Past Events - 2016

US Presidential Debate Screening and Discussion: ‘Come Debate the Debate’
20 October 2016

The US Centre held a screening of the final US presidential debate before the 2016 elections which was followed by a discussion with US Centre Director, Professor Peter Trubowitz. 

What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
11 October 2016

Financial inequality is one of the biggest political issues of our time: from the Wall Street bailouts to the rise of the One Percent, who between them control forty-percent of the US wealth. So where are the Democrats - the notional 'party of the people' in all of this? 

Why Washington Won’t Work

5 October 2016

Marc Hetherington examined why Americans today viscerally dislike and distrust the party opposite the one they identify with more than at any point in the last 100 years, and how these negative feelings are central to understanding the political dysfunction and gridlock that has gripped the U.S. for the past decade.

The Visual Framing of US Presidential Elections: When Style Obscures Substance in Presidential Debates
4 October 2016

Nearly 60 years on from the first televised presidential debates, how candidates look and act in such competitive contexts is as important as ever. Erik Bucy of Texas Tech University discussed his research into non-verbal cues in presidential debates and the 2016 presidential election.

Race, Reform and the New Retrenchment: the perils of post-racialism after Obama
11 May 2016

Heightening tensions in the US over police killings of black people have undermined confidence that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era on race relations in the US. Through a Critical Race Theory prism, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw discussed Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name as challenges to contemporary jurisprudence on race, and assessed the new openings presented by current events.

The Politics of Spatial Inequality in Metropolitan America
15 March 2016

Professor Margaret Weir of Brown University discussed how politics and policies played out across the American federal system create spatial inequalities but also present new opportunities for challenging them.

Who will be the next US President?
24 February 2016

Professor Lawrence Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, evaluated the most polarizing and anti-establishment candidates in modern US politics, speculated on who will win the nomination and why, and what this might mean for the 2016 presidential election.

The Future of Work
25 January 2016

Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America, and former Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visited LSE and discussed the need to transform gender roles for men as much as women and to reinvent the workplace.

Lessons for the Euro from America's Past
19 January 2016 

Drawing on early America’s struggle to develop a single currency, Professor Jeffry Frieden discussed the implications for the European Union’s efforts today to provide monetary and financial stability.