SiriusXM Townhall with Secretary Buttigieg April 9th

 On Tuesday April 9^th at 3:15 PM, Julie Mason, from the Julie Mason Show, heard weekdays 3-6 PM EAST on SiriusXM’s non-partisan POTUS Channel, hosts Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in a SiriusXM Townhall on the progress of the rollout of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, the future of transportation in the U.S. and what this means for young people, the impact of AI on transportation, importance of diversity and equity in transportation decisions, President Biden’s proposed increase in fuel taxes for private jets and more.

 

Julie will host Secretary Buttigieg in a 20 minute one on one conversation in front of a live, studio audience of students. The last 30 minutes of the event will be opened up to Q and A from the in-studio audience.

Students are welcome to participate in the townhall and potentially ask a question to Secretary Buttigieg. Audience participants should arrive at Sirius XM studios,  1500 Eckington PL, NE, DC 20002, by 2:45 PM. 

Students who would like to attend should RSVP Patrick.Ferrise@siriusXM.com by Friday March 29 at 3pm East, first come. First accommodated as there is limited space.

 

 

MLaw Lunch and Learn

Join MLaw tomorrow at 12:30 PM for the first Lunch and Learn virtual event this semester! Tomorrow's conversation will feature Ms. Zenita Wickman Hurley, a 1997 government and politics and African American studies double major, who currently serves as the Chief in the Office of Equity, Policy, and Engagement for the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (OAG).  This conversation will be moderated by an MLaw staff member, where Ms. Wickham Hurley will provide insights regarding her personal career journey, navigating law school and how her work is impacting the Maryland community. They hope you will be able to attend!

For more information or to register for this event, click here. 

 "A Conversation with Dr. Fiona Hill: Ukraine, Russia, and U.S. Public Opinion," will be conducted virtually on Wednesday, October 11 from 2-3pm EDT. 

Dr. Fiona Hill is the Chancellor of Durham University in the U.K. and Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe within the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She is also the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. She was previously Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council from 2017-2019 and a National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council from 2006-2009. One of the most preeminent experts on Russia and Ukraine, Dr. Hill is a prolific author of multiple books and articles, including Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (with Clifford G. Gaddy), and her latest memoir, There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity In The 21st Century. 

Introducing Dr. Fiona Hill will be Dr. Jennifer King Rice, Senior Vice President and Provost of the University of Maryland. This forum will address where things stand regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its implications for the U.S. and the international community. In addition, the conversation will probe the shifting level of American public support for Ukraine, especially during the 2024 election season. To RSVP, please visit: go.umd.edu/SadatForum-Hill-2023

START Winter Session Courses

 

Dubin Family Lecture featuring Ambassador Michael Herzog

 The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies and the College of Arts and Humanities cordially invite you to their premier annual Dubin Family Lecture featuring special guest Ambassador Michael Herzog, Embassy of Israel. 

The event will be held at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall on Thursday, October 27 at 4:30 PM  and is free and open to the public. 

Registration is required at go.umd.edu/DubinLecture2022.  

 

We look forward to seeing you there!! 

College Park Scholars First Year Book Discussion

Join College Park Scholars for a First Year Book Discussion/Action Event

October 19, 5:15-6:30, 0202 Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center

All We Can Save—in Maryland

Local leaders who are taking action on climate change talk about what they’re doing and how students can get involved in the effort

Featuring:

Lorig Charkoudian, District 20 Delegate, Maryland General Assembly

Dawn Hawkins-Nixon, Associate Director, Prince George’s County Department of the Environment

Mark Stewart, Climate Change Program Manager, Maryland Department of the Environment

Patrick Wojahn, Mayor of College Park

Moderator:

Tim Knight, Director, Scholars Environment, Technology and Economy

Upcoming Big Ten Collaboration: Democracy in the 21st Century Event

On October 11th, Jeffrey Minear, counselor to Chief Justice John Roberts, and the Hon. Jeffrey Sutton, chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, will convene at the UM Law School to discuss the constitutional roles and responsibilities of the U.S. federal courts to the American government and its democratic institutions.  The event is co-sponsored by the Big Ten Collaboration, UM, and Rutgers. All Big Ten students will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance. 

The Federal Judiciary in the 21st Century -- Big Ten Collaboration: Democracy in the 21st Century

Career Panel for DC Summer Interns

 

Tom Manatos Jobs presents:  Career Panel for DC Summer Interns Monday, June 27, 2022 at 5:00 pm ET Details provided upon RSVP

Come hear tips on furthering your career from a bipartisan lineup of experts with experience from Capitol Hill, presidential & congressional campaigns, non-profits, and the private sector. Natalie Farr, former COS to Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), House Republican Study Committee (RSC) and Bush Administration staffer. Megan McCorquodale, Judiciary Aide, Senate Judiciary Committee, former intern at Tesla, Glover Park Group & Sen. Heinrich (D-NM). Carlos Sanchez, current COS to Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), former House Democratic Caucus Exec Director, National Political Director, Hillary for America and COS to Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX). Rebecca Shaw, former COS to Rep. Hollingsworth (R-IN) and Deputy COS to Rep. Gibson (R-NY).  Moderator: Tom Manatos, Founder Tom Manatos Jobs   RSVP HERE to get details

Monday, June 27, 2022 5:00 pm ______________________________ Don't forget to RSVP for details

New Course: SOCY461

 

Upcoming Event: The Feller Lecture

 

The Schlaretzki Lecture

 

Event: The Feller Lecture

 

Climate Research & Policy Youth Conference

                             

Join MaryPIRG Student Climate Action Coalition and Sunrise UMBC on Sunday, October 3rd from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm EST to hear how professors and graduate students at our universities are interacting and studying the impact of climate on their fields! At our Climate Research and Policy Youth Conference topics include legal responses to climate change, history and historical ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, green concrete, next-generation battery materials, and climate and environmental justice. RSVP here. 

Attending students have the chance to win:

• Tickets to the Baltimore Aquarium

• Campsite Reservation at Deep Creek Lake! (2 nights of your choice)

• Adopt a Panda, Blue Footed Booby, or Honey Badger (we will adopt on your behalf, you will get certificate and stuffed animal)

Campaign Conversations: Organizing 101

 Black Students in Public Policy (BSiPP), in collaboration with Women in Public Policy (WiPP), the School of Public Policy, and the University Career Center, will host a discussion about what it takes to conduct a campaign for public office. Our guests, representing various roles, will share how they turned their passion for essential issues into advocacy for others and how they navigated situations they’ve encountered as members of underrepresented communities.

Panelists include:

• Senator Will Smith, Maryland State Senate
• Wandra Ashely-Williams, Maryland Regional Director of Climate Change and NAACP National Board Member
• Alice Wilkerson, Executive Director of Strong Future Maryland
• Caleb Wolf, Policy Director for Wes Moore for Maryland
• DATE:

  October 5, 2021

  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

  LOCATION:

  Van Munching Hall, Room 2517

  EVENT CONTACT:

  Joshua Winston

  •  JRGDW@TERPMAIL.UMD.EDU
  Register Now

Constitution Day Special Event 9/17 -- Registration Open!

 CONSTITUTION DAY

An Audacious Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Democracy Constitution 

Friday, September 17, 2021

12:00 – 2:00 PM

Held virtually on Zoom

Most Americans think that contemporary political dysfunction is rooted in a failure to follow constitutional rules and live up to constitutional ideals. From this celebratory perspective, the solution to our political ills is a renewed commitment to the Constitution of the United States.  Professor Sanford Levinson and Michael Tomasky think this consensus may be fatal to the future of American constitutional democracy.  Their bold view is that political dysfunction is rooted in our commitment to following the constitution. The solution to our political ills is a constitutional convention that would draft a new and better twenty-first century Constitution for the United States. 

In our 15^th annual Constitution Day program, Levinson and Tomasky will explain why they believe the United States needs a new constitution, and why their proposed constitution may be what the United States needs. That Constitution can be found at The Democracy Constitution published recently in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas with commentary and dissents.

Professors Marley Weiss and Mark Graber from the law school and Professor Brian Gilmore from the MLAW program at College Park will offer comments in response. The panel will be chaired by Associate Dean Peter Danchin.

Sponsored by:

League of Women Voters of Maryland, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the University of Maryland, College Park, Dept. of Government and Politics, and MLAW Programs.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://umaryland.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc-iprT0sH9QApIlrcJsBmBZUDd2S8Ja5 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Speakers:

 

Sanford (Sandy) Levinson, W. St. John Garwood Centennial Chair in Law and Government, University of Texas School of Law

 

 

Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

 

 

Commentators:

Brian Gilmore, Senior Lecturer, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences and MLAW Program, University of Maryland College Park

 

      

Marley Weiss, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law

 

        Mark A. Graber, University System of Maryland Regents Professor

 

 

Moderator:

 

Peter G. Danchin, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development

Jacob. A France Professor of Law

 

The Feller Lecture with Congressman Eric Swalwell

 

Congressman Eric Swalwell (GVPT '03) Gives Annual Feller Lecture

College Student Town Hall with Senator Ben Cardin -- Register ASAP!

 RSVP required -- Register here: https://sen.gov/5K38 

The Future of US-China Relations, with Douglas Barry

On Tuesday, Nov. 17, 8-9 PM, the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics will host a local CHINA Town Hall to discuss US-China relations.

Douglas Barry, senior director of communications and publications at the US-China Business Council, will be giving a presentation on the Future of US-China Relations.  After his presentation, we will open things up for Q&A.  

Douglas Barry is senior director of communications and publications at the US-China Business Council, an association that has helped American companies do business in China for 47 years. Previously he did crisis and reputation management in the private sector and worked in trade promotion and commercial diplomacy for the US Department of Commerce. While at the University of Alaska in the 1990’s, Doug was a marketing consultant to the seafood industry and did small business development for USAID in the Russian Far East.  He first visited China in 1983, the first year foreign visitors were allowed to travel without government minders.  He was a journalist for ABC News in London and New York, and is the author of many books on cross-border trade. His most recent article on government relations and US companies was published in the China Business Review. http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/managing-risk-in-the-new-era/  He received a doctorate from Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

The town hall will take place via zoom at the following link:

https://umd.zoom.us/j/99288863144

This event is part of a series of national CHINA Town Hall events organized by the National Committee on US-China Relations.  Our local UMD town hall will occur right after a national town hall meeting on US-China economic relations.  Details are at the following link:

https://www.ncuscr.org/event/CTH-2020-economics-trade

For more details on CHINA Town Hall events, please go to the following link.

https://www.ncuscr.org/program/china-town-hall

Mental Health Awareness Week October 5-9

 

The Counseling Center invites the UMD community to Mental Health Awareness Week, October 5-9! MHAW is our annual weeklong program of events to reduce stigma on campus and improve student wellbeing. Now more than ever, we want to be sure that students are actively taking care of their mental health.

We hope UMD students near and far will join us to break down health barriers, STAMP out stigma, and take time for self-care in a variety of virtual events and one in-person (and socially distanced) event! Please note, 4Maryland guidelines will be followed.