Margolis Lecture Series | CGPACS | UCI Social Sciences

28th Annual Margolis Lecture: The Ghost Budget: Paying for America's Post 9/11 Wars

November 15, 2022
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
Linda J. Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

27th Annual Margolis Lecture: Warriors and Citizens: US Civil-Military Relations after Afghanistan

October 21, 2021
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Zoom (pre-registration required)
Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

26th Annual Margolis Lecture: A Report from Washington on Trump's Foreign Policy with Seymour Hersh

January 17, 2019
6:00pm - 7:30pm
UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium
Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize Winning Investigative Journalist and Political Writer

25th Annual Margolis Lecture: Thinking about Global Futures - and America's

November 30, 2017
12:30pm - 2:00pm
SBSG 1517
Gregory F. Treverton, Former Chair of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC)

24th Annual Margolis Lecture: The South China Sea Conflict: Freedom of Navigation? Territorial Disputes? or Geostrategic Competition?

May 11, 2017
5:10pm - 7:00pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Yunzhu Yao, Maj. General (ret.), People's Liberation Army's Academy of Military Science, China

23rd Annual Margolis Lecture

February 24, 2016
5:00pm - 6:30pm
UCI-Student Center - Crystal Cove A
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Visiting Professor of Law and Huo Global Policy Initiative Research Fellow Columbia Global Policy Initiative, Columbia University Law School

Margolis Lecture: The Age of Fallout - Terraforming Planet Earth

May 14, 2015
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Joe Masco, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

After Nuremberg: The Historical Significance of the South African Transition

November 15, 2013
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100
Mahmood Mamdani, Professor of Government and Anthropology, Columbia University | Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda | Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine “Top 20 Public Intellectual”

Humanity, Self-Determination and Armed Intervention

May 19, 2011
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG), Patio and Room 1517
Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science, Columbia University; Former Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Former American Ambassador to Soviet Union on Foreign Policy, Lessons Learned

March 9, 2010
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Social Science Hall 100, University of California, Irvine
Jack Foust Matlock, Jr., Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Adjunct Professor, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University

The Margolis Lecture series annually brings to campus distinguished political and policymaking leaders who speak on important international issues. Established in 1991, the series honors Julius Margolis, economics professor emeritus and founding CGPACS board member who passed away in March 2012.

Remembering Julius Margolis

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