Will the 2024 election mark a turning point in American democracy and in the country’s role in the world? Leading experts discuss the 2024 US election and its domestic and international implications.
Hosted by the LSE Phelan US Centre.
Speakers and chair
Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) is Professor in Social Anthropology at LSE and was inaugural director of the LSE South Asia Centre. Her books include Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India, Why India Votes?, The Pathan Unarmed and The Sari (with Daniel Miller); and the series Exploring the Political in South Asia. She created the BBC R4 documentary Sacred Election: Lessons from the biggest democracy in the world on the 2009 Indian National Elections.
Keith Magee is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Practice in Cultural Justice at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), where he leads Black Britain and Beyond, a think tank and social policy platform, and is also a Fellow at its Centre on US Politics (CUSP). He is Chair and Professor of Practice in Social Justice at Newcastle University Law School. He is also a CNN, NBC, TIME, and LSE contributor on issues of social justice, politics, race, and religion.
Joseph C. Sternberg is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, where he writes the Political Economics column. He is author of The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future, examining the consequences of the Great Recession.
Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.
More about this event
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The Phelan United States Centre (@LSE_US) at LSE is a hub for global expertise, analysis and commentary on America.
This event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024, taking place from 19 October to 9 November with events across the UK.
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