Thanks to a generous donation from Donald and Vera Blinken, the Institute hosts lectures from prominent figures in European-American relations.


Vera and Donald M. Blinken

 

Samantha Power, Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director of

Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council

Obama, Human Rights, and the Lessons of the New Diplomacy

March 28, 2011

Video coverage can be found here.

Poster can be found here.

 

Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns

Global Challenges for the U.S. and Europe

November 4, 2009

Photos from the lecture can be found here.

 

 

Lord Christopher Patten

The Atlantic Partners and the Ascent of Asia

April 2, 2008

Photos from the lecture can be found here.

Ambassador Thomas Pickering

Russia and the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century

March 5, 2007

Photos from the lecture can be found here.

 

Vice President Joseph Biden (then Senator)

A View Across the Atlantic: America and Europe in a Changing World

April 4, 2005

Photos from the lecture can be found here.

 

 

Richard Holbrooke, Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and the United Nations

European American Relations: Present and Future

April 30, 2003