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How might politicians, pundits, journalists, scholars, and other social and cultural leaders best connect with the audiences they need to address?\u00a0 As part of its 2021-2022 Annual Symposium, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center is pleased to sponsor a panel exploring this question and the issues it raises.\u00a0 Bringing together a professional political communicator, a Maine-based journalist, and a professor of political philosophy, the panel will describe how skills learned from the humanities – such as how to conduct interviews and answer questions, how to speak and write clearly, and how to engage audiences in democratic processes – play a vital role in their work.<\/p>\n

Moderator:\u00a0Robert A. Ballingall, \u00a0Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine<\/b>.\u00a0Professor Ballingall’s research interests lie<\/a>\u00a0in classical political philosophy and its fraught relationship to modern \u2013 especially liberal democratic \u2013 political thought.\u00a0 Before coming to 91¸£Àû, Professor Ballingall was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard and Allan Bloom Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow for Research in Classical Political Thought at the University of Toronto, where he also took his PhD.\u00a0 Professor Ballingall\u2019s new book,\u00a0The Reverent City: Plato\u2019s Laws and the Politics of Ethical Authority<\/i>, is under contract to the University of Pennsylvania Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Panelist:\u00a0Victoria Bonney, Director of Communications for Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine)<\/b>.\u00a0 In 2017, Victoria Bonney was named\u00a0Director of Communications for Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree<\/a>.\u00a0 Before that, Bonney spent more than a decade of service as a senior spokeswoman and communications strategist for government agencies, advocacy organizations, and political campaigns. She served as Communications Manager for Planned Parenthood\u2019s New Hampshire Action Fund, and previously oversaw the United States Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 outreach and public education strategy throughout New England during implementation of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

Panelist:\u00a0<\/a>Colin Woodard\u00a0<\/a>is a New York Times bestselling historian, a Polk-Award winning journalist, and the author of six book<\/b>s.\u00a0 He is a contributing editor at Politico and the State and National Affairs Writer at the\u00a0Portland Press Herald\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Maine Sunday Telegram<\/i>, where he received a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. A longtime foreign correspondent of\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle<\/i>, and\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i>, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents. Born in Waterville, he\u2019s a graduate of Mt. Abram High School, Tufts University, and the University of Chicago, and a past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.His books are interdisciplinary in nature, informed by his liberal arts education, and include:\u00a0Ocean\u2019s End<\/i>\u00a0(on the environmental crisis in the world\u2019s oceans),\u00a0The Republic of Pirates<\/i>\u00a0(on Blackbeard\u2019s notorious pirate gang);\u00a0The Lobster Coast<\/i>\u00a0(a cultural history of coastal Maine); and three books on the nature of the United States and the deep background to the existential crises it faces:\u00a0American Nations, American Character<\/i>, and, most recently,\u00a0Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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This panel is part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2021-2022 Annual Symposium: “Humanities: Impact in Real Life”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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