Special Events

Three Weeks Out: Competing Visions for America
October 15, 2012
2:00 PM Eggers Public Events Room
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Self Among Selves: Emotion and the Common Life Conference and Graduate Symposium
September 30, 2011
8:00-4:00 Public Events Room
 Self Among Selves: Emotion and the Common Life 

Redistricting New York: 2012
October 19, 2011
4:00 Maxwell Auditorium
Costas Panagopoulos, Director, Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy, Fordham University

As New York lawmakers take up their decennial redistricting challenge in 2012, citizens have greater opportunities to have input into the process. Please join us for a conversation with experts and activists that will demystify the redistricting process and its implications as well as a demonstration of a freely-available and user-friendly software platform that enables citizens and groups to design districts and to submit them for consideration to the state legislature.

“The 2012 Elections, One Year Out”
November 14, 2011
4:00 Maxwell Auditorium
Join Peter Brown, Assistant Director of the widely-respected Quinnipiac Poll, for a conversation about the election outlook. Who's likely to be the Republican presidential nominee? Which potential nominee would be the strongest against President Obama? Regardless of what happens in the race for the White House, could the Republicans take complete control of Congress? What's bugging "Joe and Jill Average," and how are they likely to take out their frustrations at the voting booth? Who are the voters and the states that matter most?

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