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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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: 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 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
