Government Department Events

Government Open House: November 6, 12-1 PM, FRANK 101

Interested in majoring in Government?

Join us on Thursday, November 6, from 12:00-1:00 PM in Frank Center for Public Affairs, Room 101 for our Open House.

Come learn about the Government major, its requirements, and opportunities. Meet faculty members and connect with current students in the program. Lunch will be provided.

Co-sponsored events:

My Sweet Land: November 5, 8 PM, The Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies.

This free special screening of My Sweet Land will take place on Wednesday, November 6. This an award-winning film explores the themes of identity, migration, and the meaning of “home.” This event offers more than just a great film experience — it’s an opportunity to reflect on issues central to political identity, borders, and belonging. Co-sponsored by the College of Film and the Moving Image and the Government Department

Gary Gerstle - America's Authoritarian Turn: November 12, 4:30 PM, FRANK 100

Gerstle will look beyond the figure of Donald Trump to inquire into the roots of America’s authoritarian turn. His lecture will dissect how a neoliberal political order, focusing on free markets and limited regulation and dominant in the United States and abroad since the 1990s, widened economic inequality, stirred ethnoracial resentments, and raised doubts about the capacity of liberal democratic regimes to fix what had gone wrong. Gerstle will explore why the unraveling of this political order in the 2010s has energized the authoritarian right more than the democratic left and will conclude with some thoughts about where Americans might look for democratic renewal.

Co-sponsored by American Studies, Center for the Humanities, College of Letters, College of Social Studies, Government and History