The 2015 Folwell lecture was delivered by Professor Amaney Jamal from Princeton University. She spoke about Middle East gender issues (she is one of the leading scholars on this topic) and "The Arab Spring: Did All Go Wrong?"
She visited SAU classes between and spoke to students in several classes. Highlights of her classroom visits included her insights on ISIS.
About the Folwell Lecture Series
The Folwell lecture has featured a wide variety of topics presented by scholars and government officials from around the country and the world. We are pleased to provide this educational experience for our students and friends of the Department throughout the past decade. Thank you to all who have participated in the Folwell Lecture series.
2015, Amaney Jamal, PhD, Princeton University, "The Arab Spring: Did All Go Wrong?"
2014, Carson Holloway, PhD, University of Nebraska, Omaha, "Sustaining Religious Liberty: The Health and Human Services Mandate and the First Amendment"
2013, Thomas Waterman, JD, Iowa Supreme Court, "The Impact of Retention Elections on State Courts of Last Resort and Judicial Independence"; and Roundtable panel discussion with Thomas Kilbride, Chief Justice of the Illinois State Supreme Court, Brenna Findley, Legal Counsel to Iowa Governor Branstad, Cindy Winkler State Representative District 86 in Iowa, and Ryan Koopmans, JD
2012, Joel Glassman, PhD, University of Missouri-St. Louis, "The United States and China: Rivals or Partners in Global Problem Solving?"
2011, Rev. James Schall, SJ, Georgetown University, "On the 'Uselessness' of Philosophers: Or, 'Why Should I Listen to Lectures When I Can Read?'"
2009, Susan Martin, PhD, Georgetown University, "Forced Migration: Challenges for the International Community"
2008, James W. Caesar, PhD, University of Virginia, "The 2008 Presidential Election"
2007, Michael Palmer, PhD, University of Maine, "Teaching Political Animals: How the Great Books and Great Teachers of Political Thought Contribute to a Liberal Education"
2006, Jean Bethke Elshtain, PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School, "We Hold These Truths: John Courtney Murray and the American Experiment"
2005, Berthold Rittberger, DPhil, Technische Universitat Kaiserlautern, Germany, "The EU Constitution is Dead: Long Live the Constitution?"
2004, Tung Yin, University of Iowa, "The War on Terrorism: Constitutional Perspectives on the Guantanamo Detainee Cases"
2003, Justice Linda Neuman, LLM,JD, Iowa Supreme Court, "Can We Talk? Easing the Uneasy Dialogue between Court and Legislature"
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