2025 SIA Colloquium Series
Date & Time: August 28, 2025 | 02:30 PM – December 04, 2025 | 03:45 PM
Location: Lewis Katz Building, Room 114
The Penn State School of International Affairs Colloquiums will be held every Thursday in Katz 114 from 2:30 - 3:45 p.m.
August 28: John Creamer, SIA Professor - What is Globalization?
September 4: Jose Antonio Meade Former Mexican Finance, Foreign and Social Welfare Minister – Globalization, Inequality, Poverty and the Future
September 11: Andrew Selee, President of Migration Population Institute – States and Migration
September 18: Agnes Dasewicz, Chief Investment and Programs Officer, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet - Climate Change and the Green Transition
September 25: Harvey Rishikof - Technology, Geopolitics and the Law
October 2: Bruce Frost, VP of Intelligence, Rhombus Power – Intelligence and the Law
October 9: Dr. Herbert Ott Wolfe, DHS Chief Health Officer – Public Health and National Security
October 16: Glen Davis, Ret Foreign Service Officer – Public Diplomacy and Geopolitics
October 23: Jorge Castaneda – The Global South and America First
October 30: Dina Temple-Raston, Podcaster – Disinformation
November 6: Amb. (ret) Timur Soylemez – Mid-Level Powers: The Case of Turkey
November 13: Maria Abi Habib, NYT International Correspondent – The Middle East and Geopolitics
November 20: Mitchell Smith, Director, SIA – Europe and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World
December 4: Prof. Mare Sarr, SIA – Africa and the World
December 11: Ambassador Thomas Shannon – Great Power Competition