List of Upcoming SMA Speaker Sessions

(Updated 12 November 2024)

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

Wednesday 30 October 2024 1300 EDT

• Speaker: Dr. Bonny Lin, Brian Hart, Dr. Matthew Funaiole, Samatha Lu, Truly Tinsley (CSIS)
• Topic: China’s Options for Taiwan Short of an Invasion
• Speaker Series: INDOPACOM

Wednesday 13 November 1100 EST

• Speaker: Jacob Heim, Zachary Burdette, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga (RAND)
• Topic: Managing Escalation: Lessons and Challenges from Three Historical Crises Between Nuclear Armed Powers
• Speaker Series: SDF

Tuesday 19 November 1300 EST

• Speaker: Dr. Larry Kuznar (NSI)
• Topic: Strategic Culture
• Speaker Series: SDF

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

Thursday 19 December 2024 1100 EST

• Speaker: Daniel Eizenga (NDU)
• Topic: Recalibrating Coastal West Africa’s Response to Violent Extremism
• Speaker Series: AFRICOM