Events

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.