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Jan 19

Friday Jan 19, 2024

Rooney Center Seminar Series: "To Discuss or Not to Discuss? How Selective Exposure to Political Discussion Conditions Experimental Findings on Polarization" with Erin Rossiter

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Location: B101 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Erin Rossiter

Erin Rossiter is the Nancy Reeves Dreux Assistant Professor of Political Science. She broadly studies the dynamics of interpersonal political communications and the consequences such communications…

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Jan 19

Friday Jan 19, 2024

Lecture by Melvin Rogers: "On James Baldwin: History, Responsibility, and Atonement"

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Location: Jenkins Nanovic 1030

Melvin Rogers is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. He is an award-winning writer and speaker on race and democracy in American culture and politics. 

This even is open to the public. Lunch is available…

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Jan 24

Wednesday Jan 24, 2024

Soc(AI)ety Seminars Series: “Technology and Democracy”

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Location: Jordan Hall Auditorium Rm 105

Join the Lucy Institute for Data & Society on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, as Moshe Vardi, a distinguished Israeli mathematician and computer scientist explores how technological advancements and neoliberal policies have catalyzed societal and political divides, shaping today's Disunited States of America and similar global trends.

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Feb 2

Friday Feb 2, 2024

Rooney Center Seminar Series: "Enhancing Democracy: Increasing Spending on Elections Causes Public Administrators to Increase Voter Access and Open More Polling Places" with Christian Grose

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Christian Grose

Christian Grose is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He is the Academic Director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State…

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Feb 7

Wednesday Feb 7, 2024

“Acts of Gods or Governments?: Disasters and Post-disaster Reconstruction as an Issue of Governance in Urban Nepal”-Lecture by Shana Scogin, Political Science PhD candidate

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Location: 2148 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Whose responsibility is it to prepare for and rebuild after a ‘natural’ disaster? And who do urban residents trust most to protect and rebuild their community? Using novel data, Scogin theorizes that Nepali urban residents believe post-disaster preparation and reconstruction to be a collective good,…

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Feb 14

Wednesday Feb 14, 2024

Movie Screening of Fannie

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Location: McCartan Courtroom

FANNIE is an award winning short film about Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights, human rights, and voting rights activist in the 1960s starring Oscar- nominated actress, Aunjanue Ellis.
 
The nine-minute short film with Ellis reenacts

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Feb 16

Friday Feb 16, 2024

Rooney Center Seminar Series: "From the Street to the Ballot Box? The BLM Protest Movement and Voter Turnout" with Gabriel Cepaluni

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Cepaluni G

Gabriel Cepaluni is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations and Public Policy at São Paulo State University (UNESP). His research is in comparative political economy,…

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Feb 19
Feb 21

Wednesday Feb 21, 2024

Join or Die: A Film Screening and Conversation with Robert Putnam

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Location: Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business

 

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Join us for a special screening of Join or Die: a film about why you should join a club and why the fate of America depends on it, and for the live conversation that follows with legendary social scientist Robert Putnam, Emeritus Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.

 

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Feb 22

Thursday Feb 22, 2024

International Security Studies Minor Information Night

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Are you interested in learning about the causes, conduct, and consequences of conflict?

Would you like to take an interdisciplinary approach to studying security, its applications, and its implications?

Do you want to join a network of practictioners at the Department of Defense, the…

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