PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS FULLY ENROLLED

Please join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring four distinguished political scientists focused on the role of the economy in the 2020 elections. This event is co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix and the Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research.

Please join us on October 3, 2019 at 4pm for a book talk featuring Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics & Political Science, UC Berkeley, whose new book,The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era, places the global resurgence of populism in a deep historical context. Professor Eichengreen will be joined by Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley; and Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley. This talk is presented as part of Social Science Matrix's new "Authors Meet Critics" book series, which features lively discussions about recently published books by social scientists at UC Berkeley.

Please join us on October 28, 2019 from 4-5:30 pm for an engaging discussion about They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley. In discussing her book, Jones-Rogers will engage with  two eminent colleagues: Bryan Wagner, Associate Professor in the Department of English, UC Berkeley; and Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley.  

Please join us for a discussion of the Professor Wendy Brown’s book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West, which casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations, but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. Presented as part of Social Science Matrix “Authors  Meet Critics” Series, the talk will feature Professor Brown along with two colleagues: Gillian Hart, Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley; and Tianna Paschel, Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley.