Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy
The Pell Center promotes the primary objectives of Sen. Claiborne Pell's decades of public service: Enhancing international dialogue to achieve a more peaceful world and preparing individuals for an informed and active role in local, national and world affairs.
Pell Center Past Lectures
Spring 2009
February 11, 2009
Erin Baines
"To Catch the Wings and Fly Away: Reflections on Resistance and Resilience of Forced Wives in the Lord's Resistance Army"
February 26, 2009
Tony O'Brien
"Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan"
March 18, 2009
Jessie Gruman
"The 21st Century American Patient: Risk, Trust, Choice and Responsibility"
March 19, 2009
Olivier Pitras and the crew of Southern Star
"Expedition Around North America"
April 15, 2009
Michele Morrone
"Poisons on Our Plates: The Real Food and Safety Problem in the United States"
April 22, 2009
Awista Ayub
"Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Impact of Sports for Women in Afghanistan"
April 28, 2009
Chen-Ray Fang
"The United States in the Pacific Rim: An Asian Perspective"
Fall 2008
September 17, 2008
Odette Mukazi Mutanguha
"Build a Better Africa: Working for Women, Human Rights, Education and Peace"
September 24, 2008
Sadia Shepard
"The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories and a Sense of Home"
October 8, 2008
Coleman Barks & David Darling
"Crossing Borders: Persian Poetry as a Way of Understanding Modern Iran"
November 5, 2008
Bing West
"The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics and the Endgame in Iraq"
November 12, 2008
S. Neil MacFarlane
"The Crisis in Georgia"
Spring 2008
February 27, 2008
Awista Ayub
"Sport as a Tool for Social Change and Female Empowerment in Afghanistan"
April 8, 2008
Deborah Scranton
"Documentary Film Work and Social Change"
April 16, 2008
Admiral Frank Bowman
"Climate Change and Threat to National Security"
April 30, 2008
Samina Quraeshi
"What Future for Pakistan?"
Fall 2007
September 18, 2007
P. H. Liotta and Allan W. Shearer
"The Fog of Vulnerability: Why Responses to Global Climate Change are so Difficult to Imagine"
September 27, 2007
Carl Hobert
"Preventive Diplomacy: Educating and Living Conflict Resolution"
October 11 , 2007
Elizabeth Kolbert
"Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change"
October 23, 2007
Bernard LaFayette
"Paths to Peace: Educating and Practicing Nonviolence"
November 1, 2007
Ralph Sawyer
"Lever of Power: Unorthodox Warfare in Contemporary and Historic China"
Spring 2007
January 24, 2007
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.)
"Are We Keeping the Republic?"
February 26, 2007
Dr. Jonathan Kozol
"Inequities in America: The Problem with Education"
March 20, 2007
Colonel Cindy R. Jebb, Ph.D.
"Human Security and Environmental Security: A 'Small Ball' Strategy for Success"
March 25, 2007
"Darfur Diaries"
Documentary screening and discussion, Jane Pickens Theater
March 29, 2007
Melindah Sharma and Carol Gomez
"Migrant Women in the Global Economy: Examining Immigrant Exploitation, Trafficking and Domestic Violence"
April 3, 2007
Brian Jones
"Marx in Soho"
A one-man play by Howard Zinn
April 11, 2007
Leila de Bruyne '07 and Salve Regina students
"By Grace Orphanage"
April 18, 2007
Dr. Howard Zinn
"Voices from a People's History of the United States"
Fall 2006
Director's Lecture, September 12, 2006
Dr. P.H. Liotta & Dr. James F. Miskel
"A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in the Greater Near East"
September 28, 2006
Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
"Women and Children in Crises: Perspectives from the Education System in Israel"
October 2, 2006
Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith
"The End of Iraq, The Rise of Iran"
October 11, 2006
Clyde Prestowitz
"The Shift of Wealth and Power to Asia"
October 16, 2006
Professor Thomas Gouttierre
"Afghanistan: Why Did The Crossroads Of Asia Become The Training Ground For Global Terrorism?"
October 17, 2006
Ambassador Dennis Richardson
"Australia - Global Interests and Regional Priorities"
November 7, 2006
Ambassador Thomas Niles
"The State Of The World, Economically Speaking"