Events at the IOP

  1. The Briefing Room: Post- Election Recap

    Wednesday November 7 - 4:30pm

    A study group led by Margaret Talev. 

    Guests: Mark Lotter, President, Lotter Communications; former Press Secretary to Vice President Pence and former Special Assistant to President Trump and Amy Dacey, IOP Fall 2018 Resident Fellow; former CEO, Democratic National Committee and Executive Director, Emily's List

  2. Electoral Power: The Predictable Future or an Aspirational One?

    Tuesday November 6 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Kim Foxx, the First Black Woman elected Cook County State's Attorney

  3. Bipartisanship: Does the General Public Really Care?

    Monday November 5 - 4:30pm

    A study group led by Joe Heck.

  4. Election Day: What’s Going To Happen, And What Is Next?

    Monday November 5 - 4:00pm

    Tomorrow is Election Day: What Is Going To Happen and What’s Next?

  5. Treaties Last Until They Don’t. The Relevance of Contracts, Pacts, and Accords in the Post-Cold War World.

    Thursday November 1 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Air Vice Marshall Gavin Parker, Royal Air Force, United Kingdom's Defense Attache to the United States.

  6. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: The Future of Geopolitics and Conflict

    Wednesday October 31 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Admiral William McRaven U.S. Navy Retired, former Chancellor of the University of Texas University System, ninth Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, retired U.S. Navy SEAL.

  7. POSTPONED- The Briefing Room: The Legal System

    Wednesday October 31 - 4:30pm

    Margaret will not hold a session this week.

  8. Personal Power: Your Role in Collective Freedom

    Tuesday October 30 - 4:30pm

    GuestsChikesia Clemons, Activist and police assault survivor, and Cleo Wade, Poet, Author and Advocate

  9. Women and the Workforce

    Monday October 29 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Co-Host of Crooked Media Podcast Hysteria; Author of Who Thought This was a Good Idea?; White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (2011 -2014); Political Director for Obama's PAC Hopefund (2006-2008); Director of Scheduling and Advance for Obama 2008.

  10. The Battle Within

    Monday October 29 - 4:30pm

    A study group by Joe Heck.

  11. Politics, Potholes and Public Service: A Conversation with Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.

    Friday October 26 - 12:00pm

    Join Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, the current mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a conversation about politics and government at the local level.

  12. Campaigns and Conflict: National Security Policy on the Presidential Trail

    Wednesday October 24 - 4:30pm

    GuestEric Edelman, former United States Under Secretary for Defense for Policy and former United States Ambassador to Turkey and Finland. 

    At 5:15, we will join Margaret Talev's study group with Sir Kim Darroch, British Ambassador to the United States.

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