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: China’s Political Transition. Paul Schroeder, 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