Martin Sherwin On 'Con Games' And To Speak Monday

June 19th, 2008 at 06:37am Post Staff 43

SOURCE: Aspen Institute

Aspen, CO, June 12, 2008 –– The 2008 Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series opens with a lecture by American historian Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf). Sherwin will discuss “Hiroshima’s Shadow: The First Nuclear World and Ours.”

The event will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at the Walter Paepcke Memorial Auditorium on the Institute’s Aspen Meadows campus. The series is made possible by a gift from the McCloskey Family Charitable Foundation. Tickets for the McCloskey Speaker Series will be $10 each and will go on sale starting June 11 through Aspen Show Tickets at the Wheeler Opera House. Tickets are also available online by visiting www.aspenshowtickets.com. As a full-capacity audience is expected for this program, early ticket purchasing is encouraged. Doors will open 45 minutes prior to the start of the lecture.

Martin J. Sherwin is University Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Before moving to GMU in 2007 he was the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University for 27 years. His recent book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (with Kai Bird) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the English Speaking Union Book Award. It was a Washington Post and Boston Globe Best Seller. Time Magazine selected it as one of the six best non-fiction books of 2005 and the New York Times listed it as one of the 50 best non-fiction books of the year.

Professor Sherwin is also the author of A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance which won the Bernath Prize awarded by the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations as well as the American History Book Prize awarded by the National Historical Society. He is currently writing a book on the nuclear arms race and the Cuban Missile Crisis scheduled to be published by Knopf in 2012, Gambling With Armageddon.

In 1985, and again in 1986, The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education awarded Professor Sherwin its "Professor of the Year, Silver Medal Award." Professor Sherwin was also the founding director and executive producer of the innovative Global Classroom Project, a 'space bridge' program that employed TV satellite technology to link his students at Tufts with university students in Moscow for interactive discussions about the nuclear arms race and the environment. The programs were broadcast throughout the Soviet Union and on selected PBS stations in the United States between 1988 and 1992.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.aspenshowtickets.com or by calling Aspen Show tickets at the Wheeler Opera House at 970-920-5770. For more information on the Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series and other events open to the public, please contact Cristal Logan at 970-544-7929 or cristal.logan@aspeninstitute.org, call the information hotline at 970-544-7970, or visit the Institute’s website at www.aspeninstitute.org/communityevents.

All programs listed below will convene at the Walter Paepcke Memorial Auditorium, located at 1000 North Third Street, Aspen, CO, unless otherwise noted.

Other speakers to be featured in the McCloskey Speaker Series include:

July 15 Tom Korologos, former US Ambassador to Belgium and former senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad
"Iraq: A Perspective Five Years Later"
6:30 – 7:30 pm
July 22 Christopher Buckley, American political satirist and best-selling author
"Why Don’t We Call It…?"
6:30 – 7:30 pm
July 29 Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State and Principal, The Albright Group LLC
"A Conversation with Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright"
6:30 – 7:30 pm – Will be held in Doerr-Hosier Center
July 30 Cokie Roberts, best-selling author and renowned political commentator
"Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation"
6:30 – 7:30 pm
August 1 Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State
"The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation" (Simon & Schuster)
5:00 – 6:30 pm
August 5 John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State, former Director of National Intelligence and former US ambassador to Iraq
"Enduring US Foreign Policy Priorities"
6:30 – 7:30 pm
August 12 Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health
"The AIDS Era: A Historical Perspective"
6:30 – 7:30 pm

Other public events at the Aspen Institute include:

July 21 A Special Event featuring His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan
5:00 – 6:30 pm – Will be held in Greenwald Pavilion
August 14 John McCain, Republican presumptive presidential nominee and Arizona Senator
Time TBA – Will be held in Greenwald Pavilion

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