Past Events

The Barbara Jordan Forum is an annual tribute to Jordan's life and work.

The Intelligence Studies Project, Robert Strauss Center, and Clements Center, in partnership with the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, will welcome David Priess to The University of Texas at Austin on Thursday, February 16, 2017. Dr. Priess will deliver a public talk in the LBJ Library Atrium (10th Floor) at 12:15 pm about his recent book publication, The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents from Kennedy to Obama. 

Please join the Clements Center for National Security on February 14th at SRH 3.122 at 12:15pm for a talk with Adam Garfinkle, Founding Editor of The American Interest. Dr. Garfinkle will be discussing President Trump and his Middle East foreign policy. This event is free and open to the public. 

Please join us on February 13th as we welcome June Sekera from Tufts University to discuss her provocative new book, The Public Economy in Crisis - A Call for a New Public Economics, on the future of public management. In this book, Ms. Sekera:

Proposes a new theory of public economics relevant to the realities of modern, democratic nation states.

Illustrates how the public economy differs from the market model and why those differences matter.

Integrates work and thought across the disciplines of economics, political science and public administration.

Three group leadership activities; brain-teasers that require group communication.  Group is 15 individuals.

The Clements Center is honored to host Peter Mansoor, Professor of Military History at Ohio State University and Former Executive Officer to General David Patraeus. Dr. Mansoor will speak on the rise of ISIS and the way ahead in the war against Islamist terror groups at the Texas Governors' Room (UNB 3.116) on Wednesday, Feburary 8th, at 12:15pm. This event is free and open to the public.