Seminar Speakers, Winter/Spring 2008
The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Iconoclastic Political Reporting"
Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Salon and The Atlantic; author, "God Is Not Great" Video excerpts on
Reason.TV
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"Reporting Federal Election Commission Finance Records"
Bob Biersack, FEC Press Officer, and Patricia Klein Young, Asst. Staff Director for Public Disclosure |
"Election Administration and
Election Finance Law"
Jan Witold Baran and Robert Bauer, America's top Republican and Democratic election lawyers |
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"Presidential Campaign Contenders: February 2008"
[A class discussion] |
"Campaign Management"
Brian Lunde, Democratic manager, and
Ladonna Lee, Republican manager |
"American Political Parties"
Terry Michael, former press secretary,
Democratic Nat. Com.,
and director, Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Congressional Party Committees and Campaigns"
David Wasserman and Jennifer Duffy, The Cook Political Report |
"Voting in America:
Myths
and Realities"
Curtis Gans, director,
Center for
the Study of the American Electorate |
"Strategic Communication
in Campaigns and Governance"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Major Donor Fund-Raising"
Debbie LeHardy, deputy finance director, Republican National Com. |
"Political Polling and Research"
Mark Blumenthal, editor and publisher, Pollster.com |
"Mail and
Internet
Fund-Raising"
Frank O'Brien, president, O'Brien McConnell and Pearson (Democratic) |
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"Paid Media in Campaigns"
Steve McMahon, McMahon Squier Lapp and Assoc. (Democratic consultants) |
"Politics: A Class Discussion"
Second of monthly wide-ranging discussions during the semester of political current events. |
"Presidential Politics:
Running for the Nomination"
Terry Michael, dir. of commun., 1988 Simon for President campaign |
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"Digital Politics"
David All, David All Group, and
William Beutler, New Media Strategies |
"Political Microtargeting "
Alex Gage, founder and president, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. |
"Congress: Party,
Politics, Policy"
Hon. Bill Frenzel, guest scholar, Brookings Institution, and former Congressman (R-MN) |
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"Presidential Politics:
Facing Voters in November"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"Presidential Leadership "
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"The Politics of Foreign Policy"
Will Marshall, president, Progressive Policy Institute
(with Leslie Picker, Univ. of Illinois) |
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"Could Obama Deliver Change?"
Jonathan Rauch, National Journal columnist, Brookings scholar, and author of "Government's End" |
"Interest Group Politics"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester (with appreciation to
Jonathan Rauch, for his great book) |
"Political Economics"
Russ Roberts, George Mason Univ. and EconTalk.org podcaster;
Chad Stone, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
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"Racial and Other Group Identity Politics:
Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Multi-Culturalism"
[a class discussion] |
"Interest Group Politics, A Case Example: Drug War Politics"
Kris Krane, director,
Students for Sensible Drug Policy |
"Religion and Politics"
Amy Sullivan, Nation editor, TIME, author of "The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap" |
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"The State of Our
Political Process, Parties,
Press
and Leadership"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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