Issues for the week of December 11, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Week of December 11

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Democracy
The Romanian 2019 Presidential Elections
Maria Bucur
John W. Hill Chair of European History, Indiana University, Bloomington
Romania in 2020
Maria Bucur
John W. Hill Chair of European History, Indiana University, Bloomington
Coup, Revolution, or Negotiated Regime Change
Andrew Arato
Dorothy Hirshon Professor at The New School for Social Research
Politics
I Would Love to Vote for a Gay President
Claire Potter
Co-executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
With Impeachment, Messaging is Everything.
Jeffrey C. Isaac
James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington
Toxic Language Alert for Campaign 2020
Robert Ivie
Professor Emeritus in English & American Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
Mobilities
What Do Walls Do?
Jiyoung Cho
Ph.D. candidate in Politics, The New School for Social Research
Post-Workers of the World, Unite!
James Chamberlain
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University
Corpus Nullius: How Europe Recast the Migrant Body
Siraj Izhar