Dear OSU Community,
Please join me for a lecture and conversation in PRAx with Drs. Nicholas Jacobs and Dan Shea, authors of The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, on Friday, October 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lynne Hallstrom Detrick Concert Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Register here.
This event is the first in a new series at OSU called Democracy in Action: A Lecture Series on American Pluralism. The series will explore how place, geography, economics, demographics, faith, religion, race and culture are shaping the nature and quality of civic affairs and collective action in the United States. The aim is to inspire robust but constructive dialogue across traditional political divides and diverse viewpoints.
The Rural Voter uses the largest-ever national survey of rural voters to challenge popular and inaccurate media and pundit diagnoses of “rural Americans as culturally backward and scared of the future.” Jacobs and Shea discuss the sources of rising Democrat and Republican urban-rural partisanship and divisiveness, dispelling stereotypes and contributing to a deeper understanding of the politics of rural communities.
Following the lecture, Jacobs and Shea will be joined by Associate Professor and Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy David Rothwell and Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Scott Vignos, who will moderate a conversation.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
Edward Feser
Provost and Executive Vice President
The lecture will be streamed on live.oregonstate.edu and recorded and made available on OSU’s Free Speech and Expression website. Closed captioning will be available for the entire lecture. For accommodations, please contact [email protected].
Visit the Democracy in Action: A Lecture Series on American Pluralism website where details regarding future events will be posted as they become available.