Past Events

Dr. Varun Rai, LBJ School associate dean for research and director of the UT Austin Energy Institute, will moderate a conversation and panel with Mary Streett, bp senior vice president, and Dr. Joshua Busby and Dr. Aldo Flores-Quiroga, members of the LBJ School faculty. The discussion will highlight low-carbon efforts in the U.S. and abroad; the roles of private, nonprofit and public actors; and what's ahead for climate and energy policy in the Biden administration.

For decades, polls have shown that a majority of Americans want to replace the Electoral College with direct election of the president by popular vote. Yet since the election of 2000 the issue has become partisan, so that a constitutional amendment would be unlikely to get the necessary supermajority in Congress. The National Popular Vote campaign is an effort to make the Electoral College obsolete without a constitutional amendment, by getting a critical mass of states to agree to allocate their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

The LBJ School, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD), the LBJ Foundation, BookPeople and Huston-Tillotson University present a special program to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Peniel Joseph, LBJ School professor and CSRD director, discussed his critically acclaimed book, 'The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.' on Monday, Jan.18, 2021. Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, president and CEO of Huston-Tillotson University, moderated.

Over the Winter Break — Dec. 21, 2020 until Jan. 4, 2021 — the University and the LBJ School will be officially closed. If needed, please utilize the following contact information.

On Tuesday, Dec. 1, the Clements Center for National Security will host a discussion on "Prospects for civil-military relations during a Biden-Harris administration" with Gen. Vincent Brooks; Kori Schake of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the National Security Council; and Peter Feaver of Duke University and the Naitonal Security Council. Clements Center Senior Fellow Jim Golby will moderate this discussion.

On Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, the Strauss Center will host Dr. Barbara van Koppen, emeritus scientist on poverty, gender and water at the International Water Management Institute, for a virtual talk. This talk will explore IWMI and development within the context of Sub-Saharan Africa as well as Asia and Dr. Van Koppen will discuss how progress might differ across countries. This webinar is part of our Brumley Speaker Series.

As part of our William C. Powers Jr. Speaker Series, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) proudly presents "How Black Women Are Shaping the Future of American Democracy with Tressie McMillan Cottom" on Thursday, Nov.19 at Noon CST. Dr. Cottom is the New York Times best-selling author of Thick. And Other Essays (National Book Award Finalist), co-host of the podcast "Hear to Slay" with Roxanne Gay, a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, a senior faculty researcher with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, and a faculty affiliate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. 

Join the Strauss Center on Monday, Nov. 16 for a talk with Ben Rohrbaugh, a fellow of Strauss's Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative and the author of More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything: Homeland Security, Borders, and Disasters in the Twenty-first Century for a virtual webinar: "What's the Point of DHS?"

Join the LBJ School for Virtual Open House on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020.

On Thursday, Oct. 29, the Clements Center for National Security will host Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army (Ret.), Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University and former National Security Advisor, for a virtual book talk on his upcoming release Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. Please join us from 12:15—1:30 p.m. CDT. Registration begins at Noon.