Events 2003-Present Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Anne Arundel Hall North Suite N104, 47645 College Drive, St. Mary's City, MD 20686 Phone: 240-895-6432 | Email: [email protected] www.smcm.edu/democracy/ Center for the Study of Democracy Events The Center has hosted a comprehensive variety of events since its inception. Co-sponsors include academic departments such as Art, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Biology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. The Center has presented documentaries, many followed by talks by the director, and it has held panel discussions, classes, lectures, and workshops. The events hosted by the Center are particularly educational, giving students and others in attendance the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the speakers. The guests that the Center brings to campus have included former governors, ambassadors, judges, journalists, senate nominees—even comedians. April 14, 2003 November 25, 2003 National Socialism Presentation The Effects of Globalization and the Growth of Maryland’s Students from Dinslaken, Germany present their research on Ethnic Communities the life and destruction of their hometown during National Ho Nguyen (Economics Dept., SMCM) and Jorge Socialism Rogachevsky (Spanish Dept., SMCM) 8:00 pm | Cole Cinema 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 109 Co-sponsored with the International Summer Program on the Holocaust December 9, 2003 Maryland by the Numbers: A Statistical Look at the April 26, 2003 Development of the State A Roundtable on Democracy, Religion and the State: The SMCM Sociologist Louis Hicks and journalist Eugene Meyer Legacy of Liberty of Conscience 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 109 1:30 pm | St. Mary’s Hall February 17, 2004 September 2, 2003 Annual Carter G. Woodson Lecture th Native American Politics and Civil Society in 17 Century Donna Brazile, National Democratic Strategist Maryland 7:30 pm | St. Mary’s Hall Martin Sullivan and Jan Dabkowski (HSMC) 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 106 February 20, 2004 Democratic Emperialism: Back to the Future of an September 16, 2003 Oxymoron? The Importance of Religion in Early Maryland Josiah Ober (Princeton) Speakers are Henry Miller (HSMC) and Jane Calvert (SMCM 8:00 pm | St. Mary’s Hall History Dept.) 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 109 March 6, 2004 Ancient Athenian Democracy and Democracy Today: September 30, 2003 Culture, Knowledge, Power From Colonialism to Nationhood Josiah Ober (Princeton) Tom Stevens, Professor Emeritus, SMCM 4:30 pm | Daugherty-Palmer Commons 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 109 Co-sponsored with the History Department October 6, 2003 March 24-25, 2004 World War II: Three Stories Women in Revolutionary Struggle General Andrew J. Goodpaster (ret), Sgt. Clancy Lyall and 5th annual women studies colloquium Pvt. J. Frank Raley 4:30 pm | Daugherty-Palmer Commons September 13, 2004 What Young Voters Want: The Youth Vote in the 2004 October 21, 2003 Elections Maryland and the Civil War, Slavery and Jim Crow Jennifer Burton, media consultant and former aide to Senator Historian Charles Holden (SMCM) and Julie King (Jefferson Gephardt Patterson Park and Museum) 4:30 pm | Cole Cinema 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 109 November 12, 2004 November 11, 2003 The Global Impact of the American Civil War Baltimore and Film: John Waters and Barry Levinson Pulitzer Prize winner and Princeton historian James Robin Bates (SMCM), Jill Bershon and Jill Morris McPherson8:00 pm | St. Mary’s Hall 6:00 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 109 1 November 13, 2004 Now Let Me Fly A dramatic reading of Marcia Cebulska’s imagined re-creation November 3, 2005 of Thurgood Marshall’s building of the 1954 Brown vs. Board US Campuses Up for Grabs: What’s at Stake as Progressive of Education Supreme Court case and Conservative Groups Intensify Campus Organizing? 2:00 pm | Montgomery Hall Room 25 David Halperin, Center for American Progress Co-sponsored with the Division of Arts and Letters 4:30 pm | Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall February 9, 2005 February 3, 2006 The Civil Rights Movement and the Possibilities of Celebrating Maryland’s African-American Legacy Democracy Judge Alexander Williams, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge Bancroft Prize winning civil rights historian John Dittmer, 7:30 pm | Mongtomery Hall Room 25 Professor Emeritus of History at DePauw 8:00 pm | St. Mary’s Hall February 23, 2006 Co-sponsored with the History Department, African and African Lise Van Susteren, MD Diaspora Studies, African-American Heritage Month Committee Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate 4:30 pm | Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall February 23, 2005 Science and Public Policy April 11, 2006 SMCM professors K. Norlock, W. Williams, C. Adler and Conquering Heroes: National History and Culture Identity in M. Cain. the Twentieth Century 4:40 pm | Schaefer Hall Room 106 Valentina Syrkin (political science) and Jeremy Young (history) give an advance presentation of their St. Mary’s February 25, 2005 Project. Bad Conformity and Good Dissent 4:30 pm | Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall Cass Sustein, Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago April 12, 2006 8:00 pm | St. Mary’s Hall Doug Duncan, Montgomery County Executive and democratic candidate for governor April 1, 2005 4:00 pm | Cole Cinema Heritage Day Lecture st National Security in the 21 Century: Lessons Learned Since April 18, 2006 9/11 Martin O’Malley, Mayor of Baltimore James Woolsey, former Central Intelligence Agency director 4:00 pm | Cole Cinema 7:30 pm | Cole Cinema April 20, 2006 April 30, 2005 Douglas F. Gansler, Montgomery County State’s Attorney Challenges Facing the American Justice System in a post-9/11 4:30 pm | Cole Cinema World Kenneth Wainstein, US Attorney for the District of Columbia September 27, 2006 1:00 pm | Cole Cinema Local Political Candidate Forum 7:00 pm | Cole Cinema September 29, 2005 Co-sponsored with The SlackWater Center and The Enterprise The Chesapeake Bay: Crisis or Crossroads? Newspaper Panel discussion with Ronald Franks, MD Dept. of Natural Resources; Bob Paul, SMCM Biology Professor; and Jackie October 3, 2006 Russell, Founder of the Chesapeake Bay Field Lab on St. Local Political Candidate Forum George’s Island 7:00 pm | Cole Cinema 4:30 pm | Cole Cinema Co-sponsored with The SlackWater Center and The Enterprise Co-sponsored with The SlackWater Center Newspaper October 6, 2005 March 7, 2007 The Genius Factory: Unraveling the Mystery of the Nobel Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia’s Center Prize Sperm Bank for Politics and Center for the Study of Democracy’s Visiting Author David Plotz reads from his newly published book Scholar 4:30 pm | Cole Cinema 7:30 pm | Cole Cinema October 20, 2005 April 2, 2007 Maryland Politics 2006: Upcoming Legislative Session and Ellen Sauerbrey, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (Bureau of Elections Population, Refugees and Migration) and former Republican Maryland State Senator Brian Frosh nominee for governor of Maryland 4:30 pm | Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall 4:30 pm | Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall 2 April 9, 2007 October 29, 2007 Doug Waller, Senior Correspondent for Time Magazine Dr. Napisa Waitoolkai, Thai Speaker on Democracy Mr. Waller has covered the Pentagon, Congress, the State Co-sponsored with the Asian Studies Program and the Department Department, the White House and the CIA. of Economics 4:30 pm | Daugherty-Palmer Commons November 1, 2007 June 3-9, 2007 Martin Espada: A Poetry Reading Go To Oxford! Jack Coopersmith Summer Programme 8:15 pm | Daugherty-Palmer Commons SMCM and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Supported by the Mellon Foundation, Co-sponsored with Voices of (St. Peter’s College, Oxford) offered an opportunity to study St. Mary’s, Department of International Languages and Cultures and the Department of African and African Diaspora the legacy of Anglo-American politics in the eighteenth century and its impact on the modern world. The November 2, 2007 Programme includes keynote lectures by renowned Oxford A Conversation with Martin Espada scholars working with St. Mary’s College of Maryland and its 9:20 am | Blackistone Room, Anne Arundel Hall Center for the Study of Democracy. The week included a full Co-sponsored with Voices of St. Mary’s, and the Department of schedule of social events and excursions to historical sites of African and African Diaspora interest. November 2–3, 2007 September 17, 2007 “Rediscovering Maryland in the Atlantic World Constitution Day A symposium on Early Maryland History and Culture Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and James Apple Co-sponsored with The Patuxent Partnership, The Maryland Humanities Council and the Departments of Anthropology, Art September 26, 2007 History, and History Change of Government: A Public Forum Doug Duncan, former Montgomery County Executive and November 5, 2007 Patrick Murphy, Head for Change of Government Task Force Arabs & Terrorism with Bassam Haddad in St. Mary’s County Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the Political Science Department September 28, 2007 Replaying the Slots in Southern Maryland: A Panel Discussion November 6, 2007 at the College of Southern Maryland Immigrant Rights and the Other Campaign Jose Pedro Leon Galicia October 16, 2007 8:00 pm | Cole Cinema Heather Raffo, “Nine Parts of Desire” Co-sponsored with Arts Alliance of St. Mary’s, Department of November 12, 2007 Political Science, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Latin American Film Series: A Fronteira (The Border) Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Art and Art History 8:00 pm | Cole Cinema Department, and Theatre, Film and Media Studies Supported by the Mellon Foundation October 19, 2007 November 12, 2007 Janks Morton, “What Black Men Think” Global Warming Forum Co-sponsored with The Black Student Union Professor Bill Williams, St. Mary's College of Maryland County Commissioner President Jack Russell October 22, 2007 Mike Tidwell, Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Dr.