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- Program
- Speaker Series
- Date
- Apr 14, 2025
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- Speakers
- James P. McGovern, Miriam Jordan, Brian Hauss, Natalia Pelevina, Ken Cuccinelli
- Topics
- Immigration, Domestic Policy
Over the last several weeks, at least 300 international students have had their visas terminated and been otherwise threatened or detained. What is the legal and practical future for college campuses following detentions, arrests and self-deportation of student activists? Featuring Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Miriam Jordan, national immigration correspondent at the New York Times, Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney with the ACLU representing detained Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, Natalia Pelevina, IOP Pritzker fellow, playwright and political activist, and Ken Cuccinelli, IOP Pritzker fellow and former acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
The event will be in-person in the IOP Living Room, with guests joining us both in person and via Zoom.
Vegetarian and non-vegetarian options will be provided for lunch.
If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact iopevents@uchicago.edu.
Monday, April 14, 2025 12:30 p.m. CST Institute of Politics
- James P. McGovern U.S. Representative (D-MA)
- Miriam Jordan National immigration correspondent at the New York Times
- Brian Hauss Senior staff attorney with the ACLU (representing detained Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk)
- Natalia Pelevina IOP Pritzker Fellow, playwright, and Russian Political Opposition Activist Born in Moscow, Natalia moved to London, as a child, on the brink of the Soviet Union’s collapse. After receiving BA in Art History, she ventured into writing. Her screenplays were optioned by American production companies, while “I Plead Guilty”, a play based on the events of the Moscow theatre siege, was staged on both sides of the Atlantic, in London, New York and Washington DC, and was banned in Russia. In 2012 she moved back to Russia to fight Putin’s increasingly vile and dangerous regime. She worked with Alexey Navalny on anti-corruption cases, as well his campaign for the Mayor of Moscow; co-founded a political party and helped put together a wide oppositional coalition. Constant surveillance, smear campaign on state television and criminal prosecutions on made up charges followed. After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine Natalia stood outside Kremlin with a Ukrainian flag, was arrested but later released. Currently based in Latvia, Natalia is a Council Member of the Free Russia Forum, founded by Garry Kasparov, a Regional Secretary for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the World Liberty Congress and is working on a Transitional Justice for Russia project. The screenings of her documentary film “Borderline” about the war in Ukraine are taking place in Europe and will be moving to the US in the spring.
- Ken Cuccinelli Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, IOP Pritzker Fellow