Fall 2008
Politics and the Press:
The Relationship Between Government and the Fourth Estate
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| Date |
Speaker |
Lecture Title |
| August 25 |
Honors Students |
Study Abroad Presentations |
| September 1 |
Labor Day - No Classes |
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| September 8 |
Bill Ford, Weatherford Chair of Finance |
Immigrationomics |
| September 15 |
Beverly Keel, Recording Industry |
From Preachers to Sniper Fire: Press Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election |
| September 22 |
Antoinette Van Zelm, Center for Historic Preservation |
Let us Have a Grand Rally: Tennessee's Former Slaves Become Citizens |
| September 29 |
Clare Bratten, Electronic Media |
Imagining a Nation: Kurdistan of Iraq and the Problems of the Documentary Form |
| October 6 |
TBA |
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| October 13 |
Fall Break - No Classes |
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| October 20 |
Sekou Franklin, Political Science |
Between Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama: Race Management, Electoral Populism, and Presidential
Politics
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| October 27 |
Mark Byrnes, Liberal Arts |
Politics, the Presidency, and Film |
| November 3 |
David Foote, Management and Marketing |
Correspondents, Columns, and Caricatures: Politics and the Press in the Civil War |
| November 10 |
Bob Spires, Electronic Media |
Politics, Non-Traditional Media and Young Voters |
| November 17 |
John Omachonu, Mass Comm |
Agenda-Setting Images in National Politics |
| November 24 |
Honors Students |
Honors Thesis Presentations |
| December 1 |
Honors Students |
Honors Thesis Presentations |
