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Date and time: Dec. 5, 2018, midnight
Location:SRH 3.122

Come and join the University of Texas China Public Policy Center for their inaugural U.S.-China Emerging Leaders Forum. This first meeting will see Wang Yuhang, from the University of International Business and Economics and Anli Xiao, from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, discussing Chinese Millennials with UT graduate students. 

Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Dec. 5, 2018, midnight
Location:SRH 3.122

U.S.-CHINA EMERGING LEADERS FORUM
Chinese Millennials: How They View Themselves and Their Role in U.S.-China Relations

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018
5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
SRH 3.122 (2300 Red River St.)

Speakers

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Scheduled
Date and time: Dec. 5, 2018, midnight
Location:SRH 3.124

Please join us for a conversation on China’s evolving role in establishing international standards and rules and evaluating transnational affairs. Dr. Liang Kaiyin will share his thoughts on the challenges facing China’s evolving role, followed by a time of open discussion and Q&A. Dr. Liang is a professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and the director of the university’s Research Institute on China’s International Discourse System-Building.

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Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 29, 2018, midnight
Location:SRH 3.122

Join Professor Peniel Joseph, School of Education doctoral student Chloe Latham Sikes and Devin Walker, director of global initiatives at the D

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Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 28, 2018, midnight
Location:SRH 3.122

On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, the Strauss Center is pleased to welcome Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, for a talk on "China’s Authoritarian Challenge." This talk is part of the Strauss Center's Brumley Speaker Series.

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Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 26, 2018, midnight
Location:Webinar
The LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin invites active-duty service members to apply to study for a master’s degree or Ph.D. in public policy. This webinar will focus on the experience of LBJ students affiliated with the military. This is your chance to ask questions about the application process, curricular details, school-military balance and more.  
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Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 19, 2018, midnight
Location:Bass Lecture Hall
Please join us on Monday, Nov. 19 at 5:15 p.m. for a special session of the Dean’s Distinguished Leaders Series, featuring the Honorable George J. Mitchell, known for his long career as a bipartisan leader, legislator, and peacemaker. He represented Maine in the United States Senate from 1980 to 1995, serving as Senate majority leader from 1989 to 1995. He was a member of the Senate’s Finance, Veterans Affairs and Environment and Public Works Committees, and his Senate accomplishments include leading the 1990 reauthorization of the Clean Air Act; writing the first national oil spill prevention and cleanup law; leading the passage of the nation’s first child care bill; writing the low-income housing tax credit program; and helping to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mitchell was a leader in opening markets to trade and led the Senate to ratify the North American Free Trade Agreement and create of the World Trade Organization.
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Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 19, 2018, midnight
Location:Webinar

The research centers at the LBJ School focus on a range of public policy issues, around which faculty members and students collaborate on interdisciplinary policy research. The centers located in the LBJ School house major research grants that provide student employment as research assistants, further enhancing their research training and experience. LBJ School faculty members either lead or engage with other affiliated centers, all of which provide important platforms for collaborations with an even larger number of centers and institutes that exist across the campus.

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Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 16, 2018, midnight
Location:School House Pub on Manor

Policy on the Rocks is a GPAC-sponsored program stemming from concerns from students and faculty that there are not many opportunities to get to learn from each other informally. In a nod to the podcast War on the Rocks, this informal talk gives all LBJ students an opportunity to chat with policy practitioners about their experiences in the field. Our November hosts, Don Grier, Carron Whittaker and Eva Riquelme, are LBJ alumni and experts in health and public service, specifically in Medicaid, ACA and Child Welfare Information Systems.  

Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Nov. 16, 2018, midnight
Location:Schoolhouse Pub on Manor

Policy on the Rocks is a GPAC-sponsored program stemming from concerns from students and faculty that there are not many opportunities to get to learn from each other informally. In a nod to the podcast War on the Rocks, this informal talk gives all LBJ students an opportunity to chat with policy practitioners about their experiences in the field. Our November hosts, Don Grier, Carron Whittaker, and Eva Riquelme are LBJ alumni and experts in health and public service, specifically in Medicaid, ACA, and Child Welfare Information Systems.