ASU Events


Why International Law Matters Now: Assessing U.S. Policy and Its Legal Failures

November 12, 2026 | Online

Gabor Rona

Professor of Practice, Cardozo Law School, former International Legal Director of Human Rights First, and legal advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross, where he played a key role in the…

The Arms Control Paradox: Managing Uncertainty in an Insecure World

October 08, 2026 | Online

Amy J. Nelson

Research Fellow, FSI, Director, Future Security Scenarios Lab and Senior Fellow, New America, formerly at The Brookings Institution, the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of…

All the President’s Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror

October 01, 2026 | West Hall, Room 135, ASU Tempe Campus

Peter Bergen

October 1, 2026
5:30-7:30 pm at West Hall, Room 135, ASU Tempe Campus
In-Person Event

Co-Director, FSI, Professor of Practice, ASU, Vice President for Global Studies & Fellows, New America, and…

The Resilience Economy: Profit and Poverty in American Disaster Zones

September 23, 2026 | Online

Saket Soni 

2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America named one of The New York Times’ “100 Notable Books” of 2023. He will…

Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America

September 08, 2026 | Online

Rozina Ali

Research Fellow, FSI, contributing writer, The New York Times…

From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul and a Neighborhood in the Age or Erdoğan

May 04, 2026 | Online

Suzy Hansen 

Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, 2020 ASU Future Security Fellow at…

Saudi Arabia in the Age of Mohammed bin Salman

April 21, 2026 | Online

This event has been postponed for Fall 2026. Please check back for details.

Anuj Chopra

Award-winning DC-based reporter for Agence France-Presse writing a book that profiles the kingdom through nine different…

Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution

April 16, 2026 | Online

Anand Gopal 

Professor of Practice, sociologist, journalist, finalist for 2015, 2022 and 2025 Pulitzer Prize and 2014 National Book Award This event will be in held in person. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of…

“Souls Without Graves, We Will Cry for You for a Thousand Years”: Exhuming the Massacre Sites of South Korea's Politicide

March 26, 2026 | Online

Grace M. Cho

Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, author of Tastes Like War: A Memoir, writing a book examining the Korean War through the lens of her family’s experience, 2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New…