[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] 03/27: Quest for a Global Nation with Strobe Talbot --

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From: Mary Curtin <marycurtin at comcast.net>
Date: 2008/3/11
Subject: Ford Hall Forum presents "The Great Experiment" with Strobe Talbot
-- March 27
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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. Foreign Policy / Journalism
March 2008
Ford Hall Forum Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867
(cell), marycurtin at comcast.net
Ford Hall Forum Director: Alex Minier, 617-557-2007,
alex at fordhallforum.neu.edu
[*Strobe Talbott* is available for phone interviews]
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*Ford Hall Forum
*presents
*The Great Experiment: **
The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the
 Quest for a Global Nation*

with
Ambassador
*Strobe Talbott**
*President of the Brookings Institution*

*moderated by
*Susan Shaer*
Executive Director of WAND

Thursday, April 3, at 6:30-8:00 pm
in the
Abbey Room
Boston Public Library


(Boston, MA) *Ford Hall Forum* presents "*The Great Experiment: The Story of
Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation"
*with *Strobe
Talbott*; moderated by *Susan Shaer*. Thursday, April 3, at 6:30-8:00 pm.
Followed by an open discussion and book signing. Admission is free and open
to all. Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA.
Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the Orange and Green
Line on the MBTA. For more information, call the Ford Hall Forum at
617-557-2007 or visit www.fordhallforum.org.

In his new book, *The Great Experiment*, A*mbassador** Strobe Talbott*,
former Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001) and current president of the
Brookings Institution, recounts the development of nation-states and the
progression to a global nation (i.e. The League of Nations and the UN).
Through the lens of history and personal experience, he assesses the
prospects for global cooperation and the United States' role in the process.


What can we learn from empires and conflicts of the past? Can a world made
up of many nations govern itself peacefully? Talbott joins the Ford Hall
Forum to give an insider's opinion of current United States foreign policy
and explain why he believes we should take the lead in multilateral global
politics for the future.

*Background information*:

*Strobe Talbott* is president of the Brookings Institution (
www.brookings.edu). Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government
service, and academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties
on Europe, Russia, South Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary
of state in the Clinton administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both
the conduct of U.S. policy abroad and the management of executive branch
relations with Congress. Talbott served in the State Department from 1994 to
2001, first as Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of
State for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, then as
Deputy Secretary of State.

*Susan Shaer *is the Executive Director of Women's Action for New Directions
(WAND). For more information, visit www.wand.org/abtwand/ss-bio.html.

*Ford Hall Forum* promotes freedom of speech and fosters an informed and
effective citizenry through the public presentation of lectures, debates,
and discussions. Its events illuminate the key issues facing our society by
bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking speakers,
including some of the most controversial opinion leaders of our times. These
speakers are presented in person, for free, and in settings, which
facilitate frank and open debate.

The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held
at the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in Boston. While the
original building no longer exists, the public conversations have continued
throughout the Greater Boston area with the generous support of foundations,
corporations, academic institutions, and individuals. An exhibit
illustrating this rich history, which was installed in collaboration with
Northeastern University, is now on display at the Boston Public Library. As
the Forum marks its 100th Anniversary, it is embarking on a new partnership
with the Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences. Suffolk will be
housing the Forum's administrative offices just a block away from where the
original Ford Hall once stood.

Since its first public event at the beginning of the 20th century, the Forum
has hosted some of the most intriguing figures in our nation's modern
history, including Maya Angelou, Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz, Stephen Jay
Gould, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry Kissinger, Ayn Rand, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Cokie Roberts, and Malcolm X, to name just a few.

Programs of the Ford Hall Forum are made possible through the generous
contributions from individual members as well as corporations and
foundations, including The Boston Foundation, The Boston Public Library,
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel,
Fidelity Investments, The Fred and Marty Corneel Fund, Helen Rees Literary
Agency, Houghton Chemical Corporation, Jackson & Company, Levine Katz Nannis
+ Solomon P.C., The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural Council, The
Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Northeastern University, The Old South
Meeting House, Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Prince, Lobel, Glovsky &
Tye LLP,  Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences, WBUR 90.9 FM, WGBH
89.7 FM, and William Gallagher Associates. For more information log onto
www.fordhallforum.org or contact Alex Minier at alex at fordhallforum.org,
617-557-2007.

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