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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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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