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The William H. Timbers '37 Lecture Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Act 4:30 PM Rockefeller 003 Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association Robin West Frederick Hass Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law Center Faculty Director, Georgetown Center for the Study of Law and Humanities Robin West is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Study of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor West has written extensively on gender issues and feminist legal theory, constitutional law and theory, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and law and literature. She is the author of, most recently, Teaching Law: Justice, Politics and the Demands of Professionalism, and Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction, both from Cambridge University Press. West earned her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Maryland and her J.S.M. from Stanford.

U.S. Leadership in Fighting Hunger, Poverty, and Undernutrition, Jonathan Shrier Jonathan Shrier '85, Acting Special Rep, Global Food Security, U.S. State Dept, discusses diplomatic efforts and Feed the Future Initiative to advance food and nutrition security. Speaker Bio: On June 6, 2011, Jonathan Shrier became the Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security and as such, is responsible for coordinating all aspects of U.S. diplomacy related to food security and nutrition, and serves concurrently as Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future, the U.S. global hunger and food security initiative. He focuses on major donors, strategic partners, multilateral fora such as the G8 and G20, and policy reforms in partner countries. Mr. Shrier came to the State Department's Office of Global Food Security from the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. He has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he helped design and establish the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas launched by President Obama. While at the National Security Council and National Economic Council, Mr. Shrier coordinated interagency policy at the intersection of energy, climate, and agriculture, including responses to the spike in commodity prices in 2007-2008. A career Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Shrier handled international trade and investment issues for then Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Sheeran, just prior to her appointment as head of the World Food Program. During his service at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. Shrier worked with USAID to establish a development assistance program for Tibetan communities in China, with a focus on agriculture-led development. Mr. Shrier has earned degrees from the National Defense University (M.S. in National Security Resource Strategy), University of London (M.B.A. in International Management), London School of Economics (MSc in International Relations), and Dartmouth (A.B. in Government). His languages include Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

The New Hampshire Rebellion Room 003, Rockefeller Center 4:30 PM PP_W14_Lawrence_Lessig Lawrence Lessig Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and founder of Rootstrikers, a network of activists leading the fight against government corruption. He has authored numerous books, including Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Our Congress—and a Plan to Stop It, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Free Culture, and Remix. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Featuring John Malpede & Kevin Michael Key of the Skid Row-based Los Angeles Poverty Department, Upper Valley Haven's Sara Kobylenski & Good Neighbor Health Clinic's Ceil Furlong. A discussion examining economic and social disparities in health care and access to health services in community context, featuring John Malpede and Kevin Michael Key of the Skid Row-based Los Angeles Poverty Department, the Upper Valley Haven's Sara Kobylenski and Good Neighbor Health Clinic's Ceil Furlong.

Sunlight Absorption on the Greenland ice sheet Experiment (SAGE)" Tuesday, January 07 2014, 12:00pm - 1:30pm 041 Haldeman Center Chris Polashenski, PhD, Research Geophysicist, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laborator (CRREL) Big changes are happening on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Trends show increasing melt extent, longer melt seasons, lower surface albedo, higher ice temperatures, and increased ice flow. All of these are important because the Greenland Ice Sheet is a major potential contributor to sea level rise. Zoe Courville, PhD, and Chris Polashenski, PhD, at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) are leading a series of studies aimed at better understanding how albedo feedbacks are contributing to enhanced melt on the ice sheet. These studies are organized around large scale traverses of the ice sheet, observing albedo, snow properties, light absorbing impurity concentrations, and firn temperatures, and synthesizing data from the traverses with remote sensing observations and large scale modeling. The first traverse occurred from April-June 2013 and preliminary results will be presented. Part of the traverse followed the route pioneered by the godfather of Greenland research, Carl Benson. Replicating Benson's observations shows substantial warming has occurred in mid altitudes of the ice sheet. The traverse also found enhanced black carbon concentrations in the 2012 melt layer. We analyze these to assess the role that black carbon deposition may have played in the 2012 melt event, and compare the impacts of black carbon with grain metamorphosis. Finally we discuss plans for 2014 and invite comments and discussion. Dr. Polashenski is a research geophysicist with the Terrestrial and Cryospheric Sciences Branch at CRREL specializing in the physical properties of sea ice and snow. He received his undergraduate degree and a doctoral degree in material engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and is a veteran of Dartmouth's NSF IGERT program on polar environmental change. Now he leads research programs exploring processes of the cryosphere, particularly those that influence energy balance feedbacks, such as melt pond formation on sea ice, aerosol deposition in snow, and snow grain metamorphosis. Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center and the IGERT Dialogues in Polar Science & Society.

The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth presents: Matt van der Meer - Spike timing, sequences, and model-based prediction in the rat hippocampus Abstract: The hippocampus is a brain structure most famously associated with episodic memory -- the ability to recall what happened on our 18th birthday, or where we parked our car this morning. By recording from ensembles of neurons in the rat hippocampus, we can ask how neural activity during experience relates to subsequent memory recall and behavioral choice, at fine timescales. Decoding these neural ensembles reveals that the hippocampus compresses ongoing experience into repeating theta sequences, which can dynamically "look ahead" or "look behind" the animal. Furthermore, subsequent recall is not limited to literal "replay" of experience but includes, for instance, sequences not previously experienced. Finally, neurons in the ventral striatum, a reward-related brain structure that receives inputs from the hippocampus, participate in these hippocampal timing phenomena. Taken together, these observations elucidate how hippocampal memories may contribute to a predictive world model useful for, say, taking a shortcut directly to your car in the parking lot.

A Conversation on "Ghosts in the Machine: Our Messed-up Constitution" with Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor and Staff Writer, The New Yorker & John Carey, Chair, Government Department Room 003, Rockefeller Center November 18, 2013 4:30 PM CS_F13_Hendrik_Hertzberg Hendrik Hertzberg Senior Editor and Staff Writer, The New Yorker Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker. According to Forbes magazine, he is one of "The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media." He is a six-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, which he won in 2006. He is the author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, named as a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and ¡Obamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era. Hertzberg originally joined The New Yorker in 1969 after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He later worked as a White House speechwriter under President Jimmy Carter and as editor of The New Republic before returning to The New Yorker in 1992. Hertzberg, a Harvard graduate, has also been a fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics and its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

Veterans Day Program Room 003, Rockefeller Center PP_F13_Michael_Breen Michael Breen '02 Executive Director, The Truman National Security Project and the Center for National Policy Michael Breen is the Executive Director of the Truman National Security Project and the Center for National Policy. Breen is frequently called on to testify before Congress, regularly briefs government officials and elected leaders on security issues, and makes frequent media appearances. A former U.S. Army officer, Breen served with the infantry in Iraq and led paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. After leaving the military, Breen clerked for the Office of White House Counsel. He co-founded the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, an organization that provides safe passage and new beginnings for Iraqi refugees. Mike has worked with refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan—establishing the first clinical legal education program in Jordan. He serves on the Boards of IRAP and Yellow Ribbons United. Breen holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and a JD from Yale Law School. Mike is a proud New Hampshire native and a member of the NH Bar Association.

Room 003, Rockefeller Center November 7, 2013 4:30 PM Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, and the William Jewitt Tucker Foundation In support of the Dartmouth Centers Forum Theme, Body Politic(s): Health, Wellness, and Social Responsibility PP_F13_David_Levy David Levy '71 Professor, The Information School, University of Washington David Levy is Professor at the Information School, University of Washington in Seattle. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and a diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute in London. For more than 15 years, he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, exploring the transition from paper and print to digital media. At the University of Washington since 2000, he focuses on bringing mindfulness training and other contemplative practices to address problems of information overload and acceleration.

The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture "The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights" James E. Fleming Professor of Law and The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law Thursday October 31, 2013, 4:30 PM Room 003, Rockefeller Center The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group In constitutional law, it is commonplace to say that the Supreme Court applies "strict scrutiny" in protecting fundamental rights under the Due Process Clause -- almost automatically invalidating any statute restricting such rights. Professor Fleming will debunk this view as a myth propounded by Justice Scalia, an opponent of stringent protection for rights of privacy or autonomy, to make it harder to justify protecting such rights. Supporters of these rights have fallen for this myth and helped perpetuate it. Through careful examination of the cases protecting privacy and autonomy, Fleming will show that the Court has applied a more defensible framework: "reasoned judgment" in protecting "ordered liberty." James E. Fleming is Professor of Law, The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, and Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Boston University School of Law. He is author or co-author of Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy (University of Chicago Press, 2006); Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (Oxford University Press, 2007) (with Sotirios A. Barber), and American Constitutional Interpretation (4th ed., Foundation Press, 2008) (with the late Walter F. Murphy, Barber, and Stephen Macedo). He has just published a new book, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013), with his wife, Linda C. McClain (who is Professor of Law and Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law). He is working on a book on constitutional interpretation, Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution (under contract with Oxford University Press). Finally, he is outgoing Editor of Nomos, the annual book of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and incoming Vice President (for Law) of the Society.

May 3, 2013: Law Day Panel: Societal Impacts of Civil Rights Cases before the Roberts Court 3:30-4:30 pm Room 002, Rockefeller Center Participants: Bruce Duthu '80 Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies (NAS), Chair of the NAS Program Professor N. Bruce Duthu is an internationally recognized scholar of Native American law and policy. He joined the regular faculty at Dartmouth in 2008 as professor of Native American Studies. Professor Duthu earned his BA degree in religion and Native American studies from Dartmouth College and his JD degree from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty, Professor Duthu was on the law faculty at Vermont Law School. He served as the law school's Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and as director of the VLS-Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) Partnership in Environmental Law. He also served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, the universities of Wollongong and Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Trento in northern Italy. He is the author of American Indians and the Law (2008) and was a contributing author of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005), the leading treatise in the field of federal Indian law. He also contributed chapters for two other books, Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts: Canadian and International (2004) and First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (1997). Julie Kalish '91 Lecturer in Writing, Institute for Writing & Rhetoric Julie Kalish not only has students reading and writing about constitutional law in the courses she teaches for the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric -- Writing 5 and Writing 41: Writing and Speaking Public Policy -- she is also at the forefront of defending constitutional rights via her work for the Vermont ACLU. Most recently for the ACLU, Professor Kalish and her colleague Attorney Bernie Lambek represented Franklin, Vermont resident Marilyn Hackett in Hackett v. the Town of Franklin. For years, Ms. Hackett had complained that the recital of a sectarian prayer at the opening of her town's annual meeting was unconstitutional. Attorneys Kalish and Lambek argued their case based on Vermont Constitution's Article 3, which ensures freedom of conscience while prohibiting state endorsement of any religion through compelled attendance at worship—an argument that prevailed in the Vermont Superior Court. Professor Kalish and her colleague were awarded the Jonathan B Chase Cooperating Attorney Award for their achievement.

May 3, 2013: Law Day Career Panel: Having It All in Law: Questions and Reflections on Legal Careers 4:45-5:45 pm Room 002, Rockefeller Center Panelists: Julie Connolly '84 Julie Connolly Law, PLLC, Concord, NH Julie has extensive experience in private practice, as an assistant attorney general at the New Hampshire Department of Justice, and as a law clerk at both the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Sue Finegan '85 Pro Bono Partner, Mintz Levin, Boston, MA Susan Finegan is a Litigation Partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. She currently serves as the Chair of the Pro Bono Committee and as the full-time Pro Bono Partner, overseeing 400 varied cases throughout Mintz Levin's eight offices. Her pro bono experience has primarily focused in the last fifteen years on sexual assault and domestic violence. Sarah Merlo '00 Assocaite, Vitt Brannen & Loftus, PLC, Norwich, VT Sarah Merlo is an associate with the law firm of Vitt Brannen & Loftus, PLC in Norwich, Vermont. Her current practice focuses on general civil litigation. Moderator: Alexandra Meise '01 Associate, Foley Hoag, Washington, DC Alexandra "Xander" A. Meise is an attorney and guest lecturer currently working in the international litigation and arbitration practice of Foley Hoag LLP. Her academic and professional careers have focused on the sustainable resolution of international conflicts to promote economic and political development.

James Gustave Speth joined the faculty of the Vermont Law School as Professor of Law in 2010. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at both Demos and the United Nations Foundation. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 1993 to 1999, Gus Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (Carter Administration); and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. Throughout his career, Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation and promote sustainable development, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation's Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America's Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Environmental Law Institute and the League of Conservation Voters, and the Blue Planet Prize. He holds honorary degrees from Clark University, the College of the Atlantic, the Vermont Law School, Middlebury College, the University of South Carolina, and Green Mountain College. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books including the award-winning The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. His latest book is America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy, published by Yale Press in September 2012.

The Perkins Bass Lecture Rockefeller Center Introduction: Representative Charlie Bass '74 Former U.S. Congressman (R-NH) Son of the late Representative Perkins Bass '34 Governor John Lynch Former Governor of New Hampshire Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor Re-elected in 2010 to a historic fourth term, Gov. John Lynch has been a strong, effective leader in working to make real progress on the issues that matter most to New Hampshire families and businesses ­-- improving the quality of education, promoting job creation and economic development, reducing health care costs, ensuring public safety and protecting New Hampshire's environment and natural resources. Under Gov. Lynch, New Hampshire was named the "Most Livable State" in the nation, as well as the "Safest State" for three years in a row. New Hampshire has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, the lowest states taxes, and fourth lowest government spending per capita. Under Gov. Lynch it has been named one of the most business-friendly and best-managed states in the nation. Gov. Lynch has worked with Democrats and Republicans to make kindergarten available to every child, to cut New Hampshire's high school dropout rate in half, pass the toughest laws in the nation to protect children from sexual predators, to reduce spending by making government more efficient and build the economy by making it easier for companies to retain and hire new workers, increasing job training and providing tax credits for research and development. A commitment to putting the interests of people first is an extension of Gov. Lynch's work as a business and community leader. As the President and CEO of Knoll, Inc., a national furniture manufacturer, he transformed a company losing $50 million a year into one making a profit of nearly $240 million. Under his leadership, Knoll created new jobs, gave factory workers annual bonuses, established a scholarship program for the children of employees, created retirement plans for employees, and gave workers stock in the company. Gov. Lynch has also served as chair of the University System Board of Trustees, where he worked to keep tuition increases to a minimum; as director of Admissions at the Harvard Business School, where he made ethics one of the criteria for admissions; and as president of the Lynch Group, a business-consulting firm in Manchester. Long a community leader, John Lynch served on the board of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester and on the board of the Capitol Center for the Arts. He is the past president of the UNH alumni association, and a longtime coach of youth soccer, hockey, softball and baseball. Working his way through college, Gov. Lynch earned his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1974. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He and his wife of over 30 years, Susan, live in Hopkinton, and have three children, Jacqueline, Julia and Hayden.

Veterans Day Program World War II Remembered: The Impact of War Then and Now Rockefeller Center Booksigning of World War II Remembered and refreshments will follow panel. Panelists: Kendal of Hanover Residents Clinton Gardner '44 A member of the Dartmouth class of 1944, Clint Gardner served four years in the army as an officer in antiaircraft artillery. He was wounded in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and again in the Battle of the Bulge. Shortly before the war in Europe ended he was put in charge of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. He had reached the rank of captain when he returned to finish Dartmouth in 1946-7. In 1956 he and his wife Libby founded a national mail order company called Shopping International, a venture based in Norwich, Vermont, that sent them on buying trips to more than 40 countries. Mary Mecklin Jenkins The daughter of a Dartmouth professor, Mary grew up in Hanover. Two months after graduating from college, she married brand new Second Lieutenant, John Jenkins, and went with him to a B-29 Air Force base in Victoria, Kansas where he was an intelligence officer. After the war, while raising four children, Mary was president of a local League of Woman Voters in Connecticut, the first woman moderator of Westport's Representative Town Meeting, and served on the town's Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Finance. Recipient of a grant from the West German government to study German women in politics, Mary also went to the Soviet Union twice on exchanges sponsored by Bridges for Peace: US-USSR. Robert Christie At the tender age of 16, in 1940 Robert Christie matriculated at Norwich University, the Military College of Vermont and oldest private military college in the nation. He enlisted in the U.S. Army immediately after Pearl Harbor, and after being called to active duty, he spent a year as an enlisted man and eventually graduated form OCS at Fort Knox as a 2nd lieutenant in Armor. His military service was in Europe as a tank unit commander in Germany from the onset of the Battle of the Bulge until the war's end in 1945. Bob was separated from service in 1946 as a company commander. Forty months later he returned to Norwich to get his BS, and with the help of the GI Bill of Rights, graduated from State University of NY College of Medicine at NYC. Dr. Christie interned and had residencies at DHMC, and for three years practiced general medicine in Northfield, VT. He later specialized in pathology and laboratory medicine, directed eight hospital laboratories in NH and VT, and served on the DMS faculty. Moderator: John Boger '13

Rockefeller Center Panelists: Joseph Bafumi Associate Professor of Government Joseph Bafumi is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He was a 2010-2011 American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow serving on the Senate Budget Committee staff. Bafumi teaches courses in American government, public policy and quantitative methods. He has published in several scholarly journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis and PS: Political Science & Politics. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. Linda Fowler Professor of Government Linda L. Fowler is Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses on American politics and has published widely on topics ranging from congressional elections and candidate recruitment, voter learning in primary elections and congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy. Beginning in 1995, Fowler served for nine years as the director of the Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth, she was a professor of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Fowler served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and as aide to the Administrator for Water Quality at the Environmental Protection Agency. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Brendan Nyhan Assistant Professor of Government Brendan Nyhan is currently an Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on political scandal, misperceptions about politics and health care, and applications of social network analysis and applied statistical methods to contemporary politics. Before coming to Dartmouth, Nyhan served as a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. In 2004, Nyhan co-authored the New York Times bestseller All The President's Spin. He is an avid blogger and currently serves as New Hampshire campaign correspondent for Columbia Journalism Review. Nyhan received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Moderator: Charles Wheelan Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center Charles Wheelan is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. Formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Center welcomed Professor Wheelan back to Dartmouth fulltime in June 2012. Since 2006, Wheelan has taught economics and public policy courses at Dartmouth during sophomore summer. He has also served as a correspondent for The Economist, and written freelance articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Wheelan's first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, served as an accessible and entertaining introduction to economics and is now published in 10 languages. The Chicago Tribune described Naked Economics as "clear, concise, informative, and (gasp) witty," and was selected as one of The 100 Best Business Books of all Time by 800-CEOREAD.

October 11, 2012 The Federal Government's Fiscal Crisis: How It Will Affect Your Earnings and Your Life Room 003, Rockefeller Center 5:00 pm Hosted by PoliTALK student discussion group William Beach Director, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation As Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (CDA), William Beach is the think tank's chief "number cruncher." He oversees original statistical research on taxes, Social Security, energy, crime, education, trade and a host of other issues. Under his leadership, Heritage has acquired one of the largest collections of privately held public-policy databases in the U.S., as well as state-of the-art econometrics models and peer-reviewed analytical models. Prior to joining Heritage in 1995, Beach held a variety of posts in the public, private and academic sectors. He served as a litigation economist with two Kansas City, Mo., law firms where he specialized in analyzing how anti-trust legal remedies would alter product pricing and availability. Later, as an economist for Missouri's Office of Budget and Planning, he designed and managed the state's econometric model and advised the governor on economic and revenue issues. After a stint at Sprint United Inc.'s corporate headquarters, Beach moved to the Washington, D.C. area to serve as president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. In April 2012, Beach was named Heritage's inaugural Lazof Family Fellow. Beach, a regular source for news reporters and a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, also serves on the Economics Advisory Panel for ABC News.

The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture Room 003, Rockefeller Center 4:30 PM Victoria Nourse Professor of Law and Director, Center for Congressional Studies, Georgetown University Law Center Victoria Nourse started her legal career in Washington before she joined the legal academy. She was a junior counsel to the Senate-Iran Contra Committee under Senators Rudman and Inouye, an appellate lawyer for the Department of Justice in the Reagan-Bush years, and senior advisor to now-Vice President Biden on legislative matters, including the Violence Against Women Act. She is currently a law professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches classes on Congress and the Constitution and is Director of the Law School's Center on Congressional Studies. She has previously held chairs at the University of Wisconsin and Emory University, and has been a visiting professor at NYU and Yale University Law Schools. Her most recent book, In Reckless Hands, tells the real life drama of the 1942 Supreme Court case striking down state eugenics laws, a case that announced the right to procreate and marry. She has published widely on violence, history, politics, and law.

A Critique by Two Former Congresswomen: Beverly Byron (D-MD) and Sue Kelly (R-NY). Moderated by: Ronald Shaiko, Research Associate Professor, Senior Fellow, Associate Director of Curricular Programs of Rockefeller Center.

Peter R. Orszag is Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, Inc., and a member of the Senior Strategic Advisory Group there. He is also a Contributing Columnist at Bloomberg View and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining Citigroup in January 2011, he served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Contributing Columnist at The New York Times. Dr. Orszag previously served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration from January 2009 until July 2010. In that Cabinet-level role, he oversaw the Administration's budget policy, coordinated the implementation of major policy initiatives throughout the federal government, and reviewed federal regulatory action, among other responsibilities. From January 2007 to December 2008, Dr. Orszag was the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), supervising the agency's work in providing objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses of economic and budgetary issues. Under his leadership, the agency significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change. Prior to CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project, Director of the Retirement Security Project, and Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center. During the Clinton Administration, he was a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and, before that, a staff economist and then Senior Advisor and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Orszag has also founded and subsequently sold an economics consulting firm.

"Our Foreign Affairs Constitution: The President, Congress, and the Making of International Law." Oona A. Hathaway, Yale Professor of International Law gives the Timbers '37 Lecture addressing a crisis of accountability and legitimacy in international lawmaking. Presented by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association.

Remembering Those "Who Have Borne the Battle" by James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College.

Anna Post, Author and Spokesperson, The Emily Post Institute

"It Is the Washington Way: It's 'The Process'" presented by Ezra Klein, Washington Post Columnist and MSNBC Contributor. Co-sponsored by Dartmouth Women in Business and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.

"Leading from the Bench: Reflections from a Chief Justice" by John T. Broderick, Jr., J.D., Dean and President, University of New Hampshire School of Law

"Uprising in Egypt and Iran, Similarities and Differences" by Nazila Fathi, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Foreign Correspondent at New York Times.

By Rye Barcott, Author, It Happened on the Way to War, Co-founder, Carolina for Kibera.

"Peace of Art: Mobilizing Art for Justice on the U.S.-Mexico Borderland" by Sandra Salas, Graphic Designer and Founder of "Peace of Art: Design For Change." Co-sponsored by the Bildner Program, Dartmouth Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth Women in Business, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, and Dartmouth Women's and Gender Studies.

The Stephen R. Volk '57 Lecture "Whatever Happened to Freedom of Association?" by Michael McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law and Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University. Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group, the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, and Dartmouth Alumni Relations.

By Bethany Rubin Henderson, Founder and Executive Director, City Hall Fellows.

"Education and Entrepreneurship: The Great Equalizer" by Amini Kajunju, Executive Director, Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO). Supporting the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Annual Theme "Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere." Lecture funded by a generous contribution from The Portman Entrepreneurial Leadership Fund.

America is at a critical crossroads. The choices that U.S. elected officials make in connection with the role of government and its finances over the next 5 years will largely determine whether America's collective future will be better than its past. What are America's fiscal facts? What are sensible solutions to America's fiscal challenges? How will these solutions work to make America stay great? How can the American Dream stay alive for today's families and future generations of Americans? David Walker is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI), where he leads CAI's efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and sustainability by engaging the public and assisting key policymakers on a nonpartisan basis to help achieve solutions to America's federal, state, and local fiscal imbalances. Previously, he served as the first President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Walker served as the seventh U.S. Comptroller General and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (1998-2008). This was one of Walker's three presidential appointments, each by different Presidents during his 15 years of total federal service. He also has more than 20 years of private sector experience, including as a Partner and Global Managing Director of Human Capital Services for Arthur Andersen LLP. He has authored three books, with the latest one entitled Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (2010). He is a frequent writer and media commentator, and is a subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A.

Veterans Day Lecture "Policy at the Sharp End: Listening to Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan" by Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr., Investigator at Policy at the Sharp End Project and Former Defense Reporter for "The National Journal." Supporting the Dartmouth Centers Forum Annual Theme "Speak Out! Listen Up!"

"Black Migration and the Transformation of Northern Cities in the 20th Century" by Leah Platt Boustan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Economics Department.

"Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Still Time if We Try" by Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Columbia University Earth Institute.

"Where Have all the Moderates Gone?" by Fred Karger, Presidential Exploratory Committee and President of Rights Equal Rights. Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth College Republicans.

The Class of 1930 Fellow Lecture, a Nelson A. Rockefeller Centennial Series Lecture