Listen to Carnegie Scholar Stephen Ansolabehere and colleagues discussing voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting and election administration reform within the democratic process. The talk was moderated by Carnegie Corporation’s Geri Mannion.

Podcast one: Stephen Ansolabehere is a professor of government at Harvard
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Podcast two: Nathaniel Persily, a professor of law and political science at Columbia University
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Podcast three: Wendy R. Weiser directs the NYU Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice’s
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Stephen Ansolabehere is a professor of government at Harvard and served as a co-director of the CatlTech/MIT Voting Project, established in the wake of the 2000 Presidential election to evaluate the reliability and US voting systems and to propose uniform guidelines and requirements. He is an expert on elections, democracy, and the mass media.

Nathaniel Persily, a professor of law and political science at Columbia University, is a nationally recognized expert on election law and a frequent practitioner and media commentator in the field. He is also the founder and director of the Center on Law and Politics at Columbia Law School. Persily's scholarship focuses on American election law and issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance and redistricting.

Wendy R. Weiser directs the NYU Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice’s work on voting rights and elections. During the run-up to the 2004 and 2006 elections, She masterminded litigation and advocacy efforts that kept hundreds of thousands of voters from being disenfranchised. She is a frequent public speaker and media contributor on election reform issues.

Carnegie Corporation Hosts Breakfast for Hans Blix

On April 10, 2008, in conjunction with the Boston Review, Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation and Deb Chasman of the Boston Review hosted a breakfast for Dr. Hans Blix, Chair of the Swedish Government's Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, on the publication of his book, Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters.

Podcast one: Vartan Gregorian President of Carnegie Corporation: Welcome and opening remarks
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Podcast two: Hans Blix: Opening remarks
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Podcast three: Hans Blix: "Sleepwalking into a new arms race"
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Podcast four: Hans Blix: Can disarmament bring peace? The rule of International law
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Podcast five: Hans Blix: The run-up to the Iraq war
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Podcast six: Hans Blix: Closing remarks
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Podcast seven: Question and answer session, part 1
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Podcast eight: Question and answer session, part 2
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Podcast nine: Question and answer session, part 3
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Carnegie Corporation Hosts Forum on Challenges of Iraq

On October 2, 2007, in conjunction with the Boston Review, Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation and John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Association co-hosted a Carnegie Forum on Iraq. The discussion, was the second in a two-part series entitled, "The Challenges in Iraq" which combines the important work that the Boston Review has published on the war in Iraq with the John F. Kennedy Library's capacity to convene public and private conversations about important policy issues.

The Carnegie Forums comprise an occasional series of working luncheons and roundtable discussions that focus on national and international issues. An essential component of these events are the comments and questions from the audience of academic and policy leaders, foundation colleagues and journalists.

Podcast one: Introduction by John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Association
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Podcast two: Comments by Rajan Menon, Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University, Author of the upcoming book The End of Alliances
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Podcast three: Comments by Yitzhak Nakash, Author of Reaching for Power: The Shia in the Modern Arab World
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Podcast four: Comments by Helena Cobban, Columnist, Christian Science Monitor
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Podcast five: Comments by Eric Davis, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, Author of Memories of State" Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq
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Podcast six: Moderated Discussion
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Reflections on Encounters With Three Cultures
by Vartan Gregorian
June 2007

Podcast one: Vartan Gregorian on his essay Reflections on Encounters with Three Cultures: The library, the university and philanthropy
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Podcast two: The University: From Vartan Gregorian's essay: Reflections on Encounters with Three Cultures
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Podcast three: Philanthropy: From Vartan Gregorian's essay: Reflections on Encounters with Three Cultures
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