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JFKI Election Night

The organizers of Tuesday’s election night at the JFKI sent around the following mail yesterday:

On November 6, the 57th Presidential Election will take place in the United States. We, the Students Board of the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, would like to invite everybody into the holy realms of our establishment, where we will come together to observe, discuss, and celebrate this event.

What is left of Obama’s Audacity of Hope, with which he was able to generate an enormous momentum in 2008? What are the changes that Mitt Romney promises to make once elected President? Who are Jill Stein and Gary Johnson and why did we hardly ever hear their names? What’s up with Obamacare, Romnesia, Tax Relief, One Million Moms, Gay Marriage, Latino Voters, Clint Eastwood, that lady who could see Russia from her house – and what does all of this have to do with a big, yellow bird?

Come join us and bring your friends!

Planned items:

– Student and Staff Election: which candidate would the Kennedy Institute elect?
– Panel Discussion: what will be deciding factors in the race for the White House? High and low points of this year’s debates.
– Awe or arrogance? Taking a look at the way German media has covered the race for the White House
– English-language live stream (CNN) as the results come in
– films, campaign clips
– Gewinnspiel
– and much more!

Und wie immer:

lots and lots of food and drinks! (donations welcome)

Starting at 7pm, there will also be a panel discussion on the election:
The panel will consist of the following people:
– Irwin Collier (Professor for Economics, John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies)
– Christian Lammert (Professor for North American Domestic Policy, John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies)
– Curd Knüpfer (PhD candidate at the Graduate School for North American Studies)
– Dorian Kantor (PhD candidate at the Graduate School for North American Studies)
– Rachel Johnson (Master’s student in Global History at the Free University of Berlin)
Franziska Krause (cc) and Niklas Flamang, both undergraduate students at the JFKI, will be leading the discussion.
The debate will be in English. It is scheduled to begin at 7 PM in room 340 and last up to 90 minutes, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.
Der Beitrag wurde am Samstag, den 3. November 2012 um 14:29 Uhr von Curd Knüpfer veröffentlicht und wurde unter Veranstaltungen, Wahlkampf abgelegt. Sie können die Kommentare zu diesem Eintrag durch den RSS 2.0 Feed verfolgen. Kommentare und Pings sind derzeit nicht erlaubt.

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