Conference Schedule
“Terror at the Voting Booth: The Political Uses of Fear”
March 29, 2008   Schedule of Events
 
9:00 a.m.        Welcome: Beth Ossy, PSC Graduate Student
Introduction:  CMU Provost Julia Wallace
 
9:10 a.m.        John Zogby,
“Public Opinion in the US and Arab World”
 
10:30 a.m.     “Flight From Death” Screening followed by
Comments from co-producer Greg Bennick
 
12:15              Lunch Break
 
1:30 p.m.        Dr. Sheldon Solomon
“Terror at the Voting Booth: Psychological Research on Death Anxiety and Voting Behavior”
 
2:30 p.m.        Dr. John Mueller
“Overblown: The Political Uses of Fear”
 
3:30 p.m.        Afternoon Break
 
3:45 p.m.        Panel Discussion
                        Speakers, Student Panelists and Audience
 
4:45 p.m.        Concluding Remarks, Beth Ossy