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Chairman's Speeches

Pushing Back the Time Boundaries of Ancient Civilization
Turkish Embassy Residence
Washington
,
DC

January 16, 2013
The Oath of Office and Its Constitutional Context
Comments Prepared for Delivery Swearing-in Ceremony for the Hon. Rush Holt, Library of Congress
Washington
,
DC

January 3, 2013
Comments on the NEH-funded Documentary Death and the Civil War
“Lessons and Legacies: The Civil War and Veterans Today” Convocation for Veterans
Washington
,
DC

November 13, 2012
The Humanities and Global Education
Drake University
Des Moines
,
IA

October 27, 2012
Citizens United: Robbing America of Its Democratic Idealism
Symposium on “Stewarding Democracy: American Institutions and the Public Good," American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cambridge
,
MA

October 7, 2012
Archaeology and the Ozarks
Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Archaeological Society
Little Rock
,
AR

September 22, 2012
City on a Rock
Better World Forum, Singapore
Singapore
,

September 12, 2012
The 3rd China-United States Cultural Forum, Closing Remarks
The 3rd China-United States Cultural Forum: A Binational Conversation on Bridging Cultures
Nanjing
,

September 8, 2012
The 3rd China-United States Cultural Forum, Opening Remarks
A Binational Conversation on Bridging Cultures
Beijing
,

September 6, 2012
The German-American Heritage of Scott County, Iowa
St. Ambrose University
Davenport
,
IA

June 16, 2012
Boyhood Roots of National Leadership
50th Anniversary of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
Iowa City
,
IA

June 15, 2012
Touching the Yupiaq Heart
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
,
AK

May 13, 2012
The Power of the Humanities
American Council of Learned Societies
Philadelphia
,
PA

May 11, 2012
Every Day is History Day
Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
,

April 26, 2012
On the Screening of the Film Besa
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington
,
DC

April 26, 2012