Events | 2015

The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Barfield of Boston University for a talk titled “The British, Soviet, and American Experiences in Afghanistan” on Wednesday, October 14 at 12:00pm in the Eastwoods Room, Student Union 2.102. This talk is part of the Afghanistan lecture series. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served. 

All UT undergraduate students are invited to join the Clements Center for an information session on its Maymester in London program “The U.S., U.K, and World Order.” Lunch will be provided! 

Please join the Clements Center for “Fateful Transitions: How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China’s Ascendance” with Daniel M. Kliman of the German Marshall Fund of the United States on October 7th. 

The Clements and Strauss Centers welcomed Steve Coll, Dean of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, to the Forty Acres on Tuesday, October 6, for a talk on “The War in Afghanistan and al-Qaida.” This talk was part of the Afghanistan Speaker Series.

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The Clements Center, Strauss Center, School of Law, and Department of Government invite you to the second annual Graduate Conference in Public Law, to be held September 25-26, 2015 in the Law School’s Eidman Courtroom. 

At a public event to be held in the LBJ Auditorium at the LBJ Presidential Library on September 16 from 1-4:45 p.m., the Central Intelligence Agency is scheduled to release previously classified daily briefings it gave to Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy in the 1960s.

The Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to invite you to “Intelligence in American Society” with featured speaker CIA Director John O. Brennan. Joining Director Brennan for a roundtable discussion will be University of Texas Chancellor William McRaven, former Director of Central Intelligence Porter Goss, and Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick. 

We hope you will join us for an Evening Conversation with Walter Russell Mead on “Religion and the Foundations of Geopolitical Order.” This Evening Conversation is the final in a four part series on “God & Geopolitics: Religion and National Security in an Era of Instability,” held in partnership with The Trinity Forum in Washington, DC.

The Clements Center, Department of History, and the Institute for Historical Studies invite you to “James Madison and the Executive Branch” with Professor Jack Rakove of Stanford University as part of the “Presidential Power, Then and Now” speaker series.

The Clements Center, Department of History, and the Institute for Historical Studies invite you to “The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding” with Dr. Eric Nelson of Harvard University as part of the “Presidential Power, Then and Now” speaker series.

The William P. Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law invite you to 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary with Robert Grenier, the former CIA station chief in Islamabad. There will be a book signing following the talk.

Please join the Clements Center and Alexander Hamilton Society for a talk with Christian Sahner of Princeton University titled “The Great Shakeup: Sectarianism, the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, WWI, the Arab Spring, and the Emergence of a New Order in the Middle East” on April 8th. This talk is part of the Young Scholars Speaker Series.

Please join the Clements Center and Alexander Hamilton Society for a discussion with Mr. Schriver of Armitage International and the LBJ School’s Dr. Josh Eisenman. The two will discuss China’s desire for greater influence in East Asia, how this affects the United States, and how the United States and its allies should respond to growing Chinese pressure and assertive behavior in the region.