The Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lectureship
New Opportunities for Enhancing Intellectual Life at Drake University
For more information on the Bucksbaum Lectures, contact Susan Breakenridge at 271-3994 or email susan.breakenridge@drake.edu.

Next Lecture

“Seven Revolutions”
An Evening with Erik Peterson

Erik Peterson is senior vice president at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis. He is also director of the center's Global Strategy Institute, the mandate of which is to assess long-rang policy challenges and opportunities. In addition, he leads the Seven Revolutions Initiative, a broad-based effort to forecast key trends out to the year 2025.

From 1993 to 2003, Peterson served as director of studies at CSIS. In that capacity, he was responsible for the planning and development of the wide range of research projects. Peterson came to CSIS from Kissinger Associates, where he was director of research. He holds an MBA in international finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in international law and economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University and a BA from Colby College. Peterson earned the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.

The Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Melva and the late Martin Bucksbaum.

Wednesday, April 9th, 7:30pm
Drake Knapp Center, Drake University

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For additional information on this and other Bucksbaum Lectures, please call 515-271-3994 or e-mail susan.breakenridge@drake.edu.

About the Bucksbaum Lectureship

Previous Lectures

Nocholas Kristof
September 25, 2007
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Bob Costas
April 19, 2007
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Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
“An Evening of Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy and Free Dessert for All”
October 3, 2006
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David Chipperfield
April 6, 2006
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Dr. Jane Goodall
“Reasons for Hope ”
September 22, 2005
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Tim Russert
“Washington From the Inside Out”
April 26, 2005
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Sarah Jones
"Waking the American Dream"
October 6, 2004
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Salman Rushdie
"Step Across This Line"
March 30, 2004
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Wynton Marsalis
"Leadership: The Creative Process" & Concert
October 22, 2003
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Michael Beschloss
"Democracy in a Time of Crisis”
April 15, 2003
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Earvin 'Magic' Johnson
"A Perspective on Living with HIV"
December 3, 2002
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Ken Burns
"American Lives: Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright and More"
April 10, 2002
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Bill Moyers
"The Aftermath of September 11"
Joined by Martin E. Marty, Moderated by James A. Autry.
November 12, 2001
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Martin Marty & Archbishop Rembert Weakland
"The Situation of Pluralism: Catholic Faith, Other Christian Faiths, and the Faith of Non-Christians"
March 28, 2001

Marian Wright Edelman
"By What Shall We Live?"
March 8, 2000

Senator Paul Simon
"Changing Places: Higher Education's Changing Responsibilities at the Turn of the Millennium"
October 19, 1999

Doris Kearns Goodwin
"The Moral Authority of the Presidency"
March 17, 1999

David McCullough
"History as a Source of Strength"
March 18, 1998

Ben Bradlee
"The Newspaper Business, Then and Now"
October 13, 1997

Thomas Friedman
March 12, 1997


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