2008-2009 Embry-Riddle Honors Program
Distinguished Speakers Series
All events are scheduled for 7:00 pm in the Gale Lemerand Auditorium
inside Willie
Miller Instructional Center, (see
map) Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical
University, 600 South Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114
-- For further information contact Honors Program Director Dr. Geoffrey
Kain, 226-6650
2008
Monday, November 10
Pete Earley, "Inside the Mind of a Traitor"
Pete Earley is a prolific author, historian, and activist.
He will discuss contemporary espionage involving and threatening the
United States, as well as describe his recent clandestine interviews
with a Russian counter-agent that led to publication of his best-selling
book, "Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America
After the End of the Cold War."
Monday, December 1
Dr. Mike Brown, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"
Dr. Mike Brown is a CalTech professor and one of the
world's leading astronomers. He will explain "How I Killed Pluto and Why
It Had It Coming," detailing his solar-system shattering discovery of
Eris (the largest object found in the solar system in 150 years), and
how it led to the subsequent demotion of Pluto as a planet.
2009
Monday, February 2
General Russel Honore, "The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"
General Russel Honore, chief commander of "Joint Task Force
Katrina" and affectionately dubbed "the Rajin' Cajun," will offer his
insights on what went right and what went wrong along the Gulf Coast in
the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He will also provide
reflections on general national preparedness for disaster in his talk
"See First, Understand First, Act First: Leadership and Preparedness in
the 21st Century."
Monday,
February 23
Dr. Raymond Tanter, "U.S. policy toward Iran"
Dr. Raymond Tanter is Georgetown University professor of
Political Science, the director of the Iran Policy Group, and former
member of the National Security Council staff. He will offer "U.S.
Presidential Elections and Security Policy," focusing on U.S. policy
toward Iran, and suggesting various measures that may prove effective in
the tense environment surrounding the U.S./Israel/Iran network of
events, threats, and counter-threats.
Monday, March
30
Dr. Padraig O'Malley, "Efforts at Peace and
Reconciliation in Iraq"
Dr. Padraig O'Malley, editor of New England Journal of
Public Policy and the John Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation at
the McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy at University of
Massachusetts-Boston. He will discuss "Efforts at Peace and
Reconciliation in Iraq," focusing on his ongoing "behind the scenes"
efforts to bring to the table in Iraq representatives from virtually all
of the warring factions. O'Malley was a guest on NPR's "Fresh Air"
program May 12, 2008, when he described his work, as well as his
involvement with and recent book on South African apartheid resistance
fighter Mac Maharaj.
All events
are scheduled at 7:00 pm in the Gale Lemerand Auditorium, Willie Miller
Instructional Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 South
Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114. -- For further information
contact Honors Program Director Dr. Geoffrey Kain, 226-6650
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