Good evening, 
We are quickly approaching the end of the semester, but we still have an array of events 
left.  All events will be at the Howard Baker Center and free/open to the public. 

On Thursday, April 13 from 12pm-1pm, we will have our Cybersecurity Brown Bag Lunch.
Scott Partelow will speak about Cyber Hygiene, a discussion that will cover multiple 
timely security risks that we face both in our private lives as well as in our businesses. 
Recognizing these risks so that we as individuals can fend off those that would steal 
information is the key focus.

As Managing Consultant for Enterprise Solutions at Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, 
Scott focuses on analysis and auditing customer security policies/procedures and overall 
IT security posture. This includes working with customers who need to validate their 
current solutions, as well as customers who need start at the beginning with designing the 
overall company’s security direction.

This event is hosted by the Baker Center in cooperation with the Cyber & Information 
Security Consortium (CISC). 




Join the Baker Center for our next fun-filled Baker Café, which will take place on 
Tuesday, April 18 at 1pm and is entitled "Climate Change & Social Justice." The discussion 
will be led by Dr. Lisa Reyes Mason from UT's College of Social Work. 

In celebration of Earth Day 2017, Dr. Lisa Reyes Mason, Assistant Professor in the College 
of Social Work, will share her views on climate change and the many ways it is impacting 
society and social justice.

Dr. Mason received her PhD and MSW from the Brown School of Social Work at 
Washington University in St. Louis and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her 
research examines social vulnerability and adaptation to problems at the nexus of society 
and the environment such as climate change, water security, urban pollution, and severe 
weather. Dr. Mason's research is multidisciplinary and community engaged. She 
collaborates regularly with colleagues in Engineering and Geography.





The Baker Center presents its final highly-acclaimed Distinguished Global Security Lecture 
of the semester. This time, we'll have the honor of hearing from Dr. Bulent Aliriza from 
the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C. The lecture is 
entitled, "U.S.-Turkey Relationship: A Troubled Alliance?" The event is held on April 19 at 
3pm in the Toyota Auditorium.

Bulent Aliriza is the founding director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and 
International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C., since 1994. He has lectured widely 
across the United States, Europe, and Turkey and is a frequent media commentator on 
Turkish foreign and domestic policy. Prior to joining CSIS, Aliriza was a senior associate 
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He had previously served as a 
Turkish Cypriot diplomat in New York and Washington.

http://bakercenter.utk.edu/global-security-lecture-u-s-turkey-relationship-a-troubled-
alliance-april-19/






Finally, join us for our final Energy & Environmental Forum of the semester, which will 
take place on April 20 at 1:30pm. The forum will be presented by Dr. Caela O’Connell, 
Assistant Professor from UT’s Department of Anthropology. Her lecture is entitled "What’s 
Fair? The Paradox of Seeking Justice Through Markets."

O’Connell currently serves as assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of 
Tennessee and conducts research that considers the complex intersections of agricultural 
communities, environmental conservation, economic development, policy, crises, and 
disasters. She has been working with farming communities in the Caribbean and Latin 
America and the United States since 2003. This long-term ethnographic work is the 
subject of her upcoming book. 

http://bakercenter.utk.edu/ee-forum-whats-fair-the-paradox-of-seeking-justice-through-
markets/