Please join us on Thursday, November 1st from 12:30 to 1:45 in Oak Hall 408 for a presentation by Peter Loge, Associate Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. His talk is titled: "A Call to Return to the Study and Teaching of Political Communication Ethics."
Professor Loge worked as Deputy to the Chief of Staff for Senator Edward Kennedy, in senior positions with three members of the US House of Representatives, and at the Food and Drug Administration under President Obama. He has led and advised a range of campaigns and organizations, including as first vice president for external relations at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He is the founder and principal at the Washington-DC based legislative strategy firm Milo Public Affairs LLC, where his clients ranged from AmericaSpeaks and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” to the World Wildlife Fund and WickedCoolStuff.com. He lectures regularly on politics and lobbying in Washington and elsewhere, and he is featured in the award-winning political documentary Split: A Divided America. He has been quoted in local and national media, has provided analysis and commentary on the syndicated PBS program White House Chronicle, XM/Sirius, and other national media outlets and his writing has been published by the Drake Law Review, the edited volume Wounds that Do Not Bind: Victim Perspectives on the Death Penalty, the Journal of the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors, The Hill newspaper, the IJ Review, the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations, and others (more information at www.peterloge.com).
For more information, contact: the Political Science Department at (860) 486-2440