Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
What we can learn from that moment i how it connects our does not connect to what is happening in american political history at this moment. The way this is going to work, i will introduce the four panelists. Each person will talk for five minutes or so. Develop a few lines of inquiry. I will ask a few questions based upon what people have said. Folks will have a chance to have a conversation. We want to leave the last 35 or 40 minutes for questions. Please have in mind things that you want to say or ask about. I will introduce folks from my left to my right. First is katlyn carter. She is a visiting professor at the university of notre dame. Her phd is from princeton. She spent the last two years with a postdoctoral fellowship at the university of michigan. She is working on a book entitled houses of glass, secrecy, transparency, and the Representative Democracy and i have had the pleasure of reading the manuscript. It is about the french revolution in the 1790s and the american const
The director of command school, scott green is here tonight scott can you wave your arm . Thank you in uniform at the back of the room this lecture series which is about great military events, great commanders, and sometimes great controversies in the art of war has been ongoing since the beginning of my tenure almost 15 years ago. Its been our great series and the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president someone can identify with that. To go to washington to save the republic, as you know need saving. As i always like to say the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is self critical, self aware, it plays no favorites and it is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield. And with extraordinary teaching and technology to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. Its also a school for our allies and partners. And the future military leaders from around the world, a place where a fu
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