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 Religion and Conflict and the Center for Work and Democracy.
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 America, 12-1 pm ET/10-11 am AZ time. Co-Sponsored with the Center for Law and Global Affairs.
Candace 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 in person from 5:45-7:00 pm AZ time at the Phoenix Council on Foreign Relations (PCFR) at 1500 E Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ. This event is co-sponsored with PCFR and ASU’s Melikian Center.
Khameer 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 Chalabi, 2023 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America, 12-1 pm ET/10-11 am AZ time.
Yi-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, 2026 New America Fellow, 12-1 pm ET/10-11 am AZ time
Brendan 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 Fellow, whose research has been published in journals including Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Journal of Political Science.
Co-sponsored with the School of Politics and Global Studies
Matthieu 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 Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees, and an Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow and Southern New Hampshire University Fellow at New America.
Anand Gopal
David 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 UN Charter: Five Pillars for Humankind and The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace, among many works.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Law and Global Affairs, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Beth 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 Imagining Justice for Syria.
5 PM - 6:30 PM
Beus Center for Law and Society, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, downtown Phoenix
Co-sponsored with the Center for Law and Global Affairs, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the Phoenix Council on Foreign Relations
Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Professor of Data Science and Computer Science and Professor of Humanities, Brown University, Director, Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign. former Assistant Director for Science and Justice in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Law and Global Affairs, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law