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The Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice is currently well along in planning for the Sixteenth Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics to be held on campus in March. Begun in 1978 and held every two years since, the Symposium marks its thirtieth anniversary with the 2008 event. Nationally recognized as the nation's leading conference on regional politics, the Symposium regularly attracts 70-90 leading scholars who present and discuss their research on southern politics. Panels have dealt with a wide range of topics including race and southern politics, electoral patterns in the South, southern party development, and southern political culture, to mention a few.

In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, the 2008 Symposium will feature a roundtable presentation by Earl and Merle Black (endowed professors of political science at Rice University and Emory University respectively), widely regarded as among the top southern politics scholars in the nation. Additionally, Harold Stanley, a preeminent scholar from Southern Methodist University, will present the luncheon address. According to Symposium co-directors DuBose Kapeluck, Laurence W. Moreland, and Robert P. Steed (all professors of political science at The Citadel), the 2008 program will also include approximately 15 other panels of scholarly presentation, all of which are open to students and the public at no charge.