Past Events

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.

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 explore the Constitution's distribution of power of the decision to take the nation to war or to otherwise initiate military operations, with an emphasis on what has changed over time.

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. On July 29 and Aug. 5, Professor Matt Waxman of Columbia will present a series of lectures concerning the Constitution and war powers.

Join the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy for an event in the William C. Powers Jr. Speaker Series:  Pedro Noguera on "The Search for Racial Justice in Education: Uprooting Structural Racism."

Please join us as we celebrate Ruth Bloch Rubin, recipient of the LBJ Foundation's 31st D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on the United States Congress. U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer (WA-6,) Chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress will deliever a keynote address. Michael Thorning, Associate Director of Governance at the Bipartisan Policy Center, will lead the discussion of Rubin's book "Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the US Congress."

Register and join the conversation featuring Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Austin City Council Members Alison Alter and Natasha Harper-Madiso, moderated by Dr. Peniel Joseph and Dr. Jeremi Suri.