Lecture Series

Tower Center Medal of Freedom Event

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Honoring the Right Hon. Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain (click on name for more information)

Tower Center/Council on Foreign Relations evening reception

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Speaker: Walter Russel Mead, Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, CFR
Topic: Gold and Gold: Britain, American, and the Making of the Modern World
Location: TBA

Evening lecture and sushi dinner with Dr. Arthur Alexander

Monday, February 11, 2008

Speaker: Dr. Arthur Alexander, Scholar and Researcher on the Japanese Economy, Karl F. Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Japanese Innovation, Technology and Science
Location: TBA
A Japan American Society of Dallas Fort Worth event, co-sponsored by the Tower Center

Luncheon with Seyom Brown

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
12:00 – 1:30 pm

Speaker: Seyom Brown, John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security and Director of Studies at the Tower Center
Topic: The Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States
A Tower Center/DCFR event
Location: Jones Hall, Meadows Museum

Reception and Program with Fred Barnes

Thursday, November 7, 2007
5:00 Reception, 5:30-7:00 pm Program

Speaker: Fred Barnes, Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard, and Co-Host of The Beltway Boys, Fox News Channel
Topic: The Political Landscape for 2008
Sponsored by Richard Collins, TODAY Newspapers, and the Tower Center

Program and Book Signing with Steve LeVine

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
6:00 pm Reception, 6:30 Program and Book Signing

Speaker: Steve LeVine, former correspondent, Wall Street Journal and Tower Center Research Associate
Topic: The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
Location: Hotel Crescent Court, Cedar Springs at Pearl
Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth, Co-sponsored by the Tower Center

Seminar with Klaus Zimmermann

Thursday, October 1, 2007
4:00 - 5:30 pm

Leader: Klaus Zimmermann, Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Director of the German Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn), and President of the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin)
Topic: Measuring Ethnic identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior (to access paper, please click on the title)
Location: Tower Center Boardroom - 227 Carr Collins
Sponsored by the Tower Center and the Department of Economics at SMU and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Luncheon with Jon Alterman

Monday, September 24, 2007
11:30 Registration, 12:00-1:30 luncheon

Speaker: Jon Alterman, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Topic: Thinking Small: The Way Forward in Iraq
Location: Park City Club, 5956 Sherry Lane, Suite 1700
Co-Sponsored by the Tower Center and The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

The Annette Strauss "Internationalizing Dallas" Series

This lecture series, introduced in 1998, provides faculty speakers on international affairs and politics topics to civic and community groups in the Dallas area.