Amherst Today Program

The American Presidency Today

Schedule of Events

Thursday, March 1, 2012

8 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.                        Check in and pick up packets
Smith House, 22 Hitchcock Road
8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Visit Open Classes
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch
Tickets will be in your packet
Valentine Dining Hall
3 p.m. Check-in at Converse opens
Lobby, Converse Hall
3:30 – 5 p.m. Welcome Remarks
Tom Dumm, William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Science
Obama’s First Term
Tom Dumm, William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Science
Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall
5:15 – 6:30 p.m. The Nomination and Congressional/Presidential Deadlock
Congressman Tom Davis ’71 (R, Virginia) retired.
Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall
6:45 p.m. Cocktails and Dinner
Lewis-Sebring Commons, Valentine Hall
8:30 p.m. Screening of The War Room (Optional)
A documentary on the 1992 Clinton campaign.
Keefe Campus Center Theater

 

Friday, March 2, 2012

7:30 a.m. Breakfast
Tickets will be in your packet
Weiller Wing, Valentine Dining Hall
9:30 – 10:45 a.m. Comparative Presidencies: Gorbachev, Putin, Obama
William C. Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.                               The President and Foreign Policy
N. Gordon Levin, Dwight Morrow Professor of History, and Pavel Machala, professor of political science
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall
12:45 – 3 p.m. Lunch and concluding discussion
Tom Dumm, William H. Hastie ’25 Professor of Political Science
Please wear your nametag
Samuel Fowler Room, Lord Jeffery Inn