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Conversations at The Carter Center are held in the Cecil B. Day Chapel.

The Conversations series is designed to be interactive. Audience questions are encouraged, either live during the Q&A portion of each program or in advance through the Carter Center Web site.

Speakers often find these questions thought-provoking and even inspiring. All Conversations programs are webcast live at www.cartercenter.org and archived following each event.




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Conversations at The Carter Center

Conversations at The Carter Center is an annual series of evening programs designed to increase public awareness on issues of national and global importance as they relate to the Center's work. Distinguished panels consisting of Carter Center experts and special guests make presentations followed by question-and-answer periods with the audience.

 

The 2007-2008 season has concluded.  Watch for the 2008-2009 schedule, which will be posted here during summer 2008.


The 2007-2008 series included:

  • An evening with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
  • A discussion of the American civil rights movement, the system of former Soviet Union prison camps, and current human rights issues today
  • A dialogue on eroding civil rights in the United States and its effects around the world
  • An examination of the potential political future of China
  • A look at how The Carter Center is addressing the global shortage of health care workers

All Conversations events are held at the Carter Center's Ivan Allen Pavilion. Tickets and RSVPs are available online only.  Please note RSVP start-dates below.


 

25 Years of The Carter Center
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, 7-8:30 p.m. 

As part of The Carter Center's 25th anniversary, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter will discuss current peace and health initiatives at The Carter Center and reflect on past accomplishments. Moderated by Carter Center CEO Dr. John Hardman.  View the Archived Webcast >





Heralding Freedom: The Gulag, American Civil Rights Movement, and Human Rights Today
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, 7-8:30 p.m.


Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA; Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist and former Gulag prisoner; and Isaac Newton Farris Jr., nephew of the late Martin Luther King Jr., and president and CEO of The King Center in Atlanta discuss the suppression of political and religious dissidents in the former Soviet Union, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and the current work of The Carter Center on human rights. The event coincided with Human Rights Day and the opening of a special exhibit at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site called GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom. Sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site,  Amnesty International, and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. Moderated by Karin Ryan, director of the Carter Center's Human Rights Program.  View the Archived Webcast >


 


Are We Safer with Secrecy?
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, 7-8:30 p.m. 


The level of secrecy in the U.S. government is at a level not seen before. Security legislation has eroded the right to information in the United States since 9/11. Recent legislation passed by Congress aims to strengthen the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which is a critical tool for both reporters and citizens to research public information that could otherwise stay hidden.

Panelists will share their experiences regarding how the right to information protects people and how the more information there is available, the better decisions we as a public can make.  

The panel includes Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, which collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through FOIA; Michelle Roberts, award-winning journalist from The Oregonian, who used FOIA to expose abuse at state mental health facilities in Oregon; and Kevin Dunion, Scotland's information commissioner, who is responsible for enforcing the Freedom of Information Act and Scottish Environmental Information Regulations. Moderated by Carter Center Americas Program Assistant Director Laura Neuman.  View the Archived Webcast >


 


Assessing the Prospects for Political Reform in China
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 7-8:30 p.m. 


Panelists Professor Mary Brown-Bullock, president emeriti of Agnes Scott College and visiting distinguished professor of China Studies at Emory University; Professor Fei-Ling Wang of Georgia Institute of Technology; and Professor Yawei Liu, director of the China Program at The Carter Center will discuss prospects of democratization in China. This Conversations will also address the work of President Carter and The Carter Center in China in the context of growing tension between Washington and Beijing, the pressure of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on the Chinese government with a new leadership in place, and the increasing concern that China will either collapse without political reform or possibly present a new development model for the world. View the Archived Webcast >

 

 

Battling Disease at the Grassroots Level: a Case Study in Ethiopia
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7-8:30 p.m. WEBCAST ONLY


There is a critical shortage of global health care workers to combat life-threatening diseases, most severely in the poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa. For more than a decade, the Carter Center's Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative has worked to build a skilled national health care workforce through specialized curricula and enhanced learning environments. A panel will discuss the shortage of health care workers, the Carter Center's EPHTI work, and whether the EPHTI model can be applied elsewhere. 
View the Archived Webcast >


 

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A different Conversations at The Carter Center airs each Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters (AIB). AIB can be viewed throughout Atlanta on Comcast – Channel 5.