THE 2006 HILDEGARD DURFEE LECTURE SERIES
Friday, October 6, 2006
7:30 PM, SIT/World Learning, Roach Center
Peter Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia; Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
PETER W. GALBRAITH served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia where he mediated the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatia War. He is currently Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and principal in a Vermont-based firm specializing in international negotiations. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
His book, The End Of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End, has recently been published by Simon and Schuster.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
7:30 PM, Brooks Memorial Library Meeting Room
Partners for Peace:
Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision
Three women, a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim, who are living the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have come to the United States to call for an end to war and suffering in the Middle East and share their experiences and hopes for a just peace with American audiences. The October tour is the Twelfth National Jerusalem Women Speak tour organized by PARTNERS FOR PEACE, which is an NGO based in Washington, DC whose mission is to help bring about a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is the eleventh tour since 1998.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
7:30 PM, Brooks Memorial Library, Meeting Room
Louis Uchitelle
The Disposable American Layoffs and Their Consequences.
LOUIS UCHITELLE worked as a reporter, a foreign correspondent, and the editor of the business news department at the Associated Press before joining The New York Times in 1980. He has been writing about business, labor, and economics for the Times since 1987. He was the lead reporter for the Times series “The Downsizing of America,” which won a George Polk Award in 1996. He has taught at Columbia University and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 2002-2003. The Disposable American is his first book and copies will be sold at this event.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
7:00 PM, Brooks Memorial Library, Main Room
Mansour Farhang, former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations
America and the Middle East.
Many Middle Eastern governments and people view U.S. actions, policies, and priorities in the region as being very different from Washington's stated intentions and purposes. What are the causes and consequences of this incongruity? How have the wars in Iraq and Lebanon affected American power in the Middle East? MANSOUR FARHANG was Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1979-1980. He resigned when efforts to negotiate release of American hostages in Tehran failed. Since 1983 he has taught international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College. He has written for academic publications, popular periodicals, and newspapers. He serves on Human Rights Watch/Middle East and has appeared as commentator on television and radio.
Lecture is part of the First Wednesdays Lecture Series sponsored by the Library and the Vermont Humanities Council.
