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The E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues continued its fourteenth season as Nebraska's premier
lecture series at 2pm on November 2, 2001 with "Terrorism:
Where Do We Go From Here?," a speech by U.S. Senator Chuck
Hagel followed by a panel discussion on recent global events
moderated by UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and featuring Thomas
E. Gouttiere, Steven H. Hinrichs, Patrice McMahon, Peter Tomsen
and Hagel.
Thompson
Forum Home
2001-2002
Schedule
free and open to the public; all events in Lied
Center for Performing Arts, 12th & R Streets,
Lincoln, NE, except Terrorism Panel, in Kimball
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Andrew Nathan
"Is It Any of Our Business?"
Thursday, April 11, 3:30pm
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Russia: Retrospect and Prospect"
Thursday, March 14, 10:30am
Anna Rosmus
"Growing Up Where Hitler Lived"
Thursday, March 7, 3:30pm
Terrorism Panel
Featuring United States Senator Chuck Hagel, with
Thomas Gouttiere, Steven Hinrichs, Patrice McMahon
and Peter Tomsen
Friday, Nov. 2, 2-4pm
Meave Leakey
"The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors"
Monday, Sept. 24, 3:30pm
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Chuck Hagel was elected to the
U.S. Senate in 1986. He has served as a deputy whip for the Republican
Party since his election and sits on five congressional committees,
including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and is the
ranking member on the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific
Affairs.
Thomas Gouttierre is Dean of
International Studies and Programs at the University of Nebraska
at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center and directs
UNO’s Center for Afghanistan Studies. He worked for nearly
10 years in Afghanistan as a Peace Corps volunteer, a Fulbright
Fellow, and as Executive Director of the Fulbright Foundation.
He was Senior Political Affairs Officer on the U.N. Peacekeeping
Mission to Afghanistan in 1996-1997.
Steven H. Hinrichs, M.D., an
associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center,
is director of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory, which
also serves as a level three
bioterrorism lab affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control.
He has been responsible for developing a statewide program to
rapidly identify biological agents of mass destruction.
Patrice McMahon, Ph.D., is an
assistant professor of political
science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She went to Bosnia
twice last year to interview representatives of international
organizations working on ethnic reconciliation and democracy
promotion.
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Peter Tomsen was Special Envoy
on Afghanistan with the rank of Ambassador from 1989-1992 for
President George H.W. Bush. In this capacity, he met many Afghan
tribal leaders and commanders who remain active today. He teaches
courses in American foreign policy and Eurasia at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha’s Center for Afghanistan Studies.
This event was broadcast live on Lincoln cable channel 21,
UNL campus TV channel 4, UNL’s KRNU radio (90.3 FM), NebSat
104, at satellite viewing sites at Norfolk, Grand Island, Scottsbluff,
North Platte, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of
Nebraska-Kearney and University of Nebraska Medical Center,
and via streaming video at www.unl.edu.
In its fourteen-year history, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues has established itself as one of the preeminent speakers
series in higher education. Past Thompson Forum events have
featured, among many others: Holocaust survivor and peace activist
Elie Weisel; Camelia Sadat, the daughter of Anwar Sadat and
founder of the Sadat Peace Institute; Maki Mandela, daughter
of the former South African president; the Rev. Peter Gomes,
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University;
Hedrick Smith, journalist and expert on the former Soviet Union;
Kennedy Administration Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara;
and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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