The Columbia University Seminar on Defense and Security (CSDS) advances understanding of global military issues through sustained analysis. The seminar addresses the most urgent problems of our time; assesses strategies to resolve, mitigate, and meet these challenges; and initiates specific courses of action.

This seminar is co-sponsored by University Seminars and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

Queries may be sent to defensesecurity@columbia.edu or CSDS Co-Chairs. All are welcome to participate.

Co-Chairs
Nancy Walbridge Collins
Columbia University, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
nwcollins@columbia.edu

Austin Long
Columbia University, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
al2866@columbia.edu

CSDS meets on Tuesdays, 12:00-2:00pm, International Affairs Building, Saltzman Seminar Room 1302. The first hour is an informal brown bag / drop-by discussion (12noon-1:00pm), and the Speaker Hour (1:00-2:00) is more formal, with an RSVP required to defensesecurity@columbia.edu. We keep a wait list when we reach room capacity. To minimize disruption, we ask that participants arrive by 1:00pm. Members are given priority seating if the seminar is oversubscribed.

Membership applications are available at the seminar.

UPCOMING:

2016-2017 Autumn Semester

October 11

Vipin Narang, Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program

Rajan Menon, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at the City College of New York/City University of New York

October 18

Patrick Mahaney, Director, U.S. Army Strategic Studies

October 25

Michael Harris, US Army Fellow at Columbia University, 2016-2017

November 1

Daniel Keyserling, Senior Advisor to Chairman, Alphabet (formerly known as Google)

November 15

Whitney Kassel, Director, Palantir Technologies