Brokaw, Pressler highlight speakers series

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BROOKINGS – The SDSU University Speakers Fall 2017 Series will have TV anchor Tom Brokaw and Sen. Larry Pressler on campus.

Brokaw will be at State Oct. 19 for the third Daschle Dialogues at the Performing Arts Center’s Larson Memorial Concert Hall. Pressler will deliver the Harding Distinguished Lecture Series talk at 7 p.m. Sept. 19, also in the Larson Memorial Concert Hall.

Other university speakers include:

• Toshihiro Nakayama, “Japan’s Foreign Policy Options in the Trump Era,” 7 p.m. Monday, Crothers Engineering Hall, Room 204;

• Jim, Kevin and Terry Woster and Mary Alice Haug, “The Wit of the Wosters,” Sept. 14, 7 p.m., Hilton M. Briggs Library;

• David R. Montgomery, “The Erosion of Civilization,” Sept. 18, 7 p.m., Volstorff Ballroom, University Student Union;

• John DeLisi, “The SpaceShip Two Accident: An Inside Look at the NTSB Investigation,” Sept. 19, 5 p.m., Volstorff Ballroom, University Student Union;

• Kimbriell Kelly, “Path to Pulitzer: A Washington Post Investigation into Police Misconduct,” Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m., South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium;

• Seema Yasmin, “Communicating about Diseases in the Age of Epidemics,” Oct. 17, 7 p.m. South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium;

• 29th annual Consider the Century Conference, Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Volstorff Ballroom, University Student Union;

• Moustafa Bayoumi, “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America,” Nov. 2, 7 p.m., Performing Arts Center;

• Chuck Vollan, “John Barleycorn Returns: Legal Liquor after Prohibition,” Nov. 3, 6:30 p.m., South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum; and

• Michael Goodale, “Warrior Week: Army Ranger Sgt. Michael Goodale,” Nov. 8, 6 p.m., South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium.


For more information on these events and other speakers on campus, visit www.sdstate.edu/speaker-series.