2016 Schedule

Welcome

USFSP Chancellor Sophia Wisniewska, St. Petersburg Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin, Ambassador Douglas McElhaney

8:30am

Obamacare, Single Payer, Private Health Insurance: Can We Afford any of Them?

Chak Prakash

Guerlain, Baier, Wieringa, Wolfe, R. Smith

9:00am

American Jobs: Does Anybody Want Them? Can Anybody Find Them ?

Greg Holden

Sondhi, Bolton, Brown, economist

9:00am

A New Generation: Different Voices, Different Perspectives

Wes Wallace

Shepard, Moritz, Garrick, Mehta

10:20am

Women Passing through the Glass Ceiling: Inevitable, Rarely, or Ouch it Hurts?

Janet Crane

Shepard, Moritz, Garrick, Mehta

10:20am

The Isis Caliphate: Religious Frenzy, Sex Slaves, Bad Behavior, and lots of Shoot’em Up. How do We Tackle That Combo?

George Hamilton

Miniter, Hutchinson, Tagg, Guerlain

11:30am

Development Assistance or Nation Building: What’s Our Latest Sure-Fire Theory for Helping?

Karin Braunsberger

Mehta, Kasaija, Lieberman, Sondhi, Braunsberger

11:30am

Student Recruiting Luncheon
Student only luncheon. Students will hear from a representative from the U.S. Peace Corps  for future career opportunities.

12:30pm

Gun Rights, Mental Health Rights/ Where Should Societies Draw the Line?

Ray Arsenault

Armstrong, Butina, Simon, Moritz

2:00pm

Africa: Unstable at any Speed?

Robert Strickler

Garrick, Kasaija, Maingot

2:00pm

Mending Bridges with Cuba and Venezuela

Joe McClash

Carlson, Maingot, Fernandez, Fox

3:10pm

Film: My Africa Is: Alternative Nairobi.
Q&A with Filmmaker Nosarieme Garrick

Nosarieme Garrick

3:10pm

Europe’s Far Right: Is it Growing, Evolving, or Returning? Is it Mirrored in the U.S.?

Ray Arsenault

Ray Arsenault, Miniter, Guerlain, Wieringa

9:00am

Should GLBT People Be Granted Asylum in America?

Thomas Smith

Calo, Clem, Shepard, Ruiz

9:00am

Syria: What about Those Refugees, Now That We Know . . .

Tom Badey

Ruiz, Badey, Lemmon, Powers, Garrick

10:20am

That Foreign Policy Vision Thing: Presidential Tradition or a Big Yawn?

John Boardman

Miniter, Elmaleh, Poteat

10:20am

Post-Cold War Power Politics: Eastern Europe and the Middle East

John Reppert

Clem, Potter, Schaeffer, Miniter

11:30am

Internet Earthquake: News in an Era when Everyone is a Reporter and a Publisher

Diane Seligsohn

Clark, Arsenault, Garrick

11:30am

Student Recruiting Luncheon
Student only luncheon. Students will hear from a representative from the U.S. State Department for future career opportunities.

12:30pm

Economics & Refugees: The Twin Death Rays Attacking the European Union?

Pierre Guerlain

Badey, Miniter, Tagg

2:00pm

Breaking News: The Overlooked, the Shadows, the Good Stuff

Ashley Brown

Garrick, Clark, Arsenault, Seligsohn

2:00pm

Immigrants: A New Wall or a New Screen Door?

Marilyn Kaleel

Clem, Solomon, Elmaleh, Ogunmefun, Wali

3:10pm

Elite Tastes vs. Basic Needs: Organic, Genetically Modified or Insufficient Food

Emmanuel Roux

Chrzan, Lynch, Lieberman, Mehta

3:10pm

China as Cyber Terrorist, Economic Powerhouse, Military Threat or Withering Giant?

Hampton Stephens

McDowell, Fidler, Heath

9:00am

Turkey on the Edge: The Neighborhood’s Gone to Hell and It’s No Fun at Home Either

Jesse Turtle

Akdag, Lemmon, Thomas Smith, Powers

9:00am

Iran after the Nuclear Agreement: Are We Riding the Back of the Tiger?

Joe Menasce

Badey, Tagg, Hutchinson, Lemmon

10:20am

Film Screening: Return to Homs, followed by Q&A

10:20am

Russia: Imperial Aspirations on a Beer Budget

Bob Noun

Butina, Clem, Boterbloem, Miniter

11:30am

Frenemies: China and Russia or Two Dragons Kissing with Fire

Bob Deutsch

Heath, Poteat, Schaeffer, Yanbukhtin

11:30am

Student Recruiting Luncheon
Student only luncheon. Students will hear from a representative from the CIA for future career opportunities.

12:30pm

St Petersburg: What’s the International Angle for the City?

Paul Wilborn

Mayor Kriseman, Betzer, Durr, Faust

2:00pm

Cyberspace: Where are the Red Lights, Stop Signs, and Traffic Cops?

Barb Strickler

Fidler, Hutchinson, Poteat, Powers

2:00pm

If Money is the Lifeblood of Terrorism, How Do We Encourage Bleeding?

Carol Cason

Potter, Liberto, Dumas

3:10pm

Egg Roll vs Coca-Cola Diplomacy: China and the West fight for Clout in the Developing World?

Michel Amblard

McDowell, Kasaija, Mehta

3:10pm