Joe Trippi, former national campaign manager for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign and the executive director of the Nixon Center, will give separate public lectures this month at Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics.

Trippi will speak on “Catching Lightning in a Bottle: The Rise and Fall of the Dean Campaign” at 7:30 p.m. March 28 in the institute’s Hansen Hall. He will also sign copies of his 2004 book, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything.” Trippi will also address Dole Institute Fellow John Toohey’s not-for-credit study group at 4 p.m. March 28.

Paul J. Saunders, who leads the Nixon Center in Washington, D.C., will speak on “Time to Give Up on Russia?” at 7:30 p.m. March 30 in Hansen Hall. The Nixon Center is a nonpartisan public policy institution.