Georgetown University American Government Seminar

03/24/2022

The American Government Seminar Series will be hosting Prof. Efrén Pérez of UCLA tomorrow at 10:00 AM. Prof. Pérez will be presenting a talk entitled, "Taking Stock of Solidarity Between People of Color: A Meta-Analysis of 5 Experiments."

Please join us via Zoom; RSVP using this form to receive the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/XZdm9YY3U2sVr4KA7

You can see the full slate of AG Seminar speakers here: https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/american-government-seminar/

11/22/2021

What does it mean to be "un-American"? Julie Wronski examines last Friday how members of dominant and marginalized groups in American society use the label to exclude one another from a shared American identity.

See the full slate of speakers at https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/american-government-seminar/

11/19/2021

The American Government Seminar Series will be hosting today's session at 2:00 PM.

Julie Wronski, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi, will be presenting a talk entitled, "The 'Un-American' Citizen." She'll be discussing her ongoing book project.

Please join us via Zoom; RSVP using this form to receive the Zoom link:
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLScJxYmunBH.../viewform...

You can see the full slate of AG Seminar speakers here:
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/american.../...

11/12/2021

The American Government Seminar Series is pleased to announce next week's session, scheduled for Friday, November 19, from 2:00-3:30 PM EST, accessible by Zoom.

Julie Wronski, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Mississippi, will be presenting a talk titled, "The 'Un-American' Citizen." She'll be discussing her ongoing book project.

Please join us via Zoom; RSVP using this form to receive the Zoom link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJxYmunBHnu2EefcrVoCjHDcNSrGMkMDe0lBfckHATddJjbA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1Thh35pdMftVFmz2Ro9Y1VfpPo6EHID9QvD9UOKSEVvETRP4JvK0bdZ58

You can see the full slate of AG Seminar speakers here:

https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/american-government-seminar/ =2.24502143.47529796.1603064043-124506622.1591214133

2021-2022 American Government Seminar Series Schedule The American Government (AG) Seminar typically meets Fridays. We host presentations from outside speakers, as well as Georgetown faculty and PhD students. Schedule for the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Semesters Thursday, September 23rd at 12:00 p.m....

10/30/2021

Bethany Albertson interrogates how partisanship affects perceptions of and emotional reactions to threats to democracy.

10/15/2021

WE'RE BACK!

The GU American Government Seminar is back in person (OK, Hybrid) for the first time in over a year, with a visit from John Dearborn. Dearborn explains how the strategic preferences of political leaders shaped the nature and sequence of tax policy in the early 1900s.

01/17/2020

Vincent Hutchings explains how Obama fought against conspiracy theories by minimizing his blackness among white voters.

11/24/2019

At the American Government seminar, David Barker shows how the prospect of losing power makes people less willing to compromise.

11/01/2019

At the Georgetown American Government Seminar, Niambi Carter explains how black voters think about immigration -- in the context of the larger structures shaped by white supremacy.

10/11/2019

At the Georgetown Government Department American Government Seminar, Ken Meier discusses the ways that descriptive representation works in areas outside of legislative setting. Students do better with descriptively representative teachers -- when the context is right.

09/27/2019

At the GU American Government Seminar, Bob Lupton argues that the ideological value of egalitarianism seems to be the glue that holds together the Democratic coalition.

09/14/2019

In the first GU American Government seminar of the academic year, Nazita Lajevardi traces negative media coverage of Muslims and Muslim Americans after 9/11, and uses experiments to show that these messages increase resentment toward Muslim Americans.

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