Global Security Authority Robert Musil Visits Alma as Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow Robert Musil, an
international authority on contemporary global security,
sustainability, health issues and the Cold War, will discuss leadership
in a nuclear age during a public talk at Alma College.
Musil, a scholar-in-residence at the School of International Studies at
American University in Washington, D.C., and the former executive
director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, will speak at 8 p.m.
Monday, March 12, in the Dow Science Center, Room L-1.
Admission is free and open to the public. The title of his talk is “We
Are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting For: Hope in a World of Climate
Change and Nuclear Danger.”
A graduate of Yale and Northwestern universities and the Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health, Musil is author of the forthcoming book,
“Changing the Climate: Healing, Humanity, and Hope for a Heated
Planet.” At American University, he teaches a course on “Nuclear
Weapons and American Democracy.”
A long time leader of the peace, nuclear disarmament and environmental
movements, Musil also has been executive director of the Professionals’
Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control, the SANE Education Fund, the Center
for National Security Studies Military Affairs Project, and CCCO: An
Agency for Military and Draft Counseling.
From 1978 to 1992, Musil was the executive producer and host of
“Consider the Alternatives,” a half-hour weekly radio program
syndicated to more than 150 stations with two million listeners. He
also has been the producer of several other video and public radio
documentaries.
The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program connects a liberal
education with the world beyond the campus by bringing thoughtful and
successful practitioners to colleges for a week of classes and informal
discussions with students and faculty. Musil will be on the Alma
College campus March 12 through 16.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has developed and
conducted programs in higher education since 1945. More than 200
colleges have participated in the Visiting Fellows program since 1973.
Posted: Thu, March 1st, 2007 at 8:27AM
