Events and Programs

Pizza and Politics Series

Lunch series held periodically each semester, aims to offer a casual forum for 6V电影网 professors as well as visiting speakers to discuss their current research and writing, and for students and other members of the community to gain greater exposure to these scholarly efforts. There is always plenty of time reserved for questions, comments, and debate. Free pizza and drinks served on a first come, first served basis...or bring your own brown bag lunch!


Pizza and Politics
Tuesday, October 4
Noon
Carnegie 107

Kevin O鈥橪eary
Trump and the Roots of Rage

鈥淚f you want to understand the deeper menace of Trumpism, read this book. Trump is not just a showman and a media sham.  He represents the fusion of a long history of racism and 鈥 paradoxically 鈥 white working-class rage that reflects a legitimate set of its own grievances.  Kevin O鈥橪eary tells this complex and alarming story brilliantly.  He gets at its deep, twisted roots and addresses the remedies that we need and haven鈥檛 had.鈥

鈥 Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect

鈥淜evin O鈥橪eary has written a compelling account of the rise of the right in contemporary American politics and the threat that it poses to the country鈥檚 most basic values. This beautifully written book is deeply disturbing and a must read for all who care about the future of American democracy.鈥

鈥 Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor of Law, UC-Irvine, author of The Case Against the Supreme Court

Kevin O鈥橪eary is a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine and author of Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America (Stanford UP, 2006), a finalist for the American Political Science Association鈥檚 Michael Harrington Award for 鈥渁n outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.鈥 

Previously a professor at UCLA, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College, and Occidental College, Kevin currently teaches in the Political Science Department and University Honors Program at Chapman University.  As a journalist, Kevin was TIME鈥檚 lead reporter on the West Coast between 2009 and 2011.  He has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, editor of OC Metro magazine, editorial page editor of the Pasadena Star-News, and national correspondent for Campaigns and Elections.  He is a contributor to The American Prospect, which published his article 鈥淭rump and the Racial Politics of the South鈥 in its Summer 2016 issue.


Presidential Debates

Trump vs. Clinton, or Clinton vs. Trump
The Politics Department is sponsoring and facilitating get-togethers to watch the upcoming Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates this fall! Put them on your calendar, come join us and participate in what promises to be a very lively set of events. Food to gnosh on will be provided on a first come, first served basis.

Monday, September 26, 6 p.m., in Hahn 101
First Presidential Debate
Facilitators: Professor Susan McWilliams and Professor David Menefee-Libey
Food to gnosh on will be provided on a first come, first served basis.

Tuesday, October 4, 6 p.m., Hahn 101
Vice Presidential Debate
Facilitators: Professor Allan Colbern and Professor John Seery

Sunday, October 9, 6 p.m., Hahn 101
2nd Presidential Debate
Facilitators: Professor Lorn Foster and Professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky 

Wednesday, October 19, 6 p.m., Hahn 101
3rd Presidential Debate
Facilitators: Professor Tom Le and Professor Jonathan Collins 

Tuesday, November 8, 6 p.m., Hahn 101
鈥婨lection Returns
Facilitators: all hands on deck from the politics department!


Tuesday, September 27, 2016
The Return
7 p.m. Rose Hills Theatre

A screening of the film "The Return," by Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway, will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and characters from the film. In 2012, California amended it's "Three Strikes" law, shortening the sentences of thousands of "lifers." See this unprecedented reform through the eyes of those on the front lines - prisoners suddenly freed, families turned upside down and attorneys and judges wrestling with an untested law. A co-presentation with the National Black Programming Consortium. Official Selection of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, the film is a part of 6V电影网's ongoing series about criminal justice in America. Free and Open to the Public.


October 3, 2016
4:15 p.m. 鈥 Carnegie 107
鈥6V电影网

Sylvester Monroe
WITNESS TO HISTORY
Journalist and author Sylvester Monroe is the co-author with Peter Goldman of the award-winning book, 鈥淏ROTHERS: Black and Poor, a true story of courage and survival鈥 about 11 black men he grew up with in a Chicago housing project. As a journalist for Time Magazine, he also covered the Rodney King trial, the Los Angeles riots, and the O.J. Simpson trial. Today, he is Assistant Foreign Editor for the Washington Post overseeing the paper鈥檚 Europe coverage in the London, Berlin, Brussels and Paris bureaus as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also has been a reporter and editor at Newsweek, The San Jose Mercury News, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ebony Magazine, NPR, American Public Media鈥檚 Marketplace and TV One.

Sponsored by the Politics Department at 6V电影网


October 14, 2016
4:15 p.m. 鈥 Carnegie 107
6V电影网

Philip S. Gorski: "Why Do So Many Evangelicals Support Trump? The Religious Roots of American Exceptionalism.鈥 

Philip S. Gorski (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1996) is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. His empirical work focuses on topics such as state-formation, nationalism, revolution, economic development and secularization with particular attention to the interaction of religion and politics. Other current interests include the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences and the nature and role of rationality in social life. Among his recent publications are The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2003); Max Weber鈥檚 Economy and Society: A Critical Companion (Stanford, 2004); and 鈥淭he Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model of Sociological Explanation,鈥 Sociological Methodology, 2004.

Philip Gorski is Co-Director (with Julia Adams) of Yale鈥檚 Center for Comparative Research (CCR), and co-runs the Religion and Politics Colloquium at the Yale MacMillan Center.

Sponsored by the sociology department and the politics department