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Governor Transition Leaders Panel

Sep 27, 2019, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
Join Domestic Policy Corps (DPC) and the Center for Local, State and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) for a panel discussion with a generation of Michigan governor transition leaders from 1991 to today.
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STPP Lecture Series

Post-Human Creativity: A Conversation

Mar 25, 2019, 4:00 pm EDT
Library Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library
Join us for a live, unrehearsed, interdisciplinary conversation with faculty from diverse perspectives to explore the idea of Post-Human Creativity.
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FinTech Career Talk

Nov 6, 2019, 4:00-5:00 pm EST
3240 Weill Hall
Interested in a career in Finance or Technology? Learn More From Professor Adrienne Harris!Adrienne A. Harris is a Professor of the Practice at the University of Michigan, as well as a Gates Foundation Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Finance, Law and Policy at the University. Adrienne also advises fintech companies, incumbent financial institutions, and large venture capital firms. Most recently, Adrienne was the Chief Business Officer and General Counsel a San Francisco-based, insur-tech start-up for which she is now an Advisor. Adrienne was a Special Assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the Obama White House. She spearheaded the development of the Administration’s fintech strategy, chairing both the Interagency Fintech Working Group and the Administration’s Distributed Ledger Technology Task Force. She came to the White House from the U.S. Department of Treasury where she served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary. Prior to coming to Washington, D.C., Adrienne was an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, where her practice included representing financial institutions in complex regulatory proceedings and M&A transactions. Adrienne earned her M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business with specializations in Economics and Management, her J.D. from Columbia University Law School, and her B.A. from Georgetown University.

2020 Tanner Lecture on Human Values: "Theorizing Racial Justice"

Feb 12, 2020, 4:00-6:00 pm EST
Rackham Auditorium
The 2020 Tanner Lecture will be given by prominent philosopher Charles Mills. The lecture will look at racial justice from a philosophical point of view: whether it’s worth singling out, how it’s demarcated from other kinds of justice, what are its different dimensions, the relation between distributive and corrective justice, which normative framework to employ, etc. 
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Mar 31, 2020, 7:00-9:00 pm EDT
Rackham Auditorium
Due to COVID-19, this event has been canceled. We are working to reschedule for a future date or deliver this content in a different format.
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US-China Relations and China's expanding international presence

Mar 16, 2018, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT
1120 Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
Daniel Russel is a Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence at the Asia Society Policy Institute. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, he served until March, 2017 as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12, 2013, Mr. Russel served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there, he helped formulate President Obama’s strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region.

Changing the Global E-waste Cycle

Apr 24, 2018, 8:30 am-5:00 pm EDT
Rackham Graduate School, 4th Floor Amphitheater
Join us for an in-depth look at informal electronic waste recycling communities in Ghana, Thailand, and Chile.
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CLOSUP Lecture Series

Ann Arbor Mayor and City Council Candidate Forum

Apr 12, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
Free and open to the public.Students of PUBPOL 456/756 invite the public to join them for a debate featuring candidates for the offices of mayor and city council in Ann Arbor. This event takes place as a product of PUBPOL 456/756. It originated and is planned, organized, and moderated by the students of the Ford School’s Public Policy Course 456/756 under the supervision of their instructor, former Mayor of Ann Arbor John Hieftje. Final details are pending on which candidates will participate, and will be announced here as soon as possible.
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CLOSUP Lecture Series

Policy Change as Political Strategy: America’s Health Reform Mosaics in Comparative Perspective

Oct 24, 2018, 11:30 am-12:50 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom 1110
Professor Tuohy will speak about her new book, Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform (University of Toronto Press 2018). The book presents a new theoretical framework for addressing perennial questions about the drivers of policy change. It argues that the scale and pace of major policy change - change that alters the balance of power, the methods of control or the organizing principles of a policy arena – are fundamentally driven by political calculations at the centre of government, as political actors assess their ability to overcome vetoes not only in the present but also over time. The book develops this argument by drawing on ten cases of health policy change across seven decades (1945-2017) and four nations (the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada). In her talk Prof. Tuohy will pay particular attention to the American cases, showing why the US is especially prone to “mosaic” bursts of simultaneous small-scale changes, and why both “big-bang” (large scale, fast paced) and “blueprint” (large scale, slow paced) strategies have proved elusive.
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The Free and Open Indo-Pacific Region Conference

Nov 8, 2018, 5:30-7:30 pm EST
Annenberg Auditorium, 1110 Weill Hall
Indo-Pacific Conference organized by International Policy Center and Center for Japanese Studies features a keynote by Susan Thornton, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Community Conversation - restoring public trust in state government

Mar 30, 2016, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
Join us for a Community Conversation about Restoring Public Trust in Michigan's State Government. Topics will include state government services, management of the public purse, and oversight of Michigan's political system.  We invite you to share thoughts, insights, and ideas! 
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Alt-Association: The Role of Law in Combating Extremism

Nov 17, 2018, 8:30 am-6:30 pm EST
South Hall
This Symposium is intended to provide an overview of the legal mechanisms and challenges in responding to extremist organizations, as well as an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to address the issues. 
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CSAS Lecture Series | Understanding the New Credibility Regimes of Development: The Politics of Sanitary Pads as a Pro-Poor Technology in India

Jan 18, 2019, 4:00 pm EST
Room 1010 | 10th Floor Event Space Weiser Hall
In recent years, “period poverty” has come to be seen as an important development issue, with sanitary pads becoming the main solution. Rather than the result of systematic and unbiased evidence gathering, however, Parthasarathy argues that this problem and solution are the result of the new credibility regimes that underlie development governance today.

Ford School Reunion

Oct 4-5, 2019, 12:00-6:00 pm EDT
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
We'll be celebrating this fall! Save the date and join us for the Ford School Reunion!
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Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison

Mar 12, 2019, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
In July 2014 Washington Post journalist and former Tehran bureau chief, Jason Rezaian, was arrested by Iranian police on charges of espionage. What followed was a harrowing 544 day stint in an Iranian prison, and an extraordinary campaign led by his family, the Washington Post, and prominent journalism organizations for his release. Join Rezaian for a discussion on his book “Prisoner,” which details his 18-month imprisonment in a maximum security facility, his journey through the Iranian legal system and how his release became part of the Iran nuclear deal.

The Politics of Precaution: A Comparison of Consumer and Environmental Regulation in Europe and the United States, 1970 - 2008

Sep 21, 2009, 4:00 am-5:30 pm EDT
1110 Weill Hall
STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series David Vogel, Professor of Business Ethics and Political ScienceHaas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley Commentator: Barry Rabe, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan 4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Risk Science Center, University of Michigan Center for European Studies-European Union Center
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Citi Foundation Lecture

The United States and global sustainable development: Politics, policy, and priorities

Nov 29, 2010, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Rackham Graduate School, Rackham Auditorium
Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's most influential development economists. He is the author of 'Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet' (2008) and 'The End of Poverty,' his seminal 2005 prescription for ending extreme poverty in the world by 2025.