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Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy

Paula Butturini

Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.

Space and Beyond: US Policy, Space Security, and Arms Control

Space and Beyond: US Policy, Space Security, and Arms Control

Joan Johnson-Freese

December 9, 2009

Joan Johnson-Freese, chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the Naval War College, and Laura Grego, scientist for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, discuss space security and the future of space relations in a panel moderated by leading political ana

Rethinking US-Russia Policy

Robert Legvold and James Collins discuss traditional topics and newer subjects that provide context for the future of relations between Russia and the United States. Among the areas of significance are nuclear nonproliferation, energy security, and climate change.

Afghanistan's Untold Story and the Road Ahead

Paul Fitzgerald

Najim Azadzoi, Nick Mills, Paul Fitzgerald, and Elizabeth Gould discuss the roots of the current crisis in Afghanistan and how to move toward a better future.

Spies and Spokesmen: Challenges of Journalism in Russia

Nicholas Daniloff

Nicholas Daniloff, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a 30-year media veteran, draws upon his own international reporting experiences (including 13 days locked up by the KGB) to explore the challenges and possibilities of writing in the former Soviet Union today.

Richard Pare: The Lost Vanguard

Richard Pare, photographer, discusses his photography of Soviet modernist architecture constructed in the years immediately after the revolution, from 1922 to 1932. He covers how the Stalinist regime put an end to one of the most innovative experiments in the history of architecture.

Vladimir Putin and the Oligarchs

Marshall I. Goldman

Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, talks about the changes in the Russian government since the end of the Cold War, and the implications for the United States.

Averting Failure: The Secret ExComm Meetings

Sheldon M. Stern

Sheldon M. Stern, former Kennedy Library historian, discusses his book, Averting The Final Failure, a first-ever narrative account of the secret Executive Committee meetings among President Kennedy and his most trusted advisors during the Cuban Missile Crisis.