Here are the upcoming events that Whig-Clio will be hosting:
Trustees Dinner: Professor Joshua Katz (February 22, 2012)
Joshua Katz is a Professor of Classics and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Program in Teacher Preparation. With degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Oxford, Professor Katz has won many awards for his teaching and research including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2010), the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2003), and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award (2008). His courses range from Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt to wordplay in the English language.
Primary/Presidential Debate Viewing (February 22, 2012)
Co-Hosted with the College Republicans and College Democrats
In conjunction with the College Republicans and College Democrats, we will be showing all Primary/Presidential Debates in the Whig-Clio basement lounge. The first viewing party is this coming Wednesday, February 22nd, starting at 7:45. The building will be open so feel free to stop by. There will also be food!
Krystal Ball (February 22, 2012)
Co-Hosted with Running Start
In 2010, Krystal Ball ran as the Democratic nominee in Virginia’s 1st district Congressional election. While certainly a qualified contender, Ball’s campaign suffered a tremendous blow after racy pictures of her at a holiday party emerged. With this, her opponent, Rob Wittman, and the media portrayed her as a “party girl,” and Ball eventually ended up losing the election.While Ball acknowledges that the situation surrounding the photos was embarrassing, she also underscores the extremely sexist manner in which the matter was handled. Currently a Democratic pundit on MSNBC, Ball also serves as an outspoken advocate of women’s rights in the political sector.At this meeting, Ms. Krystal Ball will speak about her experience as a woman in politics and the media, and the issue of female sexuality in the workplace. She will also discuss the growing and new concerns our generation of female leaders may face, due to photos that appear on social media, such as Facebook.
Trustees Dinner: Anne-Marie Slaughter (February 29th, 2012)
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter is currently a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, and will lead the dinner discussion about the transformation of American foreign policy. Prior to her current position, she served as the Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department (2009-2011) and the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School (2002-2009). She appears regularly on CNN, the BBC, NPR, and PBS, and Foreign Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, and 2011. She received a B.A. from Princeton, an M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard.
Trustees Dinner: Esther Newberg (March 6th, 2012)
Newberg is the senior vice president at International Creative Management, a talent agency in New York. She has represented authors such as Carl Hiaasen (Skinny Dip) and Patricia Cornwell (Trace), Thomas Friedman, Michael Beschloss and Caroline Kennedy. The New York Post called her “one of the most powerful agents in the literary world.”.
Trustees Dinner: Professor Barbara Bodine (March 28th, 2012)
Ambassador Barbara Bodine spent 30 years in US Foreign Service, most notably as Ambassador to Yemen from 1997-2001 and as a senior State Department official in Baghdad during the War in Iraq. She is currently a lecturer at Princeton in public and international affairs and Director of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, an innovative program at the Woodrow Wilson School that encourages and supports students committed to careers in career federal public service through scholarships, intensive language training, internships, fellowships and mentoring.
Trustees Dinner: Professor Diane Snyder (April 2nd, 2012)
Diane Snyder is a lecturer at Princeton, and former senior CIA officer of 12 years where she worked on assignments in Europe and Washington, DC. Her field of expertise is technology and national security with particular focus on civilian applications of technology developed for intelligence purposes. She has led major research efforts developing new technology to support intelligence activities in counter-terrorism, negotiated international arms control treaties, and has published on the former.
Trustees Dinner: Professor Oppenheimer (April 9th, 2012)
Danny Oppenheimer is an associate professor of psychology at Princeton University’s Department of Psychology. Primarily interested in cognitive psychology, he researches causal discounting, charitable giving, perceptual fluency, and people’s perceptions of randomness. He won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature (a parody Nobel) for his paper “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly” which argues that simple writing makes authors appear more intelligent than complex writing. In 2012, he authored a book on political psychology and democracy, Democracy Despite Itself: Why A System That Shouldn’t Work at All Works So Well.
