ASU Events


Jill Filipovic “Abortion Wars: Sexual Violence, Reproductive Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Conflict and Crisis Zones”

March 28, 2019 | Memorial Union

Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Filipovic is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, a weekly columnist for CNN and a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times. She writes about abortion…

Jonathan M. Katz “Who was Smedley Butler? Understanding the Rise (and Fall?) of American Empire”

March 14, 2019 | Memorial Union

Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Katz is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, a journalist and author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a 

Iona Craig “Reporting from Yemen, the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”

February 21, 2019 | Memorial Union

Craig is a journalist based in Yemen from 2010 to 2015 and an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America. For her work as a correspondent for The Times (of London) based in Saan’a, she received the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism,…

Internationalizing Kosovo 1989-2019 Intervention, Recognition, and the Politics of Sovereign Statehood in Comparative Perspective

January 30, 2019 | ASU

Two-day interdisciplinary conference at ASU in January 2019 with anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and others addressing social, political, legal, and other issues related to the status of Kosovo. The event was co-…

Anne-Marie Slaughter: "Webcraft in the Balkans: Building Resilience and Stabilization Networks"

January 30, 2019 | ASU

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the president and CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs…

Suki Kim “Undercover in North Korea”

January 24, 2019 | Memorial Union

Gold Room (Rm 207) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Kim is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, author of New York Times best-seller Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North…

Future Frontlines Lab

January 01, 2019 | Washington, DC

Day-long workshop in January 2019 at New America in Washington, DC on to discuss the development and test the viability of the Frontlines Lab, a collaborative effort between Drexel University, New America, and Arizona State University. The…

Biosecurity in the Age of Genome Editing

December 03, 2018 | Washington, DC

Workshop in December 2018 at New America in Washington, DC on to present and discuss the findings of a two-year study run by George Mason University and Stanford University to explore critical biosecurity issues related to CRISPR and related…

Global Special Operations Policy Forum 2018

November 13, 2018 | Washington, DC

Day-long Conference in November 2018 at New America in Washington, DC on to discuss current and future challenges for U.S. Special Operations, with a focus on the projected growth of proxy wars. Speakers included: Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New…