Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Series

The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series takes inspiration from the legacy of Ruth K. and Shepard Broad and is generously supported by a gift from the Shepard Broad Foundation. The series allows students, faculty and the community to analyze the events and forces shaping the world while learning from guest speakers, leading scholars, thinkers and practitioners. By enriching the school’s academic program and strengthening its outreach initiatives, the series supports the Green School’s mission to foster dialogue on global issues.

Sponsored and co-sponsored events of 2019:

Ambassador Steven J. Green, his wife Dorothea Green and daughter Kimberly Green sit with Jim Messina, White House deputy chief of staff under President Obama, during the Global Hot Spots panel, held after the SIPA Phase II Groundbreaking event in October 2019.

Find Me Leonard Cohen, I’m Almost Thirty, book presentation featuring author Amit Ranjan, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at FIU and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Carlos Grenier The Death Penalty: European & International Perspectives, panel discussion with the European Consuls General in Miami, diplomats and FIU College of Law faculty experts How to Understand and Deal with Gun Violence, memorial in honor of the victims of shootings in El Paso and Dayton and teach-in by FIU experts The Hero with a Thousand Faces, presentation by Robert Walter, Joseph Campbell Foundation Un Musiquito Nuevo, concert of Esteban Salas’ Colonial Cuban Villancicos

The Portrait of Frida Kahlo, presented by the Green School, the Florida Grand Opera and Coral Gables Congressional United Church, featuring music from Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s opera Frida Global Hot Spots, conversation about the top challenges confronting U.S. foreign policy in 2019 by FIU faculty experts, held after the groundbreaking ceremony for SIPA Phase II. Muslims and the Chinese State: From the Qing to the Present, presentation by Kristian Peterson, Old Dominion University Putin’s Russia and the Future of U.S. –Russian Relations, a conversation with leading experts Forty Years of U.S.- China Relations, a conversation with Yawei Liu, Carter Center

Protecting our Democracy from Authoritarian Attacks, a conversation with leading experts from the German Marshall Fund of the United States and FIU

Worshipping the Same God: A conversation with film director Linda Midgett and Larycia Hawkins on the documentary film Same God

Screening of Documentary Film Same God, followed by a conversation with Larycia Hawkins, film director Linda Midgett and local religious leaders

The Social Life, Religious Studies and History of the Bohras of Madagascar, lecture by Denis Gay, Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland

The Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies Annual Iftar Dinner: Celebratory Meal in Observance of Ramadan

White Supremacy, Black Redemption and the Korean Jeremiah: The Southern Education of Yun Chi’i-ho, presentation by Youngchan Justin Choi, University of Oxford

Advancing Democracy, Then and Now: Lessons learned from Combating Intolerance in Central & Eastern Europe, a conversation with international experts

Law Versus Power: Our Global Fight for Human Rights, book presentation by Wolfgang Kaleck