Johns Hopkins Briefing: U.S. Presidential Debates

Description

Johns Hopkins University is hosting a live, virtual briefing on U.S. presidential debates with Johns Hopkins experts. The free, online event is part of the Johns Hopkins Briefings series, which provides timely insights and analysis of urgent, in-the-news issues from world-renowned experts. The Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives hosts the series.

The experts include:

• Lilliana Mason, the moderator, is a political scientist whose research focuses on partisan identity, partisan bias, and American social polarization.
• Andrew Perrin is a cultural and political sociologist whose current research is on public opinion and democratic citizenship.
• Peter Pomerantsev is a researcher who works on overcoming the challenges of digital era disinformation and polarization.
• Leah Wright Rigueur is a historian of 20th-century U.S. political and social history whose research focuses on race and political ideology, the American presidency, and presidential elections.

Registrants can submit questions in advance or during the briefing, which will be streamed at the same link.

Members of the media can direct questions to jhunews@jhu.edu.