Voter Mobilization: The Impact of the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements on the 2012 Elections
Speaker
Mary Marshall Clark (Moderator), Todd Gitlin, Dorian Warren, Vanessa Williamson
Sponsor
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
2012 ISERP Election SeriesCommunications ColloquiumColumbia Center for Oral History
Location
World Room, Columbia Journalism School
Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description
The yearlong ISERP 2012 Election Series is a forum for academics, journalists, and other experts to comment on the issues at stake in the 2012 presidential election. The series fosters interdisciplinary conversations on themes including health care, the emergence of grassroots movements, international affairs, economics, President Obama’s legacy, and more.
Co-Sponsored by Columbia School of Journalism
About the Speakers:
In addition to being the Director of CCOH, Mary Marshall Clark is co-founder and director of Columbia’s Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) degree program, created in 2008-09. Formerly, she was an oral historian and filmmaker at the New York Times.
Todd Gitlin, an American writer, sociologist, communications scholar, novelist, poet, and not very private intellectual, is the author of fifteen books, including the forthcoming Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, (HarperCollins, April 2012)
Dorian Warren specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the politics of marginalized groups. His research and teaching interests include labor organizing and politics, race and ethnic politics, urban politics and policy, American political development, community organizing, public policy, and social science methodology.
Vanessa Williamson is the co-author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press, January 2012).
