Past Speakers

Date:	10/12/2005
Event:	Andrés Bianchi “CHILE’S SUCCESS STORY: DIMENSIONS, CAUSES AND PROSPECTS”
Date:	10/26/2005
Event:	Rev. Kim-Kwong Chan “Freedom of Religion–Cultural Conflict and Political Tension in Sino-US Relation”
Date:	12/2/2005
Event:	Dr. Robert Joss, Dean Stanford Business School
Date:	2/9/2006
Event:	Vandana Asthana, Ph.D.presenting “China and India: Partners or Competitors?”
Date:	2/16/2006
Event:	John Yoder PhD “Democratization and Elections: Perspectives on Liberia”
Date:	3/16/2006
Event:	Dr. Karla Morgan Professor of Economics Whitworth College “CAFTA–Advantages and disadvantages to investors and consumers in the US and Central America”
Date:	5/1/2006
Event:	Dr. Robert Kapp presents “Doing Business in China”
Date:	5/22/2006
Event:	Carmela Conroy “Rebuilding Afghanistan”
Date:	5/30/2006
Event:	Ann Jones Journalist/Author “Kabul in Winter” speaking on The Plight of Women in Afghanistan
Date:	9/13/2006
Event:	Mr. Henry (Hank) Levine will talk on “The China Trade and American Foreign Policy.”
Date:	11/15/2006
Event:	Barry Lynn, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.
Date:	3/1/2007
Event:	Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad, Ambassador to the United States from Afghanistan speaking on “Afghanistan: Investing in Security”
Date:	4/25/2007
Event:	Ralph Begleiter “Global Media & The Power of Images or Why They Hate Us and Why It Matters”
Date:	9/21/2007
Event:	Peace One Day
Date:	10/11/2007
Event:	Nathan Gonzalez “Engaging Iran and America’s Strategic Choice”
Date:	10/15/2007
Event:	Stephen B. Young, author of MORAL CAPITALISM Reconciling Private Interest with Public Good
Date:	11/15/2007
Event:	Ambassador Philip Wilcox “The Israel-Palestine Crisis. Is there any hope for Peace?”
Date:	12/10/2007
Event:	“60 Years of Searching for Peace: The United Nations’ Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” Robert Sauders, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Departments of History, Geography and Anthropology at Eastern Washington University
Date:	12/12/2007
Event:	Ambassador Imad Moustapha Syrian Ambassador to the United States“U.S., Syria and the New/old Middle East Confrontation or Cooperation?”
Date:	2/21/2008
Event:	“Terrorism and America’s Response: Offense, Defense and the War on Terror” Dr. Jonathan Isacoff, Associate professor, Gonzaga University
Date:	2/28/2008
Event:	International Trade: Law or Politics Symposium
Date:	3/13/2008
Event:	“Why Latin America is Shifting to the Left: We Need to Understand our Southern Neighbors.” Dr. Lindy Scott, professor Whitworth University
Date:	4/3/2008
Event:	“The Iraq End-Game.” Timothy M. Carney, Ambassador of the United States (Retired).
Date:	4/10/2008
Event:	“Alternative Energy in the U.S. and Global Implications.” Jan Kreider, Ph.D., P.E.
Date:	4/17/2008
Event:	Townhall Meeting on “The China Issue in the 2008 Presidential and Congressional Campaigns” with Norman J. Ornstein and “China’s Environmental Challenges and the Country’s Growing Environmental Movement” by Daniela Salaverry
Date:	4/24/2008
Event:	“China’s Economic Rise: Global Challenge and Opportunity.” Dr. Walter Hutchens, associate professor Whitworth University.
Date:	5/6/2008
Event:	Spokane World Affairs Council Members Only Event
Date:	9/18/2008
Event:	International Day of Peace Celebration
Date:	10/6/2008
Event:	“Children in Africa: Pawns of Politics” Speaker: Rory Anderson, World Vision
Date:	10/23/2008
Event:	“Where Journalism is Going and How We Protect Its Values” with Gil Klein, National Press Club, plus a panel of leading journalists in Spokane
Date:	10/29/2008
Event:	Sam Daley-Harris, “Champions and Revolutionaries: Critical Ingredients for Ending Global Poverty“
Date:	1/21/2009
Event:	Gaza: Massacre or Self-defense? Presenters: Steve Schwalbe, Study Abroad Manager Rob Sauders, Asst. Professor of Anthropology and History Majid Sharifi, Asst. Professor of Government and International Affairs
Date:	2/9/2009
Event:	“Iraqi Refugees: The Unspoken Consequence of War” Karlene Arguinchona MD and Gerri Haynes RN
Date:	2/12/2009
Event:	“Peak Oil: Expected Impacts on the Domestic and Global Economies During the Next Decade” Speaker: Dr. Melissa Ahern
Date:	3/5/2009
Event:	“In the Shadow of Slums” Speaker Steven Jensen
Date:	4/23/2009
Event:	“What the New Balance of Power Means for the United States” Speaker Richard Ellings
Date:	4/30/2009
Event:	“Cross Border Terrorism in the Shadow of Jihad: The India-Pakistan-Afghanistan Triangle” Speaker: Vandana Asthana
Date:	5/6/2009
Event:	“Bahrain: Land of Eternity” by Sajida Tabbar, Visiting Fulbright specialist
Date:	5/7/2009
Event:	“Human Rights and Realpolitik: the Enduring Tensions” Speaker: Professor Robert Schrire view info
Date:	10/8/2009
Event:	Ambassador Philip Wilcox “Can President Obama Make Peace Between Israel and Palestine or is It Too Late?”
Date:	2/11/2010
Event:	“A Life of Struggle in Iraq” by Hussam Al-Khalidy
Date:	3/11/2010
Event:	Russia and the “Near Abroad” by Dr. Christopher Marsh
Date:	3/18/2010
Event:	Seeing Ourself in “The Other” – Life Lessons From the Rwanda Genocide by Carl Wilkens
Date:	4/8/2010
Event:	“Iceland in the Global Financial Crisis” by Hjálmar W. Hannesson
Date:	4/22/2010
Event:	China’s ‘Great Unity’: U.S.-China Relations on the New Global Horizon by Dr. Anthony Clark
Date:	5/18/2010
Event:	Ambassador Thomas D. Boyatt speaks on “The Hundred Years of War in the 20th Century: An Assessment of U.S. Foreign Policy”
Date:	5/18/2010
Event:	Ambassador Thomas D. Boyatt presents “The Militarization of Diplomacy and What To Do About It?”
Date:	10/7/2010
Event:	A program honoring Jim Sheehan followed by a talk by Dr. Alex Dehgan.
Date:	11/10/2010
Event:	Leslie Hazelton speaks on “What the Quran really says.”
Date:	3/3/2011
Event:	Asgeir Foyen speaks on “Hope for the Middle East? A Different Approach”
Date:	3/17/2011
Event:	Tom LePage speaks on “Somalia and Reconciliation: The Horn of an African Dilemma”
Date:	3/31/2011
Event:	Frederick Lorenz will speak on “International Justice at the Crossroad”
Date:	4/14/2011
Event:	Brian D. “Duff” Bergquist will speak on “From Narvik to Spokane, with a Stop in Vegas, Aboard the Financial Crisis Express”
Date:	5/5/2011
Event:	Anna Schowengerdt, ’93 will speak on “Humanitarian Aid: A Practitioner’s Perspective”
Date:	5/18/2011
Event:	The Iran I Know – Iran through the eyes of two International Friendship Delegates