List of Upcoming SMA Speaker Sessions

(Updated 9 October 2024)

For general speaker series inquiries and information on how to join an event, please contact Mariah Yager (mariah.c.yager.ctr@mail.mil).

Tuesday 8 October 1400 EDT

• Speaker: Cleo Paskal (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies)
• Topic: The CCP-ification of Pacific Islands: What it Means for U.S. Strategy and What Can Be Done
• Speaker Series: INDOPACOM

Wednesday 9 October 1000 EDT

• Speaker: Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America)
• Topic: Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
• Speaker Series: EUCOM

Tuesday 15 October 2024 1000 EDT

• Speaker: Dr. Tim Clack (University of Oxford), Lieutenant General (Ret) Richard Nugee (British Army), Ella Fleming (UK Defence Science Technology Laboratory)
• Topic: How Climate Change Impacts Security and Conflict Worldwide
• Speaker Series: Climate Effects

Wednesday 23 October 1300 EDT

• Speaker: Christopher S. Chivvis and Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• Topic: Emerging Powers and the Future of American Statecraft
• Speaker Series: SMA General

Thursday 24 October 2024 1300 EDT

• Speaker: Dr. Adam Lowther (NSRI) & Col (Ret) Curtis McGiffin (National Institute for Deterrence Studies)
• Topic: Dynamic Parity: A New Approach to American Nuclear Deterrence
• Speaker Series: SDF

Wednesday 30 October 2024 1300 EDT

• Speaker: Dr. Bonny Lin, Brian Hart, Dr. Matthew Funaiole, Samatha Lu, Truly Tinsley (CSIS)
• Topic: How China Could Quarantine Taiwan
• Speaker Series: INDOPACOM

Friday 6 December 2024 1100 EST

• Speaker: Stanislava Mladenova (Brown University, Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies)
• Topic: Book talk: When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Civil-Military Engagement in Fragile States
• Speaker Series: SMA General