Public Affairs Discussion Group
Fostering Dialogue and Debate on the Leading Public Affairs Issues of Our Time
Fostering Dialogue and Debate on the Leading Public Affairs Issues of Our Time
Every Friday During the Regular Academic Semester, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m in the Dampeer Room in Kelvin Smith Library
January 20: Hype, Hope, and Health Policy. Joe White, Professor of Political Science
January 27: The December Dilemma: Non-Christians and the Culture of Christmas. Deepak Sarma, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
February 3: Taxing Fracking: If Ohio Will Have a New Energy Boom, Shouldn’t It Have New Energy Taxes? Wendy Patton, Senior Project Director, Policy Matters Ohio
February 10: Can We Legislate Ourselves Thinner? Jessica Berg, Professor of Law and Biomedical Ethics
February 17: Is Childhood Obesity a New Form of Child Abuse? David Crampton, Associate Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Science
February 24: Telling the Players Without a Scorecard: China's Leadership Transition, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
March 2: Does the Fire Department Have a Hose? The IMF and World Bank in the Financial Crisis. Kathryn C. Lavelle, Ellen and Dixon Long Associate Professor of Political Science
March 9: Germany and the European Union. Ken Ledford, Associate Professor of History
March 16: Spring Break - No Discussion
March 23: Environmental Dimensions of Fracking, Matthew Sobel, William E. Umstattd Professor of Industrial Economics, Professor of Operations, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
March 30: Just Do It or Just Say No? The Politics of Sex Education. Mark Carl Rom, Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University
April 6: Election 2012: Twenty Years After the "Year of the Woman." Karen Beckwith, Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science
April 13: Russia’s Presidential Election. Andrew Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science, Kent State University
April 20: TBA
April 27: What Happens When a President
Thinks Like a Community Organizer. Justin Vaughn, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Cleveland State University
