The 2025 Hagel Lecture: America’s Role in the World

Please join us for the fourth lecture of our annual lecture series, a forum to amplify and encourage greater civic participation in critical discussions. Chuck Hagel, the 24th U.S. Secretary of Defense, and keynote guest William Burns, CIA Director (2013-2017), will discuss challenges facing American national security and U.S. foreign policy.

The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Robert Pape, Director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), and will be followed by a Q&A session from the audience.

Doors open at 4:30pm; Lecture begins at 5pm

Location: David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago 1201 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637

Street parking is available on the Midway

Tickets are general admission and registrations does not guarantee a seat.

The event will be livestreamed. If you are planning to watch the livestream, please register for "Livestream Only."

Host or Publisher Chicago Project on Security and Threats