BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Dole Institute - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Dole Institute
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://doleinstitute.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Dole Institute
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20180311T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20181104T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20190310T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20191103T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20200308T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20201101T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20210314T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20211107T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20220313T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20221106T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211031T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20210522T205246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T211724Z
UID:888-1613030400-1635699600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Voices from the Big First\, 1961-1968
DESCRIPTION:In 1961\, Kansas\, with the rest of the United States\, found itself at a political\, social\, and cultural crossroads. Featuring a selection of constituent letters written to then-Congressman Bob Dole from the collections of the Dole Archives\, this original exhibit curated by Kansas history scholar Virgil Dean offers a window into the hopes and fears of everyday Kansans as they responded to change at home and conflict abroad. \nThis exhibit and associated programs examine where Kansas has been and where it’s going to complement Humanities Kansas initiative: Crossroads: Change in Rural America\, a partnership between Humanities Kansas and the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program. Funding for the exhibit and related programs was provided by Humanities Kansas
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/voices-from-the-big-first-1961-1968/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Dole Gallery & Reading Room\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/rLca3DEU-446x590-1-e1621716855423.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210210T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210302T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T171854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T173439Z
UID:1927-1612915200-1614643200@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2021 | Where Do We Go from Here?
DESCRIPTION:Richard Norton Smith is a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency. He worked for Senator Bob Dole\, with whom he collaborated on books. Mr. Smith served as Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum\, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Center\, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.\nIn December 2001\, Mr. Smith became director of the new Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. There he supervised construction of the Institute’s $11.3 million permanent home and launched the Presidential Lecture Series and other high-profile programs. \n  \nThe Republicans: The Reagan Playbook\nFebruary 10\, 2021 \n \nPresidential scholar Richard Norton Smith examines three successful Republicans\, with a focus on Reagan\, whose 1980 election win paved the way for a center-right nation and set the stage for the last 12-year period of one-party White House control since FDR. \n  \nFDR Revisited: Learning from FDR\, Clinton & Obama\nFebruary 17\, 2021 \n \nAs his administration begins\, President Biden’s likely role models will be FDR\, Clinton\, and Obama. What can he learn from them? \n  \nBreaking Precedent: The Last Four Years\nFebruary 23\, 2021 \n \nThe last four years featured a most unconventional presidency. What has changed? What will go back to normal? \n  \nWhat I’ve Learned; Plus “Ask Richard”\nMarch 02\, 2021 \n \nIn the final lecture of the series\, Smith will present his checklist for a successful presidency. This program will feature an expanded audience Q&A session where the audience can ask him questions about the presidency. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/where-do-we-go-from-here/
CATEGORIES:Presidential Lecture Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210204T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210204T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153347Z
UID:1548-1612396800-1612396800@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:ISIS\, Abu Bakr Naji\, and the Management of Savagery
DESCRIPTION:Al-Qaeda and ISIS used the Management of Savagery as both an operational concept and doctrine. Written for al-Qaeda in 2004\, but demonstrated most thoroughly by ISIS from 2014 to 2021\, the online published work explains how Islamist ideological groups hoped to defeat the West\, in general\, and the United States\, in specific. This presentation explains the main themes of the work and how it was put into practice. \nDuring the event\, submit your questions for Dr. Steed to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nBrian L. Steed\nBrian L. Steed is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel with more than thirty years of civilian and uniformed experience. He is a practitioner\, student\, and writer of military theory\, Middle East culture\, and history. Brian is an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College where he was the 2018 Military Educator of the Year. He is also a senior fellow at Narrative Strategies. As an Army officer\, he was a Middle East foreign area officer\, which included eight and a half consecutive years living and working in the Middle East\, to include assignments in Jordan\, Israel\, Iraq\, and the United Arab Emirates. Brian holds a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in political science and history. Brian has written and edited numerous books\, articles\, and papers on military theory\, military history\, and cultural awareness. His most recent books include ISIS: The Essential Reference Guide\, Iraq War: The Essential Reference Guide\, ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State\, Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era)\, and Bees and Spiders: Applied Cultural Awareness and the Art of Cross-Cultural Influence. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/isis-abu-bakr-naji-and-the-management-of-savagery/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210203T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210203T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T180105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T180105Z
UID:1913-1612310400-1612310400@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:46: The Biden Presidency
DESCRIPTION:Researcher for Richard Ben Cramer’s landmark book What It Takes: The Way to the White House and assistant for several autobiographical books for President-elect Joe Biden\, including his latest\, Promises to Keep\, Mark Zwonitzer will use his in-depth knowledge of the 46th President of the United States to provide us with insight into what can be expected from his administration. \nMark Zwonitzer is an author and documentary filmmaker specializing in American history and politics\, with an emphasis on biography. He has been producing\, directing and/or writing acclaimed documentaries for PBS for more than twenty-five years. He is the writer of the Emmy-winning JFK: Like No Other\, and a four-hour Emmy-nominated biography of Walt Disney. His work in television has been honored with the George Foster Peabody Award\, the Writers Guild Award\, and numerous Primetime Emmy nominations. From 1986 to 1992 Zwonitzer reported the book What It Takes: The Way to the White House with author Richard Ben Cramer. What it Takes was recognized by New York University as one of the Top 100 works of Journalism of the 20th century. He also assisted President Joseph R. Biden\, Jr.\, in his two books: Promises to Keep and Promise Me\, Dad.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/46-the-biden-presidency/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153347Z
UID:1547-1609977600-1609977600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:The Medieval Theory of John of Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:John of Salisbury (died 1180) was a prolific and erudite English writer. Dubbed “the best classical scholar of his age\,” he was clerk to St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury and\, later\, became the bishop of Chartres. Among his numerous works is the book Policraticus\, which\, despite its fame as a political and moral treatise\, has been virtually ignored by military historians. More’s the pity: Policraticus was read by military commanders and strategists into the 18th century and contained concepts on generalship\, logistics\, pay\, discipline\, training\, and the military-state relationship that appeared in later–and purportedly innovative–treatises by such later writers as Thomas Aquinas\, Christine de Pizan\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and Justus Lipsius. In this talk\, Professor John D. Hosler will survey the martial content in John of Salisbury’s writings and explain how he serves as the medieval bridge between ancient and early-modern military theory. \nSubmit your questions for Dr. Hosler to dolesocial@ku.edu for the question and answer portion of the program. \nThis event is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nJohn D. Hosler (Ph.D.\, University of Delaware) is Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College and an expert in warfare in medieval Europe and the Middle East. He is the author of sixty articles and book reviews and author or editor of six books: the forthcoming Seven Myths of Military History (Hackett); Military Cultures and Martial Enterprises in the Middle Ages (2020); The Siege of Acre\, 1189-1191 (2018)\, which was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year; Where Heaven and Earth Meet (2013); John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (2012); and Henry II: a Medieval Soldier at War (2007). He currently serves as the President of De Re Militari: the Society for Medieval Military History and a Trustee of the United States Commission for Military History\, and he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-medieval-theory-of-john-of-salisbury/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210103T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210116T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220112T222949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220127T165151Z
UID:1642-1609632000-1610755200@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2020 National Post-Election Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Dole Institute’s Pose-Election Conference will take on a new form during the COVID-19 pandemic. \n“Our Post-Election Conference is one of the most anticipated events we have at the institute\,” said Director Bill Lacy. “However\, COVID-19 made it impossible to hold the conference the way we have in the past. Given the historic nature of this year’s election\, we felt canceling the conference was not an option. So\, we have gathered eleven world-class guests for a video series that delves deeply into one of the most unique national elections in our country’s history.” \nIn this new format\, each guest was interviewed individually by Lacy\, allowing for in-depth analysis and insight. All eleven videos are currently available for viewing. The series can be binge-watched or doled out over time. \n  \nMichael Glassner \n \nMichael Glassner\, Chief Operating Officer for Trump’s reelection campaign\, discusses how the election played out from the Trump campaign’s point of view. He focusses on the time between the midterms and now\, and how things like the pandemic\, racial justice protests\, and the debates were approached by the campaign. He also discusses the trump campaign’s messaging strategy and stories from the campaign trail\, especially the rallies. \nMichael S. Glassner was Senior Advisor and Chief Operating Officer for Donald J. Trump\, Inc.\, as well as a top strategist of the President’s 2020 campaign organization\, and currently serves as President of C&M Transcontinental. Michael formerly served as Regional Political Director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in the Southwest Region\, Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the IDT Corporation\, and was a top political and policy advisor to Senator Bob Dole. He was also a Dole Institute Visiting Fellow. \n  \nJeff Greenfield \n \nJeff Greenfield\, author\, journalist\, former political analyst for CBS\, CNN\, ABC\, and current analyst for PBS\, talks about his background as a long-time political analyst in journalism. He discusses his experience covering Trump’s presidency and the election\, and why he thinks the election played out the way it did. He gives his insights into America’s political landscape\, talking about where the two parties stand now and what he thinks their challenges will be in the future. \nJeff Greenfield\, a veteran political\, media and culture reporter\, and analyst has spent more than thirty years on network television while also working as a print journalist and best-selling author. In his 30+ plus years at CBS\, CNN\, ABC\, and PBS\, he has reported on matters political and cultural. Greenfield also has reported on the media\, culture\, and trends for the cable network. He is currently a columnist for POLITICO and a contributing correspondent for PBS’“Newshour.” Greenfield also worked as a speechwriter for the Senate\, Robert Kennedy\, and John Lindsay and served as a columnist for TIME Magazine. \n  \nEric Pahls \n \nEric Pahls\, who managed the campaign for Senator-elect Roger Marshall\, gives an account of the campaign from start to finish\, adding his insights about various points in the campaign. He talks about messaging strategies and T.V. ads and Marshall as a candidate and how he stacked up against Barbara Bollier. He also talked about Republicans and Democrats in general and what he thinks about the challenges the parties will face in the future. \nEric Pahls is a proud native Kansan who served as Campaign Manager for Dr. Roger Marshall’s successful 2020 U.S. Senate Campaign. Prior to 2020\, he served as businesswoman Carly Fiorina’s Communications Director\, and as the youngest Press Secretary on Capitol Hill after working on Dr. Marshall’s successful 2016 Congressional campaign\, which notably unseated the incumbent. Eric is a graduate of the University of Kansas and was a Student Advisory Board Member and student staff member at the Dole Institute of Politics throughout college.” \n  \nMax Glass \n \nPolitical Campaign Manager Max Glass discusses the Barbara Bollier campaign\, including its strengths\, weaknesses\, and challenges as they faced their competition for a senate seat. He reflects on what he would have done differently and why the campaign made the decisions they did. He has worked on a variety of Democratic campaigns including the congressional campaign of former Presidential candidate Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of HI. \n  \nKatie Glueck \n \nNew York Times writer Katie Glueck discusses the early campaign of Joe Biden\, what his campaign did for Super Tuesday and primary season in general\, and how both campaigns operated during the pandemic. Glueck speaks about what it’s like covering a campaign during a pandemic and goes on to address the general election and Biden’s path to victory. She discusses the results of the election for all sections of politics and the upcoming Georgia Senate race runoff. \nKatie Glueck is a national politics reporter at The New York Times\, where she covered the 2020 presidential campaign as a lead reporter on Joe Biden. She previously covered politics for McClatchy’s Washington bureau and Politico. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, Washingtonian magazine\, Town & Country magazine\, and The Austin American-Statesman. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and is a native of Leawood\, Kan. She lives in New York City. \n  \nErin Wilson \n \nErin Wilson\, National Political Director for President-Elect Biden\, describes what working on the Biden campaign was like at the beginning and what trials the Biden campaign went through to secure their path to the candidacy and ultimately the presidency. She addresses how the campaign reacted to the George Floyd incident. Wilson discusses the selection of Kamala Harris as the vice president. Differences between how Republicans and Democrats campaigned. Pathway to victory. She describes creating a virtual campaign and now a digital inauguration in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. \nWilson\, a Philadelphia native and national political director for Biden’s presidential campaign\, currently serves as deputy executive director of the inauguration committee. She formerly worked for Sen. Bob Casey and the Democratic National Committee. \n  \nJoe Lenski \n \nPollster Joe Lenski discusses exit polling and the unique challenges of the 2020 election. He examines what type of people voted for which candidate and analyzes the data from the past year. \nJoe Lenski is co-founder and Executive Vice President of Edison Research. Under his supervision\, Edison Research currently conducts all exit polls in the United States for the four major news organizations. Joe has also served as Councilor-at-Large for the American Association for Public Opinion Research\, Secretary-Treasurer of AAPOR\, and Statistical Analyst for the CBS News/New York Times Poll.” \n  \nFrank Fahrenkopf \n \n  \nFrank Fahrenkopf\, former RNC chairman and co-founder of the Commission on Presidential Debates\, talks about the history of presidential debates in our country\, sharing stories about past debates. Additionally\, he discusses how the debates work and their importance. He recounts how he founded the commission. \nFrank J. Fahrenkopf\, Jr. is Co-Chair of the Commission on Presidential Debate\, which he co-founded in 1987. He was President and CEO of the American Gaming Association until he retired in 2013. A lawyer by profession\, Frank gained national prominence during the 1980s when he served as chairman of the Republican Party for six of President Ronald Reagan’s eight years in the White House. He also was a founder of the National Endowment for Democracy and the International Republican Institute. \n  \nDan Balz \n \nWashington Post Chief Correspondent Dan Balz discusses Biden’s path to victory – from the primary election season to November 3. He speaks at length about how the pandemic affected both campaigns\, the importance of adaptability during the pandemic\, and how campaigns put together their respective conventions. He also analyzes what the campaigns did to reach their electoral votes. Balz shares his insights on the first presidential debate\, polling\, and the months leading into November. \nDan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 1978 and has been on the front lines of the Post’s political coverage as a reporter or editor throughout his career. He is the author or co-author of several books\, including two New York Times bestsellers: Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America and\, with co-author Haynes Johnson\, “The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election.” \n  \nSteven Jacques \n \nDemocratic advisor Steven Jacques reflects on the beginning of the year for the Democratic race\, how both campaigns reached voters during the primary and their different approaches to conventions. He discusses the presidential debates and what cable news has done to politics. He offers insight into the future of campaigning. \nSteven has served on the White House staff and worked for the White House as an outside contractor in three administrations\, leading presidential and vice-presidential advance teams throughout the U.S. and the world. He served as a senior official in the U.S. State Department\, U.S. Commerce Department\, and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development. He has served on national staff in twelve presidential campaigns\, from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama\, and was Obama’s senior national lead advance throughout the ’07 – ’08 campaign. He is a former senior fellow of the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \nFrancesca Chambers \n \nFrancesca Chambers\, White House Correspondent for McClatchy\, talks about her experience covering the White House over the course of the last year. She gives insight into how the White House responded to various events\, such as COVID\, racial justice\, the debates\, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing\, and how they affected Trump’s reelection campaign. She also discusses what it was like being a reporter in the White House during the pandemic\, the election\, and her plans to cover the Biden Administration. \nFrancesca Chambers is a White House Correspondent for McClatchy. She previously held the position of Senior White House Correspondent at DailyMail.com and its Emmy-winning\, syndicated newsmagazine DailyMailTV. She has covered the White House since late 2014 across two administrations – Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump – and reported on the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in 2016. She is a proud graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas\, from which she also has a B.A. in political science. She was a member of the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/2020-post-election-conference/
CATEGORIES:Post-Election Conferences
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1546-1606953600-1606953600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:The Battle of Ramadi\, 2006
DESCRIPTION:The Battle of Ramadi in 2006-07 is one of the lesser-known but arguably one of the fiercest and the most decisive battle of the Iraq War. This battle marked a change in the US understanding of the war in Iraq and the adoption of highly controversial and effective tactics that reflected that changed understanding. The Battle of Ramadi would become the model for what came to be called “The Sunni Awakening\,” and for General Petraeus’s “Surge” strategy which was implemented two years later. It foretold a very sophisticated understanding of counter-insurgency which ultimately led to military success in Iraq. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nDr. Louis A. DiMarco retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army in 2005 after more than 24 years of active service as an armored cavalry officer. His military assignments include cavalry troop command\, instructor at the US Army Armor School\, and staff assignments at all levels from Division through Joint Headquarters. Dr. DiMarco’s civilian education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy\, West Point\, NY\, a Masters in Military Art and Science from the US Army Command and Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth Kansas\, a Masters of Arts Degree in International Relations from Salve Regina University\, Rhode Island\, and a Ph.D. in History from Kansas State University. Dr. DiMarco has authored several important Army doctrinal manuals including FM 3-06\, Urban Operations (2002). He was a contributing author to FM 3-24\, Counterinsurgency (2006). Dr. DiMarco has written and lectured on a variety of military affairs topics including military government and civil affairs\, armored cavalry and reconnaissance\, urban warfare\, and counterinsurgency. His work has been published by the Association of the U.S. Army\, the Combat Studies Institute\, and a variety of professional journals including Armor\, Military Review\, Proceedings\, the Small Wars Journal\, Parameters\, and the Global War Studies Journal. He is also the author of the booklet Military Operations and the Middle Eastern City (Combat Studies Institute\, 2003)\, and two books: War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider (Westholme\, 2008); and Concrete Hell: Modern Urban Operations from Stalingrad to Iraq (Osprey\, 2012). His most recent work\, Concrete Hell\, has been translated into numerous foreign languages\, used as a text at the US\, German and Republic of Korea Staff and War Colleges\, is listed on the Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List\, and is considered a seminal work on this subject. \nDr. DiMarco is married to retired Army Colonel Joyce DiMarco who teaches leadership at the US Army Command and General Staff College\, and they have two daughters\, both serving in the military: one is an intelligence officer in the US Air Force stationed at Offit AFB\, Nebraska\, and the other is an Army Physician’s Assistant assigned to the Aviation Brigade\, 1st Infantry Division\, Fort Riley\, Kansas. He lives on a 56-acre farm in Leavenworth County\, Kansas\, with his wife Joyce\, four dogs\, five horses\, and a John Deere tractor. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-battle-of-ramadi-2006/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T212518Z
UID:1504-1605139200-1605139200@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2020 | Major General Diana M. Holland
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership lecture will be given by Major General Diana M. Holland of the U.S. Army. \n“We are thrilled to have Major General Holland as our guest for this year’s Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership lecture\,” said Director Bill Lacy. “Her distinguished and storied career with the U.S. Army is an inspiration. Her lifetime of service to this country made her a natural choice.” \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nA downloadable\, printable program for this event is available here. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nHolland graduated from the United States Military Academy and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in 1990. She served in Operation Freedom’s Sentinel\, Joint Task Force Sapper\, and Task Force Diamond in Afghanistan. She also served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. As commander of the South Atlantic Division\, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\, she oversaw support to disaster-stricken states following hurricanes Irma\, Maria\, Florence\, and Michael. \nIn 2015\, Holland was the first woman appointed commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In that same year\, she was the first woman to hold the title of deputy commander of support in a light infantry division. She currently serves with the Army Corps of Engineers as the commanding general of the Mississippi Valley Division\, and as the president of the Mississippi River Commission\, both firsts for a woman in these appointments. \nHolland’s military awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit\, the Bronze Star\, the Meritorious Service Medal\, Afghanistan Campaign Star\, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal\, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal\, to name a few. \n \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/major-general-diana-m-holland/
CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201105T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1545-1604534400-1604534400@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Spring 1944: The Turning Point in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1944\, the conflict in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) began to turn in favor of the Allies. The Japanese\, in two offensives: ICHIGO (Operation Number 1) in China; and\, U-GO (Operation C) in India\, endeavored to take China out of the war and drive the British from India. General William Slim’s 14th Army successfully defended at Kohima and Imphal and quickly launched a counterattack into Burma. General Joseph Stilwell’s forces from the Chinese Army in India supported this effort along with Orde Wingate’s Chindits and American advised Chinese forces from Y-Force headquartered in Kunming. In China\, Chiang Kai-shek’s forces eventually turned the tide on the Japanese attempt to knock out airfields in China capable of hitting the mainland and secure a landline of communication from Korea to Southeast Asia. The final Allied victory in mainland Asia began with the destruction of Japanese forces in China\, Burma\, and India in the spring of 1944. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nDr. Geoff Babb \nDr. Joseph G. D. (Geoff) Babb is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel currently serving as an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. Dr. Babb holds a BA from Bowdoin College\, a MPA from Clark University\, a MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas. Dr. Babb served as a China Foreign Area Officer educated in Hong Kong and Beijing. He served in Washington D.C. at the Defense Intelligence Agency and on the Joint Staff. He also was a regional desk officer in Hawaii at US Pacific and Army Pacific Commands. He has written on the American military’s role in China in Volumes I and II of Through the Joint\, Interagency\, and Multinational Lens: Perspectives on the Operational Environment. His most recent publication is a chapter on the Korea War published in Weaving the Tangled Web; Military Deception in Large-Scale Combat Operations issued by Army University Press. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/spring-1944-the-turning-point-in-the-china-burma-india-theater-in-world-war-ii/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201021T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201021T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T171604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T195047Z
UID:1925-1603238400-1603238400@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:A Conversation on Race Part II: Asian-Pacific and Hispanic concerns
DESCRIPTION:“The problem of racism in this country is multi-faceted and complex\,” said Director Bill Lacy. “As we move forward in this series\, we want to address additional communities and how racism affects them. For the second installment of ‘A Conversation on Race\,’ we will discuss Asian-Pacific and Hispanic concerns. We look forward to another insightful\, respectful\, and important discussion with a stellar panel of guests.” \nThe event will feature Christina Haswood\, Territory Senator Carmelo J. Ríos-Santiago\, State Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos\, and former State Representative Jene Vickrey and will be moderated by Senior Associate Director of the Institute\, Dr. Barbara Ballard. \nChristina Haswood is a public health professional and a candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives in District 10. She is also a member of the Navajo Nation\, and if elected\, she would be just the third Native American in Kansas history to be a state legislature. She received endorsements from Emily’s List\, the Kansas National Education Association\, the Sunrise Movement of Lawrence Kansas\, the Kansas Sierra Club\, seven current Kansas state legislators\, as well as former Governor Kathleen Sebelius and current Congresswoman Deb Haaland and Congresswoman Sharice Davids. She is currently running unopposed for the general election. \nCarmelo J. Ríos-Santiago is the current Majority Leader of the Puerto Rico State Senate. In 2004\, he was elected as one of the youngest Senators of his class\, representing the Bayamón District of Puerto Rico and chaired the Municipal and Financial Affairs Committee. He was elected in 2018 as President of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators\, a non-profit organization representing over 400 elected Hispanic state legislators throughout the United States\, Puerto Rico\, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. During his tenure\, he was also part of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. \nSharon Tomiko Santos was elected to the Washington State House of Representatives in 1998. She chairs the House Education Committee and serves on the House Capital Budget Committee and Consumer Protection & Business Committee. She has received numerous awards for her legislative and community work\, including the Kip Tokuda Community Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation and the Leadership and Vision Award from Junior Achievement of Washington. \nJene Vickrey is life long resident of Louisburg\, Kansas. He was elected to the Kansas House in 1992 and recently retired after 28 years. He was elected to serve as Assistant Majority Leader\, Speaker Pro Tem\, and Majority Leader for two terms.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/a-conversation-on-race-part-2-asian-pacific-and-hispanic-concerns/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1544-1601510400-1601510400@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Seven Days in September 1814: The Turning Points of the War of 1812
DESCRIPTION:The British demands in mid-1814 were fierce and would have reduced the United States in size and limited its potential for expansion. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in 1812 because the British were seizing American merchant ships and cargoes\, taking crewmen into the Royal Navy involuntarily\, and providing arms to Native Americans on the frontier. However\, American armies had lost battle after battle with little potential to accomplish the nation’s war goals. The British negotiating position at Ghent was to create an Indian buffer state north of the Ohio River\, take about half of Maine\, and demilitarize the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. They had captured Fort Niagara\, occupied 100 miles of the coast of Maine\, and burned Washington. Then\, in one week in September 1814\, the U.S. defended Baltimore (its 3rd largest city) and won the battle of Plattsburgh in New York. Two thousand soldiers besieged in Fort Erie broke out and pushed the British back 20 miles. After that\, Duke Wellington advised the British government to drop any claims for territory and negotiate a settlement. British prospects for a decisive victory were not propitious and the war was very expensive. The British cabinet reluctantly agreed and the treaty was signed on Christmas Eve. The three American victories\, “Seven Days in September\,” were a turning point of the war and set America back on the course of greatness. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nRich Barbuto was raised on the shores of Lake Erie in New York State. Graduating from West Point in 1971\, he served as an armor officer for twenty-three years in Germany\, Korea\, Canada\, and other U.S. posts. Rich took an early interest in military education and taught at the Armor School\, ROTC at Eastern Kentucky University\, the Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto\, and the Command and General Staff College. He earned a Ph.D. in American History from KU and was the deputy director of the Department of Military History at CGSC for twelve years. Rich has written several books and numerous articles on the War of 1812 and is a frequent speaker at history conferences and public venues. Rich continues researching and writing military history; his fourth book is in the publication process with the University Press of Oklahoma. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/seven-days-in-september-1814-the-turning-points-of-the-war-of-1812/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200923T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201118T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T191942Z
UID:1521-1600819200-1605657600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2020 FALL | Politics\, Pandemic and Protests
DESCRIPTION:Unpacking the 2020 general election with the Dole Institute’s fall fellow\, Collen McCain Nelson\, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Vice-President of the Kansas City Star. \nDole Fellow Colleen McCain Nelson\nRead more about Dole Fellows >> \nThe Dole Discussion Groups are made possible by a grant from Newman’s Own. \n  \n  \nElection 2020: The State of the Race\n9/23/2020 \n \nAs the 2020 presidential campaign enters the final sprint to the finish\, we’ll kick off this fall discussion series by assessing the state of the race after a tumultuous and unpredictable spring and summer. Which states are likely to decide this election? What issues and messages are resonating with voters? This will be a broad overview of the political landscape and a prelude to future Dole Institute events\, touching on campaign strategy\, fundraising\, and the state of play in the battle for control of Congress. \nAllan J. Katz served as Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Portugal from March 2010 until August 2013. Upon returning to private life\, Ambassador Katz joined the University of Missouri in Kansas City (UMKC) as a Distinguished Professor where he served from 2013 until 2019. In 2019\, he joined the faculty of William Jewell College as Distinguished Professor in Residence. Additionally\, in 2014\, he founded and remains CEO and Chairman of an NGO\, American Public Square\, which brings together non-like-minded people to engage in civil\, fact-based dialogue about polarizing issues. He serves as Executive Committee Chair of the Academic and Corporate Board to ISCTE Business School in Lisbon\, Portugal. Additionally\, he serves as a non-executive Board Member of EDP Renewables (global energy company\, a leader in the utilities sector and part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index)\, a board member of the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Foundation\, and a former board member of the International Relations Council of Kansas City. \nKevin Yoder is a 5th generation Kansan who represented the 3rd District of Kansas for four terms from 2011-2019. During his entire tenure in Congress\, Kevin served on the House Appropriations Committee\, where he chaired both the Homeland Security and the Legislative Branch Subcommittees. He regularly crossed the aisle working with members of both parties to push for key initiatives\, including historic expansion of medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health and new investments in early childhood education programs like Head-start. Prior to serving in Congress\, Kevin was elected four times to the Kansas State Legislature representing Overland Park and Leawood\, and he served as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Kansas. \n  \nWhy did everyone underestimate Joe Biden?\n9/30/2020 \n \nEven though Joe Biden entered the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as the front-runner\, many political pundits and journalists lost confidence in the former vice president along the way\, writing his political obituary and declaring him an also-ran who had missed his moment. How did they get this race so wrong? And at a moment when it appeared that Sen. Bernie Sanders was gaining steam and possibly emerging as an unstoppable force\, how did Biden quickly change the narrative and begin to unify the party? \nEdward-Isaac Dovere is a staff writer for The Atlantic\, where he covers the presidential campaign. He got his start covering politics in his native New York and was the senior White House reporter for POLITICO in Barack Obama’s second term. He is currently working on a book about Democrats in the Trump years\, tentatively titled\, “You Are Right to Be Concerned\,” out spring 2021. \nPeter Nicholas is a White House reporter for The Atlantic. He has also worked at the Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and the Times-Picayune newspaper. \n  \nHow the Coronavirus Has Upended the 2020 Campaign\n10/7/2020 \n \nWith relatively little warning\, the coronavirus pandemic brought the 2020 presidential campaign to a virtual halt\, cancelling candidates’ rallies for months\, throwing the conventions into limbo\, shutting down in-person fundraisers and making gladhanding and personal appeals to voters an impossibility. For a time\, President Donald Trump was confined to the White House\, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden was forced to campaign from his basement in Delaware. How did the campaigns adapt? And how is COVID-19 still altering the dynamics of the race? \n  \nIt’s the Economy\, Stupid\n10/14/2020 \n \nConventional wisdom has long suggested that presidents win reelection when the economy is strong and lose when the economy is faltering. Will that hold true in the 2020 election? For three years\, President Donald Trump could lay claim to a thriving economy\, low unemployment and a strong stock market. But the bottom fell out when the coronavirus took hold in this country\, spurring Depression-era unemployment and gutting entire industries. Will voters hold Trump responsible for the economic fallout from a pandemic? \n  \nA War of Disinformation\n10/21/2020 \n \nWhat role is disinformation playing in the 2020 presidential campaign? In 2016\, many were shocked — shocked! — to learn that completely false “news” stories about the election were shared far and wide on social media. Four years later\, little has been done to slow the spread of disinformation on a variety of online platforms. Foreign governments have made no secret of their intent to meddle in our elections. And the president himself has had a tenuous relationship with the truth\, elevating conspiracy theories and repeating falsehoods. What can voters do to separate fact from fiction? \n  \nDo Endorsements Matter?\n10/28/2020 \n \nTime was\, newspaper endorsements were a consequential boost for campaigns. But in an era of multiplying media outlets and declining newspaper subscriptions\, do endorsements still carry the same weight? In 2016\, Donald Trump earned the endorsements of only 20 daily newspapers in the entire country\, but he won the White House. We’ll convene opinion journalists to explore what role editorial boards are playing in the 2020 election and consider the question of whether traditional candidate endorsements have outlived their usefulness. \n  \nElection 2020: Lessons Learned\n11/18/2020 \n \nWith the 2020 election now in the rearview mirror\, we’ll do a deep dive into the deciding factors in this year’s presidential campaign. Did polls\, journalists\, and political prognosticators get it right this time? What surprised us on Election Day? Were the mistakes of 2016 repeated in 2020? We’ll wrap up this election season with an assessment of lessons learned from the 2020 campaign and a look ahead to what awaits the next president and Congress.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/politics-pandemic-protests/
CATEGORIES:Discussion Groups
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200915T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200915T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T165720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T170008Z
UID:1911-1600128000-1600128000@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2020 CONSTITUTION DAY | Kansas in the U.S. Supreme Court
DESCRIPTION:KU Law Professor Lou Mulligan leads guests: Legal Director of the ACLU of Kansas\, Lauren Bonds; Professor of Law Emeritus at Boston University School of Law\, Larry Yackle and Constitutional Law Professor\, Josh Blackman through a discussion of three of the most important cases appearing before the Supreme Court this fall.\nFulton v. City of Philadelphia – questioning whether religious organizations should be exempt from generally applicable laws that impinge upon religious practice. \nJones v. Mississippi – questioning whether and how juveniles may be imprisoned for life sentences. \nCalifornia v. Texas – questioning the constitutionality of the ACA\, i.e. ObamaCare. \nThis program is sponsored by Mark P. Johnson. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nSouth Texas College of Law Houston Professor\, will discuss California v. Texas. Professor Blackman is co-counsel for an amicus party and filed a brief in the case. Professor Blackman earned his JD from George Mason University Law School and his BS from Pennsylvania State University. \nLegal Director of the ACLU of Kansas\, will discuss Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. The ACLU is an amicus party in the case. Ms. Bonds earned her JD from Duke\, and her BA from KU\, where she was an All-American athlete. \nLumen “Lou” Mulligan joined the KU Law faculty in 2010\, where he teaches predominantly civil litigation courses. He was named as an Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor in 2019. Mulligan also teaches undergraduate classes in the KU Honors Program. Mulligan served\, or continues to serve\, on the Kansas Judicial Council – Civil Rules Advisory Committee\, the executive committee of the appellate section of the Kansas Bar Association\, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal Criminal Justice Act Panel\, the board of directors for Kansas Legal Services\, and the Kansas Court of Appeals Mediation Study committee. Mulligan frequently offers testimony to the Kansas legislature as well. Mulligan continues with representation in court\, most often in an amicus curia or pro bono capacity. \nBoston University Law School Professor\, will discuss Jones v. Mississippi. Professor Yackle is co-counsel\, an amicus party\, and filed a brief in the case. Professor Yackle earned both his JD and BA from KU in addition to an LLM from Harvard Law School.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/2020-constitution-day-kansas-in-the-u-s-supreme-court/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200910T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200910T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T193145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T193145Z
UID:1910-1599696000-1599696000@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Marines Return to Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:In 1967\, John Musgrave was wounded in Vietnam. More than fifty years later\, he\, along with fellow marine John Solbach\, journalist Lindsey Foat\, and historian Bill Tuttle\, returned to the Southeast Asian country. In this program\, the four guests will discuss this experience and what it was like to return while sharing images from the trip captured by Musgrave’s son\, Daniel. \nLindsey Foat spent ten years working as a reporter\, producer\, and community engagement expert at Kansas City PBS. She led the station’s content and engagement efforts focused on veterans\, including award-winning\, local documentary\, and innovative engagement initiatives for Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War. Through that work\, she was lucky to work with and befriend John Musgrave and joined him on his return trip to Vietnam. Currently\, Lindsey is the Content and Communications Director at the Rabbit hole\, which is an immersive museum for children’s literature. \nDan Musgrave is a writer and photographer with a particular interest in the intersections of the human and animal world. At the moment his efforts are mainly directed toward a collaborative memoir with his father\, probing the interpersonal and intergenerational ramifications of combat. Dan’s work has earned recognition from the Iceland Writers Retreat\, Tulsa Artist Fellowship\, Odyssey Writing Workshop\, and several literary magazines and journals. He is a registered member of the Osage Nation\, and an alum of Grinnell College. \nJohn Musgrave was born in 1948 in Independence\, Missouri—a suburb of Kansas City. After high school he enlisted in the Marine Corps\, ultimately becoming a member of the 1st Battalion\, 9th Marines. He served in Vietnam for 11 months before being permanently disabled by his third wound at the battle of Con Thien in November 1967. After returning to the states\, John studied at Baker University in Baldwin City\, KS\, where he struggled with PTSD and suicidal tendencies. Eventually\, he joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War\, participating in protests in Washington\, DC\, and elsewhere around the country. After years of struggle\, depression\, and heart-searching\, he learned to cope with his PTSD\, though as with most veterans\, that would remain a lifelong process. He has worked extensively with other veterans in suicide-prevention programs such as the National Veteran’s Wellness and Healing Center\, and the U.S. Army’s Worldwide Stand-Down for Suicide Awareness. In recent years he has been particularly focused on post-9/11 vets. \nJohn Solbach is a Lawrence attorney who served in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines Lima Company in 1967 and 1968. He served in the Kansas legislature for 14 years. He lives with his wife on a farm west of Lawrence \nWilliam M. Tuttle\, Jr.\, is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Kansas. In support of his research\, Bill Tuttle has been awarded major fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Henry A. Murray Research Center\, Radcliffe College. He has also held residential fellowships at the Institute of Southern History\, Johns Hopkins University\, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History\, Harvard University\, and the Stanford University Humanities Center.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/marines-return-to-vietnam/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200909T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200909T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220107T155001Z
UID:1535-1599609600-1599609600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Francesca Chambers and MJ Lee
DESCRIPTION:As we head into what promises to be a highly contentious election season\, journalism has never been more vitally important. However\, the media landscape is undergoing turbulent change with older media giving way to social media. Join CNN Political Correspondent MJ Lee and McClatchy White House Correspondent and KU graduate Francesca Chambers as they discuss the 2020 elections and the state of journalism in America. This event is co-sponsored by the KU Journalism and School and the Political Science Department. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nFrancesca Chambers is a White House Correspondent for McClatchy. She previously held the position of Senior White House Correspondent at DailyMail.com and its Emmy-winning\, syndicated newsmagazine DailyMailTV. She is a proud graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas\, from which she also has a BA in political science. \nMJ Lee is a correspondent for CNN covering politics\, campaigns\, and national breaking news stories. She is currently covering the 2020 presidential elections. Before joining CNN\, Lee was a finance and politics reporter at Politico in Washington\, DC. She was born in South Korea and grew up in Hong Kong. She has a bachelor’s degree in government and Chinese from Georgetown University. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/francesca-chambers-and-mj-lee/
CATEGORIES:Journalism and Politics Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200903T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200903T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1543-1599091200-1599091200@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:1979: The Turning Point of the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:President Carter had a visceral dislike of the CIA and its use of covert missions. However\, he overcame his initial perception when he saw an opportunity to use the CIA and its covert action as a means to increase the pressure on the political and social systems of the Soviet Union. Using the tenets of the Helsinki Accords as a means to advance the cause of human rights and civil liberties\, Carter used the CIA as a critical tool to support the Solidarity Movement in Poland\, as well as the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Though credit for these efforts tends to fall to the presidency of Ronald Reagan\, it was\, in fact\, President Carter\, who saw this unique opportunity to pressure the Soviet Union on its human rights record. Carter’s efforts represent a critical turning point in the last decade of the Cold War. \nThis program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nDr. Sean N. Kalic\nKalic\, a Professor in the Department of Military History at the US Army’s Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, where he has taught since 2004\, is a Cold War scholar\, who has written on the militarization of space\, the global war on terrorism\, US space policy\, Cold War espionage\, and the Russian Revolution. Additionally\, he has presented lectures for the Slovenian General Staff\, the Slovenian Command and General Staff College\, the US Naval War College\, and the US Army’s Futures Study Group. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/1979-the-turning-point-of-the-cold-war/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200806T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200806T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1542-1596672000-1596672000@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:The Battle of Shiloh\, the Turning Point of the American Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Civil War fans often point to Antietam or Gettysburg as the turning point of the war\, but overlooked is the night of April 6\, 1862\, when Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee was teetering on the edge of annihilation on the banks of the Tennessee River. The day had begun with a surprise attack by Confederate forces near Shiloh Church and had witnessed the heaviest fighting of the war to date\, through places like the Hornets’ Nest and Hell’s Hollow. That evening\, Grant’s subordinates all advised an immediate retreat\, but he chose to stay and fight\, a decision that resulted in the most significant turning point of the Civil War. \nWatch the live-stream of this program on our YouTube channel. \nHarry S. Laver is a professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, who specializes in the American Civil War and World War II Europe. His recent publications include A General Who Will Fight: The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant (University Press of Kentucky\, 2013)\, and as co-editor\, The Art of Command: American Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell (University Press of Kentucky\, 2nd ed.\, 2017). From 2013 to 2014 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. In 2017 he was selected as the Educator of the Year in Department of Military History at the Staff College. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-battle-of-shiloh-the-turning-point-of-the-american-civil-war/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200726T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200726T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T193236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T193236Z
UID:1909-1595721600-1595721600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Commemoration of 30th Anniversary of the ADA
DESCRIPTION:The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement is joining the Dole Institute of Politics\, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate\, George Bush Presidential Library & Museum and George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum to host a virtual rally commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26\, 2020.\nHosting the rally virtually on Twitter and Instagram will not only allow participants to socially distance but also increase accessibility for people who might face physical barriers to attending an in-person event. Renowned disability rights activists\, including Senator Tom Harkin (retired)\, Senator Bob Dole (retired)\, Judy Heumann and Claudia Gordon will speak at the event. \nThe landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was known as the Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities at the time it was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26\, 1990. \nFor more information about the rally and the 30th anniversary of the ADA visit The Harkin Institute’s website or contact Emily Schettler\, emily.schettler@drake.edu\, 515-205-6319.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/commemoration-of-30th-anniversary-of-the-ada/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T193301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T193316Z
UID:1908-1595289600-1595289600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Let the Shameful Wall of Exclusion Come Down: The 30th Anniversary of the ADA
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday July 21st\, the George & Barbara Bush Foundation will convene key activists\, advocates and policymakers who helped make the Americans with Disabilities Act a reality for a bipartisan celebration of that landmark civil rights legislation – and\, equally important\, focus on the challenges that will shape the future of the disability movement. Dole Institute of Politics Associate Director and Director of Museum and Archives Audrey Coleman will be among the guests for the discussion. \nThe 90-minute online program\, titled “Let the Shameful Wall of Exclusion Come Down\,” taken from President Bush’s remarks on July 26\, 1990 as he signed the ADA\, starts on July 21st at 12:30 pm Central and will be moderated by Judy Woodruff\, the managing editor and anchor of PBS’ NewsHour.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/let-the-shameful-wall-of-exclusion-come-down-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-ada/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200616T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200616T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T171600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T195023Z
UID:1907-1592265600-1592265600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:A Conversation on Race Part I
DESCRIPTION:The justifiable outrage over the death of Mr. George Floyd has spread across the United States and beyond. As thousands of people take to the streets demanding racial justice\, the need for civil and thoughtful discourse has scarcely been more acutely felt in the history of our country. The Dole Institute’s mission is to provide the forum for exactly this kind of important and uncomfortable conversation. \n“A Conversation on Race” will be hosted by Senior Associate Director Dr. Barbara Ballard and will feature Dr. Roosevelt “Rose” Barfield and Cherylyn Harley LeBon as her guests. This program will be the first in an ongoing series on race-related issues with additional installments to be announced at a later date. Ballard\, who serves in the Kansas State Legislature since 1993\, will welcome Barfield and LeBon back to the Institute\, as both were Dole Fellows in the past. Barfield served in the U.S. Army for 32 years\, retiring as a Brigadier General\, and LeBon worked extensively in national politics\, including as assistant administrator for Intergovernmental Affairs for George W. Bush. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nBarfield served in the U.S. Army for 32 years\, retiring from active duty in 2009 as a Brigadier General. He served as a Military Legislative Assistant to the U.S. Senate from 2008 to 2009. He was the guest speaker for the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board program in Fall 2010 and was the Spring 2013 Dole Fellow. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Consilium Group and a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. \nLeBon was the assistant administrator for Intergovernmental Affairs for the George W. Bush administration\, working with the White House\, Governors\, and local and state officials coordinating disaster relief\, economic development\, and financial assistance. She also served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She was the Fall 2017 Dole Fellow and is currently a partner with the law firm Dunlap\, Bennett & Ludwig.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/a-conversation-on-race-part-1/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200604T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200604T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1541-1591228800-1591228800@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Barbarossa’s Siege of Rome\, 1167: The Turning Point for Medieval Italy
DESCRIPTION:In an effort to thwart the ambitions of his political rivals\, the Hohenstaufen ruler Frederick Barbarossa invaded Italy in 1167 with the goal of driving all the way to Sicily. Following successful sieges in northern Italy\, he took his army to Rome: he captured the city on July 24 and then stirred its citizens into revolt against Pope Alexander III\, who was forced to flee to Benevento. Six days later\, Barbarossa installed an antipope (Paschal III) on St. Peter’s throne\, and Paschal\, in return\, crowned him Holy Roman Emperor. Matters abruptly changed thereafter. A destructive storm and widespread plague ultimately drove the emperor out of Rome and back north\, into the waiting arms of the Lombard League\, a coalition of sixteen Italian cities that had formed an alliance against him. What followed was a series of military defeats and humiliating near-captures as Barbarossa frantically tried to escape to Saxony. It was the beginning of the end of imperial control over northern Italy: in 1176\, the Lombard League decisively defeated Barbarossa at the Battle of Legnano\, and in 1183 he granted its members the right to self-governance. In the following century\, the Italian Renaissance was born in these independent states. \nThis program will be live on our YouTube channel. \nJohn D. Hosler is an Associate Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. An expert in medieval warfare\, he is the author of The Siege of Acre\, 1189-1191: Saladin\, Richard the Lionheart\, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade\, which was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/barbarossas-siege-of-rome-1167-the-turning-point-for-medieval-italy/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1540-1588809600-1588809600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:1941: The Turning Point in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Few years in modern history have been as eventful as 1941. For most Americans\, the December 7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor resonates as the year’s signal event\, an action that thrust the United States into World War II. For the Soviet Union and its clients\, Operation Barbarossa\, the sudden Nazi attack of June 22\, earns the distinction as the most eventful\, as the Wehrmacht turned its mechanized might onto its erstwhile ally. 1941 also marked the beginning of the Shoah\, the designed destruction of the Jews of Europe. During the 1930s\, Hitler’s regime had applied ever-increasing methods of persecution onto the Jews of Germany and other European countries as they were occupied. Before 1941\, the Nazi actions were primarily designed to dispossess the Jews of their wealth and compel their emigration. Coincident with Barbarossa\, however\, persecution turned into a more generalized European slaughter; it was the great turning point in the Holocaust. \nThis program will stream live on our YouTube channel. \nDave Cotter is the Director of the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. He has been a faculty member since 2009 and was previously a member of the Department of History at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He has an M.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College\, and an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College. In addition to the history curriculum\, he is active in the Genocide and Mass Atrocities Studies Seminar at the Staff College. In the past year\, he has made genocide-related presentations to the Society for Military History\, the Watson Institute at Brown University\, the Dole Institute of Politics\, and the Naval War College. Dave is a retired military officer with 32 years of experience\, including multiple combat deployments and command at battery\, battalion\, and brigade levels. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/1941-the-turning-point-in-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1539-1585785600-1585785600@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Guadalcanal\, 1942: The Turning Point of the Pacific Theater in World War II
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kuehn’s talk will dispute the claim that the Battle of Midway is the turning point of the Pacific War and offer an argument that the campaign on Guadalcanal from August 1942 to early February 1943 constitutes the actual turning point in the war. This presentation examines the campaign from this vantage point and emphasizes how what began as the seizure of an undefended island airfield turned into a war of attrition on land\, sea\, and air between the Empire of Japan and the United States and its allies. \nDr. John T. Kuehn is Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2004 at the rank of commander after 23 years\, serving as a naval flight officer flying land and carrier-based aircraft. He has taught a variety of subjects\, including military history\, at CGSC since 2000. He authored Agents of Innovation\, A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century\, Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns\, and co-authored Eyewitness Pacific Theater with D.M. Giangreco as well as numerous articles and editorials and was awarded a Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History in 2011. His latest book from Naval Institute Press is America’s First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the Navy\, 1900-1950. During 2016-2017 Dr. Kuehn served on CNO Admiral John Richardson’s Fleet Design Advisory Panel assessing congressionally mandated architectures for the fleet of 2030. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/guadalcanal-1942-the-turning-point-of-the-pacific-theater-in-world-war-ii/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200305T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200305T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T193826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T193826Z
UID:1906-1583366400-1583366400@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:A Powerful\, Prevailing Truth: Women in Politics a Century After Suffrage
DESCRIPTION:In the century since women gained the vote with the ratification of the 19th amendment\, the role of women in the political sphere has increased dramatically in some ways with little advancement in others. This panel of women elected officials will share their experiences as women in politics and the importance of women in public service and the political realm. \nDr. Barbara W. Ballard is the Senior Associate Director at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics\, University of Kansas and has served as an Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs\, Associate Dean for Student Life and the Director of the Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center. Ballard also teaches for the School of Education and Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. Ballard is a member of the Kansas Legislature. She was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1992. Ballard serves on the House Leadership Team as the Democratic Caucus Chair and is the first African American to do so\, serving over fifteen years. She is a past President of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and is the President of the NBCSL Foundation. Ballard is a past officer of the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women. \nRepresentative Susan Concannon is serving her 4th term in the Kansas State House of Representatives\, where she serves on Appropriations\, Taxation and Chairman of Children and Seniors Committee. She also serves on the Bob Bethel KanCare Oversight Committee\, which is charged with overseeing the state’s Medicaid managed care system. Concannon is a graduate of Bethany College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She is also an alum of Leadership Mitchell County and Kansas Agriculture and Rural Leadership. Since moving with her husband to Beloit in 1987\, Concannon has dedicated much of her time to community service in the Beloit area. Prior to her election to the legislature\, she helped start the Mitchell County Regional Medical Foundation and served as the Executive Director. \nVicki Schmidt is the current Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Previously\, she spent 40 years serving Kansans as a pharmacist\, oftentimes speaking out against flaws in healthcare and Medicaid. Schmidt was then elected to public office\, serving as the Chair of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee. As a state senator\, she actively worked on insurance-related issues that faced families who had children with autism. Schmidt graduated from KU’s School of Pharmacy. \nRepresentative Ponka-We Victors has served in the Kansas House of Representatives since 2010 and represents the 103rd district of Wichita\, Kansas. She is the first Native American woman to serve in the Kansas Legislature and is the daughter of Juan and Sandra Victors\, both alumni of Haskell Indian Nations University. Victors is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona and Ponca tribe of Oklahoma. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Wichita State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Newman University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Political Science Department of KU.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/a-powerful-prevailing-truth-women-in-politics-a-century-after-suffrage/
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200304T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200304T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1538-1583280000-1583280000@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:The Aisne-Marne Counteroffensive\, 1918: The Turning Point of World War I
DESCRIPTION:Although the turning points of the American Civil War and World War II occurred in the middle of those conflicts\, the outcome of the Great War was not decided until the last months of the war. The Ludendorff Offensives had pushed both sides into a deadly race against time that pitted German tactical successes against the ability of the Americans to arrive in sufficient numbers to give the Allies the crucial edge. The lecture will discuss how the Franco-American victory at Aisne-Marne changed the course of the war and convinced Ferdinand Foch that the strategic and operational advantage in the conflict had decisively shifted to the Allied cause. \nThis program is free and open to the public. No ticket is required. \nDr. Richard S. Faulkner is the William A. Stofft Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army and commanded a tank company in the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm. He is the author of The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces\, which was the recipient of the Society for Military History’s 2013 Distinguished Book Award. His second book\, Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I received the World War I Association’s 2017 Norman B. Tomlinson\, Jr. Prize for the best work of history in English on World War I\, the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Richard W. Leopold Prize\, and the Army Historical Foundation’s 2017 Excellence in U.S. Army History Book Award. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-aisne-marne-counteroffensive-1918-the-turning-point-of-world-war-i/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220131T195851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T212034Z
UID:1816-1581494400-1587574800@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2020 SPRING | Spying in the Cyber Age
DESCRIPTION:Dole Fellow Ron Marks\nRead more about Dole Fellows >> \nThe Dole Discussion Groups are made possible be a grant from Newman’s Own \n  \n  \nRecruiting in the Cyber World – Q or Bond or Both?\n2/12/2020 \n \nIan Fleming’s legendary suave super-spy\, James Bond\, has imprinted himself on the collective imagination of society as what a true intelligence gathering agent looks and acts like. While this has never really been the case\, the reality today is even farther afield from the tuxedo-clad\, martini-swilling 007. In the digital age\, do modern spies look more like Bond’s geeky\, gadget-obsessed quartermaster “Q” than Bond himself? Dole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes former Chief of the Directorate of Digital Innovations Hiring for the CIA Roynda Hartsfield\, who will discuss what the CIA and the intelligence community at large is looking for in a 21st century spy. \nAnother misconception that lingers in the minds of the public is that intelligence operatives are always agents of a government\, or “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” In reality\, the intelligence industrial complex has ballooned from $27 billion annually in 2001 to $86 billion today. Hartsfield and Marks will explore what this shift in the terrain means\, the differences and similarities between what the public and private sectors look for when hiring new operatives\, and what types of individuals should apply. \nThis discussion group is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to get world-class advice and information about pursuing a career in this rapidly growing industry. It is also a chance to dispel the fictions around what spies in our age look like\, and perhaps for attendees to see themselves in a field they had previously relegated to “spies” like James Bond. \nRoynda “Roy” Hartsfield is a recently retired senior Central intelligence Agency officer and formerly Chief of the Directorate of Digital Innovations Hiring. Roy has spent most of her career overseas focused on operational issues around the globe. She currently heads Talent Acquisition for Excel Technologies and is President of PTG Consulting focused on bringing more diversity and inclusion to STEM. \n  \n  \nSpeaking Truth to Power in the Cyber Age?\n2/19/2020 \n \nE.C.H.E.L.O.N.\nP.R.I.S.M.\nM.Y.S.T.I.C. \nThese infamous mass surveillance programs not only dominated many a conspiracy-theorist blog\, but also began shifting public understanding of intelligence gathering in the age of the internet. As the role of computers rose\, the role of human beings seemed to diminish. The practical truth lies somewhere between the Rosenbergs and Facebook. Dole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes the Honorable Randall M. Fort\, former assistant secretary of state for Intelligence and Research\, as they delve into this new world where the purposes of computers and humans in intelligence gathering have shifted in unprecedented ways. \nFort is an expert on the emergence of artificial intelligence and other technological tools used in data mining and processing. In this discussion\, he and Marks will explore how these emergent technologies change the intelligence game\, but also how integral humans remain to the overall process. To that point\, they will discuss how to utilize personal networks to collect information without competing with senior executives. Fort and Marks will serve as guides through a rapidly shifting landscape in which the technologically adept person may have the career advantage. \nRandall M. Fort is director of Corporate Programs Security for Raytheon. He joined the Engineering\, Technology and Mission Assurance leadership team in July 2009. Prior to Raytheon\, Fort was employed at the U.S. State Department as the assistant secretary of state for Intelligence and Research\, from 2006 to 2009. He managed the production and dissemination of all-source intelligence analysis for the secretary of state and other senior policymakers. Fort headed the department’s Cyber Policy Group and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research— a member of the U.S. intelligence community. \nBefore his U.S. State Department appointment\, Fort was director of Global Security for Goldman Sachs\, from 1996 to 2006\, where he was responsible for all aspects of physical security risk management\, including\ninvestigations\, travel safety\, executive protection\, risk analysis\, access control\, perimeter protection and security technology. He also served as chief of staff to the president and co-chief operating officer of the firm. From 1993 to 1996\, Fort was director of Special Projects at TRW\, Inc. for two of the corporation’s Space and Defense operating groups. \nHe served as the deputy assistant secretary for Functional Analysis and Research in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the U.S. Department of State from 1989 to 1993. He was also the special assistant to the secretary for National Security and director of the Office of Intelligence Support at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1987 to 1989. Prior to moving to Treasury\, he served as a professional staff member\, first as assistant director and subsequently as deputy executive director\, of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the White House from 1982 to 1987. \n  \n  \nThe Lawless Cyber Frontier\n2/26/2020 \n \nNineteenth century southwestern America lit up movie and television screens and imaginations from the earliest talkies to the latest blockbusters. The lawless West and the rugged cowboy protecting the innocent are archetypes embedded in the American psyche. Westerns have\, with a few exceptions\, grossly romanticized a terrifying time for the men\, women\, and children pushing the frontier ever westward with little or no protection. The frontier a century and a half later has no oceans to arrest its forward progress\, and for many\, the anarchy of cyberspace has wrought havoc on their lives with few white-hat wearing lawmen to rescue them. \nDole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes Stephanie Pell\, Assistant Professor and Cyber Ethics Fellow at West Point’s Army Cyber Institute\, to a discussion of bringing the rule of law to a lawless frontier. Pell stands out as an expert on the existing laws of the internet\, and a leader in creating new ones\, particularly at the international level. As countries and companies weaponize information on a global scale\, Pell and Marks will provide vital insight into how we survive the new Wild Wild West. \nStephanie Pell is an Assistant Professor and Cyber Ethics Fellow at West Point’s Army Cyber Institute (ACI)\, with a joint appointment to the Department of English and Philosophy. Pell is also an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. \nShe writes about cybersecurity\, privacy\, surveillance\, cyber ethics\, and national security law and policy. Pell’s work has been published in several law journals\, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology\, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal\, the Yale Journal of Law and Technology\, and the Connecticut Law Review\, as well as in the popular magazine Wired. Prior to joining West Point’s faculty\, Pell served as Majority Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee\, serving as lead counsel on Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform and PATRIOT Act reauthorization during the 111th Congress. Pell was also a federal prosecutor for over fourteen years\, working as a Senior Counsel to the U. S. Deputy Attorney General\, as a Counsel to the U.S. Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division\, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. She was a lead prosecutor in U.S. v. Jose Padilla\, in which in which American citizen was detained as an enemy combatant prior to criminal indictment\, trial\, and conviction on various terrorism charges\, for which she received the U.S. Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award\, and \nin U.S. v. Conor Claxton\, a court case involving IRA operatives who purchased weapons in South Florida and smuggled them into Belfast\, Northern Ireland during peace process negotiations. \n  \n  \nIn Home\, at Home and Abroad – How Intelligence Is Made and Used in the 21st Century\n4/1/2020 \n \nThe word “spy” almost drips with connotations. From James Bond to Spy vs. Spy to Black Widow\, pop culture has no end of colorful characters who claim spying as their profession. One thing they all have in common is they work for a government. In the post-9/11 world\, this changed\, as the intelligence industry more than tripled in value. Spies much more frequently work for private firms. The burgeoning industry saw public and private organizations casting much larger nets and scooping up oceans of data. The ability to sort through so much information remains a key struggle. \nDole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal\, former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis & Production and former Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council\, to the Dole Institute for a fascinating study of how intelligence is gathered\, made\, and used in an era where information flows more like Niagara Falls than a faucet. Lowenthal has run organizations both in government and the private sector\, bringing a balanced perspective to a field that governments no longer monopolize. Join Marks and Lowenthal as they examine an industry that has radically transformed in the last 20 years and forever changed the definition of a “spy.” \nDr. Mark M. Lowenthal\, an internationally recognized expert on intelligence\, is President Emeritus of the Intelligence & Security Academy\, LLC\, a national security education\, training and consulting company. From 2002-2005\, Dr. Lowenthal served as the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis & Production and also as the Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. Prior to these duties\, he served as Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Lowenthal was the Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 104th Congress (1995-97)\, where he directed the committee’s study on the future of the Intelligence Community\, IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. He also served in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)\, as both an office director and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State\, and has been the Senior Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Congressional Research Service\, Library of Congress. \nDr. Lowenthal has written extensively on intelligence and national security issues\, including ten books and over 100 articles or studies. He published The Future of Intelligence. His textbook\, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy\, has become the standard college and graduate school textbook on the subject. Dr. Lowenthal is a frequent public commentator on intelligence issues. \nHe is on the adjunct faculty of the Johns Hopkins University and Sciences Po in Paris (Institut d’études politiques de Paris)\, and is a Visiting Professor at the Norway Defence Intelligence School (NORDIS). He was an adjunct for 14 years at Columbia University. He is the Executive Director of the International Association for Intelligence Education and a Chairman Emeritus of the Intelligence Committee for AFCEA. He is currently a member of the Intelligence Community Studies Board and the FBI Intelligence Analysts Association. \nIn 2005\, Dr. Lowenthal was awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal\, the Intelligence Community’s highest award. In 2006\, he received AFCEA’s Distinguished Service Award for service to the Intelligence Community. In 1988\, Dr. Lowenthal was the Grand Champion on “Jeopardy!\,” the television quiz show. \n  \n  \nGhost in the Machine: Being a Reporter in the Age of Total Information\n4/8/2020 \n \nOn June 1\, 1980\, the Cable News Network launched\, creating the first 24-hour news channel. It marked the first major departure from the decades-old model of television news broadcast twice a day. Then the internet swept the world\, splintering not only televised news but print and radio as well. In the span of only three decades\, the entire landscape of journalism changed. For most\, we only see the external changes\, the increasing need to curate our sources of information from an ever-increasing number of choices\, but what is it like for the people who work in the field? \nDole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes his guest Jenna McLaughlin\, national security and investigations reporter for Yahoo News. McLaughlin will share her experiences in working in a world-class non-traditional news agency\, how she deals with the demands to constantly gather information for the 24/7 news cycle. She will also discuss how she balances the need to get the information out fast and the need to get it right. \nJenna McLaughlin is a national security and investigations reporter for Yahoo News\, where she focuses on the intelligence community\, foreign policy\, and other issues. McLaughlin previously covered intelligence and national security for CNN\, Foreign Policy Magazine\, The Intercept\, and Mother Jones Magazine\, following her graduation from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. \n  \n  \nThe Death of 20th Century Power Structures and Adapting to the Birth of the 21st Century World\n4/15/2020 \n \nFew inventions so radically re-shaped the world as the internet did in the 1990s. The pillars of society\, economics\, information\, communication and government shook\, cracked\, and some even crumbled\, perhaps none so dramatically as the political structures that supported and ordered the world. As of yet\, no new framework has emerged to replace the old. Even the foundational idea of the nation-state as a political concept and the basis for the modern definition of a country threatens to buckle under the forces of change. \nDole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes his guest Dr. Greg Treverton\, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council\, to examine how future leaders can cope with these tectonic changes and how to build a new framework. Treverton\, the most senior intelligence analyst for President Barack Obama\, will provide deep insight into what that structure might look like\, as well as an understanding of how the rising power of private players\, such as Facebook\, challenge the power of nations. \nThis discussion group is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear the foremost experts in this field reflect on what brought us to our present state\, how to get to the next evolution\, and what your role in all of this might be. \nGregory F. Treverton is Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. He served as chairman of the National Intelligence Council from September 2014 to January 2017. Earlier\, he directed the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security\, and before that\, its Intelligence Policy Center and its International Security and Defense Policy Center. He also was associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. \nHe has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence\, handling Europe for the National Security Council and as vice chair of the National Intelligence Council\, overseeing the writing of America’s National Intelligence Estimates. In addition to RAND\, he has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities\, has been a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations\, and also deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. \nHis latest books are Dividing Divided States and Beyond the Great Divide: Relevance and Uncertainty in National Intelligence and Science for Policy (with Wilhelm Agrell). \n  \n  \nEveryone’s an Editor: Finding “Truth” in Cyber News\n4/22/2020 \n \nCronkite. Murrow. Brinkley. \nIn the not so distant past\, these men dominated the American news landscape. With two channels (eventually three) to get your televised news\, you watched at least one of them. They were the Gatekeepers. The Arbiters of Truth. The advent of cable news\, and then internet\, brought an end to the Gatekeepers. Many lauded a new era of “democratized” journalism. What emerged had the best and the worst of the “news\,” and suddenly\, no one was there to sort through it all to find the truth. \nThe internet has made everyone an editor. Dole Fellow Ron Marks welcomes his guest Shelby Coffey\, former editor of the L.A. Times and US News and World Report\, to discuss how dramatically the world of journalism has changed in only 40 years. Information is faster than ever and there is far more of it. In this discussion group\, Marks and Coffey will teach how to cut through the noise and find the truth. \nShelby Coffey III began his journalistic career as a reporter at The Washington Post\, later becoming deputy managing editor. He is the former editor of the Los Angeles Times and US News and World Report. He was President of CNN Financial News and executive Vice President of ABC News. He was named editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation in 1995. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International advisory council of APCO Worldwide and the board of the Newseum in Washington DC.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/2020-spring-spying-in-the-cyber-age/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion Groups
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200206T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200225T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220208T172904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T173442Z
UID:1926-1580947200-1582588800@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:2020 | Presidential Speeches and Rhetoric
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Presidential Lecture Series\, created and developed by award-winning presidential rhetoric scholar Dr. Robert Rowland\, focuses on presidential speeches and rhetoric\, from the greatest speeches\, to the process of speechwriting\, to changes in presidential rhetoric in the age of social media. Join us for this compelling journey through the words that defined presidencies. \nRobert Rowland’s major teaching and research interests are in rhetorical criticism\, argumentation\, and the public sphere. Dr. Rowland and his debate colleague were the 1976 National Debate Champions for KU. He is a former director of forensics at KU and at Baylor University. Dr. Rowland received the Louise Byrd Award for Graduate Teaching in May 2000. He also is a recipient of the William T. Kemper Teaching Fellowship and the Bernard Fink Award for outstanding teaching\, and is a two-time HOPE Award finalist. He also has received an Outstanding Service Award from the Kansas Bar Association based on his work in Continuing Legal Education on legal advocacy. In November 2006\, he was honored by the National Communication Association with the Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education. The same organization honored him in 2011 with the Douglas W. Ehninger Rhetorical Scholar Award. He is one of two people in the discipline to be honored with lifetime awards for scholarship and teaching. His co-authored book with David Frank\, Shared Land/Conflicting Identity in 2002 was honored in 2003 with the Kohrs-Campbell prize in rhetorical criticism. A recent survey of journals ranked him among the fifty most published scholars in the discipline. \nThis series is co-sponsored by the University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies\, the Department of History\, and the Department of Political Science. \n  \nFive Great Presidential Speeches\n2/6/2020 \n \n“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” \n“Ich bin ein Berliner.” \n“Government of the people\, by the people\, for the people.” \nWhat makes a presidential speech great? \nThree renowned experts\, with decades of scholarship on presidential rhetoric and countless award-winning articles and books published between them\, will answer that question in this the first of Presidential Lecture Series at the Dole Institute of Politics. This program will feature a conversation about five great presidential speeches with leading experts on presidential rhetoric: Dr. Mary Stuckey from Penn State\, Dr. David Zarefsky from Northwestern\, and Dr. Robert C. Rowland from KU. The discussion will focus on what makes a presidential speech “great\,” why they chose the works they did\, and what great presidential rhetoric tells us about American democracy.\nThis program is free and open to the public. No ticket is required. \nMary E. Stuckey specializes in political and presidential rhetoric\, political communication\, and American Indian politics. She is the author\, editor\, or co-editor of fourteen books and author or coauthor of roughly 80 essays and book chapters. She has received the Michael M. Osborn Teacher/Scholar Award\, the Rose B. Johnson Award (with Zoe Hess-Carney)\, the Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award\, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award\, the inaugural Carl Couch Center\, Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Award\, and NCA’s Distinguished Scholar Award. She has served as editor of the Southern Communication Journal and the Quarterly Journal of Speech and as book review editor for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. She is Interim Editor of the Rhetoric & Public Affairs. She co-edits Peter Lang’s series with Mitchell McKinney\, The Frontiers of Political Communication. Her current book project is on the history of controversial elections. \nDavid H. Zarefsky is an American communication scholar with research specialties in rhetorical history and criticism. He is professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He is a past president of the National Communication Association (U.S.A) and the Rhetoric Society of America. Among his publications are six books and over 70 scholarly articles concerned with American public discourse (both historical and contemporary)\, argumentation\, rhetorical criticism\, public speaking\, the Lincoln-Douglas debates\, and the rhetoric of the war on poverty during the Johnson administration. His lectures on argumentation and rhetoric can be heard in a course for The Teaching Company. \n  \nThe Craft of the Presidential Speechwriter\n2/11/2020 \n \nDr. Craig Smith served as a full-time speechwriter for President Gerald Ford\, as a consulting writer to George H. W. Bush and as a consultant to CBS News for convention\, election\, and inaugural coverage. He has also explored presidential speeches as a Professor at Cal State Long Beach. Dr. Smith will engage in a dialogue about speechwriting\, presidential and otherwise\, sharing his unique knowledge as an award-winning scholar and also a renowned practitioner\, who can provide an inside perspective on the role played by the speechwriter\, how that role varies with different presidents\, and how speechwriting has evolved. \nDr. Craig R. Smith has won the Ehninger Award for contributions to rhetorical theory and the Gronbeck Award for political communication\, both from the National Communication Association. He has won that organization’s Robert O’Neil Award three times for scholarly papers on the First Amendment. He has won the Outstanding Professor Award from the National Speakers Association. After completing a Ph.D.\, Dr. Smith taught at San Diego State University\, the University of Virginia\, and the University of Alabama Birmingham\, where he founded the Communication Studies Department. He also served as a full-time speechwriter for President Gerald Ford\, as a consulting writer to George H. W. Bush and as a consultant to CBS News for convention\, election\, and inaugural coverage. He served as founding president of the Freedom of Expression Foundation in Washington\, D.C. from 1983 to 1988. He then became a full professor at California State University\, Long Beach until he retired in 2015. He has published 18 books and over 65 scholarly articles. \n  \nComparing and Contrasting Two Powerfully Eloquent Presidents—Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama\n2/18/2020 \n \nReagan and Obama. Conventional wisdom would contend that these two presidents had little in common. The actor versus the scholar. The grandfather versus the father. The Republican versus the Democrat. \nPresidential rhetoric scholar Dr. Robert C. (Robin) Rowland\, of the department of Communication Studies at KU\, has written extensively about the rhetoric of both President Ronald Reagan and President Barack Obama. Rowland\, who presented the keynote on rhetoric at the Reagan Centennial celebration at USC and the Reagan Library and has won national awards for his research in both rhetoric and argumentation\, argues that the rhetoric of Reagan and Obama is more similar than has been recognized. In a dialogue\, Rowland will explore the similarities and differences between the rhetoric of Reagan and Obama. \n  \nSocial Media & Contemporary Presidential Rhetoric\n2/25/2020 \n \nFew events have more radically reshaped the public sphere than the rise of mass media. From radio to television to social media\, the past century fundamentally altered how presidents in the United States communicate with the electorate\, and how those leaders were perceived by the people. Dr. Denise Bostdorff of Wooster College has studied presidential rhetoric for more than thirty years and produced some of the most influential books and articles on that topic in that period. In a dialogue\, Dr. Bostdorff will discuss key moments in the development of presidential rhetoric over the last several decades\, the role of presidential rhetoric in shaping American politics\, and the drastic changes in presidential rhetoric associated with the rise of social media and the presidency of Donald Trump. This series is co-sponsored by the University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies\, the Department of History\, and the Department of Political Science. \nDenise M. Bostdorff is professor and chair of Communication Studies at The College of Wooster in Wooster\, Ohio. She has published two books—The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms\, which won the Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award. In addition\, she has published essays on presidential rhetoric about race\, foreign policy\, political campaigns\, and war in outlets such as Quarterly Journal of Speech\, Presidential Studies Quarterly\, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/presidential-speeches-and-rhetoric/
CATEGORIES:Presidential Lecture Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200205T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200205T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1537-1580860800-1580860800@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:The Tet Offensive\, 1968: The Turning Point of the Vietnam War
DESCRIPTION:With guest speaker Gates Brown. \nThe Tet Offensive of 1968 was a dramatic turning point for both the U.S. and the North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. Each had their assumptions shattered in the offensive. The North Vietnamese hoped to prove the validity of their revolutionary ideology. The success of the counterattack of the U.S.-led coalition destroyed the Communists forces but also laid bare the divisive politics of the war in the United States. Although it was a tactical and operational victory for the U.S.-led coalition\, it did not translate into an improved strategic position. For the North Vietnamese\, it exposed the ineffectiveness of their strategy of a people’s revolution. After the Tet Offensive\, the U.S. fought for another five years in South Vietnam while the North Vietnamese continued fighting for another seven years. The offensive was decisive because it forced both sides to confront their false assumptions and each had to attempt to reconcile themselves to a new post-Tet strategic reality. \nThis program is free and open to the public. No ticket is required. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-tet-offensive-1968-the-turning-point-of-the-vietnam-war/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200109T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200109T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20220106T222547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T153427Z
UID:1536-1578528000-1578528000@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:The War of the Fifth Coalition\, 1809
DESCRIPTION:Convention says that Napoleon’s downfall came as a result of his misadventures in Spain\, starting in 1808\, and his disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. While both undoubtedly contributed to his ultimate defeat\, the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809 was Napoleon’s turning point. It saw his first undisputed battlefield defeat at Aspern-Essling and marked the demonstrable degeneration of both his armies and his own abilities. It ended with the humiliation of his most inveterate enemy\, Austria\, and the extension of French power into Eastern Europe\, which angered Russia. It also witnessed a personal turning point for Napoleon\, as he set aside his first wife in favor of a dynastic marriage to a Habsburg princess\, Marie-Louise. However\, because of his victory in the war and the drama of events in Spain and Russia\, these changes are often elided or outright forgotten in the thread of Napoleon’s story. This talk will argue that 1809\, more than any other Napoleonic campaign or conflict\, was the turning point in his reign. \nDr. Jonathan Abel is an Assistant Professor of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College Department of Military History. He received his PhD from the Military History Center at the University of North Texas in 2014\, studying late eighteenth-century and Napoleonic France. He is the author of Guibert: Father of Napoleon’s Grande Armée\, along with other publications. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-war-of-the-fifth-coalition-1809/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191211T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191211T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125600
CREATED:20210521T210325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T212706Z
UID:850-1576022400-1576022400@doleinstitute.org
SUMMARY:Dr. Temple Grandin
DESCRIPTION:The Dole Institute of Politics will honor advocate for autistic persons and Professor of Animal Science Temple Grandin with the 2019 Dole Leadership Prize.\n“Temple Grandin is a trailblazer\,” Dole Institute Director Bill Lacy said. “She not only overcame widespread ignorance about autism and helped lessen the stigma around it\, she used the challenges she faced to bring an entirely new perspective to how domestic animals are cared for and treated.” \nGrandin will receive the 2019 Dole Leadership Prize at the Dole institute of Politics on Wednesday\, December 11 at 7:00 pm following a question and answer session. \nDiagnosed with autism at the age of two\, Grandin did not speak until she was four. Despite her childhood doctor’s belief that she was brain-damaged\, a common misunderstanding in the 1940s\, she went on to earn a degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in 1970\, a master’s degree in animal science from Arizona State University\, and her doctorate in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. Today she teaches courses on livestock behavior at Colorado State University and consults with the livestock industry on facility design\, livestock handling\, and animal welfare. She is also a tireless advocate for autistic persons. Grandin fights for “neurodiversity\,” opposing the idea of a “cure” for autism.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-temple-grandin/
CATEGORIES:Dole Leadership Prize
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR