JMC News: Madison to Host Prominent Speakers

Madison to host U.S. senator’s talk on Iraq
October 11, 7:30 p.m.

Sen. Carl Levin will speak on “Iraq: What’s Next?” on Monday, Oct. 11, at Michigan State University’s Wilson Auditorium.

Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will speak at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Levin also presently serves as the ranking Democrat of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Governmental Affairs Committee.

Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard, will present "Colossus: Is the United States an Empire?"
October 13, 7:00 p.m

The lecture is sponsored by James Madison College and The LeFrak Forum/Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy. It will be in the Kellogg Center Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

Professor Ferguson is one of the world's leading-and controversial-historians of the global economy. He was born in Glasgow and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of Hamburg. In July 2004, he moved to Harvard from New York University, where he was Herzog Professor of Financial History. His most recent book is Colossus: The Price of American Empire (2004). Professor Ferguson is a prolific commentator on contemporary economics and politics for the American, British, and European press.