August 28: Supreme Court Forecast and Review.<\/strong> With Jonathan Adler, JD<\/strong>, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, and Jonathan Entin, JD<\/strong>, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.<\/p>\n September 4: Regulating the Content of Online Platforms.<\/strong> With Raymond Ku, JD<\/strong>, Professor of Law, Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar, and Director, Center for Cyberspace Law and Policy. <\/p>\n September 11: “Deaths of Despair” and the Case for Medicare for All.<\/strong> With Joseph White, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies.<\/p>\n September 18: The Economy Now and With the Next Administration.<\/strong> With Dean Baker, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research. <\/p>\n September 25: Age and Financial Fear.<\/strong> With Christine L. Day, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science, University of New Orleans.<\/p>\n October 2: Leading on Lead Poisoning: New Initiatives in Cleveland and the Role of Research.<\/strong> With Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.<\/p>\n October 9: U.S. \u2013 China Relations After Trump\u2019s (First?) Term.<\/strong> With Paul Schroeder, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n October 16: Covid-19 and the Economics of Health Care.<\/strong> With J.B. Silvers, Ph.D.<\/strong>, John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance.<\/p>\n October 23: COVID-19: Rapid Research and Rapid Revelations.<\/strong> With Mark Cameron, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.<\/p>\n October 30: Election Forecast Discussion.<\/strong> Speakers To Be Determined.<\/p>\n November 6: “Banning the Box”: The Substance and Politics of Legislation to Reduce Obstacles to Hiring Felons.<\/strong> With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Economics.<\/p>\n November 13: Targeted Assassinations and Other Red and Not-So-Red Lines.<\/strong> With Shannon E. French, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Inamori Professor of Ethics, and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence.<\/p>\n November 20: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over the Health Effects of Red Meat.<\/strong> With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.<\/p>\n December 4: The Economics of Sports After (?) COVID-19.<\/strong> With Jonathan Ernest, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Economics.<\/p>\n February 5: Organizing the Biden Presidency.<\/strong> With James P. Pfiffner, Ph.D.<\/strong>, University Professor Emeritus, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University.<\/p>\n February 12: A Tale of Two Republics: The End of the Roman Republic as a Cautionary Exemplum for America.<\/strong> With Timothy Wutrich, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Senior Instructor, Department of Classics. <\/p>\n February 19: The Limits of Party, and Prospects for the 117th Congress.<\/strong> With Frances E. Lee, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.<\/p>\n February 26: Brexit Happened: Now What?<\/strong> With Elliot Posner, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science. <\/p>\n March 5: Effects of the Pandemic on Children\u2019s Resilience and Vulnerability.<\/strong> With Sandra Russ, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Distinguished University Professor and Louis D. Beaumont University Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences.<\/p>\n March 12: Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China.<\/strong> With Steven P. Feldman, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus in Business Ethics.<\/p>\n March 19: What\u2019s the Problem With Big Tech?<\/strong> With Anat Alon-Beck, JD<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Law.<\/p>\n March 26: Behemoth: Amazon Rising.<\/strong> With Robin Gaster, Ph.D.<\/strong>, President, Incumetrics Inc. and Visiting Scholar, George Washington University.<\/p>\n April 2: Student Debt: What Are the Problems? For Whom? And What Could Be Done?<\/strong> With Richard Kazis<\/strong>, Senior Consultant, MDRC, Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, and Board Chair of The Institute for College Access and Services.<\/p>\n April 9: Healthcare, Public Health, and Population Health.<\/strong> With Scott Frank, MD<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Director of Public Health Initiatives, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.\t<\/p>\n April 16: Dropping the Pilot? Assessing Angela Merkel\u2019s Chancellorship.<\/strong> With Kenneth F. Ledford, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History.<\/p>\n April 23: Depression\u2019s Past and Future.<\/strong> With Jonathan Sadowsky, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Theodore J. Castele Professor of History.<\/p>\n April 30: The Republican Party and Demographic Change.<\/strong> With Girma Parris, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n May 7: Tipping Point? China\u2019s Aging (and Shrinking) Population.<\/strong> With Lihong Shi, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology.<\/p>\n August 27: Supreme Court Review and Preview.<\/strong> With Jonathan Adler, JD<\/strong>, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Jonathan Entin, JD<\/strong>, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.<\/p>\n September 3: Cleveland\u2019s Next Mayor?<\/strong> With Nick Castele<\/strong>, Politics and Governance Reporter, Ideastream.<\/p>\n September 10: Ohio\u2019s Redistricting.<\/strong> With Mark Salling, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Senior Fellow and Research Associate, Northern Ohio Data Information Service and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University.<\/p>\n September 17: After the Pandemic.<\/strong> With Maxell J. Mehlman, JD<\/strong>, Distinguished University Professor and Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law; Mark Turner, Ph.D<\/strong>, Institute Professor and Professor of Political Science; and Joseph White, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.<\/p>\n September 24: Civilian Oversight of Police.<\/strong> With Ayesha Bell Hardaway, JD<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Law and Deputy Monitor, Cleveland Police Monitoring Team.<\/p>\n October 1: What\u2019s Happening in the Labor Market?<\/strong> With Bruce Fallick, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Senior Vice President for Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.<\/p>\n October 8: A Conversation With Scott Cowen.<\/strong> With Scott Cowen, Ph.D.<\/strong>, President Emeritus of Tulane University and Interim President, Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n October 15: Germany\u2019s New Government \u2013 and Europe\u2019s New Leadership?<\/strong> With Mark K. Cassell, Ph.D.,<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science, Kent State University. (by Zoom)<\/p>\n October 22: The Biden Administration\u2019s Immigration Policies.<\/strong> With Aleksandar Cuic, JD<\/strong>, Director of Immigration Clnic, CWRU School of Law.<\/p>\n October 29: Continuity and Change in the Opioid Epidemic.<\/strong> With Lee Hoffer, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n November 5: Redeveloping Buckeye\/Woodhill.<\/strong> With Taryn Gress, MSSA<\/strong>, and Debbie Wilber<\/strong>, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n November 12: Can India Survive as a Secular Democracy?<\/strong> With Ananya DasGupta, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History.<\/p>\n November 19: Hospital Boom and Busts.<\/strong> With J.B. Silvers, Ph.D.<\/strong>, John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor and Associate Dean of Weatherhead School of Management.<\/p>\n December 3: President Biden\u2019s Trade Policy: Continuity and Change.<\/strong> With Juscelino Colares, JD<\/strong>, Schott \u2013 Van den Eynden Professor of Law.<\/p>\n January 14: Biden and the Budget: Building Back Better, or Not.<\/strong> With Joseph White, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy. <\/p>\n January 21: Multilateralism in an Era of Rising Nationalism.<\/strong> With Kathryn C. Lavelle, Ph.D.,<\/strong>, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs.<\/p>\n January 28: In Defense of Judgment.<\/strong> With Michael W. Clune, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities.<\/p>\n February 4: Cognitive Decline and the Workplace.<\/strong> With Sharona Hoffman, JD<\/strong>, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law.<\/p>\n February 11: What, if Anything, Have We Learned from Cybersecurity Regulation So Far?<\/strong> With Tom Alrich<\/strong>, independent consultant on cybersecurity regulation especially for electric power industry.<\/p>\n February 18: Africa and the New Globalization.<\/strong> With Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor and North Star Visiting Professor.<\/p>\n February 25: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Election Administration, Voting Options, and Turnout in the 2020 Presidential Election.<\/strong> With Paul S. Herrnson, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut. (by zoom)<\/p>\n March 4: Russia\u2019s Invasion of Ukraine \u2013 What Is Putin Thinking?<\/strong> With Steve Crowley, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Politics, Oberlin College, and Roman Sheremeta, Associate Professor of Economics.<\/p>\n March 18: Inflation.<\/strong> With Mark Sniderman, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management.<\/p>\n March 25: Covid-9 Through Covid-22: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same?<\/strong> With Mark Cameron, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.<\/p>\n April 1: The French Presidential Election.<\/strong> With Patrick Chamorel, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Senior Resident Scholar and Lecturer, Stanford in Washington, Stanford University.<\/p>\n April 8: Greening the Grid: The Energy Storage Challenge<\/strong>. With Robert F. Savinell, Ph.D<\/strong>., Distinguished University Professor and George S. Dively Professor of Chemical Engineering.<\/p>\n April 15: The Ohio Primaries.<\/strong> With Thomas Sutton, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science and Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin-Wallace University.<\/p>\n April 22: The Present and Future of Cryptocurrency.<\/strong> With Peter Zimmerman, Ph.D<\/strong>., Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.<\/p>\n September 2: Is Congress Suddenly Functional?<\/strong> Or, What Do the Democrats\u2019 Legislative Victories Mean? With Joe White, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy. <\/p>\n September 9: Race, Inequality, and the Cleveland Police Consent Decree.<\/strong> With Lewis R. Katz, JD<\/strong>, John C. Hutchins Professor of Law Emeritus.<\/p>\n September 16: Russia\u2019s War in Ukraine.<\/strong> With Andrew Barnes, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Director of the Program in International Relations, Kent State University.<\/p>\n September 23: Lake Erie in Bloom, and What to Do About It.<\/strong> With Huichun (Judy) Zhang, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Frank H. Neff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.<\/p>\n September 30: Supreme Court Review and Preview.<\/strong> With Jonathan H. Adler, JD<\/strong>, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan L. Entin, JD<\/strong>, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.<\/p>\n October 7: Germany and Ukraine.<\/strong> With Andreas Sobisch, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, John Carroll University.<\/p>\n October 14: More Money for the IRS.<\/strong> With Timothy Fogarty, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Andrew D. Braden Professor Department of Accountancy.<\/p>\n October 21: The NRA: Past, Present and Future.<\/strong> With Mathew J. Lacombe, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science and Alexander P. Lamis Memorial Chair in U.S. Politics.<\/p>\n October 28: Is This the EU\u2019s Moment?<\/strong> With Elliot Posner, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n November 4: Midterm Election Forecast.<\/strong> (or Guesses) Speakers to Be Determined. <\/p>\n November 11: Law Enforcement and the Opioid Epidemic.<\/strong> With Daniel J. Flannery, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and Director, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, MSASS.<\/p>\n November 18: The First Energy Scandal and the Challenge of Utility Regulation.<\/strong> With Miranda Leppla, JD<\/strong>, Director, Environmental Law Clinic, CWRU School of Law.<\/p>\n December 2: Netanyahu\u2019s Return \u2013 Same as It Ever Was, or Something Very Different?<\/strong> With Peter J. Haas, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritusr of Jewish Studies.<\/p>\n December 9: Social Media and Politics.<\/strong> With Girma Parris, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n January 20: The Supreme Court\u2019s Current Term.<\/strong> With Jonathan Adler, JD<\/strong>, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan Entin, JD<\/strong>, David L. Brennan Emeritus Professor of Law.<\/p>\n January 27: Tik-Tok, Tik Tok.<\/strong> With Anat Alon-Beck, JD<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Law, and Girma Parris, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n February 3: Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Harness the Power of the Sun<\/strong>. With Philip L. Taylor, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Distinguished University Professor and Perkins Professor of Physics Emeritus, and Cyrus C. Taylor, Albert A. Michelson Professor of Physics.<\/p>\n February 10: Muslim Communities in the West.<\/strong> With Maysan Haydar, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History.<\/p>\n February 17: How Can (And Do) Nurses Influence Health Policy?<\/strong> With Rebecca Patton, DNP, RN, CNOR, FAAN<\/strong>, Lucy J. Atkinson Perioperative Nursing Professor and Past President, American Nurses Association.<\/p>\n February 24: Environmental and Social Corporate Governance.<\/strong> With Victor B Flatt, JD<\/strong>, Visiting Professor and Burke Environmental Law Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow.<\/p>\n March 3: A Psychedelic Renaissance?<\/strong> With Lee Hoffer, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n March 10: Moore v. Harper and Merrill v. Milligan<\/em>.<\/strong> With Atiba Ellis, JD<\/strong>, Professor of Law.<\/p>\n March 24: Thinking About Gender and Transgender Identities.<\/strong> With Angela Clark-Taylor, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Director, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.<\/p>\n March 31: The Electricity Grid of the Future.<\/strong> With Kenneth A. Loparo, Arthur L. Parker, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Endowed Professor Emeritus of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering.<\/p>\n April 7: Banks in Trouble: Why? And How Big is the Problem?<\/strong> With Mark Sniderman, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Executive in Residence, Weatherhead School of Management.<\/p>\n April 14: Russia\u2019s War on Ukraine: Where Is It Headed?<\/strong> With Stephen Crowley, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Politics, Oberlin College.<\/p>\nSpring 2021<\/h3>\n
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