The Institute of Governmental Studies and the Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics & Public Service are hosting a friendly, welcoming, and informative evening of food and healthy discussion as we livestream the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump.
2024 Presidential Election Debate Watch Party
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 5:30PM at IGS Library (109 Philosophy Hall)
Doors open at 5:15pm (Seating is available on a first come first served basis.)
Join us for a friendly, welcoming, and informative evening of pizza and politics as we livestream the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump. We will begin at 5:30 with 30 minutes of expert commentary and Q&A with scholar of the Presidency Prof. Terri Bimes and IGS alum and American politics columnist and author Dr. Jonathan Bernstein.
About Our Speakers:
Terri Bimes (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Teaching Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses on the presidency and the senior honor thesis writing seminar. Her past publications include articles on populism and presidential elections. She also directs the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship Program.
Jonathan Bernstein has been blogging, columning, and newslettering on American politics for more than 15 years. He spent 10 years as a columnist covering politics for Bloomberg Opinion; before this he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Bernstein earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was an active member of the IGS community. He is co-editor of the last three editions of The Making of the Presidential Candidates, which is the premier edited volume about presidential nominations, and he has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other national news outlets. Recently, he launched a Substack newsletter “Good Politics/Bad Politics” with political scientist Julia Azari and prize-winning journalist David Bernstein.
As a non-partisan organized research unit, IGS reaffirms its stance as a safe place for healthy discourse around politics, public service, and voter issues that affect our community.