Event date:
Monday, January 24, 2022 at THE KENTUCKY CENTER
Purchase tickets HERE
or, at The Kentucky Center. Visit convenient Drive-Thru on Main Street, Monday through Friday or call 502-584-7777
Further details on the evening's program and price tiers below.
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY AUTHOR FORUM PRESENTS:
Congressman Jamie Raskin
Author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
AND
Dr. Fiona Hill
Author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Master of Ceremonies: Representative John Yarmuth
The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum’s opening 2022 event on January 24th features U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, and Dr. Fiona Hill, author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century. Congressman John Yarmuth will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
Jamie Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was renamed Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for the 117th Congress. Representative Raskin’s moving memoir Unthinkable tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed Raskin’s life as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and was House lead impeachment manager in the effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. He is a former constitutional law professor.
Fiona Hill is recognizable to many Americans as the key impeachment witness during the U.S. House of Representatives Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry, and its investigation into charges of presidential misconduct. Growing up in a working-class town in north-east England, she rose to become Senior Director of European and Russian Affairs at the U. S. National Security Council. She served three presidents: two Republicans and one Democrat. Her poignant memoir There Is Nothing for You Here reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia. Dr. Hill is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at The Brookings Institution
EVENT DETAILS
University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum
January 24th at Kentucky Center Bomhard Theater
5:00 PM - Wine and Cheese Reception, Carmichael’s book sale in the lobby
6:00 PM – Discussion with Congressman Raskin and Dr. Hill in the Bomhard Theater
7:00 PM - Q&A with audience
$30 package includes all evening events before 7:30 PM
7:30 PM - Dinner in honor of Representative Raskin and Dr. Hill at Muhammad Ali Center; Representative John Yarmuth Master of Ceremonies
$130 package includes all events, plus dinner
($40 tax deductible contribution to non-profit Kentucky Author Forum)
Tickets on sale December 17th at The Kentucky Center.
Visit convenient Drive-Thru on Main Street, Monday through Friday
502-584-7777 or : https://tickets.
“Great Conversations created in Louisville and heard Nationwide.”
The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forums are made available to PBS member stations nationwide, under the title Great Conversations. KAF is the only Louisville cultural program to be broadcast nationally. Forums are also recorded as podcast episodes which are produced by Louisville Public Media, and available on iTunes, NPR, Spotify and Stitcher.
The Kentucky Author Forum series is produced by Mary Moss Greenebaum, and is sponsored by Bittners, Brown-Forman Foundation, The Gheens Foundation, James Graham Brown Foundation, and LDG Development. Other partners include Carmichaels Bookstore, Courier-Journal, Fiddlehead Fund, Kentucky Center for Performing Arts, Snowy Owl Foundation, Inc. and Tallgrass Farm Foundation.
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