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Past Events
2025
September

Billionaires and Town Squares: In Conversation with Evan Osnos and Sarabeth Berman
Monday Sept. 8 from 7-8:30pm EST
A night of hot, fresh popcorn and thought-provoking conversation about the intersection of power, politics, media and community. Our guests are the wife-and-husband duo of Sarabeth Berman, CEO of the American Journalism Project, the first venture philanthropy dedicated to saving local news, and journalist Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of one of our favorite books of the year, “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich.” First 50 guests get a signed copy!
July

Newhouse Impact Summit: Communicating in an AI-Powered World
Thursday, July 24 from 8:30am-4pm EST
Co-Hosted by: Office of Research and Creative Activity and the Institute for Democracy, Journalism, & Citizenship
May

Alumni & Friends Dinner: In Conversation with Coach Brown
Thursday, May 15 at 6pm EST
Join us for a dinner with a group of 13 student athletes who are participating in a week-long immersion at the Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship in Washington, DC next week.
The dinner will feature a conversation between IDJC’s director, Margaret Talev, and SU’s head football coach, Francis Brown Sr., on the role of athletes as engaged citizens.
March

Hosted by: Newhouse School of Public Communications
Introduction: Steven Portnoy ’03
Conversation: Featured Guest Maribel Perez Wadsworth and Moderator Boris Sanchez ’09
Presenter: Margaret Talev
2024
October

Cartoonist Event – MAGA Memes and Momala: Political Cartoonists Take on 2024 and More!
Oct. 21 at 6pm ET
Moderators: Margaret Talev and Roslyn Mazer
Guests: Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post
Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Pedro X. Molina, Counterpoint Media and Confidencial, Nicaragua
Award-winning cartoonists Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) and Rachita Taneja (India) also will discuss their work and persistent threats to cartoonists around the world.
Co-sponsors: The Herb Block Foundation, POLITICO
Partners: Cartoonist Rights, Association of American Editorial Cartoons (AAEC), Freedom Cartoonists Foundation

Trust and Engagement: Insights on Young People’s Relationship with the Federal Government
Thursday Oct. 10 at 10 a.m. EDT, virtually and in Washington, D.C.
Lecture
Co-sponsor: Partnership for Public Service
September

Host: MikeTirico ’88, play-by-play commentator with NBC Sports
Panel: Seismic Shifts: The Changing Landscape of College Sports
Moderator: Margaret Talev
Panelists: James Phillips, commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Felisha Legette-Jack ’89, Syracuse University women’s basketball coach, and MikeTirico
March
Hosted by: Newhouse School of Public Communications
Speaker: Margaret Talev
February
2023
November
Informal gathering for journalists
Moderator: Margaret Talev
Moderator: Margaret Talev
Guests: Josh Gerstein, Alex Ward and Peter Canellos of Politico and Phil Williams of WTVF-TV
Moderator: Margaret Talev
Panelists: Paul Smith, senior vice president, Campaign Legal Center • Mary McCord, executive director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection; visiting professor, Georgetown University Law Center • Johanna Dunaway, professor of political science, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs; IDJC research director • Joshua Darr, associate professor of communications, Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications; IDJC senior researcher
October
Syracuse University’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI) and Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship (IDJC) held a two-day AI Policy Symposium Oct. 26-27, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The event included a lunch reception on Capitol Hill with members of Congress and staff, followed by a plenary session on AI Policy. The program included panels on The Future of the Workforce and Labor Policy, and AI and the 2024 Election.
August
Cocktails & Politics Series
“Cocktails and Politics with Margaret Talev”
A Conversation on Food and Democracy
Moderator: Margaret Talev
Hosted by: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
Guests: Vermilion’s Rohini Dey and Axios Chicago’s Monica Eng
July
Moderator and panelist: Margaret Talev
Democracy, Sports & the Media (with ESPN’s Dalen Cuff, The New York Times’ Clyde McGrady and author and journalist Chris Cillizza)
June
Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference
Innovation in Journalism panelist: Margaret Talev
May
PAI Leadership and Public Policy
Host: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Guest lecture on engaging the media: Margaret Talev
Hosted by: Partnership for Public Service
Moderator of “Perceptions of Government” online panel: Margaret Talev
April
Panelist: Margaret Talev
A conversation with Camila DeChalus
Hosted by: Newhouse School of Public Communications
Moderator: Margaret Talev
March
Hosted by: Newhouse School of Public Communications
Speaker: Margaret Talev