TOP SECRET TALKS
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
In conjunction with the Off-Broadway debut of Top Secret: The Battle For The Pentagon Papers, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
presented a series of thirteen panel discussions on the role and
responsibilities of the press in reporting on national security matters.
The reports on the events in New York can be found here as well as on the official website for
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers.
The reports on the events in New York can be found here as well as on the official website for
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers.
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February 25, 2010 The NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service presents
A Conversation with Geoffrey Cowan & Robert Shrum
Geoffrey Cowan , Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Robert Shrum , Senior Fellow, NYU Wagner; Political Consultant; Author, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Shrum, Cowan, Stephens Discuss Journalism about Government Secrets at First TOP SECRET TALKS Post-show Event 2/25 |
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February 28, 2010 The Asia Society presents The Learned & Unlearned Lessons of the Vietnam War
& the Nixon Administration Jonathan Schell , Author; Journalist Orville Schell , Arthur Ross Director, Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 |
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March 2, 2010 USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents Afterwords with Jack Doulin & the Cast
Please join the cast of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers as they discuss the process of creating the play. Panel moderated by Jack Doulin, Casting Director, New York Theatre Workshop New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Pentagon Papers Publication as Protest and the Changed Spirit Today |
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March 3, 2010 The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU presents
The Language of Torturers:
The Pentagon Papers, Then and Now David Rudenstine , Author, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case; Former Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Todd Gitlin , Author, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University Panel moderated by Steve Wasserman, Acting Director, New York Institute for the Humanities New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Contextualizing the Pentagon Papers Publication with Todd Gitlin, Steve Wasserman, and David Rudenstine |
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March 4, 2010 Human Rights Watch presents
An Evening with Human Rights Watch
Marcus Brauchli , Executive Editor, The Washington Post Brian Ross , Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News Tim Weiner , Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist; Author, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Panel moderated by Carroll Bogert, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Publishing Secret Government Information Today: Managing Editors of NY Times and Washington Post discuss current practices following performances of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers |
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March 6, 2010 USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents
USC Annenberg Benefit
Jill Abramson , Managing Editor, New York Times Carl Bernstein , Legendary Investigative Reporter Norm Pearlstine , Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg L.P. Panel moderated by Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Welcoming remarks by Stephen Graham, Founding Trustee of New York Theatre Workshop and son of Katharine Graham New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 |
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March 7, 2010 Millie Harmon Meyers & Joshua Boneh present
A Salute to Roy Aarons
A special program celebrating the legacy of Leroy Aarons, acclaimed journalist, author, activist, and co-writer of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers. A conversation with those who knew him best including Monica Alba , Junior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Earl Caldwell , former writer for the New York Times, currently a professor of journalism at Hampton University Charles Kaiser , Author, Full Court Press; Founder and Former President, New York Chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Rebecca Miller , Actor, "Prayers for Bobby" Panel moderated by Geoffrey Cowan, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers Performance and Discussion Celebrating Leroy Aarons |
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March 11, 2010 The Center for Public Integrity presents Investigative Journalism, Then and Now
William E. Buzenberg , Executive Director, Center for Public Integrity Geoffrey Cowan , Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Bill Kovach , Chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists Panel moderated by Sheila Coronel, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University; Founder, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Center for Public Integrity Hosted Discussion Reflects on Investigative Journalism, Then and Now |
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March 12, 2010 USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents
Truth and Fiction in the Docudrama
Geoffrey Cowan , Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, creators of 2002’s acclaimed docu-play The Exonerated and Aftermath, an original piece drawn from interviews with Iraqi civilians, which premiered at NYTW in fall 2009. Greg Pierotti , member, Tectonic Theatre Project; co-creator of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later; and Goldberg Scholar, SUNY Empire State College New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 |
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March 16, 2010 Columbia Journalism Review presents
Columbia Journalism Review Benefit Performance
Daniel Ellsberg , Former Defense and State Department official who gave the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post Leslie Gelb , Journalist; Diplomat; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations James Goodale , Former Vice Chairman and General Counsel, The New York Times Nicholas Lemann , Dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Panel moderated by Victor Navasky , Chairman, Columbia Journalism Review; Delacorte Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Ellsberg, Gelb, Goodale, Lemann Reflect: Where are the Pentagon Papers of Today? |
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March 17, 2010 USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents
Women, Leadership, the Law, & the Press
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 Law and Culture New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 |
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March 20, 2010 James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University presents
Top Secret Talks: Professor Robert P. George
Daniel Mark , Student, Princeton University Shivani Radhakrishnan , Student, Princeton University Jose Joel Alicea , Student, Princeton University Panel moderated by Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 |
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March 27, 2010 USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents
Confidential Government Information in the Internet Age: Roles & Responsibilities of Courts, the Executive Branch, & the Media
Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf , United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Professor Burt Neuborne , Inez Mulholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University; Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice New York Theatre Workshop | 79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003 Post event summary by Lauren Popper Ellis Wolf, Neuborne, Marshall Reflect on Implications of Pentagon Papers Story for Journalists and Law Today |
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