Bergen is Vice President at New America, Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, and the author of many bestselling books.

Event is cosponsored with the Center for Political Thought and Leadership.

Coor Hall Room 4403, ASU Tempe Campus

The U.S. sent troops into Afghanistan following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and a Congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, was put into effect. But there are questions about whether that AUMF can or should apply to the nation’s efforts in Syria, Iraq or Yemen.

Sens. Jeff Flake and Tim Kaine have been working on a new bipartisan authorization to update it.

To learn more about a possible new AUMF, we spoke with Jeff Kubiak. He is a senior fellow at ASU’s Center on the Future of War.

Featuring Braden Allenby - President’s Professor, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law; Mark von Hagen - Professor, History and Global Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures & School of Politics and Global Studies; Interim Director, Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Founding Director, Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement.

Each year, Human Rights at ASU sponsors a film festival to engage students, faculty, staff, and the greater community in a discussion of human rights issues through film and discussion. This year’s three-day festival will focus on human rights at risk in the United States. Our terrific speakers include award-winning filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin; former Ambassador and indigenous rights champion H.E. Mr. Crispin S. Gregoire; Phyllis Young, Cofounder of Women of All Red Nations; Drs.