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Dr. Owens is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia, and editor of Orbis, FPRI's quarterly journal.  He recently retired as Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. At the War College he specialized in the planning of US strategy and forces, especially naval and power projection forces; the political economy of national security; national security organization; strategic geography; and American civil-military relations.

Michael Franc, Hoover Institution scholar, will discuss the Demographics of Red and Blue America. Mike Franc is a longtime veteran of Washington, DC policymaking. Prior to joining Hoover, Franc served as policy director and counsel for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He also served as the Vice President of government relations for the Heritage Foundation from 1997-2013.

Stephen Presser is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts and is a candidate for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought & Policy. He is frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He holds a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and also teaches in Northwestern's history department.

Journalist and Brookings Institution visiting fellow James Kirchick presents his new book. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart.

What kinds of behavior is academic freedom supposed to protect? What kinds of restrictions on behavior is it supposed to allow? Why does academic freedom matter in the first place? This panel will feature a variety of views on this hotly-contested subject.

An interview of Reihan Salam (Executive Editor, National Review) by Prof. Benjamin Teitelbaum, focusing on how immigration affects the contest between ethno-nationalists and multiculturalists.

With Henry R. Nau, Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. Trump says he is a nationalist and globalist. And he is. But he envisions a globalism rooted in nationalism not a globalism that replaces nationalism. Professor Nau, a former White House official in the Ronald Reagan presidency, offers a constructive understanding of Trump's foreign policy that draws from his scholarly work on the US foreign policy traditions of nationalism, realism, liberal and conservative internationalism.

A lunchtime event with the Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Ph.D. (Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 2006-2015). Registration is required.

Humanity has become a geologic force shaping this planet. What wisdom do religious traditions bring to this crisis, especially about how we should live?

If you’re committed to supporting animal rights, does this mean you should also be committed to supporting fetal rights? If you’re opposed to abortion, does this mean you should also be opposed to eating meat? This panel will focus on the relationship between debates about abortion and debates about animal rights and will feature two legal scholars and two theology scholars, all of whom have written about these issues. Featuring: John Berkman (Regis College), Charles Camosy (Fordham University), Sherry Colb (Cornell University), and Michael Dorf (Cornell University). 

The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Ph.D. (Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 2006-2015) will explore the varied approaches of science and religion to human relationships with the land, taking both historical and planetary views, in this public lecture. This lecture will focus on western frameworks, broadly understood, yet consider how interplay with other perspectives might prompt creative adaptation, particularly in regard to land ethics.