FYI...THIS LOOKS TO BE A SIGNFICANT LECTURE..PLEASE ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO ATTEND...R

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From: Danoff, Brian Dr. 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 3:05 PM
To: Coates, Rodney D. Dr.
Subject: Rogers Smith lecture on race and politics

Dear Rodney,

I am writing to let you know that for this year's O'Hara Lecture, our speaker will be Rogers Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Smith will lecture on the topic, "Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America." The talk will take place on Thursday, November 3, at 5:00PM in Bachelor Hall 101. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Political Science. If you could spread the word to BWS faculty and students, that would be great.

Professor Smith's lecture will examine the enduring divisions of American racial politics and how these conflicts have been shaped by distinct political alliances and their competing race policies. He will explore the following questions: Why have American policies failed to reduce the racial inequalities still pervasive throughout the nation? Has President Barack Obama defined new political approaches to race that might spur unity and progress? What are the prospects for achieving constructive racial policies for America's future? Can our nation's partisan divisions over race be confronted and resolved, so that we might one day cease to be a nation divided?

Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. He was previously the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government at Yale University. He is the author or co-author of many essays and six books, including Liberalism and American Constitutional Law (1985), Stories of Peoplehood (2003) and the forthcoming Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America (with Desmond S. King; Princeton, 2011). His 1997 book Civic Ideals received "best book" awards from the American Political Science Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Social Science History Association and was a Finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. Smith holds a B.A. from James Madison College, Michigan State University (1975) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He has received prizes for undergraduate and graduate teaching from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Thanks,
Brian

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Brian Danoff
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Department of Political Science
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