Schedule

DePauw Discourse 2008: America’s Role in the World

September 18

2 - 6:30 p.m.
Welcome and Registration Center
Walden Inn, lobby

4 p.m.      
Informing and Enlightening: Journalism’s Role in a Global War of Ideas
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Thompson Recital Hall

Bret Baier ’92, FOX News chief White House correspondent

Catherine Collins, former Chicago Tribune reporter and author

Nisreen El-Shamayleh ’04, Saudi KSA2 correspondent in Amman, Jordan

Douglas Frantz ’71, Condé Nast Portfolio senior writer

Don Wycliff, former New York Times reporter and Chicago Tribune public editor,
adjunct professor of media criticism at the University of Notre Dame

Moderator: 
Robert Steele ’69, DePauw University Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Journalism, DePauw University

5:30 p.m.
Reception (By special invitation)
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Grand Rotunda

6:30 p.m.
Opening Dinner (By special invitation)
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Great Hall

8 p.m.
America’s Role in the World: A Conversation with Lee Hamilton
East College, Meharry Hall

Lee H. Hamilton ’52, former U.S. Congressman and National War Powers Commission member

Moderator:
Bret Baier ’92

September 19

8 a.m.
Breakfast (By special invitation)
Walden Inn, Social Center

9 a.m.
Faculty-led Seminars (By special invitation)
Memorial Student Union Building
DePauw Faculty members will lead seminar discussions on vital regions and global issues
as a primer for the day's sessions.

Africa
McSamuel "Mac" R. Dixon-Fyle, A.W. Crandall Professor of History, DePauw University

South Asia
Mona Bhan, assistant professor of anthropology, DePauw University

Global Environmental Challenges
Jeanette K. Pope, assistant professor of geosciences and coordinator of the Women in Science Program, DePauw University

Humanitarian Intervention
Brett R. O'Bannon, assistant professor of political science, DePauw University

The Middle East
Nafhat N. Nasr, senior professor of political science, DePauw University

10:30 a.m.
            America through Middle Eastern Eyes:
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Thompson Recital Hall

Saad Ibrahim, director of Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies and human rights advocate

Kathy Hubbard ’74, founder of Bridges of Understanding

Moderator:
Jeffrey T. Kenney, professor of religious studies, DePauw University

Noon
Roundtable Lunch (By special invitation)
Memorial Student Union Building, ballroom

1:30 p.m.
Smart Power: Pursuing a Global Development Agenda
to Thwart Health Pandemics and Extreme Poverty
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Thompson Recital Hall

Sally Smerz Cowal ’66, vice president for Population Services International

Ernest Loevinsohn, director general of Health and Education,
Canadian International Development Agency

John E. Tedstrom III ’84, executive director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS

Moderator:
Sharon M. Crary, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, DePauw University

3 p.m.
Global Corporate Citizenship: Seeking Economic and Social ROI
Memorial Student Union Building, ballroom

Pamela Carter, president of Cummins Distribution Business

Newton F. Crenshaw ’85, vice president of policy, pricing, reimbursement and access,
and international corporate affairs for Eli Lilly & Co.

Stephen W. Sanger ’68, former CEO of General Mills

Moderator: James B. Stewart ’73, SmartMoney editor-at-large

5:30 p.m.
Reception (By special invitation)
Walden Inn, Social Center

6:30 p.m.
Dinner with Madeleine K. Albright (By special invitation)
Walden Inn, Social Center

8 p.m.
In Conversation with Madeleine K. Albright
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts,
Kresge Auditorium

Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State

Moderator: Douglas Frantz '71

September 20

9 a.m.
Breakfast with DePauw University's 19th President (By special invitation)
Walden Inn, Social Center

10 a.m.
Faculty-led activities
(By special invitation)
Choose one of the following options

Exhibit Tour, Andy Warhol: Faces and Names
William Weston Clarke Emison Museum of Art

Michael P. Mackenzie, associate professor of art history, DePauw University

Virtual Tour of the DePauw Nature Park
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, auditorium

Vanessa Fox, assistant professor of biology and
program coordinator of the Nature Park

11 a.m.
Sneak Preview: Einstein and the Roosevelts
Musical written by Nancy Ford Charles '57 and
Gretchen Kiger Cryer '57
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts,
Moore Theatre

Noon
Closing Lunch (By special invitation)
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Grand Rotunda patio