EVENTS
“Reclaiming Women’s Power in the American Revolution,” 3/14 Democracy Lab Invited Lecture with York College Prof. Jacqueline Beatty | 03/14/2025
For the fourth annual Kinder Institute Democracy Lab invited talk, our undergraduate lecture committee will bring York College of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of History Jacqueline Beatty to campus to present her research on the ways in which, and the success with which, Revolutionary-era women advocated for themselves by strategically utilizing a rhetoric of dependence and […]
“Preserving the American Economic Century in an Era of Anxious Capitalism,” 4/4 KICD Colloquium with Oxford-RAI Director of Academic Programs Daniel Rowe | 04/04/2025
In his April 4 talk at the Kinder Institute, Daniel Rowe, Director of Academic Programs at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, will explore the myriad factors—from domestic policymaking to the collapse of the Soviet Union—that brought the US to the brink of economic crisis in the 1970s and 80s only to walk the nation back from […]
“Our Technology, Our Democracy, Ourselves,” 4/7 Lecture with Honors College Alumnus Dr. Marc Canellas | 04/07/2025
On April 7, the Honors College and Office of the Provost will host Defender, Engineer, Policy Advocate, and MU alum Dr. Marc Canellas on campus for a public lecture on AI, democracy, and our future (see abstract below). Free and open to the public, the talk will be held in Stotler Lounge from 4:00-5:00pm. Abstract […]
“Rethinking Batson and Credibility in the Courtroom,” 4/11 KICD Colloquium with Wesleyan Prof. of Government Sonali Chakravarti | 04/11/2025
In her April 11 talk, fully titled, “Whose Commitment to Impartiality Can Be Believed? Rethinking Batson and Credibility in the Courtroom,” Wesleyan University Professor of Government Sonali Chakravarti will present recent state-level jury selection reform efforts as necessary to the larger project of changing the epistemic landscape of the courtroom in ways that better treat […]
“Legislation, Regulation, and Administration in the American Founding,” 4/25 KICD Colloquium with University of Michigan Clyne Professor of Law Bill Novak | 04/25/2025
After leading a workshop of Kinder Institute Postdoc Lauren Feldman’s manuscript project earlier in the day, University of Michigan Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law Bill Novak will deliver the final Colloquium Series presentation of the spring semester, pushing back against conventional understandings of the early American state to reveal robust regulatory […]
“Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America,” 5/13 Kinder Institute Distinguished Lecture with NPR’s Steve Inskeep | 05/13/2025
STEVE INSKEEP: 2025 KINDER INSTITUTE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE DIFFER WE MUST: HOW LINCOLN SUCCEEDED IN A DIVIDED AMERICA RSVP HERE Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR’s Morning Edition as well as its morning news podcast Up First. Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, Cairo, and Beijing; investigated Iraqi police […]