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2025 Events

2/25 The Conservative Environmentalist
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4/3 The Global US and the War on Gaza: America, Israel,  and the Politics of Religious Dissent
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2024 Events

11/12 After the Election: Now What?
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10/25 Panel Discussion on the 2024 Election
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9/26 Asylum and the Changing Face of Immigration
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9/5 From Pen to Perception: The Power of Political Cartoons
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4/11 Debate on student free speech
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3/21 “The State of Women’s Health in Wisconsin”
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2/15 “The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance.”
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2023 Events

4/20 The Politics of Resentment
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4/11 Cancel Culture: Accountability or Censorship?
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3/2 Marijuana: Legalize it or Criticize it?
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11/14 How to Limit the Impact of Big Money on Our Elections
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10/26 Political Theory of the Digital Age:
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9/19 “I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975”
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2022 Events

11/17 After the Election: Now What?
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10/18 US Indigenous Right to Vote:Challenges Today Reflect Those Of The Past
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10/27 Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges
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9/28 Local Politics: Challenges and Opportunities
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4/19 Immigration and Citizenship After COVID 19
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4/12 Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
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3/29 Civic Virus: Why Polarization is a Misdiagnosis
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3/10 Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
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3/8 The Russia-Ukraine War
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2021 Events

11/10 Judy Heumann: Our Fight for Disability Rights
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11/3 Redistricting and its Impact on Voting
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10/13 The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement
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10/7 A Discussion with Alex Lasry, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate
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9/29 Saving the Wisconsin Paper Industry: Panel Discussion of Book, “One Day Stronger”
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9/8 Preventing the Next Pandemic with Steve Galster
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4/14 Public Policy and College Students: A Student-Led Discussion
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4/8 Voices of Myanmar
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3/17 Covering the Military: Exploring the Challenges of Military Journalism
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2/25 Why Peace is Possible: Exploring the Dimensions of Huma Kindness in the Midst of Violence
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2/9 Can Islam Coexist with Democracy?
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2020 Events

11/20 After the Election: Now What?
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9/30 The Right to Vote: Past, Present and Future
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9/17 Racial Justice in the Courts – South and North
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2019 Events

4/25 Racial Disparities in the Judicial System
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4/17 Protesting: Provocative, Patriotic, Pertinent
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4/1 “From the Tea Party to Environmental Sustainability: How Divisive Politics Launched a New Movement” a presentation by Benji Backer
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2/20 Mental Health Needs of Young Americans: Changes for Public Policy
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1/21 “Leadership Through the Eyes of MLK” a presentation by Samuel A. Alford
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2018 Events

11/21 “Memories of the Holocaust” presentation by Steven Russek
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9/18 Debate Between Joan Ballweg and Frank Buress
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9/6 Bridging the Political Divide: How We Can Advance Civil Discourse
4/17 Where Do We Stand: Big Data
4/3 Addressing Local Environmental Issues
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3/21 Women in Politics
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3/6 Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box
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2/27 Slave trade in Libya
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2/8 Personality and Political Attitudes
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1/15 Hate Crime: It’s Real
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2017 Events

11/27 U.S. Foreign Aid: Does it Really Work?
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11/14 Where Do We Stand: North Korea
11/9 How to Engage in Civil Dialogue with Those With Whom We Disagree Politically
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10/24 A View from Europe of Donald Trump
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10/23 Civil Rights at Ripon in the 1960s and Today
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10/2 Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats
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9/22 Art as Action: Politics and the Creative Impulse
9/6 U.S. Russia Relations: Past and Present
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9/5 U.S. Foreign Policy: Past and Present Trends
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4/11 Where Do We Stand: A Student Discussion on Major Trump Policies
4/5 Lobbying and the Trump Administration: Draining the Swamp?
3/27 Erin Ryan: Women in Numbers Keynote Address
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3/7 Free Speech on Campus
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3/7 International Relations Career Day with RC DC Alumni
2/20 Redistricting & the Future of Congress
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2/7 The Crisis of Human Trafficking Globally and in Wisconsin
1/26 MLK Week Keynote: Richard Ford
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2016 Events

11/28 Where Do We Stand: Gun Control
11/15 What Happened in the 2016 Election?
11/3 Where Do We Stand: Climate Change, Domestic Terrorism, and College Affordability
11/1 Matters of State: Mathematics of Power in the Electoral College
10/27 Discussion with Senator Luther Olsen
10/25 Reforming U.S. Immigration Policy
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10/13 The Current State of Nuclear Nonproliferation
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10/10 The 2016 Elections and Money in Politics and Policymaking
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10/5 Presentation by Rep. Glenn Grothman
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10/3 Higher Education and Moving Wisconsin Forward: A Discussion with Rep. Joan Ballweg
9/28 The Media and the 2016 Elections
9/22 Discussion with Brian Smith, Candidate for Wisconsin’s 14th Senate District
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9/20 Presentation by Dr. Sarah Lloyd, Democratic Candidate for WI’s 6th Congressional District
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9/15 Democracy in Africa: Challenges and Hopes
9/12 The Current Political Situation in Syria
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4/19 Beyond the Left-Right Divide
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4/13 Where Do We Stand: Styria
4/8 The Financial and Ethical Dimensions of End-of-Life Care
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4/4 The Future of the Republican Party
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1/28 Where Do We Stand: Minimum Wage
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1/28 Police-Community Relations

2015 Events

12/8 The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama
11/8 Where Do We Stand?
11/4 Discussion with Dr. Herve Tchumkam
11/2 You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Presidents, Promises and Foreign Policy
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10/13 Obergefell vs. Hodges Decision and Discussion
10/2 Presentation by Rick Estberg
9/30 Iran Nuclear Deal
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9/29 Community Health Care Services in Honduras
Where Do We Stand:Political Spectrum
3/4 Heinz Seitinger, Former Minister of Trade for the Republic of Austria
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3/11 Hon. Newt Gingrich
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4/1 Discussion with State Supreme Court Candidate James P. Daley
4/8 Discussion with Mark Shields of ‘PBS News Hour’
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4/15 Presentation by Stanley Payne, Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

2014 Events

10/1 Conversation with Democratic Congressional Candidate Mark Harris
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11/24 Discussion with Congressman Tom Petri
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