Past Events

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.

On Thursday, Oct. 22 at 1:30 p.m. CT, join CSRD Director Dr. Peniel Joseph as he discusses the significance of active citizenship at a time of racial reckoning with Ambassador Ron Kirk, Senior Of Counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas and Washington, DC offices and former Dallas mayor who served as the United States Trade Representative in President Barack Obama's Cabinet. 

Join the staff of the LBJ Washington Center to learn about the LBJ School's DC Concentration. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, Noon - 1 p.m. CT / 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, the Clements Center for National Security, the Stimson Center and Stimson's 38 North program, and the Korean Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) will be hosting a webinar "It's Not Just Over There: The American Commitment to the Korean Peninsula." Speakers include Gen. (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks and Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden and Senior Fellow Jim Golby will host a virtual event:"November Elections: The Candidates on American Foreign Policy." Join us at 12:15 p.m. CDT for this discussion. Registration opens at 12 p.m.

Please join the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) for "Reimagining Public Safety: Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism." CSRD Director Peniel Joseph, the Barbara Jordan Chair of Ethics and Political Values will moderate the conversation with Sukyi McMahon, the strategic director and board chair of the Austin Justice Coalition, and Kellee Coleman of the city of Austin Equity Office.

The Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School, presents the latest installments in an ongoing series of national security law webinars. In this lecture, Professor Waxman will discuss how the Constitution allocates authority over the actual waging of war among the branches, as well as constitutional disputes regarding the termination of war.