Frank Church historical photo 1976

Idaho Sen. Frank Church, shown here in this historical photo during his run for president in 1976, is the namesake for the Frank Church Institute at Boise State University.

 BSU Library Special Collections & Archives

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul will will be the keynote speaker at the 36th annual Frank Church Conference on Public Affairs on Oct. 14 at Boise State University, delivering an address titled “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American in Putin's Russia.”

The speech will start at 7 p.m. in the Jordan Ballroom of the Student Union Building; the conference will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. the same day in the Simplot Ballroom.

Hosted by BSU’s Frank Church Institute, the conference is free and open to the public. This year’s conference theme is “Democracy in an Age of Anxiety: Russian Intrusion, Chinese Confrontation, Populist Disruption.”

Conference speakers include Rob Berschinski, vice president of Human Rights First; James Kirchick, a visiting fellow with the Brookings Institution; and Irene Poetranto, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto. Other speakers include Boise State University President Marlene Tromp; Boise Mayor David Bieter; and Steven Feldstein, the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs at Boise State.

There’s more info about the conference available here online.

The Frank Church Institute was established in 1982; its mission is to promote civic engagement and understanding of public policy with focus on foreign relations. The institute is non-partisan.

Betsy Z. Russell is the Boise bureau chief and state capitol reporter for the Idaho Press and Adams Publishing Group. Follow her on Twitter at @BetsyZRussell.

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