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2008-2009 Program
Fall 2008 / Spring 2009

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EVENT

DATE

LOCATION & TIME

Fall 2008 Events
The Capitol Steps

Event co-sponsored with MAC.

*This is a ticketed event restricted to the Muhlenberg community
9/3/08 Memorial Hall
7:00 p.m.

Student-faculty luncheon with Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar, Dr. Robert Musil: "Why Students are Ready Now to Lead Us”

Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar Program

9/8/08 Seegers 111 & 112
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar, Dr. Robert Musil: “Hope for a Heated Planet: How We Can Stop Global Climate Change”

Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar Program

9/9/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “Multiple Journeys: The Life and Work of  Gómez-Peña”

Co-Sponsored with the Theatre/Dance Department, the Office of Multicultural Life, and the Art Department.

9/11/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:30 p.m.

Performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “El Mexorist 4: Last Mexican Standing ”

Co-Sponsored with the Theatre/Dance Department, the Office of Multicultural Life, and the Art Department.

9/12/08

Baker Theatre
Trexler Pavilion
8:00 p.m.

Peter Beinart: “Foreign Policy Issues and the 2008 Election”

Related Event Sponsored by Lectures & Forums Forum program.

9/16/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

William A. Gamson: “Elections as a Media Framing Contest”

Related Event Co-Sponsored by Lectures & Forums Forum program and the Department of Communication.

9/22/08

Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

Peter Brookes: “It’s NOT Just the Economy, Stupid!  Why Foreign Policy is Important in ‘08”

9/24/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.
Biobus Tour 9/30/08  

All Politics Is Local Community Panel

Panel speakers include: Ann MacManus (Executive Director Second Harvest Food Bank), Vicky Kistler (Director Allentown Health Bureau), Christopher Kocher (Executive Director Wildlands Conservancy) and Janis Riisch (Executive Director Good Schools PA).

10/2/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

Public Activism Workshop

10/4/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
10:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Gary C. Jacobson: “The Republican Party & the Legacy of the George W. Bush Administration”

Co-Sponsored by the Lectures and Forums Forum Program.

10/6/08
Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

Terry Madonna: "Election 2008: The Pennsylvania Perspective"

Related Event Sponsored by Lectures & Forums Forum program.
10/13/08

Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

Sidney Milkis, Shelley Wilcox and Lisa Bowleg: “Politics, Ethics & Citizenship in 2008: What Matters & Why? A Panel of Experts Responds”

Related Event Sponsored by Lectures and Forums Forum Program and the Department of Political Science.

10/20/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
7:00 p.m.

Voter Education Forum

Co-sponsored by EnAcT, College Democrats, College Republicans, and MIRC; Representatives from the Obama and McCain campaigns will answer questions from a Political Science Department panel and students on key election issues.

10/21/08 Miller Forum,
Moyer Hall
8:00 p.m.

Installation/Performance by Sheryl Oring: “What I Wish to Say”

Co-sponsored by the Lectures & Forums Forum program.

10/27/08

Parent's Plaza
(rain location: Seegers Lobby)
10:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Election Day & Election Night Party 11/4/08  

ON-GOING EVENTS
(On-Going & Recurring throughout the Fall 2008 Semester)


Fireside Chats: Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano

Ongoing –
October 15-16
and 22-23
Specific
times/locations TBA
Campus Soap Box

This is an opportunity for individuals of the campus community to voice their thoughts on issues relevant to the fall election.

October 29, 30, 31, and November 3, 4

Parents’ Plaza
(rain location:
Seegers Lobby)

Fired Up Films

Film Titles and Talk-back facilitators TBA

Related Event sponsored by Fired-Up Films.
On-going
Dates TBA
Times/Places TBA


ADDITIONAL EVENTS TBA
(Scheduling in progress and tentative)

Poll Worker Program

Election Day,
November 4

 

Post-Election Faculty & Student Panel

Co-sponsored by the Lectures and Forums Forum program.

Between November 4 and November 25 Date/Time TBA

 

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