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Venice
Lectures are held in the
Venice Community Center
326 S Nokomis Ave
Lectures start at 2:30 pm on Tuesdays, at 10:00 am on Fridays
Click on speaker name for biography, click on description for program summary
Tuesday
Friday
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11
The Next Germany
Jeffrey Gedmin
14
Stories That Never Made It Into Print: Backstairs at the White House
Thomas DeFrank
18
Pandemics: From "What If" to "What Now"?
John Sinnott
21
Making Peace in the Middle East
Brian Hook
25
Energy Transition: Is It Feasible? What Will It Entail?
Richard Jones
28
Independence Corrupted: How America's Judges Really Make Their Decisions
Charles Schudson
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1
The Dragon and the Bear: Russo-Chinese Relations
Robert Barylski
4
Can Europe Become French Again?
Martin Walker
8
U.S. Policy Towards the Middle East
Dennis Ross
11
How American Democracy Has Renewed Itself in the Past
Jeremi Suri
15
The Online Accelerator
Margaret Jay
18
Reckoning With the Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
Robert Jones
22
Military Assistance vs Military Operations: A Cure for the Forever Wars
Charles Ray
25
New Hardline President Raisi and U.S.- Iran Relations
Mohsen Milani
M
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1
Military Support to Civil Authorities
Russel Honoré
4
What Makes Vladimir Putin Tick?
John Beyrle
8
Ethiopia and its Prime Minister-From Nobel Laureate to War Crimes
William Davison
11
Can a Democratic America Compete with a Totalitarian China?
Robert Lieber
15
Current Issues in U.S. Intelligence
Mark Lowenthal
18
Domestic Extremism
Peter Bergen
22
Negotiating with North Korea
Stephen Biegun
25
Why America No Longer Gets Asia
Evan Feigenbaum
29
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Global Assault From Within on Modern Democracy
Thomas Nichols
1
Like War: How Social Media Has Become Weaponized, and What We Need to Know About It
Peter Singer
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