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First in IRC's Series:
Foreign Policy and the 2008 Election:
Congressional View
U.S. Representative Dennis Moore, 3rd District, Kansas
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U.S. Representative Emmanuel Cleaver, II, 5th District, Missouri
 
IRC is starting a program series that will present several perspectives on foreign policy and the 2008 election.
Congressmen Moore and Cleaver will share their viewpoints on the important international issues that the candidates of both parties will be addressing in the coming months. Congressman Moore is part of the House delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and recently attended meetings in Brussels, Belgium. Congressman Cleaver is currently serving his second term representing the 5th district of Missouri in the House of Representatives and sits on the Executive Financial Services Committee. He will also be sharing his views on the pertinent foreign policy issues for the 2008 election.
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Johnson County Community College, Regnier Center 101
The Regnier Center is on the east side of campus adjacent to the new museum. There is covered parking below it and to the south.
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Second in IRC series:
Foreign Policy and the 2008 Election: International Journalism's View
International journalists will share their reflections on the upcoming presidential election.
Speakers currently scheduled include Samuel Siringi, senior journalist for Kenyan newspaper The Nation; Randy Smith, Deputy Managing Editor of the Kansas City Star; and Ruth Rodriguez, professor at Pompeu Fabra University at the Specialized Journalism Department.
Samuel Siringi is a senior journalist from The Nation in Nairobi, Kenya. He is coordinating the news coverage in the area of Kenya rocked by post-election violence. Randy Smith, Deputy Managing Editor of the Kansas City Star, traveled to North Korea and South Korea with a dozen U.S. journalists for two weeks. Smith is winner of the MU School of Journalism Alumni Award. Ruth Rodriguez received her PhD in Journalism from Complutense University (Madrid) in 2005. Her research focuses on cultural reporting and criticism; online journalism and comparative analysis between Anglo-saxon and Latin journalism.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Kaufmann Foundation, Town Hall
4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, MO
$10 members/$15 non-members
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World Food Crisis:
How Did It Happen & What Can Be Done?
 Our speakers will be:
Jay Sjerven, Senior Editor of Markets, Sosland Publishing
John Gillcrist, Chairman, Bartlett and Co.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the price of food has gone up 41 percent since October 2007.
How did the food crisis happen? What can be done to mitigate the crisis? And what kind of food aid is most effective?
Join our speakers in exploring these topics.
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Kaufmann Foundation
4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, MO
$10 members/$15 non-members
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