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from the issue of August 21, 2008
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Gergin to open Thompson series with Sept. 18 lecture
Commentator, author and adviser to presidents David Gergen will give the first lecture in the 2008-09 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. The annual theme is "Democracy's Future," and the slate of speakers will explore a cross-section of themes related to leadership, globalization, citizenship and governance.
Gergen's lecture, "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership," will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Gergen was director of communications for Ronald Reagan and also held positions in the Nixon, Ford and Clinton administrations. He is editor-at-large at U.S. News and World Report. He is also a professor of public service at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and director of its Center for Public Leadership. In 2000, he published the best-selling book "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton."
Other lecturers in the forum's season are Ronald Dworkin, professor of law at New York University and University College London; Ted Sorensen, former speechwriter for President Kennedy and Nebraska native; F.W. deKlerk, former president of South Africa; Sarah Chayes, journalist and activist; and Colin Campbell, chairman and president of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The season will also feature the second annual Charles and Linda Wilson Dialogue on Domestic Issues, with a discussion of illegal immigration by Michael Olivas, William B. Bates distinguished chair of law at the University of Houston and Vernon Briggs, professor emeritus of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
All Thompson Forum lectures will be delivered in the Lied Center. They are free and open to the public, however the lectures will be ticketed. Tickets are free and guarantee a reserved seat. Tickets for fall semester lectures are available at the Lied Center ticket booth, by calling 472-4747, or by completing a ticket order form (available at www.liedcenter.org). Spring semester lecture tickets will be available beginning Jan. 5.
Thompson Forum lectures will be available live on the Web (www.unl.edu), Lincoln TimeWarner Cable Channel 21 or Channel 5, NETSAT 104, UNL campus Channel 8 and UNL's KRNU radio (90.3 FM). Live satellite broadcasts and follow-up discussion will be available in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Kearney, Wayne, Columbus and Omaha.
More information about the Thompson Forum is on-line at http://enthompson.unl.edu.
Schedule of events for the Nebraska Colloquium and E.N. Thompson Forum
• Sept. 9 - Honors Forum - Patrice McMahon, associate professor, political science: "The NGO Embrace: Does support for nongovernmental organizations promote democracy?"
• Sept. 18 - E.N. Thompson Forum - David Gergen: "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership"
• Sept. 30 - Honors Forum - John Hibbing, professor, political science
• Oct. 7 - Honors Forum - Tim Borstelmann, professor, history: "More and Less Equal: The Reshaping of Democracy since the 1970s."
• Oct. 23 - Honors Forum - Charlyne Berens, professor, news-editorial
• Oct. 28 - E.N. Thompson Forum - Ronald Dworkin: "Democracy and Religion: America and Israel"
• Nov. 6 - Honors Forum - Loukia K. Sarroub, professor, teaching, learning and teacher education: "Literacy for Democracy: Possibilities and Limitations."
• Nov. 18 - E.N. Thompson Forum - Theodore C. Sorensen: "America and the World, 1962 to 2008: Contrasts and Contradictions."
• Dec. 9 - Honors Forum - Thomas McGowan, professor, teaching, learning and teacher education: "Educating for Democracy: The Real and the Ideal of the American Public Schools."
• Jan. 21 - Honors Forum - David Forsythe, professor, political science: "Democracy and Human Rights in the Context of Terrorism."
• Feb. 10 - E.N. Thompson Forum - F. W. deKlerk: "Bridging the Gap: Globalization without Isolation."
• Feb. 19 - Honors Forum - Ted Hamann, assistant professor, teaching, learning and teacher education: "The Challenge of U.S./Mexico Transnationalism to the Linkage Between Schooling and Democracy."
• March 4 - E.N. Thompson Forum - Sarah Chayes: "Notes from Afghanistan."
• March 11 - Honors Forum - Giacomo Oliva, dean, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and Charlyne Berens, professor, news-editorial
• March 25 - E.N. Thompson Forum - Michael Olivas and Vernon Briggs: "Illegal Immigrants: Path to Citizenship?"
• April 1 - Honors Forum - Anna Shavers, professor, law: "Citizenship: The Significance of Borders, Rights and Identity."
• April 14 - E.N. Thompson Forum - Colin Campbell: "Citizenship in a Global Age."
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