Schedule

Please see below for a schedule of panels for “The Change Election?” Papers corresponding to these panel presentations will be posted when available. For information on the conference, contact Mike Keane.

To download a pdf copy of the conference schedule, click here.

All panels take place in the McKenna Hall Auditorium

Monday, October 5th

9:00am – 10:30am: Identity I: Race

• Vincent Hutchings (Michigan)
  Should Political Science have Seen Obama Coming?

• Paul Sniderman (Stanford)
  Blind Spot: Self-Critique of a Research Program

10:45am – 12:15pm: Identity II: Gender and Religion

• Leonie Huddy (SUNY – Stony Brook)
  2008 and the Future of Gender in American Politics

• David Campbell (Notre Dame)
  2008 and the Future of Religion in American Politics

1:30pm – 3:00pm: The Parties

• John Aldrich (Duke)
  Lessons Learned? Presidential Nominations 40 years after McGovern-Fraser

• Geoff Layman (Notre Dame)
  The Partisan Change Election? 2008 and the Ideological Divide in the American Party Coalitions

3:15pm – 5:15pm: Mobilization and Campaign Communication

• Ken Goldstein (Wisconsin)
  TV Advertising in 2008

• Diana Owen (Georgetown)
  The Internet in 2008

• David Nickerson (Notre Dame) and Lauren Deschamps (Notre Dame)
  Experimental Evidence on Mobilization in 2008

Tuesday, October 6th

9:00am – 11:00am: Congress and the Presidency

• John Griffin (Notre Dame)
  Is Government Still ‘the Problem’ after 2008?

• William Howell (Chicago)
  Obama and the Future of the Presidency

• Rogers Smith (Pennsylvania)
  Obama in Historical Context

11:15am – 12:15pm: Roundtable: Observations and Conclusions

• Dianne Pinderhughes (Notre Dame)
• Kay Schlozman (Boston College)