International Relations Lecture Series
International Relations Lecture Series is a 4-event speaker series held in St. Louis, Missouri. The American Association of University Women (A.A.U.W.) and the Tuesday Women's Association (T.W.A.) of The Ethical Society of St. Louis have collaborated to produce these events since 1929. Members of the A.A.U.W. and the T.W.A. vote to select the topics. Speakers, who are experts in their fields, are invited and paid an honorarium to give a presentation that informs, sparks discussion, and suggests solutions. After the presentation there is a question and answer period. A separate event is held for each of the four topics on the second Tuesday in January, February, March, and April each year.[2][1]
The Series has always garnered a great deal of community interest due to the notability of speakers who have been featured over the years. As recently as February 2019, Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger, writing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, interviewed visiting Series speaker Dr. Jeffrey Winters of Northwestern University, who is an expert on income inequality, dark money, and oligarchs.[3][4] Dr. Winters's work has been quoted in Jane Mayer's book Dark Money, and by Chrystia Freeland in her book Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich.
Topics chosen for the Series have often been prescient predictors of issues which come to dominate national discourse in later years. There are many examples of this. The April 1978 lecture was "The Undocumented Worker In This Country."[5] The February 1973 topic was "Exporting American Jobs and Technology–—Their Impact Upon the Work Force of the United States."[6]
History[edit]
When the Lecture Series was first founded it was known as International Relations Group. The purpose of the Group was "...primarily to keep alive the spirit of peace." The first event was held December 15, 1929. The Series' early program format was different than it is today. Originally, each topic was presented by two speakers, each holding an opposing point of view. This debate format was done to "...stimulate thought and encourage further investigation." Another difference is that each event had live music, which is not a part of the current program.[7]
The notability of this event's origins is put in perspective by comparing it to a similar activity of a contemporary women's group, The College Club. The College Club also had an international relations group, but their program was less ambitious in that experts were not invited to debate a topic and there was no intention to problem solve. The College Club version is comparable to a weekly current events report or a travel log presentation, and was given by the Club members for members.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Report on International Relations Group Submitted to The Ethical Society of St. Louis by Paula Wilhelm, Chairman; 1; Ethical Society of St. Louis Records, Annual Meetings, 1929-1930 (SO4444 (SA4369)); The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-St. Louis.
- ↑ "International Relations Lecture Series". International Relations Lecture Series. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- ↑ "Jeffrey A. Winters: Department of Political Science - Northwestern University". www.polisci.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ Messenger, Tony (26 February 2019). "Messenger: Dark money enters Board of Aldermen president's race, and it bets big-time on Lewis Reed". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ "Lectures". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 6 April 1978.
- ↑ "St Louis Post-Dispatch-Archival". webpac.slcl.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Report on International Relations Group Submitted to The Ethical Society of St. Louis by Paula Wilhelm, Chairman; 1; Ethical Society of St. Louis Records, Annual Meetings, 1929-1930 (SO4444 (SA4369)); The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-St. Louis.
- ↑ "December 8, 1929 (Page 27 of 148)." St.Louis Post-Dispatch (1923-2003), Dec 08, 1929, https://0-search-proquest-com.iii.slcl.org/docview/1874866938?accountid=176 (accessed September 15, 2019). Accessed 15 September 2019.
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