster
Stewart Patrick
Center on International Cooperation New York University
Michael Klare
Hampshire College
Aaron M. Knight
Chief of Staff, World Federalist Association
Joshua Spero
Dartmouth School of Government
Rose Gottemoeller
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
2000 - International Ethics
Chair: Caren Yanis
Valora Washington
Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Joel Rosenthal
President, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Sherman Teichman
Director of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University
Lawrence Grossman
President, NBC News from 1984 to 1988 and of PBS from 1976
to 1984
Lori Knowles
Professor, University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools
1999 - Reaching Beyond States: The Role of International NGOs
Chair: Helena Cobben
Ann Florini
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Heather Foote
UU Service Committee
Ricky Goldstein
Lori Knowles
Professor, University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools
1999 - Reaching Beyond States: The Role of International NGOs
Chair: Helena Cobben
Ann Florini
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Heather Foote
UU Service Committee
Ricky Goldstein
Human Rights Watch
Xiaorong Li
Xiaorong Li
University of Maryland
Susannah Sirkin
Physicians for Human Rights Campaign against Land Mines
1998 - People, States, and Globalization
Chair: Tom McNaugher
Stephen Blank
Pace University
Bridget Rosewell
Business Strategies Ltd. London
Ed Lincoln
Brookings Institue
Michael Berlin
Boston U. School of Journalism
Shibley Telhami
U. of Maryland
1997 -Trouble in the Neighborhood: Co-Existence in North America
Chair: Susan Rak
Marilyn Halter
Boston University
Betty Haskins
United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
William LeoGrande
American University
Susan Purcell
Monique Simard
Deputy Leader, Parti Quebecois
1996 - The Impact of Political Decision on World Health
Chair: Burt Jaffe
John Hammock
Director, Oxfam America
Elizabeth Reed
Director, AIDS Program, WHO
Leonard Marcus
M.D., Tufts U. Medical School
Ellen Chesler
Author
David Cummiskey
Professor Medical Ethics, Bates College
1995 - Competing Interests in the Global Village: The UN at 50
Chair: Margaret Noel
Franics Deng
Brookings Institution and special envoy to the UN
Jane Holl
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Kemal Kurspanic
Oslobodeniye, Sarajevo
Lorenzo Morris
Howard University
George Moffett
Christian Science Monitor
1994 - Religion, Race & Ethnicity: Sources of Conflict in International Affairs
Chair: Ken Cummisky
Stanley Heginbotham
Ford Foundation
Adrien Wing
University of Iowa Law School
Ian Lustick
U. of Pennsylvania
Ann Mayer
U. of Pennsyvannia
Karen Dawisha
U. of Maryland
1993 - Transitions to Democracy: Implications for War & Peace
Chair: Ellen Brandenburg
1992 - Japan, China & Pacific Basin Challenges for the U.S.
Chair: Don Zagoria
1991 - End of the Cold War: Challenges for the U.S.
Chair: Jean Hay
1990 - Exhausted Earth: Environmental Threats and Questions
Chair: Bill Maynes
1989 - U.S. in a Changing World Chair: Richard Weinert
1988 - Is There a New Soviet Union?
Chair: Des O'Hara
1987 - China: The Next Superpower?
Chair: Sam Frieberg
1986 - The Middle East: Societies and Schisms
Chair: Judy Williams
1985 - Africa
Chair: Eleanor Jaffe
1984 - Latin America: Dilemma on Our Doorstep
Chair: Gordon Noel
1983 - The Nuclear Dilemma: Security Without Annihilation
Chair: Sam Zagoria
1982 - Leadership in a Troubled World
Chair: Phyllis Claus
1981 - Confrontation -- And the Alternatives
Chair: Dave Stanley
1980 - The Causes of War
Chair: Ron Buck
1978 - Our Shrinking World
Chair: Naomi Yanis
U. of Pennsylvania
Ann Mayer
U. of Pennsyvannia
Karen Dawisha
U. of Maryland
1993 - Transitions to Democracy: Implications for War & Peace
Chair: Ellen Brandenburg
1992 - Japan, China & Pacific Basin Challenges for the U.S.
Chair: Don Zagoria
1991 - End of the Cold War: Challenges for the U.S.
Chair: Jean Hay
1990 - Exhausted Earth: Environmental Threats and Questions
Chair: Bill Maynes
1989 - U.S. in a Changing World Chair: Richard Weinert
1988 - Is There a New Soviet Union?
Chair: Des O'Hara
1987 - China: The Next Superpower?
Chair: Sam Frieberg
1986 - The Middle East: Societies and Schisms
Chair: Judy Williams
1985 - Africa
Chair: Eleanor Jaffe
1984 - Latin America: Dilemma on Our Doorstep
Chair: Gordon Noel
1983 - The Nuclear Dilemma: Security Without Annihilation
Chair: Sam Zagoria
1982 - Leadership in a Troubled World
Chair: Phyllis Claus
1981 - Confrontation -- And the Alternatives
Chair: Dave Stanley
1980 - The Causes of War
Chair: Ron Buck
1978 - Our Shrinking World
Chair: Naomi Yanis
