What are the stakes of the 2024 American presidential election for the US and its allies, like Poland? What does this election tell us about the state of American politics more broadly?

Join us for the panel discussion
“The 2024 US Presidential Election: What’s in the Cards?”
with our special guest Professor Mark Rozell (George Mason University), Professor Stephen J. Farnsworth (University of Mary Washington/American Studies Center, UW), Associate Professor Bohdan Szklarski (ASC UW), and Associate Professor Anna Sosnowska-Jordanovska.

Friday, March 15, 2024
3 PM

You can get 3 OZN points for participating in this event.

Where?

Dobra 55, room: 1.008
(the building features some mobility accommodations: ramp and lift)

About the panelists:

 

Mark J. Rozell – Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University (USA) and the Ruth D. and John T. Hazel Faculty Chair in Public Policy. He authored or co-authored of numerous books on US Government and politics and has testified before the U.S. Congress on issues of executive powers numerous occasions.

Stephen J. Farnsworth – professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington. He authored or co-authored nine books dedicated to the presidency and communication. In the Spring 2024, Prof. Farnsworth is a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the American Studies Center.

Anna Sosnowska – associate professor of sociology at the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. Her current research focuses on Polish-American communities in New York City and Chicago. She published Explaining Economic Backwardness. Post-1945 Polish Historians on Eastern Europe (CEU Press 2019), Polski Greenpoint a Nowy Jork. Gentryfikacja, stosunki etniczne i imigrancki rynek pracy (Scholar 2016).

Bohdan Szklarski – associate professor of Political Science at the American Studies Center. Prof. Szklarski’s research interests include: political leadership, political communication, American political culture and institutions, comparative politics and political anthropology. Author of over 80 academic publications. He frequently appears as a commentator on American and Polish political events in the media.

The event is organized by American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw and co-sponsored by Leadership Studies Research Group (ASC, UW) and US Embassy in Warsaw.

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