"Wisconsin's Likely Performance in an Economic Downturn." Business Solutions Seminar and Technology Expo (Don Nichols, 2/08).

"Prospects for the US Economy: Recession, Decoupling, and Policy." Madison Downtown Rotary (Don Nichols, 2/08).

"The Challenge and Concerns of Global Warming." Madison Downtown Rotary (Jon Foley, 1/08).

"Henry Kissinger and the Seeds of the Contemporary Middle East Crisis." Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (Jeremi Suri, 1/08).

"Meeting Kissinger." Milwaukee Public Radio's "Lake Effect" with Jane Hampden (Jeremi Suri, 10/07).

"Henry Kissinger and the American Century." Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Jeremi Suri, 10/07; similar talks at 92.1 WXXM's Sunday Journal with Stu Levitan, Madison Rotary Club and Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air").

"Business, Employment, and Economic Conditions in Wisconsin and the Midwest." Special Executive Briefing for the UW-Madison School of Business Executive Education program (Donald Nichols, 9/07).

"Campus Anti-War Protests Then and Now." WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network (Jeremi Suri, 9/07).

"India and Global Politics." Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air" (Aseema Sinha, 9/07).

"Perspectives on September 11." TEMPO Madison (Vicki Bier, 9/07).
"China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate."” National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on China’s Growing Role in World Trade (Menzie Chinn, 8/07).

"Exchange Rate Models are Not as Bad as You Think." De Nederlandsche Bank (Charles Engel, 7/07; similar talks at the National Bureau of Economic Research "Macroeconomics Annual" conference, European Central Bank, Ente Einaudi research institute of the Bank of Italy, Bank of Canada / European Central Bank "Topics in Exchange Rate Modelling" conference).

"The Korean War and its Contemporary Legacies." Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air" (Jeremi Suri, 6/07).

"The Past and Future of American Foreign Policy." WGN Radio Chicago's "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg" (Jeremi Suri, 6/07).

"East Asia and Global Imbalances: Saving, Investment, and Financial Development." International Monetary Fund (Menzie Chinn, 6/07; similar talk at National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics).

"Expectations, Monetary Policy, and the Misalignment of Traded Goods Prices." National Bureau of Economic Research International Seminar on Macroeconomics (Charles Engel, 6/07).

"Interpreting the Empirical Evidence for the Global Saving Glut." International Monetary Fund (Menzie Chinn, 6/07).

"An International Dialogue on Ecological Policy." WISC-TV's "For the Record" (Jonathan Zeitlin, 6/07).

"A Decade of Innovation in EU Governance: The European Employment Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Lisbon Strategy." Expert Seminar on "Policy Coordination on Employment and Social Affairs in the European Union" organized by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union (Jonathan Zeitlin, 5/07).
"Strengthening the Social Dimension of the Lisbon Strategy." European Union Social Protection Committee (Jonathan Zeitlin, 5/07).

"Supply Capacity, Vertical Specialization and Tariff Rates: The Implications for Aggregate U.S. Trade Flow Equations." European Central Bank (Menzie Chinn, 5/07).

"Monetary Policy Advisory Discussion." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Charles Engel, 4/07).

"New Developments in Exchange Rate Economics."  IMF Institute (Charles Engel, 2/07).

"Despite Job Growth, Fears About Economy Linger." Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning.” (Menzie Chinn, 1/07).

"The Role of Law in Economic Development in East Asia: Will China Follow the Path of its East Asian Neighbours Taiwan, Korea or Japan?" World University Network (John Ohnesorge, 12/06).

"Europe and Global Imbalances." IMF Seventh Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference (Menzie Chinn, 11/06).

"Approaches to Assessing Currency Misalignment." Office of International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department (Menzie Chinn, 10/06).
"Wisconsin in the Changing Global Economy: Its Impact on Our Communities." League of Wisconsin Municipalities' 2006 Annual Conference and Engineering & Public Works Institute. (Don Nichols, 10/06).

"Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World Savings Glut." ”Society of Government Economists Biennial Conference: Public Policy and US Competitiveness: Labor, Capital and Trade (Menzie Chinn, 10/06).

"Developmental Entrepreneurship Overseas and in Wisconsin." MIT Enterprise Forum / MIT Club of Wisconsin (Anne Miner, John Hoffmire, and and Peter Munoz, 9/06).

"Safety and Security of Nuclear Power Plants." Special Committee on Nuclear Power (Vicki Bier, 9/06).

"Societal Responsibilities Related to Nuclear Power." Special Committee on Nuclear Power (Jeremi Suri, 9/06).

"Pandemic Planning." Wisconsin Public Radio (Vicki Bier, 9/06).

"The Economy Shifts Gears." The Economic Outlook Conference of the UW-Madison School of Business (Donald Nichols, 9/06).

"News from a Warming Planet." Special Committee on Nuclear Power (Jonathan Foley, 9/06).

"Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World." Memorial Union (Jeremi Suri, Jon Pevehouse, Scott Mobley, and Vicki Bier, 9/06).

"Conventional and Unconventional Approaches to Exchange Rate Modeling and Assessment." Federal Reserve Board (Menzie Chinn, 08/06).

"Portfolio Choice in a Monetary Open-Economy DSGE Model." Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Charles Engel, 7/06).

"Invisible in Plain Sight: The Politics of Pscyhological Torture." Downtown Madison Rotary (Alfred McCoy, 7/06).

"Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World ‘Savings Glut’”." The Twelfth Dubrovnik Economic Conference of the Croatian National Bank (Menzie Chinn, 06/06).

"The US Current Account Deficit and the Expected Share of World Output." Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Charles Engel, 6/06).

"The North Korean Threat." Wisconsin Public Radio (Jeremi Suri, 6/06).

"Technology Transfer Offices: The Case of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Embryonic Stem Cell Technology." Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference (Sanjay Jain, 6/06). 

Scott Ritter
Former United Nations Weapons Inspector in Iraq
"Waging Peace: Citizenship in a Time of War" (04/08)
"The Reality of Arms Control: From the Trenches" (04/08)

Joseph T. Glatthaar
Stephenson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse" (04/08)

David W. Blight
Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University
"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom" (04/08)

Robert McMahon
Mershon Distinguished Professor of History, The Ohio State University
"Dean Acheson and the Building of an American-Led World Order" (02/08)

Chester Pach
Professor of History, Ohio University
"War and the Media: From Vietnam to Iraq" (02/08)

Eswar Prasad
Cornell University Senior Tolani Professor of Trade Policy and Former Chief of the IMF's China Division
"Are China's and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last?" (02/08)

Michael Desch
Professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making, Texas A&M University
"Bush and the Generals: What Went Wrong?" (10/07)

Daniel Benjamin
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
"The Global War on Terror: A Status Report" (10/07)

Andrew Rotter
Professor of History, Colgate University
"Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945" (10/07)

Mark Stoler
Professor of History, University of Vermont
"The Road to Iraq: The Origin and Evolution of U.S. Interests in the Middle East" (3/07)

Campbell Craig
Professor of History, University of Southampton
"The Nuclear Revolution in the History and Practice of US Foreign Policy" (09/06).
"The Atomic Bombing of Japan: Ending World War II or Beginning the Cold War?" (09/06).

Sir David Manning
British Ambassador to the United States
"Britain's Perspectives on Climate Change" (09/06).

Robert Schulzinger
Director of the International Affairs Program and Professor of History, University of Colorado

"Vietnam and Iraq: Historical Lessons for Today" (9/06).

"The Living Legacy of the Vietnam War" (9/06).

Alex Roland
Professor of History, Duke University

"The Long War Dead: The Politics and Reality of Casualties in Iraq" (4/06).

Brian Linn
Professor of History at Texas A&M University
"The Savage Wars for Peace: The Philippine War and War in Iraq" (2/06).

Harvey Kaye
Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
"Thomas Paine and America's Unfinished Revolution" (2/06). 

Amy Celico

"U.S.-China Trade Relations and the WTO" (12/05).

Walter Cutler
President, Meridian International Center and Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Oil" (11/05).

Carl Schramm
Kauffman Foundation  
WAGE/INSITE Policy Lecture Series (10/05).

Rita Colwell

"Water Pollution and Human Health" (10/05).

 
Hugo Paemen
Former EU Ambassador to the United States, currently Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University

"Conflicting U.S. and European Approaches to the New World Order: Economic Relations and Security" (4/03)

Daniel Bodansky
Professor of Law, University of Washington Law School
"Global Climate Change Law and Policy: The Growing Split between U.S. and European Climate Change Policies" (4/02)

David Aaron
Senior International Advisor, Dorsey & Whitney LLP and former U.S. Ambassador to the OECD and U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
"Biotechnology and Transatlantic Relations" (3/02)