The Allbritton Center is hosting four panels this fall as part of the Right Now! Series on breaking issues in public life. Three of these panels are on issues surrounding the 2016 Presidential Election:
October 27, 7 pm, PAC 001
- ANTHEA BUTLER, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of Pennsylvania and author of Women in the Church of God in Christ, Making a Sanctified World
- JESSICA MARTINEZ, Pew Research Center
- SARAH POSNER, Journalist, author of God’s Profits
- Moderator: LIZA MCALISTER, Professor of Religion
Behind the Curtain: Campaign Financing, Gerrymandering, and Barriers to Voting
November 3, 7 pm, PAC 001
- DAVE DALEY, CT Mirror, Author of Ratf*cked
- NICK NYHART, Every Voice Center
- SHEILA KRUMHOLZ, Center For Responsive Politics
- Moderator: LOGAN DANCEY, Assistant Professor of Government
December 5, 7 pm, PAC 001
- DANIEL J. JONES, Penn Quarter Group and Lead Author on the Senate “CIA Torture Report”
- JOHN CAVANAGH, Institute for Policy Studies
- TED WITTENSTEIN, Director of International Relations & Leadership Programs, Yale Office of International Affairs
- Moderator: DOUG FOYLE, Associate Professor of Government
There will also be a panel on Net Neutrality, which is a central issue of freedom of speech and access on the Internet. In February 2015, the FCC voted to uphold Net Neutrality and forbade Internet providers from charging some users to access “fast lanes” while forcing others into “slow lanes.”
November 10, 7 pm, PAC 001
- JESSICA ROSENWORCEL ’93, FCC Commissioner
- BRAD BURNHAM, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
- CHRISTIAAN HOGENDORN, Associate Professor of Economics Technology
- Moderator: NORM DANNER, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Rebecca Jacobsen ’16
Civic Engagement Fellow
Allbritton Center
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