Dickinson College to Host Virtual Panel on Global Perspectives on the U.S. Election
Panelists Françoise Coste (L), Manuel Arias Maldonado, Neil van Siclen and Konstantin Sonin
Community, Connections and Commentary
by Gabriella Farrell '21
Dickinson College will host a panel of experts from around the world to give an in-depth analysis of international perspectives on the 2020 presidential election. The virtual discussion, “Community, Connections and Commentary: Perspectives on the U.S. Elections from Bremen, Malaga, Moscow and Toulouse,” will take place on Monday, Nov. 9, at noon on a YouTube livestream hosted by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. The link to the event is available at the Clarke Forum website. The public is invited to watch the discussion and submit questions in the comments section of the YouTube livestream.
Experts from France, Germany, Russia and Spain will share their insights from their research areas and national backgrounds on the outcome of the 2020 U.S. election.
Panelists:
Françoise Coste is a professor of American studies at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. Her research is devoted to contemporary American politics, with a focus on the history of women’s rights and on the contemporary conservative movement. She is currently working on a history of the Republican Party since 1945, which will analyze changes in American conservatism leading to Donald Trump’s presidency.
Manuel Arias Maldonado is an associate professor of political science at the University of Malaga, Spain. He has studied environmental issues from sociopolitical and philosophical standpoints. He has authored many books in both English and Spanish and his academic papers have been featured in journals including Environmental Politics and Environmental Ethics. His latest work is From the Ruins of the Future: Political Theory of the Pandemic.”
Neil van Siclen is an expert in transatlantic relations and American social, economic and political systems. He is the president of the Carl Schurz German-American Club (CSDAC) in Bremen, Germany, as well as a regular speaker at public lectures, a frequent guest on local and regional television and radio programs and a regular analyst for German newspapers.
Konstantin Sonin is the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He is a visiting professor and adviser at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. In addition to his academic work, Sonin writes a column for Russian reporting project VTimes and a blog on Russian political and economic issues.
Sarah Niebler, who will serve as moderator, is an associate professor of political science at Dickinson. Her research and teaching interests include political behavior, campaigns and elections and public opinion. Her insight is frequently sought by political journalists and her research has been featured on NPR’s Hidden Brain and in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
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Published October 26, 2020