On March 23, 2020, Susan Collins will be giving the 2020 Jack Paynter Lecture at James Madison College, Michigan State University, on the Spartans and their political order.

The Chartwell Lecture Series at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, a JMC partner program, will be hosting Klaus Larres for a talk on Winston Churchill and the tensions of the Cold War.

On November 21, 2019, the Kinder Institute will be hosting Aaron Sheehan-Dean to speak on the law's treatment of civilians during wartime, particularly during the Civil War in Missouri.

The Union League of Anchorage at the University of Alaska, a JMC partner program, will host John Maurer for a Chartwell Lecture on Woodrow Wilson and the Great War.

On April 24, 2019, Tamara Cofman Wittes will be speaking at the University of Puget Sound on Middle Eastern democracy and how the U.S. should manage its relations with autocratic regimes.

On February 7, Bruce Jentleson of Duke University will examine the history of American foreign policy and how it can be applied to current key issues in a lecture at the University of Puget Sound.