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21F Discussions
November 11, 2021 - "Veterans Today and the Wars in which They Have Served"
November 8, 2021 - "Harm Reduction - One Way to Reduce Addiction and Follow the Science"
November 2, 2021 - "The Rise and Fall of the COVID-19 Pandemic"
October 27, 2021 - "Politics, Markets, and Populism: Antitrust at the Crossroads"
October 21, 2021 - "Renewing Trust in Democracy: the Role of Courts"
October 15, 2021 - "Leadership: What's Your Blueprint?"
October 13, 2021 - "Reitman Lecture - Sven Steinmo"
September 27, 2021 - "From Wall Street to the Embassy: A Career in Business, Politics, Government, and Diplomacy"
September 20, 2021 - "The Science of the Constitution: The Supreme Court and a Practice of Disagreement"
21X Discussions
July 14, 2021 - "How to Land an Internship"
21S Discussions
May 19, 2021 - "Fact-Based Journalism in an Age of Suspicion"
May 12, 2021 - "Drug Court - Where Justice Meets Treatment"
May 10, 2021 - "Working for Justice: Alumni on Pursuing Racial and Social Justice in Your Career"
May 6, 2021 - "The Tipping Point"
May 3, 2021 - "The First 100 Days: the Biden Presidency"
April 29, 2021 - "The Supreme Court and Its Impact on You"
April 21, 2021 - "Toward Democratic Futures"
April 14, 2021 - "Conservatism: What It Is, How We Lost It, and How We Find It Again"
April 9, 2021 - "Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live"
April 7, 2021 - "Building Multiracial Democracy in the American West: Lessons from Western Pasts"
21W Discussions
March 9, 2021 - "The 60th Anniversary of the Peace Corps"
March 4, 2021 - "GameStop, Robinhood, and Reddit: Market Structure, Social Media, and Financial Bubbles"
March 3, 2021 - "The Burden of Student Debt: Dimensions, Complexities, and Options"
February 24, 2021 - "The Public Option Beyond Healthcare"
February 16, 2021 - "Women, Entrepreneurship, and Atlanta in the New South"
February 4, 2021 - "Sexual Politics After #MeToo"
January 25, 2021 - “How We Study Race - A Discussion Across Disciplines”
January 21, 2021 - "Did the System Work? The Fragile State of American Political Institutions"
January 19, 2021 - "Where Do We Go From Here? King's Sill Unanswered Question"
January 13, 2021 - "Standing Alone - Why the U.S. Rejects Global Norms on Women's Rights"
20F Discussions
November 12, 2020 - "Post-Election Analysis"
November 11, 2020 - "Diversity and Inclusion in the Military"
November 5, 2020 - "What Now? Presidential Post-Election Analysis"
Novemer 3, 2020 - "2020 Presidential Election Night Watch Party"
October 21, 2020 - "2020 NH Elections - Potential Sea Change in NH Politics"
October 14, 2020 - "Race Against Time - The Politics of a Darkening America"
October 7, 2020 - "After George Floyd - Policing, Racism, and Criminal Justice Reform"
September 30, 2020 - "Higher Education in America - An Existential Crisis"
September 23, 2020 - "Aren't We All in This Together - How the Supreme Court is Helping to Pull Us Apart"
Septemer 16, 2020 - "Rocky in the 2020s - The Past, Present, and Future of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center"
20S Discussions
June 3, 2020 - "Covid-19 and the Fate of Globalization"
May 27, 2020 - "Crisis Governance - Lessons from American Policy History"
May 20, 2020 - "The Rationing - A Novel about a Pandemic in the Time of a Pandemic"
May 13, 2020 - "The Psychology of Change - Unlocking Resistance to Unleash Possibility"
May 6, 2020 - "After the Coronavirus - China and the U.S.”
April 29, 2020 - "Should We Cancel Debt? Insights from the Ancient World”
April 22, 2020 - "Who is Responsible for Responsible Citizenship?”
April 15, 2020 - "Identity, Incivility, and Policy Issues in Congressional Communication”
April 8, 2020 - "Conspiracy Without the Theory”
Past Discussions Can Be Found Below:
November 11
"Veterans Today and the Wars in which They Have Served"
Speaker:
James Wrigth
President and Professor of History Emeritus
Dartmouth College
Host:
Jason Barabas '93
Director, Rockefeller Center
Professor, Department of Government
Dartmouth College
November 8, 2021
"Harm Reduction - One Way to Reduce Addiction and Follow the Science"
Speaker:
Tina Nadeau
Host:
Ronald G. Shaiko
November 2, 2021
"The Rise and Fall of the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Speaker:
Nicholas Christakis
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science
Yale University
Host:
Amber E. Barnato
Director
The Dartmouth Institute
Dartmouth College
October 27, 2021
"Politics, Markets, and Populism: Antitrust at the Crossroads"
Speaker:
Noah Joshua Phillips '00
Commissioner
Federal Trade Commission
Host:
Herschel Nachlis
Research Assistant Professor of Government
Policy Fellows, The Rockefeller Center
Dartmouth College
October 21, 2021
"Renewing Trust in Democracy: the Role of Courts"
Speakers:
Gregory G. Garre '87
Neal Katyal '91
Host:
Laura Knoy
October 15, 2021
"Leadership: What's Your Blueprint"
Speaker:
Deputy Director Sadhana Hall
October 13, 2021
"Willing to Pay? A Reasonable Choice Approach"
Speaker:
Professor Sven Steinmo
September 27, 2021
"From Wall Street to the Embassy: A Career in Business, Politics, Government, and Diplomacy"
Speaker:
Lewis M. Eisenberg ’64
Ambassador of the United States to Italy (2017-2021)
Host:
Jason Barabas ’93
Director, Rockefeller Center
Professor, Department of Government
Dartmouth College
September 20, 2021
"The Science of the Constitution: The Supreme Court and a Practice of Disagreement
Speaker:
Sonu Bedi
Joel Parker 1811 Professor in Law and Political Science
Professor of Government
Dartmouth College
Host:
Julie Rose
Associate Professor of Government
Dartmouth College
July 14, 2021
"How to Land an Internship"
Panelists:
Matt McDonald '00
Partner
Hamilton Place Strategies
E. Chandlee Bryan
Assistant Director
Center for Professional Development
Sasha Kokoshinskiy '22
Transfer Pricing Intern
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Moderator:
Bob Coates
Rockefeller Center Assistant Director
Dartmouth College
May 19, 2021
"Fact-Based Journalism in an Age of Suspicion"
The Bernard D. Nossiter ’47 Lecture
Speaker:
Alissa Johannsen Rubin
International Correspondent
The New York Times
Host:
Alexis Jetter
Lecturer
Dartmouth College
May 12, 2021
"Drug Court - Where Justice Meets Treatment"
Speaker:
Tina Nadeau
Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Host:
Ron Shaiko
Associate Director
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Tina Nadeau: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 10, 2021
"Working for Justice: Alumni on Pursuing Racial and Social Justice in Your Career"
Panelists:
Jessica Guthrie ’10
Janos Marton ’04
Jorge Miranda ’01
Host and moderator:
Julie Rose
Associate Professor of Government
May 6, 2021
"The Tipping Point"
Panelists:
Saru Jayaraman
President, One Fair Wage
Director, Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law
University of Michigan
James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Moderator:
Susan J. Brison
Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values
Professor of Philosophy
Dartmouth College
May 3, 2021
"The First 100 Days: the Biden Presidency"
Panelists:
James Baehr '05
Former Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Amanda Brown Lierman '07
Managing Director
Supermajority
Host and Moderator:
Janos Marton '04
National Director
Dream Corps JUSTICE
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Janos Marton '04: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 29, 2021
"The Supreme Court and Its Impact on You"
If you are interested in viewing a recording of this program, please email rockefeller.center@dartmouth.edu.
Speaker:
Nina Totenberg
American Legal Affairs Correspondent
National Public Radio
Host:
Jason Barabas ’93
Director, Rockefeller Center
Professor, Department of Government
Dartmouth College
Conversation Moderator:
Charles Wheelan '88
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Dartmouth College
April 21, 2021
Video can be accessed by clicking on the image above, or clicking here.
"Towards Democratic Futures"
Sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
Panelists:
Rep. Charlene Fernandez
State Rep.
Arizona Legislature
Laura Martin
Executive Director
PLAN Action
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma)
Founder and Exec. Director
IllumiNative
Corey Matthews
COO
Community Coalition of Los Angeles
Host and Moderator:
Daniel Grant
Harvard University
April 14, 2021
Speaker:
Oren Cass
Executive Director
American Compass
Host:
Charles Wheelan '88
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Oren Cass: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 9, 2021
"Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live"
Speaker:
Nicholas Christakis
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science
Yale University
Host:
Jason Barabas ’93
Director, Rockefeller Center
Professor, Department of Government
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Nicholas Christakis: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 7, 2021
Video can be accessed by clicking on the image above, or clicking here.
"Building Multiracial Democracy in the American West: Lessons from Western Pasts"
Sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
Panelists:
Natalie Masuoka
Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies
UCLA
Maurice Crandall (Yavapai-Apache)
Assistant Professor of Native American Studies
Dartmouth College
Alaina E. Roberts (Chickasaw, Choctaw)
Assistant Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
Mary E. Mendoza
Assistant Professor of History
Penn State University
Host and Moderator:
Cori Tucker-Price
Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration in the U.S. Context
Dartmouth College
March 9, 2021
"The 60th Anniversary of the Peace Corps"
Speakers:
Mark K. Shriver
Sr. Vice President, U.S. Programs & Advocacy
Save the Children
Glenn Blumhorst
President & CEO
National Peace Corps Association
Host:
Elizabeth J. Wilson
Director of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Mark K. Shriver and Glenn Blumhorts: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
March 4, 2021
"GameStop, Robinhood, and Reddit: Market Structure, Social Media, and Financial Bubbles"
Speakers:
Peter R. Fisher
Clinical Professor
Tuck School
Dartmouth College
Curt Welling D'71, T'77
Clinical Professor of Business Organization
Tuck School
Dartmouth College
Host:
Jason Barabas '93
Director, Rockefeller Center
Professor, Department of Government
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Peter R. Fisher and Curt Welling: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
March 3, 2021
"The Burden of Student Debt: Dimensions, Complexities, and Options"
Perkins Bass Distinguished Lecture
Speaker:
Mark W. Huddleston
President Emeritus
University of New Hampshire
Host:
Charles Wheelan '88
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellows
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Mark W. Huddleston: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
February 24, 2021
"The Public Option Beyond Healthcare"
Speaker:
Anne Alstott
Jacquin D. Bierman Professor
Yale Law School
Host:
Herschel Nachlis
Research Assistant Professor of Government
Policy Fellow, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Anne Alstott: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
February 16, 2021
Speaker:
Monica Delores Hooks ’92
Executive Director Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative
Host:
Daniella Reichstetter T’07
Executive Director
Center for Entrepreneurship
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Monica Delores Hooks: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
February 4, 2021
Video no longer available at the request of the speaker.
Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture
“Sexual Politics After #MeToo”
Amia Srinivasan
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford
January 25, 2021
Panelists:
Kimberly Juanita Brown
Associate Professor
English and Creative Writing
Matthew F. Delmont
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History
Deborah Karyn King
Associate Professor of Sociology
Eng-Beng Lim
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Host and Moderator:
Sonu S. Bedi
Professor of Government
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Sonu Bedi: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
January 21, 2021
Matthew Dickinson
Professor of Political Science
Middlebury College
Linda L. Fowler
Professor of Government, Emerita
Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies, Emerita
Past Director, Rockefeller Center
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Linda Fowler: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
January 19, 2021
Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of History Emeritus
Founding Director of the King Research and Education Institute
Stanford University
January 13, 2021
Jennifer M. Piscopo
Associate Professor of Politics
Occidental College
Julie Suk
Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Liberal Studies
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Lisa Baldez: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
November 12, 2020
Jake Tapper '91
CNN Anchor
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Jack Tapper ‘91: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
November 11, 2020
Brad Carney '20 & Karla Rosas '20 with Professor Jason Lyall
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Jay Lyall: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
November 5, 2020
Dr. Carlos Algara
University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Jamil Scott
Georgetown
Dr. Amber Spry
Brandeis University
Moderated by Dr. Mia Costa
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Dr. Carlos Algara: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
November 3, 2020
Chip Reid
CBS News National Correspondent
October 21, 2020
Andrew Smith
Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Andrew Smith: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
October 14, 2020
Video not available due to contractual arrangement with the speaker.
"Race Against Time- The Politics of a Darkening America"
Keith Boykin '87
Author and CNN commentator
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Keith Boykin ‘87: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
October 7, 2020
Frank Baumgartner
Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill
Andra Gillespie
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University
Phillip Atiba Goff
Co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and Professor of African American Studies and Psychology at Yale university
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Frank Baumgartner: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
September 30, 2020
Mark Huddleston
UNH President Emeritus
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Mark Huddleston: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
September 23, 2020
Linda Greenhouse
Senior Research Scholar - Yale Law School
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Linda Greenhouse: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
September 16th, 2020
Jason Barabas
Director
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Dartmouth College
June 3rd, 2020
Daniel Benjamin
Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director
John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Dartmouth College
Co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the John Sloan Dickey Center
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Daniel Benjamin: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 27th, 2020
Herschel Nachlis
Policy Fellow, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Research Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Herschel Nachlis: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 20th, 2020
Charles Wheelan
Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Charles Wheelan: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 13th, 2020
Kate Hilton, JD, MTS
Faculty, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Faculty, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, George Washington University
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Kate Hilton: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 6th, 2020
Lucy Hornby
2019-2020 Nieman Fellow
Harvard University
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Lucy Hornby: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 29th, 2020
Devin Singh
Associate Professor
Department of Religion
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Devin Singh: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 22nd, 2020
Ron Shaiko
Associate Director
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Ron Shaiko: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 15th, 2020
Mia Costa
Assistant Professor
Department of Government
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Mia Costa: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
April 8th, 2020
Video no longer available at the request of the speaker.
"Conspiracy Without the Theory”
J. Russell Muirhead
Interim Director, Rockefeller Center
Chair, Department of Government
Dartmouth College
Rocky Talk Podcast w/ Professor Russell Muirhead: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
