Goldfarb Center Events

Fall 2017 Events

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Disappearing Diplomacy: Foreign Policy in the Trump Era

Sept. 25 | 4:30 p.m. | Diamond 122
Robert Gelbard ’64, former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia and Indonesia

Robert Gelbard ’64 is an international business consultant specializing in project development and implementation, crisis management and risk analysis. During his prior career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Gelbard held numerous senior foreign policy positions, including as President Clinton’s Special Representative for the Balkans, Ambassador to Indonesia and East Timor, Ambassador to Bolivia, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (including responsibility for counter-terrorism), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South America, Director for Southern Africa and Deputy Director for Western Europe.

From Russia with Love: Covering National Security in the Age of Trump

Oct. 1 | 4 p.m. | Page Commons, Cotter Union
Matt Apuzzo ’00, reporter, New York Times
Adam Goldman, reporter, New York Times
Two New York Times investigative reporters discuss the latest in the special counsel investigation, the perils of covering national security, and covering the new Washington. Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman are Pulitzer-winning reporters in the Washington bureau of the Times. The discussion will be moderated by Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government Sandy Maisel.

Journalism with Purpose: How to Write with Impact
2017 Lovejoy Student Journalism Conference

Oct. 1 and 2 | 4 p.m. | Various Locations
The 2017 Lovejoy Student Journalism Conference, held in conjunction with the prestigious  Lovejoy Journalism Award, will bring together some of the nation’s best reporters, editors, renowned academics, and media gurus to provide college newspaper editors and reporters, those interested in journalism careers, and those who want to write for advocacy the opportunity to sharpen their skills and increase their impact. Learn more here >>>

2017 Lovejoy Award Convocation

Oct. 2 | 7 p.m. | Lorimer Chapel
Alec MacGillis, reporter, ProPublica
Alec MacGillis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica known for his deep reporting on social issues and public policy, will be honored with the Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism. The award recognized MacGillis for his incisive reporting and informed questioning on a wide range of pressing policy issues including the surging opioid crisis, housing policy, and the influence of the oil industry and other corporations on public policy. Learn more here >>>

Gender and Resistance: An Evening with Jennifer Finney Boylan

Nov. 14 | 7 p.m. | Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Parker Reed Room

Jenny Boylan — author, activist, and teacher — will talk about LGBTQ experience and the current political

climate from her position both as a writer for the op/ed page of the New York Times as well as the co-chair of the media advocacy non-profit, GLAAD. Author of the first bestselling work by a transgender American (She’s Not There), Jenny is also a longtime member of the Colby community, where she taught in the department of English for 25 years and currently serves as special advisor to President Greene. During the spring of each year she serves as the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence and Professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York.

Cotter Debate: Campus Free Speech

Nov. 16 | 7 p.m. | Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Parker Reed Room

Jon A. Shields, associate professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
Jon Zimmerman, professor of history of education, University of Pennsylvania

Cosponsorships

The Goldfarb Center cosponsors events and programs for departments across campus. Please consider attending the following events hosted by our partners.

Whose Streets? Film screening and discussion with director Sabaah Folayan

September 19th | 7 p.m. | Ostrove, Diamond Building

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. The film is a powerful battle cry from a generation fighting, not for their civil rights, but for the right to live. Director Sabaah Folayan will lead a discussion and question and answer session after the screening. Cosponsored by Colby Cinema Studies, Pugh Community Board, African American Studies, The Center for Arts and Humanities, and The Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs

Democracy in a Hotter Time

September 19th | 7 p.m. | Olin 1 
David Orr, Counselor to the President Oberlin College
The present crisis in U.S. democracy has its origins in our history and political system. Much the same can be said for our slow and inadequate response to climate change now underway. These and similar problems in public policy are the result of the breakdown in democratic institutions. The path forward requires repairing and strengthening the capacities of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Cosponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and The Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs