Does the President Matter? A Conference on the American Age of Political Disrepair

Program

Speakers

• Ralph Nader — Presidential candidate, political activist
• Bernard Kouchner — Former Foreign Minister of France and the co-founder of Doctors Without Borders
  
• Rick Falkvinge —Founder of the Swedish Pirate Party
• Jeffrey Tulis —author of The Rhetorical Presidency  and The Limits of Constitutional Democracy
• James Zogby — Author of Arab Voices
• John Zogby — Founder of the Zogby Poll and author of The Way We'll Be

• Richard Aldous —Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature at Bard College, and author of Reagan and Thatcher.
• Jonathan Becker -Vice President and Dean for International Affairs and Civic Engagement; Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard College
• Ian Buruma —Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College.
• Margaret Crosby - Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Columbia University; list editor, H-German
• Tabetha Ewing - Dean of Studies, Bard High School Early College Manhattan; Associate Professor of History, Bard College
• Ric Fouad - Lawyer, New York, New York
• Elizabeth Frank —Joseph E. Harry Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Louise Bogan: A Portrait.
• Todd Gitlin —Chair of Communications Dept. at Columbia University and author of Occupy Nation).
• David Greenberg—Associate Professor of History, Journalism, and Media Studies at Rutgers University and author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. 
• Kevin Gutzman-Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University and author of James Madison and the Making of America
• Grace Hunt - Postdoctoral Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center
• Daniel Karpowitz - Director of Policy and Academics, Bard Prison Initiative; Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies; Lecturer in Law and the Humanities, Bard College
• Jonathan Kay—Editorial Page Editor of the Toronto National Post and author of Among the Truthers. 
• Thomas Keenan - Director, Human Rights Project; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College
• John LeJeune-- Junior Teaching Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center
• Eric Liu —CEO of the Guiding Lights Foundation and President Clinton's Domestic Policy Advisor.
  Robyn Marasco—Assistant Professor of Politics, Hunter College. 
• Steven Maslow--Chief Financial and Operating Officer, New York Physical Rehabilitation and Wellness; Chairman Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
• Walter Russell Mead — James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large at the American Interest.
• Bernadette Meyler — Professor, Cornell Law School.
• Laurie Naranch—Associate Professor of Politics, Siena College. 
• Anne Norton — Professor of Politics, University of Pennsylvania, and author of 95 Theses on Politics, Culture & Method.
• David Schorr--Artist, New York, New York;  Professor of Art at Wesleyan University.
• Mark W. Smith--Lawyer, New York, New York and author of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts .
• Ian Storey -- Postdoctoral Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center.
• Tracy Strong — Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego and author of Politics Without Vision.
• Marina van Zuylen - Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Bard College
• Thomas Wild - Research Associate, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities; Assistant Professor of German, Bard College

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