Maurizio Albahari is associate professor of anthropology and in the Keough School of Global Affairs and University of Notre Dame. He is a social-cultural anthropologist who explores the tension between human existence and structures of power. Albahari has published extensively on the humanitarian, socio-cultural, legal, and geopolitical components of the ongoing refugee "crisis," as well as on forms of civic engagement and migrant integration. His current research traces participatory citizenship and trans-Mediterranean mobilization in the everyday life of maritime spaces, as well as of changing cities in Italy and in the region.  Albahari is the author of  Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).  Read more and register

Max Boot is a historian, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the "world's leading authorities on armed conflict" by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a national-security columnist for the Washington Post. Boot has served as an adviser to U.S. commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign in 2007-08, a defense policy adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign in 2011-12, and the head of the Counter-Terrorism Working Group for Marco Rubio's campaign in 2015-16. Boot will be speaking about his latest book, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, published in January 2018. Read more and register at  go.osu.edu/bootm

Lawrence Wilkerson is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He has served in numerous roles, including as chief of staff to Colin Powell at the U.S. Department of State and associate director and member of that department's Policy Planning staff under Ambassador Richard Haass. Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army as both enlisted man and officer. His final assignments were as special assistant to then-Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell from 1989 to 1993, and as deputy director and director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College from 1993 to 1997. Wilkerson is a world-class national security expert known for rigorous, non-partisan analysis and clear expression of his views. Read more and register

"Trump and the Future of NATO" will feature an insightful debate on the future of NATO in the Trump era by two leading scholars in the field of international security and American foreign policy. Sean Kay, professor of politics and government at Ohio Wesleyan University and an associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, will be joined by Ian Brzezinski (left), resident senior fellow of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He brings more than two decades of experience in U.S. national security matters, having served in senior policy positions in the Department of Defense and Congress. He currently leads the Brzezinski Group, which provides strategic insight and advice to government and commercial clients. Peter Mansoor, Gen. Raymond E. Mason Chair in Military History, will moderate. Read more and register

Takeo Hoshi is director of the Japan Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the Henri and Tomoe Takahashi senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and professor of finance at the Graduate School of Business, all at Stanford University. Hoshi is the 2005 recipient of the Nakahara Prize that the Japan Economic Association awards to its most promising and productive members for their research in economics. Hoshi will review Japan's economic growth slowdown and deflation in the 1990s and the 2000s and ask whether the economic policy of the current Abe administration has succeeded in pulling Japan out of economic stagnation. He will also illustrate the relevance of Japan's experience to the economies of the U.S. and Europe. Read more