ANXIOUS DEMOCRACY: THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
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ANXIOUS DEMOCRACY: THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
Friday, April 21, 2017
9:00am - 3:30pm
Blanche DuBois Room (D37), Hearst Field Annex, UC Berkeley
This symposium focuses on the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald Trump in order to begin academic conversations and develop analyses centered on the Trump administration and how it relates to politics and society in the United States and the world. Scholars from UC Berkeley and other Bay Area academic institutions will speak on implications and effects of the administration's foreign and domestic policies, as well as the legal questions surrounding it's agenda.
9:00-9:15 - Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Lawrence Rosenthal, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
9:15-10:45 - Panel 1: Constitutional Rights
First Amendment - Lowell Bergman, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Conflict of Interest/Voter Rights - Bertrall Ross, Berkeley Law
Criminal Justice - Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law
10:45-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Panel 2: Health and Public Welfare
Health Care - Ben Handel, Economics, UC Berkeley
Women’s Rights - Melissa Murray, Berkeley Law
Science & Climate - Fred Block, Sociology, UC Davis
Education - Janelle Scott, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
12:30-2:00 - Lunch Break (on your own)
2:00-3:30 - Panel 3: Global Engagement and the Trump Presidency
Immigration - Alberto Garcia, History, UC Berkeley
Foreign Policy - Daniel Sargent, History, UC Berkeley
Trade, Taxes and Inequality - Paul Pierson, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Trump Presidency - Terri Bimes, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the History Department, the Graduate School of Journalism, and the Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley.
Organizer Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
Organizer of ANXIOUS DEMOCRACY: THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
The mission of the Center, which is housed at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI), is twofold: first, to identify right-wing movements, flesh out their twentieth-century histories (how they aligned and how they survived) while isolating their novel aspects in the 21st century; and second, to develop and apply principles of how right-wing thought, ideology and organizational capacities operate to understand the state of the contemporary Right and identify its likely directions and successes. In addition to its research activities, the Center publishes findings, offers mini-grants, fellowships and training opportunities to Berkeley students, and brings together leading scholars through conferences, colloquia, and other public events in order to share new research and engage in interdisciplinary dialog related to this field of study. A member of the American Museum Association, the Center is actively engaged in building an archive containing video and print materials on the Right, and making these materials available to local, national and international scholars.
