EVENTS
“Democracy in Darkness: The Politics of Secrecy in the Age of Revolutions,” 1/31 KICD Colloquium with Notre Dame Historian Katlyn Carter | 01/31/2025
Drawing on research from her recent Yale University Press monograph, Notre Dame Assistant Professor of History Katlyn Carter will open the Kinder Institute’s Spring 2025 Friday Colloquium Series by tracing the line between eradicating secrecy and limiting transparency that was toed as the world’s first representative democracies took shape in the wake of the American […]
“The Evolution of Public School Finance in the Antebellum Era,” 2/21 KICD Colloquium with Caltech Prof. of Political Science Rod Kiewiet | 02/21/2025
Exploring the institutional change he refers to by the shorthand, the “Second Great Devolution,” Caltech Professor of Political Science Rod Kiewiet will trace the ripple effects of states’ shifting the funding burden for constructing and operating public schools to local governments and the concomitant extension of taxing authority to school districts. The talk will be […]
“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 […]
“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 […]