UConn Department of Political Science

Colloquium lecture with Prof Kevin McMahon (Trinity College). Uncertain Legitimacy: The Supreme Court in the Age of Trump

Join Education Abroad Advisor, Valerie Nightingale and Political Science Academic Advisor,
Suzanne Waterman, for an informational session on education abroad opportunities! The presentation will include some basic information about the application process, types of programs, obtaining credit effectively as well as highlighting some relevant programs for political science students. Register to attend via Nexus https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=1224&rc=4972433724

The REP grad certificate program will bring Prof. Rob Nixon of Princeton University to campus on Mon, Mar 11 for a talk entitled: Environmental Martyrs and the Fate of the Forest.

The talk will take place in The Class of '47 Room in the Homer Babbidge Library at 12:15 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Rob Nixon holds the Barron Family Professorship in Humanities and Environment at Princeton. He is the author of four books, most recently Dreambirds: the Natural History of a Fantasy and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which won numerous awards, including an American Book Award and the Sprout prize from the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies. Nixon writes frequently for the New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Aeon, Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, The Village Voice, Slate, Truthout, Huffington Post, Edge Effects, Times Literary Supplement, and Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been the recipient of an NEH fellowship, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Guggenheim, and has been awarded residencies at a number of artist colonies, including MacDowell and Yaddo.

Colloquium featuring Eric Mielants (Fairfield University). "The State and the Market in Historical Capitalism: Reality and Epistemological Challenges." 12:15pm in Oak 438.

This UConn Foreign Policy Seminar will feature Professor Matthew Karp of Princeton University to speak on “Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Radical Democratic Struggle against American Slavery."

Karp's first book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016.

The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 5:00 pm. If interested in attending the catered dinner, please RSVP to Frank Costigliola.

This UConn Foreign Policy Seminar will feature Professor Manfred Berg who is the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Berg's lecture is titled “'For the Liberation of All Peoples, the German People Included’: Woodrow Wilson and the German Revolution of 1918-19”.

Professor Berg is the author of several books, including a 2017 publication of "Woodrow Wilson: America and the Reorganization of the World."

The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 5:00 pm.

Discussion of Prof. Fred Lee’s book Extraordinary Racial Politics: Four Events in the Informal Constitution of the United States with Lisa Lowe (Yale) as discussant

POLS Colloquium: Kerry Ratigan (Amherst College). Talk title TBD. 12:30pm in Oak 438. Sponsored by Political Science.