GloTech Lab hosts Prof. Bilge Yesil and celebrates her pathbreaking new book, Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order. Prof. Yesil will discuss Turkish and global politics of religious victimhood, essentialization of East-West binaries, and identitarian narratives, and relate them with recent trends in US politics and the 2024 elections.
The Center for Justice, Law & Societies (CJLS) strives to foster research, teaching and public engagement related to bias, inequity and inequality in the law. This speaker series, which is designed by this year's graduate fellows is one way we do so.
October 16: Kevin Young (UMass History): The Boycott Road to Rights':Rethinking the Origins of the 1964 Civil Rights Act"
November 6: Noora Lori (Boston University): Passport Power: Citizenship Markets and Mobility Diplomacy in the Gulf"
November 20: Mark Firmani (Amherst College): Cataloguing Destruction in Sinan Antoon's Book of Collateral Damage"
Twenty-first century American politics has been tumultuous. Common explanations for America’s societal and political divide and seeming inability to act collectively include changes in media technology, elite polarization, social and ideological sorting, nationalization of institutions, and unprecedented tribal polarization. This project instead argues that the most concerning and consequential development has been a polarization around trust in scientific institutions. This has come about due to partisan realignment and resulted in two parties—who are charged with collaborating to produce collective goods—operating from entirely distinct epistemologies.
A conversation with Jamie Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, Nothwestern University, on the state of the field: What are the emerging opportunities to study U.S. politics and democracy? What new data and methods are available? What areas of study are not receiving enough attention?
Michael Meeropol is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Western New England University and author of Surrender:How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution and Principles of Macroeconomics: Activist vs. Austerity Policies.
Majors Week is a week-long opportunity to explore the academic programs offered at UMass. Come talk to our advising team about the Political Science and Legal Studies programs. You will have the opportunity to declare the major if you choose.