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Upcoming Public Events

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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.

RSVP link

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


February

Guest Speaker

Moderator: Beverly Kirk and an introduction by Margaret Talev


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

A conversation with Camila DeChalus

Hosted by: Newhouse School of Public Communications

Moderator: Margaret Talev



March

Host and moderator: Margaret Talev

(with sportscaster Bob Costas ’74, political commentator Van Jones and other guests)

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