Johns Hopkins Briefing: Implications for Democracy

Johns Hopkins Experts to Examine Ramifications of Midterm Elections 
A two-part briefing will explore the political and policy implications of the Nov. 8 results. 

Johns Hopkins University is hosting a two-part series of expert briefings to examine the potential policy and political changes resulting from the 2022 Midterm Elections.  

The first of the hour-long live events, “Implications for Democracy,” is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, from 12:30–1:30 p.m. ET, and is co-hosted by the Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and the SNF Agora Institute. It will cover topics such as civic participation and voter turnout; social polarization; the crisis of liberal democracy; protest and unrest; and historical context. 

The second briefing, “Implications for Public Policy” is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from noon to 1 p.m. ET. It will cover topics such as climate, health care, education, and international relations. 

Both events are part of the Johns Hopkins Briefing series, which provides timely insights and analysis of urgent, in-the-news issues from world-renowned experts.  

Registrants can submit questions in advance or during the briefing, which will stream on the Johns Hopkins Briefing page. The briefing will be streamed at the same link.  

The following Johns Hopkins experts are scheduled to speak on Nov. 10:  

• Henry Farrell is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies and co-author of Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight Over Freedom and Security and the forthcoming book Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World’s Markets, Networks, and Supply Chains. 
   
• Lilliana Hall Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity. Her research has focused on partisan identity and bias, social sorting, and social polarization. 
   
• Yascha Mounk is an SNF Agora Senior Fellow and an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is In Danger and How to Save It. He is a leading expert on the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism. 
   
• Leah Wright Rigueur is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of History whose expertise includes 20th Century U.S. political and social history, Modern African American history, the American Presidency and presidential elections, civil rights movements, and protest and unrest in the United States. She is author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican. 

The following Johns Hopkins experts are scheduled to speak on Nov. 16:  

• Annette C. Anderson is Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. She is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Education who has worked as a classroom teacher, a curriculum coordinator, and an assistant principal. She served as the CEO and founding principal of Widener Partnership Charter School, the first university-assisted charter school in Pennsylvania.  
   
• Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He is the author most recently of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order. 
   
• Josh Sharfstein is Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management. He has served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Baltimore City Health Commissioner. 
   
• Benjamin Zaitchik is a Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His research is directed at understanding, managing, and coping with climatic and hydrologic variability. His Hydroclimate Research Group aims to parlay its science into tools to improve monitoring and prediction of environmental factors relevant to human health, food and water security, and biodiversity preservation.  

Moderator for both events: Lainie Rutkow, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Johns Hopkins University.

For more information, contact Doug Donovan at dougdonovan@jhu.edu.