ASU Events
Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
April 16, 2026 | OnlineAnand 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 | OnlineGrace 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…
Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos
March 17, 2026 | Phoenix Council on Foreign Relations (PCFR) at 1500 E Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZCandace Rondeaux
Professor of Practice, Senior Director, Future Frontlines and Planetary Politics at New America, formerly of U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. This event will be in held…
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
February 19, 2026 | OnlineKhameer Kidia
Writer, anthropologist, Rhodes Scholar, and global health physician on the faculty at Brigham & Womenʼs Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 2022 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America in conversation with Mona…
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
February 06, 2026 | OnlineYi-Ling Liu
Award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and The New Yorker, 2021 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America in conversation with Dan Xin Huang…
Misunderstanding the Harms of Online Misinformation
December 04, 2025 | Online Via ZoomBrendan Nyhan
James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, focusing on misperceptions about politics and health care, member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Andrew Carnegie…
How did the US fail in Afghanistan?: In-Depth Reporting on America’s Longest War
November 11, 2025 | Online Via ZoomMatthieu Aikins
Winner of 2025 and 2022 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on U.S. support of brutal militias in Afghanistan and for civilian casualties from US airstrikes, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and the author of…
The UN Charter: Five Pillars for Humankind
November 04, 2025 | Online Via ZoomDavid Scheffer
Professor of Practice, FSI and Senior Fellow, New America, former Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, former Director, Center for International Human Rights, and professor at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, author of…
The Past, Present, and Future of International Criminal Justice
October 29, 2025 | Beus Center for Law and Society, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, downtown PhoenixBeth VanSchaack
Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, previously Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School, whose writing focuses on international human rights and justice issues, author of…