This speaker series features top Hopkins scholars who will discuss the possible foreign policy implications of the 2018 midterm elections. All events will be held at 5:00pm; locations vary and are listed below. The speaker series is free and open to the public. The Aronson Center for International Studies Speaker Series is organized by the International Studies Leadership Committee.

September 12 | Gilman Hall 50 – Congress and Foreign Policy
Speakers: Homewood Professor and former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski and Julia Frifield, Senior Advisor to the Provost for International Affairs

September 26 | Maryland Hall 110 – Iran and Nuclear Policy
Speaker: Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

October 10 | Maryland Hall 110 – Mexico and Border Security
Speaker: Assistant Professor Christy Thornton, Department of Sociology

October 24 | Gilman Hall 50 – Trade Wars
Speaker: Bob Barbera, Director of the Center for Financial Economics, Department of Economics

November 14 | Mergenthaler Hall 111 – Trump and the Liberal World Order
Speaker: Associate Professor Daniel Deudney, Department of Political Science

Originally from Wisconsin, Dan Kaufman has covered the state’s dramatic political transformation for years. His new book, “The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics” (W. W. Norton, 2018), shows how Wisconsin politics has been radically transformed over the past two decades. For more than a century Wisconsin had been a bastion of progressivism, a cradle of the labor and environmental movements, and home of the Wisconsin Idea, which promoted expertise for the public good. Then in 2010, Republicans, led by Governor Scott Walker, took control of state government, rolling back laws protecting labor rights, the environment, voting rights, and public education. And in 2016, Wisconsin went for Trump. Yet even as the state became a national laboratory for conservatives bent on remaking the country, many of its citizens fought back, and continue to do so. These include Randy Bryce, an ironworker hailed as “the new star of the Democratic party” whose long-shot challenge to Paul Ryan helped galvanize progressives nationwide and drive Ryan into retirement. Bryce, and many others portrayed in Kaufman’s searing account, have shown that the state’s progressive spirit persists. Kaufman has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere. This event will be a Q&A between Kaufman and Hopkins assistant professor Bécquer Seguín, who lived in Wisconsin during the year the state went for Trump.

This speaker series features top Hopkins scholars who will discuss the possible foreign policy implications of the 2018 midterm elections. All events will be held at 5:00pm; locations vary and are listed below. The speaker series is free and open to the public. The Aronson Center for International Studies Speaker Series is organized by the International Studies Leadership Committee.

September 12 | Gilman Hall 50 – Congress and Foreign Policy
Speakers: Homewood Professor and former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski and Julia Frifield, Senior Advisor to the Provost for International Affairs

September 26 | Maryland Hall 110 – Iran and Nuclear Policy
Speaker: Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

October 10 | Maryland Hall 110 – Mexico and Border Security
Speaker: Assistant Professor Christy Thornton, Department of Sociology

October 24 | Gilman Hall 50 – Trade Wars
Speaker: Bob Barbera, Director of the Center for Financial Economics, Department of Economics

November 14 | Mergenthaler Hall 111 – Trump and the Liberal World Order
Speaker: Associate Professor Daniel Deudney, Department of Political Science

Join the International Studies Program and the SAIS Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs for a discussion on U.S. foreign policy in the age of Trump and to learn more about the new course they will be offering Spring 2019 on American Grand Strategy. Lunch will be provided.

Considering graduate school for International Studies? Come meet with admissions representatives from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, the American University School of International Service, and the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service to learn more about their programs. The Executive Director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) will also be on hand to discuss factors to consider when selecting a program and preparing to apply.

This speaker series features top Hopkins scholars who will discuss the possible foreign policy implications of the 2018 midterm elections. All events will be held at 5:00pm; locations vary and are listed below. The speaker series is free and open to the public. The Aronson Center for International Studies Speaker Series is organized by the International Studies Leadership Committee.

September 12 | Gilman Hall 50 – Congress and Foreign Policy
Speakers: Homewood Professor and former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski and Julia Frifield, Senior Advisor to the Provost for International Affairs

September 26 | Maryland Hall 110 – Iran and Nuclear Policy
Speaker: Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

October 10 | Maryland Hall 110 – Mexico and Border Security
Speaker: Assistant Professor Christy Thornton, Department of Sociology

October 24 | Gilman Hall 50 – Trade Wars
Speaker: Bob Barbera, Director of the Center for Financial Economics, Department of Economics

November 14 | Mergenthaler Hall 111 – Trump and the Liberal World Order
Speaker: Associate Professor Daniel Deudney, Department of Political Science

Meet with admissions representatives and learn more about the BA/MA and Junior Year Abroad programs with the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Lunch will be provided.

This speaker series features top Hopkins scholars who will discuss the possible foreign policy implications of the 2018 midterm elections. All events will be held at 5:00pm; locations vary and are listed below. The speaker series is free and open to the public. The Aronson Center for International Studies Speaker Series is organized by the International Studies Leadership Committee.

September 12 | Gilman Hall 50 – Congress and Foreign Policy
Speakers: Homewood Professor and former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski and Julia Frifield, Senior Advisor to the Provost for International Affairs

September 26 | Maryland Hall 110 – Iran and Nuclear Policy
Speaker: Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

October 10 | Maryland Hall 110 – Mexico and Border Security
Speaker: Assistant Professor Christy Thornton, Department of Sociology

October 24 | Gilman Hall 50 – Trade Wars
Speaker: Bob Barbera, Director of the Center for Financial Economics, Department of Economics

November 14 | Mergenthaler Hall 111 – Trump and the Liberal World Order
Speaker: Associate Professor Daniel Deudney, Department of Political Science