Patrick Ruffini | From the Tea Party to Trump’s Pax Republicana
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 13, 2026
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Tuesday, October 13
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Starting in 2004, I used the power of the Internet to help candidates raise money and organize supporters. In 2008, Barack Obama took that new model of campaigning and supercharged it to become the[...]
Morgan McSweeney | How Power Is Won: Parties, Campaigns, Coalitions & Opposition
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 14, 2026
12:00pm
– 1:15pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Wednesday, October 14
12:00 - 1:15 pm
Ideas matter in politics, but ideas don’t implement themselves. Let’s get practical on building democratic power: parties, campaigns, coalitions, discipline, organisation, message, leadership, and[...]
David Axelrod | Pure Michigan: Let’s Dive In!
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 15, 2026
3:00pm
– 4:15pm
CST
OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
David will turn the focus to Michigan, one of the most closely watched battlegrounds on the entire 2026 map, previewing the state's highly contested open Senate race alongside three pivotal congressional contests that could help decide control of the House.[...]
Christy George | Power, Land & the Next Economy
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 15, 2026
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Thursday, October 15
12:30 - 1:45 pm
You want a business to move to Chicago? Let’s get in the weeds. What are the fundamentals of site selection and site readiness? What does "speed to market" mean? We’ll also go deep on energy as economic[...]
Sasha Baker | AGI & Superintelligence: How Powerful Could AI Become?
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 19, 2026
12:00pm
– 1:15pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Monday, October 19
12:00 - 1:15 pm
Few questions in technology generate more disagreement than whether artificial general intelligence (AGI) is possible, how soon it might arrive, and what it would mean if it did. This session will examine[...]
Amanda Litman | Media: Everyone Has a Podcast, Nobody Has an Audience
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 19, 2026
3:00pm
– 4:15pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Monday, October 19
3:00 - 4:15 pm
The media that formed most people's assumptions about how politics works—beat reporters, candidate network hits and Sunday shows, a press release that gets picked up—is not the media that decides elections[...]
Patrick Ruffini | Party of the People: The New Coalition Meets the Midterms
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 20, 2026
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Tuesday, October 20
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Trump’s takeover of the GOP surprised many — including me. I’ll reflect on what I got wrong in 2016, what the polls were telling me at the time, and how I spent the next few years learning from Trump’s[...]
Morgan McSweeney | When People Stop Believing Progress Is Real: Loss, Anger & the Search for Dignity
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 21, 2026
12:00pm
– 1:15pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Wednesday, October 21
12:00 - 1:15 pm
One of the great mistakes of modern politics is to treat voters as problems to be solved, data to be analysed, or frustrations to be messaged around. Democratic anger is too often attributed to[...]
David Axelrod | Iowa: The Returning Bellwether?
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 22, 2026
3:30pm
– 4:45pm
CST
OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
This week, David’s focus shifts to Iowa, a state Republicans have dominated in recent cycles but is now one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. He’ll be joined by CNN's seasoned political reporter Jeff Zeleny, an Iowa native with deep[...]
Christy George | Anatomy of the Deal: Incentives, Negotiation & Competing to Win
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Oct 22, 2026
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Thursday, October 22
12:30 - 1:45 pm
This week, we’ll take a candid and bracing look at why economic development incentives exist in economic development, and the art of negotiation around them, through the case study of building the[...]
