| "U.S.-Korea Relations: Celebrating 125 Years of Friendship" May 21, 2007 Other speakers included Tae-sik Lee, South Korean ambassador to the United States and a SAIS graduate; Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy; and John Endicott, a Korea scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Festivities also included Yang Seung Hee performing songs of friendship on the stringed kayageum. Download or listen to remarks by Lee, Gershman or Endicott. Click here to download or listen to Yang Seung Hee's performance.
| "Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman" October 14, 2003 Other speakers included syndicated political columnist Mark Shields and former U.S. senator John Glenn (D-Ohio). Click here to listen to the event. | "Fighting Corruption in Nigeria: Progress and Challenges" February 28, 2007 Click here to download or listen to audio of the event.
| "The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq" July 5, 2007 Other speakers included Edward Joseph, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute visiting scholar and a SAIS graduate. Click here to download or listen to audio of the event. | "Covering Iraq" April 19, 2007 Other speakers included Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post; Chris Hondros, photojournalist with Getty Images; Quil Lawrence, foreign correspondent with PRI/BBC’s “The World”; and Raney Aronson (moderator), producer for PBS’s “Frontline." Click here to listen to the event.
| "Ministers of Finance and Civil Society: Friends or Foes?” October 18, 2007 Other speakers included Charlie Griffin, Brookings Institution senior fellow; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, distinguished fellow of the Brookings Institution and Nigeria's former minister of finance and economy and of foreign affairs; Shamsudden Usman, finance minster of Nigeria; Goodall E. Gondwe, finance minister of Malawi; Jean-Baptiste Compaore, finance minister of Burkina Faso; Aloysius Toe, Foundation for Human Rights executive director; and Gilbert Maoundonodji, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project's Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring coordinator. Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. | "The Elections in Morocco: What Lessons and Implications?" October 15 Other speakers included Leslie Campbell, senior associate and regional director of the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the National Democratic Institute; Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution; Catherine Sweet, Morocco desk officer for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and William Zartman (moderator), director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program. Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. |
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