Globalization Event: "Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling with the Ghosts of History", Thursday February 4th

Ambassador John Limbert's Lecture: "Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling with the Ghosts of History", Thursday February 4th

The History Department at North Carolina State University hosts:
Ambassador John Limbert, "Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History"

Thursday, February 4th
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
NCSU, Withers Hall, Room 232

John Limbert is the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Previous to this post, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy in August 2006, after retiring from the Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor.

Ambassador Limbert first joined the Foreign Service in 1973, and his overseas experience also included tours in Algeria, Djibouti, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan. Ambassador Limbert was president of the American Foreign Service Association (2004-2005) and Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (2000-2003). While serving as Ambassador, he was one of the first civilian officials to enter Baghdad in April 2003 with the Organization for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. Earlier he had been Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism in the U.S. State Department (2000); member of the State Department's Senior Seminar (1997-98); Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Conakry, Guinea (1994-97); and Director of Orientation at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute in Washington (1992-94).

Before joining the Foreign Service, he taught in Iran, both as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1964-66) and as an English instructor at Shiraz University (1969-72). He has written numerous articles on Middle Eastern subjects and has authored Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History (USIP Press, September 2009); Iran: At War with History (Westview Press, 1987); Shiraz in the Age of Hafez (University of Washington Press, 2004).

Ambassador Limbert graduated from the D.C. public schools and holds his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University, the last in History and Middle Eastern Studies.

Susanna Michele Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of History
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 8108
Raleigh, NC 27695-8108
Email: susanna_lee@ncsu.edu
Office: Withers 260
Phone: 919-513-2215