Events – Fall 1996

August 1, 1996 – Forum

Forum:  “Northwest Environmental History Symposium” featuring over 25 speakers

Co-sponsored with WSU Department of History.


September 19, 1996 – Public Lecture

Evgenii Bovkun: “The New Germany and the International Media”

Evgenii Bovkun, Russian journalist


October 15, 1996 – Public Lecture

Terrel Carver: “He said/She said”: Interpreting the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill Hearings.

Terrel Carver, University of Bristol U.K.


October 22, 1996 – Public Lecture

Anders Uhrskov: “The End of Work? Or Business as Usual?”

Anders Uhrskov, Political Scientist, Director, Denmark’s International Study Program


October 23, 1996 – Public Policy Symposium

Panel discussion: “How To Be A Better Consumer of Political News”

Moderated by Fred Davis, syndicated columnist and the Lester Smith Distinguished Professor of Communications at WSU; featuring panelists, Joel Connelly, National Correspondent, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Chris Peck, Managing Editor, Spokesman Review, Lorena O’English, Legislative Director, Project Vote Smart; and Mark Trahant, Editor and Publisher, Moscow-Pullman Daily News.


October 30, 1996 – Public Lecture

Gregg Easterbrook: “Sense and Nonsense About the Environment”

Gregg Easterbrook, Journalist and Writer


December 5, 1996 – Public Lecture

Silvia Babus: “Political Transactions in the Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia”

Silvia Babus, National Defense University