Hinckley Fellows: In March the Hinckley Institute of Politics welcomed two Hinckley Fellows: Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and Mickey Ibarra.  To read various newspaper articles regarding their visits click here. To listen to the audio of their Hinckley Forums click here.  Governor Schweitzer will also be interviewed on ABC 4’s On the Record with Chris Vanocur on Saturday April 1, at 12:30 pm. 

Redistricting Conference: On April 3-5 the Hinckley Institute of Politics will host the premier national conference on political redistricting.  Over 50 individuals will convene at the University of Utah to address redistricting principles and their potential implementation in various states as well as on the national level.  Participants will include elected officials and representatives from the Campaign Legal Center, Brookings Institute, Common Cause, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, US PIRG and League of Women Voters.   While the conference is closed to the public, we invite you to listen to the following radio interviews that will take place on Monday, April 3.

KCPW’s Midday Metro: Hinckley Institute Director Kirk Jowers will be interviewed from 8:00 am to 9:00 am on KCPW (AM 1010, FM 88.3 and 105.3).  To visit KCPW’s website click here.

KCPW’s Midday Metro: Trevor Potter and Gerry Hebert of the Campaign Legal Center and Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution will be interviewed by KCPW’s Bryan Schott at 10:00 am on KCPW (AM 1010, FM 88.3 and 105.3).  To visit KCPW’s website click here.

KUER’s RadioWest: David Skaggs of the Council for Excellence in Government, Chellie Pingree of the League of Women Voters, and Michael McDonald of George Mason University will be interviewed by KUER’s Doug Fabrizio at 11:00 am on KUER (FM 90.1). To visit KUER’s website click here.

Special Book Presentation: Elizabeth Borgwardt’s forthcoming book A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights has been nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award.  Borgwardt is a professor of history at the University of Utah. Professor Borgwardt will be speaking at a Hinckley Pizza & Politics Forum entitled “Historical Perspectives on Human Rights: Rethinking the Nuremberg Trials” on Tuesday, April 11 at 12:00 noon in the Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH 255) and will be presenting her book for C-SPAN 2 at Sam Wellers Bookstore Annex (245 South Main Street, Salt Lake City) on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 6:00 pm.  Both events are free and open to the public. 

Alumni Spotlight: The Hinckley Institute of Politics April 2006 spotlight is Dave Buhler. Click here to visit the Hinckley Institute’s Alumni Spotlight webpage. 

Hinckley Forums: The Hinckley Institute of Politics will host several informative and intriguing

Hinckley Forums this month. All forums take place in the Hinckley Caucus Room (Orson Spencer Hall Room 255) unless otherwise noted. For more information regarding April’s Hinckley Forums, click here.

Tues. April 4                   U.S. Policy Towards the Western Hemisphere

10:45 AM                         Betsy Whitaker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs

Wed. April 5                    Religious Freedom and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy

11:50 AM                        President Michael Young, President, University of Utah

Fri. April 7                      Inside Terrorism

10:45 AM                         Bruce Hoffman, Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, Director of  
                                           the Rand Corporation Washington Office

Tues. April 11                 Historical Perspectives on Human Rights: Re-thinking the

Noon                                  Nuremberg Trials

Pizza & Politics              Liz Borgwardt, Assistant Professor, History Department U of U; Author, A New Deal for  

                                           the World: How Human Rights Ideas Reshaped the National Interest, which has been

                                           nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History

                                           Presented by the Sam Rich Program in International Politics

Wed. April 12                 Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers

11:00 AM                         A live RadioWest Broadcast with moderator Doug Fabrizio

                                            Chief Justice Christine Durham

                                           Senate President John Valentine

                                           Speaker of the House Greg Curtis

                                            Governor Jon Huntsman

Thurs. April 13              A Visit with the Governor

9:10 a.m.                          Governor Jon Huntsman

Fri. April 14                    South African - U.S. Relations

10:45 AM                        Her Excellency Barbara Joyce Mosima Masekela, South African ambassador to the United  

                                           States

Mon. April 17                 Germany 2006: The Merkel Project

Noon                                 Dr. Gerald R. Kleinfeld, lecturer, consultant and contractor in various fields relating to

                                          Europe, Germany and Austria, International relations, higher education, German Studies,

                                          organizational administration, and scholarly associations

Tues. April 18                The CP80 Initiative: The Solution to Online Pornography

10:45 AM                        Dr. Jill Manning, Social Science Therapy Resource Specialist for The CP80 Foundation

                                          Cheryl Preston, Esq., Professor of Law, Brigham Young University

                                          Ralph Yarrow, Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of ThinkAtomic, Inc.; Founder and  

                                          Chairman of The CP80 Foundation

Fri. April 21                   Al-Mahaba in the Life of Iraqi Women: A Passage to

Noon                                Democracy, Freedom, and a Better Future

                                         Ms. Bushra Jamil, Spokeswomen of Radio Al-Mahaba, the first and only women’s radio

                                         station in Iraq.

Other Upcoming Events:

Tues. April 11                22^nd Annual Jefferson B. Fordham Debate

7:00 PM                          David R. Irvine, Attorney, Former Instructor on Prisoner of War Interrogation and

Sutherland Moot            Military Law, Sixth Army Intelligence School, Brigadier General (Ret.) U.S. Army

Courtroom                     Jordan J. Paust, Mike and Teresa Baker Coll Professor, University of Houston Law Center

                                         Michael D. Ramsey, Professor, University of San Diego School of Law

                                         Atoosa Kourosh, M.D., Pediatrician, Redwood Health Center, Volunteer, Utah Health and  

                                         Human Rights Project.

                                         Erika George (Moderator), Associate Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Fri. April 13                 Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages

4:15 PM                        Samer Ali, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Texas

                                        Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH 255)

Thurs. April 20            A Presidential Authoritative Voice in the Making: Orchestration of

4:15 PM                        Voices and Harmonization of Words

                                        Naima Omar, Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies, University of  

                                        Kansas.

                                        Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH 255)