Program on U.S. presidency to feature IU scholars
Prominent scholars and guests from Indiana University and the University of Kansas will lend their expertise to “The American Presidency: The Glorious Burden Uncovered,” a lifelong learning program to be held Washington, D.C. this fall.
 
Sponsored by the IU School of Continuing Studies, IU Alumni Association, and Smithsonian Associates, the program will explore the most powerful office in the world.

“While previous programs we have developed with the Smithsonian Associates have included many government experts and Washington, D.C., area professors, this year we plan to build on that and include the scholarship of our own Indiana University faculty,” said School of Continuing Studies Dean Daniel Callison.

IU presenters will include  

Lee Hamilton, director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University; president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and former vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, member of the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, and 34-year congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Marjorie Hershey, professor in the IU Department of Political Science; author of three books and numerous articles on political campaigns and debates, elections, journalism, and politics; director of the Leadership, Ethics, and Social Action program at IU Bloomington; and recipient of the 2001 and 2007 Trustees’ Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.

James Madison, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor in the IU Department of History; author of numerous books and articles on twentieth-century, Indiana, and World War II history; director of the Liberal Arts and Management Program at IU Bloomington; two-time Fulbright Professor; and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.

They will be joined by

Diana Carlin, Dean-in-Residence for the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C.; professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas; creator of DebateWatch, a research project studying voter reactions to political debates; and member of the University of Kansas Women’s Hall of Fame.

“During the program, these experts will be on hand to ask—and help to answer—provocative questions about the presidency as an office, the men who have occupied it, and the candidates currently contending for it,” said Callison.

Read more at lhttp://scs.indiana.edu/nc/smithsonian.html.