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The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) is an entirely student-run lecture series sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University. First launched in 1998, the Symposium has become a hallmark of the University and greater Baltimore community, with attendance reaching up to 1,000 people at some recent events. The Symposium runs each year over the course of the Spring semester, as a counterpart to the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Bound together by a unique, poignant theme, each year's series typically features 6-7 events, including a Presidential Lecture and the newly launched Anne Smedinghoff Memorial Lecture. The 2014 Symposium was entitled "Confronting Global Dissonance: The Balance Between Idealism and Realism," and was organized by Rosellen Grant, Nikhil Gupta, and William Szymanski. Plans for the 2015 Symposium are currently underway. == Background == In fall 1997, a group of undergraduate students recognized the need for a forum to discuss and debate global affairs and international issues. Merging the existing Woodrow Wilson International Studies Symposium and International Studies Forum Symposium, students formally created the “Symposium on Foreign Affairs.” Their first series launched in Spring 1998 with ten events, nearly all of which featured foreign ambassadors and Maryland officials. The Symposium quickly expanded over the next few years, hosting notables that include Sonia Gandhi, Shimon Peres, and Noam Chomsky. In 2002, the name of the series changed permanently from “Symposium on Foreign Affairs” to the “Foreign Affairs Symposium” (FAS for short). The Symposium shifted away from individual speakers, instead hosting panels that covered current, controversial topics ranging from drug wars in Colombia to the war in Iraq. Overtime, the series returned to inviting individual notable leaders to speak and then engage students in discussion. During this time, symposium directors launched the flagship Presidential Lecture in partnership with the President’s Office. This annual event recognizes one speaker for their unique leadership and expertise in their field, and is fully funded by the President’s Office. Since then, the symposium has undergone rapid growth each year, continuing to expand in size and reach.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web1.johnshopkins.edu/fas/?page_id=381 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foreign Affairs Symposium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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