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You are invited to attend "Obama Phenomena: Facets of a Historic Campaign," a one-day symposium here at the Sturm College of Law on Friday, August 29, 2008, the day after the Democratic National Convention. Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver the Luncheon Keynote Address.
 
Barack Obama and his campaign would be worthy of study if he were merely the first African American major-party presidential nominee. Yet Obama is more than a history-making candidate; he and his campaign are a cultural phenomenon on many levels. This conference brings together a diverse, inter-generational group of scholars to examine the meaning of Obama’s candidacy.  The symposium will consider aspects ranging from race, gender, and religion in contemporary politics, to the changing nature of campaign organizing, to Obama’s potential impact on affirmative action law, election law, and U.S. foreign policy.

The following scholars will participate at this exciting conference during this truly historic time:

Raquel Aldana (UNLV), Keith Aoki (UC-Davis), Rachel Arnow-Richman (Denver), Monica Bell (Yale ’09), Jane Caputi (Florida Atlantic, Women’s Studies and Communications), Robert Chang, (Seattle), Guy-Uriel Charles (Minnesota), Jeffrey Chemerinsky (Duke ’09), Delmarie Cobb (The Publicity Works), Charlton Copeland (Miami), Roberto Corrada (Denver), Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver), Robert Hardaway (Denver), Craig Jackson (Texas Southern), Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Jacqueline Lipton (Case Western), Scott Moss (Colorado), Camille Nelson (St. Louis), Reginald Oh (Cleveland State), Ann O’Leary (Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security), Angela Onwuachi- Willig (Iowa), Jeffrey Pokorak (Suffolk), john a. powell (Ohio State), Nancy Reichman (Denver, Sociology), Susan Schulten (Denver, History), and Verna Williams (Cincinnati).

Essays from the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Denver University Law Review.

Please let Jeff Rideout, jrideout@law.du.edu, know if you will be attending the conference.  For additional information, please visit the following link: http://www.law.du.edu/index.php/obama-phenomena.