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CCSE Conversation with Brian Lamb
Discover the Center for C-SPAN Conversation with Brian Lamb, where the visionary founder of C-SPAN leads engaging interviews with a distinguished guests. From celebrated authors to award-winning journalists and renowned scholars, the Conversation delivers lively and insightful discussions. This enriching experience is free and open to the public.
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2024 Guest
Stacy Schiff, Author
Stacy SchiffâŻis the author ofâŻVeÌra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize;âŻSaint-ExupeÌry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; andâŻA Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize.
Published to ecstatic reviews, herâŻCleopatra: A LifeâŻwas a #1 bestseller. Named one of theâŻNew York TimesâsâŻTop Ten Books of 2010, it has been translated into 35 languages and won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. David McCullough greeted Schiffâs 2015âŻThe Witches,âŻalso a #1 bestseller, as “brilliant from start to finish;” theâŻNew York TimesâŻhailed it as âan almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative.â
Schiffâs most recent book,âŻThe Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, was aâŻWall Street JournalâŻTop Ten Book of 2022 and figured as well on President Obamaâs list of Favorite Books of 2022. TheâŻWall Street JournalâŻhas called Schiff âperhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time.â Among other honors, Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, where she has been named a Library Lion. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has been made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government.Â
Past Conversations
2023 Conversation guest
- Edna Greene Medford, Ph.D., Howard University
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2022 Fall Conversation guest Â
- Mitch Daniels, Purdue President 2012-2022Â
- View the conversation
2022 Spring Conversation guest
- Harold Holzer, Historian and Director of Hunter Collegeâs Roosevelt House Public Policy InstituteÂ
- View the conversationÂ
 2019 Conversation guest
- Doug Mills, New York Times Photographer
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2018 Conversation guest
- Susan Page, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief
- View the conversation
Brian Lamb
Brian Lamb is founder of the C-SPAN Networks and C-SPANâs former executive chair. Heâs been an integral part of C-SPAN since he helped the cable industry launch it on March 19, 1979, serving as the networkâs CEO until March of 2012.Â
Today, C-SPAN employs approximately 250 people and delivers public affairs programming via three HD television channels nationally to cable and satellite customers; globally to Internet users via C-SPAN.org and 15 other internet sites; and to radio listeners through C-SPAN radio, a Washington, D.C FM station also available through a C-SPAN app and numerous digital audio services.Â
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- Brian Lamb School of CommunicationsÂ
April 2, 2024
7:00 pm
Fowler Hall, Stewart Center
Doors open at 6:30 pm