GLOBAL POPULATION:

MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS

JUNE 12, 2024

JENNIFER SCIUBBA, Ph.D.

President & CEO, Population Reference Bureau

Political demographer and author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World

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SPECIAL EVENT

AN EVENING WITH

AMBASSADOR MARIE YOVANOVITCH

JUNE 5, 2024

Amb. (ret.) Marie Yovanovitch

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), to the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011), and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008)

Author of the best-selling memoir, Lessons from the Edge

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INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY

MAY 16, 2024

MATTHEW L. M. FLETCHER

Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law

Presented with grant funding support by

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

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FRESHWATER FOCUS

GLOBAL WATER TENSION

& THE GREAT LAKES COMPACT

APRIL 18, 2024

PETER ANNIN

Director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation
Author of The Great Lakes Water Wars (2018) &

Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water (2023)

Presented with grant funding support by

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

Event Partners

NMC Great Lakes Water Studies Institute

Interlochen Public Radio

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FRESHWATER FOCUS

RELENTLESS DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

& PANEL DISCUSSION

APRIL 17, 2024

Panelists

T. Lindsey Haskin | Director, writer, producer of Relentless

Frank Ettawageshik | President, American Association on Indian Affairs

Jennifer Read, Ph.D. | Director, University of Michigan Water Center

Ellie Katz, moderator | environment reporter, Interlochen Public Radio

Presented with grant funding support by

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

Event Partners

Great Lakes Fishery Commission

Interlochen Public Radio

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AI & GLOBAL COOPERATION:

WHAT'S HAPPENING & WHAT'S NEXT

MARCH 19, 2024

JOSHUA MELTZER

Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution;  Co-lead, Forum on Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence

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CHINA: EMERGING TRENDS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

LUCY HORNBY

Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies

2023 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Award-winning Journalist

Former Foreign Correspondent, Financial Times, Reuters, & Dow Jones

2020 Fellow Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University

Event Partner

The Economic Club of Traverse City

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GLOBAL HOTSPOT  |  ISRAEL-PALESTINE: CONFLICT IN CONTEXT

DECEMBER 14, 2023

LEILA HILAL,  J.D.

Human rights attorney, former legal advisor to Palestinian peace negotiators

JACK SEGAL

Former senior U.S. diplomat & counselor for political / military affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel

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MIDEAST WATER: WHEN THE WELL RUNS DRY

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

KAVEH MADANI, Ph.D.

Environmental Scientist & Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, known as the UN Think Tank on Water

Former Vice President of the United Nations Environment Assembly Bureau

Former Deputy Head of Iran's Department of Environment

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AFRICA: PERMANENT CRISES?

OCTOBER 5, 2023

AMB. (RET.) SUSAN D. PAGE

Director, Weiser Diplomacy Center & Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School

Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan, Chargé d’Affaires to the African Union

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CAN DEMOCRACY WIN THE CYBERWARS?

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

ALEXANDER EVANS, Ph.D.

Professor of Practice in Public Policy, London School of Economics

Former advisor to the British Prime Minister, Strategy Director (Cabinet Office) & Cyber Director (Foreign Office), former British Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India & Pakistan, former senior advisor to Amb. Richard Holbrooke in the U.S. Department of State. Senior Fellow at Yale.

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