Lecturers and faculty panels will examine different aspects of presidential politics this month, starting with faithful citizenship and political image making. All events are free and open to the public.
At 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, there will be a discussion on "American Catholics and Election 2008: Issues of Conscience," in the Perini Lecture Hall, Goulet Science Center. The event will feature Robert E. Dunn Jr., an attorney who works as a lobbyist for the Catholic Diocese of Manchester and an adjunct professor of law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center. Saint Anselm professors Christine Kearney, politics, Dan Daly, theology, and Kevin Cherry, politics, will form a panel to examine what it means to be a faithful citizen. Campus Ministry, the Knights of Columbus and the Theology Society are sponsoring the event.
Also Oct. 20, the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College and the Currier Museum of Art will sponsor "An Image in the Making," at 7 p.m. in the NHIOP auditorium. The topic relates to the Currier’s special exhibition Andy Warhol: Pop Politics, which displays together for the first time more than 60 of Warhol’s paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs of political figures. Sharon Matt Atkins, curator of Andy Warhol: Pop Politics, will start the evening with a look at the works Warhol created in the 1970s and 1980s to support the campaigns of George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and Edward Kennedy, among others.
NHIOP Political Director Jennifer Donahue will then moderate a panel discussion with Saint Anselm faculty and long-time political media communications strategist and image maker, Gary O’Neil, President and Chief Energy Director of the newly formed O2 - Generations of Creative Energy. Saint Anselm professors who will join the panel are Andrew Moore, history, Elizabeth Ossoff, psychology, Barbara Baudot, politics, and Father Iain MacLellan, O.S.B., director of the Alva deMars Megan Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm.
Also at the NHIOP this week, political journalist Walter Shapiro will share his thoughts on the upcoming elections, including the potential make up of the U.S. House and Senate. The event will be held Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. in the NHIOP auditorium.
On Oct. 28, at 7 p.m., Joseph Szabo, internationally published cartoonist, and creator and publisher of
WittyWorld International Cartoon Magazine, will present and discuss a number of thought provoking and humorous works by international cartoonists that depict the image of America.
On Friday, Oct. 31, from 11 to 11:20 a.m., the NHIOP Center for Religion and Public Life will host Dr. Kenneth D. Wald, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, for a lecture titled "Mixing God and Politics: Religion in the 2008 Election." Dr. Wald’s most recent books include Religion and Politics in the United States (5th edition, 2006) and The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period (2002).