History of Debate:Lincoln-Douglas vs. Obama-McCain
Article Contributed on: 9/29/2008 12:29:20 PM
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Tivoli building, Room 320, Auraria Higher Education Campus, Denver
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12-1:30 p.m.
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This event takes place on 10/2/2008.
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Discussions
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From Lincoln-Douglas to Obama-McCain: 150 Years of American Political Rhetoric
The Colorado Center for Public Humanities at the University of Colorado Denver is staging a reenactment of the very entertaining and historic Lincoln-Douglas debates, followed by a meaty post-debate discussion about how political rhetoric and political campaigning have evolved over the past 150 years. The event commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858-a series of formal political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in a campaign for one of two United States Senate seats in Illinois-and is timed to coincide and provide a nice follow-up to the first Obama-McCain debate (footage from the Sept. 26 Obama-McCain debate will be shown and discussed).
Speakers:
Stephen Hartnett, professor and chair of Communication, UC Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, panelist*
Gillian Silverman, assistant professor, English, UC Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, panelist*
*Both panelists have published extensively on Lincoln-Douglas and on pre-American Civil War political culture
David Hildebrand, assistant professor, Philosophy, UC Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, moderator**
**Hildebrand is a John Dewey specialist and a political aficionado; he will present clips from the Obama-McCain debate to direct the conversation after the reenactment
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Colorado Center for Public Humanities at University of Colorado Denver
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