David Trimble - War, Peace and Security in the Modern World
4/4/2006 5:00 PM
Campus Recreation Center Gymnasium
Northern Ireland, 1995: Hardline Protestant leader David Trimble leads a hostile parade of Ulstermen through a Catholic neighborhood in Belfast.
Yet only three years later in 1998, David Trimble accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering a peace pact between Protestants and Catholics in the war-torn region. What were the internal and external forces that propelled him onto the path to peace?
Dr. Judea Pearl
2/9/2006 5:00 PM
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences - CAS157
Father of U.S. reporter murdered by Muslim extremists comes to Roger Williams University - Dr. Judea Pearl’s push for dialog is his “vision of revenge”.
Mary Tefft White Cultural Center Lecture
11/8/2005 5:30 PM
Mary Tefft White Cultural Center
Gordon S. Wood, The Alva O. Way University Professor of History at Brown University will discuss some of the challenges that Ben Franklin confronted in his life.
Professor Lawrence Otis Graham
10/27/2005 5:00 PM
Ralph R. Papitto Law School, Room #283
Mr. Lawrence Otis Graham, leading diversity expert, prolific author and corporate attorney will be the next Civil Discourse speaker on October 27, 2005.
His lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in Room #283, the Appellate Court Room at that Ralph R. Papitto School of Law on the University’s Bristol campus, following a reception at 5 p.m. in the Law School’s Bay View Room.
Mary Tefft White Cultural Center Lecture
10/11/2005 5:30 PM
Mary Tefft White Cultural Center
Mr. Brechin Morgan will share the story of his solo trip around the work in 1998.
Sanford Levinson vs. Carl Bogus - Does the Constitution Prohibit Certain Kinds of Gun Control?
10/11/2005 4:00 PM
School of Law Appellate Courtroom 283
Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas and Professor Carl Bogus of Roger Williams University debate on the meaning of the Second Amendment. Admission to this event is free and open to the public.
"An Evening with Khaled Hosseini"
5/5/2005 6:00 PM
Campus Recreation Center Gymnasium
The author of the best seller 'The Kite Runner' discusses his work with the Roger Williams University community.
Salman Rushdie - "At What Cost Safety?"
4/6/2005
Recreation Center - Gymnasium
In 1990, Anglo-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie published a children’s book entitled Haroun and the Sea of Stories, his first work produced under the shadow of a 1989 fatwa, issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which called for Rushdie’s assassination as punishment for writing the novel, The Satanic Verses. (The fatwa was officially rescinded in 1998.)
America's Cultural Civil War
3/22/2005
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences - CAS157
Georgetown University Law School grad, former director of the White House Office of Public Policy during the Reagan administration, and evangelical Christian activist, Gary Bauer is slated to bring his perspective to Roger Williams University this spring.
David Gergen - “The Great Divide – Where Do We Go From Here?”
11/11/2004
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences - CAS157
David Gergen – commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton – spoke at Roger Williams University shortly after the broadly divisive 2004 Presidential election was complete. His Civil Discourse lecture, entitled “The Great Divide – Where Do We Go From Here?” drew a full-house crowd.
Kevin Phillips - A Nation Divided
10/16/2004
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences - CAS157
Once a strategic advisor to President Nixon, Kevin Phillips takes aim at President George W. Bush and family in his latest bestseller, American Dynasty. For more than three decades, Phillips has analyzed the role of wealth in democracy from both sides of the political spectrum.
His books are said to have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. So Phillips was a fitting choice to deliver the first Civil Discourse Series lecture on the theme of “A Nation Divided,” during the University’s 2004 Homecoming Weekend.