Eisenhower-Khrushchev Weekend
This weekend's events commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower's meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States. Access registration materials here.
Friday, September 25, 2009
4:00-6:00 PM: Registration in the College Union Building lobby, Gettysburg College campus. Open House at the Eisenhower Institute office, 157 North Washington Street
8:00 PM: Opening Lecture: Eisenhower and Khrushchev. College Union Building room 260. William Taubman, Professor of Political Science at Amherst College and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. Taubman will be available to sign copies of his book following this lecture.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
9:00 AM: The Cold War, Khrushchev & Eisenhower. College Union Building room 260. The panel will feature Richard H. Immerman, Professor of History at Temple University and the Marvin Wachman Director of its Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy; Irwin Gellman, Visiting Scholar of History at Franklin and Marshall College; and Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. This panel will be moderated by Daniel Holt, former director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
11:30 AM: Recognition of the Eisenhower Administration, College Union Building room 260.
1:30 PM: Russian-American Relations: Looking Forward. College Union Building room 260, Gettysburg College Campus. A panel discussion featuring Jack Matlock, former US Ambassador to the USSR and James F. Collins, former US Ambassador to Russia, and Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, moderated by Louis Galambos, co-editor of the Eisenhower Papers.
3:30 PM: Buses will depart from the College Union Building for tours at the Eisenhower Farm. Registration is necessay to attend the farm tour.
8:00 PM: A Conversation with Susan Eisenhower and Sergei Khrushchev at the Majestic Theater, moderated by Daun Van Ee, co-editor of the Eisenhower Papers.
Following this program Sergei Khrushchev, Susan Eisenhower, Jack Matlock, and Richard Immerman will be available to sign books in the Majestic's foyer.