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Hollihan and Goodnight offer brief remarks before and after the address. Refreshments will be served. Thomas Hollihan is a professor of communication and associate dean for academic and faculty affairs in the USC Annenberg School. He publishes in the areas of argumentation, political campaign communication, contemporary rhetorical criticism and the impact of globalization on public deliberation. He is the author of several books including Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age and Arguments and Arguing: The Products and Process of Human Decision Making (with Kevin Baaske), now in its second edition. His latest book is Argument at Century's End: Reflecting on the Past and Envisioning the Future. G. Thomas Goodnight is a communication professor and director of doctoral studies in the USC Annenberg School for Communication. An expert in rhetoric, his current research interests are deliberation and postwar society, science communication, argument and aesthetics, public discourse studies and communicative reason in controversy. This event is co-sponsored by the Political Student Assembly and USC Annenberg School for Communication..