Penn State SIA Fall 2026 Colloquium Series
Date & Time: August 26, 2026 | 01:00 PM – December 02, 2026 | 02:15 PM
Join our INTAF 890 course every Wednesday for a new guest speaker and weekly presentation on international affairs. Each week will feature the following topics:
August 26 - John S. Creamer, Professor of Practice, SIA, will host a talk titled “What is Globalization?”
September 2 – Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy Institute, will host a talk on Global Migration.
September 9 - Jose Antonio Meade, Former Mexican Finance, Foreign and Social Welfare Minister, will host a talk on Globalization and Populism.
September 16 - Dr. Richard Alley, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, will host a talk on Climate Change.
September 23 - Keith Mines, Office of the President, Inter-American Dialogue, will host a talk on Nation-Building and Stabilization Ops.
September 30 - Harvey Rishikof will host a talk on Technology, Geopolitics, War and Law.
October 7 - Dr. Herbert Ott Wolfe, DHS Chief Health Officer and Affiliate Faculty, SIA, will host a talk on Public Health and National Security.
October 14 - Tim Golden, Reporter, ProPublica, will host a talk on Organized Crime and Corruption.
October 21 - Glenn Davis, Public Affairs Officer (ret.), will host a talk on Public Diplomacy in a Multipolar World.
October 28 - Bruce Frost, VP of Intelligence, Rhombus Power, will host a talk on Intelligence, Technology and Ethics.
November 4 – Ambassador (ret.) Jennifer Galt will host a talk on China, Taiwan and the United States.
November 11 – Ambassador (ret.) Timur Soylemez will host a talk on Middle Powers: Turkey.
November 18 - Maria Abi Habib, NYT International Correspondent, will host a talk on The Middle East and Geopolitics.
December 2 - Ambassador (ret.) Thomas Shannon will host a talk on Geopolitics and Great Power Competition.
Registration will not be required to attend.