GLOBAL ISSUES
The goal of the Global Issues lecture series is to examine issues that are changing our world by understanding
the historical context and viewpoint from abroad, and to stimulate new thinking and social change for the
benefit of current and future generations.
CAN NATURE SAVE US: STORIES FROM THE NATURAL WORLD
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | 4:00pm
M. SANJAYAN CEO, CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONSERVATION SCIENTIST
We live in the Anthropocene — the Age of Man — and not since cyanobacteria transformed the earth’s early atmosphere
has one species, humans, had such an outsized influence on the diversity of life on our planet. How to go about saving
nature in the human age is understandably challenging. But perhaps we have been asking the wrong question and it’s
nature that can actually save us. Speaker Dr. M. Sanjayan, a global conservation scientist and Chief Executive Officer at
Conservation International, will discuss reframing conservation by making it about human wellbeing. He will share his
findings, which stem from journeys to two dozen countries: how human communities are helping nature thrive and how bringing people into
the picture of the wider natural landscape complements traditional conservation tools such as protecting important natural areas.
EUROPE: A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
Sunday, February 4, 2018 | 4:00pm
MARTIN WALKER AU THOR , HISTORIA N A ND IN TERN AT ION A L P OL IC Y DIREC TOR
Martin Walker is back again! In his talk he will explain that the cardinal principle of the U.S. strategy since 1945 has
been to foster the emergence of a Europe at peace — whole, free and advancing to a common democratic destiny in the
Atlantic partnership. That strategy, broadly successful, is now in disarray on both sides of the Atlantic. Can it, should it,
be revived? Martin Walker has a vast knowledge of global events and relationships. He is a senior fellow of the Global
Business Policy Council, a private think tank for CEOs of major corporations, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Since graduating Balliol College in Oxford, England, he has taken on a variety
of impressive positions, including Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of United Press International (UPI), and, in a 25-year career with the Manchester
Guardian newspaper, serving as bureau-in-chief in Moscow and the U.S., as well as European editor and assistant editor. Mr. Walker is also a
regular commentator on the BBC, CNN, Inside Washington and NPR.
Martin Walker is also the talented author of the Inspector Bruno series
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All four lectures $125
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