CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: March 25-26, 2010

Changing the "Slow" Institution:
The U.S. Senate, 1960-2010

All sessions will be held in the Dole Institute of Politics' Simons Media Room
Open to the Public

THURSDAY, March 25, 2010

4 p.m. Welcome
Dole Institute Director Bill Lacy

4:15-5:45 .....SESSION I
The Senate (1960) and Its Members

Michael Lynch, University of Kansas
Chair and Discussant

Eric Schickler, University of California-Berkeley
“The U.S. Senate in the Mid-20th Century”

Alan Abramowitz, Emory University
“Senate Elections and Campaigns, 1960-2010”

Burdett Loomis, University of Kansas
“The Changing Shape of Senators’ Careers”
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FRIDAY, March 26, 2010

8:30 – 10 a.m. ....SESSION 2:
"Parties and Procedure"

Nate Monroe, University of California-Merced
Chair and Discussant

Steve Smith, Washington University (St. Louis)
“The Procedural Senate”

Barbara Sinclair, UCLA
“Parties in the Senate”

Frances Lee, University of Maryland
“Individual Senators and the Party Linkage”

10 –10:15 Break

10:15-11:45 Session 3:
Policies, Nominations, and Looking to the Future

Greg Koger, University of Miami
Chair and Discussant:

Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University
“Domestic Policy: The Politics of Energy”

Sarah Binder, The Brookings Institution and George Washington University “The Senate and the Executive: Nomination Politics”

David Rohde, Duke University
“The 21st Century Senate”

11:45 --Noon Break

NOON: KEYNOTE ADDRESS

James Lindsay, senior vice president, Council on Foreign Relations
“The Senate and Foreign Policy”


1 p.m. End of Conference

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Hosted by the Dole Institute of Politics, KU Dept. of Political Science
With the support of Kansas Humanities Council

Press Release

This event concludes the Dole Institute 2010 Presidential Lecture Series