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The Dole Institute of Politics is pictured Thursday, July 17, 2003, in Lawrence.

The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced its programming for the fall 2018 semester.

Highlights include a wide variety of programs focusing on everything from the upcoming midterm elections in November to a Holocaust survivor.

The annual Journalism and Politics lecture will feature a panel of Kansas journalists discussing how they cover the midterm elections, highlight key races across the state and predict what might happen on Election Day. Panelists will include Mary Clarkin, of The Hutchinson News; Caroline Sweeney, of KCTV5; Jim McLean, of the Kansas Health Institute News Service; and Hunter Woodall, of the Kansas City Star. That program will be at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11.

The 2018 Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership Lecture will focus on those on the front lines caring for the nation’s veterans. This event includes a panel discussion and will be at 4 p.m. on Sept. 30.

In October, an afternoon program will feature one of the last survivors of the Holocaust, Sonia Warshawski. She will star in a documentary made by her granddaughter and appear in person for a follow-up program as part of the fall lineup.

Warshawski, fondly nicknamed “Big Sonia” because of her diminutive stature and larger-than-life personality, has served as an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons while running the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years, according to a press release from the Dole Institute.

A special screening of “Big Sonia” will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 12. This will be followed by a second event, “A Conversation with Sonia Warshawski,” which will be at 2 p.m. on Oct. 19.

For more information on all programs, visit the Dole Institute’s website at doleinstitute.org.