When you attend an academic seminar at The Washington Center, you’ll do much more than read books and sit in a classroom. Washington, D.C., offers myriad opportunities to learn from the people and the institutions that affect the very issues you’ll be studying.

Over the course of the seminar, you’ll get to interact with the men and women who are shaping national policy, leading international discussions and making news. In the past, speakers have included:

“My Washington, D.C., experience has given me the initiative to become more involved not only politically in my community but in other aspects as well.”
Tracy Tomlinson, University of San Diego

Gandhi once said: ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’ I think this seminar helped exemplify this statement, giving each and every one of us the necessary tools to be that change.”
Joseph Vithayathil, Honors College at Miami Dade College

The Washington Center’s Academic Seminars will help you explore and form informed opinions on the major topics of the day. The schedule of seminars changes from year to year; those scheduled for 2011 are listed here. Details for Campaign 2012 - a special series focusing on the race for the presidency - will be announced next year.

Unique perspectives, important issues, insider’s access and distinguished speakers form the basis of every academic seminar available only through The Washington Center. There are even more great reasons to come to Washington, though.