Past Events

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, the Clements Center for National Security, Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Intelligence Studies Project will host Calder Walton, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy at Harvard University, for a talk on "Spies, Disinformation and Election-Meddling: Past and Present."

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, Dr. Arzoo Osanloo, director of the Middle East Center and associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, will give a talk as part of the Strauss Center's Brumley Speaker Series. 

On Tuesday, Oct. 29, the Clements Center for National Security will host Charlie Laderman, lecturer in international history at the War Studies Department, King's College London, for his talk "Sharing the Burden: The Anglo-American Struggle to Save the Armenians and Remake Global Order" at The University of Texas at Austin.

The LBJ School of Public Affairs invites you to attend The LatinX Factor, a one-day summit with leading experts across media, policy and academia who will convene to unpack the X Factor and its role in the American social, political and cultural landscapes. This summit is co-sponsored by UT Austin's Hispanic Faculty/Staff Association and Latino Studies. 

 Hedrick Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent, has established himself over the past 50 years as one of America’s premier journalists.  His newest work is “The Democracy Rebellion,” a one-hour PBS documentary showing how grassroots citizen movements are winning victories for political reform, state by state.

On Monday, Oct. 21, The McCombs School of Business, the Clements Center and Strauss Center will host A Conversation with Jay Gibson on Bringing Business Practices to the Pentagon. This talk will be held in the Crum Auditorium at Robert B. Rowling Hall.

NASA is developing nuclear reactors for the surface of the moon and Mars, and it recently tested one using nuclear weapons-grade uranium, despite U.S. nonproliferation policy to eliminate civilian use of such material worldwide. This symposium aims to promote debate on space reactor fuel before NASA makes a decision that could have significant security, economic and political consequences. 

Please join us on October 16 for a special Dean's Distinguished Leaders Series featuring Blumenthal where he will discuss his new book, the third in the series, "All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860."  In it he recounts Lincoln’s astonishing return from the political desert and ascent to the presidency.

On Oct. 16, 2019, the Clements Center for National Security will host John Ciorciari, associate professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and faculty director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center and International Policy Center, for a talk on "Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States" at The University of Texas at Austin.