2011 Events
Fall
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Jonathan Panter
- Program on Freedom and Free Socities at Cornell University
- Title: Syria's Violent Spring: What a Cornell Undergrad Saw While Studying Abroad
- Date & time: 5 pm on Wednesday, August 31
- Location: 391 Statler Hall
Mr. Panter's observations on life in Syria appeared in the pages of the Wall Street Journal
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Hillel Fradkin
- Director, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
- Title: Ten Years On: the Arab Spring and the Death of Bin Laden
- Date & time: 7:30 pm on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
- Location: Guerlac Room, A. D. White House
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Kevin Hassett
- Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies American Enterprise Institute
- Title: Spend Less, Owe Less, Grow the Economy
- Date & time: 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 27, 2011
- Location: G71 Martha Van Rensselaer West
- Dr. Hassett's talk is sponsored by Jack Miller Center's Constitution Day Initiative.
- Facebook page for Dr. Hassett's talk
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Andrew Roberts
- Award-winning, internationally acclaimed British historian and biographer, journalist, and public intellectual
- Title: Why Hitler Lost
- Date & time: 6:00 pm on Thursday, November 17, 2011
- Location: G10 Biotechnology Building
Spring
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin
- President, American Action Forum
- Title: Surviving to 2016: Policy Challenges in the United States
- Date & time: 4:30 pm on Thursday, February 17th, 2011
- Location: G71 Martha van Rensselaer Hall (West Wing)
Coverage of the talk by the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell Chronicle, and Cornell Review.
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Claudia Rosett
- Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- Title: From Axis of Evil to Partners in Proliferation: North Korea and Iran
- Date & time: 4:30 pm on Monday, February 28, 2011
- Location: 110 Rockefeller Hall
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Bettany Hughes
- Historian, author, broadcaster
- Title: Socrates and the Hemlock Cup
- Date & time: 4:30 pm on Monday, March 7, 2011
- Location: Kaufmann Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall
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Kathryn Milne
- Miller-Veritas Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Freedom and Free Societies, and Visiting Assistant Professor, History
- Title: Officium Imperatoris: The Importance of Picking One's Battles in the Middle Republic
- Date & time: 4:30 pm on Monday, March 14, 2011
- Location: 122 Goldwin Smith Hall
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Virginia Postrel
- Libertarian author and member of the Board of Directors, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Title: Consumer Choice in a World of Exploding Product Variety: In Defense of
Too Much Choice.
- Date & time: 7:30 pm on Wednesday, March 30, 2011
- Location: G71 Martha van Rensselaer Hall
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Yuval Levin
- Founding editor, National Affairs
- Title: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Understanding the Health Care Debate
- Date & time: 7:30 pm on Monday, April 11, 2011
- Location: Kaufmann Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall
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Thomas Szasz
- Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center and The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
- Title: The Insanity Defense: The Case for Abolition
- Date & time: 7:00 pm on Wednesday, April 13
- Location: 228 Malott Hall
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Michael Barone
- Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Title: American Politics 2011 and Beyond
- Date & time: 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 27
- Location: 228 Malott Hall
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Sinan Unur
- Program on Freedom and Free Societies at Cornell University
Title: The Future of Health Care Reform, a panel discussion.
This event is part of the Cornell University Health Care Symposium organized as part of the third annual Sick in America series
.- Date & time: 5:30 pm on Monday, May 2nd
- Location: 251 Malott Hall