Past Events

Closing out the William C. Powers lecture series,  Michael Eric Dyson, distinguished professor, author, cultural critic, social activist and ordained minister, joins the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) to masterfully bring together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits.

Guest Speaker Event

Join us on March 1-2 for the 9th annual Space Traffic Management Conference. Register now!

A screening of "Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom" followed by a Q&A with creator Ya'Ke Smith and Dr. Peniel Joseph, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.

Come learn more about the LBJ School of Public Affairs' new Foreign Policy Semester for UT undergraduate students.

On Thursday, February 16 at 12:15-1:30pm the Strauss Center for International Security and Law in conjunction with the Clements Center for National Security will host international development expert Daniel Runde as he discusses his new book, The American Imperative: Reclaiming Leadership Through Soft Power. Mr. Runde argues that China and Russia fill vacuums—vacuums that are digital, healthcare-oriented, infrastructural, commercial, security-related, value-related, and ones that occupy the multilateral system. In turn, the US and its allies must invest in a positive agenda that meets the hopes and aspirations of its partners to fill such vacuums. Great-power competition, Mr. Runde maintains, is not going to be fought in Beijing and Moscow. Rather, it is currently being fought in the post-Soviet space, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. This competition is contested in areas of development and other forms of soft power. While power is undoubtedly expressed in more violent arenas—as seen in Ukraine—most of this contest will be through means other than war. Mr. Runde hopes to spark a national conversation about how and for what end we are going to use our non-military forms of our power overseas given the challenges and opportunities in front of us as a country. He calls for supporting broad based economic growth, supporting good governance and anti-corruption, long term training, differentiating our approaches in middle-income countries and fragile states and stronger US leadership in the multilateral system. The event is open to the public, no RSVP required. Lunch will be served.

Clements Center for National Security, the Department of Government, and the LBJ Presidential Library will host Stephen J. Hadley, Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (2005-2009), for a book talk on his upcoming release Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama.

On Tuesday, February 8th, the Alexander Hamilton Society at UT-Austin, the Clements Center for National Security and the International Relations and Global Studies Council are hosting General Robert B. Neller, former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, for a conversation on "The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Indo-Pacific." Join us at 5:30 pm in SRH 3.122 at The LBJ School of Public Affairs.

On Wednesday, February 8, the Strauss Center hosts Cara Bloom, Senior Cybersecurity and Privacy Scientist at MITRE, for a talk on “Emerging Technologies & Privacy: How Privacy Threat Modeling Can Help Manage Privacy Risks.”

On Wednesday, February 1, the Asia Policy Program and the Strauss Center for International Law & Security are hosting Aynne Kokas, the C.K. Yen Professort at the Miller Center and Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, to discuss her latest release Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty at 12:15 PM at RLP 1.302E, Robert L. Patton Hall. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, founding Director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The Asia Policy Program is a joint effort of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.