A panel of UConn faculty experts will discuss the presidential election Thursday, examining the intellectual conversations that have arisen during this campaign season. UConn President Susan Herbst will moderate the discussion, which is free and open to the public.
The panel includes Paul Herrnson, professor of political science, Micki McElya, associate professor of history, and Michael Lynch, professor of philosophy and director of the UConn Humanities Institute.
WHEN: 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22
(Registration starts at 5 p.m., followed by the program at 5:30 p.m.)
WHERE: Hartford Public Library, 500 Main St.
WHO: Faculty panel hosted by Metro Hartford Alliance, Hartford Public Library and UConn. Attendance is free, and the event is open to all media and members of the public.
PANELISTS:
Paul Herrnson, UConn professor of political science, is one of the foremost experts on the American political process. Herrnson earned his B.A. at Binghamton University and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary interests include political parties and elections, money and politics, public opinion, and voting technology and ballot design. He teaches courses on Congressional Elections and other aspects of American politics.
Micki McElya, UConn associate professor of history, received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from New York University. Her book, Clinging to Mammy, won a 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. She was named a “Top Young Historian” by the History News Network in 2008. McElya’s areas of specialty include histories of women, gender, sexuality, and racial formation in the United States from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on political culture and memory; cultural history, feminist and queer theories.
Michael Patrick Lynch is a writer, professor of philosophy and director of the UConn Humanities Institute. He is the author or editor of seven books, including, In Praise of Reason: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy as well as Truth as One and Many and the New York Times Sunday Book Review Editor’s pick, True to Life. The recipient of the Medal for Research Excellence from UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Lynch has been awarded grants from the John Templeton Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Bogliasco Foundation, among others. His latest book is The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data.
For more information, contact: Stephanie Reitz, UConn Spokesperson at 860-486-0871 or stephanie.reitz@uconn.edu