This site includes videos of selected public lectures and discussions sponsored by the LBJ School.
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Convocation Spring 2008 |
05/17/08 |
Speaker: Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
LBJ faculty, staff, and friends of the school gathered on the weekend of Friday, May 16th, 2008 to celebrate the LBJ School's 37th annual graduation convocation. This year, one hundred and twenty eight LBJ students earned their Master of Public Affairs degree and four attained their Ph... Read More
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Page Turners Series - Bill Bishop, author of the critically acclaimed book The Big Sort |
05/08/08 |
Speaker: Bill Bishop
The Center for Politics and Governance and the LBJ Alumni Association hosted Bill Bishop, noted journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, who discussed his new book The Big Sort: Why The Clustering of Like Minded People is Tearing Us Apart. Read More
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Confronting America's Health Care Crisis |
05/02/08 |
Speaker: Tom Daschle
The Center for Politics and Governance, the Center for Health and Social Policy, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum hosted former Democratic Leader of the United States Senate Tom Daschle on Friday, May 2 in the Atrium of the Library and Museum... Read More
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2008 Social Innovation Competition: Final Round |
05/02/08 |
Speaker: student presentations
More than 1,000 students answered this question by submitting their insightful ideas and offering solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems in the 2008 Social Innovation Competition.
This year, the Social Innovation Competition was open to all university students in the United States... Read More
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Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - and How it Can Find its Way Back Again |
04/24/08 |
Speaker: Mickey Edwards
The Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs presents Mickey Edwards, former republican Congressman and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, speaking on his new book Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - and How it Can Find its Way Back Again. Read More
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The Future of the Republican Party - A Panel Discussion |
04/23/08 |
Speaker: panel discussion
The panel featured David Frum, author and noted conservative columnist; former Congressman and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation Mickey Edwards; Justice Dale Wainwright of the Texas Supreme Court; Ted Cruz, the Solicitor General of the State of Texas; and Dr... Read More
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Page Turners Series - David Frum, Conservative Commentator and Author |
04/23/08 |
Speaker: David Frum
David Frum, author and noted conservative columnist, spoke on his new book Comeback: Conservatism that can Win Again. Read More
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Internet Policy for the Next Adminstration |
04/21/08 |
Speaker: Howard Shelanski & Marc Rotenberg
Howard Shelanski discussed challenges for U.S. broadband policy in terms of competition, investment and innovation. Noting the large amount of convergence taking place, where consumers are demanding and getting many services without respect to individual platforms—for example, email and internet access through mobile phones—Shelanski stressed that the challenge for policy makers is to ensure that alternative platforms compete and innovate rather than consolidate and discriminate... Read More
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Joe Cerrell from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
04/16/08 |
Speaker: Joe Cerrell
Joe Cerrell, head of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Policy & Advocacy unit, joined the weekly Brown Bag to talk about the foundation's role in promoting improved public health around the world. Read More
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My Values, My Philanthropy |
04/16/08 |
Speaker: Linda Biehl
Linda Biehl co-founded the Amy Biehl Foundation in 1994 with her late husband Peter. The foundation honors the memory of their daughter. Amy was tragically killed during the apartheid years in South Africa, while on a Fulbright scholorship to develop township voter registration programs... Read More
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