Jordan's ambassador to the United States, Prince Zeid
Bin Ra'ad, is the first of several
speakers and panelists heading to the Homewood campus to
discuss global leadership in the 21st
century, the theme of the
2009 Foreign Affairs Symposium.
Prince Zeid's talk kicks off the series at 7 p.m. this
Wednesday, Feb. 4, in 110 Hodson Hall.
An expert in the field of international justice, the
prince holds a bachelor's degree from Johns
Hopkins and a doctorate from Cambridge. He was previously
Jordan's permanent representative to the
United Nations.
Also visiting campus this spring are New York
Times chief White House correspondent David
Sanger (March 3), Carnegie Endowment senior associate and
Dangerous Nation author Robert Kagan
(March 11), CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen
(April 1), renowned photojournalist Jane
Evelyn Atwood (April 21) and Economist editor in
chief John Micklethwait (TBA).
The symposium schedule includes several panel
discussions on various topics such as the global
financial crisis (March 31) and disasters around the world
(April 6), as well as panels about the crisis in
Darfur and President George W. Bush's foreign policy legacy
(TBA).
Each year, the undergraduates behind the symposium
bring to campus influential, distinguished
and high-powered individuals from the world of politics,
academia and the media. This year's co-chairs,
all in the
International Studies Program within the Department of
Political Science in the Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences, are juniors Michael Glenwick
and Laila Ameri, and sophomores Jonathan
Jacobs and Claire Cravero.
For more on the Foreign Affairs Symposium, go to
www.jhu.edu/fas.
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