Past Events
Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) was elected to Congress in 1992 after serving for 20 years in the Texas Legislature. He is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he is Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Health. He also serves on the Subcommittees on Energy, Environment, and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Oct. 5
12:15 PM
SRH 3.122
Lunch provided
Come and listen to Professor Joe Foweraker discuss "Polity, Populism, and Policy Dysfunction in Latin America."
On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, the Clements Center will welcome Frank Lavin, the CEO and founder of Export Now and former Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S.
GPAC welcomes you to a Debate Watch Event on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 6:00 PM to watch the second debate between Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep Beto O’Rourke!
We will meet in SRH 3.122, and GPAC will provide sparkling water and soda. Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks to share as we watch the debate live. We hope LBJ students of all political affiliations attend and join the conversation!
On Friday, September 28, the Strauss Center will co-sponsor a conference on "Mexico’s Political Earthquake: The 2018 Elections, Democracy, and Binational Relations" and assessing the results and implications of the 2018 presidential election in Mexico in partnership with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations.
Please join us for the first Dean’s Distinguished Leaders Series event of the fall semester featuring former U.S. ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson. Ambassador Jacobson, who resigned from her post in May amid tense relations under President Trump, was highly regarded in Mexico and U.S. diplomatic circles. She will discuss her time serving as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico and the challenges she sees ahead for her successor.
On Thursday, September 27, 2018, the Clements Center will welcome Walter Russell Mead, the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and a Distinguished Fellow in American Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, for a talk at the University of Texas at Austin.
The LBJ Washington Center welcomes an Exemplar in Policymaking: Margaret Weichert, Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Policy Exemplars are open to a limited number of LBJ students, faculty and alumni. Those wishing to attend should contact the Center (lbjschooldc@austin.utexas.edu). LBJ DC Fellows will attend as part of their coursework.
The LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin will welcome former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to the UT campus on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Angela Evans, dean of the LBJ School, will lead a conversation with Landrieu at the Texas Union Theatre from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m.
Please join us for a discussion with Admiral William McRaven and The Honorable Michael McCaul (R-TX), moderated by Chris Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle)