2009 Norman and Louis Miller Lecture
Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution, will be the featured speaker at St. Norbert College's 2009 Norman and Louis Miller Lecture.
Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.
Professor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena. He has served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN, as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, which was mandated by the Wye River Agreements. He also served on the Iraq Study Group as a member of the Strategic Environment Working Group. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He has served on the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, which was appointed by the Department of State at the request of Congress, and he co-drafted the report of their findings, Changing Minds, Winning Peace. He has also co-drafted several Council on Foreign Relations reports on US public diplomacy, on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and on Persian Gulf security.
His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. His other publications include Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords; International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict, ed. with Milton Esman; Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, ed. with Michael Barnett, A Decade of Reflections on Peace, ed. (forthcoming), and numerous articles on international politics and Middle Eastern affairs.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Education for Employment Foundation, several academic advisory boards, and has served on the boards of Human Rights Watch (and as Chair of Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East). He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Professor Telhami was given the Distinguished International Service Award by the University of Maryland in 2002 and the Excellence in Public Service Award by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents in 2006.
About the lecture
The Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding was established at St. Norbert College in 1993 by the Norman Miller Family Foundation in honor of the life of Louis Miller, a native of Green Bay who died in 1989. The annual lectures focus on promoting unity, communication and tolerance among different cultures, religions, ethnicities and traditions, developing an understanding which, in a small way, contributes to better understanding among people, both domestically and internationally.
In establishing the endowment supporting this annual lecture, Norman Miller stated, "I am pleased that my brother's name will be memorialized through a continuing series [of lectures] at St. Norbert College that will promote peace and better understanding."
The inaugural lecture in 1994 was delivered by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and was based on his book, The Disuniting of America.
Recent lectures
- 2008 Alan Wolfe, professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College
- 2007 Kevin Phillips, political analyst
- 2006 "In Conversation: An Evening with David Halberstam"
- 2005 Garry Wills: "The Importance of the Enlightenment to America"
- 2004 Reuven Firestone: "God and Allah Need to Talk"
- 2003 Michael Beschloss: "Presidents in Crisi
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Shibley Telhami
Tuesday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Fort Howard Theater, F.K. Bemis International Center
Free and open to the public, no tickets or reservations are required
For more information, please contact:
Kelly Heim
College Advancement
(920) 403-3016
kelly.heim@snc.edu
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