Power of Diversity Lecture Series: Understanding the Middle East conflicts from a diplomat’s view, featuring Ambassador Dennis Ross
Join the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Engagement on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A, for a discussion by Ambassador Dennis Ross, counselor and the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Ross will present “Understanding The Middle East Conflicts from a Diplomat’s View.”
He also teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. For more than 12 years, Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process, dealing directly with the parties as the U.S. point person on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He served two and half years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, spending the first six months of the administration as the special advisor on Iran to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. He played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition. During the Reagan administration, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment.
Engage with the campus community at the multicultural welcome reception
The CWRU community is invited to attend and help welcome new multicultural students, staff and faculty to campus at the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Engagement’s annual welcome reception. The event also provides an opportunity to meet Vice President
Robert Solomon, establish new acquaintances, build relationships across campus and reconnect with friends.
The event will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 18, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., in Adelbert Hall Lobby.
Power of Diversity Lecture Series: Jewish Identity and Anti Semitism, featuring Chad Alan Goldberg, PhD
Join the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Engagement on Friday, Sept. 20, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Linsalata Alumni House Great Hall for a discussion with Chad Alan Goldberg—Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Goldberg has written since 2008 about the history and sociology of antisemitism, teaches a course on the history of antisemitism in Europe, and works to educate the public about antisemitism through interviews for news media. His award-winning books include Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare (University of Chicago Press, 2008); Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017); and (as editor) Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).