SAU Hosts Arkansas Political Science Association Virtual Meeting | University of Southern Arkansas

The Arkansas Political Science Association is meeting virtually this weekend, hosted by Southern Arkansas University.

Governor Asa Hutchinson will be the guest speaker for the conference beginning at 12:30 p.m. today. He’ll be talking to the Little Rock Association.

The keynote speaker is Adam Jentleson, a veteran presidential campaigner who served as deputy chief of staff to U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada until Reid retired in 2017.

He will address the virtual audience at 5:45 p.m. today.

Jentleson was a senior adviser on policy, legislative and communications strategy through the fights of the Obama years. He is a go-to source for journalists, activists and congressional staff, as well as members of Congress, for creative approaches to legislative strategy. He has been cited as an authority by all major US national and several international media.

Described as a “wizard of the rules” by the Huffington Post, his strategies receive wide public attention and become talking points for senators, and his recommendations are often adopted. In addition to The New York Times, Jentleson’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico, and GQ.

Jentleson is the author of “Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy”.

Members of the organization — mostly professors and historians from Arkansas universities — participate in roundtables and panels. Among the topics:

“Connecting in the Online Classroom: Connecting Teachers and Students.”

“Panel of American Government and Politics.”

Panel discussion on the political theory of Wendy Brown’s book, “In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West”.

“The Status of Women in Politics and the Midpoints of 2022.”

Public Administration and Public Policy Panel.

Looking for undergraduate students.

“Innovations in Undergraduate Political Science Education.”