Past Events

The LBJ School of Public Affairs and the LBJ Washington Center will be hosting the Dean's Annual DC Alumni Reception on Thursday, June 6, from 6–8 p.m. Please save the date so you can join us! 
 

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, will join several scholars and experts in China policy studies to debate a bipartisan approach to countering China’s technologies of repression and influence during a one-day conference in Washington, DC. The event is sponsored by the Robert Strauss Center and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). Joshua Eisenman, a professor of public affairs at the LBJ School, distinguished scholar with the Strauss Center and a senior fellow for China studies at AFPC, is the main conference organizer.

The LBJ School 2019 Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 25, at 11 a.m. in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium.

The LBJ Washington Center and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs invite you to Beyond Immigration Politics: Preparing for the Aging of a Majority-Minority Nation, a lunchtime discussion with Fernando Torres-Gil and Jacqueline L. Angel.

The LBJ Washington Center and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs invite you to Beyond Immigration Politics: Preparing for the Aging of a Majority-Minority Nation, a lunchtime discussion with Fernando Torres-Gil and Jacqueline L. Angel.

Suzanne Spaulding, senior adviser for Homeland Security Program and International Security Program, and former Undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, will give a talk on "Countering Adversary Attacks on Democracy and the Rule of Law" at the LBJ School on Thursday, April 25. She will speak about ongoing foreign influence operations that go beyond elections to undermine other democratic institutions, such as our justice system, and democracy itself. This talk is part of the Strauss Center's Brumley Speaker Series.

On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, the Intelligence Studies Project welcomes Seth G. Jones, director of the Transnational Threats Project and a senior adviser to the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who will speak about his most recent book, A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland, which examines the little-known story of the CIA’s operations in Poland, which produced a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War.

Throughout each year, both students and faculty at the LBJ School undertake timely policy research to stretch intellectual boundaries and tackle the most complex problems of our day. Innovation Bound celebrates the impact, quality and range of the published works of our distinguished faculty and students.

Mickey Edwards served Oklahoma's 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993. After Congress he taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and now serves as a vice president of the Aspen Institute. A founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of the American Conservative Union, Edwards has been a political columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, and was a weekly commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Join the Strauss Center for a lunchtime panel where space lawyers with commercial, government and international experience will provide insights, career advice and answer questions. If you’re interested in international, corporate, intellectual property, administrative, arms control, insurance or any other kind of law with space applications, please come and enjoy some free food! This panel is co-sponsored by the Texas International Law Journal, and the Journal of Law & Technology at Texas.