Sponsored by the APSA Teaching and Learning Committee.

8:00 p.m.
APSA President Dianne Pinderhughes of the University of Notre Dame will deliver her Presidential Address.

Following the Presidential Address, APSA will host the 104^th APSA Annual Meeting Opening Reception. 

12:00 noon
From the Cornell faculty profile:
Theodore Lowi has been the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University since 1972. He received his doctorate at Yale in 1961, served on the Cornell faculty from 1959 to 1965 and on the political science faculty at the University of Chicago between 1965 and 1972.  His primary fields are American government, political institutions and public policy.

Recent research and writing commitments include the politics of globalization, a critical history of the American Democratic party, and a long-term project with an Italian collaborator to develop a conceptual approach to political theory that is one part thesaurus/encyclopedia and one part methodology through use of the computer to develop a cross-tabulational approach to concepts. He is also completing, with colleague Isaac Kramnick, The Norton Anthology of American Political Thought.

Other recent books include The End of the Republican Era; La scienza delle politiche (forthcoming in English) and The Personal President -- Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972, Lowi is recipient of honorary degrees from Oakland University, SUNY/Stony Brook, and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris. He has served as president of the American Political Science Association, the Policy Studies Organization, and the International Political Science Association.

4:15 p.m.
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher from Ljubljana, Slovenia. The author of over fifty books, including "The Sublime Object of Ideology," "Tarrying with the Negative," "The Parallax View," and, most recently, "In Defense of Lost Causes." Zizek is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. He is also a globally significant public intellectual and the subject of a feature film, ŽIŽEK!.

4:15 p.m.
Chair: Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (University of Rochester), Moderator: Cedric Johnson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Panelists: Adolphus Belk (Winthrop University) Errol Henderson (Penn State University), Cedric Johnson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Special Guest: Dr. Ronald Walters (University of Maryland)

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Walters’s book, Black Presidential Politics in America: A Strategic Approach which was awarded APSA’s Ralph Bunche Book Award in 1989 and the DuBois Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Given the historic nature of the Barack Obama candidacy and the likelihood that he may emerge as the Democratic Party nominee, this is an appropriate moment to revisit and critically reflect on Walters’s scholarly work.

Walters has dedicated over 40 years to the study of African American politics. Currently, at the University of Maryland College Park, Walters holds the position of "The Distinguished Leadership Scholar" and Director of the African American Leadership Institute in the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. He is also Full Professor in the Department of Government and Politics. Walters has authored over 100 articles and six books. Walters has been an active participant in many of the most important events and developments in post-segregation black political history.

6:00 p.m.
From the University of Pennsylvania faculty profile:
Dr. Kettl focuses on public policy and public administration. He is Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania as a member of the Department of Political Science and specializes in the management of public organizations.

Kettl is the author or editor of twenty books and monographs, including: The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them, System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, and The Global Public Management Revolution. He has twice won the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration for the best book published in public administration. He was awarded a PhD in political science from Yale University. Prior to his appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

12:00 noon
Susan J. Carroll is Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Her books include Women as Candidates in American Politics, The Impact of Women in Public Office, Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions, and Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics. Her recent research focuses on political representation and the role of gender in elections.

12:00 noon
From the Harvard University biography: Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His books include Liberalism and the Limits of Justice; Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy; Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics; and The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering . His writings also appear in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times.

Sandel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary political philosophy, including "Ethics and Biotechnology," "Markets, Morals, and Law," and "Globalization and Its Discontents." His undergraduate course, "Justice," has enrolled over 12,000 students. See video excerpts from several of these classes at "Justice, A Journey in Moral Reasoning."

Sponsored by the APSA Teaching and Learning Committee.

8:30 p.m.
Barney Frank has been in Congress since 1981. He is the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee. Previously he was a Massachusetts State Representative and an assistant to the Mayor of Boston. He has also taught at several Boston area universities. More information can be obtained from "Politics in America" published by Congressional Quarterly and "The Almanac of American Politics" published by National Journal.

Reception Following gratis.