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Politics & Policy Program
Speaker Series
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Policy and Politics Colloquia
This series was begun in 2008 as a way for scholars from a variety of disciplines to share works-in-progress that relate to political life, public policy and current affairs. Works-in-progress are posted online prior to each colloquia and attendees are expected to read them in advance. Although authors provide brief introductions to their scholarship, most of the session is dedicated to commentary by discussants followed by free-form discussion.
Winter/Spring 2012 Colloquia
February 9, 2012
"From Enlightened Administration to Adversarial Legalism: The Creation and Development of the Civil Rights State"
Shep Melnick, Department of Political Science, Boston College
Knight Library Browsing Room
4 p.m.
Fall 2011 Colloquia
October 5, 2011
Jeremy Strickler
"Mobilizing the Welfare State"
905 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
Noon
October 25, 2011
Debasis Bhattacharya
"Consensus Building in Legislative-Executive Relations"
905 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
Noon
November 11, 2011
Stuart Chinn (UO Law)
"Brown v. Board of Education, Party Ideology, and Jurisprudential 'Bundling'"
Knight Library Collaboration Center
Noon
Winter/Spring 2011 Colloquia
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February 24, 2011
Gerald Berk
"Rationality and Improvisation in the Cold War State"
605 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
noon
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March 3, 2011
Brent Commerer
605 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
2 p.m.
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March 10, 2011
Rogers Smith
"Mexican Immigration and American Obligations"
281 Knight Law Center
12:30 p.m.
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April 4, 2011
Mary Dudziak
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
11 a.m.
Mary Dudziak's research focuses on international approaches to legal history and the impact of war on American democracy. She is the author of Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (2008) and Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000).
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Fall 2010 Colloquia
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October 20, 2010
Rick Perlstein, author and historian. Title forthcoming.
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
1 p.m.
Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008).
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November 12, 2010
Sandra Morgen with Dissertation Fellow Patrick Hayden
"Defending Oregon: Tax Politics in the Year of the Tea Party".
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
12:30 p.m.
Morgen is associate dean of the Graduate School and a professor of anthropology. |
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December 8, 2010
Joel Black
"Idlers, Outliers, and Dependents: The Free Labor Order in Industrial Chicago, 1870-1930."
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
3 p.m.
Joel Black is a faculty fellow in the UO History Department. |
2009-10 Colloquia
 March 4, 2010
Lewis Lounge, 3:30 p.m.
Leslie McCall, "Why Do Americans Care About Income Inequality?"
read the draft paper (the colloquium will focus on the first 30 pages)
 February 15, 2010
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center, noon
Robin Jacobson, "Immigration Politics and Interest Groups"
read the draft paper
 January 14, 2010
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center, noon
Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia, and Dan Tichenor, "Executive Power, Insurgency, and the Two Reconstructions"
Discussant: Richard Ellis, Willamette University
read draft paper
 November 4, 2009
Ofer Raban, School of Law, “The Fallacy of Legal Certainty: Why Value Legal Standards May Be Better for Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy.”
Raban is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He is the author of Modern Legal Theory and Judicial Impartiality (London: Cavendish Press, 2003), and numerous law review articles. A former New York prosecutor who received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his D.Phil. in legal philosophy from Oxford University, Raban teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Investigation, and Legal Theory.
 October 22, 2009
Joseph Lowndes, Political Science, “Barack Obama, the Body Politic, and the Transformation of American National Identity.”
Lowndes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He is the author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (Yale University Press, 2008), co-editor of Race and American Political Development (Routledge Press, 2008), and the author of numerous articles and essays for academic and popular audiences.
2008-09 Colloquia
March 13, 2009
Matthew Lassiter
“De Jure/De Facto Segregation:
The Long Shadow of a National Myth”
Featured paper: “De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth”
February 24, 2009
Lynn Stephen
“Rights to Speak and Be Heard: Women’s
Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement”
Featured paper: "The Rights to Speak and to be Heard: Women’s Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement"
February 6, 2009
Sandy Levinson
“Constitutional Dictatorship”
141 Knight Law School
Featured paper: "Designing Constitutional Dictatorship"
January 21, 2009
Lennie Feldman
“The Banality of Emergency: On the Time
and Space of Political Necessity”
Featured paper: "The Banality of Emergency: On the Time and Space of 'Political Necessity'"
November 21, 2008
Priscilla Yamin
“Marriage and the Politics of Welfare”
Featured paper: "Nuptial Nation: Marriage and the Politics of Civic Membership in the U.S."
October 24, 2008
Lani Guinier, Harvard and Gerald Torres UT-Austin
“Demosprudence of Law and Social Movements”
The paper will not be published.
October 3, 2008
Stephen Skowronek, Yale University
“The Imperial Presidency and Theories of the
Unitary Executive”
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