Pope Lecture Speaker

Pope Lecture 2022 ~Homeira Qaderi

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Fifth Annual Everett P. Pope Lecture, November 16, 2022

Homeira Qaderi, writer, activist, and educator, Speaker

Homeira Qaderi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan during Russian occupation and spent her early childhood sheltering from the Soviets. When the Taliban conquered Herat, she was prohibited from attending school. Dr. Qaderi later took refuge in Iran for seven years. Returning to Afghanistan in 2011, she began teaching as a professor at Kabul University and was active in achieving equal rights for Afghan women. During the 2021 fall of Kabul, Homeira Qaderi and her son were among the last to gain entrance through a secret gate on the north side of the airport to flee the country.Homera is the author of seven books and is currently a Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

Pope Lecture 2021 ~ Elliot Ackerman

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Fourth Annual Everett P. Pope Lecture, April 8, 2021

Elliot Ackerman, Marine veteran, journalist, and author, speaker

Lecture title: “Turning in My Card: American Identity and the Veteran Experience.”

Marine veteran, journalist and author Elliot Ackerman. is a National Book Award finalist and the author of four novels and one work of nonfiction. His latest book is 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. He is both a former White House Fellow and a Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.

Pope Lecture 2019 ~ C. J. Chivers

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Third Annual Everett P. Pope Lecture, April 1, 2019

C. J. Chivers, author, journalist, speaker

The Fighters: Reporting from the Front Lines of Our Forever Wars, with C.J. Chivers

C.J. Chivers is a correspondent for The New York Times and a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine. His magazine story “The Fighter” won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. In 2009 he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Chivers served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps in the Persian Gulf War and on peacekeeping duty during the Los Angeles riots. Mr. Chivers is the acclaimed author of The Fighters and The Gun.

Pope Lecture 2018 ~ General Anthony Zinni

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Second Annual Everett P. Pope Lecture, April 9, 2018

General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.), Speaker

“The National Security Environment.”

General Zinni is a retired United States Marine Corps general and decorated Vietnam combat veteran. From 1997 to 2000 he served as the Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for all US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia. In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He served as a US envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries in 2017, seeking to resolve the Qatar crisis.

Read about General Zinni’s distinguished career.

2018 General Zinni Bio

Pope Lecture 2017 ~ Ambassador Laurence Pope

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Inaugural Everett P. Pope Lecture, February 6, 2017

Ambassador Laurence Pope, Bowdoin Class of 1967, speaker

Former diplomat Laurence Pope ’67 warned of the dangers of abandoning established international alliances and drifting toward a policy of “America-first”-style isolationism in “American Security in the 21st Century,” a talk he delivered February 6, 2017. Read the text of his talk here.

Pope, a thirty-one year Foreign Service veteran, was recalled from retirement in 2012 by the Obama administration to serve as senior US envoy in Libya following the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Pope’s talk was sponsored by the Department of Government and Legal Studies with support from the John C. Donovan Lecture Fund and the Bowdoin Marine Corps Society.

While on campus, Pope was interviewed for a segment that aired on the WCSH newsmagazine 207. Watch the interview.