Public Forum Events
April 19, 2008 "Waging Peace:
Citizenship in a Time of Unjust War"
November 3, 2007
"Democracy on the Brink: The Perils f Excessive Secrecy"
April 14, 2007 "Beyond
Economic Growth"
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Waging Peace:
Citizenship in a Time of Unjust War
Scott Ritter
Mr. Ritter is a former Marine Intelligence Officer and
former lead weapons
inspector in Iraq for the United Nations. He is also the
author of "Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement"
and his latest work, "Target Iran".
At this forum he will touch on issues such as supporting the troops
without supporting the mission, the role of the media in shaping
views and how citizens could counter, the Constitution as a citizens
center of gravity, and some practical ideas for how citizens can
"Wage Peace".
Mr. Ritter's
presentation will be followed by a panel discussion. Panel
members will include UW-Madison Professor
Joe Elder
and Madison Attorney
Fred Wade,
who are also both TMI Board Members.
Saturday,
April 19, 2008, 9:00 am to Noon
Wisconsin
State Historical Society Auditorium
816 State Street, Madison, WI
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Democracy on the
Brink:
The Perils of Excessive Secrecy
Ted Gup
Noted journalist
and
author of:
The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and deaths of
CIA Operatives
and
Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the
American Way of Life
A panel discussion
will follow Dr. Gup's presentation.
Panel
members:
Peg Lautenschlager, former State
Representative and Attorney General
Donald Jones,
Information Technology Consultant and Assoc. Director, TMI
Saturday,
November 3, 2007, 9:00 am to Noon
Wisconsin
State Historical Society Auditorium
816 State Street, Madison, WI
Funded
in part by a grant from the Evjue Foundation
Labor Donated
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Beyond
Economic Growth
Speaker:
Joshua Farley,
Assistant Professor,
Community Development
and Applied Economics
at the University of Vermont and
Fellow with the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
Josh Farley has
degrees in biology, international affairs and neoclassical
economics. He recently co-authored a textbook in ecological
economics with Herman Daly (Ecological Economics: Principles and
Applications), and in collaboration with Jon Erickson and Daly has
just finished up an accompanying workbook on problem-based
approaches to ecological economics.
A panel discussion
will follow Dr. Farley's presentation.
Panel
members:
Joe
Elder,
Professor of Sociology, UW-Madison and TMI Board
Member
Fred Johnson, Ecologist and TMI Board Member
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 9am-Noon
Pyle Center,
UW-Madison Campus
702 Langdon Street,
Room 325-6
Madison, WI
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Executive Power: Worse
than Watergate?
John
Dean - White House counsel during the Nixon Administration
and
author of the recent book "Worse than Watergate".
Stanley Kutler - retired Professor of History at UW-Madison and
nationally recognized expert on the Watergate scandal.
After the formal presentations, John Nichols and Matt
Rothschild
will join the speakers for questions and discussion.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Mitchell Theater, Vilas Hall
821
University Ave.
UW-Madison Campus
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"The Intellectual Roots of Neoconservative Foreign Policy"
featuring
Shadia Drury
Canada Research Chair in Social Justice
Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science,
University of Regina
In Drury's view, what is wrong with neoconservative foreign policy is not that it is too realistic, but that it is not realistic enough. Its political realism is truncated, banal, and infused with a delusionary idealism. Drury will defend a more profound understanding of political realism.
Saturday, October 1, 2005
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
State Historical Society Auditorium
816 State Street
on the UW Library Mall
Madison, Wisconsin
Free and open to the public
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"Superpower Syndrome"
America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World
featuring
Robert Jay Lifton
Visiting Professor of Psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School
and prizewinning author
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Panelists
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Patrick Barrett
Administrative Director
Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure
and Social Changes, UW-Madison
Eugene Farley
MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus
Family Medicine, UW-Madison
Panel Moderator
Jeff Patterson
DO, Professor of Family Medicine,
UW-Madison; former President,
Madison Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
9:00 a.m. to noon
State Historical Society Auditorium
816 State Street
on the UW Library Mall
Madison, Wisconsin
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Co-Sponsors
The Progressive magazine
The Capital Times
Physicians for Social Responsibility (Madison)
Money Education and Prisons Task Force
WORT Community Radio (89.9 FM)
University of Wisconsin Law School Project for Law and Humanities
University of Wisconsin Religious Studies Program University of Wisconsin Dept of Family Medicine
University of Wisconsin Dept of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin Havens Center
Related Events
Dr. Lifton will be interviewed by Matt Rothschild on WORT Community Radio (89.9 FM) at 5:00 PM, Friday, April 16.
Dr. Lifton will sign books at AWOL Books (formerly Canterbury Booksellers), 7-9 PM, Friday, April 16 and in the April 17 forum described above.
Audio Tapes
Audio tapes of this forum will be available from The Madison Institute at modest cost. For tapes of earlier programs see list on this website.
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The Patriot Act Under Surveillance
A public forum program sponsored by The Madison Institute
featuring
Christopher Pyle
Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
with response panel:
Professor Carin Clauss, UW Law School
Christopher Ahmuty, Executive Director, ACLU Wisconsin
Sheila Spear, Board of Directors, The Madison Institute
Saturday, October 11, 2003
9:00 a.m. to noon
State Historical Society Auditorium
816 State Street (on the Library Mall)
Madison, WI
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsors of this event include:
League of Women Voters - Wisconsin
The Urban League of Greater Madison
The Havens Center at UW-Madison
The UW Law School
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
The American Civil Liberties Union - Wisconsin
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National Conference on Media Reform
November 7-9, 2003
Madison, Wisconsin
The National Conference on Media Reform will be a forum on how to build a better media system in local communities, in Washington, and across the nation. The conference will be hosted by Free Press and co-sponsored by the UW-Madison Havens Center. The Media Task Force of The Madison Institute will play a local role.
Featured speakers and panelists will come from a wide range of political and activist communities working toward a more democratic and public-interest-minded media. Conference participants will include members of Congress and of the FCC, leaders of major NGOs, activists, academics, journalists and others joining to create specific policies and strategies for media reform. One goal of the conference is to build a more effective grassroots network.
For further information or to register online, please visit
http://www.mediareform.net/conference
or send an e-mail inquiry to:
conference@mediareform.net
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