Past Events

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 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!   

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 20th Annual 'Dillo Cup will be played on Saturday, April 27, against A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service! Join the #LBJAlumni/staff/faculty team!  

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 Wednesday, April 24, 2019, students from the Strauss Center-sponsored Policy Research Project “Beyond the Border” will present some of the findings and recommendations from nine months researching questions related to Mexico’s migratory policy (integration of refugees, obstacles for unaccompanied minors, the legacy of Programa Frontera Sur, and evaluating migrant detention centers since 2011) and volunteered at a migrant shelter in Guadalajara over winter break.

On Wednesday, April 24, 2019, the Clements Center will welcome Amanda Sloat, a Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, for a talk on "Brexit: Causes and Consequences" at The University of Texas at Austin.

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.

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."

Angela Evans, dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, and David Jensen, academic dean of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, invite graduate students at APTS and LBJ to join in a conversation about the potential for common courses.