All lectures will require free tickets.
All lectures are held in the Rhinehart Music Center
Tickets must be picked up in person at the Marilyn and Jim Larson Ticket Office in the Gates Athletics Center between 12:30 and 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Tickets will be available three weeks prior to each lecture.
Tickets can also be obtained in person at the Schatzlein Box Office in the lobby of the Rhinehart Music Center, one hour before each lecture, if available.
Martha Raddatz
“Global Hotspots from Yemen to Afganistan and the Arab Spring In Between”
Martha Raddatz has reported many of the most compelling foreign and domestic news stories of our time from Washington D.C. and around the world. She was named senior foreign affairs correspondent after serving as chief White House correspondent during President George W. Bush’s last term. In addition to covering the White House, Raddatz traveled regularly to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In 2006, she was the first correspondent to report that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, had been killed in a U.S. air strike near Baghdad. In 2007, the White House Correspondents' Association awarded her the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure. Raddatz joined ABC News in 1999 as State Department correspondent, where she covered the conflict in the Middle East and traveled to Africa, Pakistan, and India with Secretary of State Colin Powell. Her coverage at the State Department after the attacks of September 11 was recognized with a Peabody Award as well as an Emmy Award.
In 2004, Raddatz was named senior national security correspondent. During her time at the Pentagon, she reported exclusively on a number of stories, including the near-capture of al-Zarqawi. She also broke the story that the 2004 attack on a U.S. military dining hall in Mosul, Iraq, was the work of a suicide bomber. From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), where she reported on foreign policy, defense, and intelligence issues.
Raddatz is the author of The Long Road Home—a Story of War and Family. The highly acclaimed book was released in March 2007, making both the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists. The Washington Post described the book as “a masterpiece of literary nonfiction that rivals any war-related classic that has preceded it.” She is a frequent guest on PBS's Washington Week and Charlie Rose.