MassINC will examine the outcomes of the national and statewide elections and the implications for politics and policy on Thursday, Nov. 8, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.. at Emerson College's Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston. "Behind the Curtain: What Just Happened? What's Next?" will feature panel discussions moderated by former ABC news anchor Carole Simpson and award-winning host of WBUR’s On Point Tom Ashbrook. Panelists will include former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld, retired diplomat Nicholas Burns and former Clinton administration policy adviser Elaine Kamarck.

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The Coalition of Essential Schools will present "What’s Next? Responses to the 2012 Election" with panelists James P. Comer, Judith Browne-Dianis, Pedro Noguera, Warren Simmons and George Wood on Friday, Nov. 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Met School Gymnasium in Providence.

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Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, will deliver a free, public lecture on “The Lessons of the 2012 Election and Its News Coverage,” at the Fairfield University Bookstore in Fairfield, Conn., on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.

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Middlebury College professor Eric Davis will moderate a panel of journalists on “Election 2012: The Impacts of the Results on Vermont and Vermonters," on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Vermont's Billings North Lounge. News and political reporters will include Hamilton Davis, former managing editor of the Burlington Free Press; Kristin Carlson of WCAX TV; Andy Bromage of Seven Days; Bob Kinzel of Vermont Public Radio; and Sam Hemingway of the Burlington Free Press.

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward will explore “Presidential Decisions and the Role of Leadership in the 2012 Elections,” on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m., in the the University of Southern Maine's Hannaford Lecture Hall in Portland, Maine.

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Western Connecticut State University's Fall 2012 President’s Lecture will feature Commonfund 

President and CEO Verne O. Sedlacek on "What’s Next: Global Policy and Economic Challenge Ahead,” on Monday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m.. at the university's Ives Concert Hall, in 
Danbury, Conn.

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The New England Economic Education Partnership's Fall Economic Outlook Conference focusing on "The Next Four Years: Economic Outlook in New England Post Election" will be held Thursday, Dec. 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. Speakers will include Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.