"The Bucknell Forum: The Citizen & Politics in America" is a national speakers series focused on major issues in the 2008 presidential election, notably those at the forefront of today's national discourse. It features nationally renowned leaders, scholars, and commentators who will examine these issues from multi-disciplinary perspectives and a diversity of viewpoints and provide a model for civil discourse. The series will run through the inauguration of the new U.S. president in January 2009.  

The fall 2007 semester focused on the media influence on citizens, politics, and the election. The spring 2008 semester will focus on the role of individual identity in these issues. The spring schedule is described below.

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The fall 2008 semester will focus on the impact of the president on challenges before America and its citizens. The Bucknell Forum Task Force, appointed by President Brian C. Mitchell, encourages Bucknellians to submit suggestions for speakers at speakersforum@bucknell.edu.

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin || Story

Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The talk, the title of which will be announced later, is free and open to the public.

The Bucknell Forum also would like to draw your attention to the following events which will explore issues related to the theme of the citizen and politics in America: 

"A Conversation with David McCullough"
David McCullough || Story
The honored historian, biographer and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
is the 2008 Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
8 p.m., Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell Forum Task Force is comprised of faculty members Kim Daubman, Bill Gruver, Tony Massoud, Karen Morin, Felipe Perrone, and Mike Toole; students Sarah Cummings '08 and Joe Valickus '09; and staff members and administrators Rolando Arroyo-Sucre, Susan Hopp, Kristin Stetler, and Pete Mackey, chair.