Fall 2020
August 28: Supreme Court Forecast and Review. With Jonathan Adler, JD, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, and Jonathan Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.
September 4: Regulating the Content of Online Platforms. With Raymond Ku, JD, Professor of Law, Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar, and Director, Center for Cyberspace Law and Policy.
September 11: “Deaths of Despair” and the Case for Medicare for All. With Joseph White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies.
September 18: The Economy Now and With the Next Administration. With Dean Baker, Ph.D., Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research.
September 25: Age and Financial Fear. With Christine L. Day, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of New Orleans.
October 2: Leading on Lead Poisoning: New Initiatives in Cleveland and the Role of Research. With Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
October 9: U.S. – China Relations After Trump’s (First?) Term. With Paul Schroeder, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.
October 16: Covid-19 and the Economics of Health Care. With J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance.
October 23: COVID-19: Rapid Research and Rapid Revelations. With Mark Cameron, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
October 30: Election Forecast Discussion. Speakers To Be Determined.
November 6: “Banning the Box”: The Substance and Politics of Legislation to Reduce Obstacles to Hiring Felons. With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics.
November 13: Targeted Assassinations and Other Red and Not-So-Red Lines. With Shannon E. French, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Inamori Professor of Ethics, and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence.
November 20: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over the Health Effects of Red Meat. With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.
December 4: The Economics of Sports After (?) COVID-19. With Jonathan Ernest, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics.
Spring 2021
February 5: Organizing the Biden Presidency. With James P. Pfiffner, Ph.D., University Professor Emeritus, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University.
February 12: A Tale of Two Republics: The End of the Roman Republic as a Cautionary Exemplum for America. With Timothy Wutrich, Ph.D., Senior Instructor, Department of Classics.
February 19: The Limits of Party, and Prospects for the 117th Congress. With Frances E. Lee, Ph.D., Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
February 26: Brexit Happened: Now What? With Elliot Posner, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science.
March 5: Effects of the Pandemic on Children’s Resilience and Vulnerability. With Sandra Russ, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor and Louis D. Beaumont University Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences.
March 12: Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China. With Steven P. Feldman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Business Ethics.
March 19: What’s the Problem With Big Tech? With Anat Alon-Beck, JD, Assistant Professor of Law.
March 26: Behemoth: Amazon Rising. With Robin Gaster, Ph.D., President, Incumetrics Inc. and Visiting Scholar, George Washington University.
April 2: Student Debt: What Are the Problems? For Whom? And What Could Be Done? With Richard Kazis, Senior Consultant, MDRC, Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, and Board Chair of The Institute for College Access and Services.
April 9: Healthcare, Public Health, and Population Health. With Scott Frank, MD, Associate Professor and Director of Public Health Initiatives, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
April 16: Dropping the Pilot? Assessing Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship. With Kenneth F. Ledford, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History.
April 23: Depression’s Past and Future. With Jonathan Sadowsky, Ph.D., Theodore J. Castele Professor of History.
April 30: The Republican Party and Demographic Change. With Girma Parris, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.
May 7: Tipping Point? China’s Aging (and Shrinking) Population. With Lihong Shi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Fall 2021
August 27: Supreme Court Review and Preview. With Jonathan Adler, JD, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Jonathan Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.
September 3: Cleveland’s Next Mayor? With Nick Castele, Politics and Governance Reporter, Ideastream.
September 10: Ohio’s Redistricting. With Mark Salling, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Associate, Northern Ohio Data Information Service and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University.
September 17: After the Pandemic. With Maxell J. Mehlman, JD, Distinguished University Professor and Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law; Mark Turner, Ph.D, Institute Professor and Professor of Political Science; and Joseph White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.
September 24: Civilian Oversight of Police. With Ayesha Bell Hardaway, JD, Associate Professor of Law and Deputy Monitor, Cleveland Police Monitoring Team.
October 1: What’s Happening in the Labor Market? With Bruce Fallick, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
October 8: A Conversation With Scott Cowen. With Scott Cowen, Ph.D., President Emeritus of Tulane University and Interim President, Case Western Reserve University.
October 15: Germany’s New Government – and Europe’s New Leadership? With Mark K. Cassell, Ph.D.,, Professor of Political Science, Kent State University. (by Zoom)
October 22: The Biden Administration’s Immigration Policies. With Aleksandar Cuic, JD, Director of Immigration Clnic, CWRU School of Law.
October 29: Continuity and Change in the Opioid Epidemic. With Lee Hoffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry.
November 5: Redeveloping Buckeye/Woodhill. With Taryn Gress, MSSA, and Debbie Wilber, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, Case Western Reserve University.
November 12: Can India Survive as a Secular Democracy? With Ananya DasGupta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History.
November 19: Hospital Boom and Busts. With J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor and Associate Dean of Weatherhead School of Management.
December 3: President Biden’s Trade Policy: Continuity and Change. With Juscelino Colares, JD, Schott – Van den Eynden Professor of Law.
Spring 2022
January 14: Biden and the Budget: Building Back Better, or Not. With Joseph White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.
January 21: Multilateralism in an Era of Rising Nationalism. With Kathryn C. Lavelle, Ph.D.,, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs.
January 28: In Defense of Judgment. With Michael W. Clune, Ph.D., Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities.
February 4: Cognitive Decline and the Workplace. With Sharona Hoffman, JD, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law.
February 11: What, if Anything, Have We Learned from Cybersecurity Regulation So Far? With Tom Alrich, independent consultant on cybersecurity regulation especially for electric power industry.
February 18: Africa and the New Globalization. With Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Ph.D., Associate Professor and North Star Visiting Professor.
February 25: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Election Administration, Voting Options, and Turnout in the 2020 Presidential Election. With Paul S. Herrnson, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut. (by zoom)
March 4: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – What Is Putin Thinking? With Steve Crowley, Ph.D., Professor of Politics, Oberlin College, and Roman Sheremeta, Associate Professor of Economics.
March 18: Inflation. With Mark Sniderman, Ph.D., Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management.
March 25: Covid-9 Through Covid-22: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same? With Mark Cameron, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
April 1: The French Presidential Election. With Patrick Chamorel, Ph.D., Senior Resident Scholar and Lecturer, Stanford in Washington, Stanford University.
April 8: Greening the Grid: The Energy Storage Challenge. With Robert F. Savinell, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor and George S. Dively Professor of Chemical Engineering.
April 15: The Ohio Primaries. With Thomas Sutton, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin-Wallace University.
April 22: The Present and Future of Cryptocurrency. With Peter Zimmerman, Ph.D., Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Fall 2022
September 2: Is Congress Suddenly Functional? Or, What Do the Democrats’ Legislative Victories Mean? With Joe White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.
September 9: Race, Inequality, and the Cleveland Police Consent Decree. With Lewis R. Katz, JD, John C. Hutchins Professor of Law Emeritus.
September 16: Russia’s War in Ukraine. With Andrew Barnes, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Program in International Relations, Kent State University.
September 23: Lake Erie in Bloom, and What to Do About It. With Huichun (Judy) Zhang, Ph.D., Frank H. Neff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
September 30: Supreme Court Review and Preview. With Jonathan H. Adler, JD, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan L. Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.
October 7: Germany and Ukraine. With Andreas Sobisch, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, John Carroll University.
October 14: More Money for the IRS. With Timothy Fogarty, Ph.D., Andrew D. Braden Professor Department of Accountancy.
October 21: The NRA: Past, Present and Future. With Mathew J. Lacombe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science and Alexander P. Lamis Memorial Chair in U.S. Politics.
October 28: Is This the EU’s Moment? With Elliot Posner, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science.
November 4: Midterm Election Forecast. (or Guesses) Speakers to Be Determined.
November 11: Law Enforcement and the Opioid Epidemic. With Daniel J. Flannery, Ph.D., Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and Director, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, MSASS.
November 18: The First Energy Scandal and the Challenge of Utility Regulation. With Miranda Leppla, JD, Director, Environmental Law Clinic, CWRU School of Law.
December 2: Netanyahu’s Return – Same as It Ever Was, or Something Very Different? With Peter J. Haas, Ph.D., Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritusr of Jewish Studies.
December 9: Social Media and Politics. With Girma Parris, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Spring 2023
January 20: The Supreme Court’s Current Term. With Jonathan Adler, JD, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Emeritus Professor of Law.
January 27: Tik-Tok, Tik Tok. With Anat Alon-Beck, JD, Assistant Professor of Law, and Girma Parris, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.
February 3: Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Harness the Power of the Sun. With Philip L. Taylor, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor and Perkins Professor of Physics Emeritus, and Cyrus C. Taylor, Albert A. Michelson Professor of Physics.
February 10: Muslim Communities in the West. With Maysan Haydar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History.
February 17: How Can (And Do) Nurses Influence Health Policy? With Rebecca Patton, DNP, RN, CNOR, FAAN, Lucy J. Atkinson Perioperative Nursing Professor and Past President, American Nurses Association.
February 24: Environmental and Social Corporate Governance. With Victor B Flatt, JD, Visiting Professor and Burke Environmental Law Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
March 3: A Psychedelic Renaissance? With Lee Hoffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry.
March 10: Moore v. Harper and Merrill v. Milligan. With Atiba Ellis, JD, Professor of Law.
March 24: Thinking About Gender and Transgender Identities. With Angela Clark-Taylor, Ph.D., Director, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.
March 31: The Electricity Grid of the Future. With Kenneth A. Loparo, Arthur L. Parker, Ph.D., Endowed Professor Emeritus of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering.
April 7: Banks in Trouble: Why? And How Big is the Problem? With Mark Sniderman, Ph.D., Executive in Residence, Weatherhead School of Management.
April 14: Russia’s War on Ukraine: Where Is It Headed? With Stephen Crowley, Ph.D., Professor of Politics, Oberlin College.
April 21: After Dobbs. – So Far. With Jessie Hill, JD, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
April 28: China. With Paul Schroeder, Ph.D., Longtime Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Fall 2023
September 1: Supreme Court Review and Preview. With Jonathan H. Adler, JD, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan L. Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.
September 8: Take Two, But Double the Stakes? November’s Reproductive Rights and Marijuana Ballots After Issue One’s Defeat. With Ellen R. Kubit.
September 15: Should Hard Drugs Be Decriminalized? With Michael W. Clune, Ph.D., Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, and Lee Hoffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry.
September 22: Forty Years of AIDS Research and Care. With Michael M. Lederman, MD, LSMFT, Scott R. Inkley Emeritus Professor of Medicine.
September 29: Why Not to Panic About A.I. With Kalle Lyytinen, Ph.D., Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design. Alternate Room: Mather House 100.
October 6: COVID-’23 and Beyond. With David H. Canaday, MD, Professor of Infectious Disease and Associate Director of Research for the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Cleveland VA.
October 13: Showdowns and Shutdowns on Capitol Hill. With John B. Gilmour, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, College of William and Mary (Professor Gilmour will present by Zoom) Alternate Room: Mather House 100.
October 20: One Semester Away from Crisis: Small Colleges and American Higher Education. With Tom Bogart, Ph.D., Visiting Professor and Chair, Department of Economics. Alternate Room: Mather House 100.
October 27: Storefronts, Communities, and the Changing World of Retail. With Michael Goldberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Design and Innovation; Executive Director and Associate Vice President, Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship.
November 3: Dobbs and Doctors. With David N. Hackney, MD, Division Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland.
November 10: Who’s Legally Responsible When “Self-Driving” Cars Go “Eyes Off?” With Cassandra Burke Robertson, JD, John Deaver Drinko – BakerHostetler Professor of Law.
November 17: Axios Cleveland and the Future of Local Media. With Sam Allard, Senior Reporter .
December 1: Civil-Military Relations in Egypt. With Dina Rashed, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the College for Academic Affairs, University of Chicago.
December 8: Climate Change: What Are Our Options? With Philip L. Taylor, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor and Perkins Professor of Physics Emeritus.
Spring 2024
January 19: President Biden After Three Years. With Joseph White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy. Alternate Room: Kelvin Smith Library LL06.
January 26: Trump and the (Potential) End of the American Republic. With Timothy Wutrich, Ph.D., Department of Classics.
February 2: Parallels to Weimar in Biden’s America. With Ken Ledford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Law. Alternate Room: Mather House 100
February 9: CWRU and Our Community. With Julian Rogers, Assistant Vice President, Local Government & Community Relations.
February 16: Bidenomics. With Susan Helper, Ph.D., Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics.
February 23: Taiwan and China: Questions and Answers. With Julia C. Strauss, Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (speaker will participate by Zoom)
March 1: Inside State Energy Politics. With Daniel Gray, MBA, Founder and Director of Local Strategies, Citizens Utility Board of Ohio.
March 8: The 2024 Elections. With Colin Swearingen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, John Carroll University.
March 22: Thinking About Generative AI. With Satya Sahoo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Director, Biomedical and Health Informatics Ph.D. Program.
March 29: The Impact of Neighborhood and Racial Violence on Black Youth Developmental Outcomes. With Dexter Voisin, Ph.D., Dean of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
April 5: WTFentanyl? What We Need to Know About the Current Opioid Crisis. With Ryan Marino, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry.
April 12: Conspiracy Theories and Climate Change Skepticism in Europe. With Andreas Sobisch, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, John Carroll University.
April 19: Why Our Children Struggle in School: Going Beyond the ADHD Metaphor. With Arthur Lavin, MD, FAAP. Alternate Room: Kelvin Smith Library LL06.
April 26: So What Does It Mean for Us? Local Needs and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. With Howard Maier, FAICP, Adjunct Professor of Political Science
Fall 2024
August 30: Supreme Court Review and Preview. With Jonathan H. Adler, JD, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan L. Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.
September 6: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Co-Intelligence. With Mark Turner, Ph.D., Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science.
September 13: The “Loper Bright” Ruling: A Revolution in Federal Administration? With Victor B. Flatt, JD, Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law.
September 20: Science, Public Policy, and the Future of Prion Disease. With Brian S. Appleby, MD, Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center and Professor in Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pathology. Alternate Room: Mather House 100.
September 27: The Aftermath of COVID-19 School Shutdowns: A Discussion with CWRU Students and Faculty.
October 4: How Religious Cooperation Shaped Health and Welfare in Cleveland – Until the American Welfare State Changed Everything in the 1970s. With David C. Hammack, Ph.D., Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History Emeritus.
October 11: Russia’s War on Ukraine: How Does This End? With Stephen Crowley, Ph.D., Professor of Politics and Chair of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Oberlin College.
October 18: Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Present and Future of Jihadi Islam. With Karl C Kaltenthaler, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Michael J. Morell Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Akron.
October 25: Fixing Redistricting: Ohio’s Issue 1. With Catherine J. LaCroix, JD, League of Women Voters and Mark Salling PhD, Senior Fellow and Director of Northern Ohio Data and Information Service, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Public Affairs, Cleveland State University. Alternate Room, Mather House 100.
November 1: Election Forecast Discussion. Featuring Thomas Sutton, Ph.D., Interim Provost and Acting President, Baldwin-Wallace University. Alternate Room, Mather House 100.
November 8: What Happened? Election Post-Mortem. With Joe White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, and some guests. Alternate Room, Mather House 100.
November 15: How Businesses Are Using – or Trying to Use – Generative AI. With Kalle Lyytinen, Ph.D., Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design and Distinguished University Professor.
November 22: The Google Antitrust Case(s). With Anat Alon-Beck, JD, Assistant Professor of Law, and colleagues.
December 6: The Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes and Consequences. With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Economics.
Spring 2025
January 17: Trump’s New White House. With David B. Cohen, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Akron.
January 24: Political Talk Radio and the Growth of Rural Conservatism. With Heyu Xiong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics.
January 31: Germany’s “Snap” Federal Election. With Andreas Sobisch, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, John Carroll University.
February 7: Teaching About Global Health, Globalization, and the Spread of Infectious Diseases After the COVID-19 Pandemic. With Daniel J. Tisch, Ph.D., Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Director, Masters of Public Health Program.
February 14: The 119th Congress – Function or Dysfunction? With Kevin Kosar, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. (speaker by Zoom)
February 21: How Consumers – and Voters – Assess the Economy. With Jonathan Ernest, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics.
February 28: The Next Conclave. With Paul V. Murphy, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director, Institute for Catholic Studies, John Carroll University.
March 7: What Trump Can Do About Immigration. With Aleksandar Cuic, JD, Adjunct Professor of Law and Partner, Brown Immigration Law.
March 14: Spring Break, No Discussion
March 21: Debt Bondage. With Bryan Adamson, JD, David L. and Ann Brennan Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion.
March 28: Billionaires and Not-So-Stealth Politics. With Matthew Lacombe, Ph.D., Alexander P. Lamis Associate Professor in U.S. Politics.
April 4: Aging and Automobiles. With Sharona Hoffman, JD, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center.
April 11: The Democrats and the Working Class. With Irene Lin, Democratic Political Operative.
April 18: The Political Crisis of Higher Education. With Michael Clune, Ph.D., Samuel B. and Virginia Knight Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, and Ben Mauk, Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism, Department of English.
April 25: Loving Primary Care to Death. With Joe White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, and with comments from Kurt Stange MD PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Fall 2025
August 29: Israel in the Midde East. With Peter J. Haas, Ph.D., Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies emeritus.
September 5: Supreme Court Review and Preview. With Jessie Hill, JD, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, and Jonathan L. Entin, JD, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.
September 12: Measles Returns: The Decline in Vaccination and its Consequences. With Prakash Ganesh MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and Medical Director, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
September 19: A Critical Review of the Department of Energy’s “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate.” With Cyrus C. Taylor Ph.D., Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics.
September 26: Physician-Assisted Death Around the Globe with Special Attention to Canada. With Stuart J. Youngner MD, Emeritus Professor of Bioethics.
October 3: Ukraine’s Future. With Roman M. Sheremeta PhD, Associate Professor of Economics
October 10: The Trump Tariffs – So Far. With Juscelino Filgueiras Colares JD, PhD. Schott-van den Eyden Professor of Business Law, Professor of Political Science, and Co-Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center.
October 17: The Fight for Fair School Funding. With Andru Volinsky JD, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. Alternate Room, Mather House 100
October 24: President Trump, The Supreme Court, and the Administrative State. With Victor B. Flatt J.D., Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law and Associate Director, Burke Environmental Law Center.
Alternate Room, Mather House 100
October 31: Greenland and the United States: Common Interests and Divided Politics? With Kathryn C. Lavelle PhD, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs.
November 7: The Business of AI. With Kalle Lyytinen, Iris S. Wolstein Professor in Management Design and Distinguished University Professor.
November 14: Thinking About Inflation. With Domenic Smith Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Economics, and Joseph White Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.
November 21: Money: What Most of Us Get Wrong About What It Is and How It Works. With Todd Oakley PhD, Professor of Cognitive Science and English
December 5: Armageddon? The Supreme Court, Equal Protection, and the New Normal of Redistricting. With Atiba R. Ellis J.D., Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law.
Alternate Room, Mather House 100
Spring 2026
January 16: Changing the Narrative: Using Fiction to Advance Dr. King’s Anti-Racist Agenda. With Mark Joseph PhD, Leona Joseph/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development
January 23: Changes in the U.S. Foreign Policy Community. A discussion with James M. Lindsay Ph.D., Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
January 30: Social Media and Politics. With Allison Girvin MS, Adjunct Professor of English and former executive with ABC News, NBC News, Bloomberg, and Huffington Post.
February 6: Autism: Why Does the Rate of Its Diagnosis Keep Increasing? With Max Wiznitzer MD, Professor of Pediatric Neurology and Director, Rainbow Autism Center
February 13: Allocating Organs for Transplant: How Data Science and Simulation are Used to Inform Transplant Policy. With Johnie Rose MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Population Cancer Analytics Shared Resource
February 20: Trump Unbound? President Trump and His Team in the First Year of His Second Administration. With David B. Cohen Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Director, Applied Politics Program, University of Akron.
February 27: Activism Over the Life Course: Polish Solidarity Refugees, 1980 – 2025. With Mary Patrice Erdmans Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
March 6: Milk, Meat, and MAHA – Now What? With Hope Barkoukis Ph.D., RDN, LN, FAND, Chair of the Department of Nutrition and holder of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professorship in Wellness & Preventive Care.
March 13: No meeting, Spring Break
March 20: Regulating AI: What, How, Where? A discussion with Joseph White Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy
March 27: War in the Gulf. With Pete W. Moore Ph.D., Marcus A. Hanna Associate Professor of Politics
April 3: Youth Justice in Ohio: An Untold Story of Success and Possibility. With Gabriella Celeste JD, Policy Director for the Schubert Center for Childhood Studies, and Co-Director of the Child Studies Program.
April 10: Technological Change and the Labor Market. With David Clingingsmith Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics
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April 17: The Water Crisis in the Middle East. With Neda A. Zawahri, Professor of Political Science, Cleveland State University.
April 24: The Immigration Crackdown – Some Things To Know. With Bridget M. Haas Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology