Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:58 — 19.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, Civic Conversations welcomed Indiana University Professor Jeffrey Isaac. Isaac is the James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and served as editor in chief for Perspectives on Politics, a flagship journal of the American Political Science Association, from 2009 to 2017. In 2017, he was awarded …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:59 — 20.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, the Civic Conversations Podcast welcomes Kathleen Johnston, the director of the center and a 30-year veteran of investigative journalism, as well as a Media School professor of practice, who is the center’s founding director. Johnston, an IU alumna, has worked at numerous national and local …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:47 — 20.9MB)Subscribe: RSS This month, we welcome Anne Kibbler to discuss the importance of Indiana’s wetlands.  Kibbler wrote about environmental issues for the Down to Earth page for The Herald-Times. She later worked for five years as the editor of Indiana Environmental Reporter at Indiana University’s Media School until the publication lost …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:44 — 12.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, the League of Women Voters-BMC, Civic Conversations talks to Steve Hinnefeld, author of the nationally recognized blog School Matters, which can be found at https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/. Steve is a longtime journalist and writer in Bloomington. In the podcast, Jim and Steve discuss how the school voucher …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:09 — 19.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, Civic Conversations welcomes Indiana University’s Media School Professor Jim Kelly, to talk about his book, From AIDS to Population Health: How an American University and a Kenyan Medical School Transformed Health Care in East Africa. In the podcast, Kelly explained how the AMPATH-Academic Model for …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:28 — 15.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, on LWVBMC’s Civic Conversations, we welcomed Erika Oliphant of the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office. During the podcast, Prosecutor Oliphant shared how her office determines what cases to prosecute, the role of the prosecutor, and how plea bargains impact what cases are brought to court. She also …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:42 — 13.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor September, we welcome Ralf Shaw of the League of Women Voters Bloomington-Monroe County to discuss voting in the November general election.  During the podcast, Ms. Shaw shares the basics of Indiana voting, including absentee and early voting requirements.  She also talks about LWV US Vote411. Launched …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:32 — 4.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, LWV-BMC’s Civic Conversation is talking to Mark Fraley, the associate director of PACE, the Political and Civic Engagement Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, and Pearl Vinard, an IU PACE student, to speak on the Big Ten Voting Challenge. Because …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (7.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCivic Conversations welcomed Dr. Marjorie Hershey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University, this month. In the podcast, she discusses the impact of disinformation on elections and how it influences election politics. Hershey shares that the definition of disinformation, purposeful misinformation designed to influence elections, has grown in recent …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:07 — 5.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, Civic Conversations welcomes Professor Charles Geyh, a Distinguished Professor of Law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.  A widely recognized expert on judicial conduct, Proerfoess Geyh has served as a witness in a U.S. Senate impeachment trial, leading to dozens of media appearances on the subject. …