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FOUR EVENTS THIS WEEK! Two Monday, 1 Wednesday and 1 on Friday 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 ========================================================== 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. ========================================================== 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. ===================================================== April 25, Friday, 3:30 pm - UT LAW SCHOOL - RM. 132 -- US Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz presents "Distinguished Lecture on Energy & the Environment." Limited Seating!