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New World Disorder: Snapshots from a Journalist's Notebook
The College of Arts and Sciences The 2021 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding presents NEW WORLD DISORDER: Snapshots from a Journalist's Notebook David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Washington Post A globetrotting, on-the-ground journalist, David Ignatius has been making sense of the world for more than 40 years. With his unique ability to access the CIA, the Pentagon, the NSA, and Capitol Hill, Ignatius gives his readers a rare look at the world rarely covered by the evening news and takes them inside the stories and issues shaping the world.
We Can All Do Better
The 2016 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding and Tolerance was held on February 2, 2016 with speaker, former U.S. Senator, Bill Bradley who spoke on his recent book, <em>We Can All Do Better</em>. The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding and Tolerance is an endowed lecture series of the College of Arts & Sciences at Lehigh University established in 1997 by Jeffrey L. Kenner '65. Bill Bradley has been a national leader for more than thirty years and is well known for his hard work, intelligence, candor and vision.
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Lessons Learned from My Grandfather: Non-Violence in a Violent World
Why Climate Change is a Threat to Human Rights
Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and more recently United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. She is the superb example of a woman politician who puts her humanity very much at the forefront of her politics. She now chairs the Council of Women World Leaders and is a member of the Global Commission on International Migration.
Speaking Across Political Differences Today in America
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A View from the Trenches: The Politics of Anger and What Challenges Centrist Problem Solvers
Lehigh University's College of Arts and Sciences presents and evening with Charlie Dent '93G, Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper - CNN Contributor, Former member, US House of Representatives, 15th District of Pennsylvania:"A View from Inside the Trenches: The Politics of Anger and What Challenges Centrist Problem Solvers."
What We Can Do About Toxic Polarization
2022 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding presents an evening with Ezra Klein Columnist for the New York Times Podcast host of The Ezra Klein Show Author of "Why We're Polarized" What We Can Do About Toxic Polarization The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is an endowed lecture series of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, established in 1997 by Jeffrey L. Kenner '65 '66
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Disinformation and the Threat to Democratic Institutions
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to present the 2023 Kenner Lecture with Anne Applebaum. She will speak on "Disinformation and the Threat to Democratic Institutions." Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist, commentator on geo-politics and keynote speaker, Anne Applebaum examines the challenges and opportunities of global political and economic change through the lenses of world history and the contemporary political landscape.