Experts to Discuss Effects of U.S. Presidential Election
Days after the presidential election, Dickinson faculty members (from left) Sarah Niebler, Russel Bova, Katie Marchetti and Ed Webb will offer analyses and insights on the event and its effects.
Faculty, guest speakers offer expert views from U.S. and abroad
As we gear up for the U.S. presidential election, Dickinson is planning two panel discussions on its effects at home and abroad. Experts from Dickinson's faculty will join together on Nov. 7 to offer analyses and insights relating to topics such as gender politics, domestic and international relations, political representation, interest groups, authoritarianism and more. One week later, Dickinson will convene a panel discussion with experts from around the world to share how people in other nations view the results of the U.S. election and how the election affects those countries.
Thursday, Nov. 7
Open Forum on the 2024 Election
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Just two days after the U.S. presidential election, four faculty members with different areas of expertise will share observations and analyses and take questions from the audience.
- Russell Bova, professor of political science & international studies, is the J. William Stuart & Helen D. Stuart '32 Chair in International Studies. His research specializes in Russian politics and Russian political culture.
- Katie Marchetti, associate of political science, studies gender and U.S. politics, interest groups, intersectionality, political representation and political methodology.
- Sarah Niebler is an associate professor of political science whose 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. She also will moderate the event.
- Ed Webb, associate professor of political science & international studies, teaches classes in Middle East politics, comparative politics and international relations, religion and politics, the politics of education, authoritarianism and empire.
Thursday, Nov. 14
International Perspectives on the 2024 Election
Stern Center, Great Room, noon
One week after the faculty panel and nine days after the U.S. presidential election, Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Niebler will again moderate a discussion the election's effects, this time focusing on the views from abroad. Representatives from Dickinson's study-abroad centers in Argentina, Cameroon, France, Russia and Germany will discuss the effects of the election in their home countries and beyond.
- Willibroad Dze-Ngwa will offer a view from Yaoundé, Cameroon. Dze-Ngwa is a Senior Fellow for the Global Center on Cooperative Security; an associate professor at the University of Yaoundé; a founder of the Heritage Higher Institute of Peace and Development Studies and the African Network against Illiteracy, Conflicts and Human Rights Abuses; and the vice president for African Affairs in the Peace and Security Department of the Civic Commission for Africa.
- Mario Guerrero (Mendoza, Argentina) is a political scientist and postdoctoral Fellow at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and the Universidad Nacional de San Luis, as well as a former Fulbright and AUGM scholar.
- Hilary Sanders, representing Toulouse, France, is a professor at the University of Toulouse and at the Center for Anglophone Studies who studies and teaches about American history and institutions, geopolitics, food and environmental justice, the sociology of migration, citizenship and interethnic relations in the United States.
- Neil van Siclen (Bremen, Germany) is an expert in transatlantic relations and American social, economic and political systems. He is the president of the Carl Schurz German-American Club in Bremen, as well as a frequent guest on local and regional television and radio programs and a regular analyst for German newspapers.
- Konstantin Sonin (Moscow, Russia) 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, and he writes a column for Russian reporting project VTimes and a blog on Russian political and economic issues.
Both of the election-related events will be in-person only (no livestreams or recordings). Lunch will be provided. RSVPs to clarkforum@dickinson.edu are recommended by Nov. 7 (please include dietary restriction information, if applicable).
Don't miss these additional Clarke Forum events in November:
Saturday, Nov. 9: Symposium: Reflecting on the Legacy of David Driskell
3-5 p.m., Rubendall Recital Hall
This panel discussion features Curlee Raven Holton, an artist, scholar and founding director of Raven Fine Art Editions; Adrienne Childs, independent scholar, art historian and senior consulting curator at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Julie McGee, associate professor of Africana studies and art history, University of Delaware. Jerry Philogene, associate professor of Black studies at Middlebury College, moderates this symposium, which is co-sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Trout Gallery, with programming support provided by Art Bridges.
Monday, Nov. 11: Molly and Wayne Borges Memorial Lecture: Danger, Purity and the Holy Land Past and Present
7 p.m., Stern Center Great Room
Monday, Nov. 18: Reinventing Germany, Again and Again
7 p.m., Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
The history of modern Germany has forced continuous reorientations. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event will host a discussion on today’s Germany and its global position. The panelists are Janine Ludwig, cultural historian of East Germany and academic director of Dickinson’s Bremen program; Thea Dorn, writer, public intellectual and TV host; Anne Rabe, playwright and novelist; and Matthias Rogg, historian and colonel in the German army. This event represents the Germany on Campus program, co-sponsored by the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Max Kade Foundation and Dickinson's Department of German. It is part of the Clarke Forum’s annual theme, Alternative Models
To learn more about these and other upcoming Clarke Forum lectures, including livestream information, visit the Clarke Forum website.
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Published October 18, 2024