The 2024 Post Election Conference: National Panel

Join Dole Institute Visiting Fellow Jerry Seib and Dole Institute Director Emeritus Bill Lacy as they co-moderate the National Panel of the 2024 Post Election Conference. Seib and Lacy will lead a panel that will dive into the practices of both presidential campaigns, congressional races in battlegrounds throughout the nation, and more from this unprecedented general election.

About the Post Election Conference

Held biennially after midterm and general elections, the Dole Institute’s Post Election Conference brings journalists, practitioners, and experts together to analyze campaigns and election results in Kansas and throughout the country.

Jerry Seib has been a journalist with The Wall Street Journal for almost 45 years. He served as the Journal’s Executive Washington Editor and wrote the weekly “Capital Journal” column for 29 years. He also reported from the Middle East for the Journal in the mid-1980s, covered the White House, has moderated three presidential debates, and interviewed every president since Ronald Reagan.

Bill Lacy is the former director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. Since his appointment in 2004, Lacy established the Institute a highly-respected venue for bipartisan, philosophically-balanced political programming. Additionally, he led the Institute through many other milestones, including the creation of the Student Advisory Board, the completion of processing Senator Bob Dole’s archival collections, obtaining Senator Elizabeth Dole’s career papers, and the addition of millions to the Institute’s endowment to further the Institute’s mission and support the student body at the University.