Professor of Politics David Plotke organized the event, General Seminar: The 2016 US Presidential Election, Wednesday, 11/2 at the New School for Social Research. David moderated the discussion about the U.S. presidential election with faculty panelists:
- Julia Ott, History: How Historic Is this Election?
- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, History: Beyond Nasty: The Woman Problem and Election 2016
- Deva Woodly, Politics: Parallel Politics: Electoral Politics and the Movement for Black Lives
- David Plotke, Politics: Trump’s New Right/Left Campaign
- Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology: The Promise and Perils of a Clinton Victory and a Trump Defeat
![A lantern slideshows four overlapping illustrations of the Earth depicting its tilt at different time periods in the past, present and future. Dates represented are 13000 BC, 5544 BC, 1921 AD, 2296AD. Handwritten in blue ink at bottom left corner of plate is the text 'G53 CLW [illegible] Aug '22'.](https://i0.wp.com/publicseminar.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Wragge_Earth.jpg?fit=768%2C749&ssl=1)
