April 25, Friday, 3:30 -4:30 pm  - UT LAW SCHOOL - RM. 132 --  US Secretary 
of Energy, Ernest Moniz presents "Distinguished Lecture on Energy & the 
Environment."  Our space is booked, so this will be at the Law School. 

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Earlier Events this week on nuclear and global security and Civil Rights Act!

April 21, Monday, 1:30 pm Baker Café - Baker Center Reading Room 

Join us for coffee  with Dr. Joe Stainback on "Nuclear Security - Who Are Our 
Threats:  Terrorists, Insiders or Nuns?!  - Research Associate Professor, 
Department of Nuclear Engineering 
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April 21, Monday, 5:30 pm - Distinguished Global Security Lecture:  "Iran: 
Defender or Disrupter of Regional Security?" Dr. Haleh Esfandiari

Dr. Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International 
Center for Scholars joins us to present this talk. Dr. Esfandiari is an Iranian 
scholar and journalist and has expertise in Gender, Gender Equality, Women's 
Rights, and Middle East and North Africa. Her most recent book is based on her 
time spent in an Iranian prison in 2007 and titled, "My Prison, My Home:  One 
Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran."  There was wide coverage of this on the 
news at the time as Cong. Lee Hamilton worked to get Dr. Esfandiari released.  

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April 23, Wednesday, 5:30 pm, "An Idea Whose Time Has Come:  Two 
Presidents, Two Parties and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964"  - a 
book discussion with author, Todd Purdum and our own, John Stewart (included 
in the book)

Todd and John just appeared at the Kennedy Library Forum last week.  Todd 
Purdum writes for POLITICO and Vanity Fair and is a former NY Times reporter 
and White House correspondent. John was chief legislative aide to Sen. and 
Vice President Hubert Humphrey and was very involved in the process of this 
Act becoming law.  A book signing will follow. Purdum has also appeared on 
NPR's Fresh Air, PBS, and in numerous news magazines and articles.