Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Top Secret Talks: Women, Leadership, the Law, and the Press

USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) presents Top Secret Talks, a series of conversations among journalists, scholars, and public policy leaders exploring the tension between the government's need for secrecy and the public's right to know. Please join Karen Rothenberg, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law & Former Dean, University of Maryland School of Law; Scholar-in-Residence, Columbia Law School & Senior Sabbatical Fellow at its Center for the Study of Lawa and Culture. The series is presented in conjunction with the New York production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, co-written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons.

8:00 p.m. performance. 9:30 p.m. discussion. New York Theatre Workshop, 79 E. 4th Street, New York, N.Y.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Top Secret Talks: Daniel Ellsberg, Leslie Gelb, James Goodale and Nicholas Lemann

USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) presents Top Secret Talks, a series of conversations among journalists, scholars, and public policy leaders exploring the tension between the government's need for secrecy and the public's right to know. Guests include Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense and State Department official who gave the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post; Leslie Gelb, journalist, diplomat and president emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations; James Goodale, former vice chairman and general counsel of The New York Times; and Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Discussion moderated by Victor Navasky, chairman of Columbia Journalism Review and delacorte professor of journalism at Columbia Journalism School.  Their topic: “Columbia Journalism Review Benefit Program.” Co-sponsored by Columbia Journalism Review. The series is presented in conjunction with the New York production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, co-written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons.

7:00 p.m. performance. 8:30 p.m. discussion. New York Theatre Workshop, 79 E. 4th Street, New York, N.Y.