Most of the participants hold positions at major universities throughout the United States. The 1997 Cutler Lecture will mark the start of the conference at 2 p.m. Friday, October 24, in Lander Auditorium. Five panelists will hold a roundtable discussion on Republican leadership in Congress.
Admission is free and open to all.
Two formal sessions on Saturday will be closed to the public. The conference is sponsored by the University's Department of Political Science. In his 40 years on the University faculty, Fenno has written more than a dozen books about Congress and the American system of government. Fenno was also the first winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize, given by the Lyndon B. Johnson Library for the best book on the United States Congress in the 20th Century. The Political Science Association's Legislative Studies section now annually awards the Richard Fenno Prize for the most highly regarded book on this subject.