September 2, 2015

When: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015
Location: The Marines’ Memorial Club, San Francisco, CA

Professor Charles R. Kesler

“President Obama and the Churchill Bust”

You are warmly invited to participate in the annual Churchill Centre academic dinner in San Francisco. This year we are honored to have Charles R. Kesler, Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, as our speaker. He is editor of the Claremont Review of Books and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. He directed the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World from 1989 to 2008.

Professor Kesler received his A.B. (in Social Studies, 1978) and his A.M. and Ph.D. (in Government, 1985) from Harvard University. His edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling edition in the country. He served as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the James Madison Commemoration Commission and as a member of the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Scholars Commission. His latest book is I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism. 

The evening will begin with a short reception, followed by dinner and Professor Kesler’s remarks after dinner. Dinner dress is black tie or dark suit. The reception begins at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m.

The Churchill Centre organizes this dinner annually in conjunction with the meeting of the APSA. The Centre is an international non-profit organization based in Chicago, dedicated to preserving the thoughts, words and deeds of British statesman Sir Winston S. Churchill. It publishes the definitive Journal of Winston Churchill, Finest Hour, and an online monthly newsletter, Chartwell Bulletin. The Centre hosts the annual International Churchill Conference and conducts educational programs for high school and college students and a wide variety of other events and activities. 

The Marines’ Memorial Club
609 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 673-6672
Map

6:30 Cash Bar Reception
7:30 Dinner

Dinner subscriptions are $100 per person. To register, click here.

For more information call the Centre on (312) 263-5527,  Toll Free (844) 972-1874 or info@winstonchurchill.org 

The Churchill Centre Panel

During the APSA Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015
Time: 4:15 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Hotel Nikko, Ballroom 1, San Francisco

The Churchill Centre will present the following panel discussion during the American Political Science Association annual meeting in San Francisco, California.

Panel Discussion

“What about the Dardanelles?” A Hundred-Year Retrospective on Churchill at the Admiralty in 1915

Winston S. Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty, the cabinet secretary charged with managing Britain’s senior service, in 1911, when he was asked by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to bring the Royal Navy into the twentieth century, to align its mission with that of the British army, and to prepare it for a possible war with Germany. In 1915 he faced a crisis when the Anglo-French naval campaign which he had championed to defeat the Ottoman Empire by a naval assault on the Dardanelles was unsuccessful and was succeeded by protracted warfare at Gallipoli. This panel examines Churchill’s conduct of the Admiralty in the crisis at the Dardanelles.

Chair

• Gregory B. Smith, President, Churchillians-by-the-Bay

Discussant

• Forrest A. Nabors, University of Alaska, Anchorage 

Papers

• “No Defence except Human Infirmity”: Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles – David Freeman
• “A Lesson That Had Sunk into His Nature”: The Dangers of a Subordinate Position – James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage

For the full program of the APSA Annual Meeting, please follow this link.