2018 Schedule

Keynote Address: American Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities

U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering; Introduced by Douglas L. McElhaney, U.S. Ambassador (ret.)

6:30pm

Welcoming Remarks

Martin Tadlock, Regional Chancellor of USF St. Petersburg; Rick Kriseman, Mayor of St. Petersburg; Diane Seligsohn, President of St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs

8:30am

Is the Iran nuclear treaty a model for dealing with North Korea?

Maguire

Pickering, Enos, Due

9:00am

Why pollsters fail to predict election outcomes.

T.Edmonds

H. Cohen, Huddleston, Canavan, Jordan

10:20am

What on earth are U.S. troops doing in Africa?

Anthony

Dowell, Kramer, Van Pelt, Ely-Raphel

10:20am

Update from Moscow: News and Analysis with Ilgiz Yanbukhtin.

Ilgiz Yanbukhtin

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Engaged citizens! Protect your democracy!

Wallace

Kramer, LaSister, Bouketo, Ely-Raphel

11:30am

Is health care a right or a commodity?

Raguin

Roelofs, Ghimire-Aryal, Buma, Bewa

11:30am

Film: “The Reagan Legacy,” Screening and commentary with producer Tom Edmonds.

Tom Edmonds

11:35am

Student Recruiting Luncheon
Student only luncheon. Students will hear from a representative from the CIA Department for future career opportunities.

12:30pm

Jerusalem as Israel’s capital: Upsetting the apple cart?

Mortimer

Pickering, Jordan, Smith

2:00pm

After Mugabe, Maduro, and the Castros: What comes next?

Sattin

Huddleston, Mantilla, Canavan, H.Cohen

2:00pm

Student Career Forum: “So you want to work overseas? How to launch an international career.” (Diane Seligsohn, Trudy Bower, Marcia Cohen, Ray Gallon, and William Dowell)

Diane Seligsohn, Trudy Bower, Marcia Cohen,
Ray Gallon, and William Dowell

2:05pm

Is this a watershed moment for relations between the sexes?

Shore

Van Pelt, Elmaleh, Shore, Maguire, Bouketo

3:10pm

Can intelligence agencies protect us from terrorists?

Benyon

Anthony, Pierce, Hoskinson, J.Edmonds

3:10pm

Book Talk: Ambassador Vickie Huddleston: Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba

Vickie Huddleston

3:15pm

Are China and Russia today’s expansionist powers?

Schaefer

Pickering, Enos, Alexopoulos, J.Edmonds

9:00am

Trade, aid, or investment? Growth in the developing world.

Paroo

Jury, Benyon, Weiss

9:00am

Multimedia Presentation: “Griff Davis: Pioneering African-American Foreign Service Officer and Photojournalist.” Daughter Dorothy Davis tells his story.

Dorothy Davis

9:05am

Afghanistan and Iraq: Let’s declare victory and go home.

Buma

Berg, Fox, Marks, Due

10:20am

Arts Mecca: International cultural tourism in the Sunshine City.

Sussingham

Francis, Shepherd, Weymouth, Bridges

10:20am

Give Trump a grade on his foreign policy.

Ely-Raphel

Guerlain, Hoskinson, H. Cohen, Jordan

11:30am

How do we make our education systems more relevant?

Rowen

Tadlock, R. Neuman, LaPolla, S. Neuman

11:30am

Student Recruiting Luncheon
Student only luncheon. Students will hear from a representative from the US State Department for future career opportunities.

12:30pm

Syria, Assad, and the Russians: Should we make up?

Jordan

Maguire, J.Edmonds, Guerlain

2:00pm

How’d we get hooked? The opioid pandemic and what to do about it.

Paroo

Raguin, Sheehan,Tuite,Petersen, Bewa

2:00pm

Book Talk: John Zogby, We are many, we are one: Neo-tribes and neo-analytics in twenty first century America.

John Zogby

2:05pm

Crimes against humanity: Whatever happened to never again?

Radetsky

Szczepinska, Bouketo, Setkic, Mortimer

3:10pm

Cyberspace: Is the next war already under way?

Maguire

J.Edmonds, Hoskinson, Shemanski, Marks

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War vs. diplomacy: Which one, when?

Guerlain

Canavan, H. Cohen, Berg, Skinner

9:00am

Breaking news: “We interrupt this conference to bring you the latest….”

Lakshmanan

Dowell, Maguire, Zogby, Dlouhy

9:00am

What motivates humanitarian intervention?

Dowell

Raguin, Fox, Buma, Roelofs

10:20am

Brain Gain: Peace, Prosperity, and Other Virtues of Global Education

Tadlock

Baker, R. Neuman, Benchekroun, Gallon

10:20am

Can Europe shore up its fragmenting democracies and its faltering union?

Gallon

Mortimer, Benyon, Rakar, Maguire

11:30am

NATO: How firm is the U.S. commitment?

Skinner

Geerdes, Shemanski, Marks

11:30am

Student Recruiting Luncheon
Student only luncheon. Students will hear from a representative from the US Peace Corps for future career opportunities.

12:30pm

Is America still the “shining city on a hill?” Moral Beacon and Immigrant Dream?

Davis

Guerlain, Shore, Syed, T.Edmonds

2:00pm

Trade barriers are good for business.

Amblard

Sondhi, Dowell, Benyon

2:00pm

Rethinking Puerto Rico in the wake of Maria.

Calo

Irrizary, LaSister, Sago

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Is secular democracy headed for history’s dustbin?

Syed

Mortimer, Enos,  Jordan

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