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., JD, 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).

Daniel Gray, Founder and Director of Local Strategies, Citizens Utility Board of Ohio.

March 1: Inside State Energy Politics. With Current Opioid Crisis. With Ryan Marino, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry.

March 8: The 2024 Elections. With Colin Swearingen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, John Carroll University.

March 15: Spring Break

March 22: Thinking About Generative AI. With Satya Sahoo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Science 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: What Does It Mean for Us? Local