Events and Video Lectures
Over the years, CENFAD has invited guest speakers to give talks on issues that relate to the study of force and diplomacy. Past speakers have included Pulitzer- and Bancroft-winning scholars such as John Lewis Gaddis, Ari Kelman, Melvyn Leffler, and Fredrik Logevall, current and former government officials including Gov. Tom Ridge, Gen. Wesley Clark, Anthony Lake, and Aaron O’Connell, and scholars working on the cutting edge of military and diplomatic history like Ali Ahmida, Alejandro Bendaña, Daniel Immerwahr, Barbara Keys, Stephen Kinzer, Adrienne Lentz-Smith, Margaret MacMillan, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Tim Naftali, Andrew Preston, Thomas Schwartz, and Mark Stoler. Many of these speakers have appeared under the auspices of the CENFAD colloquium series, which is an annual highlight at Temple.
CENFAD normally schedules colloquia once or twice a month during the semester in the Russell F. Weigley Room, Gladfelter 914. To suggest a speaker, contact CENFAD’s Thomas Davis Fellow, Grace Anne Parker.
View the recorded lectures below from the Fall 2024 Semester!:
- Aaron Gell and Dr. Geoffrey Levin - A Conversation about the Past and Present of Zionism and AntiZionism
- Dr. Mateo Jarquín - The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaraguan and Global Perspective
- Dr. Florian Wagner - The International Colonial Institute (1893-1983) and the Rise and Fall of Colonial Epistemologies
- Dr. Drew McKevitt - Foreign Trash: How the Cold War Armed Americans with Cheap Guns
- Dr. Nikolas K. Gvosdev - Competing Visions for U.S. Global Engagement: The 2024 Elections and Possible Futures for U.S. Foreign Policy
- Dr. Barbara Savage - Merze Tate’s Anti-Racist Geopolitics and the Pacific Region
Center Contact
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