We're back!   Students are back as well and we have a lot of programs scheduled for the 
fall. I will attach a listing in PDF and copy them down below for your convenience.  Also, 
a couple of announcements -- 

The Toyota will serve as an early voting site for any 
registered Knox County voter, Oct. 31- Nov. 3. For those in Precincts 10S & 10W, we are 
your voting site also on Nov. 8, Election Day. We have also launched a friendly 
competition with the Bob Graham Center at the University of Florida to register the most 
students to vote. So, if you know of any students not registered, a form and box are 
located in our building and we will host several voter registration drives, plus an online 
option Turbovote. We will mail them in for you UNTIL Oct. 4, our deadline to make sure 
they reach the appropriate office before the Oct. 11 Deadline. 

Join us next week for a Baker Cafe on influence and power in politics - Aug. 29, 12:15-
1:15 pm 
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Fall 2016 Public Events 
All events are held in the Toyota Auditorium at the Baker Center, unless noted otherwise

Events Are Free & Open to the Public!

AUGUST

Monday, August 29, 12:15-1:15 pm – BAKER Café:  Who’s Influencing our Presidential 
Candidates? Interest Group Power and Influence - Anthony Nownes, PhD, UTK Political 
Science
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 12:45 pm – Attn: Students - Baker Scholar Information Session

SEPTEMBER

Thursday, Sept. 8, 5:30 pm – Ashe Lecture - National Security Policy: The Failure of the 
Policy Elite and the Dangers of Popular Reaction
Ambassador John Herbst is a former US diplomat to Uzbekistan and Ukraine, and he now 
serves as Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center for the Atlantic Council. He has over 
30 years of experience working in the United States Foreign Service, and he has served 
in other locations including Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. Herbst received 
his Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown and his Master’s from Tufts University.

Friday & Monday, Sept. 16 and 19 – Celebrate Constitution Day!  Baker Center and 
Hodges Library

Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5:30 pm– Ashe Lecture:  US Role in Today’s Europe
Radek Sikorski is from Poland where he served in a variety of positions for the Polish 
government including Minister of National Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and most 
recently Marshal of the Sejm, where he oversaw the work of the lower house of the 
Polish Parliament, called the Sejm. He is now a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Center for 
European Studies and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Bydgoszcz Industrial-
Technological Park in Poland.

Sept. 19-24 – UT Baker Center vs. Univ. of Florida Graham Center – Register to Vote & 
Beat Florida Week

Monday, Sept. 19, Noon – BAKER Café:  Constitution Day Discussion – Amendment 2: - 
Right to Bear Arms– Hodges Library, Mary Greer Room– Melrose Entrance - John Scheb, 
PhD, UTK Political Science, Chief Troy Lane, UT Police and other panelists

Monday, Sept. 26, 9–11 pm – DEBATEWATCH on the big screen in the Toyota!

Tuesday, Sept. 27 – National Voter Registration Day

Wed., Sept. 28, 5 pm  Voterpalooza!- Hear from students representing the Presidential 
candidates in a fun and open atmosphere!  Sponsored by UT Political Science students.
Thursday, September 29, 1-2:30 pm – E&E FORUM:  Michael Hutchins, Director of 
American Bird Conservancy’s (ABC’s) Bird-Smart Wind Energy Campaign

OCTOBER

Tuesday, October 4, 1-2 pm – BAKER Café:  Forty More Years: The Making of the Clinton 
(Trump) Court - Richard Pacelle, PhD, UTK Political Science 
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 9–11 pm – DEBATEWATCH - vice presidential debate on the big screen in 
the Toyota!

October 11, 5:30 pm - Global Security Distinguished Lecture 
Dr. James Zogby has been a leading voice on Arab-American rights for more than 30 
years. He co-founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1980, founded 
the Arab American Institute (AAI) in 1985, and continues today as President of AAI. He 
also writes a weekly column published in 16 countries and is the creator and host of the 
award-winning call-in political television show Viewpoint. In 2010, Zogby published the 
highly-acclaimed book, Arab Voices and a 2013 e-book, Looking at Iran: The Rise and Fall 
of Iran in Arab Public Opinion. Zogby also served as a Sander’s appointee to the 
Democratic National Committee platform committee.

Wednesday, Oct. 19, 9-11 pm – DEBATEWATCH on the big screen in the Toyota!

Thursday, October 20, 12:30-1:30 – BAKER Café:  Presidential Economics: Rhetoric and 
Reality - Matt Murray, PhD, UTK Economics, Baker Center Director, Boyd Center Associate 
Director

Thursday, October 20, 1-2:30 pm – E&E FORUM: An Ethical, Sustainable Energy Industry, 
Interdisciplinary panel moderated by Becky Jacobs, Waller Lansden Distinguished 
Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
Monday, Oct. 24, 1-2:30 pm - E&E FORUM:  Republicans, Democrats and Sustainability:  
Recovering Bipartisan Environmental Politics, Eban Goodstein, PhD, Bard Center for 
Environmental Policy, Bard College, New York
Monday, Oct. 24, 3:30 pm – How to Get a Job Saving the Planet: Sustainability Leadership 
Careers in NGO’s, Business and Policy – Eban Goodstein, PhD, Bard College for 
Environmental Policy

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 7-9 pm – Best of Enemies
In partnership with E.TN Public Television, a screening and discussion of this PBS 
Documentary on the relationship between legendary journalists, conservative, William 
Buckley and liberal, Gore Vidal. This 1968 pairing was the first show featuring pundits on 
opposite sides of an issue and resulted in vastly improved ratings for CBS. Introduction 
and commentary by Stuart Brotman, Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media 
Management and Law, UT College of Communication and Information, Journalism & 
Electronic Media

Thursday, October 27, 1-2:30 pm – E&E FORUM:  Energy Policy and the Next President, 
Peter Z. Grossman, Clarence Efroymson Professor of Economics, Butler University
Thursday, October 27, 3-5 pm – Analyzing the Process of Energy Policy: Why policy 
responses to the same problems differ among countries, Peter Z. Grossman, Clarence 
Efroymson Professor of Economics, Butler University & Lorna A. Greening, Baker Center 
Energy and Environment Fellow
Monday, Oct. 31 – Thursday, Nov. 3 – Early VOTING Knox County - in the TOYOTA

NOVEMBER

Thursday, Nov. 10, 4 pm –  Global Security Lecture:  The South China Sea Dispute: U.S.-
Philippines-China Security Relations - Dr. Renato Cruz de Castro currently works as a 
Senior Professor of International Studies at De La Salle University in the Philippines. He 
holds the Charles Lui Chi Keung Professional Chair in China Studies, and he is a US State 
Department ASEAN Research Fellow. 

Tuesday, Nov. 8 – Election Day – Precinct 10S & 10W VOTING in the TOYOTA

Thursday, Nov. 17, 1-2:30 pm – E&E FORUM: Forest Management within the Context of 
Environmental Change, Zhao Ma, Associate Professor of Forestry & Natural Resources, 
Purdue University

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 12:30-1:30 pm – Room 205, Baker Center - Global Security Lecture: 
Opening the Black-Box of Authoritarian Coalitions: Minister Retention and Tunisia’s 
Autocratic Ruling Elite, Matt Buehler, PhD, UTK Political Science, Baker Center Global 
Security Fellow and Mehdi Ayari, Graduate Teaching Associate, UTK Political Science