| LOCAL AND NATIONAL EXPERTS WILL DISCUSS THE CHALLENGES OF ADVOCACY FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ON MARCH 13
 Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs, the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies, will engage in a conversation about American democracy and dissent with Daniel Ellsberg at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, as part of the University of Minnesota’s Great Conversations series.
Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the U.S. government’s decision making during the Vietnam War. The publication of this document set in motion a chain of historic events that ended both the Nixon presidency and the Vietnam War. He is the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002), which won numerous prizes, including the American Book Award. In 2006, Ellsberg was honored with the Right Livelihood Award, considered the “alternative Nobel Prize,” “for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to a movement to free the world from the risk of nuclear war.”
An expert in American political history, Jacobs directs the Humphrey Institute’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. He is the author of several books, including Inequality and American Democracy (2005) and Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (2000), which has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards, including the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, the Neustadt Book Prize from the American Political Science Association, and the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association.
Tickets are $28.50 ($23.50 for U of M faculty, staff, students, and UMAA and MPR members). To order tickets call (612) 624-2345. For more information, visit www.cce.umn.edu/conversations/2008conversations/.
February 21, 2008 |
