Helena's live and media appearances

Please note that the format of this page has been changed. It now contains only the records of past appearances.  Information forthcoming events can be found on this page.

Highlights of past, book-related appearances

• On June 26, Justin Elliott of the Mother Jones website published this interview with me, about the book.
• In late June and early July I did book events for the Women's Foreign Policy Group in Washington DC, for Chez Nous Salon in Reston, VA, and at the annual Gathering of Friends General Conference, held in Johnstown, PA.
• On June 24, I took part in a panel discussion titled "Foreign Policy and the next U.S. administration?" at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington DC.  The other panelists were Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, and Daniel Twining of the State Department. You can listen to an MP3 audio record of the discussion here.
• On June 23, I did a 15-minute segment on Amy Goodman's morning show on Democracy Now!, for radio and t.v. audiences. We discussed mainly developments in the Middle East, but the book got some good mentions!
• On June 18 and 19, I did three book events in New York City. They were hosted by the Quaker United Nations Office, Cake Shop Records (in the Lower East Side), and the Women's Foreign Policy Group, in conjunction with the Institute for International Education.
• On June 8, I gave a book talk at the ever-popular Busboys & Poets bookstore, in Washington DC.
• May 29, I discussed the book (and debuted my supplementary PowerPoint slideshow for it) at an event hosted by the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC. 
• May 28, I spoke about the book's themes in an hour-long discussion on "The People Speak" radio, hosted by David Swanson.
• May 21, I got to talk about some of the big themes in Re-engage! for around half an hour on Jerome McDonnell's excellent 'Worldview' program on Chicago Public Radio. You can download or listen to that show here. I'm in the first half there.
• On May 21, Re-engage! was also featured at a book social co-hosted in Washington, DC, by the Connect U.S. Fund and the Friends Committee on National Legislation.  
• On May 19, I spoke at at the Miller Center Forum, hosted by George Gilliam in Charlottesville, VA. This book-launch event was videotaped and and web-archived and can be viewed or downloaded in a number of different formats through this portal.
• On April 29, 2008, I was a guest for 40 minutes on Michael Jackson's radio show on KGIL (Los Angeles.)  You can download an MP3 file of the whole of Michael's one-hour program there, here. I come in at the 20-minute mark.
• On April 25, 2008, the Christian Science Monitor published an article in which I laid out some of the big-picture arguments of the book. That web-page also has a link to audio of a 9-minute conversation I had about the book with my CSM editor, Josh Burek.