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Teach-In: Two-Part Series of
Panel Discussions on the War in Iraq
April 22-23, 2003

The Office of the Provost is pleased to join with the academic colleges in sponsoring this series.

Its intent is to bring together some of the scholarly and intellectual resources of the university to encourage the discourse about and inform the understanding of the issues presented by the war in Iraq.

The event will take place on two days and will involve moderated panel discussions reflecting a diversity of perspectives and speaker backgrounds, and permitting audience interaction with the panelists.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 12:00 p.m., in the Memorial Chapel, the discussion will involve:

  • Jean Abi Nader (co-founder of the Arab American Institute and the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and former Vice President of Operations at United Press International)

  • Benjamin Barber (Professor of Government and Politics; author and expert on the roots of terrorism, international democratization and the impact of globalization)

  • Shibley Telhami (Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development; author and expert on Middle East foreign policy)

  • Stansfield Turner (Senior Research Scholar, CISSM; retired admiral and former director of the CIA; author and expert on American foreign policy, arms control, nuclear weapons and terrorism)

    • On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 12:00 p.m., in the Memorial Chapel, the discussion will involve:

  • Scott Armstrong (author and former Washington Post reporter; founder of the National Security Archives)

  • Haynes Johnson (Knight Chair in Journalism; author; national television commentator and former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post and The Washington Star)

  • Susan Moeller (Assistant Professor of Journalism; author and former senior fellow of the International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

  • Col. Jay Parker (Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University)

  • Jerry Zremski (Adjunct Professor of Journalism, and Washington correspondent for The Buffalo News, assigned to the Victory Corps in the Persian Gulf)


    • Admission is free of charge. Students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding community are cordially invited to attend.

    For more information contact: Sapi