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Media Advisory: Malcolm Nance, Counter Terrorism Expert and New York Times Best Selling Author to Speak at Dillard University

NEW ORLEANS--Malcolm Nance, author, counterterrorism and intelligence commentator, will speak at ​ Brain Food, The Dillard University President’s Lecture Series tomorrow, September 20, 2017.

WHO: Nance’s book “Defeating ISIS.” (2016) is on The New York Times Best Seller list. His most ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ recent book is “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 ​ ​ ​ Election.” Nance is a former Navy senior chief petty officer specializing in naval ​ cryptology. Nance served from 1981 to 2001, and was involved in numerous counter-terrorism, intelligence, and combat operations. He garnered expertise within the fields of intelligence and counterterrorism. Nance became an instructor in wartime and peacetime SERE, training Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrew how to survive as a prisoner of war.

WHEN & WHERE: Wednesday, September, 20, at 7 p.m. in Georges Auditorium in the Professional ​ ​ Schools & Sciences Building 2601 Gentilly Blvd. New Orleans, La. 70122

2017-2018 Brain Food Schedule

September 6, 2017 at 7 p.m. Issa Rae Creator of HBO’s Insecure ​ ​ ​ Lawless Memorial Chapel

September 20, at 7 p.m. Malcolm Nance Counterterrorism and intelligence consultant Georges Auditorium inside of Dillard University’s Professional Schools and Science Building

October 11, at 7 p.m. The Dayton Contemporary Dance Company ​ Samuel DuBois Cook Theater Seating is limited. RVSP Required November 14, at TBA “Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities,” ​ ​ a screening the film that’s directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson. ​

November 16, at 7 p.m. Justice Revius O. Ortique Jr., Lecture on Law and Society Angela Rye, CNN Contributor

A Brief History of the Dillard Presidential Lecture Series

Beginning with the University’s first official president, William Stuart Nelson in the 1930s, public intellectual discourse has been a part of Dillard’s heritage. In the 1950s, Albert Dent organized the Edwin R. Embree Memorial Lecture Series whose guests included Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jackie Robinson. Subsequently, Dillard presidents have assembled lectures that reflected their sensibilities. During Samuel DuBois Cook’s tenure, he established a lyceum series and built a fine arts center to provide a new venue for lectures, theater and music. Walter M. Kimbrough launched Brain Food in 2013, and has continued the tradition with speakers such as Michael Eric Dyson, Misty Copeland, Benjamin Crump and Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of Trayvon Martin.

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