Good afternoon - Students are back and we have a lot of programs scheduled for the
fall. I will attach a complete listing in PDF and copy all directly related to Global Security
below. Also, a couple of announcements --
The Toyota will serve as an early voting site for any
registered Knox County voter, Oct. 31- Nov. 3. For those in Precincts 10S & 10W, we are
your voting site also on Nov. 8, Election Day. We have also launched a friendly
competition with the Bob Graham Center at the University of Florida to register the most
students to vote. So, if you know of any students not registered, a form and box are
located in our building and we will host several voter registration drives, plus an online
option Turbovote. We will mail them in for you UNTIL Oct. 4, our deadline to make sure
they reach the appropriate office before the Oct. 11 Deadline.
Join us next week for a Baker Cafe on influence and power in politics - Aug. 29, 12:15-
1:15 pm
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Fall 2016 Global Security Events
All events are held in the Toyota Auditorium at the Baker Center, unless noted otherwise
Events Are Free & Open to the Public!
SEPTEMBER
Thursday, Sept. 8, 5:30 pm – Ashe Lecture - National Security Policy: The Failure of the
Policy Elite and the Dangers of Popular Reaction
Ambassador John Herbst is a former US diplomat to Uzbekistan and Ukraine, and he now
serves as of experience working in the United States Foreign Service, and he has served
in other locations including Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. Herbst received
his Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown and his Master’s from Tufts University.
Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center for the Atlantic Council. He has over
30 years
Friday & Monday, Sept. 16 and 19 – Celebrate Constitution Day! Baker Center and
Hodges Library
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5:30 pm– Ashe Lecture: US Role in Today’s Europe
Radek Sikorski is from Poland where he served in a variety of positions for the Polish
government including Minister of National Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and most
recently Marshal of the Sejm, where he oversaw the work of the lower house of the
Polish Parliament, called the Sejm. He is now a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Center for
European Studies and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Bydgoszcz Industrial-
Technological Park in Poland.
Sept. 19-24 – UT Baker Center vs. Univ. of Florida Graham Center – Register to Vote &
Beat Florida Week
October 11, 5:30 pm - Global Security Distinguished Lecture
Dr. James Zogby has been a leading voice on Arab-American rights for more than 30
years. He co-founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1980, founded
the Arab American Institute (AAI) in 1985, and continues today as President of AAI. He
also writes a weekly column published in 16 countries and is the creator and host of the
award-winning call-in political television show Viewpoint. In 2010, Zogby published the
highly-acclaimed book, Arab Voices and a 2013 e-book, Looking at Iran: The Rise and Fall
of Iran in Arab Public Opinion. Zogby also served as a Sander’s appointee to the
Democratic National Committee platform committee.
Oct. 31-Nov. 3 - EARLY VOTING for all Knox County Registered Voters
NOVEMBER
Thursday, Nov. 10, 4 pm – Global Security Lecture: The South China Sea Dispute: U.S.-
Philippines-China Security Relations - Dr. Renato Cruz de Castro currently works as a
Senior Professor of International Studies at De La Salle University in the Philippines. He
holds the Charles Lui Chi Keung Professional Chair in China Studies, and he is a US State
Department ASEAN Research Fellow.
Tuesday, Nov. 8 – Election Day – Precinct 10S & 10W VOTING in the TOYOTA
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 12:30-1:30 pm – Room 205, Baker Center - Global Security Lecture:
Opening the Black-Box of Authoritarian Coalitions: Minister Retention and Tunisia’s
Autocratic Ruling Elite, Matt Buehler, PhD, UTK Political Science, Baker Center Global
Security Fellow and Mehdi Ayari, Graduate Teaching Associate, UTK Political Science
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