2023 Events
2022 Events
Housing Solutions: What's Next?
Eyeing The Bench: A Supreme Court Panel
Kate Andersen Brower: Presidents' Day Celebration
Luis Avila: Frederik Meijer Lecture Series
Mary K. Hoodhood: Wheelhouse Talk
Dennis Rasmussen: Fears of a Setting Sun
Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron: Frederik Meijer Lecture Series
Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz: Veterans Day Celebration
Dr. Mary Frances Berry: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemoration
2022 Election Panel
Peter C. Cook Leadership Academy Alumni Panel
John Kowal & Wilfred Codrington III: Constitution Day Celebration
Hal Brands: Russia, China, & Authoritarians
Midwestern History Conference
Hidden Wounds of War Conference
Wayman Britt: Peter C. Cook Leadership Academy Graduation
Panel Discussion: Democracy and Religion
Dr. Terri Givens: Bridging Divides - Encouraging Dialogue with Radical Empathy
COL Ralph W. Hauenstein's Birthday Celebration
Lindsay Chervinsky: Presidents' Day Celebration
Graci Harkema: Authentic Leadership from Within
Elijah Anderson: Black in White Space
2021 Events
2020 Events
2019 Events
H. W. Brands: Our First Civil War
Kasey Pipes: The Resurrection of Richard Nixon - Our Elder Statesman
Jeffrey Rosen: The Future of the Constitution
Tasha Blackmon: Championing a Community of Care
America's "New Normal" Panel Discussion: Navigating a Global Pandemic
Jon Meacham: The Soul of America
First Sergeant Matt Eversmann: Veterans Day Celebration
Ari Weinzweig: The Power of Beliefs in Business
Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf: Jefferson, Slavery, and the Moral Imagination
Carl Szabo and Josh Hammer: Does Big Tech Equal Big Trouble?
Election Panel 2020: Progressive/Conservative Summit
H.W. Brands: Comedian-in-Chief: What Presidents’ Humor Says About Them, and About Us
Progressive/Conservative Summit: What's Now and What's Next?
Dr. Eva Feldman: The Leadership Thread Between Research and Practice
General Wesley Clark: COl Ralph Hauenstein Fellowship Presentation
Peter C. Cook Leadership Academy Alumni Panel: Leading at the Intersection
Paula Monopoli: Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment
Diane Griffin: Leading for Growth
Akhil Reed Amar: Constitution Day Celebration
Cook Leadership Academy Alumni Panel
Searching For Deeper Common Ground
American Institutions: Love Them or Leave Them?
Chris Wallace: Greatest Generation Day
President Thomas J. Haas: A Laker Leader for a Lifetime
Midwest History Conference
Amity Shlaes: The Great Society and its Enemies
Hidden Wounds of War 2019
Ronald C. White: Lincoln in Private
Climate Change Happens. Now What? A Panel Debate on Climate Change (The 9th Annual Progressive/Conservative Summit)
Finding the Lost Region V
Hidden Wounds of War Conference: Moral Injury
Pia White and Brian Hauenstein, moderated by Gleaves Whitney: Total War- American and Japanese Perspectives on World War II
Lynne Olson: Chasing Allies
Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett: The Constitution, Elections, and Democracy
Steve Luxenberg: Plessy v. Ferguson - Race in American Memory
President Philomena V. Mantella: Peter C. Cook Leadership Academy Graduation
Juan R. Olivarez: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
H.W. Brands: The Zealot and the Emancipator
Michael Beschloss: Presidential Character - Finding the X-Factor
Asted Herndon and Lisa Desjardins: The Constitution. Elections, and Democracy
Danielle Allen: Equality and the American Experience
David Eisenhower: Eisenhower, Hauenstein, and the Men and Woman Who Saved Civilization
Hank Meijer and David Roll: Arthur Vandenberg and General Marshall
Kelsey Perdue: Local Leadership from Global Experience
Jeffery Rosen: The Constitution, Elections, and Democracy
Bill Barker: Presidents' Day Celebration - Man and Legacy
Chief Isaiah Mckinnon: Policing from the Inside
2018 Events
2017 Events
2016 Events
Christy S. Coleman: How Shall We Remember?
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jason Riley: Race and the American Dream
Provost Gayle R. Davis: A Lifetime of Leadership Lessons
H.W. Brands: The Golden Age of the Senate
Julie Metty Bennett: Leadership and the Environment
Election Panel 2016
Tammy Born: Leadership and Medicine
H.W. Brands: The General vs the President
Ronald C. White: American Ulysses
Eric Liu: Leadership and Citizen Empowerment Across the Political Divide
Stephen Shedletzky: Start with Why
Gleaves Whitney: Election 2016 and Beyond - What is to be Done?
Progressive/Conservative Summit 2018
Martha Nussbaum: Anger and Revolutionary Justice
Akhil Reed Amar: The Constitution Today
Robert E. Quinn: Leadership & Positive Organizations
Dr. Barbara Kellerman: Leading for an Uncertain Future
Can We Find Common Ground Between Israel and Palestine?
Hidden Wounds of War
Conservative/Progressive Summit 2017
Finding the Lost Region 2016: Second Midwestern History Conference
Finding the Lost Region IV: Fourth Annual Midwestern History Conference
Hidden Wounds of War Conference 2017
The Hidden Wounds of War 2016
Dr. Debra Furr-Holden: Leading for Public Health in Flint
Finding the Lost Region: 2017 Third Annual Midwestern History Conference
Peter C. Cook Leadership Academy Graduation and Keynote by ADM James M. Loy
Hank Meijer and Richard Norton Smith: The Mackinac Conference at 75
Women and Leadership Conference
Heather K. Gerken: Federalism in the Twenty-First Century
David Brooks and Ronald C. White: Character and the Presidency
Joe Jones: Empowering Grand Rapids
Debating the Constitution
George H. Nash: American Conservatism and Populism in the Age of Trump
Hank Meijer’s Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century
Kathy Crosby: Leading To Build Goodwill
Dan Varner: Committed Leadership in Detroit
Gleaves Whitney: Common Ground?
Jim Keane: Designing Leadership
2015 Events
2014 Events
2013 Events
Louis Menand: The Marketplace of Ideas
H.W. Brands: The Prez- Machiavelli Visits the White House
Olympia Snowe - Fighting for Common Ground: How to Fix the Stalemate in Congress
Character and the Presidency with Keynote with Richard Norton Smith
Barbara Pickut: Wheelhouse Talks
Jason Duncan - John F. Kennedy: The Spirit of Cold War Liberalism
Mike Jandernoa: The Wheelhouse Talks
Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay
Amity Shlaes: Coolidge
Evan Thomas: Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Coffee House Debates: Funding for Higher Education
Wheelhouse Talks: Michael DeWilde
Helen Fisher: The Biology of Leadership
The Rule of Law: President Ford and the Constitution
The Conservative Mind at 60
The Wheelhouse Talks: Megan Sall
Wheelhouse Talks: Cook Leadership Academy Alumni Panel
Coffee House Debates: What Good is Government Anyway?
Bruce Frohnen: The Constitution and Religion: Allies, Adversaries, or Something Else?
Herb Meyer: What in the World is Going on? A Global Intelligence Briefing
Cook Leadership Academy: Leader Lens Fall 2013
Screening of Best of Enemies
Election Year 2014: A Common Ground Panel Discussion
American Conversations - Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
The Wheelhouse Talks: Charles Pazdernik
Constitution Day Discussion Panel
Wheelhouse Talks: Ann Vidro & Menda Wright
Awarding of the Ralph W. Hauenstein Fellowship and William E. Simon Lecture
Donald Markle: The Fox and the Hound- The Birth of American Spying
Paul Woodruff: The Ajax Dilemma
PTSD Conference: The Hidden Wounds of War
Rick DeVos: Wheelhouse Talks
Wheelhouse Talks: Mary Buikema
Finding the Lost Region: Rediscovering the Midwest
COL Ralph W. Hauenstein Fellowship & President Ford’s 101st Birthday
American Conversations: Is Common Ground Possible?
The Education of Gerald R. Ford
Have the Liberal Arts Become Too Politicized? A Meeting of Minds, Left and Right
An Evening With Three Presidents
Cornel West and Robert P. George: American Conversations
Ralph Hauenstein Discusses Leadership during WWII
Why Progressive? Why Conservative? The Debate
Former Michigan Governor John Engler visits the Hauenstein Center
Rick Atkinson: The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945
Wheelhouse Talks: Leann Arkema
Andrew Kaufman: American Conversations
Common Ground Workshop: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
American Conversations - H.W. Brands: What Makes A President Great?
Hilary Snell: Wheelhouse Talks
Common Ground Workshop: Working with a Team of Rivals
Wheelhouse Talks: Troy Evans
Rosalynn Bliss: Wheelhouse Talks
A Celebration of Former First Ladies Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter
Madeleine Albright
Coffee House Debates: Is Citizens United Good for American Democracy?
The Hidden Wounds of War: A Community Response
Reagan’s Most Important Foreign Policy Decision
Alfred Mele: American Conversations
International Women’s Day Celebration: Let Me Sow Hope
Wheelhouse Talks: Kerri Reinbold
Judge Sara Smolenski: Wheelhouse Talks
Michael Hyacinthe: Wheelhouse Talks
Leader Lens: Winter 2014
Deborah Mower: Civility
Kelly LeCoy: Wheelhouse Talks
American Nations: Colin Woodard
Common Ground Workshop: Speaking Truth To Power
Coffee House Debates: Should Michigan Raise the Minimum Wage?
Mayor George Heartwell: Wheelhouse Talks
2012
2011
2010
American Conversations - Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power By Jon Meacham
Learning to Lead in a War Zone: Joshua Lunger
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminar: Meeting for Leading
Arthur Vandenberg & The Lost Art Of Bipartisan Statesmanship
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminars: The Leadership Life Cycle
Luncheons with Leaders: Bing Goei
Wheelhouse Talks: Fred Antczak
JFK Through Jackie’s Eyes: Jason Duncan
George Bush: Decision Points
Cook Leadership Academy: Leader Lens
Wheelhouse Talks: Luisa Schumacher
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminar: A More Powerful You
American Conversations: Election 2012 - A Watershed in American History?
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminars: Olivia Dorgan
Luncheons with Leaders: Chuck Wilbur
Wheelhouse Talks: Yang Kim
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminars: Are You Happy?
John Hockenberry: On the Tea Party and Election Tuesday
The Untold Story of the U.S. Constitution
The Most Amazing American Founder: Benjamin Franklin
Rosalynn Carter Ending the Mental Health Crisis: Panel
Wheelhouse Talks: Bill Holsinger-Robinson
Wheelhouse Talks: Mark Murray
Luncheons with Leaders: Ed Dobson - Tough Faith
Is Christianity Good for American Politics?
Wheelhouse Talks: Gretchen Minnhaar
A Fresh Start? Constitutional Convention for Michigan.
Wheelhouse Talks: Rick Devos
Benjamin Franklin: Leader Extraordinaire
Not the Axis of Evil: Dr. Omid Safi
Wheelhouse Talks: Mayra Martinez
The Untold Story of the Constitutional Convention
Ask Gleaves Seminar: Leadership Life Cycle
War President: James Madison – Don Hickey
John Adams: Fortunate Son of Liberty
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminar: Are You a Leader?
Ask Gleaves Leadership Seminar: Leverage Crisis
Inside the Nixon White House: Ed Cox
Presidency and Philanthropy Conference
The Big Scrum: How TR Saved Football
H.W. Brands - American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
Luncheons with Leaders: William Noakes - Love and Leadership
Pocketbook Predictions for the 2012 Election: Patrick Anderson
H.W. Brands - American Ulysses: The Journey of General Grant
Michigan 3rd District Republican Debate 2010
Wheelhouse Talks: Andy Dillon
Luncheons with Leaders: Christina Keller
Michigan 3rd District Democratic Debate 2010
Wheelhouse Talks: Marsha Rappley
What Happened to the Future? Lessons from Ancient Athens about Leadership and Its Limits
Eye of the Warrior: Stories From The Vietnam War
Building Your Innate Leadership Skills: H James Williams
COL Ralph W. Hauenstein Fellowship Award Presentation 2011
Why We Still Like Ike
Lyndon B. Johnson: Gleaves Whitney
Reagan’s Heroes: A 100th Birthday Celebration
K.V. Lacks on Leadership
Luncheons with Leaders: Jon White
Edward Balog on Leadership
Democracy’s Greatest Leaders: Lincoln & Churchill
Sustainability Summit: Sustainability and the 2010 Election
Luncheons with Leaders: Mary Dailey Brown
Leadership Workshop: Goal Setting, Action Planning
Roundtable Discussion on Juan Cole Presentation
War and Peace: Obama’s America and the Muslim World
Leadership Workshop: Leading Big
Leadership Lessons from ‘AppleGoo'
Russia & the ‘Near Abroad’
Leadership Workshop: Motivation & Reinforcement
Annette Kirk on Leadership
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography - Dr. Ron C. White Jr.
John Truscott on Leadership
Team Leadership: Brian Flanagan
Health Care Reform Summit
Roberts Family on Leadership
2009
2008
2007
Dr. Steven Ealy on Leadership
Presidential Powers and the Bush Administration: Panel III
Bernard Taylor on Leadership
Michigan’s Defining Moment: Community Conversations
Presidential Powers and the Bush Administration: Panel II
Remember the Crossings: Verene A. Shepherd
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
Presidential Powers and the Bush Administration: Luncheon
Scholar in Residence: Richard Norton Smith – Day 4
Strenuous Life Leadership
Presidential Powers and the Bush Administration: Keynote
Scholar in Residence: Richard Norton Smith – Day 3
Hauenstein Center Policy Roundtable
Hilary Snell on Leadership
Scholar in Residence: Richard Norton Smith – Day 2
What in the World is Going On? An Intelligence Briefing for GVSU
The First Thing You’ll Notice About Leaders
Scholar in Residence: Richard Norton Smith – Day 1
From Cold War to War on Terror
Bush’s Domestic Policies
George Nash: GVSU’s 3rd Annual Constitution Day
Nothing to Fear? Debating Today’s Economic Recovery
State of the National Security State
TR In Michigan: Theodore & Tweed Roosevelt
Brian Domitrovic on ‘Econoclasts’
Bush’s Staff & Cabinet
H.W. Brands: Franklin Roosevelt - The Life and Times
Amity Shlaes and Jonathan Alter: The Great Depression
Presidential Powers Q & A
Bill Barker: Meet Thomas Jefferson
Michael Flanagan
Evolution of the Bush Presidency
American Conversations: Robert Caro
The Right to Rise: Brian Flanagan
Russ Mawby on Education & Leadership
The Illative Sense
Peter Wege on Leadership
A Constitution Day Event
Mock Presidential Election Roundup
Believing in the American Dream: Abraham Lincoln
Election ’08’s Impact on Michigan
Dr. Gayle Davis on Leadership
Declaration of Energy Independence
LAF Welcome Mixer 2009
Economic Crisis: Causes & Cures
The Kitchen Debate: Nixon & Khrushchev
Elaine Didier on Leadership
Saving the Jews: FDR and the Holocaust
Surviving the Financial Meltdown
Road Scholars: Robert Rosen
Lincoln & Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
Meeting of the Leadership Academy: Chris Barbee
Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the Public Role
Steven Ford on Leadership
McCain or Obama? Michigan Debates Decision 2008
Barack Obama and the Lessons of Antiquity
Dr. Thomas J. Haas on Leadership
H. W. Brands on Leadership
Election 2008: A Pivotal Race
Rev. Robert A. Sirico on Leadership
Leadership Academy Opening Retreat
President Obama’s First 100 Days: A Hauenstein Center Debate
Gerald Ford: A Hero & Leader
Richard Norton Smith on the Hauenstein Center
America on the Road to Defeat: An Election Without Foreign Policy
J. Rufus Fears on the Hauenstein Center
Gerald Ford’s Leadership
Obama in History
Why George Washington Matters
Road Scholars: H. W. Brands
The Electoral College: An Election Year Debate
Hank Meijer on Leadership
Atz Kilcher
Lincoln vs. Douglas
Chico Daniels on Leadership
What Made Lincoln Great?
Hitchens vs. Hitchens: Faith, Politics & War
Maribeth Wardrop
Road Scholars: Sam Goodyear on John Adams
Abraham Lincoln and the Pursuit of Happiness
H.W. Brands: Scholar in Residence
Abraham Lincoln, the Middle East, and the Beginnings of American Empire
Jefferson and Adams: A Play by Howard Ginsberg
The First Thing You’ll Notice About Lincoln
Birgit Klohs on Leadership
American Indians and the Great Emancipator
Ike’s Final Battle: Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality
An Abraham Lincoln Tribute
Richard Breon on Leadership
De(a)dication: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
Lincolnian Literature
Three Heroic Journeys: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Myth
Abraham Lincoln: A Full Measure of Greatness
Abraham Lincoln on Leadership
2006
2005
2004
Richard Norton Smith Greatest Hits: Day 4
Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970’s: Yanek Mieczkowski
Religion and the Presidency
Richard Norton Smith Greatest Hits: Day 3
War and Empire: The Conference with H.W. Brands
Theodore Roosevelt: Energy, Courage, Vision with Dr. John Chalberg
Richard Norton Smith Greatest Hits: Day 2
War and Empire: The Conference
Cold Warriors: US Presidents after the Second World War
Richard Norton Smith Greatest Hits: Day 1
War and Empire: The Debate
The 1932 Election and the Fall of Herbert Hoover: George Nash
Henry Kissinger: Where Do We Go From Here?
War and Empire
Andrew Jackson and the American Revolution: H.W. Brands
Jefferson, Bush, and U.S. Wars in the Middle East
60 Years Later: Arthur Vandenberg and the Birth of the United Nations - Gillian Martin Sorensen
Gerald R. Ford's Most Courageous Decision: Pardoning Nixon
Who Is An American?
Honoring Senator Arthur Vandenberg: Statue Dedication
Richard Nixon: Vietnam and Shame of Watergate
Hamilton Lecture Series: The Man Who Made Modern America – Hank Meijer
Reagan’s Path to Victory: Kiron Skinner
Choosing the Next President: Pocketbook Predictions
Hamilton Lecture Series: The Man Who Made Modern America – Gleaves Whitney
Churchill and the Great Republic: James Billington
William B. Allen: George Washington: On the Wrong Side of the Slavery Issue?
Hamilton Lecture Series: The Man Who Made Modern America – James Bratt
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
A Day with Eisenhower
Hamilton Lecture Series: The Man Who Made Modern America – John Pinheiro
Who was Herbert Hoover? The Political Odyssey of a Misunderstood Man
Hamilton Lecture Series: The Man Who Made Modern America – Jason Duncan
Calvin Coolidge: More than Two Words
Intelligence Was My Line
Laos: The Untold Story
2003
2002
2001
The Wartime President of the Greatest Generation: Dr. Burton Folsom
The President’s Sharing of Intelligence and Information
Lincoln Lecture Series: Richard Norton Smith
The American President Carries the Burden of the World: Robert Dalek
The President’s Use of Intelligence and Information
Lincoln Lecture Series: Allen Guelzo
George Bush and the 21st-Century Presidency: Dr. Gary Gregg
Lincoln Lecture Series: Douglas Wilson
George Bush and the 21st-Century Presidency: Roger B. Porter
Declaration of Independence Exhibit: Garry Wills
