This conference focuses on the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald Trump from perspectives including legal, historical, sociological, and policy analysis. Our aim is to begin academic conversations and develop analyses of how the Trump administration and the movement and ideology it represents relate to social, economic and political transformations in the United States and around the world. Scholars from UC Berkeley and other Bay Area academic institutions will speak on implications and effects of the administration's foreign and domestic policies, as well as the legal questions surrounding its agenda.
9:00-9:15 - Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Lawrence Rosenthal, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
9:15-10:45 - Panel 1: Constitutional Rights
First Amendment - Lowell Bergman, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Conflict of Interest/Voter Rights - Bertrall Ross, Berkeley Law
Criminal Justice - Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law
10:45-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Panel 2: Health and Public Welfare
Health Care - Ben Handel, Economics, UC Berkeley
Women’s Rights - Melissa Murray, Berkeley Law
Science & Climate - Fred Block, Sociology, UC Davis
Education - Janelle Scott, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
12:30-2:00 - Lunch Break (on your own)
2:00-3:30 - Panel 3: Global Engagement and the Trump Presidency
Immigration - Alberto Garcia, History, UC Berkeley
Foreign Policy - Daniel Sargent, History, UC Berkeley
Trade, Taxes and Inequality - Paul Pierson, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Trump Presidency - Terri Bimes, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the History Department, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and the Graduate School of Journalism.