Upcoming Events

Eisenhower Institute Upcoming Events

EI Hosts U.S-China Education Trust

Friday, July 11, 2008

Gettysburg College 

On Friday, July 11, 2008, the Eisenhower Institute and Gettysburg College will host a Chinese delegation from the U.S-China Education Trust (USCET). USCET is a program of the FY Chang Foundation, a private non-profit organization founded in 1998 by Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch designed to promote US-China relations. The Chinese delegation will tour Gettysburg, meet with state representatives, and participate in talks and lectures with several prominent Gettysburg scholars and politicians. 

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Ambassador Charles Hill: "Free Speech in Perilous Times"

7:00 PM, Friday, September 5, 2008

Gettysburg College,  CUB 260

On Friday, September 5, the Eisenhower Institute will host Ambassador Charles Hill at Gettysburg College. Ambassador Hill, a career foreign service officer, will give a lecture entitled, "Free Speech in Perilous Times" at 7:00 PM in CUB 260. The ambassador is the Diplomat-in-Residence and a lecturer in international relations at Yale University; was a senior advisor to George Shultz, Ronald Reagan, and Henry Kissenger; and most recently, was Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Rudy Giuliani during his 2008 presidential campaign.

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Christine Todd Whitman: "Inside Politics: American Policy at Home and Abroad"

7:30 PM, Monday, September 22, 2008

Gettysburg College, Cub Ballroom 

On Monday, September 22, at 7:30 PM, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman will address Gettysburg College in the Cub Ballroom. Whitman's lecture entitled,  "Inside Politics: American Policy at Home and Abroad" is part of the Women's Studies 2008-2009 Speaker Series "Women, Power, and Politics." Whitman became the first woman governor of New Jersey, serving from 1994 to 2001. In 2001, Whitman was appointed Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by President George W. Bush. After Whitman resigned her post following disagreements with the Bush administration, she authored a book entitled It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party... And Bringing the Country Together Again and formed a political action committe called It's My Party Too-PAC .