A Conversation with Josef Joffe

Friday, June 16, 2006
Speaker
Josef Joffe

Editor, Die Zeit; and author, Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America

Presider
James Traub

Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine

This meeting is the John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture.

12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Meeting

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