From Passion to Politics: What Moves People to Take Action?

Friday, April 20, 2007

10:30am

Welcome

Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

10:30am-12:00pm

Opening Plenary
"Social Bases of Political Action"

Moderator:Larry Bartels, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelist:

• Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies, Princeton University
• Delia Baldassarri, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
• Robert D. Putnam, Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

1:00-2:30pm

"The Demands of God: Perspectives from the Evangelical Movement"

Moderator: The Rev. Paul B. Raushenbush, Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, Princeton University
Panelists:

• The Rev. Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
• Allen D. Hertzke, Director of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Oklahoma
• E. Anne Peterson, M.D., Senior International Health Advisor, World Vision International

2:45-4:15pm

"Access to Antiretrovirals for HIV: How Activism Has Translated into Political Action"

Moderator:Christina H. Paxson, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:

• David Barr, Executive Director of The HIV Collaborative Fund, Tides Foundation
• João G. Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
• Jennifer Kates, Vice President and Director of HIV Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
• Evan S. Lieberman, Assistant Professor Politics, Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor, Department of Politics, Princeton University

4:30pm
Keynote Address
"If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act: Psychic Numbing and Genocide"

Paul Slovic, President, Decision Research; Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

Introduction:Daniel Kahneman h*78, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

Sponsors: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Religious Life, Princeton University

Saturday, April 21, 2007

10:30am-12:00pm

Welcome

Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University; Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

"Taking Office to Take Action"

Moderator:James Leach '64, former Congressman from Iowa, John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Co. Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelist:

• William H. Frist, M.D. '74 P06 P10, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
  (R-Tenn.)
• Eliot Spitzer '81, Governor of New York

1:00-2:30pm
Keynote Address
"The Power of Collaboration in Trans-National Action"

Jody Williams, Campaign Ambassador, International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Introduction by: Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

2:45-4:15pm

"Humanitarian Intervention"

Moderator:Gary J. Bass, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:

• Barbara Demick, Beijing Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Ferris Professor of Journalism; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University
• Peter Maass, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
• Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch