Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Pat Butler
Date: Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Marshall Ramsey
Date: Monday, April 13th, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 1
Speakers: Cynthia Fleming & Otis Stephens
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 1
Speakers: Viola McFerrin & John Doar
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 1
Speaker: John Doar
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 1
Panel: Charles Bullock, John Scheb & William Lyons
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 1
Panel: Laughlin McDonald & George Barrett
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 1
Closing Remarks: John Seigenthaler
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: Rita Geier & Linda Wynn
Topic: The Long Shadow of "Tent City": Beyond Fayette and Haywood Counties
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: John Seigenthaler, George Barrett & Richard Dinkins
Topic: One Person, One Vote: Reapportionment and Redistricting
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: Michael Fitzgerald & William Lyons
Topic: The 2010 Census: Process and Political Impact
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: the Hon. Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Topic: One Person, One Vote: Implications for the Electoral College
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: Charles Bullock & Michael Fitzgerald
Topic: Voter Participation
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: Bill Purcell, Robert Leming & John Sibley
Topic: Educating the Next Generation
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: Oleg Manaev & Beldina Aumo
Topic: Democracy Abroad: A Global Perspective on the Electoral Process
Date: April 1, 2009

Tent City Celebration & Voting Rights Conference - Day 2
Speakers: Juan Williams
Topic: Democracy at Home and Abroad: The Social, Political, and Geopolitical Outlook
Date: April 1, 2009

12th Annual Billie Grace Goodrich Lecture
Speaker: Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
Topic: Reflections: Connecting the Academic Mission of the University to the Regeneration of Distressed Communities
Date: November 20, 2008

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Harrison Schmitt
Topic: Baker Center Address on Space and Science
Date: November 19, 2008

Baker Center Dedication
Speech given by Sandra Day O'Connor
Date: October 31, 2008

Baker Center Dedication
Dedication Ceremony at the Baker Center
Date: October 31, 2008

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker:Jay Hakes
Date: October 23, 2008

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker:Lady Julia Boyd
Date: October 17, 2008

Baker Center Luncheon at the Foundry
Speaker: James Woolsey
Topic: Energy, Security, and the Long War of the 21st Century
Date: August 20, 2008

Baker Center Luncheon at the Foundry
Speaker: Victor Ashe
Topic: Experiences and thoughts on US-Poland Relations
Date: August 14, 2008

Korea-America Student Conference
Speakers: Dr. Bob Kronick and Dr. Mike Fitzgerald
Topic: Preparing Global Citizens
Date: July 19, 2008

Korea-America Student Conference
Speakers: Dr. Catherine Luther and Dr. Wonjae Hwang
Topic: Shaping Regionalism in East Asia: Peace and Security Panel
Date: July 19, 2008

TN World Affairs Council
Speakers: Lt. Gen. Robert Gard and Col. William Hauser
Topic: The U.S. and Iran: A Troubled History Does Not Have to Equal a Disastrous Future
Date: April 17, 2008

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Speaker: Sen. Bill Frist
Topic: Health Care: Back to the Future, 2015
Date: November 9, 2007

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Speaker: Dr. Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President and Community Partnerships Center Director at the University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Goodrich Distinguished Lecture
Date: September 27, 2007

Baker Center Luncheon on Education
Speaker: Dr. Ira Harkavy
Developing Mutually Beneficial University-Community Partnerships: What’s to be done?
Date: September 27, 2007

Campaign 101: Seeking Public Office, June 2, 2007
Opening and Welcome Remarks, Cong. John J. Duncan, Jr, 2nd District, U.S. Congress
Making the Decision to Run: First Steps as a Candidate, Molly Leach Pratt, Pratt, Pratt & Rice
Know Your Territory: How to Get Info on your Constituency, Bill Lyons, UT Political Science Dept.
Putting it All Together: Elements of a Successful Campaign Plan, Dean Rice, Pratt, Pratt & Rice
Compliance/Record Keeping: State/County Requirements, Greg MacKay, Knox County Election Comm.
Luncheon Remarks: Top Ten Things To Remember, Sen. Jamie Woodson, District 6, TN State Senate
Fundraising and Budgets, Larry Leibowitz, Leibowitz and Cohen
Media Relations: How to Draft and Deliver your Message, Cynthia Moxley, Moxley Carmichael; Gene Patterson, WATE-TV
Technology in Campaigns, Dr. Glenn Reynolds, UT Political Science Dept.
If I Knew Then What I Know Now, Madeline Rogero, former Knox County Commissioner; Wayne Ritchie, former state representative

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Derick Moyo
Date: April 25, 2007

Baker Center Address on Energy
Speaker: Jerry Paul
Date: April 10, 2007

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Jerry Paul
Date: April 10, 2007

Baker Center Breakfast
Speaker: Samuel Zbogar
Date: April 2, 2007

Plain Talk on Quality Growth
Speaker: Dan Williams
Date: March 29, 2007

Baker Center Address on Global Security
Speaker: Thomas Barnett
Date: March 21, 2007

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Vladimir Tokarevsky
Date: November 28, 2006

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Thom Mason
Date: November 1, 2006

Korea and the United States: Prosperity or Parting Ways?
Speaker: General B.B. Bell
Date: September 22, 2006

Baker Center Breakfast
Speaker: Deborah Brezina
Date: August 30, 2006

Baker Center Luncheon
Speaker: Ambassador Victor Ashe
Date: July 26, 2006

Baker Center Breakfast
Speaker: Congressman Bob Clement
Date: April 18, 2006

The United States and Great Britain: The Legacy of Churchill's Atlantic Alliance, March 29-30, 2006

Opening and Welcome
Welcome to UT - President John Petersen & Chancellor Loren Crabtree Welcome by Baker Center Director Alan Lowe
Opening Remarks by Howard H. Baker, Jr.

The Personal Diplomacy of Prime Minister Thatcher and President Reagan
Lord Charles David Powell, former private secretary and foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

"From Churchill and Roosevelt to Reagan and Thatcher: Glimpses of the US/UK relationship through the Archives"
Allen Packwood Director, Churchill Archives Centre

Franklin and Winston
Jon Meacham, Newsweek managing editor and author of Newsweek

The Churchill Syndrome
Dr. Richard Toye, Professor, Modern British Political History

Thomas Barnett
Author and former Sr. Strategic Researcher, US Naval War College

Henry Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State under President Nixon

Churchill and the Iron Curtain - What He Really Meant
Dr. David Reynolds, professor, International History, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Prime Minister Eden and the Special Relationship
Dr. David Woolner, assistant professor of History & Political Science, Marist College and Executive Director, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

From Hot War to Cold War - A Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Mike Fitzgerald - Professor, Political Science, University of Tennessee
Panelists:
Dr. Stephen Knott - Research Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Dr. David Reynolds - Professor, International History, Cambridge University
Dr. David Woolner - Professor, Director, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Daun van Ee - Library of Congress

Lunchtime Presentation
Sir John Boyd

Prime Minister Macmillan and President Eisenhower
Dr. Anthony Edmonds and Dr. E. Bruce Geelhoed, authors and professors of History, Ball State University

Breaking the Berlin Wall: A Panel Discussion
Moderator: Becky Dunlop - Heritage Foundation
Panelists:
Lord Alan Watson - author and Chairman, Burson Marsteller Europe and Corporate Television Networks
Sir John Boyd - Master, Churchill College
Dr. David Feldman - Professor, Political Science, University of TN
Brent Scowecroft - former National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and Bush

Britain, America and Europe Today
Lord Alan Watson, author and Chairman of Burson Marsteller Europe and Corporate Television Networks and Victor Ashe, Ambassador to Poland

Bill vanden Heuvel

Brent Scowecroft

Keynote Panel - Reflecting on Greatness
Moderator: Bill vanden Heuvel, former US Ambassador to the UN
Panelists:
Howard H. Baker, Jr. - Former Senator and Ambassador to Japan
Winston S. Churchill - former member of the House of Commons, author and grandson of Winston Churchill
Dr. June Hopkins - professor, Armstrong Atlantic University and granddaughter of FDR advisor Harry Hopkins

Baker Center Building Groundbreaking Ceremony
Special Guests: Sen. Howard Baker, Jr.
Vice President Dick Cheney
Sen. Lamar Alexander
Cong. John Duncan
Gov. Phil Bredesen
UT Pres. John Petersen
Date: November 15, 2005

Votes and Jokes Conference, October 28, 2005

Opening and Panel Discussion with:
John Seigenthaler, Moderator
Sen. Howard Baker, Jr.
Sen. Alan Simpson
Vernon Jordan

Mark Katz, Speechwriter for Pres. Bill Clinton

Kerry Tymchuck, Speechwriter for Sen. Bob Dole

Roy Herron, State Senator

Charlie Daniel, Political Cartoonist

Art Buchwald, Author and Humorist

John Jay Hooker, Attorney and long-time Tennessee politician

Address on Civic Engagement
Speaker: Sen. Fred Thompson
Date: October 7, 2005

Politics and Policy Breakfast
Speaker: Ed Ingle, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for Microsoft Corporation
Date: September 30, 2005

Address on Energy
Speaker: Cong. Zach Wamp
Date: August 29, 2005

Public Forum
Speaker: Cong. Harold Ford, Jr.
Date: August 29, 2005

Teaching Congress and the Presidency
Summer Institute for Teachers, June 6-9, 2005

Speaker: Alan Lowe, Executive Director, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy
Howard H. Baker, Jr., Senator and former Ambassador to Japan
Topic: Welcome and Introductions

Speaker: Bob Clement, former Congressman, 5th District, Tennessee
Topic: My Years in the U.S. House of Representatives Representing the People of Tennessee

Speaker: Cong. Dan Lipinski, 3rd District, Illinois
Topic: From Teaching to Doing - Perspectives of a Former Teacher

Speaker: Emily Reynolds, Secretary of the U.S. Senate
Topic: The Role of the Secretary of the Senate, and Reflections on Tennessee's Political Heritage

Speaker: Bobby Holt, UT Archivist
Topic: The Baker Center and University of Tennessee Archival Resources

Speaker: Richard Baker, U.S. Senate Historian
Topic: Telling Stories about Congress at the new Capitol Visitor Center

Speaker: Bruce Wheeler, PhD, Retired Professor, Dept of History
Topic: The Tennessee Valley Authority

Speaker: Susan Webb Hammond, Professor, American University
Topic: Presidential-Congressional Relations

Speakers: Dean Rice (Cong. Jimmy Duncan's staff), Patrick Jaynes (Sen. Lamar Alexander's staff) and Carolyn Jensen (Sen. Bill Frist's staff)
Topic: The Important Roles of Congressional Staff Members and Constituent Services

Speaker: Dave Feldman, PhD, Professor and Dept. Head, Political Science, University of Tennessee
Topic: The Role of Political Parties

Speakers: Dan Feller (Professor, UT History Dept.), Wayne Cutler (Professor, UT History Dept.), Bill Lyons (Director of Policy Development, City of Knoxville)
Topic: Tennessee Leaders in the White House and on the Hill - Andrew Jackson and Polk's Opposition to Limited Corporate Liability

Workshop: Led by Richard Hunt (Director) and Christine Blackerby (Archives Specialist), Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives
Topic: The War Powers

Speaker: Nancy Smith, Director, Presidential Materials Staff, National Archives
Topic: The Presidential Libraries

Speaker: David Greenberg, Asst. Prof., Rutgers University and author of Nixon's Shadow
Topic: The Legacy of Richard Nixon

Speaker: Scott Roley, Deputy Director, Truman Presidential Museum and Library
Topic: The Legacy of Harry Truman

Speaker: Jeffrey Urbin, Education Specialist, Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library
Topic: The Roosevelts and the New Deal

Speaker: Daun Van Ee, Historical Specialist, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Topic: The Online Eisenhower Papers and the Library of Congress

Speaker: Nancy Smith, Director, Presidential Materials Staff, National Archives
Topic: The Presidents and War

Speaker: Dan Holt, Director, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum
Topic: When Do We Begin, When Do We Stop: The Eisenhower Legacy

Speaker: John Seigenthaler, founder, First Amendment Center, author of James K. Polk
Topic: Civil Rights Movement

Speaker: Tom Griscom, Editor, Chattanooga Times Free Press and Albert Eisele, Columnist, The Hill, Washington DC
Topic: Press Coverage of the Congress and the White House

Cleaning America's Air: Progress and Challenges, March 9, 2005

Speaker: Alan Lowe, Executive Director, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy
Howard H. Baker, Jr., Senator and former Ambassador to Japan
Lamar Alexander, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (by video)
John J. Duncan, Jr., U.S. Congressman from Tennessee (by video)
Topic: Welcome and Introductions

Speaker: Paul Gilman, Director, Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies
Topic: Clean Air - Where Are We and Where Do We Need To Be? A View from Inside and Outside EPA

Speakers: Dale Ditmanson, Superintendent, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Jim Renfro, Chief, Air Quality Branch, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Topic: Air Quality at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Speaker: Betsy Child, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Topic: Taking Action for Cleaner Air in Tennessee

Speakers: Alan Lowe, Executive Director, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy
Loren Crabtree, Chancellor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor of Knoxville, TN
Mike Ragsdale, Mayor of Knox County
Topic: Luncheon Remarks

Speaker: Bill Baxter, Director, Tennessee Valley Authority
Topic: Moving Forward on Clean Air - It's a Question of Balance

Speaker: Milton Russell, Professor Emeritus, JIEE
Topic: Clean Air Act, EPA and William Ruckelshaus

Speaker: Howard Baker, Senator and former Ambassador to Japan
Topic: An Address by Senator Howard Baker, Jr.

Speaker: Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
Topic: An Address by Al Gore
Note: Due to copyright restrictions UT was not able to show Mr. Gore's Powerpoint presentation. This video is extremely dark because the auditorium lights were off during most of the lecture.

Speakers: Robert Shelton,Director, Joint Institute of Energy and Environment
Jim Haslam, Chairman, Baker Center Board of Directors
Howard Baker, Senator and former Ambassador to Japan
Leon Billings, President, Edmund S. Muskie Foundation
Topic: Dinner Remarks

Water, Science and Policy in the 21st Century, October 18-19, 2004

Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Robert Shelton, Director, Joint Institute of Energy and Environment
Mike Ragsdale, Mayor, Knox County, TN
Loren Crabtree, Chancellor, UT Knoxville

Speaker: John Duncan, Congressman, Tennessee
Topic: Overview, Federal Perspective

Speaker: Don Sundquist, former Governor of Tennessee
Topic: Overview, State Perspective

Speaker: Robert Hirsch, Associate Director for Water, US Geological Survey
Topic: Is There a Water Crisis?

Roundtable I:
Mike Sale, Group Leader, Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kathryn Jackson, Exec Vice President, River Systems Operations and Envrionment, TVA
John Wilson, Prof Of Hydrology, New Mexico Tech
Robert Goldstein, Senior Technical Leader & Area Manager, Water and Ecosystems, EPRI
Topic: Water Issues in the Southeastern US

Roundtable II:
Justin Wilson, former Deputy Governor for Policy of Tennessee
Bridgette Ellis, Vice President, Resource Stewardship, TVA
Sam Hamilton, Regional Director, Southeast Region, US Fish and Wildlife
Jimmy Palmer, Regional Administrator, Southeast Region, US EPA
Michael Walsh, Division Commander, South Atlantic Division, US Army Corps of Engineers
Jess Weaver, Regional Hydrologist, Southeast Region, US Geological Survey
Topic: Water Issues in the Southeastern US: A Federal Perspective

Roundtable III:
David Feldman, Head, Political Science Department, UT Knoxville
Colleen Castille, Secretary, Florida Dept of Environmental Protection
Betsy Child, Commissioner, Tennessee Dept of Environment and Conservation
Charles Chisolm, Executive Director, Mississippi Dept of Environmental Quality
Carol Couch, Director, Environmental Protection Division, Georgia Dept of Natural Resources
Trey Glenn, Division Director, Alabama Dept of Economic and Community Affairs, Office of Water Resources
Topic: Water Issues in the Southeastern US: Southeastern State Perspective

Closing Remarks and Future Agendas
Alan Lowe, Executive Director, Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy
Randy Gentry, Director, Southeastern Water Resources Institute

Presidential Communications: A Legacy of Ideas, September 15, 2004
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Alan Lowe, Executive Director, Baker Center
Loren Crabtree, Chancellor of UTK

Patrick Butler, Washington Post
Topic: Presidential communications as viewed by the media.

Tom Griscom, Chattanooga Times Free Press and former Director of Communications for President Reagan
Topic: Presidential and Congressional communications.

Bob Clark, Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library
Topic: FDR's unique fireside chats and more.

Greg Cumming, Nixon Library and Birthplace
Topic: The Silent Majority speech and more.

Peter Robinson, former Reagan speechwriter, fellow at the Hoover Institution and host of PBSU's Uncommon Knowledge
Topic: The process of writing President Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech

Claudia Anderson, LBJ Library and Museum
Topic: The formal and informal communications of LBJ, including some of LBJ's personal audiotapes.

2004 Address on Terrorism, May 7, 2004
Speaker: General Wayne Downing
Topic: The Global War on Terrorism: A Status Report

2004 Address on the Press, April 26, 2004
Speaker: David Halberstam
Topic: The Press and Media in Time of War
Topic: Breakfast With David Halberstam, a Question & Answer Session

2004 Address on Space and Science, April 21, 2004
Speaker: Dr. Hap McSween, UT Geologist and NASA co-investigator
Topic: Touring the Red Planet

The War: Iraq and the Embedded Journalists, September 23, 2003
Welcome and Overview
Loren Crabtree, Chancellor, The University of Tennessee
Alan Lowe, Executive Director, UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
John Seigenthaler, Sr., First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University, Facilitator
Brian Whitman, Deputy Asst Secretary of Defense and Pentagon spokesman, speaking on "Development of the Concept to Embed Journalists - Preparing Journalists and the Military
Lt. Col. Rock Marcone, U.S. Army, A Commander's View of the Concept
Gary Tuchman, CNN, A Journalist Prepares and Goes to War

Journalist or Patriot Soldier? A Panel Discussion on Impact of Embedding
Ed Caudill, Professor, UT College of Communication & Information, Moderator
Jeffrey Dvorkin, Ombudsman, National Public Radio
Mark Harmon, Asso Professor, Broadcasting, UT College of Communication & Information
Lyndsey Layton, Writer, Washington Post
Capt. Rosemary Mariner, Research Fellow, UT Center for the Study on War & Society, retired naval aviator and military analyst
Jack McElroy, Editor, Knoxville News Sentinel

Through the Lens: Photojournalists Relay their Experience
Don Bartletti, The Los Angeles Times unilateral photojournalist
David Rust, CNN, embedded cameraman
Jack Gruber, USA Today, embedded photojournalist

Question & answer session with East Tennessee high school history students