“Beyond the Headlines” – The Midterm Elections: What Happened and How Will It Matter?

“Beyond the Headlines” – The Midterm Elections: What Happened and How Will It Matter?

DATE: November 13, 2018
TIME: 11:45 am – 1:00 pm
LOCATION: Vanderbilt University, Buttrick 123

Vanderbilt University Department of American Studies presents a faculty panel on the implications of the midterm elections, the latest installment of our “Beyond the Headlines” series, which offers fresh perspectives and provocations on events in American political culture as they unfold.

Please join us a week after Election Day, Tuesday, November 13, from 11:45 am to 1pm.  Commentators from Sociology, Communications, History, and Medicine, Health and Society will deliver 5-minute remarks and then lead a freewheeling discussion.

Lunch will be served at 11:45 and the program begins at noon.
For lunch, please rsvp to american-studies@vanderbilt.edu.

PANELISTS

LARRY ISAAC, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair of Sociology

LARRY ISAAC

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair of Sociology

CLAIRE SISCO KING

Associate Professor of Communication Studies

LARRY ISAAC

Associate Professor of History

JONATHAN METZL

Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry

PANELISTS:

LARRY ISAAC, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair of Sociology
CLAIRE SISCO KING, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
PAUL KRAMER, Associate Professor of History
JONATHAN METZL, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry