BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:28416@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Midterm Mayhem: America Votes\, the World Watches DTSTAMP:20261009T005131Z DTSTART:20261102T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Donald Trump is not on the ballot this November\, yet the midte rm elections will\nbe read as a referendum on him. With every House seat a nd a third of the Senate\nup for grabs\, one of the most polarizing presid ents in modern American history\nwill face a major political test. Tonight \, our experts will weigh the likely\noutcomes.\n\nWill voters punish Repu blicans for rising prices and a costly war with Iran\, or\nwill entrenched partisanship prevail? Will apathy prove the most decisive force\namong th e electorate? And will a president who has questioned the legitimacy of\np ast elections respect the results?\n\nThe panelists will also look beyond the ballot box. What is at stake for\nAmericans—whether citizens\, legal r esidents\, or undocumented migrants? What will\nthe results mean for Europ e\, the Middle East\, and the Global South? What media\nstories matter mos t to international onlookers? And how will right-wing\npopulists abroad in terpret the outcome of the US elections\, as they reflect on\nvulnerabilit ies and opportunities of their own?\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nAndrew Gawthorpe is a scholar whose research focuses on the modern and\ncontemporary United Sta tes. Though a historian by training\, his work engages\nwith insights from other disciplines\, particularly international relations and\nAmerican po litics. He is currently the principal investigator on the NWO\nVidi-funded project “American foreign policy and liberalism”. This project\nchallenge s the notion of an American-created “liberal international order” by\ninve stigating how the American approach to international order has been shaped \nby illiberal ideologies\, such as those underpinning racism at home or\n imperialism abroad.\n\nJack Thompson is Lecturer in American Studies at th e University of Amsterdam.\nHis research focuses on the influence of polit ical culture on US grand strategy\,\nefforts to rebalance the transatlanti c relationship\, the history of US\nconservatism\, the radicalization of t he US right\, and democratic backsliding.\nHis 2019 book\, Great Power Ris ing: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US\nForeign Policy (Oxford Uni versity Press)\, won the 2020 Theodore Roosevelt\nAssociation Book Prize.\ n\nKatjana Gattermann is Associate Professor in Political Communication an d\nJournalism at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). H er work\nfocusses on media-politics relations and election campaigns in th e European\nUnion as well as their consequences for attitudes and electora l behaviour of\nEuropean citizens.\n\nKaty Hull (moderator) is Assistant P rofessor of Modern Gender History in\nAmerican Studies at the University o f Amsterdam. Her first book was The Machine\nHas a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press\,\n2021). Her current re search project investigates the construction of emotions in\nNew Left acti vist autobiographies. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/midterm-mayhem-america-votes-the-world- watches GEO:52.3685931;4.8896879 LOCATION:SPUI25 - Spui 25-27\, 1012 WX Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,gender,soul,spui,stories X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Donald Trump is not on the ballot this Nove mber, yet the midterm elections will be read as a referendum on him. With every House seat and a third of the Senate up for grabs, one of the most p olarizing presidents in modern American history will face a major politica l test. Tonight, our experts will weigh the likely outcomes.

< p>Will voters punish Republicans for rising prices and a costly war with I ran, or will entrenched partisanship prevail? Will apathy prove the most d ecisive force among the electorate? And will a president who has questione d the legitimacy of past elections respect the results?

The panelis ts will also look beyond the ballot box. What is at stake for Americans—wh ether citizens, legal residents, or undocumented migrants? What will the r esults mean for Europe, the Middle East, and the Global South? What media stories matter most to international onlookers? And how will right-wing po pulists abroad interpret the outcome of the US elections, as they reflect on vulnerabilities and opportunities of their own?

Speaker s

Andrew Gawthorpe is a scholar whose research focuses on the modern and contemporary United States. Thou gh a historian by training, his work engages with insights from other disc iplines, particularly international relations and American politics. He is currently the principal investigator on the NWO Vidi-funded project “Amer ican foreign policy and liberalism”. This project challenges the notion of an American-created “liberal international order” by investigating how th e American approach to international order has been shaped by illiberal id eologies, such as those underpinning racism at home or imperialism abroad.

Jack Thompson is Lecturer in American St udies at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the influenc e of political culture on US grand strategy, efforts to rebalance the tran satlantic relationship, the history of US conservatism, the radicalization of the US right, and democratic backsliding. His 2019 book, Great Pow er Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US Foreign Policy ( Oxford University Press), won the 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize.

Katjana Gattermann is Associate P rofessor in Political Communication and Journalism at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). Her work focusses on media-politics re lations and election campaigns in the European Union as well as their cons equences for attitudes and electoral behaviour of European citizens.

< p>Katy Hull (moderator) is Assistant Professor o f Modern Gender History in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam . Her first book was The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with It alian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2021). Her current researc h project investigates the construction of emotions in New Left activist a utobiographies.

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