2021 Dole Institute of Politics Fall Preview

today and keep your present it's a visit to the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas and kate mcintyre i'm here with audrey calm and the associate director of the dole institute under a as always it is great to see you know it's wonderful to see you two came here we are in person again after a few months and big news the dole institute of politics is going to be back in person this semester we'll talk about that in just a second but the big news out of the dole institute of politics this week if you've got a new director coming now that's really exciting and most folks were aware that bill announces retirement a few years ago and so the search committee and we went through a process this fall the bill even amidst the cold and pandemic situation he says i'm still keeping my plan and we're able to walk through that process and are so excited to announce that erica terry will be our new director and she will the onsite as early as october and then take the reins as director in december after bills last day it on the last day of november so so tell us about eric cantor has a long history she's actually at a playground so that's wonderful to have somebody come on home on she has experience

with qiu endowment a few years ago and also what's a major regional organizations the susan g komen foundation for our breast cancer i'll support and she's worked with k units africa for cancer a fundraising off with not nelson atkins museum of art flagship institution here in kansas city in the region in and the nation and fundraising so we're really excited to see what energy and ideas your brain and we have a lot to look forward to and i'm sure she'll make their director said her own but do you have a sense of will see continued the tradition the belief he had of being the moderator for most of your events that's a great question i think probably for the coming spring we're gonna see a lot that's the same time that we've been done in and the trip the lacey tradition as we as we kind of complete our face them but i wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of new things and that intense some were inventions and then death valley her ability to to make the place her own self bill has done such a wonderful job as we all know building the ncaa out over the last couple of

decades and has really placed us on a firm foundation so there's only creativity an improvisation to come and spider bite that's so we have a lot to add fourteen well let's talk about your current director bill lacy who's retiring after how many years the dollar is at seventeen or eighteen years for a look at that so it's going to be hard to imagine the place without a well i'll try not to get too emotional about that but i know i'm not the only person who feels that way you know he has done such a great job maintaining you know a bipartisan and political balance for the institute hour really you know presenting programs that respect of different points of view creating constructive conversations around timely issues i mean time and again we know it how did how did you pick this how did you know this is going to be a hot topic i am and were right there i met with the dons issued new courses didn't culture which were so proud of european city with a

state an advisory board reaching out to get used it isn't giving them involve eating a mentorship opportunities and connections and leadership in washington dc around the world and here in kansas i'm so that's also something that i know he's really proud of and that we we're excited to continue into the future so what do you think though laziest legacy of the institute will be and that's a big question that well well from an inside perspective i don't think this will surprise anyone who knows that were spent any time with him at our programs are events but i am you know boyle has the unique distinction of being able again set to present these hard charging projects and i'm subjects' up in and ways that are appealing to folks across the political spectrum but he also has a wonderful sense of fun and especially in isis as a staff member being able to keep things light

an enjoyable and you know finding you know that the community and the connections between people and folks have attended dinners cereal has a real knack for selecting folks to grab good chemistry m n and building a social network so you know again we look for certain building on that but he's done a dozen members that i worked for him for nine years so we're all in unison we are they cursed me that he has presided over the dole institute of politics at a time when that sense of finding common ground and respectful the discussion has been lacking in so many other parts of american life yeah that's an excellent point i mean the transition lean on the last years ten years fifteen years at even since i came to the institut nine years ago but the tone of political discourse in popular discourse it's gotten

so much more challenging negative am and polarized as you say so that makes you know the next director job really even harder but also even more important than it's ever been before i think when the dole institute opened almost twenty years ago when bipartisanship was something that we felt like even though us not always a condition of our public discourse let it with something that was of value that was taken as a given and our international discussion and and that's for sure not true anymore so we have a lot of building back but i think the good news is that there's a lot of folks out there who are looking for what we offer and are really looking for an institution hire somebody to have to set an example in that way and we have a really great opportunity to do that here so and there's an odd requirement she's the associate director of the dole institute of politics back in business with in person programming kicking off this week i don't want to do is doing to keep people safe as he welcome folks back into the building for a program to

share yeah we are so excited to be back in person in an earlier in the year it felt like it was going be a really great idea and we still commands it's at good idea on we are going to be a mandatory masking as as olive keep campuses offer indoors answer we will require folks who attend our friends to be wearing a mask air filters that water improving air quality does have been implemented in many public places over the last few months and so we definitely have that we won't be doing social distance even so be aware of that and we will be continuing to us as we did like you know prior to the pandemic for ten years or more eco broadcasting are our un programs on earth online on our youtube channel so if you're just not ready to come out we fully understand that will be interesting to see you know how many folks want to come and an anti iran people and and also will want to share the audience in and enjoy our online audience as well so

there's opportunities there were going to keep our eye on national trends and local recommendations and of course reserve the right to make changes and adjustments as we need to and in an aligned with what some support for the time so we all needed to learn to be really flexible this past year now heavily yeah yeah i mean you wake up in the morning and you wonder what's right but isn't that week we have been fortunately insulated from that kind of thing a lot of us i'm in our lives and throw not one where he's knocking it's not clear that it is because i can i say you're kicking out programs this week tell me what you've got on your lineup yeah we have a really great outline of this fall won't be surprisingly of you first for fans of the dole institute but i'm just being bill's last semester as director of the institute and then also this wonderful celebration of being back here at home at the institute we discover what set

to enjoy an end and think about um on september eight we're going to have our first evening programmer first public programmer mina welcome back i guess that we've had before on journalists asha eisenberg he first came to the dole institute and twenty thirteen to discuss his book the victory lab the secret science of winning campaigns and he's done a lot of different types of he's written several books over the over the few years very disparate subjects' own before he wrote the victory lab and he wrote a book about the economics of sushi the global economics of sushi us it is a really fascinating guy very curious about the book that he's going to be discussing and promoting is called the engagement america's quarter century struggle over same sex marriage and now another one of the enemy's very timely topic oprah magazine has named it one of the best lgbt q books of twenty twenty one so did any of you take

oprah's recommendation you wanna be sure and come out are tuned in on youtube are but such also received a trouble perhaps from us in our archives in twenty fourteen and visited to an end or to research this book so that's a really nice connection that we're able to kind of bring our bring all of our resources together and the institute is really breaking new ground on this and what he beams and in twenty eleven when he was researching the victory lab held a sea change on same sex marriage it happened so quickly in a way that nobody really for saw and he was really curious to tell that story and find out more and so looking in looking passover recent year history over the last couple decades and see how we got to where we are today it's really going to be a fascinating discussion the name of the book is the book is called the engagements america's quarter century struggle over same sex marriage that will be on wednesday september eighth at seven pm at the door institute so for those of you who are listening to this rebroadcast on saturday morning and firstly bad event will have already taken

place but there's plenty more happening at the dole institute of politics that you'll be able to that will be talking about an awfully a builder catch that youtube channel on my you're falling my trainer saw absolutely you know just on a personal note several years ago i was teaching introduction to political science class at a community college in kansas city ended at the end of the semester i had a student who is lgbt q and as she puts it the end of the semester and said you think same sex marriage will ever be legalized and i thought about it for a minute and i said i don't know that will happen in my lifetime i'm quite sure will happen in yours was only three years later that there was that a sea change since then i've got so many times but their conversation and thinking i don't know that many of us saw it happening that quickly and especially for young people i suspect that a lot of them don't realize just what a huge sea change that his bed in a relatively short period of tight yeah i mean i'm a minute we thought about don't ask

don't tell was something that was progressive thinking yes and thank goodness things have changed and fizzing with other komen she is the associate director of the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas there kicking off of their fall season for twenty twenty one for what's coming up next so on thursday september sixteenth well how our twenty twenty one hour in your constitution day programming featuring to you professor lew morgan will be a moderator that evening and he hasn't and some very special guest will be discussing the constitution uncovered nineteen again another very timely discussion about it the constitutionality of the different types of mandates that we're seeing in masking vaccines social distancing who can go where under what conditions you know a perfect conversation for this time and one that we know the analytically presented and really represent all different perspectives on this

issue again what a timely topic you at the state of politics always managed to hit things especially my constitution they program a lot of times they're just like padded she well this one i guess you could see come to that it i want to get a very timely topic yeah absolutely i am and you know i really am and for those who aren't and two law ordered the fine details of our founding documents i think these conversations really bring its relevance to life in a way that it's really accessible for just your age your average citizen who just wants to stay informed so that's another thing that we're really proud of fear at the institute no doubt that evolution of your constitution day program a lot of colleges and universities celebrate constitution day by just reading of the constitution having a public reading of it that here the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas if it's taken a much more analytical approach to looking at our

constitution each year yeah so barber ballard our own senior associate director haven't taken the lead on an organizing the us each year and no perfect person no more pervert presented to do that as a as a legislator herself and as always navigating you know constantly the way the law relates to our founding documents in our interstate in our nation i'm so it's always again something that we have always store then suited to make the constitution to understand the constitution is a living document to understand how we as a country you know everything that we are discussing today we will look to the constitution to guide us and how we run our country and how we finally lawn how we enforce law i think it also points to the fact that in our constitution but there's still a lot of question in terms of how do you interpret freedoms versus responsibilities and state laws versus federal law and

that those questions are still very much alive very much alive and they're never going to be resolved i think a lot of us we feel like you know why can't we just all that solve our problems and you know that the secret her not so secret is is that our problems will never be solved and the only commitment we need to make for the long term is committing to caring for each other and listening to each other and trying to to work for you know the better the better nature and a better experience for all of us here in the country and but you know i think we can we should have disabuse yourself of the idea that we'll ever all agree or get along an arm in yemen since that's where we are here at the institute of fizzing with it komen she is the associate director of the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas there kicking off a beer fall season for twenty twenty one this week we're talking about some of those programs today and keep your prisons under what else have you get coming up on thursday october fourteen also at seven pm we're going to be

hosting a former us secretary of agriculture dan glickman also someone who kansans will recognize this advert for many reasons but i will remind our listeners that he was a member of the house of representatives representing the fourth district from nineteen set seventy seven until nineteen ninety five after that he was a secretary of agriculture under president clinton is also the president of the motion picture association of america and is a senior fellow at the bipartisan policy center in washington dc which is another organization that was co founded by our own senator bob dole if i'm not mistaken he has a new book out about his career life and career yes and that's what he's going to be discussing how the program will include a book sale and signing by secretary glickman the book is called laughing at myself my education and congress on the farm and at the movies so it's a very wide ranging set of experiences and the leadership saying perspectives from from all different angles and and the letters can be another really fun conversation to hear more about his career in

perspective you're moving along in october on october in it to tuesday evening this one at seven pm at the institute we're going to have the fourth installment of our conversation on race series bill lacy will be moderating this discussion and this is also a book of the conversation out based on a book which will include a book sale and signing with the author bothers michael kronish in the book is the extraordinary life of cyclists major taylor america's first black sports hero and this major taylor fifty years before jackie robinson he was the cyclist from indianapolis and i went professional and at ninety six as the first american born black professional athlete is not amazing i've never even heard of them well you need to come to the program and by the book a and as oh you listening i it's a fascinating story and a new view

that this is obviously a very important conversation to be having to highlight the experience of black athlete that has heretofore largely unknown i'm talking about race and discrimination and segregation up in the you know early nineteen hundreds which were as learning more about in history and and what that kind of experience would be like ah but also those of you know you're talking about the laces like this see he's an active cyclists himself and a big fan of the cycling scene unfolds that sport so that is very nice tribute to him as well but most at most importantly it sits will be a fantastic and fascinating conversation about the artist you know another facet of the history of race in america and what the silence that experience was and what we can learn from that again just in a very calm and she's the associate director of the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas there kicking off their fall twenty twenty one season this week with a number of really great programs idea let's hear about one more yeah one that this is an active

program that it that is going on now we've been able to come in and the pandemic care one thing that we've been able to offer in person is the museum experience and we've been really building that up i have always i've always wanted to do that but really have this opportunity to do that during the last year or so as an alternative to in person events and that mass gatherings and so here at the institut until september nineteenth we have memorial poster exhibit that we have placed mr simons media room in honor of the anniversary of the twentieth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks and this is in conjunction with the nine eleven museum in new york city and in the national army then each as well i am so this is an exhibit it's it's hard k to realize that our newest case students nine eleven was before their lifetime and as we see an events unfolding now on with the end of them or afghanistan twenty years later i that's just

another are really poignant facet of of remembering nine eleven and what happened on that day and what happened in the ensuing two decades and an especially young people might be curious about you know what happened that day and and and how did it lead up to the to what were seeing now and oddly the dole institute of politics has a particular piece of memorabilia from that day that our listeners might not be familiar with you know thanks for thanks for aubrey that up because of this really part of what inspired us to to tell the story of nine eleven again and two decades later is that we have to artifacts two beams from the world trade center tower one and are permanent gallery in these were a gift to senator bob dole and former president clinton for their work together and their families the freedom scholarship fund after nine eleven so together they raised over a hundred million dollars for families and children of the victims of nine eleven i'm so that they could go to college and it's you know as a symbol here at the institute of the power of

bipartisanship and you know to very intense thought active rivalry in two thousand and one after years after the ninety six allah collection you know their business there so there's that it's part of her foundation that that you know we've seen to put aside partisan politics and really think about what matters and her fellow fellow americans and how we can work together to support them is there anything else that the dole institute of politics is doing in remembrance of nine eleven we're having the twentieth anniversary and the day on our nine eleven actual day during our museum hours from twelve to four hour we're going to have a couple of student musicians from kate you're coming out to play just the rugby after a man albert seven all have a very low key walk an open house for folks who would like to come and see the exhibits a kind of a tribute to the beams and take a moment to sit and reflect recalling its to music and meditation so there won't be any outspoken programmer formal program but we thought this was a nice way

for folks really make their tribute to the honoring of a day on their own in a very personal way we're having this conversation in this i'm in term of the dole institute of politics or were surrounded by those photographs there on display attracted to you maybe just pick one of them and describe it to our listeners i think what this exhibit does really nicely in addition to outlining scott the basic timeline and then telling the end of the story of of what happened that morning on september eleventh in two thousand and one there's a really nice discussion of and several panels you know again an assessment of of twenty years later on how where we are with the global war a war on terror on recognizing that the folks the first responders to do came out to assist are on that day and then the following days and cleaning up the wreckage you know there's ongoing health costs of those folks as well and

you know that in the wake of nine eleven there was a very calm and there's a feeling of solidarity in our country unfortunately that i had jack i'm a bit expensive for such a giant tragedy but it's kind of a good way to think about that and maybe reflect on how we can attempt to recover some of that that that sense of of purpose and sense of love the fur for our country and found that at that its forth worth supporting one another you know regardless of background again and visit with aubrey coleman she's the associate director of the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas which is kicking off its fall lineup this week most of these programs are we've been talking about are things that are happening at the dole institute in the evening but you also have a full range of programs that take place during the afternoon talk to me about some of those yes we will be continuing our fort leavenworth series or beloved fort leavenworth series i believe around the temporal up in fear of that that that

is usually on the first during the first week of every month and that folks you will you know with our partners the command general staff college at fort leavenworth will bring over their scholars to discuss various topics are on on the history of war and engagements and so it's very fascinating and then also for our full discussion group bar or fall fellow the us this year is michel wily and she's a political consultant and wesson sig actually from kansas city and has a long history of supporting black women in an leadership and representing african american outreach for four presidential campaigns and across the state of missouri and particularly sore really excited to be out welcoming michele heard discussion group series is called what's the matter with american politics and so we'll be talking about from different facets of of them you know politics and how we experience

politics in our country and the subtitle is how fake news black women covered nineteen presidents forty five and forty six and protests might shape politics in twenty twenty two so we're looking ahead to the midterms and looking ahead to how we can encourage the engagement from a diverse citizenry in voting and leadership and as we know there's all of these different types of historical stresses that we're experiencing a related to the pandemic and amputations and things like that so that should be really nice discussion those are going to be on wednesday's beginning on september twenty second and goat each wednesday until november third i'm in conjunction with michelle's been inspired by michelle's fellowship this fall and also in honor of another us strong black woman leader congresswoman shirley chisholm and in conjunction with the edward kennedy institute for the us senate in boston we have an ongoing project that in a museum gallery called bring your own chair and i don't know if

you remember back at the quote right shirley chisholm it's as if they don't give you a seat at the table bring your own folding chair and this is something that every candy institute has been doing for several years but we have a problem in the installation we encourage folks at whether you're running for an event or coming to the museum we have been updated to making trade your own small many chair an added to art installation that was celebrating the diversity of perspectives and our democracy and representation for those who may be aren't represented and don't have that their own seat at the table michelle wyly is the founder of this organization called charlie's kitchen cabinet which is based out of kansas city analysis such a really nice opportunity to bring in the sense of this other kind of different type of engagement opportunity to connect with her discussion group for the general public and forties duke is forty three twelve audiences that we do at the at the combat the research at the institut as well so are so now i'm doing some fun

experimenting again with the other jay to be here and an do things if you don't feel comfortable no meaning in it and a bigger cell so watch for that has to come at a handsome country of course wondered this about the discussion groups are they kind of a drop in drop out as you as you're available kind of events or is the idea that you attend all of them that it's kind of like that class now that's a wonderful question so i think you can think of it both ways if you're a bull and really committed unable to get here each wednesday you know your experience will only be made better by this evolving conversation you know it lets you get really taken a deep dive as they say and so these topics and the group's you know they're popular but they're not of a full hansen all their gear are simon's media room they tend to be smaller you can really engage with with a fellow and also to guess that she brings in each week which will which will change with the with each week and so and i would encourage folks if you're up for some kind of

not non credit enrichment the upcoming each week is a fling and be something that you'll get a great spirits out of if you can do that dont stay away you know drop then drop out even as you can stay little session i'm just just come and an m and enjoy the conversation has not yet no excuse to stay out of a conversation it's our obligation to go to all for a keypad killing others the registration there's no so a bus there's university if you don't want to be accountable you don't have to end earlier where we're it's like lifelong learning as or after so we just want it you bring in as many people as possible everywhere can our listeners find a full list of your programs yes anyone who wants a third c m and double check on our programs and then we will have a one or two hour programs come about in an two dogs to fast fashion i'll come come together on a show on shorter notice you wanna look for any updates on our website dole institute dot org or also on our facebook page we have our ovens posted there as well so you know for a friday program

details new programs covert related announcement those will be the plate best places to get that information there's always lots going on here either virtually during the pandemic or now back in person so we'll keep our fingers crossed that you're able to continue that throughout the fall we have thank you so much and the thing that audrey coleman from their dole institute of politics are treated as many great diversity oh likewise gay it's always fun to see you and this is something i look forward to every season i'm kate mcintyre will have more keep your prisons coming up right after this