Event Details

A Conversation on the Importance of Political Activism with Barack Obama

Date/Time:Friday, 21 Sep 2007 at 12:00 pm
Location:Central Campus
Contact:
Phone:515-294-9934
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Illinois Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work as a community organizer. In 1991 he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He is the author of The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream and Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Part of Political Action Week and the Presidential Caucus Series.
Political Action Week, September 17-21, is a bipartisan event addressing such topics as foreign policy, student concerns, domestic issues, and agriculture and the environment. The event includes presentations by candidates, elected officials and faculty, followed by discussions with the audience, all on central campus from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily.

2008 Presidential Caucus Series
Since 1987, the series has provided students, faculty, and community members from around central Iowa with an opportunity to question presidential candidates, or appropriate surrogates, before the precinct caucuses. The series is sponsored by the University Committee on Lectures, the ISU Democrats, College Republicans, and the Government of the Student Body.

Cosponsored By:
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)