The Department of History, Baker Center and several other sponsors are
bringing a noted foreign policy expert, Dr. Walter Russell Mead, to campus on
April 2 - 3, 2012 for two programs.
April 2, 2012, 5 pm -- "American Strategy in the Atomic Age", Baker Center
Toyota Auditorium
April 3, Noon -- Panel Discussion on Public Intellectuals and Blogging with Prof.
Mead and Prof. Glenn Reynolds (UT Law School and author of the blog
"Instapundit"), Baker Center Toyota Auditorium
Prof. Mead is one of the leading experts on American foreign policy. He is the
James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard
College and editor at large of The American Interest. Until 2003, he served as
the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR). He has taught in the Yale International Security
Studies program. His writings appear regularly in Foreign Affairs, the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, the International
Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. His most recent
books include Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed
the World (Routledge, 2002), which won the Lionel Gelber Award, and God and
Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Knopf, 2007). His
blog is Via Meadia, at http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/
Both events are free and open to the public. The events are funded by the UT
College of Arts and Sciences, Y-12, UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public
Policy, UT Humanities Initiative, Department of History, and the UT Center for
the Study of War and Society, as part of a project on the history of the Atomic
Age.
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