Public Policy & Political Science

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  • Blinded Me with Science: STEM and the Shaping of Political Leadership

    Hopkins at Home and Hopkins Votes invites you to engage in a conversation with Denis Wirtz, Vice Provost for Research and Director of the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center. Dr. Wirtz will expound on why science and science-based decision making are critical in the development of pol...

  • Putting Humpty-Dumpty Together Again: Rethinking American Education

    Join David Steiner, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins, as he shares a portrait of America’s K-12 Education system and suggests that it suffers from fundamental fragmentation. Steiner will then consider if there is a way – in our wonderfully di...

  • India Institute

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    The Johns Hopkins India Institute unites Johns Hopkins’ India-affiliated community to improve society through research, education, practice, and
    mutually beneficial partnerships, and to help individuals lead healthier lives in India and beyond. The India Institute has focused so far on Hopkins’ g...

  • Globalization & Climate Change in the Age of Covid-19

    The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of global supply chains, as countries around the world have shut their borders and economies have screeched to a halt. Few industries are more globalized than the clean energy sectors that we urgently need to combat climate change, and few rely ...

  • Understanding the Politics of Pandemics

    How do we assign responsibility or blame for a pandemic? Who is deserving or undeserving of government assistance during a public health crisis? Who do we trust to provide us with information about the risks associated with coronavirus? There is no single ‘right’ answer to these questions. Instea...

  • Nuclear Weapons and the Future of American Grand Strategy

    Nuclear weapons have long played a central but often unappreciated role in American grand strategy. In spite of the unimaginable consequences of their use in war, we know far less about how the bomb shapes U.S. national security and world politics than we should. In this lecture, Francis J. Gavin...

  • Economics & Ethics in the Allocation of Scarce Resources

    From toilet paper to hand sanitizer, as the COVID19 outbreak grew into a pandemic people began sweeping the shelves, both physically and virtually, of these necessities. For some, these items were for their personal use, but for others, a financial opportunity had presented itself. Mario Macis - ...

  • Reflections on World Order: Past, Present, and Future

    What is the future of world order? The international system built out of the Second World War is showing signs of strain, if not crisis. Francis Gavin, the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS, explores que...

  • Politics & Populism

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    Around the world, from Italy to Brazil, and from Hungary to the United States, populist candidates and governments are fundamentally changing the political landscape. In this course, we explore the nature of populism; investigate whether populism poses an existential threat to liberal democracy; ...

  • Women's Suffrage

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    In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave U.S. women the right to vote, Johns Hopkins University engages the community to educate, explore, and raise awareness about this momentous occasion. In partnership with several Baltimore cultural institution...

  • Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China

    Sociology Professor Joel Andreas dives into his second book, Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China (Oxford 2019), which traces radical changes that have fundamentally transformed industrial relations over the past seven decades. Drawing on a decade of field researc...

  • Applying Systems Thinking to Elements of a Safe and Healthy School

    Professor and Dean of the School of Education Christopher Morphew -- with Jonathan Links, a medical physicist and Vice Provost and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer -- takes on the complex, urgent issue of school safety with comprehensive, evidence-based solutions focused on student well-being, saf...

  • Why “School Choice” is a Strange Term: America’s Schools in Context

    Why is there so much debate about “school choice” in American education? How do other democracies support choice – and why? Join Ashley Berner, Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, as she brings to life the idea of an American education system that draws upon the p...

  • Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy

    Francis Gavin, the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS, argues that history can be employed to better understand and improve statecraft and strategy. It is not a history of a particular event, person, pla...

  • The Macroeconomics of COVID-19

    The world is in a deep recession caused by the coronavirus. It is a recession unlike any other in the past century at least. Professor of Economics Jonathan Wright leads an hour-long discussion focused on how to think about the short- and longer-term effects of the coronavirus on US economic acti...

  • Cold War Liberals

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    The purpose of this short course is to introduce (or reintroduce) alumni to an important chapter in contemporary intellectual history. The course studies several writers and scholars whose work in the early Cold War was decisive for casting the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United Sta...

  • How Long is Too Long: Communications & Stay-at-Home Orders

    About 300 million Americans in nearly 40 states and the District of Columbia have been requested to "stay at home" in an effort to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, and similar provisions are in place in many countries around the world. By helping to slow down contagion and alleviating the pressur...

  • Black Every Day: Medical Mistrust in Minority Communities

    The relationship between black and minority communities and medical institutions has long been plagued with mistrust and skepticism. In the United States, there is a long history of the exploitation and manipulation of members of black and minority groups in medical research which include the Tus...

  • Black Every Day: A Focus on Policy and Policing

    As the United States examines the ways in which existing criminal justice and policing policies at the local, state, and federal levels affect black Americans and communities of color, many of us are left wondering about the role of our legislators.

    Following nearly a week of civil unrest foll...

  • The Long Journey to Women’s Suffrage

    This coming August 26th marks the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th  Amendment giving women the vote in the United States. In this webcast, Dorothea Wolfson -- Director of the Master of Arts in Government -- addresses the philosophical and cultural obstacles that prolonged women’s...

  • The Woman’s Hour: An Interview with Elaine Weiss

    Elaine Weiss’ book, The Woman’s Hour, details the nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. In this installment of the JHU Suffrage Series, Elaine Weiss will be interview...

  • Democracy, Inclusion, and the Path to Empowerment

    This event will be a conversation between President Ron Daniels, JD and Martha S. Jones, PhD, professor of history. Dr. Jones’ forthcoming book, Vanguard, is a history of African American women’s pursuit of political power — and how it transformed America. Her book will serve as a launching poi...

  • Picturing a Movement: Women’s Suffrage through the Lens of Maps and Ephemera

    Join Heidi Herr, the Outreach Librarian for Special Collections at Johns Hopkins University, as she interviews several students about their experiences researching the Women’s Suffrage Movement and shares examples of their work. Ivy Xun, a member of JHU ’23 has been co-curating a special exhibit...