The Issues

Experts discuss the problems that will face the next president and the potential solutions

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Islam, Global Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Co-sponsored with the Institute of International Studies
Fawaz Gerges, Sarah Lawrence College
Ira Lapidus, UC-Berkeley
Dariush Zahedi, UC-Berkeley
Moderator: Harry Kreisler, Institute of International Studies

Monday, November 5, 2007

Strategic Options for U.S. Foreign Policy
4 p.m., Lipman Room, 8th floor, Barrows Hall
Co-sponsored with the Institute of International Studies

Edward Luttwak, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and author of Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace and Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Climate Change and Energy Policy

Co-sponsored with the UC Energy Institute
4 p.m., Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall School of Law

Max Auffhammer, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC-Berkeley
Alex Farrell, Associate Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC-Berkeley
Billy Pizer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Moderator: James Bushnell, Research Director, UC Energy Institute

Monday, November 26, 2007

Iraq: Status Report and Options
Co-sponsored with the Institute for International Studies
4 p.m., Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, and author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The Next President and the Courts
Co-sponsored with the Boalt Hall School of Law
7 p.m., Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall School of Law

Jesse Choper, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley
Susan Estrich, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California
William Kelley, Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, and former Deputy White House Counsel
Moderator: John Yoo, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Economy and the Federal Budget
Note: This event is part of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour (sponsored by the Concord Coalition), a national series of appearances focusing on the country's long-term fiscal challenges

7 p.m., Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business
Co-sponsored with the Haas School of Business
Robert Bixby, Executive Director, The Concord Coalition
Alison Fraser, Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States
Alice Rivlin, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; former director, Congressional Budget Office
Moderator: Tom Campbell, Dean, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Educating America: Challenges for the Next President
4 p.m., Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Co-sponsored with the School of Education

Bruce Fuller, Professor of Education, University of California at Berkeley
Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education, Stanford University
Russlynn Ali, Executive Director, Education Trust — West
Moderator: P. David Pearson, Dean, School of Education, University of California at Berkeley

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Choosing the President: Immigration
4 p.m., Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

Philip Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis, Chair of UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program
Frank Bean, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population & Public Policy, UC Irvine
Peter D. Salins, Professor of Political Science, SUNY Stony Brook
Moderator: Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Covering the Digital Campaign
2:30 p.m., North Gate Hall
Co-sponsored with the Graduate School of Journalism

Terisa Estacio, KRON-TV
Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones Magazine
Ben Tulchin, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
Moderator: Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Health Care
4:00 p.m., Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Co-sponsored with the School of Public Health

Helen Halpin, Professor of Health Policy; Director, Center for Health and Public Policy Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Mark A. Peterson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, UCLA
Moderator: Stephen M. Shortell, Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley

The Process

Major conferences examine the state of the presidential campaign and the presidency itself

April 10-12, 2008

Choosing the President in 2008: The Evolving Process and Its Effects

Co-sponsored with the School of Law

Topics considered will include the campaign finance system, "front-loading" the schedule of primaries and caucuses, analysis of this year's nomination contests, and an evaluation of presidential elections generally, including discussion of potential reforms.

The conference will be held in conjunction with the 27th annual IGS Presidential Symposium, which features journalists and scholars discussing the performance of the president during the previous year and the likely prospects for the administration during the coming year. This event, held in the evening, is a campus tradition and draws a large crowd.

 

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Annual Review of the Presidency

7:30 pm, 155 Dwinelle Hall

Panel Chair: Ethan Rarick, Center on Politics, UC Berkeley
David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University
Byron York, White House Correspondent, National Review
Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Sun-Times
Matthew Dowd, Chief Strategist, Bush/Cheney 2004 Campaign

Friday, April 11, 2008 - Saturday, April 12, 2008

Panel Discussions
All panels in the Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
(For location of Barrows Hall, see campus map)
Times listed below

Friday, April 11, 2008

Developments in Campaign Finance
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Panel Chair: Eric Schickler, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow — Governance Studies; W. Averell Harriman Chair, Brookings Institution
Rick L. Hasen, William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Allison Hayward, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Duf Sundheim, CEO of California Republicans Aligned for Tomorrow; Board Member of the Governor's California Dream Team
William A. Brandt Jr., President and CEO of Development Specialists, Inc.; Chair of the Illinois Finance Authority

Keynote Lecture
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Hon. David Price, U.S. Representative, 4th District, North Carolina
"The Way We Choose Presidential Nominees: Problems and Prospects"

Parties, Primaries, and Process
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Panel Chair: Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
Andrew Busch, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College

David Karol, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Barbara Norrander, Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona
Hon. David Price, U.S. Representative, 4th District, North Carolina; former Professor of Political Science, Duke University

The 2008 Nominations: The Never Ending Story
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Panel Chair: Susan Rasky, Senior Lecturer, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Gina Glantz, Senior Advisor to the President of SEIU; former Campaign Manager, Bill Bradley for President
Robert Wickers, Dresner, Wickers & Associates; Senior Adviser, Mike Huckabee for President 2008
Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Sun-Times
Jennifer Steen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College

Dinner Speaker
6:00 p.m.

Peter D. Hart, President and Founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates
"The Mood of America 2008"
Seaborg Room, UC Berkeley Faculty Club (by invitation)
For directions, click here

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Assessing the Post-Reform System
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Panel Chair: Goodwin Liu, Assistant Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Byron York, White House Correspondent, National Review
John Zaller, Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Christopher Edley, Jr., William H. Orrick, Jr. Professor of Law; Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Ken Khachigian, Senior Partner, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck; National Senior Advisor to Fred Thompson 2008 and John McCain 2000; Chief Speechwriter/Senior Advisor, Ronald Reagan, 1980 and 1984

September 2008

The American Presidency at War

This conference will explore how the powers of the presidency fluctuate in times of war and peace. Is the wartime presidency more powerful than the domestic politics presidency? Does the Constitution sanction this discrepancy? Have Congress, the Courts, and public opinion supported the expansion of presidential power in wartime? This conference seeks to examine these questions in an expansive way incorporating a number of different subfields in political science as well as constitutional law and history. Although the focus of this conference is not on President George W. Bush and the Iraq War, examining the exercise of presidential power in war and peace historically will shed light on the current political situation and potential trends in the separation of powers.

Co-sponsored with the Boalt Hall School of Law
Panelists to be announced

The Imperial Presidency and the Founding

10 am - 12 pm

War and Presidential Politics

1:45 - 3:15 pm

Rethinking Presidential Power in the 21st Century

3:30 - 5:15 pm

Keynote: The View from the White House in Time of War

7:00 - 8:30 pm