Alumni College: Burma/US Foreign Policy Symposium honoring Burt Levin

Carleton College and the Department of Political Science lost a dear friend and colleague when Ambassador Burt Levin, passed in October at age 86. Burt taught part-time in the Political Science Department at Carleton as the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy from 1994 until the fall of 2013.  Often co-teaching with legendary Professor Roy Grow, students flocked to their classes to hear accounts of Burt's long career in the U.S. State Department at embassies and consulates in Taipei, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and finally as the Ambassador to Burma from 1987-1990.   We honored Burt's memory and contribution to our community with a discussion of of contemporary issues in Burmese politics and US-Burma relations. Leading the conversation was former Ambassador to Japan and to the Philippines Michael Armacost '58, Col. John Haseman, U.S. Army-Retired, who served in Burma with Ambassador Levin, Professor Penelope Prime, clinical professor of international business at the Institute of International Business at Georgia State University and director of the Master of International Business program, and Associate Professor Of Political Science Tun Myint, a specialist on the politics of Burma.