Grand Valley hosting annual political summit this weekend – HollandSentinel.com

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GRAND RAPIDS Grand Valley State University will hold its 11th annual Progressive/Conservative Summit this weekend. The event, presented by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1 and 2.

The event begins at 7 p.m. Friday in the Loosemore Auditorium at the DeVos Center on GVSUs Pew Campus in Grand Rapids. It will continue with a full day of events Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m.

There will be four keynote addresses with libertarian, conservative and liberal speakers, panel discussions, a luncheon workshop and networking opportunities.

Topics of discussion will include the future of conservatism and liberalism, civic engagement and how the nation can unite on issues.

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Speakers for this years event include Jane Coaston, David French and Matthew Yglesias.

Coaston was a former senior politics reporter for Vox before joining The New York Times in September 2020 as host of its opinion podcast, The Argument. French is senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. He is also a former senior writer for the National Review. Yglesias is one of the co-founders of Vox, and its senior correspondent covering politics and economic policy and host of the websites The Weeds podcast.

The Hauenstein Center is partnering with the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and the Progressive Womens Alliance to host the summit.

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